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 adg211288's Last.fm Journal http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal The Last.fm journal for adg211288. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. Heavy Metal Haven Newsletter: May 2013 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2013/05/01/5tb0tq_heavy_metal_haven_newsletter:_may_2013 Wed, 1 May 2013 06:39:18 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2013/05/01/5tb0tq_heavy_metal_haven_newsletter:_may_2013 Heavy Metal Haven
Monthly Newsletter
May 2013



April was a pretty good month for us. I'd like to say a word of thanks to Hugo Flores and Jessica Lehto of Factory of Dreams, for giving Heavy Metal Haven our biggest and most in depth interview we've done to date. Click their portrait below to read the interview if you have not done so already!

We've also brought you fourteen new reviewers this month, and I'm pleased to report that the album of the month for May is The Valley of Dying Stars by progressive thrash/death metal act Sedulity. This is a special album of the month in more ways than one. Firstly, The Valley of Dying Stars is a free release, and secondly because the group's frontman, Tony C, is a member of the Heavy Metal Haven forums under the name of metal_tony. Good one dude!

Here's to May being another great month!

New Reviews

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Last.fm Artist/Album List
Hatchet - Dawn of the End
Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time
Deceptor - Chains of Delusion
Vicious Rumors - Electric Punishment
Fallujah - -NOMADIC-
Corpus Mortale - FleshCraft
Sedulity - The Valley Of Dying Stars
Attacker - Giants of Canaan
Memory Garden - Doomain
Freedoms Reign - Freedoms Reign
Blood Tsunami - For Faen!
Todtgelichter - APNOE
Beyond The Shore - Ghostwatcher
Death Dealer - War Master

Album of the Month


Sedulity – The Valley of Dying Stars
94/100

New Interviews


Factory of Dreams (Hugo Flores and Jessica Lehto)

The Month in Metal News

Ashes of Ares sign to Nuclear Blast (More Barlow for all!)
New Amon Amarth album "Deceiver of the Gods"
NADER SADEK Announces New York "Living Flesh" Exhibit
IMPRECATION To Unleash Hell With "Satanae Tenebris Infinita"
DARK DESIGN Signs With Heaven & Hell Records
ANGER AS ART Release Hubris Inc. Picture Disc
TRIALS Premier New Track from In the Shadow of Swords
KEEP OF KALESSIN EUROPEAN TOUR WITH FINNTROLL
THORNAFIRE signs with FDA Rekotz‏
TELLUS REQUIEM Release Eden Burns Video
NEW SAHG SINGLE AND UK TOUR - ALBUM DUE IN OCTOBER
IN-QUEST: New Album Cover Artwork, Release Date Revealed
DELAIN to tour with WITHIN TEMPTATION
TRISTANIA - "Darkest White" - Full Track
VENOMOUS MAXIMUS - "Path Of Doom" - Clip
SHINING RELEASE KING CRIMSON COVER 21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN
ENSIFERUM sign worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records
Israeli prog metal band Distorted Harmony release Muse cover
Revolution Harmony To Release All-Star Charity Single
ELDKRAFT release second new song
BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS To Reissue "Dreaming Death" EP
POWERWOLF – announce new album "Preachers of the Night"
THE SORROW - "Retracing Memories" video Clip
FEJD - "Nagelfar" Album Teaser
LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE: Album Update
Update From German Death Horde GOREGAST‏
California Death Metallers DEROGATORY Sign with FDA Rekotz‏
POTENTIAL THREAT SF to Release 'Civilization Under Threat'
FREEDOMS REIGN Release New Track From Self-Titled Album
Kaotoxin Records To Release Debut EP From SIDIOUS
VOID MOON's On the Blackest of Nights Vinyl Pre-Orders
Magister Templi Premiers 'Lucifer' On WeLoveMetal.com‏
HUMILIATION Announces New Album Details and Song Premier‏

