1.How did you get into 29? (Profugus Mortis)
During an Unexpect show.

2. What's the first song you ever heard by 22? (Sebkha-Chott)
Hymen

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (No Doubt)
Don't Speak

4. How did you get into 49? (Idiot Flesh)
It's a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum singer project.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Tub Ring)
1

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Qntal)
La Froidor

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Morgul)
All Dead Here

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (...and Oceans)
Esprit De Corps

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Eluveite)
Aidu

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Atheist)
Green

11. What is the worst song by 40? (Le Grand Guignol)
OMG none!!!!

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Turisas)
Cursed be Iron

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (L'Esprit du Clan)
Good discussions with Mathieu Roy

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Arch Enemy)
Dead Eyes See No Future

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Carnival in Coal)
Yes! We Have No Bananas

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (Arcturus)
I don't think so...

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Gojira)
Ocean Planet or Flying Whales, don't remember...

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Ayreon)
Comatose

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Unexpect)
Leilindel, ChaotH, Syriak, Artagoth, ExoD, Borboen, Landryx. (in a not-so-accurate order)

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (Stolen Babies)
:D I would say Push Buttons to name only one.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Ensiferum)
Paganfest Montréal April 26th! AWESOME!

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Arnold Schönberg)
Pierrot Lunaire

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Ayria)
It's Been Fun

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Nuclear Rabbit)
Intestinal Fortitude

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Carla Kihlstedt)
Flinch

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Finntroll)
Midnattens Widunders

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (5uu's)
Abandonship

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Akphaezya)
Chrysalis

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Pain of Salvation)
! (Forward)

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Diablo Swing Orchestra)
Balrog Boogie

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Strapping Young Lad)
Never

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Amorphis)
Two Moons

33. How did you get into 12? (Carcass)
I bought Heartwork used in a CD store under a friend recommandation.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Angizia)
Don't know

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Katzenjammer Kabarett)
Intro

36. What was the first song you ever heard by 48? (Cradle of Filth)
Nymphetamine

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Dysrhythmia)
Never

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (U Totem)
Don't know

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Béla Bartòk)
Introduzione

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum)
Of Natural History

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (Samael)
Valkyries' New Ride

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Àsmegin)
Hin Vordende Sod & Sø

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Nekrogoblikon)
Goblins are Better Than Trolls

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Leaves' Eyes)
none either, will see them in october...

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Dog Fashion Disco)
Don't have one

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Augury)
Cosmic Migration

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Messer Chups)
Crazy Price

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? (Thinking Plague)
Dave Kerman (drum)

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Kekal)
Can't remember

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (Ephel Duath)
Labyrinthine (Crimson)

I recently discovered this and found it interesting to look on my top 30 artists a little closer...

1. How did you get into 29?
Wednesday 13 came free with my new boyfriend. *g*

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
That's Winter's Dancing by Art Of Empathy which I got from the sampler "Autumn calls - winter awaits" which you can download for free at http://lunarhypnosis.com/.

3. What's your favorite song by 14?
That's Love Me to the End by Deine Lakaien.

4. What is your favorite album by 16?
Chopin didn't really make albums, so... But I like his nocturnes the best.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
I own two albums by Faith and the Muse.

6. What is your favorite song by 17?
That's clearly Kiss by London After Midnight.

7. Is there a song by 7 that makes you sad?
Innocent Child by Arcana.

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
I guess it's Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails because it's so aggressive and rough.

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Oh that's tough. Diary of Dreams made a lot of different amazing songs... But if I had to choose I would pick Bird Without Wings II, I guess...

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Stillste Stund doesn't really make happy music, so, no...

11. What is your favorite album by 12?
At the moment I only own Maaäet by Tenhi. It is soooooo wonderful dark folk!

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Silke Bischoff - Small and Tired (Unplugged). It always makes me sad and brings back pictures of the past.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 20?
Soko Friedhof... Well, I remember their latest show I saw and there were some of those typical neon-cyber-guys who seemed to take the "music" very serious and did some very ridiculous dancing which was kinda funny. :)

14. What is your favorite song by 8?
Portishead - Roads. No song has ever made me more sad...

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Subaudition - Raindrops. It's like walking through a forest wet with summer rain.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
Backworld - haven't seen them yet...

