To try to answer all these questions and clarify a bit what Visual Kei is I'm going to write a series of articles about different aspects of Visual Kei. I have written these articles with the information I've read, see or listen in the web along all my years as VK fan. So the articles shows my conclusions and opinions. To fully understand the articles you should have some general knowledge of western rock, metal music.
Origins
At the end of the 70's, with the boom of glam metal, a group of Japanese designers open a boutique called Visual Scandal. These guys adopted the glam fashion, at the beginning they focus on clothes, wearing extravagant outfits, and later on they started to create their own make up designs.
In 1979 they formed a music group, also called Visual Scandal. They called their own style 'Beautiful Elegance', but then, in 1980 other bands with similar looks and influences start to used the term Visual to identified themselves, as Murbas which motto was 'Visual Violence'.
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