found this on facebook (this stuff seems to be quite popular among my friends on there), thought it'd fit well here.

you know how it works. so here you go:

1) First album you bought:
king diamond's "voodoo" (awesome, and with such a nice booklet and stuff) and the sins of thy beloved's "perpetual desolation".

2) Last album you bought:
symphony x' "paradise lost" special edition.

3) Album that changed your life:
mm, probably dream theater's "metropolis pt.2".

4) Favourite coverart:
symphony x' "paradise lost".

5) Band with the best name:
epica – short, chosen after another band's album, synthetic..…

it can't be denied nightwish have, by the last couple of years, turned into a mainstream, commercial kind of act, in the sense they draw attention first and foremost thanks to anything but their very music proposal.
no doubt that's the result of the long-dragging on, dreadfully draining circus the whole tarja's departure affair brought about. which alone accounts for half of the quasi-emo drift the band has undergone – audience-wise.
let's make the point clear. i'm trying to discriminate between how the band is currently perceived, as opposed to how it used to, and what the band actually IS.…

Again, a journey back through my tastes in music, this time guest starring: Evergrey.

The first album I heard was "Recreation Day". I can't exactly remember from which band I had started my usual "find a band similar to…" quest (I guess it was Symphony X, or something alike), but I ran into these Swedish guys, and I was immediately fascinated with their style. The combination of slashing, syncopated riffs and dark, obscure atmosphere they brought along really amazed me. In fact I think you could tag them as "dark progressive metal", or something of the sorts. Point is, they…

Thu 25 Oct – Dream Theater, Symphony X

It's hard to stay neutral when you've just attended a gig you've enjoyed a damn great deal. It's hard not to point out how good it went, when you think of a word to summarise it all, and nothing else comes to your mind than just "perfect". The show lacked nothing; it brought the audience all it could hope for: power, emotion, and fun.

Me myself, being the fussy, pedantic critic I am, I'd point out that the mixing was not the BEST possible, with the rhythmics often overpowering the keyboards and…

For those of you who care (and I just hope we're talking about MANY here) – Dream Theater's "Constant Motion", that the band brought out as a free promo track (which you can find at http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/dreamtheater/) is plain awesome. And surprisingly very close to what I actually expected and wished them to bring us with their new album. It's still only a sort of preview of what the whole album will be, but it's a good way to kind of get started with it, getting ready to finally listen to it all. Which I really can't wait to do.

Of…

First home game. I can't wait to write it: we won! And are now on a double positive streak. Nothing so terrific, nor frigthening for our upcoming opponents. But if we keep playing this way, handling the game's flow, and chilling our nerves before they wear us out, no team in the championship can be an issue for us.

It's all about keeping everyone's head in the game, and we did it. That's why we won. That's why we managed to overcome the deficit we gained in the first half, first tying the game and eventually winning it. As one…

A dear friend of mine just gave me a couple of songs out of Within Temptation's upcoming "The Heart of Everything". I'm listening to "What Have You Done" and "Our Solemn Hour", and I have to admit I am feeling quite disappointed.

I liked WT's "Mother Earth" very much, and was very glad of the brave attempt they made with "The Silent Force", to kind of move their sound into a more symphonic direction.

According to what I'm listening to right now, they seem to have just shifted away from the path they entered in with "The Silent Force". Coming…

Ok, here I am home, sooner than I thought, back from our first championship’s game. The comeback seemed quite faster than the outward journey, maybe cause we spent most of the time in the car chatting about the NBA season and the upcoming All Star Game, or maybe cause Coach drove faster, caught by some unexpected longing for home. Anyway our first road game is over, we lost it by 34 points yet we’re still quite self-confident and not that disappointed. The game has been the first in a 7-long streak, since our schedule set all of our road games…

Now that's how a prayer should sound like.

I guess touching even such an out-and-out atheist as me, means it's worth a reading to say the least.

It comes without saying I strongly recommend you all to check the song out.

I may add, the album which it comes from (Savatage's "Streets") is one of the greatest heavy metal operas even written, definitely one everyone should sooner or later listen to. So go check it out if you don't know it yet. And if you do, just go and listen to it again.

"St. Patrick's"

Hey there Lord it's me…

What does being “innocent” actually mean? I just spoke about that with a friend of mine, and found myself quite unable to express my idea about it. Not that the concept is not clear to me – I just felt like I had to stop and kind of put my thoughts about it in order. Music can actually be a very important part of this issue in my opinion, so maybe the topic won’t look too much out of place here.

As William Blake pointed out, innocence is a child thing. Not in a bad way at all of course.…