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But why RAMEN EVENTS has put the price of the tickets so low then? I think 20€ would've been a reasonable price. It seems to be even 12€ in some countries. I'm pretty sure ADAMS won't be able to fill even one venue on the tour (or at least the venue in Finland), so hopefully RAMEN EVENTS will make some profit out of this tour.

Damn it!!

Uusi suomalainen ilmoittautuu. En rehellisesti sanoen tajua, miksen ole aikaisemmin selannut tätä foorumia... No mut piristetään tätä topicia vähän Yoshikilla, koska nää memet ei vanhene ikinä. Ei ikinä. En varmaan ikinä kyllästy näihin.

I'm really impressed by their tour, could this probably be the vastest European tour a band has ever done? I'm definitely attending the concert in Helsinki, I even purchased the ticket already. And the price was incredible: 14,50€. FOURTEEN EUROS AND FIFTY CENTS. Like man, that's really insane. I would've paid maybe 25€ with a happy face. It's great they aren't clearly trying to rip off with their ticket pricing, but I think I'm gonna buy some merchandise to support the artist. But they are a fairly new band so I think the price is ok. I'm just hoping they will get some money out of this tour and not have to buy something out of their own pockets

@Messenger84, sorry no, I have a bad memory but I can tell they started with KEY, and played at least RD in coke, Sandy, INGRAM, Clockwise, Winners and losers (?), and they ended the concert with Jennifer. Did anyone else attend the shows in Europe? I attended the show in Helsinki and I had to admit I had a super great time. I decided a week before the gig I'll be attending and had only a couple of days to truly listen to their music which is a shame, would have been so much funnier if I recognized more their songs. The venue wasn't even half full but the atmosphere was amazing and the vibe the band gave me was super thrilling. They played greatly together and I was head-banging my ass off the whole time though I was super sick at that time, but I just couldn't stay still and nod my head. And it was a great surprise that they had an autograph session after the show, I had no idea before the show ended and everybody was forming a line in front of the stage... I also bought their new collection album with an atrocious price of 30€, but I was so enthusiastic after the gig and wanted to get an autograph onto something useful (I don't consider posters useful since I really can't hang them anywhere since my bf would probably badly disapprove...). And know I have an insane crush on Ryohei. You bastard with all that flirting and stuff.

Is Ambrozia still in sale? How much do you ask for it, and if it's possible, how much is shipping to Finland? EDIT// And in what condition the CD/booklet/etc is?

The one clean singer I consider to be the best is Jui from Vidoll. He does too make those crazyass weird (and awesome) growling sounds but he truly has an amazing clean voice. When I was a die-hard Vidoll fan I remember reading somewhere that he has had classical training in singing. He has an amazingly powerful voice and I like his vibrato a lot. He sounds awesome on CDs but also sings fantastically live. Not that I've ever seen them live but the live videos have made a huge impact on me. My personal live favorite is 十年後の今日此処で (Juunen go no kyou koko de). I think there even isn't a studio version of the song and I've no idea who has composed it or if it's even an original Vidoll song. I just love that live and Jui's singing in it. Pure awesomeness. And of course then there's Kimi wo nosete... But well, I won't link it here. But his falsetto does sound great even though Kimi wo nosete makes me giggle a bit. If you don't have time to listen to the whole song, the chorus starts at 2:00. It gives me goosebumps everytime though I've listened to that song countless times.

One of my favorite cover songs is Lycaon's メンタル≠ヘルプ (Mental≠help) made originally by R-Shitei. R-Shitei also covered Lycaon's The 「1st」degree genocide holic and it's great too but since I'm a huge fan of Lycaon I prefer Lycaon's cover. Link to Mental≠help by both bands (lol I couldn't make this spoiler+embedded thingy work though the later link works just fine...) And who could forget CRUSH!3-90's V-Rock best hit cover LOVE songs-: 1. Ayabie - ESCAPE (MOONCHILD) 2. ALSDEAD - Illusion City (SEX MACHINEGUNS) 3. Inugami Circus-dan - Rusty nail (X JAPAN) 4. Uchuu Sentai NOIZ - Kiss me (Himuro Kyousuke) 5. Kameleo - Zurii onna (Sharam Q) 6. Kaya - yurenagara... (Laputa) 7. CRASH 49 - kanojo no Modern... (GLAY) 8. SARSHI - VENUS (Chisato) 9. Scarlett - HURRY GO ROUND (hide with Spread Beaver) 10. DIV - White breath (T.M.Revolution) 11. defspiral - ROSIER (LUNA SEA) 12. Makoto - Eternal Flame (SOPHIA) 13. MEJIBRAY - Cage (Dir en grey) 14. Lin - Insomnia (ROUAGE) I'm not too familiar with most of the original songs. Inugami Circus-dan's Rusty nail is a one very interesting piece but my personal favorite is MEJIBRAY's Cage. The original DEG song is one of my favorite songs and MEJIBRAY made a great cover with their own style and sound while keeping up with the atmosphere of the original song. Earlier someone mentioned Matenrou Opera's Kurenai (X JAPAN original) and I'm so in love with that cover. The original song is amazing but the way they covered it with their own sound and style is truly amazing, 100 times better than Mejigay's Cage. That kurenai cover really gives me goosebumps. It's so amazing I have no words for it.

There's also a listing of Japanese venues made by Tumblr user Fuck yeah Tanuki. All credits belong to the writer, just thought also this listing could be useful!

My dearest and most beloved purchase is without doubt X Japan - Art of life, published 1993 and it has the black photobook as well as the original plastic "slip on" case (though it's super damaged but I don't dare to throw it away XD) The CD+photobook is being sold in Yahoo with low prices but the emotional value of the CD can't be measured in money. It's my ultimate favorite song ever and I've spent way too much time listening to it, at least according to last.fm.

The worst album I've ever purchased was Vidoll - Esoteric romance. It cost me shitloads of money and there's only one song I like, Cryptic Tokyo. I used to be a die hard Vidoll fan and that was the first CD I bought right when it was released and listened to it for the first time in CD. I've never been that disappointed, I didn't like the singles but still I somehow thought that the album could still be good. I was so wrong. IMHO Vidoll turned to complete shit after majoring and everything they released after that is nothing compared to their indie stuff. But well, like that hasn't happened before to any other bands...

@niwlun: Wow, I've actually never ever ever heard even the name of a single one of those bands. Thought I'd find even something familiar in this topic... 1. 쥬얼리 - Maybe 2. クララ零式 - 無理心中-焼身- 3. Dir en grey - R TO THE CORE 4. X Japan - Art of life 5. ALSDEAD - 404 6. Capsule - Player 7. Vidoll - 舞夢 ～マイム～ 8. MEJIBRAY - Crazed Brain 9. Anjyu' - Suicide gemini 10. Slipknot - Left behind (Alternate Version) Most of the stuff I don't even listen to... Let's just say I never delete music even if I didn't like it. That's why I have over 21 days worth of music in my hard drive... I just had to choose Art of life since it's maybe my super-hardcore-ultimate favorite song ever. And yay for me, I had totally forgotten about クララ零式 before this 10 song shuffle!

Royz I have seriously no idea why I haven't listened to them before. I've known the name for a while and actually listened to them first time after reading some nasty stuff about Subaru and Kuina, and I was mainly expecting to hate their music and give me more reasons to hate them etc. But then I somehow ended up falling in love with their music... Their music is like a drug to me, the choruses are SUPER MOTHERFUCKING CATCHY and some of the guitar riffs are just sick. And I really like Subaru's voice, I like that type of vocals. EAT YOU ALIVE I started listening to them mainly because of their European tour. Clockwise was my favourite song and I fell in love with it madly. It was sad that I didn't have that much time to listen to them before the concert but the concert sure was a hell lot of fun. The members were so active on the stage and their personal vibes were so inspiring. I ended up head-banging the whole set even though I was super sick and coughing all the time so much my lungs were hurting continuously. I had to take my asthma meds like three times during the concert, I was so all over the place. (Don't worry, it was nothing contagious, so I wasn't there like trying to make all the other fans sick Just my asthma getting worse.) MEJIBRAY Yes, I've had my fair share with the Mejigay fandom but still I ended up falling madly in love with their two songs, a b-side from their newest single Shuuei (???) which is called Shitto (lulz for the name) and die Kusse. Yes, I fell in love with the oh-so-obvious Filth in the beauty cover. I've been blasting those two songs so much it makes my brain hurt. And it's not that I don't like other songs, I'm sure I'll end up liking them too, I just haven't had time to truly listen to them. Actually one of my favorite "pieces" from them is their live show MEJIBRAY - Sliver Crossing @ Takadanobaba AREA 16/12/11. Meto looks super retarded, Koichi looks ridiculous, MiA has some awesome guitar skills but that Apple screen on the background kinda ruins it, Tsuzuku looks super-retarded when he's moving his head from side to side in Sabato, but still there's just something about that live. Maybe it's MiA's guitar skills combined with that super-motherfucking-awesome jacket of Tsuzuku that makes me like that live show, I have seriously no idea. ADAMS I think ADAMS is one of those "made for fangirls" bands with all the... krhm... erotic music videos etc. Not that I'm not enjoying them, I actually do.... But it's just the fanbase I'm worried about. They aren't musically that amazing, sure Shota is an amazing guitarist and the songs are very catchy, but I can't help feeling like a drooling 14-year-old fangirl when I'm watching their music videos. I somehow feel embarrassed for liking them... But still, they're so cute!! And they produce quite powerful songs, I really can't watch Seseragi without crying. I've tried multiple times but always failed miserably. I just can not hold my tears while watching that PV. Crazy★shampoo Madly in love with "The place in which I am now." There's really nothing more to add, have been blasting that song since I first heard it in 2013.

I really love singing along to my favorite songs, at least the chorus has to be something I can sing along (brutal/harsh/hard songs excluded). My voice isn't great, I think it's even below mediocre, but I enjoy singing a lot when there's nobody listening. I can hit the correct notes (at least I think I do...) but I'm terrible at singing without a song playing in the background. One of my favorites is Lycaon also but at the moment I'm addicted to Royz songs. Those choruses are so amazingly catchy there's NO WAY you won't be singing them along. Right now I'm listening to Alkaloid and it tears me apart inside that it's almost 2 AM and I can't sing it since my bf is sleeping in the next room. But I'd say EGOIST by Royz (video with lyrics) is my favorite. I learnt the lyrics in one day when I first heard that song since I was constantly singing it. Also one huge favorite is Royz's Innocence, and I actually took it as a personal compliment when a friend of mine who's only into Gazette (he's not a huge fan, most of the time he listens to mainstream stuff) actually froze for a while when the chorus came. He said something like "wow, that's a catchy chorus" etc. It's really heart-warming when someone not into VK compliments a song I like even though I've done nothing to compose the song etc. It's. Just. Impossible. Not. To. Sing. Along. IMPOSSIBRUUUU.