en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal The Last.fm journal for PatrickFMLP. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2009/03/20/2kwh5o_mammal_and_jericco_%40_annandale_hotel_14_mar_09 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:49:29 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2009/03/20/2kwh5o_mammal_and_jericco_%40_annandale_hotel_14_mar_09 Sat 14 Mar – Mammal, JERICCO

What a great night. Both bands were great onstage, and the sound was aswell. Got my copy of the Jericco EP signed, and Slaves (already had all the songs, just bought it to get it signed) signed too. Anyway on with the night....

Jericco entered with their instrumental title track, and then the singer walked on as they blasted into 'Always'. Their bassist was especially great, and looked like he was enjoying the show as much as everyone else. Some people in the crowd didn't respond to the singer asking them to come up the front, but I thought their music was amazing, and I'm glad I bought the EP. 'Sun' is an AWESOME song.

After a short warm up guitar solo, Mammal walked onstage and almost immediately kicked off with 'The Majority'. There was alot of crowd interaction and they were flawless in their sound as always. The setlist was good aswell, the only song I would have added was 'Think'. But besides that, they played 'Slaves', 'Nagasaki In Flames' and 'Smash The Pinata' so I was happy. This was one of the three shows which will become their next live CD/DVD. At only $12 a ticket, that's a fucking good deal!

So overall it was a great night, I found a new band, got to experience one of my favourite bands, got two shirts and two CDs signed. Let's just hope there's more shows like this in the future.

Mammal Jericco]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2009/02/28/2isjyh_a_year_of_lastfm. Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:59:22 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2009/02/28/2isjyh_a_year_of_lastfm. A new layout, real time charts, and I've discovered more bands than half of the pre-LastFM stuff I listened to. Although it has it's flaws, LastFM is a nice, original site.

My top albums for the last 12 months:
1. Karnivool - Themata
2. Mammal - The Majority
3. Ezekiel Ox - Winter In Suburbia
4. Cog - Sharing Space
5. Full Scale - Full Scale
6. Sydonia - Given To Destroyers
7. Karnivool - Persona
8. Dax Riggs - We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love
9. Deftones - White Pony
10. Ayreon - The Human Equation
11. Rook - Add Colour
12. Rook - Transitions
13. AC/DC - Back in Black
14. Joe Langford - Before The Storm
15. Alice in Chains - Dirt
16. Full Scale Deflection - Symptoms Of Chaos
17. Sydonia - (Man)ipulate
18. Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Separation
19. .hinge - Something To Adore
20. .hinge - The Rise & Fall Of Living Great

There are too many artists that I discovered over LastFM to remember, my charts for the first month mostly consisted of Opeth, Tool, and Nine Inch Nails.

Of course no one cares, I'm just bored. Yay me.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2009/01/05/2dino8_lyrics_game Mon, 5 Jan 2009 07:44:19 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2009/01/05/2dino8_lyrics_game See if you can get these lyrics DON'T FUCKING CHEAT YOU FUCKING BITCH

1. We saw you floating away, drifting away.
2. Into the flood again, same old trip it was back then Alice in Chains - Would?
3. I like to watch you watch yourself, put that killswitch on yourself. Grinspoon - Killswitch
4. It said in a book I once read, yes there's a chance of returning
5. I know what you're thinking, you're thinkin you're a mouse click, a drag, and a piece of autotune away from being a popstar! Mammal - Think
6. Spiralling to the ground below, like autumn leaves left in the wind to fade. Opeth - The Drapery Falls
7. You don't come, you don't write, you don't listen, I'm a messenger sent and I know it's in my head, my mind's wasted. Karnivool - Headcase
8. I remember that winter, all too well. We controlled our destiny, but in a moment hell rained down on our parade.
9. Thankyou for making me feel like I am guilty, making it easier to murder your sweet memory.
10. It doesn't matter where you want to be, this open road will take you anywhere, that's how you find a place called home. An empty space, a parking lot, I've travelled rround just to get to where I am, that's why I will always roam.
11. Feel it, can't you feel it, can't you feel that they're failed you. Full Scale - Feel It
12. Let me take you back, to the time when we were chasing all the girls. Two maniacs, indulging in the pleasures of this world. Ayreon - Day Seven: Hope
13. I caught a wave, I caught a wave and I'm never coming back.
14. This is not the greatest song in the world, no no, this is just a tribute. Tenacious D - Tribute
15. Sometimes whispering is too loud, and you find yourself down out amongst the crowd.
16. Just as beautiful as you are, it's so pitiful what you are, should have seen this coming all along.
17. There was a time, early in life when I hated everything
18. Here from a king's mountain view, here from a wild dream come true. Feast like a sultan I do, on treasures and flesh never few Tool - Jambi
19. I'm a prick I'm a loser I'm a lowlife chooser I live in the undertow yeah I pulled the wrong maneuvre I wish you could see what's inside my brain
20. You live this lie everyday there's nothing else for me to say doesn't matter anyway because I don't give a fuck. Karnivool - Box

Have fun.