New Forum Topics

Heavy/Power Metal: Power-Thrash anyone?
Thrash/Speed/Groove Metal: Sedulity
General Music Discussion: Dubstep
Heavy/Power Metal: Death Dealer
Heavy/Power Metal: Freedoms Reign
Death Metal/Grindcore: In Vain]]> Heavy Metal Haven Newsletter: April 2013 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2013/04/29/5t8x59_heavy_metal_haven_newsletter:_april_2013 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:30:12 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2013/04/29/5t8x59_heavy_metal_haven_newsletter:_april_2013 (This is a back entry, recent May edition coming on May 1st!)

Heavy Metal Haven
Monthly Newsletter
April 2013



Hello and welcome to our second monthly newsletter. This is our final entry as we are closing down soon...

...April fool.

OK, maybe that wasn't funny. But I would like to take a moment to reiterate my gratitude to you, our members, whose continued use of the forum allows us to keep going well beyond my original expectations. Through March we've brought a dozen new album reviews and have also featured an interview with last month's Album of the Month winners, Mortillery. Album of the Month for April is Wolfchant's Embraced by Fire. A new power metal direction has worked wonders for the band and they're topped their best work once again.

You'll also notice this edition returns our metal news and new forum topics sections. Be sure to join in the discussion.

Have a great April and until next time,

- adg211288

New Reviews

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Last.fm Artist/Album List
Wolfchant - Embraced by Fire
Derdian - Limbo
Vreid - Welcome Farewell
Lecherous Nocturne - Behold Almighty Doctrine
oceans of slumber - Aetherial
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Necrovision
In Vain - Ænigma
Pastore - The End Of Our Flames
My Soliloquy - The Interpreter
Factory of Dreams - Some Kind of Poetic Destruction
Gloryhammer - Tales From The Kingdom Of Fife
Paradox - Tales of the Weird

Album of the Month



New Interviews


Mortillery

The Month in Metal News

Randy Blythe Trial Verdict: Not Guilty
PYRITHION announce debut EP
THE MODERN AGE SLAVERY Release Lyric Video
Original BLASPHERIAN Frontman Returns To The Fold
Eugenic Death's Jonathan McCanless Joins Steel Aggressor
Heathen Crusade Metalfest Cancelled
SKINEATER Release Video For "Dismantling"‏
BOVINE to release The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire
Clive Burr (1957 - 2013)
Reign of Vengeance to Release New EP
Forbidden Records Streaming New Releases
DEUS OTIOSUS competition on Metal Music Archives
THE OCEAN: New Studio Footage Posted
MORGENGRAU to Release 'Extrinsic Pathway' April 2nd‏
LECHEROUS NOCTURNE - 'Behold Almighty Doctrine' Out Now
LAY DOWN ROTTEN Signs With Apostasy Records‏
Dead Earth Politics win Austin Chronicle's SXSW Award
DEADLOCK signs with NAPALM RECORDS
PSYCHOSOMATIC Gearing Up For Spring 2013 Tour‏
DEAD EARTH POLITICS To Play Savage Summer Showcase
Apochs.net Debuts New BIRTH A.D. Song‏
THE ADVENT EQUATION Release Video For "A Violent Motion"‏
MONSTERWORKS' "Album of Man" Out Now on Mortal Music‏

New Forum Topics

Progressive/Avant-Garde Metal: Barren Earth
Heavy/Power Metal: My instrumental/solo album
Gaming: 2013 in Gaming
Staff Best of Lists: The Heavy Metal Haven Hall of Fame: Albums of the Year
Black Metal: Darkthrone
Thrash/Speed/Groove Metal: Mortillery
General Metal/Rock Discussions: Your best of 2013 so far
Thrash/Speed/Groove Metal: Hatchet
Heavy/Power Metal: US Power Metal Poll (read for full thread title!)]]> Heavy Metal Haven Newsletter: March 2013 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2013/04/29/5t8x2i_heavy_metal_haven_newsletter:_march_2013 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:23:29 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2013/04/29/5t8x2i_heavy_metal_haven_newsletter:_march_2013 (This is a back entry, recent May edition coming on May 1st!)

