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Buck-Tick Buck-Tick (stylized as BUCK-TICK) is a Japanese rock band formed in Fujioka, Gunma in 1983. The classic lineup of lead vocalist Atsushi Sakurai, lead guitarist Hisashi Imai, rhythm guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino, bassist Yutaka Higuchi and drum ...

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live album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th centur ...

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extended play An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 1 ...

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video album A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to ...

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, the classic lineup of lead vocalist

Atsushi Sakurai was a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band Buck-Tick from 1985 until his death in 2023. Initially joining as their drummer in 1983, Sakurai fronted the band for 38 years and 2 ...

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Hisashi Imai is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. Following the October 2023 death of vocalist Atsushi Sakurai, Imai began sharing lead vocal duties in the band with fe ...

, rhythm guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino, bassist Yutaka Higuchi and drummer

Toll Yagami , known exclusively by his stage name , is a Japanese musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1985. He is the older brother of Yutaka Higuchi, Buck-Tick's bassist. Life and career Toll Yagami dropped out of high ...

lasted from 1985 until 2023. Following Sakurai's death that year, Imai and Hoshino began sharing lead vocal duties. In their four decade career, nearly all of their albums have reached the top ten on the charts and they have experimented with many different genres of music, including

punk Punk or punks may refer to: Genres, subculture, and related aspects * Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres * Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...

dark wave Dark wave, or darkwave, is a music genre that emerged from the new wave and post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Dark wave compositions are largely based on minor key tonality and introspective lyrics and have been perceived as being dark, ro ...

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, industrial, gothic and straight rock. Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the founders of the

visual kei , abbreviated , is a category of Japanese musicians that have a strong focus on extravagant stage costumes that originated in Japan during the early 1980s. Koji Dejima of '' Bounce'' wrote that visual kei is not a specific sound, but rather it " ...

movement. Buck-Tick released both their debut independent and major label studio albums in 1987, and achieved breakthrough success the following year with the album '' Seventh Heaven'' (#3) and the single " Just One More Kiss". In 1989, ''

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'' became their first number-one album. It was followed by several successful albums almost all of which topped the charts, '' Aku no Hana'' (1990, which includes the song of the same name; the band's only number-one single), '' Kurutta Taiyou'' (1991), '' Darker Than Darkness -Style 93-'' (1993), ''

Six/Nine ''Six/Nine'' is the eighth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released in a clear purple case on May 15, 1995, through Victor Entertainment. It peaked at number one on the Oricon chart. It was certified gold in the ...

'' (1995), as well as the remixed studio album '' Hurry Up Mode (1990 Mix)'' and the compilation album '' Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits'' (1992). The band's best-selling albums are ''Aku no Hana'' (435,000 copies), ''Koroshi no Shirabe'' (338,000), ''Kurutta Taiyou'' (327,000), ''Taboo'' (300,000), ''Six/Nine'' (241,000), and ''Hurry Up Mode'' (215,000); while their best-selling singles are " Aku no Hana" (221,000), "

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" (171,000), and "Just One More Kiss" (147,000).

Studio albums

Mini albums/EPs

Remix albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Tribute albums

V.A. Compilations

Singles

Videos

References

External links

Official website discography
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Discography Discography is the study and cataloging of published sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified music genres. The exact information included varies depending on the type and scope of the discography, but a discography entry ...

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