They've sold 30-million records and DVDs, filled the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome a record-breaking 18 times, they pioneered Visual-Kei, the Japanese music movement that helped spark the current world-wide Anime craze, and their leader has been referred to as "the Bono of Japan."

But the one thing this GUNS N' ROSES-meets-QUEEN-meets-The-Matrix rock group has wanted to do for years but has never done, is tour America. That's about to change, as on September 25th, X JAPAN will kick off a seven-city North American trek at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, with subsequent stops in Oakland, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Toronto, and New York.

Tickets go on sale today (August 16th) and most can be purchased through Ticketmaster.com (go to Etix.com for the Chicago date) or at the venues' box office.

Dates for X JAPAN's North American concert tour debut are:

September
25 - Wiltern Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
28 - Fox Theatre - Oakland, CA

October
01 - Paramount Theatre - Seattle, WA
03 - Queen Elizabeth Theatre - Vancouver, BC
06 - Riviera - Chicago, IL
07 - Massey Hall - Toronto, ON
10 - Roseland Ballroom - New York, NY

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