]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2009/01/01/2d8w8x_happy_new_year%21 Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:23:01 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2009/01/01/2d8w8x_happy_new_year%21 Yay!! Artists' albums to look forward to in 09...

Karnivool
Atheist
Tool
Deftones
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Megadeth
Queensrÿche
Anathema
Alice in Chains
Alarum

Have a great new year, and uhh ..... do some stuff.




















































Yeah.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/12/29/2d114k_megadeth_%3E_metallica Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:36:46 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/12/29/2d114k_megadeth_%3E_metallica 'Tis true.

Crap spam:
Miley CyrusThe Jonas BrothersAidenMetro StationBring Me the HorizonFall Out BoyHawthorne HeightsTokio HotelDeath Cab for CutiePanic! At the DiscoInternal SufferingTriviumWaking The CadaverBecoming the ArchetypeAnnotations of an AutopsyMy Chemical RomanceLinkin ParkNicklebackManowarCradle of FilthDimmu BorgirAFIAngels and AirwavesGood CharlotteSimple PlanSlipknotAnal CuntGodsmackStaindBritney SpearsDrowning Pool

Good spam:
GojiraAC/DCAlice in ChainsMaylene and the Sons of DisasterKarnivoolMammalThe Butterfly EffectCog.hingeSydoniaRookOpethAyreon36 CrazyfistsUnderoathThe AmentaAtheistCynicIhsahnPink FloydLed ZeppelinAlarumIn FlamesPassengerSoilworkJoe LangfordFull ScaleAudioslaveGrinspoonHeavy Weight ChampMegadethNine Inch NailsDeftonesToolPorcupine TreeDax RiggsEzekiel OxBlack SabbathCeltic Frost]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/12/21/2cidzg_2008_albums_review_-_you_knew_it_was_coming_eventually Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:59:14 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/12/21/2cidzg_2008_albums_review_-_you_knew_it_was_coming_eventually What a year '08 has been for music. We've had some break ups, some reunions, and some new bands emerging from the underground. In no particular order, the best albums of 2008.....

Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Separation
This is a great album. Very few bands have found the exact balance between intensity and melody, in the history of music. Soilwork found it on A Predator's Portrait. Opeth found it on My Arms, Your Hearse, and I think Underoath, after years of searching, have finally found it on this album. This is an intense ride of an album, and only stops to take a breather on Too Bright to See, Too Loud to Hear and Desolate Earth: The End Is Here. Spencer's scream just sounds awesome in this album. will be good to see where they go from here.
8.5/10
Best song: Desperate Times Desperate Measures

Ihsahn - angL
While The Adversary lost itself trying too hard to be progressive, angL manages to keep the prog feel of the last album without losing any heaviness or darkness. From the atmospheric pump of Scarab, to the melancholic almost all acoustic feel of Threnody, to the Mikael Akerfeldt - Ihsahn duel (yes, that's right Opeth fans, he guests) of Unhealer, this is melodic progressive death black metal album to be thoroughly enjoyed. Don't quote me on that genre there.
8/10
Best song: Emancipation

36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers
OH NO IZ METALCOR I MUZT BE UNTR00 ohshitImean The fifth effort from our favourite Alaskan (yes you heard it right) metalcore quartet. TAIT is quite possibly 36CF's heaviest album yet, it is a combination of the nu metal of In the Skin, the emocore of Bitterness the Star and A Snow Capped Romance, and the outright straightforward metalcore of Rest Inside the Flames. Probably the best album for people wanting to get into this band, Candace Kucsulain from Walls of Jericho guests on Vast And Vague, and Adam Jackson of Twelve Tribes guests on Clear The Coast. Yes I know, finally some decent metalcore.
8/10
Best song: Clear The Coast

