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As always all songs are freely available under CC licenses and you can select up to five songs in out voting at:

http://www.darkerradio.com/news/free-music-charts-november-2009/

(scroll down to the bottom for the voting)

The voting ends 2009-12-21.

== Newcomers ==
* Atomic Horsebox - Shopping Fever Hits Athlone
* Guideline - Soul Will Stay
* I am not lefthanded - Long Goodbyes
* Kordan - Fantasy Nation
* LETMEIN - Just Beyond Reach (How I Learned To Love The Bomb)
* The Home Phonema - landscape from the train
* ZOE.LEELA - Destroy She Says

== Charts October 2009 ==
1. Amada - Nuovi Re
2. Borrachos - Rock-Arzt
3. Das frivole Burgfräulein - Sportbeutel Killer
4. Die Schatten - Winter
4. The Leftovers - Me and you
6. Madalena Moog - Stronic Up!
7. Nina-me - After seven years love
8. Smoke Fish - Insane Inside
9. SOCIOPHOBIA - Waxworks
10. The Cold Rush - Insomnia
10. Erica Shine - Oxygen
12. Viola - We Owe Love (six month limit reached)
12. Josh Woodward - Private Hurricane
14. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Heroines
14. Cavashawn - Out Of My Mind (six month limit reached)

== no longer in the charts ==
16. The Glass Spider - I Regret
16. paniq - The Future of the Internet
18. AktiveHate - Animality
19. Plug & Play - Stop me
19. In Isolation - The Wrong Girl
21. Cyber Snake - Mad Love

Message me if you've got good free music recommendations for the Free Music Charts. :-)

Hi hi... browsing randomly on music profiles I saw this "artists I've seen live" entries I couldn't resist to put my own list here, haha!
Not so many as I'd like, but something is something ;)


Artists I've seen live
Blind Guardian + Symphony X (support) @Canyon Club, Dallas, TX - Nov 30, 2002
Haggard @Teatro de los Héroes, Chihuahua, MX - Jan 19, 2003
Therion @Teatro de los Héroes, Chihuahua, MX - Aug 2004
Tierra Santa & support @Pistoleros, Chihuahua, MX - Oct 2004
Nightwish @Circo Volador, Mexico, DF - Dec 12 2004
Monterrey Metal Fest III @Auditorio Coca Cola, Monterrey, MX - Nov 18 2006:
Leaves' Eyes - Deicide - Edguy - U.D.O. - Blind Guardian <3 (there were more bands of course, but I actually attended those xD)
Within Temptation @Estudio Cavaret, Guadalajara, MX - Apr 5 2008
Sarah Brightman @Arena VFG, Guadalajara, MX - Nov 6 2008
(last two have been the ONLY good things happened to me in this stupid city XDDDDDDD)


Artists I HAVE TO SEE BEFORE I DIE lol
Enya (too bad it seems like she doesn't even tour ;_; )
Loreena McKennitt
Emma Shapplin
Lacuna Coil
Sirenia
Orphaned Land
Xandria
Stream of Passion
Dimmu Borgir


Artists I would like to see too!!
Finntroll
Visions of Atlantis
Draconian
Kalafina
Tori Amos
Evanescence
Epica
Rhapsody of Fire
Stratovarius
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Avantasia (will it be another tour?? ;___; )


Artists I would like to see but it will be impossible now:
Queen (Freddie Mercury was the best frontman ;_; )
The Beatles
After Forever
The old Theatre of Tragedy
Tristania in their good times ( Widow's Weeds and Beyond the Veil era...)


That's all for now!!
Currently I'm not planning to attend any concerts in a long time... I don't have the money and my priorities are other for the moment. xD

1. Dannii Minogue - Neon Nights (452) 2. Dannii Minogue - Unleashed (386) 3. Dannii Minogue - Club Disco (368) 4. Various Artists - Neon Nights (269) 5. Florence + The Machine - Lungs (242) 6. Carla Bruni - No Promises (231) 7. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift (Deluxe Edition) (228) 8. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Read My Lips (215) 9. Natalie Bassingthwaighte - 1000 Stars (214) 10. Emilie Autumn - Opheliac, Ltd. Deluxe Edition (212) 11. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Trip the Light Fantastic (196) 12. Dannii Minogue - Girl (181) 13. Kylie Minogue - Body Language (172) 14. Kylie Minogue - Fever (170) 15. Carla Bruni - Comme si de rien n'était (165) 16. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Shoot From the Hip (160) 17. Kylie Minogue - X (158) 18. Dannii Minogue - The Hits & Beyond (156) 19. Cheryl Cole - 3 Words (155) 20. Melanie C - Beautiful Intentions (149) 21. Clint Mansell - Requiem For A Dream (Soundtrack ) (148) 22. Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild (141) 23. Sara Bareilles - Little Voice (135) 24. Girls Aloud - Tangled Up (134) 25. Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (133) 26. Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un m'a dit (121) 27. Soundtrack - The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (118) 28. Rihanna - The Singles Collection (117) 29. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (113) 30. Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane (111) 31. Kylie Minogue - Light Years (111) 32. She & Him - Volume One (111) 33. Coeur de Pirate - Coeur De Pirate (109) 34. Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2 (107) 35. The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future (103) 36. Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts (103) 37. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom (100) 38. The Bird and the Bee - the bird and the bee (99) 39. Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground (98) 40. Soho Dolls - Ribbed Music For The Numb Generation (98) 41. Nickelback - All the Right Reasons (97) 42. Uffie - First Love (96) 43. Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess (95) 44. Nightwish - Highest Hopes - The Best Of Nightwish (93) 45. Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much (93) 46. Goldfrapp - Supernature (93) 47. Soho Dolls - Stripper (92) 48. Hole - Live Through This (86) 49. P!nk - I'm Not Dead (81) 50. Lenka - Lenka (81)

Sanguine_Sky's top albums (overall)
1. Darzamat - Solfernus' Path (91) 2. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (90) 3. Stream of Passion - The Flame Within (85) 4. Whyzdom - From the Brink of Infinity (84) 5. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction (80) 6. Echoes of Eternity - As Shadows Burn (75) 7. WitchBreed - Heretic Rapture (66) 8. Macbeth - Superangelic Hate Bringers (61) 9. Catafalque - Unique (60) 10. Beautiful Sin - The Unexpected LTD.Edition (60) 11. Krypteria - My Fatal Kiss (59) 12. Distorted - Voices From Within (59) 13. Anneke van Giersbergen and Danny Cavanagh - In Parallel (56) 14. Enslavement of Beauty - Megalomania (56) 15. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (56) 16. Pin-Up Went Down - 2 Unlimited (52) 17. Forgotten Tales - All the Sinners (51) 18. Immortal - Battles in the North (50) 19. Catafalque - Dialectique (50) 20. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (48) 21. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (48) 22. Arkan - Hilal (48) 23. Dead Can Dance - Aion (48) 24. Theatre of Tragedy - Forever Is the World (47) 25. Dawn of Destiny - Human Fragility (45) 26. Marillion - Marbles (45) 27. Penumbra - Seclusion (45) 28. Death - Symbolic (45) 29. Akphaezya - Anthology II (44) 30. Omega Lithium - Dreams In Formaline (44) 31. Taake - Taake (42) 32. Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising (40) 33. Anathema - Alternative 4 (40) 34. The Gathering - Mandylion (40) 35. Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer (40) 36. Amorphis - Skyforger (40) 37. Octavia Sperati - Grace Submerged (40) 38. Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns (40) 39. Paradise Lost - In Requiem (39) 40. Agua de Annique - Air (39) 41. Imperia - Queen of Light (39) 42. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech (38) 43. Ulver - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell (38) 44. Agalloch - The Mantle (37) 45. Distorted - Memorial (36) 46. Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead (36) 47. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy (36) 48. Stream of Passion - Embrace the Storm (36) 49. Behemoth - Evangelion (36) 50. Silent Cry - Darklife (36)

This does not really symbolize my favorite albums, a'ight?
Quispiam's top albums (overall)
1. Kamelot - The Black Halo (824) 2. Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays (689) 3. Kamelot - Epica (647) 4. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (600) 5. Epica - The Divine Conspiracy (581) 6. Hans Zimmer - The Last Samurai (560) 7. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Lost Christmas Eve (546) 8. Nightwish - Once (498) 9. Nightwish - Century Child (446) 10. Nightwish - Oceanborn (438) 11. Sonata Arctica - Silence (438) 12. Nightwish - Wishmaster (428) 13. Amberian Dawn - The Clouds of Northland Thunder (423) 14. Sonata Arctica - Unia (JP rel.) (418) 15. Epica - Consign to Oblivion (407) 16. For My Pain... - Fallen (397) 17. Kamelot - Karma (384) 18. Avantasia - The Metal Opera (382) 19. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything (371) 20. Howard Shore - The Fellowship Of The Ring (363) 21. Sonata Arctica - Unia (363) 22. Howard Shore - The Return Of The King (361) 23. Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga (335) 24. My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun (308) 25. Within Temptation - The Silent Force (303) 26. Avantasia - The Scarecrow (295) 27. Sonata Arctica - Songs of Silence (280) 28. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom (273) 29. Epica - We Will Take You With Us (271) 30. Blackmore's Night - Ghost of a Rose (266) 31. Epica - Design Your Universe (263) 32. Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy (261) 33. Epica - The Classical Conspiracy (254) 34. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire (253) 35. Howard Shore - The Two Towers (243) 36. Tristania - Widow's Weeds (242) 37. Nightwish - Angels Fall First (241) 38. Amberian Dawn - River Of Tuoni (238) 39. Sonata Arctica - The Last Amazing Grays [Single] (226) 40. Lacuna Coil - Comalies (222) 41. Dream Theater - Octavarium (221) 42. Evanescence - Fallen (220) 43. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (219) 44. Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night (214) 45. Leaves' Eyes - Lovelorn (211) 46. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence CD 2 (209) 47. Delain - April Rain (206) 48. Tristania - Illumination (202) 49. Something Corporate - Songs for Silent Movies (201) 50. Breaking Benjamin - Phobia (200)

1. How did you get into 29? Nightwish

Randomly went into JB HiFi one day and bought Century Child based solely on the reputation of the band. Not their best work, but got me into them.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Stream of Passion

Probably Passion.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? Draconian

From When I Wake:

What have you done?
Reveal your heart
Your suffocating silence
Tears me apart

So break this seal
Where the quiet remains;
Where lovers mourn
Broken and torn

4. What is your favorite album by 49? Dimmu Borgir

Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Dark Tranquillity

9, not counting EPs:

The Gallery
The Mind's I
Projector
Haven
Skydancer / Of Chaos and eternal Night
Damage Done
Exposures - In Retrospect and Denial
Character
Fiction

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Porcupine Tree

Probably Wedding Nails. Gotta love a good instrumental track.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Soilwork

Departure Plan. It reminds me of someone.

8. What is your favorite album by 15? After Forever

Can't go past Invisible Circles. Cheese, but good cheese.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Madder Mortem

Tough call. Such an underrated band. I'll go with Faceless for its pure awesomeness.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Arch Enemy

The Immortal. Not a happy song, but brings out the happy in me. Oh, and not the fucked-up Angela version, but the original Johan version. Angela should stick to her own songs and leave the Johan era well alone.

11. What is your favorite album by 40? Faithful Darkness

I only know one: In Shadows lies Utopia. Very cool and unintentionally amusing at times too.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Moonspell

Faaark. How to choose? There are so many, but I'll go with In and Above Men for pure power.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Demons & Wizards

Nothing really specific, it's just a great mash of Iced Earth and Blind Guardian.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? Iron Maiden

Another tough call. Run to the Hills if I really had to choose only one.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Bloodbath

Eaten puts a big ole smile on my face.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? Hearse

Never. I wish they'd come to Australia, but I'd say there's a snowball's chance in hell of that.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? The Gathering

Liberty Bell. Heard it on some soundtrack and was enough to get me into them.

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Scar Symmetry

Holographic Universe. Catchy as syphilis.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Iced Earth

Matt Barlow, but an honourable mention to Jon Schaffer who is one of the best songwriters ever.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Lacuna Coil

Nope.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Blind Guardian

Listening to the Fly EP during a uni class instead of, you know, working.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Dream Theater

So many to choose from. I'd go for Finally Free, for the awesome performances and storytelling involved.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? System of a Down

Chop Suey! Just like the rest of Australia.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Autumn

Altitude. Something about Marjan Welman just does it for me.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Warrel Dane

When We Pray for the truth and conviction contained within the lyrics, not to mention Warrel's performance.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Diablo Swing Orchestra

I think it was Poetic Pitbull Revolutions. Such a funny band.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Nevermore

Hell of a tough call, so many fantastic albums. If I really had to choose, I'd go with Dead Heart In A Dead World, but it would be a close run thing.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? Opeth

*pulls hair out* How can I choose? OK how about Serenity Painted Death. Probably change my mind two minutes from now , though.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Primal Fear

Angel in Black, I think.

30. What is your favorite song by 8? Katatonia

I'd have to go with July, although there are so many great tracks.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Faith No More

Again, never. They're doing shows here next year, but the shows sold out in 7 minutes, so I guess I won't be seeing them then.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Tristania

Not really a happy kind of band, but Destination Departure would be the closest they get to conjuring feelings of happiness in me.

33. What is your favorite album by 12? Rammstein
Sehnsucht, hands down.

34. What is the worst song by 45? The Haunted

Anything from the last two albums.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Fear Factory

Edgecrusher. Still love it.

36. What is your favorite album by 48? Nemesea

Mana. The other album is beneath consideration.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? Sonata Arctica

Hmmm, that'd be.............. never. Sigh.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? Borknagar

Inherit the Earth is a fantastic song, hard to go past it.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? In Mourning

Probably the first track off of their only album: The Shrouded Divine.

