The GazettE.

In the Land of the Rising Sun, there lived an obscure and maverick musical collective drowned into a howling storm of noise: Les Rallizes Dénudés.

PROFIL One of the better known guitarists in the Japanese music scene, hide first caught the public's eye when he was still a member of X Japan. When the influential band disbanded in 1997, hide stretched his wings musically with a solo career and the band Zilch. His music is difficult to peg into any one category; while the music he played in X Japan was often heavy metal, his solo career brought fans some very different tunes. Some songs had industrial or electronic touches while other…