It's been about a year since I started exploring the Japanese Metal and Rock scene. It was not my intention at all to embark on this journey, but like a lot of things in life, unexpected stuff sometimes are the best.

Over the course of this past year, I discovered so so so many new bands, and good ones, and also made new friends along the way.

Earlier this year I went to Japan for the very first time, and I know, I probably should've blogged about my experience, but the only things I felt compelling blogging about was NEMOPHILA's and BABYMETAL's concerts, two of the bands that I found out during my unexpected journey through JMetal/JRock. Well, at least in English, I wrote a few things in Portuguese here.

During my trip to Japan, I stayed a few days in Kyoto, and one of those days when I was switching hotels, I had this unexpected situation.

I arrived at the new hotel I was going to stay, and when I enter the lobby, I noticed a song playing. I knew the song, but because it was an instrumental version I couldn't kinda remember the title.

"I know this song." I said to the hotel front desk clerk.

"Oh, really? This is X Japan."

When I heard the name X Japan I immediately remember the name of the song.

"Ah yeah! Say Anything, right?"

Then I spend a few minutes chatting with the hotel front desk clerk, and they told me I was the first one to actually recognize that song.

If it wasn't the music, the experience of this hotel check-in would probably be different, and in some way; forgettable. I guess that it's true, a song is not just a song, a song is a moment in time.