2008(1): Music

I feel that 2008 was a year of musical change for me. My taste in Japanese music has become so big that it has completely taken over my previous main genre [Metal]. Although I still listen to some metal from time to time, I'm not exploring new bands as I was a couple of years ago...
Still this year brought me some good new metal bands:
- Battlelore
- Delain
- My Dying Bride [don't know why I didn't have this in my list already]
- Paramore
- Unsun

I've expanded the metal music I already had, so if a band which I already had music from, made a new album, I probably added it to my collection.
This year's new J-Music list:
abingdon boys school, Aikawa Nanase, Amano Tsukiko, Angelique, Antic Cafe, Aragaki Yui, Attack All Round, Aural Vampire, Ayaka,
BeForU, Brilliant Green (the), C-ute, Chara, Chatmonchy, Deathgaze, Fiction Junction YUUKA, Garnet Crow, Girugamesh, Hirahara Ayaka, Hirano Aya, Hora, Ishikawa Chiaki, Kagrra, Kalafina, Ketchup Mania, Kitade Nana, Kosaka Riyu, Lamentglace, Luna Sea, MEG, Mell, melody, Minimoni, Mizuki Nana, Misono, Morning Musume, Nakagawa Shoko, Nakashima Mika, Onmyouza, Otsuka Ai, Perfume, Rentrer en Soi, Saori@Destiny, Shimamiya Eiko, Shimatani Hitomi, Shizukusa Yumi, Terra, Tommy febuary6, Tommy heavenly6, Ueto Aya, Utada Hikaru, Yousei Teikoku, Zwei

I also adapted Eurobeat in my collection. It's great music while doing card games like Spider Solitaire or racing games [Need for Speed]. I think I acutally got this from an racing anime [Initial D].

some things that are not in this list but should be mentioned:
Hamasaki Ayumi, collected all her albums and remix albums.
I've Sound, collected all the I've Sound albums [I've Girls compilation 1-6, Short Circuit 1+2, I've Mania, Master Groove, dirty gift and mixed up]
and a lot of other collections are up to date as well ;)

At the Threshold of... Europe 2007

This title refers to the Hammerfall tour [in case you didn't know that]
I had to go ALL ALONE [again] because people didn't want to go or couldn't go [NOT wanting to go to HAMMERFALL is a sin and you will all burn for it :D ]

It also seemed that the weather would be bad [thick fog], so I was kinda doubting if I should go by car or with public transportation... Glad I went with my own car [with Hammerfall coming out of the speakers the whole time :P ] Only downside is that you have to pay a parking ticket, but oh well you can't have all the luck in the world...

Hammerfall had 2 opening acts: The Poodles and Krokus. Although the name "The Poodles" would make you laugh, their music is actually really good [going to download some soon ;) ]
Krokus was a bit of a disappointment. It's not that the music was bad, but it's just the guy singing that really annoys me... If it were up to me, The Poodles should've played on their time ;)
When Hammerfall finally started to play, I felt something I hadn't felt in a long time... Happiness! I have no idea how long I've been wanting to see them play live and now it was finally upon me [too bad there was nobody to share in my happiness]
They gave away a FANTASTIC show and had some fireworks [which at the end burned some of the ceiling ;) ]

Hopefully Kamelot will have a great show as well :)