ZI:KILL

Zi:Kill was a Japanese rock band active from 1987 to 1994. The core members were guitarist Ken, bassist Seiichi and vocalist Tusk. With their three major label studio albums reaching the top ten on the Oricon chart, Zi:Kill are regarded as an important act from the then-emerging visual kei scene. With a dark musical style that incorporates British gothic rock and punk, they pioneered the decadent aesthetics and black-clad image of visual kei. Zi:Kill were featured in a chapter of Karl Taro Greenfeld's novel Speed Tribes that documents the writer's time spent with the band and the events that nearly caused their break up.