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Quite a surprise from Trent, suddenly releasing a new track called Discipline off his website, with a somewhat mysterious comment in the ID3 tag that says 'Goto www.nin.com May 5'. Out of nowhere, a new album was available to download, with another message saying 'Thankyou for the continued support over the years, this one's on me'. You could (and still can) download it for free. Yes, completely free. On matters of the actual album itself, the album holds six upbeat tracks and four slower / ambient tracks. 1,000,000, Letting You, Discipline, Echoplex, Head Down, and Demon Seed are the upbeat tracks, and are all great tracks, all the stuff you can usually expect from Trent. The other four, however, seem like throwaway tracks, with three of them being ambient / glitch segues, and the other being a slow, piano piece. As SputnikMusic said, "[It's] more like a collection of songs than an album. There is no real point to it".
7.5/10
Best song: 1,000,000

Mammal - The Majority
Maybe the best album of the year. It's hard not to like this album, with it's funk edged balls out rock. Mammal never fail to deliver, there are slow songs, fast songs, and Mr Devil, which is their take on Evidence by Faith No More. The Aural Underground pretty much sums up the band in one song, lyrically and musically. Mammal are one of the finest artists to emerge from Australia, and it will not be long before they join the likes of Karnivool, Cog, and The Butterfly Effect in the crazy, eclectic world that is the Australian rock scene.
9.5/10
Best song: Smash The Pinata

Cynic - Traced in Air
Wow. What an amazing album. I'm sure it came as a surprise to Cynic fans who, after Cynic's rebirth, thought they would write another Focus. Great album, by all means, but I'm glad they didn't. Traced In Air sees them mature and grow from their 1993 debut. The famous vocoder is weakened to give Paul Masvidal's vocals a bit more distinct human sound, and the amount of death vocals are decreased to about almost none. Cynic can hardly be considered a death metal band anymore, more now a progressive / technical metal band. Eight tracks of jazzy, atmospheric, ethereal, melodic metal.
9.5/10
Best song: The Unknown Guest

Opeth - Watershed
I was rather dissapointed with this album ... sure it has the blastbeat driven The Lotus Eater, and the old-school-prog-rock Porcelain Heart, but it seems like opeth are trying too hard to keep their progressive / death balance. An enjoyable album, but still not up to par considering their other releases. Also, at only seven tracks the album seems too short .... bonus track Derelict Herds should have been included.
7/10
Best song: The Lotus Eater

In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Inflamous. The songs are good material, but not good material for In Flames. At least Reroute to Remain had a tiny bit of energy and consistency left in it. not much else to say, if you go back and do another Colony then I'd listen. But for now, In Flames aren't really going anywhere.
6.5/10
Best song: Alias

Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
A surprising move from Swedish post metal masters. While Salvation and Somewhere Along the Highway had more elements of atmospheric post rock, Eternal Kingdom refers more to the style of The Beyond, with less quiet transitions and more downtuned downtempo metal. Where they will head from here musically will be interesting to see.
7.5/10
Best song: Eternal Kingdom

AC/DC - Black Ice
Admittedly, Black Ice is pretty repetitive, with all of the songs fairly the same tempo and mostly sounding the same. Black Ice still delivers though, if you're expecting the good old stuff from AC/DC. What's different is that Brian Johnson uses some lower, more 'soul' sounding vocals, and Angus uses a slide on Stomy May Day. It isn't avant garde, it isn't progressive, it isn't experimental. It's balls out rock and roll, which so many bands have sadly forgotten how to do today. AC/DC reminds us what real rock sounds like, and Black Ice is another in their long chain of albums.
8/10
Best song: Rock N' Roll Train

.hinge - The Rise and Fall of Living Great
Australian avantrockers .hinge released their follow up this year to 2005's Something To Adore, which, while still being an enjoyable album, sounded pretty thrown together. Rise and Fall is more accessible and refers to the sound of some of the more well known Aussie heavy rockers of today (Rook, Mammal, Karnivool, etc) while still keeping the experimental nature that .hinge is. While still fairly unknown, .hinge continue to gather a dedicated fanbase around Aussie and should be one of the more recognised underground heavy rock artists soon.
8/10
Best song: The Scare

Cog - Sharing Space
One of the more popular artists in Ausrock, Cog return to the airwaves with Sharing Space, a more progressive and atmospheric approach to things than The New Normal and Just Visiting. There are still the upbeat rock songs, found in Say Your Last Goodbye, Town Of Lincoln and What If. You can't go past Bitter Pills though .... an Aeon Spoke-ish journey of a song. Great album, not much more to say.
8/10
Best song: Sharing Space

