Tickets are still available as of this writing:
STG Presents > X Japan > The Paramount Theatre
Excerpt from the above website about X-Japan:
**STG presents X Japan at The Paramount Theatre Seattle on Friday, October 1, 2010.
They’ve sold 30-million records and DVDs, filled the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome a record-breaking 18 times, they pioneered “Visual-Kei,” the Japanese music movement that helped spark the current Anime craze, and their leader has been referred to as “the Bono of Japan.” But the one thing this Guns-N’-Roses-meets-Queen-meets-‘The-Matrix’ rock group has wanted to do for years but has never done, is tour America. That’s about to change, as on September 25, X Japan will kick off a seven-city North American trek at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, with subsequent stops in Oakland, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Toronto, and New York. Tickets go on sale today (8/16) and can be purchased through Tickets for Concerts, Sports, Arts, Theater, Family, Events, more. Official Ticketmaster site or at the venues’ box office.
“We feel like a new band now, like we are going back to the beginning,” said X Japan’s leader/drummer/pianist/composer Yoshiki about the upcoming U.S. concerts, “and it’s very, very exciting. We are looking forward to playing smaller venues here in the U.S., something we haven’t been able to do in Japan since the very early days.”**
Simply go to Youtube and listen to the following songs to get an idea:
Jade
Endless Rain
Rusty Nail
Forever Love
Kurenai
Art of Life
This is perhaps one of the biggest bands in the world that american music lovers never heard of. They’ve sold out the Tokyo Dome (capacity: 55,000) eighteen times, beating out Bon Jovi for the all-time record. it’s really hard to classify their style; it floats between rock, ballads, classical, and metal. The founder, Yoshiki, is the band’s founder. He not only plays the drums as shown in most of X-Japan’s concerts, but he’s also a gifted pianist who was commissioned by the Emperor of Japan to write a song commemorating his ascension to the throne. He also composes pretty much all of X-Japan’s music.
In my view, his best work is “Art of Life”, which he composed in 1991-1992. It is loosely based on Schubert’s unfinished eighth symphony. He first performed it with piano and orchestra in 1992, but then went back into the studio and record the “metal” version for the band. Right now, it’s probably my favorite song by any artist in any genre of music.
Anyways, here’s hoping I’m not the only fan of X-Japan in the Seattle area 
