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When Hammerfall first came out, they were a big hit; and a love ‘em or hate ‘em band right from the start. Their debut album blazed away with “true metal” and to this day remains one of the finest traditional metal albums. With hits like “Hammerfall” or “Where the dragon lies bleeding” they re-established the […]

Following up on the climate conference ranting, Real Climate has an article focusing on how drastically we’d have to cut CO2 emissions. It goes something like 50% now, 85% in the long term. That’s pretty drastic, and will not be achieved. Just goes to show how deep in trouble we are.

The UN climate change conference in Nairobi has started. Maybe the most important goal is to start a follower protocol to the Kyoto protocol, which was but a start towards a working climate protection system. Still, rogue states like the USA say that Kyoto will not do anything and don’t follow it. But they haven’t […]

The death sentence for Saddam Hussein is wrong and against human rights. If you are for human rights, there is no way that you can allow the death sentence. You can’t be for it, except when…
If you are against the death sentence, you are against it, there is no possibility to make exceptions. No death […]

That’s a CD release I’m looking forward to:
Spock’s Beard - Spock´s Beard - 17. November
After their strong last album, the new Spock’s Beard with Nick d’Virgilio singing are a must hear again! One of my favourite bands of all times, I hope to see them live again, then for the fourth time! I’m pretty sure […]

Here’s a review I still owe you, and the queue of reviews I need to write but didn’t tell you about is filling as well, so I will have to write some more reviews the next days, e.g. of the new Hammerfall.
Shatter Messiah are a band lead by Curran Murphy, a guitarist who proved he […]

Two fermions walk into a bar.
The bartender asks, “So, what’ll it be.”
The first one says, “I’ll have a gin and tonic.”
The second one replies, “Dammit, that’s what I wanted!”
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