The Butterfly Effect - Final Conversation Of Kings
Again, a pretty dissapointing album. The Butterfly Effect have been heading in a more mellow, progressive rock direction ever since their debut, Begins Here, and this is about as far away from their first E as they could get. Window And The Watcher, Final Conversation, and In These Hands are good songs though.
7.5/10
Best song: Window and the Watcher

Metallica - Death Magnetic
Fuckin FINALLY! Death Magnetic is a pretty good album, considering the crappiness of the previous three albums. Although, if DM was released after Black, then everyone would think it was complete and utter shit. Metallica may not have completely return to their old form, but it's a good enough return for me. Lars Ulrich is repetitve and sometimes tedious, and there is a bit of cheesiness that pops up in the album now and then, but besides that, it's pretty impressive. Whether Metallica have truly returned or not, whether the die hard fans can be satisfied or not, one thing is certain: Megadeth is better.
7/10
Best song: The Judas Kiss

Ayreon - 01011001
The usual acid trip-like science fiction concept you can expect from our favourite progressive rock mastermind. Guests on this album include Jonas Renske, Daniel Gildenlow, Tom Englund, Hansi Kursch and many more. In this album, the guest singers are 'Foverers' which are a sort of gods who are survived by a machine, but have no feelings. They long to be alive again, so they decide to send a comet to planet Earth to inhabit it. Initially it works, but eventually humans become smart enough to fight and start wars, and eventually wipe themselves out. A few people survive to live on Mars, and the last human alive is given the Dream Sequencer, to see how Earth was made. A mix of acoustic, progressive, folky, and metal songs form this album, and it is a delight to listen to.
8.5/10
Best song: Liquid Eternity

The Amenta - n0n
One of the most dense albums in the history of metal, The Amenta combine fast and agressive death metal with industrial effects and ambience to create an extremely dark and layered album. This is an intense mindfuck of an album, and can be explained by AntyM92 perfectly: "New album is the equivalent to being raped in the brain by a very angry robot". Can anyone top that?
7.5/10
Best song: Slave

And that's about it. Hope you enjoyed. Looking forward to new releases from Karnivool, Atheist, Tool, Deftones and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.

HOLY SHIT IT'S ACTUALLY DONE WOOHOO!!! I'M FUCKING TIRED SO SORRY FOR ANY MISTAKES]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/11/16/2a4jng_bash_yer_top_fifteh Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:56:42 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/11/16/2a4jng_bash_yer_top_fifteh I know I did this before, but times (and charts) have changed.

Mammal - Can't you play any all ages gigs? For god's sake, your coming to my hometown and its 18 PLUS AAAAAAARGH

AC/DC - Black Ice was repetitive.

Karnivool - You take an agonisingly long time to release albums.

In Flames - Everything after Soundtrack is dull and nowhere near melodeath.

Opeth - Watershed was kinda boring.

Ayreon - Why only one singer per song for The Dream Sequencer and Flight of the Migrator? Pretty much made the albums kinda boring.

Soilwork - You have too many fans who whine about the new stuff sucking when at least it's not as bad as In Flames' or Iced Earth's new stuff. It's actually pretty good.

Cog - You do have fans who are under 18, you know.

Katatonia - Too many 'old stuff is kvlt new stuff is core' kind of fans.

Alice in Chains - I doubt the new singer will be nearly as good as Layne Staley. Pleeeeeeeeease don't let me down.

Pink Floyd - Waters you dumbass.

Grinspoon - Whiny fans.

Nine Inch Nails - Hurry up and get over here to Australia, we can't wait much longer. And the Slip was 50% awesome, 50% lazy boring. What happened?

Black Sabbath - OZZY IS BETTER NO DIO IS BETTER

Cult of Luna - Random music vids.

Electric Wizard - SUPERCOVENNN!!!! SUUUUUPEEEERRCOVEEEEEEN!!! SSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOPAAAAAAAaaargh choking on m&m

Omega Code - New stuff please.

Dax Riggs - One album is not enough. Your stuff is too good, I need another album.

36 Crazyfists - Hardly anyone knows what the hell In The Skin is, such an awesome but overlooked album.

Rook - Searching for your albums are like searching for Bin Laden.

Live - Songs from Black Mountain tells me you're going crap.

