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I challenge you, Suspects!

March 18, 2009

Hey

It’s a long time since anyone have written anything.
And because of that i think it would be the right time for a drawing competition! (Well i was bored and just got  adobe illustrator :) )

So give me your best artstuff folks! (And damn you who are using them touchpad things, i used a mouse!)

Here’s my… Cat?

http://suspected.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/cat-copy1.pdf

Just got Illustrator, and still suck at doing stuff with it…  such as using it

… I think that’s all.

-Alexander

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Wrong way going down a one way road

January 28, 2009

Hey everybody it¨s been a while, but it’s time for a breath of fresh air.

A friend of mine recently presented me for an unknown track from John Butler and it’s just great.

Great lyrics.

So please “raise your hands if you believe in revolution”

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Review: Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God

September 24, 2008
Twilight of the Thunder God

Twilight of the Thunder God

Twilight of the Thunder God is the ninth studio release by the swedish melodic Death Metal band Amon Amarth. To start off I’d like to say that I am a huge fan of everything these guys have recorded so far. The sheer force behind their stuff is so great that I hardly think they should really be labeled as Melodeath.

Although Amon Amarth have never really strayed much from their original sound and theme, they just do it so damn well that it never seems even the slightest bit stagnant or overdone. And this hasn’t changed with Twilight of the Thunder God. It’s all there, heavy-as-hell guitarwork, thundering drums, roaring death growls, and the ever-present norse lyrical themes. And as always, it works.

Guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Soderberg manage to keep it heavily crunching while remaining perfectly harmonized, making up the core of AA’s sound with consistently excellent riffs. Especially on
tracks like “Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags”, “The Hero” and “Varyags of Miklagaard” is their substantial contribution heard.

This album also displays the best drumming performance by Fredrik Andersson since Versus the World, providing blastbeats so dynamic and heavy that it’s hard to sit still while listening. The frenzied roaring
of vocalist Johan Hegg just sums everything up flawlessly, and provides some of the catchiest choruses imaginable. His vocal work is particularly awesome on tracks like “Where is your God” and “Free Will Sacrifice”.

The main difference on this album is the surprising guest appearances, something AA has pretty much never done before. Roope Latvala from Children of Bodom provides a guitar solo on the title track and Apocalyptica provide a short cello interlude on “Live for the Kill”. This throws in a little extra variety without seeming too
out-of-place, and it’s a cool addition.

All in all, this is another excellent death metal release by one of my very favorite bands of the genre, and I strongly recommend it. Not just for fans, but also for anyone even slightly interested in metal. Amon
Amarth are damn hard not to like and this is one of their very best albums so far. Twilight of the Thunder God is just plain great to listen to and one of the best releases of the year.

Song Picks: Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags – Where Is Your God? – Twilight of the Thunder God

9/10 Excellent

9/10 Excellent

Alright, I’m taking a break from posting, been putting alot of stuff up lately. Plus I’m turning seventeen today and I have stuff to do. Na zdrovya!
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Warr Guitar

September 22, 2008
Warr Guitar

Warr Guitar

This tank of a guitar has been around since the nineties but for some reason I’d never heard of it until now. 14 strings varying from bass to regular guitar gauge strings all on one thick neck? I need to try one of these!

More about it here
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No review this week

September 20, 2008

Got too many things I want to do the rest of the weekend. Next thursday I’ll have some new albums hopefully.

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Zappanale

September 20, 2008

It’s funny. I thought i would’ve discovered this festival sooner, since im a BIG fan of Frank Zappa, but i first heard of it today and started researching it a little bit. As i read more and more i became very excited about this project, which has been around longer than i have lived.

Well it’s called Zappanale and it’s a festival which tributes Frank Zappa with bands coming from all over the world to play at the Zappa-site in Germany. All playing the Zappa music we love. The festival runs for three days, just enough time to cover Frank’s material.

This really sounds like something i will go see next year since it was held in August. And i also think some of the other suspects should go if youre in on it.

For the suspects and the danish crowd, here’s an article about the Zappanale http://www.dr.dk/P2/lyttilnyt/tema/frankzappa/zappanale.htm

Go Frank Zappa!

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Metallica

September 18, 2008

This is a respons to tobias post about the new album.

Metallica is an American heavy metal band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper, Metallica’s original line-up consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, and bassist Ron McGovney. These last two were later replaced from the band, in favor of Kirk Hammett and Cliff Burton, respectively. In September 1986, Metallica’s tour bus skidded out of control and flipped, which resulted in Burton being crushed under the bus and killed. Jason Newsted replaced him less than two months later. Newsted left the band in 2001 and was replaced by Robert Trujillo in 2003.

Metallica’s early releases included fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship that placed them as one of the “Big Four” of the thrash metal subgenre alongside Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. The band earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and critical acclaim with the 1986 release Master of Puppets some calling it one of the most influential and “heavy” thrash metal albums. The band achieved substantial commercial success with its self-titled 1991 album, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. With this release the band expanded its musical direction resulting in an album that appealed to a more mainstream audience.

