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What was the first album you ever purchased with your own money?
I can’t remember, it probably was a single or an EP. But my very first CD was Dangerous by Michael Jackson.

If you could only have 10 CDs for the remainder of your life, what would they be?
Phew... (No „Charts“)
1. Dark Sanctuary – Les Mémoires Blessées
2. Grendel – Harsh Generation
3. Various Artists – Extreme Sündenfall Vol. 6
4. Combichrist – Today We Are All Demons
5. Combichrist – Everybody Hates You
6. Children Of Bodom – Something Wild
7. [x]-Rx – Unmöglich Erregend
8. [x]-Rx – Stage 2
9. Noisuf-X – The Beauty Of Destruction
10. A self-made sampler with loads of my favourite songs.

Name a song you can flawlessly sing all of the lyrics to by memory.
Only one? As a singer I have to learn loads of lyrics. ;)

What is the one album you bought with your own money--and which you still own--of which you are most ashamed?
I’m not ashamed of any album I own. If I would be, I wouldn’t have bought it.

Name any rare recordings you own.
Michael Jackson – Ghosts (DVD & CD), Tagismâr – Oder der (Alp)Traum, mal anders zu sein, Eco – Gier, Hass Und Liebe to name a few...

What was the first live concert you ever attended? Can you remember the opening act?
The Kelly Family. No opening act.

If you could have a gross of one CD to give away to friends, relatives, co-workers, and/or strangers, what would it be?
Depends on the person but it would probably a CD by Sido or Bushido.

If you could make all copies of any one album disappear from the face of the earth, what album would that be?
All albums by Tokio Hotel :P

Approximately how many cd's do you own? (not burned copies)
According to musik-sammler.de I have about 734 CDs and I didn’t even write all of them down yet...

Approximately how many LPs do you own?
No LPs

Approximately how many 45 rpm records do you own?
None

Approximately how many 8-track tapes do you own?
No

Do you have a working turntable?
Nope

Do you have a working stereo cassette deck?
Yes.

Do you have a working 8-track deck?
Nö

Do you own any quadraphonic LPs or 8-track tapes?
Nope

Name any artists of whom you own their entire catalogs.
Children Of Bodom, Combichrist, Goethes Erben, Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows, Blutengel (with singles *yay*), Agonoize, Ashbury Heights... to name a few

What is your all-time favorite album cover?
Cradle of Filth – Bitter Suites to Succubi

Do you own any opera recordings?
Yes, Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, der Freischütz, Die Zauberflöte and many more.

Explain, in 25 words or fewer, why recorded music is important to you.
Music is what kept me alive for now more than 24 years. Music heals every wound a person is not able to mend. (23 words)

Do you keep your cd's in their cases or in a book?
In a book. Or better in two books.

Do you think cd's are overpriced?
Some are, yes. And I don’t like artists who release an album and 6 months later they release a „special edition“ with bonus tracks fort he same prize as the first album was.

Do you have any artist or musician posters?
Yes, Dani Filth, Tarja Turunen, Combichrist a few film posters and pics of Jeff Hardy <3

Do you wear band shirts?
Yes, I usually buy them at concerts.

Where do you usually buy your music?
I used to buy it in the city but now I buy them at Media Markt or in the internet (iTunes, Cede.ch, Gothic-Shopper.de or from the artist himself at Myspace).

So, some people complain about the comparisons that Last.fm makes. Well check this out. Here are a few ridiculous comparisons Pandora made. I don't know if they changed them yet or not, but here are a few that I've seen. I'll add more. Feel free to contribute, if you've noticed anything like this on Pandora.

