Skin (Japanese band)

The origin of the band dates back to when Yoshiki invited Gackt to his Los Angeles mansion in 2002, where they decided to produce some music together.

[3] And then at the first "JRock Revolution Festival" on May 25, 2007, organized by Yoshiki, he officially announced that Miyavi would be the fourth member and second guitarist, and that Skin would be having its debut performance on June 29, 2007, at the anime expo in Long Beach.

[4] In April 2007, Yoshiki confirmed that the group was planning to release an album and that rough recordings of seven or eight songs were made in March 2007.

[5] Yoshiki at the time struggled with composing and writing lyrics,[6] managing to finish for the concert only one song.

However, massive interest led to flooding of the servers, causing them to crash, and in a few hours ticket reservations were temporarily stopped.

They performed around five songs, of which four were "Gei-Sha", "Killing you softly", "Beneath The Skin", "Violets",[12] and most lyrics were in English and Japanese.

[19] During a press conference in June 2010, Miyavi said he was honored being included in the group, and revealed that he would like to become active with Skin in the near future.

[28][6] However, Gackt understood the pressure Yoshiki was facing at the time and how the supergroup became a "stepping stone" in a good way for X Japan's reunion, in the end, Gackt said that would gladly and ambitiously restart Skin if Yoshiki called and concluded that Skin is the only band capable conquering the world.