Jaunais Fear Factory ripulis Genexus noklausīts pirmo reizi.
Kaut kas no Transgression ne visai veiksmīgā melodiskuma + mazliet vairāk sirdsdarbības aritmijas + tīkama elektronika netipiskā FF izpildījumā un visam pāri kārtīgs enerģijas lādiņš - kā vienmēr!

Albuma sākums gan ir krietni daudzsološāks par tā izskaņu, bet kopumā ir OK

Wed 11 Feb – Inquisition

Divi talantīgi blekeri no Kolumbijas ir gana, lai paņemtu visu nabaklab kambarīti un piedāvātu pilnvērtīgu Black Metal skanējumu, kas Inquisition gadījumā ar savu dzīvā izpildījuma enerģiju paņem krietni ļaunāk, nekā ierakstos - sākot ar Force Of The Floating Tomb, ar kuru iesāka konci, un beidzot ar Dark Ambient gala Intro un Outro.
Un, bļa, vokāls! Tas bija tieši tik brīnišķīgi kokvardains, ka draudzene vaicāja, vai viņš nelietojot balss pārveidotājus.

Pārsteidza arī Voltumna - jāievērtē. Dominanz gan atstāja visvājāko iespaidu. Čo-ta to no norvēģiem gaidīju mazliet vairāk tās industriālās kurināšanas. Bet nu, nekas. Vismaz tiku…

Dažkārt tumsai iekš HDD ir jānoguļ vairāki mēneši, lai tā korumpētu visu gaismu un patīkami izplūstu no skaļruņiem. Pašlaik pirmo reizi baudu norvēģa Taphephobia un atmosfēriska prieka pilna pakaļa! Instant fave.

Hmmm, kā lai ieskroblē to, kas skan galvā?

The USA Don't Exist

Sat 4 May – Baltijas Rok-Raksti

Jautri bija pavērot kā dažādi sabiedrības slāņi interpretē notiekošo un skanošo. Kopā kādas 4 blondīnes un viens bērns gāja prom aizspiestām ausīm, kad sāka spēlēt Metsatöll.
Tajā pat laikā dažs bomzītis un vecāka gadagājuma ieklīdušais kratīja pačku ar matainajiem, kuri šo garāmejošo dvēseli ievilka mini-mošpitā. Un vēl visam pa vidu cienījama vecuma metālgalvas, kas apprūvo notiekošo. Āsom.

Ja jāatceras spilgtākais moments? Hmm.
1) Žalvarinis dziesmiņa par nāves pareģošanu, kuru sapņo karavīrs, kā arī vokālistes labās LV valodas zināšanas;
2) Metsatöll latviski pieteiktā dziesma - veltījums Latvijas meitām, kas skanēja apmēram tā: "Bijušais igauņu…

What once was indeed…

First album I experienced from Blut Aus Nord was Odinist: The Destruction Of Reason By Illumination. What a weird and pleasurable ride it was! Captured in a synth based openers and closers was the gem of mid-paced Black Metal aesthetics, presented in a very distinct manner. That was a great release to throw in a CD player at night.

I remember one of the finest exposures to BAN – I played some Horror games on PS2 and then got bored. It was my vacation and I decided to jump on my MTB and ride to…

I like that since I purchased my HTC Sensation with the kind assistance of Innocentijs, 99% of what I'm listening is being scrobbled to my neat last.fm profile. Why do I care so much? Well, I like the statistics that the scrobbling provide. And events, being recommended on basis of it + love buttons. A nice thing to have around, a nice database, being built. Shame that last.fm experiences so much tech problems, though. I love this service!

Now I just have to modify that old car CD player/radio - to solder 3.5mm audio cable to the CD unit…

Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Stalker

In my book this is the one of four cornerstones of Ambient music - featuring talents from aforementioned individuals, both inspired by unsurpassed soviet cult classic - Andrey Tarkovsky film Stalker. Such a combination just cannot fail.

A perfect soundtrack to Urban Exploration and in fact - each listening reminds me of my early urbex days. Back then I wasn't an avid eBay user, so I hadn't the film in my posession yet. All I had was the name and the legends surrounding it. And this beautifully deep audio masterpiece. With time I…

A small The Ruins Of Beverast album Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite review.

There are those awkward moments: I want to listen to a great album full of Black Metal aesthetics and I'm kind of getting bored with all the traditional satanic stuff blast-beating the living shit out of speakers, driving fellow people insane. Although I enjoy that stuff - in fact, I enjoy that very much - Hearing some guys dressed in corpsepaint and spikes, shrieking blasphemies at every turn, blastbeat and guitar stroke, shaking those booty's (Immortal, haha) - it makes me happy and feel…

Yesterday we (me + Innocentijs, postmortem_lv, Fallout88 and aivislisovskis) went to explore an ex-USSR underground military communications bunker at Kadaga, Latvia - a rather massive site: two underground stories couple of thousands of square meters wide with ~hundred of rooms of various sizes for various purposes + a medium dose of buildings above the ground. We had shitload of fun down there but I didn't photograph much as we explored only the bunker - it's friggin cold (about +10°-13°C) down there, fucking humid (at 1st underground level the water droplets can be seen in the beam of…