The best show I've ever seen. Period.

One-point-five hours of true magic. Amazing beyond description.

"We came to f*cking Russia!" © James LaBrie

A really, really great show it was, with one new song and a full hand of classics. LaBrie was surprisingly good haing done some decent singing. As for the others, the playing was nothing but perfect.
They've managed to build up good sound as well.

Well, some four years ago I might have had a mental orgasm at such a show. This time I was just extremely glad I didn't miss it. Which is good too, ain't it?

Man, DT are so cool after all.

Pain Of Salvation's Moscow gig can be described as a show of the highest caliber.
A decent set of songs (see below), above-average sound quality, and what's most important - brilliant performance, with loads of emotion, and communication with the audience, and even good humor. Gildenlow's da man, baby!
Probably, this is gonna be the best gig of 2008 for me, even though the year has only just begun.

Set list:
Intro (Remedy Lane);
Used;
Handful Of Nothing;
America;
Undertow;
Working Class Hero;
Nightmist;
This Heart Of Mine;
Diffidentia (Breaching…

Muchas gracias to Vaxis who got me acquainted with the band Alter Bridge a couple of years ago. Can't say their first album (One Day Remains) was anything like a revelation to me but it's a decent piece of music nonetheless.
And one fine day i was given a link to a YouTube video in which these guys played a new song live - and with acoustic guitars only. The song was called Brand New Start and naturally blew my mind away in an instant. Here's the link for you - quality's not that bad, by the way:…

Yesterday (09.09) was my 21st birthday.
Feel free to post your congratulations here :)

If you're into 'classical' straightforward hard rock, you should definitely check out the Swiss band Gotthard. Got to listen to a couple of their albums recently and I really, really liked what I heard.
What's so good about their music? Well, the vast majority of their songs are as catchy as it can be. All well-performed and well-recorded, featuring decent melodies that you can unexpectedly find yourself singing along to (why can that be, I wonder, eh?).
I also liked the vocals very much. The singer does not produce all those high-pitched ear-piercing sounds but his strong voice that…

Got my laptop from the repair service about two weeks ago , so now I'm fully able to scrobble tracks again.
Still, haven't listened to much music lately because Neverwinter Nights 2 eats up all the free time in the evenings…
But let's go straight to the music.
I've been listening to both albums of Aghora recently, after quite a long break. Well, these guys still kick as much ass as the first time I heard 'em. Good music stays good forever, doesn't it?

Also got the newest album of Deadsoul Tribe called A Lullaby For The Devil. Surely,…

Unfortunately, my home laptop is now waiting to be taken to the repair service. Seems like the motherboard fan needs to be replaced. With a malfunctioning fan there's a possibility of overheating so I don't use it for the time being using my corporate laptop instead. I can't install a Last.FM plugin on this system so unfortunately there will be no updates to my charts until this weekend at least.

Here comes a brief report of what I have listened to recently.
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (2007). The long-awaited ninth studio album of the progressive metal pioneers turned out…

A - Ark
B - Bruce Dickinson
C - Conception
D - Dream Theater
E - Enchant
F - Fates Warning
G - Gordian Knot
H - Halford
I - Iron Maiden
J - Judas Priest
K - Kreator
L - Lake Of Tears
M - Masterplan
N - Nevermore
O - OSI
P - Pain Of Salvation
Q - Queensryche
R - Rush
S - Sieges Even
T - Threshold
U - uh… dunno
V - Vanden Plas
W - Within Temptation
X - dunno
Y - dunno
Z - Zakk Wylde

Cyrillic names:
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Мельница
Тролль Гнет Ель…