![]() 1 chart single (the string- and horn-heavy “winter fall”) and a pair of best-selling 1999 albums, ark and ray. The quartet landed a major-label deal, debuting with 1994’s Tierra, and by the end of the decade they were superstars in Japan, thanks to a No. Co-founded in 1991 by hyde-who also fronts Vamps and maintains a solo career-and bassist tetsuya, L’Arc〜en〜Ciel were initially associated with the image-conscious visual kei movement. The group’s secret weapon is frontman hyde, who boasts a powerful, dramatic voice with the range (and crooning flair) necessary to handle these disparate styles. ![]() ![]() L’Arc〜en〜Ciel means “the rainbow” in French, and fittingly, the Osaka-formed band of the same name, singing mostly in Japanese with the occasional English lyric, offer a colourful array of sonics-’80s and ’90s American hard rock, British glam, pile-driving punk and metal, and even orchestral-tinted pop. ![]()
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