Arch Enemy and Pantera
Atreyu and Rise Against
Bullet For My Valentine and Rise Against
Bullet For My Valentine and Breaking Benjamin
Cradle of Filth and Children of Bodom
Cradle of Filth and Arch Enemy
Dido and Enya
Disturbed and Linkin Park
Emilie Autumn and Within Temptation
Emilie Autumn and Nightwish
Eths and As I Lay Dying
Eths and Atreyu
Evanescence and Seether
Evanescence and Linkin Park
Evanescence and 3 Doors Down
Evanescence and Three Days Grace
Lacuna Coil and Flyleaf
Lacuna Coil and Fireflight
Lacuna Coil and Breaking Benjamin
Metallica and Guns N' Roses
Kittie and System of a Down
Kittie and Flyleaf
Metallica and AC/DC
Opeth and In Flames
Otep and System of a Down
Pantera and Rob Zombie
Pantera and Alice in Chains
Pantera and Tool
Twisted Sister and Metallica

A few trends I've noticed:
Many metal bands comapred to Tool and A Perfect Circle
Many melodic death metal or metalcore bands compared to In Flames.
Pretty much every metalcore band comapred to Killswitch Engage, All That Remains or As I Lay Dying
Any nu-metal, and a other types are compared to Slipknot, Korn or Mudvayne
Any female fronted gothic/symphonic is compared to Within Temptation and Nightwish
Most hard rock bands compared to Breaking Benjamin
And thrash metal compared to Metallica or Megadeth
And female fronted pop-country compared to Taylor Swift or Carrie Underwood

I could go on and on...

A

ABBA ─ Gold: Greatest Hits (1992)
Aborym ─ Generator (2006)
Amanda Palmer ─ Who Killed Amanda Palmer (2008)
Arch Enemy ─ Doomsday Machine (2006)

B

Bal-Sagoth ─ The Chthonic Chronicles (2006)
The Beach Boys ─ The Platinum Collection (2005)
Beastie Boys ─ Licensed to Ill (1986)
The Beatles ─ Rubber Soul (1965)
The Beatles ─ Revolver (1966)
The Beatles ─ Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Bleeding Through ─ The Truth (2006)
Bleeding Through ─ Declaration (2008)
blink-182 ─ Greatest Hits (2005)
Britney Spears ─ Britney (2001)
Britney Spears ─ In the Zone (2003)
Britney Spears ─ Blackout (2007)
Britney Spears ─ Circus (2008)

C

Cannibal Corpse ─ Evisceration Plague (2009)
Catgut Mary ─ Bourbon and Black Porter (2006)
Coldplay ─ Parachutes (2000)
Coldplay ─ X&Y (2005)
Coldplay ─ Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (2008)
Cradle of Filth ─ The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994)
Cradle of Filth ─ Vempire or Dark Faerytales In Phallustein (1996)
Cradle of Filth ─ Dusk... and Her Embrace (1997)
Cradle of Filth ─ Cruelty and the Beast (1998)
Cradle of Filth ─ From the Cradle to Enslave (1999)
Cradle of Filth ─ Midian (2000)
Cradle of Filth ─ Bitter Suites to Succubi (2001)
Cradle of Filth ─ Lovecraft & Witch Hearts (2002)
Cradle of Filth ─ Live Bait for the Dead (2002)
Cradle of Filth ─ Damnation and a Day (2003)
Cradle of Filth ─ Nymphetamine (2004)
Cradle of Filth ─ Thornography (2006)
Cradle of Filth ─ Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008)