Heavy Metal Haven
Monthly Newsletter
March 2013



After a pretty lengthy trial run of doing a weekly newsletter for Heavy Metal Haven (28 weeks), we decided that the feature would produce a more worthwhile result is it was changed to a monthly feature. So allow me to welcome you to the new monthly Haven newsletter, which will contain a lot more content than the old version. The new version will be released on, or close to, the first of every month. This first edition of the new newsletter will pick up from where the weekly one left off.

New Reviews

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Also Reviewed: Aeon - Aeons Black

Last.fm Artist/Album List
Helloween - Straight Out Of Hell
Sonic Reign - Monument in Black
Humanity Delete - Never Ending Nightmares
Aeon - Aeons Black
Void of sleep - Tales Between Reality And Madness
Tellus Requiem - Invictus (The 11th Hour)
Nightfall - Cassiopeia
The Prophecy - Salvation
Abiotic - Symbiosis
Sacred Steel - The Bloodshed Summoning
Kingcrow - In Crescendo
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
Heavatar - Opus I - All My Kingdoms
Mortillery - Origin Of Extinction
Mindmaze - Mask of Lies

Album of the Month


Mortillery - Origin of Extinction
96/100]]> Top 5 Albums By Year http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2012/01/30/5b5rgn_top_5_albums_by_year Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:21:01 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2012/01/30/5b5rgn_top_5_albums_by_year A list of my top 5 albums from every year. I started with 2011 and will be gradually working backwards. My full lists, counting down from worst to best, can be found on my Rate Your Music Page.

2004

1. Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd
2. Augury - Concealed
3. Within Temptation - The Silent Force
4. Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
5. Mastodon - Leviathan

Full List on Rate Your Music

2005

1. Beyond Twilight - Section X
2. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3. Аркона - Во славу великим!
4. Demons & Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King
5. Rebellion - Sagas of Iceland: The History of the Vikings, Volume I

Full List on Rate Your Music

2006

1. Beyond Twilight - For The Love Of Art And The Making
2. Pharaoh - The Longest Night
3. To-Mera - Transcendental
4. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
5. Forest Silence - Philosophy Of Winter

Full List on Rate Your Music

2007

1. Rebellion - Miklagard: The History Of The Vikings, Volume II
2. Vainglory - Vainglory
3. Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained
4. Аркона - От Сердца к Небу
5. Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

Full List on Rate Your Music

2008

1. SIG:AR:TYR - Beyond the North Winds
2. Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (...and a caravan of weird figures)
3. Ayreon - 01011001
4. To-Mera - Delusions
5. Coronatus - Porta Obscura

Full List on Rate Your Music

2009

1. Anubis Gate - The Detached
2. Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
3. Epica - Design Your Universe
4. Rebellion - Arise: From Ginnungagap To Ragnarök - The History Of The Vikings Volume III
5. Аркона - Гой, Роде, Гой!

Full List on Rate Your Music

2010

1. Star One - Victims Of The Modern Age
2. Haken - Aquarius
3. Winterhorde - Underwatermoon
4. Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship
5. Wuthering Heights - Salt

Full List on Rate Your Music

2011

1. Anubis Gate - Anubis Gate
2. Factory of Dreams - Melotronical
3. Dark Forest - Dawn of Infinity
4. Ancient Bards - Soulless Child
5. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

Full List on Rate Your Music

I won't be adding 2012 releases until much later, but you can check progress on the 2012 list on Rate Your Music.

2012 List]]> 2012 Album Ratings http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2012/01/18/5akc8t_2012_album_ratings Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:56:02 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2012/01/18/5akc8t_2012_album_ratings 2011 was an excellent year. Logic says that 2012 won't be able to match it but you never know. Welcome to my continually growing list of 2012 albums (mostly metal albums), complete with links to my reviews. This list will only feature albums that I have written a review for. Recommendations encouraged.

