The drummer’s waist-length, rainbow-coloured hair flails ... but edgy all-black clothing. Many bands formed in the mid-2000s or later are described as neo visual kei, a label that perhaps ...

faded black T-shirts and greasy hair, these bands choose the opulent aristocratic fashion of 18th-century France. And where American and European metal bands opt for a macho image, visual-kei ...

When visual kei artist Mana's global legion ... one could still tell that this was a guy worshipped by many. His hair — long, jet black and clearly flat-ironed — hung artfully over his face.