40. What is your favorite album by 7? Ayreon

The Human Equation, definitely. So many great singers and great storytelling.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Bruce Dickinson

Book Of Thel. Love it.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Black Sabbath

Paranoid, of course.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? Apocalyptica

Of their original songs, I would go for Grace.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? Sevendust

Loved these guys when I was at school. Best moment was probably from listening to Live Again for the first time.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Rob Zombie

Dragula. Bitchin'.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Metallica

Only one? How about The Thing That Should Not Be.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? Epica

Tough call, but I'll pick The Classical Conspiracy for the sheer range of songs as well as the orchestral components. Oh, and the performance of Living a Lie is a definite highlight.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? Jeff Loomis

Jeff Loomis. Der.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Machine Head

Desire to Fire. I've come a looong way since then, and so have they.

50. How many albums do you own by 20? Tool

Five:

Opiate
Undertow
Ænima
Lateralus
10,000 Days

10. Megadeth's Endgame
While not my favorite Megadeth album, Endgame is miles better than I thought they (Dave) could achieve at this point. The riffs are original and the solos are pretty nice, surprisingly.

9. Diabolical Masquerade's Nightwork
This band kind of started me on metal, oddly, and this album remains to be one of my favorite black metal releases. It's eerie with wonderful keys. I especially recommend this to fans of avant garde bm bands like Sigh.

8. Diablo Swing Orchestra's The Butcher's Ballroom
Most fans of experimental metal are probably familiar with DSO and their operatic swing metal or whatever, but if you're not, definitely check them out.

7. Mirrorthrone's Carriers of Dust
Another stunning extreme avant-garde release from my favorite Cochet project.

6. Almora's Kalihora's Song
Almora is one of the best known Turkish symphonic metal bands who sound similar to Haggard but with clean vocals and more metal and folk influences. I have been a fan of Haggard for a while, but Almora is starting to surpass them for me especially with this album. It's awesome.


5. Disillusion's Back To Times of Splendor
This is possibly my favorite progressive album ever. Seriously, it's just perfect, and I don't know what else to say. Dream Theater wishes they sounded like this.

4. Tiamat's Wildhoney
I am pretty convinced that this is one of the best albums of all time. It's atmospheric doom metal, a complete work of art.

3. Dark Moor's The Gates of Oblivion
This is my favorite power metal album ever.. the orchestral and metal and vocal quality is all stunning and work extremely well together. Elisa Martin is fucking bad ass, and I don't know why she had to leave because Dark Moor sucks without her :( Anyway, ballsy power metal, yesh.

2. Tristania's Beyond the Veil
One of the better female-fronted gothic doom bands out there for me. This album is also lovely in every way, my favorite of Tristania by far.

1. Xystus's Equilibrio
You want a perfect metal opera? Yea, most people haven't heard of Xystus, but this album is just so good and pretty it's ridiculous. The orchestra...oh shit. For fans of Epica, Simone does a part excellently. The whole thing was actually performed sort of like a musical and recorded. It took a year of work but became a far better opera than anything I have ever heard from Rhapsody or Avantasia. I even prefer this to Ayreon. Insane.

As always all songs are freely available under CC licenses and you can select up to five songs in out voting at:

http://www.darkerradio.com/news/free-music-charts-oktober-2009/

(scroll down to the bottom for the voting)

The voting ends 2009-11-23.

== Newcomers ==
* AktiveHate - Animality
* Erica Shine - Oxygen
* Josh Woodward - Private Hurricane
* Nina-me - After seven years love
* Plug & Play - Stop me
* SOCIOPHOBIA - Waxworks
* The Glass Spider - I Regret

== Charts October 2009 ==
1. Madalena Moog - Stronic Up!
2. Amada - Nuovi Re
3. Das frivole Burgfräulein - Sportbeutel Killer
4. Die Schatten - Winter
5. Borrachos - Rock-Arzt
6. The Leftovers - Me and you
7. Smoke Fish - Insane Inside
7. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Heroines
9. Josh Woodward - I'll Be Right Behind You, Josephine (six months limit reached)
10. Cyber Snake - Mad Love
11. Cavashawn - Out Of My Mind
11. Viola - We Owe Love
13. The Cold Rush - Insomnia
14. In Isolation - The Wrong Girl
14. paniq - The Future of the Internet

== no longer in the charts ==
16. Libidomeccanica - G
16. Sleepmakeswaves - One Day You Will Teach Me to Let Go of My Fears
18. Trick Seventeen - Get Up!
18. Professor Kliq - Plastic and Flashing Lights
20. Grace Valhalla - Roselyn
21. Null Device - Travelogue (2009 Version)


Message me if you've got good free music recommendations for the Free Music Charts. :-)