The band have released twenty-three studio albums and forty-three singles as of 2023, nearly all reaching the top ten and twenty positions on the Japanese Oricon charts.

[9][14] Higuchi convinced Yagami that the best way for him to get over the loss of his own band was to join theirs instead, thus Toll took Sakurai's place behind the drums, completing Buck-Tick's classic lineup.

[13][14] In conjunction with its release, they played a concert titled Buck-Tick Phenomenon (バクチク現象, Bakuchiku Genshō) at Toshima Public Hall in Ikebukuro that same day.

[9][14] On September 3, Buck-Tick opened their personal administrative office, which they named Shaking Hands, Inc., in honor of all the musical connections they hoped to make in the future.

[19] With the album, the band broke into a darker, more serious sound which took a fair amount of criticism from members of the Japanese music scene who had previously thought of Buck-Tick as little more than idols.

Nearly every year since, Buck-Tick have held a large concert at the end of December, usually at the Nippon Budokan, to celebrate the anniversary of their reunion after Imai's arrest.

[19][24] In interviews, the singer said that the pain he felt from these events strongly influenced his lyrics, and that this was when he started writing about real emotions, rather than what he thought was cool.

[19][24] Subsequently, he changed the first kanji in his name from the standard character "桜" ("sakura") to the older version "櫻", and from then on brought a continuously evolving sense of melancholy and psychological depth to the band's lyrics.

[27] In November and December, the Club Quattro Buck-Tick tour saw them play three dates at the titular small live houses in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.

[27] Buck-Tick performed two outdoor shows at Fuji-Q Highland Conifer Forest on July 31 and August 7, the second of which also featured Soft Ballet and The Mad Capsule Markets.

[27] The album Shapeless was released in August and features ambient remixes of Buck-Tick songs by international artist such as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

[13][27] On June 21, they released their ninth studio album, Cosmos, which featured a brighter sound than was usual for the band and also electronic, cyberpunk-influenced music in such songs as "Living on the Net".

[33] On December 10, they released the studio album Sexy Stream Liner, marking the maturation of their new cyberpunk style,[citation needed] which emerged in their visual image as well, with the band sporting fake tattoos and electronic gadgetry on their costumes.

[13] Shortly after this, on the wave of the anime boom, Japanese music began to gain popularity in the West via the internet, and "Gessekai" became the song that first introduced Buck-Tick to many foreign fans.

They returned to Korea for the Soyo Rock Festival on July 29, where they were drenched with rain during their set, and held their first Day in Question concert at the Nippon Budokan on December 29.

It is a concept album inspired by Sakurai's solo project that focused on the idea of "Goth", and despite the residual gothic image Buck-Tick had been cultivating for years, it was a significant departure from any of their previous work.

August saw the release of the single "Kagerou", which was written specifically to be used as the ending theme of the xxxHolic anime adaptation, and two performances for the Summer Sonic Festival.

December also saw Buck-Tick cover "Omae no Inu ni Naru" for the Romantist - The Stalin, Michiro Endo Tribute Album, and perform at the Rockin' On Presents Countdown Japan 10/11 event.

[44] To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Buck-Tick opened a special website where they announced the creation of their own record label Lingua Sounda, and that its first releases would be a single in spring 2012 and an album in the summer.

[63] 2013 began with the 27-date Tour 2013 Cosmic Dreamer, which ran from January 20 to March 7 and featured a large set that provided fake rain for Sakurai to sing in despite all venues being indoor live houses.

[63] Buck-Tick held their first charity concert, Tour 2013 Cosmic Dreamer Extra ~ We Love All!, on March 11 at Nippon Seinenkan to support reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

[68] Created from over 2,500 hours of footage that documented the band conducting their 25th anniversary activities, an advanced screening was previously held in Buck-Tick's home prefecture of Gunma on June 1.

[63] The band did however perform at the Lunatic Fest hosted by Luna Sea on June 28, where they were joined onstage by J for "Iconoclasm", and five The Day in Question concerts in December.

The members of the band appear in and provided the theme song to Peach Booty G, an anime shown at a virtual reality/augmented reality event in Nagoya TV Tower beginning on November 6.

[91] On October 19, 2023, during a concert at KT Zepp Yokohama that was exclusively for members of Buck-Tick's fan club, Sakurai was rushed to a hospital due to sudden signs of illness, abruptly ending the performance after only three songs.

[106] Similar to their contemporaries and fellow Gunma Prefecture natives Boøwy, it used simple rhythms and chords, with the songs mostly in major keys and using some English words in the lyrics.

With 2005's Juusankai wa Gekkou, they completely adopted a "goth" concept,[41][108] which they combined with a retro straight rock sound for the albums Tenshi no Revolver (2007) and Memento Mori (2009).

[114] The song "Rakuen (Inori Koinegai)" caused controversy because some of the lyrics were lifted from the Quran before the album was re-issued with the offending part removed by November 1995.

[131] Dir En Grey vocalist Kyo was inspired to become a rock star after seeing a picture of Sakurai on the desk of a junior high school classmate.

[137] Well-known visual kei rock musicians Tatsuro (Mucc), Yuu (Merry), Aie (Deadman), Lay (Fatima) and Tsuyoshi (Karimero) formed a Buck-Tick cover band called Bluck-Tlick in 2001.