Judas Priest - Jugulator sucks only on the grounds that it has Tim Owens on it? BULLSHIT! It's awesome, you don't know what you're saying.

The Butterfly Effect - New album pretty must lost the hard from hard rock.

Faith No More - not a fan of the first two albums.

Cynic - Focus is in really really shitty quality.

Kyuss - I don't listen to you much anymore, I don't know why you're still in my top 50

Megadeth - Dave is such an egotistical bastard.

Alarum - The 'death vocals' sound more like just gruff, harsh singing. What the hell?

Queens of the Stone Age - Josh is such an egotistical bastard.

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony is a Dead Scene - why so underrated?

Ihsahn - The Adversary tries to hard to be progressive and just ends up being tedious in some spots.

Iced Earth - I'm eve hopeful that the only reason Crucible sucked was because the material was written for Tim Owens. Please.

Children of Bodom - Whiny fans.

Isis - Panopticon was boring besides In Fiction.

Audioslave - Chris Cornell's voice can really get annoying sometimes.

Underoath - The overly Christian lyrics are sometimes too straightforward to the point where it's irritating to listen to.

Metallica - Whiny fans, and Death Magnetic is actually pretty good. At least it's better that re / load...

Porcupine Tree - Um ...... crap. Okay let's see ..... um ..... why are so low in my charts? Damnit pat, you asshole.

Down - The only reason you're so high is because I fell asleep while listening to you. The album (NOLA) looped over about five times.

Anathema - A Natural Disaster was pretty boring besides 2000 m/sec.

At the Gates - You broke up. DAMNIT.

Atheist - Voice is annoying sometimes, songs kinda sound the same.

10 Years - As with 36CF, no one knows what the hell Into The Half Moon is, and it's soooo good.

Paradise Lost - Synth rock era.

Tool - The pretentious fans and the retards making fun of them bore the shit out of me.

Full Scale - Only too late did you realise that major labels are shit.

Witch - See Kyuss

Serenik - New stuff please. And also, hopefully you don't go too far into pop punk territory, you have the hard rock / pop punk mix just fine, hopefully it stays that way.

Pain of Salvation - BE wasn't too good.

Ulver - BLAKK METULZ IST KRIEG EXPIRAMENTULL IS 4 GAYZ]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/11/10/29q3k2_ten_reezunz_y_metulcor_suxx_lololololol Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:04:35 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/11/10/29q3k2_ten_reezunz_y_metulcor_suxx_lololololol God no. Metal has always been about not conforming, about going against the grain and doing what you feel like and not letting anyone's opinion affect. It's about not following trends.

So why do all the retarded downies who parade around saying 'death to false metal' and 'core must die' consider themselves 'true' metalheads? For whining on about this pointless (which is purely a matter of opinion) shit is following a trend. This trend is the 'trve metalhead trend', and it's not exactly something to be proud of.

As if anyone actually cares about your opinion, you tr00 and br00tal morons say the same shit over and over it's as if someone actually cares. Metalcore, deathcore and hardcore, which although is pretty shitty and poser-ish at times, are still forms of metal. Metal is an extremely diverse genre, probably the most diverse of them all. Black, death, grind, progressive, sludge, thrash, whatever. Is it really that hard to accept these 'core' bands into the massively eclectic genre that is metal? Oh wait, they're not tr00 metal. My bad.

So next time one of you downies go to flame a band on the grounds that they're not true, just remember that you're the only one who gives a shit, because the more openminded of us have learn to accept the idiocy that are online metalheads.

At the same time, those of you who listen to Bring Me The Horizon and Annotations Of An Autopsy etc and think you're real death metal, please, get a life. If you're going to try and gain respect from your friends at least have the decency to try some real death metal. I'm not supporting the tr00 guys here, I'm just saying that poserism is even worse than being br00tal. No I didn't just contradict myself, read it more closely if you think that.

Think about it.

