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This is not really a Stratovarius or related bands issue, except in this sense: me, Matias and Lauri have been listening like fucking crazy the last few days to the most recent release ("Fadista") from a Japanese band called ALHAMBRA.

It's insanely good stuff! Unfortunately the lyrics are in Japanese so I have no idea what they are singing about. But this is some seriously good shit.

Keyboard player of this band used to play with Galneryus when they were active.

The Japanese are coming ...... if this is the spearhead of a new wave of Japanese power metal, be very afraid. All of us who are on the scene now need to start to learn how to flip burgers...

http://www.alhambra.ws/

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=120584

Jens, you wouldn't have to flip burgers. They'd probably take care of you if you were forced out of music. I mean, do you know how much they care about their elders?

... You're not joking...

Youtubed a couple songs... they are very, very good. I wouldn't worry about flipping burgers, though... I'm sure you guys could land as their opening band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlwWFFdt ... re=related

that keyboard and vocoder setup kicks so much ass

JensJohansson wrote:This is not really a Stratovarius or related bands issue, except in this sense: me, Matias and Lauri have been listening like fucking crazy the last few days to the most recent release ("Fadista") from a Japanese band called ALHAMBRA.

It's insanely good stuff! Unfortunately the lyrics are in Japanese so I have no idea what they are singing about. But this is some seriously good shit.

Keyboard player of this band used to play with Galneryus when they were active.

The Japanese are coming ...... if this is the spearhead of a new wave of Japanese power metal, be very afraid. All of us who are on the scene now need to start to learn how to flip burgers...

http://www.alhambra.ws/

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=120584

oh wow Yuhki is back! that guy is beast! was amazing in Galneryus! but jens I look at it this way. he needs 3 keyboards to sound like that, you are able to sound just as full with one!

Maybe its time for you to go back to being surrounded by a wall of keyboards like in the Rising Force days

Now that I think about it you have a V-Synth too right?! Time to replace that DX7, at least with the V-Synth you would actually be using the sounds in it lol.

I wonder why they called them selfs Alhambra...

Actually jens galneryus is still active and has started to record a new album with there new singer and bass player and yes yuhki is still 100% still part of galneryus alhambra is quite an amazing band for sure. Just wish more people knew about them and galneryus as well

This is so bizarre. A Japanese band with an old arabian fortress name from Granada, a city where "TT was stabbed".



They seem talented, I'll have a look.

Plisken wrote:
I wonder why they called them selfs Alhambra...

The red fortress you know

RazielSR wrote: This is so bizarre. A Japanese band with an old arabian fortress name from Granada, a city where "TT was stabbed".



They seem talented, I'll have a look.

Plisken wrote:
I wonder why they called them selfs Alhambra...

The red fortress you know

yah i know but why lol ?

There's a village in Cyprus called that. So I instantly associate them with goats

Nice stuff, though.

Those talented musicians are everywhere!

In Montréal, Québec (Canada damnit) the head of the Symphonic Orchestra was retired to let the place to a JAPANESE named Kent Nagano (which is pretty good!).

I am listening to Fadista too and I do not see what is to be so afraid of. That is good music, great, but there is also a lot of room for good musicians.

Thanks too for the show in Montréal in september 20. It was a real pleasure !!!! Especially Matias and Lauri playing Beethoven. That was a great moment of admiration.
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I am the one who said Niiii so often ... I lost my knowledge of everything.

By the way, Black Diamond is also a brand of Cheese ...

Okay listen to that part that is very something ...

GOMYO, KAREN

Born in Tokyo in 1982, Karen Gomyo moved to Montreal in 1984.

[... blah-blah ...]

Now see : That japanese girl from Montréal will play Sibelius (Concerto for violin in ré) ... October 6. I think I'll go see her. ...

Sibelius! Anyways. I tell you, that culture is everywhere and nobody can stop this to happens. Be very-very afraid.
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I am the one who said Niiii so often ... I lost my knowledge of everything.

By the way, Black Diamond is also a brand of Cheese ...

Come on! Strato still writes better stuff IMO. This is good, but there are TONS of great bands. Still today, few rival the skill of strato. (Mattias brings an entirely new element to the band)
Azrael is another good Japanese band too.

http://www.myspace.com/azraeljapan

Check it!

Damn, I think it's so cool that you even listen to Galneryus Jens! I've been a fan for a little while now, just picked up all of their albums when I was in Japan! I like the clips that I heard of Alhambra; she's got a unique voice but I need to check out a full track. Any chance that with your metal powers that you could maybe get Galneryus to tour with you guys? I've seen a cover of Black Diamond by them so they must be fans!

PS: I think Alhambra is also a city in either California or Mexico too? At least It sounds spanish to me

Last one in 2007; this will be interesting to see what they come up with next.

How do you guys come up with what you listen to on a tour? Do you ever listen to random demos from people from cities that you play at?

Well, japanese people are allways very talented. To be honest I wasn't that impresed. Sounds like Fairyland + DragonForce. Stuff like Grace Project or Versailles with female vocals. As allways, japanese power metal is a bit more complex than what we could call... "Classic European Power Metal", but... I just can't find in any of those songs the same beauty and power that songs like Black Diamond (Stratovarius), Valhalla (Blind Guardian), 8th Commandment (Sonata Arctica), etc. have.

I mean it. I actually think I like more than Ａlhambara...
this song...
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Hizaki, the guitar player is a real beast...
Far better than Syu (Galneryus)
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Kawaii! ^_^


This is for me the greatest thing to ever come from Japan:

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When I first saw this thread my reaction was surprise. Now I read it again and I'm even more surprised. A whole blog post about a band?

Btw, I noticed nobody nagged Jens for posting this in the wrong forum. I guess that "Jens liking it" is enough to consider this Stratovarius talk...

Jens is the Admin. He is not bound by rules, he IS the rules!

Its "what the band is listening too blog" I think it would be an interesting thing for a blog to be all about bands a band listens to on tour that gets them really excited. Since it’s what the guys are listening too, it’s just as valid as anything else since it portrays directly with their lives that they want to share. It introduced me to a new band.

Well, in that sense...

I'm not complaining or implying this was innapropriate. It's just that this was very unexpected. I mean, he exerts such huge influence on us. If anyone creates a thread about a band, chances are people will check them out. But if Jens blogs about a band, who isn't going to check them out?

Now it is a blog post, though, so it's no surprise it popped up here and not in "Other bands" anyways.

Regarding the band in question, I listened to one of their songs and didn't like it much, the vocals are kind of annoying.

I guess I demeed it relevant since three fifths of the band had their faces melted off by it, on the bus in the University of Regina parking lot

Alhambra reminded me a bit of this local band of my city (Caracas) called Impromtu. They aren't as good as Alhambra, and actually I don't like them that much, but i'm leaving a link here just in case if sombebody want to check them out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2djrYhH ... re=related


Oh, and I'm going to SEE, HEAR and MEET Stratovarius today!

can't wait

It has the two things I dislike in music, and the three things I like most.

1. Female Vocals
2. Japanese Vocals

1. Awesome Instrumentation
2. Awesome Instrumentation
3. Awesome Instrumentation

fernandotcl wrote:When I first saw this thread my reaction was surprise. Now I read it again and I'm even more surprised. A whole blog post about a band?

Btw, I noticed nobody nagged Jens for posting this in the wrong forum. I guess that "Jens liking it" is enough to consider this Stratovarius talk...

Maybe Jens receive some "JABAS" to talk about this band!?

uh yeah....Alhambra with Yuhki, actually i ordered their DVD, kind of awesome band! but i like their 1st cd better, it's way more instense for real!
check it out it's called A Far Cry To you
and here goes some youtube link for jens to be very afraid HAHA! nah kidding

here it goes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VE-VKHNfR0

PD: also the bass player is very talented...

HinatAArcticA wrote:Hizaki, the guitar player is a real beast...Far better than Syu (Galneryus)

:O! Hizaki is pretty awesome but far better then Syu :S? I would put them on par with each other at the very least.

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Yuhki is beast 0_0

For anyone who hasnt heard the Galneryus cover of black diamond here it is!

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now thats a cover !

oh no way...syu is by FAR better than hizaki
hizaki is just a nice face...but when it comes to skills... i think syu is one of the best in the japanese scene.

Special A2 wrote:oh no way...syu is by FAR better than hizaki
hizaki is just a nice face...but when it comes to skills... i think syu is one of the best in the japanese scene.

yah i agree , hizaki is really good but syu is better, for me at least he is.

That covere from black diamond was great, but I dont like voice, sorry