Cool Western music bands. Recommended overseas bands that will get you pumped just by listening.
There are foreign bands with irresistibly captivating sounds you can hardly hear in Japan! From powerful, energetic vocals and satisfyingly heavy sound production to dynamic stage performances—there’s no way to sum it all up in a single phrase.
This time, based on reliable feedback from music fans submitted to our site, we researched popular Western bands.
Among them, we carefully selected especially well-regarded rock bands—both classic and contemporary—along with their staple songs.
If that’s your thing, be sure to check it out!
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Cool Western music bands: Recommended overseas bands that will boost your mood just by listening (1–10)
Highway to HellAC/DC
When it comes to iconic Australian bands, AC/DC surely comes to mind.
Since the group is centered around the Young brothers, who are from Scotland, some of their songs are close to UK rock.
In any case, they’re a gritty, wild, and undeniably cool band.
Under The BridgeRed Hot Chili Peppers
It reached No.
2 in the U.S.
in 1992.
Released as a single from the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, it became a huge hit.
It’s hard to pin down the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ sound—should we call it hard rock? Or punk? In Japan, people often call it “mixture.” In any case, my impression of their early days was that they were a band that did all sorts of wild, chaotic stuff.
Now they feel like bona fide rock royalty, but each member has always had such a strong individuality that I’ve thought of them as a no-nonsense, straight-ahead band.
November RainGuns N’ Roses
Guns N’ Roses is a band that continues to enjoy tremendous popularity in Japan.
They were wildly popular in the late 1980s, and their albums have sold 100 million copies worldwide, making them a band that achieved great commercial success.
Highly recommended for those who like raspy-voiced rock.
Immigrant SongLed Zeppelin
This is probably the song you hear most frequently on Japanese television and elsewhere.
Known in Japanese as “The Immigrant Song,” it was released in 1970 by the British band often called the pioneers of hard rock and the originators of heavy metal.
In the UK, they split popularity with Deep Purple, yet became legends who rewrote history with a diverse musicality that crossed over beyond hard rock.
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, in particular, garnered a huge following in Japan.
Last NiteThe Strokes
They were the ones who revived the feeling that ’60s rock bands had.
There had been periodic garage rock booms, and each time rock ’n’ roll was reborn.
And above all, they were the turning point of the 2000s.
This track was released in 2001.
It reached No.
5 on the U.S.
charts and was certified Silver in the U.K.
The music video was directed by Roman Coppola, the son of Francis Ford Coppola.