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Omnia - Etrezomp-ni Kelted. And I still love it so much. :)

18. What is your favorite album by 11?
Love Is Colder Than Death - Teignmouth. Good old darkwave...

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
That's not hard. It's Peter Spilles from Project Pitchfork. He is such a charismatic singer, I always get the feeling that I don't have enough arms and legs to express all my feeling in dancing when I get the chance to see this incredible band live.

20. Have you ever seen 24 live?
Qntal - Sadly, no.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
The Cure - I remember myself jumping and dancing around wildly through my parent's living room while singing Lovecats when I was maybe 15. :)

22. What is your favorite song by 28?
That's Lieber einsam mit den Freien fallen by Sagittarius - such a lovely piano piece.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 9?
Romowe Rikoito - I guess that has to be A Sea-Spell. Wonderful neofolk by the way!

24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Goethes Erben - Nichts bleibt wie es war. It's their best imho.

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
Eric Fish - Im Spiegel. I can listen to it ten times, though my general opinion about him is very ambivalent... (Does this word exist in English? :))

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Letzte Instanz, oh gods... I really can't tell, that's been some years by now... But it probably was one from Kalter Glanz.

27. What is your favorite album by 3?
Weh - The coffee's cold in the morning, the beer's warm at night. The title tells enough... :)

28. What is your favorite song by 4?
Dornenreich - that is really really hard to decide, because every song is a unique masterpeace that gives me the shivers... The first album I owned was Her von welken Nächten and it must have been Wer hat Angst vor Einsamkeit? that impressed me most in those days. And it still impresses me.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 2?
Cranes - That was Shining Road. That's a bit strange because it is such a dreamy, sunny song and I fell in love with their darker stuff later...

30. What is your favorite song by 30?
Chamber - L'Orchestre de Chambre Noir - Toscana.


Wow, that's a long list, but it was fun to create it. And now I'll stop boring the world... *g*

Ok, bored here! It's been quite a long time since I wrote my last journal, so here I am commemorating reaching 10.000 plays (after the last reset) by posting my current top 50!

1. Inkubus Sukkubus
2. Mediæval Bæbes
3. Nightwish
4. Qntal
5. Enya
6. Ataraxia
7. Arcana
8. Dead Can Dance
9. Loreena McKennitt
10. The Soil Bleeds Black
11. The Birthday Massacre
12. Nox Arcana
13. Blackmore's Night
14. Tori Amos
15. Tristania
16. 浜崎あゆみ
17. Of the Wand and the Moon
18. Tarot
19. Louisa John-Krol
20. Clannad
21. Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows
22. Leaves' Eyes
23. Within Temptation
24. Midnight Syndicate
25. Hagalaz' Runedance
26. Death in June
27. Cyndi Lauper
28. Hannah Fury
29. Estampie
30. Madonna
31. Howard Shore
32. Sarah McLachlan
33. Mind.In.A.Box
34. Sarah Brightman
35. Theatre of Tragedy
36. BONNIE PINK
37. 相川七瀬
38. Omnia
39. Trobar de Morte
40. Blutengel
41. Faun
42. Artesia
43. The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud
44. Faith and the Muse
45. Tarja
46. Moya Brennan
47. 宇多田ヒカル
48. Ayria
49. Caroline Lavelle
50. Agalloch

I'm particularly proud of Inkubus Sukkubus being at #1 because I love them so fucking much. Arcana and The Soil Bleeds Black so high are cool too.
Two great new entries that I think will go way up are Louisa John-Krol and The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud.

Am 2. Oktober 2008 geht das Dark Area Festival in die dritte Runde und verspricht der nordhessischen Gothic-Szene in der Nacht vor dem Tag der Deutschen Einheit erneut ein Party- und Konzerthighlight in schwarz. Die Nachthallen Kassel präsentieren in diesem Jahr 9 Live-Acts, zahlreiche DJs und ein umfangreiches Rahmenprogramm auf insgesamt 2600qm Indoorfläche, 2 Bühnen und 2 Party-Floors.

