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Now on my list of things that are totally unnecessary: Audio CDs in 5.1 sound. Why? I don’t even get 5.1 sound in movies. I think it’s totally stupid. If I hear a sound from behind in a movie, I look behind me and wonder why there is sound coming from behind, while a movie […]

Sometimes, well sometimes, I find non-Metal, non-Rock music I like. Here’s some after the jump:

Ok ok, so we will get DRM-free music tracks, that’s a great step (Techcrunch article). But in AAC format…prft…oh, at 256kpbs. I don’t care, really. I will encode it down to 128 kbps anyway. And to MP3. But I will not buy tracks at 1.29$ per song. That’s so laughable! Why would I pay MORE […]

The new Threshold album is excellent, the density of refrains is still higher. Here is the video to ‘Pilot in the Sky of Dreams’, unfortunately shortened to about half the length:

So I randomly checked the homepage of a rather small club in my town that has occasional Metal concerts and what had just been announced for next month: A club gig by Sepultura! I promptly reserved a ticket, this will be amazing! It’s a real small club for only a few hundrer people at best, […]

Masterplan released a new video recently from their upcoming third album, “Mk. II” (because they have two new band members, singer and drummer). I have to say, it’s a good song, but it rather sounds like a dumbed down version of the formerly sensational Masterplan. Where are the tons of small ideas that made Masterplan […]

There is not much to say here. There has never been another band to concentrate that much energy and complexity. You might have to hear the song a few times before it will begin to mill into your brain without a chance of ever coming out again.

There aren’t many bands that manage to have a truly distinct sound, stay true to their sound and yet somehow manage to evolve ceaselessly. Threshold is such a band. A progressive metal band from Great Britain, thus adapting the typical style of prog that is played there, but stripping away the laziness and pretentiousness that […]

Not much to talk about today, but it snowed today, and I feel the need to note, that the first really low temperatures of this winter came one and a half month late.
I also got a book with the 500 best Rock and Metal albums, and am busy scouring sites for cheap buys off the […]

Now it would only be interesting to know why “Obsession” from the new Space Odyssey album sounds like a copy of “Anno Mundi” from the TYR album by Black Sabbath?