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/darkofnight/journal The Last.fm journal for darkofnight. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/08/25/24qniw_top_15_firsts Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:22:34 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/08/25/24qniw_top_15_firsts Take your top 15 artist, put first song you heard by them, the song that made you fall in love with them, and your current favorite. Simple.

1. In Flames
First Song: The Quiet Place
Fell in love: Only for the Weak
Current fav: Only for the Weak

2. Dark Tranquillity
First Song: Hours Passed in Exile
Fell in love: Hours Passed in Exile
Current fav: Hours Passed in Exile

3. Vintersorg
First Song: The Enigmatic Spirit
Fell in love: The Enigmatic Spirit
Current fav: När Alver Sina Runor Sjungit

4. Nightwish
First Song: Wish I had an Angel
Fell in love: Wishmaster
Current fav: Bye Bye Beautiful

5. Hypocrisy
First Song: Born Dead, Buried Alive
Fell in love: Eraser
Current fav: Elastic Inverted Visions

6. Ensiferum
First Song: Slayer of Light
Fell in love: Little Dreamer
Current fav: One More Magic Potion

7. Children of Bodom
First Song: Everytime I Die
Fell in love: Everytime I Die
Current fav: Kissing the Shadows

8. Borknagar
First Song: Oceans Rise
Fell in love: Future Reminiscence
Current fav: The Genuine Pulse or Quintessence

9. Eternal Tears of Sorrow
First Song: Shattered Soul
Fell in love: Blood of Faith Stains My Hands
Current fav: Angelheart, Ravenheart (Act I: Before the Bleeding Sun)

10. Immortal
First Song: Solarfall
Fell in love: Withstand the Fall of Time
Current fav: Withstand the Fall of Time

11. Sentenced
First Song: Excuse Me While I Kill Myself
Fell in love: Excuse Me While I kill Myself
Current fav: Broken

12. Catamenia
First Song: Vortex
Fell in love: Aurora Borealis
Current fav: Iced Over

13. Dimmu Borgir
First Song: Spellbound
Fell in love: Spellbound
Current fav: Alt Lys Er Svunnet Hen

14. At the Gates
First Song: Blinded by Fear
Fell in love: Blinded by Fear
Current fav: Need

15. Norther
First Song: Nothing
Fell in love: Nothing
Current fav: Last Breath]]> http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/08/20/24gj6q_finally... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:19:15 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/08/20/24gj6q_finally... Well I know it has been nearly 5 months since I posted the prologue to my top 25 albums of all time, however I have not forgotten about this. I have started the process of narrowing the choices down now, and should have the first part up next month. Stay tuned!!]]> http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/03/08/b6ov5_my_top_25_favorite_albums_of_all_time_%28prologue%29 Sat, 8 Mar 2008 08:29:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/03/08/b6ov5_my_top_25_favorite_albums_of_all_time_%28prologue%29 Sometime in the near future I will be making a series of journal entires counting down my favorite albums of all time. So far, after careful deliberation, I have narrowed the choices down to the following 45 albums:

Burning Bridges – Arch Enemy
Slaughter Of The Soul – At the Gates
Demigod – Behemoth
A Night At The Opera – Blind Guardian
Epic – Borknagar
Empiricism - Borknagar
Chaos Born - Catamenia
Winternight Tragedies - Catamenia
Follow The Reaper – Children of Bodom
Hatebreeder – Children of Bodom
Midian – Cradle of Filth
Nymphetamine – Cradle of Filth
Character – Dark Tranquillity
Projector – Dark Tranquillity
Enthrone Darkness Triumphant – Dimmu Borgir
The Somberlain - Dissection
Purgatory Afterglow – Edge of Sanity
Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk - Emperor
Ensiferum – Enisferum
Consign to Oblivion – Epica
Chaotic Beauty – Eternal Tears of Sorrow
A Virgin and a Whore – Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Recreation Day - Evergrey
Engraved in black - Graveworm
The Dark Ride - Helloween
Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
At the Heart of Winter - Immortal
Clayman – In Flames
The Jester Race – In Flames
Above The Weeping World – Insomnium
The Scattering Of Ashes – Into Eternity
Swamplord - Kalmah
The Hours That Remain – Mercenary
...And Justice for All - Metallica
Wishmaster - Nightwish
Oceanborn - Nightwish
Dreams Of Endless War - Norther
Absence - Noumena
Pitch Black Progress – Scar Symmetry
The Cold White Light – Sentenced
Reckoning Night – Sonata Arctica
Cosmic Genesis - Vintersorg
Till Fjälls - Vintersorg
Wintersun - Wintersun
The Silent Force – Within Temptation]]> http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/03/06/b6ov4_survey_1 Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:52:16 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/03/06/b6ov4_survey_1 1. Of all the bands & artists in your collection, which one do you have the most of?
In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Children of Bodom, and Nightwish

