Screw

This Tokyo band, formed in 2006, was part of Japan's visual kei scene, renowned for its often flamboyant looks and genre-mashing rock music. Their dark, romantic look and heavy, often brutal sound -- inspired primarily by western metal and hardcore punk, but always sugared with addictively melodic choruses -- meant they were always less popular than the brightly colored oshare (fashionable) bands, but developed a devoted cult following among fans of the scene. Like every other musician in the VK scene, all the members of Screw go by mononymous stage names, often chosen as muc...