All reviews originally written for Heavy Metal Haven.

9.5 - 10.0 - Masterpiece

Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine - (Review) - 10.0
Xandria - Neverworld's End - (Review) - 10.0
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I - (Review) - 10.0
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real - (Review) - 9.9
Huntress - Spell Eater - (Review) - 9.8
Distorted Harmony - Utopia - (Review) - 9.8
District 97 - Trouble With Machines - (Review - 9.8
Hysterica - THE ART OF METAL - (Review) - 9.8
To-Mera - Exile - (Review) - 9.7
Kamelot - Silverthorn - (Review) - 9.6
Pythia - The Serpent's Curse - (Review) - 9.6
Headspace - I Am Anonymous - (Review) - 9.5
Wodensthrone - Curse - (Review) - 9.5
Hour of Penance - Sedition - (Review) - 9.5

8.5 - 9.4 - Exceptional

Elvenking - Era - (Review) - 9.4
Sectu - Gerra - (Review) - 9.4
Spheric Universe Experience - The New Eve - (Review) - 9.3
Rebellion - Arminius: Furor Teutonicus - (Review) - 9.3
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma - (Review) - 9.3
Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails - (Review) - 9.3
Fogalord - A Legend to Believe in - (Review) - 9.3
Whyzdom - Blind? - (Review) - 9.3
Drakkar - When Lightning Strikes - (Review) - 9.3
Void Moon - On the Blackest of Nights - (Review) - 9.3
Damnation Angels - Bringer of light - (Review) - 9.3
Wintersun - Time I - (Review) - 9.2
Nightmare - The Burden of God - (Review) - 9.2
Skelator - Agents of Power - (Review) - 9.2
Akphaezya - Anthology IV (the tragedy of Nerak) - (Review) - 9.2
Sound Storm - Immortalia - (Review) - 9.2
A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays - (Review) - 9.2
Nachtvorst - Silence - (Review) - 9.2
Beyond the Bridge - The Old Man and the Spirit - (Review) - 9.1
Crystal Viper - Crimen Excepta - (Review) - 9.1
Warnot - His Blood Is Yours - (Review) - 9.1
Pharaoh - Bury the Light - (Review) - 9.0
Germán Pascual - A New Beginning - (Review) - 9.0
Dark Forest - Land of the Evening Star - (Review) - 9.0
Herfst - The Deathcult Pt. I: An Oath In Darkness - (Review) - 9.0
Dawn of Destiny - Praying to the world - (Review) - 8.9
Dynfari - Sem Skugginn - (Review) - 8.9
Borknagar - Urd - (Review) - 8.9
Kobra And The Lotus - Kobra And The Lotus - (Review) - 8.8
Fullforce - Next Level - (Review) - 8.8
Teramaze - Anhedonia - (Review) - 8.8
Carach Angren - Where the Corpses Sink Forever - (Review) - 8.8
Epica - Requiem for the Indifferent - (Review) - 8.7
Flying Colors - Flying Colors - (Review) - 8.6
Haiduk - Spellbook - (Review) - 8.6
Eternal Deformity - The Beauty of Chaos - (Review) - 8.5
Prototype - Catalyst - (Review) - 8.5