2. What was the last song you listened to?
Angelheart, Ravenheart (Act I: Before The Bleeding Sun)

3. What's in your CD player right now?
Nightwish – Dark Passion Play

4. What is your favorite instrument?
The Piano

5. Who's your favorite local band?
Almost all of them suck but probably Legion

6. What was the last concert you attended?
Ozzfest

7. What was the greatest concert you've ever been to?
In Flames, Evergrey, Nevermore and Throwdown

8. What's the worst band you've ever seen in concert?
Hatebreed or Bury Your Dead

9. What band do you love musically but hate the members of?
Don’t know

10. What is the most musically involved you have ever been?
now...

11. What show are you looking forward to?
Gigantour

12. What is your favourite band shirt?
My In Flames Clayman shirt

13. What musician would you like to hang out with for a day?
Anders Fridén, Björn Gelotte, Mikael Stanne, Niklas Sundin or Vintersorg to name a few

14. What musician would you like to be in love with you for a day?
Angela Gossow… just kidding

15. What was your last musical "phase" before you wised up?
Nu metal…

16. Sabbath or solo Ozzy?
Neither

17. Did you know that filling out this survey makes you a music geek?
no

18. What was the greatest decade for music?
80’s and 90’s

19. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
Don’t have one

20. What would you be without music?
boring]]> http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/03/03/b6ov3_whats_up_with_that_shit Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:28:19 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/03/03/b6ov3_whats_up_with_that_shit Ok seriously I think that people would learn there is a lot more to love about music if they would stop there pointless hate and fanboyism toward genres and bands. If you want to be the person who is like 'omg metalcore is 4 teh suckors, grim tr00 kvlt black metal ftw!!!11!!1" then fine, but you are alienating yourself from a world of great music.

Now I know there are plenty of you out there who are not like this, and give bands and genre a true chance before passing judgment over such. Honestly though, I really believe if people were not exposed so much to what is believed to be fashionable about music and what is not, people would discover there is a lot out there they are missing.

I seem to use Black Metal and Metalcore as examples a lot. Well this is probably because they represent two extremes in metal. You have the black metal fans who claim that the genre is a way of life, and it might as well be next to impossible for band to be true black metal anymore. Then you have metalcore, which is attacked from about every angle in the metal community. This goes hand in hand with how bands automatically become terrible, stupid and sellouts the minute their music becomes more accessible and becomes more popular. When in fact if people had no concept of the idea of music being 'popular' or 'commercial' their opinions on bands that have become such may be vastly different.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/02/04/b6ov2_so_mello_death_must_be_the_new_%27nu%27_metal Mon, 4 Feb 2008 07:59:53 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/darkofnight/journal/2008/02/04/b6ov2_so_mello_death_must_be_the_new_%27nu%27_metal So I guess now when a death metal band adds melody to their music, they automatically become lame talent-less sellouts. Heaven forbid a death metal band should EVER stray away from anything but constant in your face blast beats and unwavering death grunts. At one point I thought that people could tell the difference between the natural progression of a bands music, and them selling out. Now, I’m not so sure. It seems like nowadays anytime a band starts off straight death metal and slowly, over time, adds melodies into their music they become a target for the classic attacks of ‘selling out’ or ‘going soft’. I think the primary thing is when a bands adds a significant amount of keyboards and (or) clean vocals people just go off the deep end. A good example here is Soilwork. The moment Strid starting displaying a very impressive amount of vocal range in their music, they became pussies and were no longer ‘metal’ but ‘modern rock’.
Adding keyboards, melodic guitars, and clean vocals adds several layers to a bands music. Sure it changes a bands sounds, a lot of the time drastically, but I don’t see a problem with wanting to branch out, add more sound, and more creativity. These things in themselves do not take away from a bands talent, and if anything, add to it. Of course there are plenty of bands out there that do sell out and do lose a significant amount of their talent the more melodic they become (Come Clarity anyone?), but the simple fact of transforming from death metal to melodic death is nothing but a natural progression and evolution of music.
Now don’t get me wrong; although I am partial to melodic death metal, I still love me some Suffocation, Bloodbath, Decapitation, Deicide, and so on. There is nothing wrong with straight in your face death metal. I love metal in pretty much all its forms, its just sometimes the ideology that comes along with it is retarded (maybe another day I’ll get into black metal…).]]>