In Japan in the 1980s, visual kei was strongly influenced by glam rock aesthetics.

* Maya ( musician ) ( born 1979 ), vocalist of Japanese visual kei band LM. C

Also during the 80s, Japanese metal and rock bands gave birth to the movement known as visual kei, represented during its history by bands like X Japan, Buck-Tick, Luna Sea, Malice Mizer and many others, some of which experienced national, and international success in the latest years.

Concert of pioneer of visual kei, X Japan at Hong Kong in 2009 after their 2007 reunion.

In 1982 were formed some of the first Japanese glam metal bands, like Seikima-II with Kabuki-inspired makeup, and X Japan who pioneered the Japanese movement known as visual kei, and became the best-selling metal band.

Every Sunday, young people dressed in a variety of styles including gothic lolita, visual kei, and decora, as well as cosplayers spend the day in Harajuku socializing.

The latter caters to youth fashions and has many small stores selling Gothic Lolita, visual kei, rockabilly, hip hop, and punk outfits,

* Psycho le Cému, a Japanese visual kei rock band

A more recent and minor trend is " fop rock ," in which the performers don 18th century wigs, lace cravats, and similar costumes to perform, a minor movement that would appear to owe something to glam rock, visual kei, and the New Romantic movement.

Besides being one of the first Japanese acts to achieve mainstream success while on an independent label, the group is widely credited as one of the pioneers of visual kei, a movement among Japanese musicians comparable to Western glam.

Around this time, the group dropped most of its original visual kei aesthetics in favor of a more casual look.

Nishikawa joined the visual kei rock band Luis-Mary in 1990 as the vocalist.

Malice Mizer ( stylized as MALICE MIZER ) was a visual kei rock band from Japan.

-90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs -, which was released on January 26, 2011 and features current visual kei bands covering songs from bands that were important to the ' 90s visual kei movement.

Some sources state that visual kei refers to a music genre, or to a sub-genre of Japanese rock, with its sound usually related to glam rock, punk rock and heavy metal.

However other sources state that visual kei is only a fashion, with its unique clothing, make-up and participation in the related subculture being what exemplifies the use of the term.

The term visual kei is believed to come from one of X Japan's slogans, " Psychedelic violence crime of visual shock ".

Color vocalist Dynamite Tommy formed his record company Free-Will in 1986, which has been a major contributor in spreading modern visual kei outside Japan.

Under Code Production, a sub-label of Free-Will founded by Kisaki, since its formation in 2003 has had a definite influence on newer independent visual kei bands, particularly in Osaka.

It would take another 8 years until popularity and awareness of visual kei bands would extend worldwide.

This trend has also seen the emergence of some Christadelphian bands and the establishment of the Christadelphian Arts Trust to support performing, visual and dramatic arts within the Christadelphian community.

A typical punk scene is made up of punk and hardcore bands ; fans who attend concerts, protests, and other events ; zine publishers, band reviewers, and writers ; visual artists who create illustrations for zines, posters, and album covers ; people who organise concerts, and people who work at music venues or independent record labels.

In the United Kingdom, the white cane indicates that the individual has a visual impairment ; with two red bands added it indicates that the user is deafblind.

Competitive bands however, many times opt for matching pants and shoes ( usually white or black ) to hide the visual effect of members who are out of step as seen from a distance.

In competitions, bands are usually judged on criteria such as musicality, uniformity, visual impact, artistic interpretation, and the difficulty of the music and drill.

This was mixed with slideshows and film loops to create an improvisational motion picture art form, and to give visual representation to the improvisational jams of the rock bands and create a completely " trippy " atmosphere for the audience.

Grunge bands rejected the complex and high budget presentations of many musical genres, including the use of complex light arrays, pyrotechnics, and other visual effects unrelated to playing the music.

But Mach also made many contributions to psychology and physiology, including his anticipation of gestalt phenomena, his discovery of the oblique effect and of Mach bands, an inhibition-influenced type of visual illusion, and especially his discovery of a non-acoustic function of the inner ear which helps control human balance.

In Britain the combination of indie with dance-punk was dubbed new rave in publicity for Angular's Klaxons and the term was picked up and applied by the NME to bands including Trash Fashion, New Young Pony Club, Hadouken !, Late of the Pier, Test Icicles and Shitdisco, forming a scene with a similar visual aesthetic to earlier rave music.

AFI has also been granted responsibility for influencing the rise of the visual element of rock bands in the 2000s ; in a December 2006 article, Revolver Magazine wrote that " AFI have increased the importance of a band's visual identity and the flair for the theatrical ," adding that " when a group like Panic!

Aside from the visual appeal, practical combative applications must be clearly seen so as to avoid looking like just majorettes in marching bands who just twirl batons and dance ( a concept similar to the Floreio (" flowery ") aspect in the Brazilian martial art capoeira and tricking which are more for show than practicality ).

During the 1980s the first major pop-metal style arose and dominated the charts for several years kicked off by metal act Quiet Riot and dominated by bands such as Mötley Crüe and Ratt ; this was glam metal, a hard rock and pop fusion with a raucous spirit and a glam-influenced visual aesthetic.

Within the goth subculture, bands such as Deine Lakaien or Dead Can Dance and in addition visual artists as Viona Ielegems or Gerald Brom.

While pipe bands of yesteryear would often include tenor drummers, they would usually be " swinging tenors ", players who would swing their sticks for elaborate visual effect but who would rarely play.

In research designed to identify the subjective states associated with EEG rhythms, she trained subjects to increase the abundance of alpha, beta, and theta activity using visual feedback and recorded their subjective experiences when the amplitude of these frequency bands increased.

The Mach bands effect is due to the spatial high-boost filtering performed by the human visual system on the luminance channel of the image captured by the retina.

The original conception, was that Everett would be a visual DJ linking bands and singers and the links eventually got longer and longer.

The band is influenced by bands such as Marilyn Manson, The White Stripes, etc., of which the two members try to capture some " sounds " while remaining faithful to the bands " originality and visual image.

In that time he also kept a wide ranging visual record of all the great bands he worked with on formats ranging from Super 8 / 16mm and 35mm to VHSC, Digibeta and all formats in between. From these sources he has created the musical memoir film that is ' Saunders Lewis vs Andy Warhol '. Emyr calls the film ....' a group portrait from a time before our music was Cool or devolved, and a film created exclusively from the images that I shot and produced at that time augmented by words that were said directly to me .......' The film includes a massive list of influential musicians caught exclusively for his camera and also featured in exclusive conversations with Emyr-Among those who appear ... Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Ffa Coffi Pawb, Catatonia, Melys, Topper, Fflaps, Datblygu, Llwybr Llaethog, Y Cyrff, Beganifs,

By 1999, the mainstream popularity of visual kei was declining ; X Japan had disbanded, and in 2000, Luna Sea decided to disband.

Noted bands who at least at some point sported a visual kei theme include Dir En Grey, Luna Sea and Malice Mizer.

Due to their early use of make-up and costumes and their widespread popularity, Luna Sea are considered one of the most successful and influential bands in the visual kei movement.

The advantages of UIS1 + are performance ( Stardock has claimed that a UIS1 + version of the Windows XP " Luna " visual style is twice as fast as the original in repaint and resizing ) and compatibility.