D

The Dandy Warhols ─ ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)
The Dandy Warhols ─ Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (2000)
The Dandy Warhols ─ Welcome To The Monkey House (2003)
The Dandy Warhols ─ Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (2005)
The Dandy Warhols ─ ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... (2008)
The Dandy Warhols ─ The Dandy Warhols Are Sound (2009)
David Bowie ─ Space Oddity (1969)
David Bowie ─ The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
David Bowie ─ Hunky Dory (1971)
David Bowie ─ The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) #1
David Bowie ─ Aladdin Sane (1973)
David Bowie ─ Pin-Ups (1973)
David Bowie ─ Diamond Dogs (1974)
David Bowie ─ Young Americans (1975)
David Bowie ─ Station To Station (1976)
David Bowie ─ Low (1977)
David Bowie ─ Heroes (1977)
David Bowie ─ Scary Monsters (1980)
David Bowie ─ Reality (2003)
Dethklok ─ The Dethalbum (2006)
DevilDriver ─ The Fury of Our Maker's Hand (2005)
Dimmu Borgir ─ Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999)
Dimmu Borgir ─ Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001)
Dimmu Borgir ─ Death Cult Armageddon (2003)
Dimmu Borgir ─ In Sorte Diaboli (2007)
The Dresden Dolls ─ The Dresden Dolls (2003)
The Dresden Dolls ─ Yes, Virginia... (2006)
The Dresden Dolls ─ No, Virginia... (2008)

E

Elvis Presley ─ The Essential Elvis Presley (2007)
Emperor ─ In the Nightside Eclipse (1994)
Ennio Morricone ─ Platinum Collection (2007)

F

Faith No More ─ Angel Dust (1992)
Finntroll ─ Nattfödd (2004)
Funeral for a Friend ─ Hours (2005)

G

Garbage ─ Absolute Garbage (2007)
Goblin ─ Tenebre (1982)
Gorillaz ─ Gorillaz (2001)
Gorillaz ─ Demon Days (2005)
Green Day ─ Dookie (1994)
Green Day ─ American Idiot (2004)
Gwen Stefani ─ The Sweet Escape (2006)
Gyroscope ─ Fast Girl/Beware Wolf (2005)

I

Immortal ─ Blizzard Beasts (1997)
Immortal ─ At the Heart of Winter (1998)
Immortal ─ Damned in Black (2000)
Immortal ─ Sons of Northern Darkness (2002)

J

Jebediah ─ Slightly Odway (1997)

K

KoЯn ─ Korn (1994)
KoЯn ─ Life Is Peachy (1996)
KoЯn ─ Follow the Leader (1998)
KoЯn ─ Issues (1999)
KoЯn ─ Untouchables (2002)

L

Little Birdy ─ Bigbiglove (2003)

M

Marilyn Manson ─ Lest We Forget (The Best Of) (2004)
Michael Jackson ─ Off the Wall (1979)
Michael Jackson ─ Thriller (1982)
Michael Jackson ─ Dangerous (1991)
Michael Jackson ─ HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995)
Michael Jackson ─ Invincible (2001)
Moby ─ Play (1999)
Moby ─ 18 (2002)
Moby ─ Last Night (2008)
Moon ─ Satan's Wept (1999)
Muse ─ Showbiz (1999)
Muse ─ Origin Of Symmetry (2001)
Muse ─ Absolution (2003)
Muse ─ Black Holes & Revelations (2006)
Muse ─ The Resistance (2009)
My Chemical Romance ─ Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)

N

Nine Inch Nails ─ Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Nine Inch Nails ─ Broken (1992)
Nine Inch Nails ─ The Fragile (1999)
Nine Inch Nails ─ The Slip (2008)
Nine Inch Nails ─ Ghosts I-IV (2008)

O

The Offspring ─ Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
The Offspring ─ Americana (1998)

P

Pantera ─ Far Beyond Driven (1996)
Peter Bjorn & John ─ Writer's Block (2006)
Pink Floyd ─ The Wall (1982)
Placebo ─ Placebo (1996)
Placebo ─ Without You I'm Nothing (1998)
Placebo ─ Black Market Music (2000)
Placebo ─ Sleeping With Ghosts (2003)
Placebo ─ Meds (2005)
The Prodigy ─ Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005 (2005)
The Prodigy ─ Invaders Must Die (2009)

R

Roadrunner United ─ The All-Star Sessions (2005)