7.5 -8.4 - Really Great

The Faceless - Autotheism - (Review) - 8.4
Diabulus In Musica - The Wanderer - (Review) - 8.4
A Sound of Thunder - Out of the Darkness - (Review) - 8.4
Dark Empire - From Refuge to Ruin - (Review) - 8.3
Vexillum - The Bivouac - (Review) - 8.3
Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine - (Review) - 8.3
Ex Deo - Caligvla - (Review) - 8.3
Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes - (Review) - 8.3
Svartby - Elemental Tales - (Review) - 8.2
Order of Nine - Seventh Year of the Broken Mirror - (Review) - 8.2
Scelerata - The Sniper - (Review) - 8.2
Ascension - Far Beyond the Stars - (Review) - 8.2
Black Abyss - Possessed - (Review) - 8.2
Accept - Stalingrad - (Review) - 8.2
Judicator - King of Rome - (Review) - 8.1
Grave Digger - Clash of the Gods - (Review) - 8.1
Iron Fire - Voyage of the Damned - (Review) - 8.1
Syn Ze Şase Tri - Sub Semnul Lupului - (Review) - 8.1
Malice - New Breed Of Godz - (Review) - 8.1
Amberian Dawn - Circus Black - (Review) - 8.0
Pathfinder - Fifth Element - (Review) - 8.0
Orden Ogan - To the End - (Review) - 8.0
Civilization One - Calling the Gods - (Review) - 8.0
Crucified Barbara - The Midnight Chase - (Review) - 8.0
Mondrian Oak - Aeon - (Review) - 8.0
After Oblivion - Stamina - (Review) - 7.9
Nile - At the Gate of Sethu - (Review) - 7.9
Cloudscape - New Era - (Review) - 7.8
Heretic - A Time of Crisis - (Review) - 7.8
Beardfish - The Void - (Review) - 7.7
Bible of the Devil - For the Love of Thugs & Fools - (Review) - 7.7
Sacred Gate - When Eternity Ends - (Review) - 7.6
Adrenaline Mob - Omertá - (Review) - 7.5

6.5 - 7.4 - Good, Not Quite Great

Spawn of Possession - Incurso - (Review) - 7.4
Black Majesty - Stargazer - (Review) - 7.4
Elixir - Unleash the Magic - (Review) - 7.4
Finsterforst - Rastlos - (Review) - 7.3
Mortad - The Myth Of Purity - (Review) - 7.3
Last Kingdom - Chronicles Of The North - (Review) - 7.3
Eluveitie - Helvetios - (Review) - 7.2
Ambehr - Бездна - (Review) - 7.1
Gorod - A Perfect Absolution - (Review) - 7.0
Agruss - Morok - (Review) - 6.8
Unisonic - Unisonic - (Review) - 6.7
Still Alive - Kyo - (Review) - 6.6
Demona - Metal Through The Time - (Review) - 6.5

5.5 - 6.4 - Above Average/Good

Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph - (Review) - 6.4
Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones - (Review) - 6.4
Wind Rose - Shadows Over Loathadruin - (Review) - 6.3
Vismut - 13 - (Review) - 6.3
Black Velvet Band - Black Velvet Band - (Review) - 6.0
Youngblood - No Retreat - (Review - 6.0

4.5 - 5.4 - Middle of the Road

Ecliptica - Journey Saturnine - (Review) - 5.2
Linnalapsi - Menneisyyden laulut - (Review) - 4.8

3.5 - 4.4 - Below Average/Fans Only

Voices of Destiny - Power Dive - (Review) - 4.3
Skylark - Twilights of Sand - (Review) - 3.9

2.5 - 3.4 - Bad

The Murder of My Sweet - Bye Bye Lullaby - (Review) - 2.9

1.5 - 2.4 - Very Bad

Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline - (Review) - 1.8

0.5 - 1.4 - Utterly Dismal



0.0 - 0.4 - Worse than 50 Cent]]> Iron Maiden 05/08/2011 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2011/08/07/4iygmk_iron_maiden_05082011 Sun, 7 Aug 2011 07:19:04 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2011/08/07/4iygmk_iron_maiden_05082011 Fri 5 Aug – Iron Maiden, DragonForce

Iron Maiden Live at the O2 Arena – 05/08/2011
With Support From DragonForce



The O2 Arena in London is an impressive place to be sure, but not the most comfortable of venues. Stairs in the seating area are about as steep as they are probably allowed to come by health and safety rules, and leg room is naturally at a bare minimum. No one really cares though because the heavy metal legend that is Iron Maiden is why everyone is here to night, and the atmosphere of the fans is, in a word, awesome.