OpethToolNine Inch NailsPink FloydLed ZeppelinYesRushACDCUnderoath36 CrazyfistsBecoming the ArchetypeAtreyuWaking The CadaverAnnotations of an AutopsyBring Me the HorizonThe BeatlesBlack SabbathSunn O)))EarthPorcupine TreeIron MaidenIced EarthPrismaRookMammalKarnivoolSerenikEvileMunicipal WasteMegadethMetallicaI'mnotGarrettSoilworkIn FlamesDisarmonia MundiMetro StationFall Out BoyMy Chemical RomanceThe Bombs Of Enduring FreedomMinistryProngPanic! At the DiscoThe AmentaOur Last GigW.A.S.P.LiveStrapping Young LadThe Red ShoreParkway DriveI Killed the Prom QueenSonic SyndicateDevin TownsendBloodbathThe Devin Townsend BandAyreonKatatoniaAnathemaParadise LostMy Dying BrideCogThe Butterfly EffectLinkin ParkMudvayneDisturbedJerkSunk LotoFull ScaleEzekiel OxBehind Crimson EyesBullet For My ValentineMaylene and the Sons of DisasterThe Zico ChainDiamond HeadRoadrunner UnitedKillswitch EngageMayhemEmperorIhsahnBumzurChildren of BodomNortherGeordieBon ScottCliff WilliamsAcid BathDax RiggsAgents of OblivionOmega CodeCombustionAlarumNo-ManSymbiosisJimmi Carr BandJumbledatWolves in the Throne RoomMobySantogoldSyd BarrettElvis PresleyTriviumMachine HeadSlipknotStone SourFaith No MoreThe Dillinger Escape PlanDioRadioheadColdplayAgallochMichael Jackson]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/11/08/29lf9b_overrated Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:47:50 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/11/08/29lf9b_overrated The Jonas Brothers
My Chemical Romance
Fall Out Boy
Panic! At the Disco
Metro Station
Aiden

should die.

also gangsta rap and bubblegum pop.

If you actually put effort into making these forms of music, then I suggest you quit the music industry immediately. Die very slowly.

Napalm DeathInsect WarfareKatatoniaNasumPorcupine TreePink FloydLed ZeppelinYesAyreonDream TheaterACDCQueenRadioheadColdplayNine Inch NailsNo-ManSteven WilsonAnathemaParadise LostOpethMy Dying BrideWithin TemptationBring Me the HorizonUnderoathHuntsmanManowarIron MaidenIced EarthLiveLifehouseNicklebackCreedSilverchairStone Temple PilotsLinkin ParkDisturbedMudvayneNightwishLacuna CoilEvanescenceW.A.S.P.The AmentaKarnivoolMammalCogThe Butterfly EffectIhsahnEmperorMayhem65daysofstaticEvileRookVirgin BlackMinistryThe Bombs Of Enduring FreedomUlverAgallochNew SkinnIn the Woods...The Zico ChainG-Unit50 CentEminemDeath Cab for CutiePowderfingerGrinspoonJerkSunk LotoU2REMMidnight Oil]]> http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/10/19/289wfa_black_friggin_ice%21 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:46:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PatrickFMLP/journal/2008/10/19/289wfa_black_friggin_ice%21

What more can I say. It's AC/DC. It rocks and rolls. It's Black Ice.

But how can so many people enjoy AC/DC when pretty much every song is simple, unoriginal and sounds the same? My friend, it's as simple as this.
It's not meant to be progressive, it's not meant to be experimental, it's not meant to be avant garde. It's just balls out rock and roll, which so many bands have forgot how to do today. AC/DC have survived over 30 years without straying too far from their genre.

From the awesome opening riff of Rock n Roll Train, to the somewhat funky outro of Decibel, this album is a full on rock n roll onslaught. Malcolm and Angus are at their best - pulling off heavy riffs, flowing riffs, funk like riffs, just being masters of the guitar. Phil and Cliff keep the beat going, with some nice, standout basslines and constant, tight drumming. And of course Brian is doing what he does best - singing and screaming along while even adding some soft soul singing, the idea of that coming from their current producer, Brendan O'Brien. A slide guitar is used in Stormy May Day - it made good use of during the outro.

Not much else to say about the album, Rock 'N Roll Train and Decibel are probably the best. AC/DC are one of the few bands who's songs sound pretty much the same over each album, and still they are entertaining. Of course, their huge impact on metal and rock is hard to ignore. I mean, come on. Is is that hard to enjoy a bit of mindless rock n roll every now and then? It seems to have been lost in the sometimes extremely pretentious 'technicality' and 'brutality' of todays music.

Rock n Roll Train
Skies on Fire
Big Jack
Anything Goes
War Machine
Smash N Grab
Spoilin for a Fight
Wheels
Decibel
Stormy May Day
She Likes Rock n Roll
Money Made
Rock n Roll Dream
Rockin All The Way
Black Ice

8.5/10

THUNDAH!!]]>