S

Slayer ─ Reign in Blood (1986)
Slipknot ─ Slipknot (10th Anniversary Edition) (1999)
Slipknot ─ Iowa (2001)
Slipknot ─ Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (2003)
Slipknot ─ 9.0: Live (2005)
Slipknot ─ All Hope Is Gone (2008)
The Smashing Pumpkins ─ Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995)
The Smashing Pumpkins ─ Adore (1998)
System of a Down ─ System of a Down (1998)
System of a Down ─ Toxicity (2001)
System of a Down ─ Steal This Album! (2002)
System of a Down ─ Mezmerize (2005)
System of a Down ─ Hypnotize (2005)

U

Unlord ─ Schwarzwald (1997)
Unlord ─ Lord Of Beneath (2002)

V

The Verve ─ Urban Hymns (1997)

Soundtracks

The Boat That Rocked (2009)
Various Artists ─ Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003)
Various Artists ─ Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004)
Howard Shore ─ The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Elton John ─ The Lion King (2003)
Richard O'Brien ─ The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 25 Years Of Absolute Pleasure (2000)
Francois Tétaz Rogue ─ (2007)
Francois Tétaz Wolf Creek ─ (2005)

Sat 28 Nov – Amon Amarth

Awesome.

That's usually a good start to a review, and thus it is how I will start this one. It... Was... Awesome. 8:00 the doors opened, giving us all half an hour to grab our merchandise and prepare for the Vikings to command us and lead us into battle... But that's not what happened, instead we walked in and were greeted with the first supporting act of the night, Eye of the Enemy... Now, don't get me wrong, I do have a broad range of musical tastes (especially when it comes to metal) but I really had trouble getting into this. Although they were the first act, I think it's safe to say that most people there didn't think much of them. The mosh remained still, those of us in the mid-section remained still and those further back were even more motionless. The tuning and organising of the sound led to the vocalist being practically impossible to hear, leaving just the guitars and drums to give is the impressions of what they had to offer. However, most every song sounded the same and, overall, I found these guys fairly disappointing, especially when compared to Cradle of Filth's first support (Naetu) when they were in Sydney... Was this to be our modern sign of the coming storm? Well... No.

After the 15 minute intermission, Bane of isildur (which I still have trouble pronouncing) made their way onto the stage and fixed everything that was wrong with the previous act. The vocals, the costumes, the performance, the music, the energy... Everything just suited the feel of the night and was truly preparing us for what was to come as they eagerly led us without fear into the main act of the night. I don't have much else to add about these guys except that they were really good and definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of Amon Amarth or the like, last.fm offers free downloads so it is worth your time.

30 minutes passed. 30 silent minutes of waiting, they felt like an hour. The crowd was eager to get started, and suddenly the lights went dim. An instrumental/orchestral track began playing, the lights started to come on then silence. Music stopped. Lights went out. Darkness. Nothing to hear but the crowd, but even the roars of excitement were silenced out of fear when the riffs of Twilight of the Thunder God began. The entire theatre was filled with Johan's vocals coming from each and every person there. Johan made great interaction with the crowd, consistently questioning and performing. Combining light-hearted humour to settle our nerves, once we were calm, Amon led us on one hell of a victorious march, going through some of the best songs that they've released.

The set-list (please bear in mind I am writing this from memory)

Twilight of the Thunder God
Free Will Sacrifice
Valkyries Ride
Bleed for Ancient Gods
Varyags of Miklagaard
Where Silent Gods Stand Guard
Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags
Runes to my Memory
Asator
Victorious March
Live for the Kill
Death in Fire

Amon Amarth left the stage, the crowd drew them back, as to be expected, and they closed the set with

Cry of the Black Birds
Pursuit of Vikings

(I apologise if this is not the correct order, these were the songs in the show however, but if anyone would like to correct me, please do and I'll make the relevant changes)

Overall, Johan's interaction with the audience, the bands' clear passion for what they do and the atmosphere and sound just culminated into one hell of a concert. This review may be generic, or sound biased, but the concert was brilliant and, if ever they come back, I'll be there and I hope you will too. They truly are the masters of war.