UK power metal act DragonForce is opening the show tonight. They’re with us for about half an hour, and give us five songs. New vocalist Marc Hudson quickly proves he has the pipes to the fill the position vacated by ZP Theart in 2010. It’s only his second gig with the band, but seems comfortably installed within their line-up all the same, even with a crowd the size of what the O2 can hold (though it hasn’t filled up by this point). The show is as expected – all speed and high pitched vocals; a typical showcase of ‘power metal cheese’. The only surprise of their set is their 3rd song, which Hudson introduces as a new song from their forthcoming fifth album that will be available early next year. The song is called Cry Thunder, and it seems a lot more restrained on the ultra fast leads from Herman Li and Sam Totman. As such you can hear a lot more of what is going on within the song than you can with the other four they play, which all sound the same, and makes Cry Thunder the highlight of the DragonForce set. The band seems to get a somewhat lukewarm reception however. Still it could be worse, we could have once again been treated to a performance by Lauren Harris, who for the first time since this reviewer has been going to Iron Maiden gigs, is absent from the billing.

DragonForce Rating 6/10

There’s an intermission while the stage is got ready for tonight’s headliners. We know it’s time when the music on the speakers switches to UFO’s Doctor Doctor (a song that Maiden has a cover version of). Opening the Iron Maiden set is Satellite 15...The Final Frontier. For the first part the band is off stage, which only adds to the dark atmosphere of the track, and they appear for the second half, to a great reception. After this though deliver The Final Frontier’s lead single, El Dorado. Over the course of the show the band plays half of the tracks from The Final Frontier, also treating us to The Talisman, Coming Home and When the Wild Wind Blows. Personally I’m disappointed by the lack of Starblind, but Maiden is Maiden, and the show is as powerful as it has ever been, with Bruce Dickinson tearing about the stage like a man of twenty rather than one over fifty, and is ever the showman. Dave Murray provides the shock of the night with a rare appearance without a Stratocaster for some of the songs.

Elsewhere in the set we’re treated to some of the classics such as 2 Minutes to Midnight, The Trooper and The Evil That Men Do, and set staples such as Fear of the Dark and Hallowed Be Thy Name. A nice surprise in the set is that they include material from Brave New World and Dance of Death, which has been absent from the last few UK gigs that Iron Maiden has done, with the track Dance of Death being a particular treat.

Eddie appears onstage during The Evil That Men Do, and even has his own Stratocaster at one point, while a larger Eddie appears behind the stage during the band’s signature song Iron Maiden, as is their live tradition. Bruce stops the show a couple of times to address the crowd, in which he promises that The Final Frontier isn’t really the final frontier at all, but rather the bridge to the final frontier, or something. The prospect of a new Iron Maiden album goes down a storm, but I don’t think I’m the only one hoping that there isn’t as long a gap between releases as there was between A Matter of Life and Death (2006) and The Final Frontier (2010). On that note there is a complete lack of A Matter of Life and Death tracks tonight, but I guess that those songs have been put on the backburner for now to make room for some new songs and revive some older ones.

Iron Maiden is, as always, on fire. By the time their set starts DragonForce is completely forgotten. The set seems to fly by, as anything fun seems to. To be honest this wasn’t the best Iron Maiden gig I ever went to, but the band proves once again that they are a class above all others. After the band departs the stage after closing the set with Running Free, Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life drifts from the speakers to see the crowd out. All in all a great night.