Als Headliner auf der Mainstage konnten Die Krupps und Diary of Dreams verpflichtet werden. Zuvor werden hier Qntal, Soko Friedhof und Rozencrantz mit exklusiven Herbst-Indoor-Festival-Auftritten begeistern. Parallel dazu geben sich auf der Industrial-Stage mit Grendel, xotox, Noisuf-X und Sam angesagte Electro/Industrial-Größen die Klinke in die Hand.

Party ist die gesamte Nacht lang in der Grossen Halle angesagt. Hier wird neben den Dark Area Residents DJ Bruno Kramm (Das Ich) an den Reglern stehen und für ein schwarzgemischtes Musikprogramm verantwortlich zeichnen. Autogrammstunden, Merchandise eine große Verlosung uvm. werden das Dark Area Festival 2008 abrunden.

Die Tickets kosten 26,- € (zzgl. Gebühr) im Vorverkauf und 29,- € an der Abendkasse.

Do. 02.10.08 // DONNERSTAG VOR DEM TAG DER DEUTSCHEN EINHEIT // Kassel > Nachthallen // Angersbachstr. 10, 34127 Kassel - Tel.: 0561-84044 // www.nachthallen.de

Weitere Informationen unter: www.dark-area-festival.de

Bands I've seen live:
1 After Forever
2 Angelzoom
3 Anna Katharina
4 Apocalyptica
5 Apoptygma Berzerk (2x)
6 ASP & Chamber
7 ASP (5x)
8 Cinderella Effect
9 Cinema Strange
10 Combichrist (2x)
11 Corvus Corax (2x)
12 Cultus Ferox (3x)
13 Das Ich (3x)
14 De/Vision
15 Deadfly Ensemble
16 Deine Lakaien (2x)
17 Diary of Dreams
18 Eisbrecher
19 Emilie Autumn
20 Eric Fish (2 1/2x)
21 Estampie (2x)
22 Exilia
23 Faun (3x)
24 fetisch:MENSCH
25 Front 242
26 Frozen Plasma
27 Grendel
28 Haggard
29 Heimataerde
30 HIM
31 Hocico
32 In Extremo
33 Katzenjammer Kabarett
34 L’Âme Immortelle
35 Lacrimosa
36 Leandra
37 Letzte Instanz (2x)
38 Mina Harker
39 Nightwish
40 northborne
41 Obscenity Trial
42 Potentia Animi
43 Qntal
44 Rapalje
45 Reaper
46 Remember Twilight
47 Saltatio Mortis (42958241735872 mal ... gefühlt)
48 Samsas Traum (2x)
49 Schandmaul (2x)
50 Soman
51 Spiritual Front (2x)
52 Staubkind
53 Subway to Sally (2x)
54 Suicide Commando (2x)
55 Tanzwut
56 The Crüxshadows (3x ?)
57 Unheilig
58 Unter Null
59 VNV Nation
60 Welle:Erdball (2x)
61 weto
62 Wir sind Helden
63 xotox
64 Zeraphine (2x)
65 Zeromancer

Music is a way for the soul to speak. But not only it's its voice but also it can cause the soul to speak. This is what I want to tell because of and thru music. It might not always be what those who created it exactly ment...

In short, this is a little bit of why those not other songs are where they are on my top listened. This my way of showing a bit of myself to you.

#1 Disturbed - Inside The Fire
What is hell? It's a place where you have no hope. It's a place where you feel only fear. It's a place ... when you no longer care ...
When you are at the hell's gate think about those who care for you and the pain they will feel if you leave this world.


#2 Kamelot - Solitaire
Do you hear the silence? Look for it inside you. What does it mean? That it's coming...
#3 Kamelot - Rule the World
Even tho you often don't feel it, the power is there inside you ... waiting for you to discover it. The way to power needs silence but then also needs a reason. When you will finally get to the source you will Rule the world. Which world you, may ask. Does it matter?


#4 Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Close your eyes and let your imagination lead you. See your dreams and embrace them. Let them flow and take you with them...


#5 Disturbed - Land of Confusion
In 1986 Genesis sang:
I wont be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
Were not just making promises
That we know, well never keep.