In 2000, Metallica was among several artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the band’s copyright-protected material for free without the band members’ consent. A settlement was reached, and Napster became a pay-to-use service. Despite reaching number one on the Billboard 200, the release of St. Anger alienated some fans with the exclusion of guitar solos, and the “steel-sounding” snare drum. A film titled Some Kind of Monster documented the recording process of St. Anger.

Metallica has released nine studio albums, two live albums, two EPs, twenty-two music videos and forty-three singles. The band has become one of the most commercially successful and influential heavy metal acts. With 90 million records sold worldwide, including 57 million in the United States, the band has won seven Grammy Awards, and has had five albums peak at number one on the Billboard 200 which is a record they set in 2008. .[1] The band’s 1991 album, Metallica, has sold over 15 million copies, which makes it the 25th highest selling album in the United States.[2]

It’s from wikipedia

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Drink review: Fat Man Running (And the recipe)

September 13, 2008

Hello everybody
I consumed alot of alcohol yesterday and decided to make a Fat Man Running as promised in the last post.

The Impression:
I got to much rum in the first drink so it tasted way much of rum, sadly
Altho i think i got the 2nd right, it had a good, pretty neutral taste with a twist of lime (Mmm… lime) and the ginger ale didn’t get drowned in some of the stronger tastes (like the rum)
But it tasted like some kinda soft drink thing -.-
Its a very colorful drink and a nice starter, since it aint that strong

The Recipe:
This is how i made it, there’s probably a better one out there.

What you need:
Curaqua ( can’t spell it properly, the q is actually a c with a dot beneath it)
Dark Rum
A lime
Ginger Ale

How to make it:

  • Take the lime and make that sweet sweet bitter lime juice thing go down your glass, you need to fill 5% of the glass with this, which usually is like… half a lime… else you need to buy some proper drink containers.
  • Now take the Curatqua thing and pour an amount equal to the lime juice already in the glass
  • Now take your rum, drink a tad of it
  • Now you want to fill 20% of the glass with rum (or i would want to do that)
  • Then you fill up with ginger ale
  • Now your fat man should be green with a twist of blue, and ready to run
  • Now take a spoon ( i used a knife) and stir it (staring at it helps too)
  • Enjoy! (until someone falls into you and you spill the whole drink on the cute girl you have been trying to charm the whole night)

The stars:(Stars are subject to change and will try/succeed to steal your soul within near future)
it is a good drink but tastes a bit too sugarish and sweet for me to really enjoy it i will give it:
★★★☆☆
Three stars!
(Because it was too sweet and tried to drown me, twice!)
And why do i have a headache? -.-
And another long post, can’t seem to make these things small, at all

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Review: Metallica – Death Magnetic

September 12, 2008
Death Magnetic

Death Magnetic

This release is one of the most intensely discussed albums right now, both among various people I know and on the net. The mixed opinions seem to vary from utter disgust (often from older and ex-fans) to satisfied acknowledgement (often from newer, post-Master of Puppets fans). Having heard the entire album a few days ago, I can see that these arguments are not going to end anytime soon. I’m not particularly engaged in the argument regarding Metallica’s development over the last 12 years or so, So I’m just going to stick to reviewing the album instead of throwing in yet another opinion about the band.

Death Magnetic is the ninth studio release by the bay area metallers. As someone (I can’t remember who) commented, it sounds like the album that should have followed the Black Album back in 1991, and it would seem like Metallica may have been trying to recapture that era of their musical career somewhat.

Death Magnetic opens with “That was just your life”, which is definitely one of the best tracks on the album, strong riffs and energetic vocals reminding me of some of their earliest work. This solid opener is not, unfortunately, reflected very much in the rest of the album. The next few songs, “The End of the Line” and “Broken, Beaten and Scarred” are just plain boring, which is particularly due to the uninteresting drums and vocals (doesn’t Hetfield ever get tired of yelling ”-eah!!” in every line?). The single “The Day blah blah blah” follows this pattern aswell, and it is not until the fast and catchy ”All Nightmare Long” that anything really worth listening to is found on Death Magnetic. The rest of the album is fairly linear, the best of it cool and fast paced, the worst dull and uninventive.

To me, this album is driven completely by the guitarwork. There are some killer riffs and solos on here, but they fail to really take the album all that far. Don’t get me wrong, this is not a bad album, but it isn’t really good either. Metallica obviously tried hard, but can’t quite reach above mediocrity as a metal group. Damn, I just said my opinion about them as a band. Ah well. 


Songs Picks: That was Just your Life – All Nightmare Long – Suicide & Redemption

4/10 Lacking

4/10 Lacking

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One class to rule them all

September 11, 2008

For the last few weeks i’ve been spending my time getting to know a group of very special people.

It’s the people in my class at my new school. we went on a trip and had a huge party, and Mie, the geek from our class made a nice slideshow with a bunch of captions from the events.

nice initiative and aweful music. 

here you go: