Name in Japanese: チタン合金ズ, チタンゴーキンズ Years Active: 1996 - 2001; 2003 - 2006 Titan Go King's are one of the several girl-bands to follow down the cute, spunky, and sometimes silly trail originally blazed by Shonen Knife, to which they along with most pop/punk girl bands in Japan since the '0s owe large stylistic debts. Formed in Kyoto, Japan in 1996, the band only performed sporadically until 1998, when they began and gigging more consistently around the Kyoto-Osaka region. Read more on Last.fm