I have a dream that one day metal elitists will take their heads out their arses, and realise taste is purely subjective, such that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all genres are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the grim frostbitten hills of Norway, the black metalheads and the gangsta rappers will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even Gothenburg, a place sweltering with shitty melodeath, and rife with generic sellouts, will be transformed into an oasis of progressive soul nurturing music.

I have a dream where bands will not be judged by how 'catchy their riffs are' but by how well they accomplish what they set out to do.

Who's with me?

Between the Buried and MeBurzumOpethDimmu BorgirNileDream TheaterNevermoreMastodonIsisNeurosisMeshuggahThe OceanMayhemDarkthroneEmperorSymphony XSikThAfter the BurialThe Dillinger Escape PlanBorisBehemothAgallochToolAyreonSlayerIn FlamesDeftonesLamb of GodNightwishChildren of BodomTriviumKatatoniaAmon AmarthDragonForceGojiraCradle of FilthArch EnemyDevilDriverStrapping Young Lad

I WAS THE BEST

fuck all other lists

A list of all the bands i can remember seein.. not in any order..
not all good bands.. some i jus happend to be there...


1. Tool

2. Deftones

3. SOiL x3

4. Coheed & Cambria x2

5. Metallica x2

6. Wicked Wisdom

7. Korn x3

8. Stone Sour x2

9. Guns N' Roses

10. Bullet For My Valentine x2

11. Cradle of Filth

12. In Flames

13. 36 Crazyfists

14. Slipknot x2

15. One Minute Silence

16. Machine Head x2

17. American Head Charge

18. Audioslave

19. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead

20. Hundred Reasons

21. DragonForce

22. Breed 77

23. Alter Bridge

24. Billy Talent

25. The Prodigy

26. Aiden

27. Fightstar x4

28. Zebrahead x2

29. Zico chain x2

30. My Chemical Romance x2

31. Velvet Revolver

32. Wolfmother

33. Megadeth

34. Buckcherry x2

35. Linkin Park x2

36. Marilyn Manson x2

37. Bowling for Soup x2

38. 30 Seconds to Mars

39. Shadows Fall

40. Hellyeah

41. Turisas

42. Iron Maiden

43. Evanesence

44. Lamb of God x2

45. Papa Roach x3

46. Filter

47. Biffy Clyro

48. Dream Theater

49. Real Big Fish x2.. or maybe 3..

50. KISS

51. Motorhead

52. Disturbed

53. Seether x2

54. Staind x2

55. Black Tide

56. The Offspring

57. Incubus

58. Job for a Cowboy

59. Lost Prophets

60. Jimmy Eat World

61. Apocolyptica

62. Black Stone Cherry x3

63. Stone Gods

64. Rise Against

65. Lethal Bizzle

66. Artic Monkeys

67. The Streets

68. Dizzee Rascal

69. Feeder x2

70. Less Than Jake

71. Muse

72. Pearl Jam

73. Placebo

74. Primal Scream

75. Hell Is For Heros

76. Violent Delight

77. Faith No More

78. Limp Bizkit x2

79. Killswitch Engage

80. The Blackout

81. Pendulum

82. Down

83. Def Leppard

84. Whitesnake

85. ZZ Top

86. Journey

87. Motley Crue

88. Dir en grey

89. Steadlur

90. Opeth

91. Chris Cornell

92. The Answer

93. Static-X

94. Shinedown x2

95. Volbeat

96. Backyard Babies

97. Middle Class Rut

98. Anvil

99. The Used

100. Heaven & Hell

101. Alien Ant Farm

102. Anthrax

103. Taking Back Sunday

104. Airbourne

105. Skindred

106. MC Lars

107. Nine Inch Nails x2

108. Killing Joke

109. Saxon

110. Avenged Sevenfold

111. Alice in Chains

112. Lauren Harris

113. Exit Ten

114. Young Guns