Luna Sea

The chart-topping visual kei band Luna Sea formed in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1989. Bandmates Onose Jun, Kiyonobu Inoue, Yune Sugihara, Shinya Yamada, and Ryuichi Kawamura found an early champion in X-Japan guitarist Hideto Matsumoto, who encouraged Luna Sea during its infancy and helped the band earn a deal with the cult label Exstacy Records. Luna's eponymous debut album failed to achieve real commercial success, but a sold-out tour in 1992 led them to a deal with Universal, which in turn led to several top 10 albums through the early 1990s. Those records included Image (1992), Eden (1993) and Mother (1994), all three of which went platinum in Japan. A run of Number 1 albums followed, including 1996's Style, 1997's Singles, and 1998's Shine. After releasing the self-titled Lunacy, the bandmates temporarily went their separate ways to pursue solo projects. In 2007, they reunited to play the Tokyo Dome with the God Bless You ~One Night Dejavu~ concert, and in 2008 they played at the memorial show for Hideto Matsumoto. A tour followed in 2010, and in 2012 Luna Sea returned to the studio to record their first new album in 12 years, A Will. While it didn't quite match the band's late-'90s success, it did chart at number 3 on both the Oricon and Billboard Japan charts. Likewise, the follow-up, Luv, reached number 4 when it was released in 2017, and both 2019's Cross and 2023's MOTHER peaked at number 3.

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