“Thank you Revolver. Thank you so much for recognizing us. Some people might have heard of us, we’re from Japan. Well, our band name is X Japan. We toured North America in 2010, and did our first world tour last year. Now we are finishing our first worldwide debut album. And we are planning on doing another world tour soon. And to our beloved fans: Thank you so much for your support, we are going to keep on rocking. And we fucking love you.”

WE ARE X!!!!!!

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X JAPAN TAKE HOME ‘BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND’ AWARD AT GOLDEN GODS

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Ｘ　ＪＡＰＡＮ、米祭典で海外バンド最高賞

現地メディアに受賞の喜びを語るＹＯＳＨＩＫＩ＝米ロサンゼルス市内【拡大】

ロックバンド、Ｘ　ＪＡＰＡＮが１１日（日本時間１２日）、ロサンゼルスのクラブ・ノキアで開催された米最大のハード・ロック・ミュージックの祭典「ゴールデン・ゴッズ・アワード２０１２」で、海外バンド最高賞にあたる「ベスト・インターナショナル・バンド」を受賞した。

祭典は２００９年に米音楽誌「Ｒｅｖｏｌｖｅｒ」が創設し、今年で４回目。オンライン投票で全１１部門の受賞者を決める選出方法を取っているが、アジア人バンドの受賞はもちろん、ノミネートされたのも彼らが初。

同部門には、ドイツのＲａｍｍｓｔｅｉｎ、イタリアのＬａｃｕｎａＣｏｉｌ、ブラジルのＳｅｐｕｌｔｕｒａなど世界を舞台に活躍するバンドがノミネートされた。その中でＸ　ＪＡＰＡＮが選ばれた理由は、一昨年から精力的に世界ツアーを展開し、リーダーのＹＯＳＨＩＫＩがゴールデン・グローブ賞の公式テーマ曲を作曲するなどの功績が認められた。

授賞式に出席したＹＯＳＨＩＫＩは「ありがとうございます。僕たちを評価してくださって感謝します」と感激し、「現在、世界デビューアルバムの制作の最終段階に入っています。近々世界ツアー第２弾も計画中です。最後に最愛のＸ　ＪＡＰＡＮのファンたちへひと言。これからもロックし続けるよ！　愛してるよ！」と呼びかけ、更なる飛躍を誓った。

大賞の「ゴールデン・ゴッズ・アワード」にはＫＩＳＳが輝き、ベースのジーン・シモンズ（６２）が授賞式に駆けつけた。

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X JAPAN、＜ゴールデン・ゴッズ・アワード＞でベスト・インターナショナル・バンド賞を受賞

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by: Liz Ramanand 9 hours ago

X Japan and Black Veil Brides fans did some serious voting as the bands traded the lead throughout the day and night. After a record number of votes, X Japan defeated Black Veil Brides to earn their fifth victory and entrance into the Loudwire Cage Match Hall of Fame, where they join Falling in Reverse and RED.

The band’s path to glory began when they first triumphed over the Swedes of In Flames, which was followed by a win against Jane’s Addiction. After that the band beat out Bush and abused the Used, this victory brought them to their fifth and final victorious matchup against Black Veil Brides.

X Japan’s drummer and leader Yoshiki has sent a message to Loudwire thanking the band’s fans for their tremendous support. The entire statement reads as follows:

Thank you so much to Loudwire for giving X Japan a chance to be introduced on this amazing rock site, and to everyone who listened to ‘Jade,’ liked it, and voted for it. I have great respect for all of the bands we competed against, as well as enormous respect for all of their devoted fans.

And to our beloved X Japan fans — thank you so much for your endless support.
You are f—ing amazing!
We are so lucky to have you as our family.
Keep on spreading our love throughout the world.
We love you so much!
WE ARE X!!!

Love, Yoshiki

X Japan fans have even more to celebrate since the band is in the process of recording their first full-length English-language album. In addition, Yoshiki has composed the theme for this year’s Golden Globe Awards. Now that X Japan and their single ‘Jade’ have been preserved in our Cage Match Hall of Fame, who will join them next?

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1:16 PM PST 1/11/2012 by Portia Medina

The awards show will feature new music for the first time in 15 years. “It has some classical elements and a rock vibe as well,” the Japanese rock star tells THR of his composition.

He’s one of the Far East’s biggest rock stars, and on Sunday’s Golden Globes, Yoshiki, frontman for X Japan, will take on a behind-the-scenes role as composer of the show’s new theme song.

“My inspiration was Hollywood,” Yoshiki tells THR. “I tried to combine the old glamour and the flashy Hollywood so the piece has some classical elements and a rock vibe as well.”

Working out of sound studios in Los Angeles and Tokyo, Yoshiki gathered a 35-piece orchestra along with a slew of engineers and technicians for a month of recording. “It was the holiday season, so it took longer and was a little harder to gather all those people,” he says. That may explain why Yoshiki ended up playing so many instruments himself. “I played everything — drums, bass, guitar, and piano.”

His time commitment to working on the Globes theme also ended up sidetracking X Japan’s long-anticipated English-language album. Says Yoshiki: “It’s 90 percent done. Several things happened — we just finished the world tour in mid-November and then the Golden Globes opportunity came up and I had to do it. It will be released in 2012 for sure.”

“I’M PROUD OF THIS SONG. IT’S A TOTALLY ADDICTIVE MELODY”

The X Japan drummer/songwriter and globally renowned artist was tapped to compose this year’s Golden Globes theme song. Kenny Herzog spoke to Yoshiki about the honor, why he’s excited for a Ricky Gervais teasing, and where plans for X’s next record fit into all this.

By Kenny Herzog
January 11, 2012

Like Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy, Yoshiki is kind of a big deal. It was only a matter of time until Hollywood summoned the X Japan maestro and multi-instrumentalist for something loftier than writing music for the Saw franchise (though X’s “I.V.” was arguably Saw IV’s shining moment). Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) President Dr. Aida Takia-O’Reilly—herself a native Egyptian—reached out to Yoshiki shortly after being instated in 2011. She’d hoped he would compose this year’s Golden Globes theme song and help send a message of global inclusion to the ceremony’s audience.

Naturally, Yoshiki embraced the opportunity as both a privilege and creative challenge, and a chance to continue pursuing his quest to make music that affects people from ocean to ocean. Not that it was easy. (Wrangling musicians and engineers during the holidays can be a logistical nightmare.) But as he explains below in his latest interview with Kenny Herzog(who spoke to the philanthropic hard-rock icon just after last summer’s tragic earthquake in Japan), Yoshiki is confident he delivered a song that’s fittingly grand but will make his worldwide fans no less X-static.

You just turned the Golden Globes theme into the HFPA this week. For all your and X Japan’s fans, how would you describe what they can expect?

You can hear a Yoshiki melody in it, then also there’s an element of classical music and an element of rock. I combined those together.

Did you consult songs from years past or just do your own thing?

I watched some DVDs of several years of the Golden Globes. Also, I was there last year, so I know what kind of vibe [they need].

Also, the president of HFPA gave me some keywords, like it needs to be Hollywood, needs to be prestigious, needs to be edgy.

So I listened to all those words carefully, digested in my head and then composed the song.

Is it a song you feel kicks ass beyond that grandeur and prestige?

I’ve never really done this kind of instrumental piece with an orchestra and a band together.

When I composed for the Japanese emperor, it was kind of a concerto. When I composed for the World Expo [in 2005], it had pop vibes too, but kind of a classical base.

This is a little more rock ‘n’ roll, but with classical in it. I’m proud of this song. It’s a totally addictive melody. I wanted to come up with something very catchy and still have some kind of depth.

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