Iron Maiden Rating 9/10

DragonForce Setlist

  1. Heroes of Our Times
  2. Fury of the Storm
  3. Cry Thunder
  4. Operation Ground and Pound
  5. Through the Fire and Flames

(I think, after all, most of it did sound the same)

Iron Maiden Setlist

  1. Satellite 15... The Final Frontier
  2. El Dorado
  3. 2 Minutes to Midnight
  4. The Talisman
  5. Coming Home
  6. Dance of Death
  7. The Trooper
  8. The Wicker Man
  9. Blood Brothers
  10. When the Wild Wind Blows
  11. The Evil That Men Do
  12. Fear of the Dark
  13. Iron Maiden
  14. The Number of the Beast
  15. Hallowed Be Thy Name
  16. Running Free


Originally written for Heavy Metal Haven]]> Top 100 Albums of All Time (July 2011 Edition) (as chosen by voters) http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2011/07/20/4htwqm_top_100_albums_of_all_time_(july_2011_edition)_(as_chosen_by_voters) Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:33:44 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2011/07/20/4htwqm_top_100_albums_of_all_time_(july_2011_edition)_(as_chosen_by_voters) My website, Heavy Metal Haven, runs on on-going top 100 albums of all time feature for our members to vote in. Here I share the top 10 of the 2nd Edition of the list, published on 15th July 2011.

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (156 Points)


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4. Pharaoh - The Longest Night (103 Points)


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5. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (93 Points)


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6. Metallica - Kill 'Em All (89 Points)


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7. Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle (75 Points)


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View the rest of the list here - why? because I don't have the willpower to link all those artist and album pages

RE: This List Sucks!!!

It is a collaborative list, that is open to any genre of music. This edition had 22 contributions. Heavy Metal Haven is always updating it (well, whenever an update is warranted at least). If you are unhappy with the list, then I personally invite you to Register with us and leave a list of up to 30 albums in the appropriate forum topic. Please do not run down the list without at least being prepared to contribute to it. Thank you for your understanding.

I reserve the right to remove any comments on this entry that do not respect this.

]]> Devin Townsend Project - Ghost http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2011/07/05/4gzewz_devin_townsend_project_-_ghost Tue, 5 Jul 2011 19:49:47 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/adg211288/journal/2011/07/05/4gzewz_devin_townsend_project_-_ghost Ghost is one of a pair of albums released by Canadian musician Devin Townsend under his Devin Townsend Project moniker in 2011. It is paired with the album Deconstruction. Ghost focuses on Devin’s side, while the other album focuses on his side. On Ghost Devin performs what is essentially a brand of atmospheric , with plenty of ambiences to boot and some hints of as well.

In comparison to its metal partner, Ghost is very much a relaxing and laid-back affair, in pretty much a reactionary sense to Deconstruction, both musically and lyrically. Ghost is like the grown up and mature big brother to the crazy and often comedic Deconstruction. It’s nice to hear that there are many sides to Devin Townsend, but is this case I’m not overly fussed about the results.

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This album is a showcase of how I enjoy the genre the most. Extreme, but with much thought put into the compositions and a lot of technical skill on offer from the band members. The work is very prominent in the sound and I like that a lot. The bass is one instrument that I often find gets lost in the overall sound in a metal band, and I struggle to find bassists that are really noteworthy enough for me to consider as really good, with too many bassists just following the guitar. Here though the bass is off doing its own thing and that’s just great when combined with the heavy riffs of guitarists Simon Girard and Kévin Chartré, and even better when they start throwing out the technical stuff. The bass doesn’t completely make this album, but it would be a lot more bog-standard affair without Dominic "Forest" Lapointe’s skills.

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The music is stylistically somewhere between traditional heavy metal and , but more leaning towards the latter in my opinion due to its high use of melody and keyboards. The instruments are well played, especially the guitars, and the compositions have a catchy nature about them that should appeal to fans of power metal. McDaniel’s vocals are not the most powerful that I have ever heard and are if anything are atypical for the power metal style, but are very clear and work well with the sense of melody in his compositions, which makes his music sound more on the atmospheric metal side of things.

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