Japan Metal & Hard Rock Albums of the 2000s

Subconscious In Xperience combines Blindman’s detailed guitar phrases, clear keyboards and emotionally forward vocals.

Reincarnation unites Galneryus’s sharp guitar, ornate keyboards and high-reaching vocal into a single driving sound.

One for All - All for One combines Syu’s fluid guitar, bright keyboard color, and YAMA-B’s strong voice at high density.

Pain for the Pleasure joins Blindman’s expansive vocal lines, melodic guitar, and full keyboards into dramatic melodic hard rock.

Beyond the End of Despair... combines Galneryus’s fast rhythm section, Syu’s fluid guitar, and YAMA-B’s high-reaching vocal.

Advance to the Fall stacks fast twin guitar, bright keyboard work and soaring high vocals into a vivid power-metal record.

The first album by Tak Matsumoto's international hard-rock group with Eric Martin and Jack Blades — fourteen songs where Japanese and American rock instincts meet head-on.

Soul Talks, Melodies Walk layers smooth vocals, full keyboards and poised guitar into hard rock that values melody.

The Flag of Punishment combines neoclassical guitar, fast rhythm and soaring high vocals into vivid power metal.

Turning Back layers soaring vocals, bright keyboards and lyrical guitar with great order and polish.

BLINDMAN combines intricate guitar phrasing with lyrical melody in a polished Japanese melodic-hard-rock record.

…in the dark presents Blindman’s melancholy-rich melodic hard rock in a compact form.