But when you listen to this song again today you start to ask yourself a question. Why its words still apply to current days even tho over 20 years passed? What has to be done so noone has to ask the same question in next 20 years? Can we really learn anything from the passing generations and not repeat their mistakes?


#6 Kamelot - The Human Stain
Have you ever wondered what's the meaning of life? How to make your own existance be noticed? Being is the essence. Each life is important the machine of time. Without each of us the world would be something completly different and we can't possibly be sure it would be better...


#7 Qntal - Ecce Gratum
Close your eyes... open your soul...
Ecce gratum et optatum
ver reducit gaudia:
purpuratum floret pratum,
sol serenat omnia.
iam iam cedant tristia!
estas redit nunc recedit,
hiemis sevitia.

1. How did you get into 1?
Kamelot - saw the video of Ghost Opera


2. What was the first song you ever heard by 2?
Riverside - Out of Myself

3. How many albums by 3 do you own?
Metallica - 3

4. What is your favorite song by 4?
Disturbed - Inside The Fire

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
Qntal - Ecce Gratum

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Anathema - Fragile Dreams

7. What is your favorite song by 7?
Grzegorz Turnau - Na młodość

8. What is a good memory you have involving 8?
Green Carnation - got autograph of Danny Cavanagh while he was in the audience (it was when both Green Carnation and Anathema recorded their DVDs in Cracow)

9. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Coma - Spadam

10. How many times have you seen 10 live?
Blind Guardian - Never

11. What is the first song you ever heard by 11?
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper

12. What is your favorite album by 12?
Flyleaf Vs. The Legion Of Doom - Resident Evil O.S.T.

13. Who is your favorite member of 13?
Porcupine Tree - Steven Wilson

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Katatonia - Yes, went to the their concert on my birthday :)

15. What is a good memory involving 15?
Rammstein - for some strange reason it's this video of Du riechst so gut

Just leave a comment with artist/album and your rate from 1 to 10.
I will count everything and get an average grade.
you can vote again if you hear some new album, of course.
but never can vote twice for the same album.

Have fun! :)



ALBUMSWITH MORE THAN 5 VOTES
9.333 - Eluveitie - Slania
8.666 - Agalloch - The White

ALBUMSWITH 2-4 VOTES
10.000 - Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky
8.750 - Septic Flesh - Communion
8.500 - Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
8.500 - Týr - Land
8.500 - Hate - Morphosis
8.500 - Ancestors Blood - Return of the Ancient Ones
8.500 - Hocico - Memorias Atras
8.500 - Destinity - The Inside
8.500 - Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
8.250 - Opeth - Watershed
8.000 - Woods of Ypres - Woods 3 (Woods III: The Deepest Roots and darkest Blues)
8.000 - Norther - N
8.000 - Helheim - Kaoskult
8.000 - Hollenthon - Opus Magnum
8.000 - Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
8.000 - Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
8.000 - Virgin Black - Requiem-Fortissimo
7.750 - Alestorm - Captain Morgan´s Revenge
7.666 - Thronar - Unleash the Fire
7.500 - Isole - Bliss Of Solitude
7.500 - Kalmah - For the Revolution
7.500 - Saattue - Jäähyvästi
7.500 - Sabaton - The Art of War
7.500 - Kataklysm - Prevail
7.500 - Nachtmystium - Worldfall
7.500 - In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
7.500 - Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
7.333 - Arcana - Raspail
7.333 - Meshuggah - obZen
7.000 - Draconian - Turning Season Within
7.000 - Ihsahn - angL
7.000 - Herrschaft - Tesla
7.000 - Stormwarrior - Heading Northe
7.000 - Dark Empire - Humanity Dethroned
7.000 - Gloria Morti - Eryx
7.000 - Krisiun - Southern Storm
7.000 - Biomechanical - Cannibalised
7.000 - Ayreon - 01011001
6.666 - Forefather - Steadfast
6.666 - Stormlord - Mare Nostrum
6.500 - Gwydion - Ynis Mon
6.500 - Elivagar - Heirs Of The Ancient Tales
6.500 - Qntal - Translucida
6.500 - Origin - Antithesis
5.600 - Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
4.666 - Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas
4.500 - In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
4.000 - Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
3.500 - Folkearth - Father of Victory