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United States (54):
Dream Theater
Metallica
Hollywood Undead
John Mellencamp
Eagles
Megadeth
Symphony X
Liquid Tension Experiment
Santana
Mötley Crüe
Avenged Sevenfold
Van Halen
Skid Row
W.A.S.P.
Fates Warning
Platypus
Poison
The Jelly Jam
Dio
Slayer
Creedence Clearwater Revival
KISS
Bon Jovi
Aerosmith
Shadows Fall
Spinal Tap
Stryper
Liquid Trio Experiment
Winger
Harold Faltermeyer
Escape the Fate
Alice Cooper
Racer X
Eminem
Dokken
Trivium
Survivor
A Day to Remember
Beatallica
Jeff Wayne
Toto
Kenny Loggins
Paul Anka
Tenacious D
Vince Neil
Bowling for Soup
Chroma Key
John Williams
Extreme
Blue Öyster Cult
White wizzard
Alcatrazz
Steel Panther
Michael Jackson

United Kingdom (28):
Whitesnake
Bad Company
Free
Bullet For My Valentine
Rainbow
Gary Moore
Muse
DragonForce
Iron Maiden
Thunder
Deep Purple
Rory Gallagher
Saxon
Wham!
Queen
Discharge
Napalm Death
Queen + Paul Rodgers
Diamond Head
Lostprophets
Bill Bailey lol
Thin Lizzy
Led Zeppelin
Feeder
Every Word Is Yours
David Coverdale
Eric Clapton
Alestorm

Germany (5):
Scorpions
Helloween
Axel Rudi Pell
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven

Sweden (4):
Yngwie Malmsteen
Europe
Opeth
Pain of Salvation

Italy (2):
Rhapsody (Of Fire)
Ennio Morricone

Denmark (2):
Mercyful Fate
King Diamond

Canada (1):
Bryan Adams

Austria (1)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

France (1)
Pipo & Elo

Unknown (1)
The String Quartet

Finland (1)
Turisas

Austrialia(1)
AC/DC

Sanguine_Sky's top albums (7 days)
1. Dreamaker - Human Device (26) 2. Stream of Passion - Embrace the Storm (24) 3. Beautiful Sin - The Unexpected LTD.Edition (24) 4. Devin Townsend - Addicted (20) 5. Catafalque - Dialectique (20) 6. Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer (20) 7. The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always (19) 8. Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story Of Three Sons Of Seven (17) 9. Eluveitie - Evocation I The Arcane Dominion (15) 10. Stream of Passion - The Flame Within (14) 11. Siebenbürgen - Revelation VI (13) 12. Darzamat - Solfernus' Path (13) 13. WitchBreed - Heretic Rapture (13) 14. Tiamat - Prey (13) 15. Niobeth - The Shining Harmony of Universe (13) 16. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth (12) 17. Arkona - Ot Serdtsa K Nebu (12) 18. Elis - Dark Clouds in a Perfect Sky (12) 19. Distorted - Voices From Within (12) 20. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray (12) 21. Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead (12) 22. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech (12) 23. Agua de Annique - In Your Room (12) 24. Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (11) 25. HDK - System Overload (11) 26. Akphaezya - Anthology II (11) 27. The Old Dead Tree - The Nameless Disease (11) 28. Manic Movement - Dark Glitter (11) 29. Octavia Sperati - Grace Submerged (10) 30. Fates Warning - FWX (10) 31. Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels (10) 32. Ador Dorath - Symbols (10) 33. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction (10) 34. Anathema - Alternative 4 (10) 35. Deströyer 666 - Defiance (9) 36. Ulver - Blood Inside (9) 37. Distorted - Memorial (9) 38. Behemoth - Evangelion (9) 39. Communic - Payment of Existence (8) 40. Ashes You Leave - Songs For The Lost (8) 41. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Apocalips (8) 42. The Sins of Thy Beloved - Lake of Sorrow (8) 43. Silentium - Seducia (8) 44. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale (8) 45. Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die (8) 46. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane (7) 47. Taake - Taake (7) 48. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre Monde (6) 49. Without Face - Astronomicon (6) 50. Ensiferum - Dragonheads (6)

Actually, 2009 hasn't been a bad year at all for new releases. Having initially thought it was one of the most dreadful years on record for new music [which is what I tend to think every year] there were some good new discoveries and great older releases to unearth.

We're still a few weeks away from the mid-December Rubicon, but in what is becoming a mini early-November tradition, here are my personal thoughts on the best so far this year.

Halo Manash - Am Kha Astrie:



Halo Manash's previous albums were a little too droney and self-indulgent for my liking, a lot of the time sounding like 60 minutes of a football rattle in a wind tunnel. Am Kha Astrie, along with The Language of Red Goats , is a much more ambient and mature effort. Split across seven tracks with numbers ranging from disquieting to demonic, it's possibly the most composite and rounded album the band have yet produced.

Atrium Carceri - Souyan:



AC gets a lot of flack from the dark ambient crowd, mainly because they've been around longer and are one of the most popular bands. Previous albums were way too oversampled but this time round AC have really reigned in the atmosphere, dropped the sampling to its lowest since Cellblock and come up with an album of perfect dark ambient combinations.

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition:



This would be higher up the list if it weren't for the first three minutes of the album, Mariusz's crooning of "I hope my sell-by date didn't expire yesterday" being horribly cringeworthy. After this though, things rapidly improve and with ADHD Riverside have put out their best work since Second Life Syndrome. After the rather lost and directionless Rapid Eye Movement, ADHD is a far more realised work with the band actually making an effort to write decent music rather than coasting for 70 minutes of wankery.

Tome / Seven Morgues - Deep in Marble:



This split album is the combination of two projects from the same artist, Israel's Oren Ben Yosef. Most of the time just using pure vocal combinations, Tome and Seven Morgues build up an atmosphere of disenchanted, dark and demonic rituals. The use of clean vocals, hums and tortured, hissing cries is a devastating and disturbing combination, and as a result Deep In Marble comes across as one of the most difficult listens in ambient music I can remember. I recall a time when Enemite and even raison d’être seemed difficult to get through, but there's always another album to eventually take things to the next level - which Deep in Marble has done effortlessly and admirably.

Katatonia - Night is the New Day:



The almost perfect successor to the almost perfect In The Great Cold Distance, NITND develops the maturity and focus of its predecessor but gives it a heavier coating. Even though the atmosphere and colour of the album are exactly in the same class as I've come to expect from Katatonia, there is a slight feeling that they're going through the motions and letting the ball roll of its own accord rather than influencing its direction anymore. Nevertheless, it's a high quality album and one of the classiest 'metal' releases this year.

Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity:



Having previously played a kind of progressive metal/metalcore fusion, the band's 2009 album sees them more or less veer straight into technical metal. The album is largely instrumental with beefy, solid production, catchy riffs and the odd passage which is so confounding it keeps you coming back out of pure intrigue. This is one of the few metal albums I have to sit down and pay attention to to digest, a musical Rubik's cube which needs time and focus to appreciate. Along with its humorous - and intentionally mocking - song titles, it's a highly interesting and captivating piece of work.

Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day:



After the slightly disappointing Origins of Ruin, Redemption have returned with a much surer trajectory - hardly surprising given Nick's physical condition. This time round the feeling is very different in the Redemption camp. Gone is the nebulous "I can take it or leave it" feel of OOR, this time everything is sharpened: guitar solos, vocals, riffs, drumming. Everything is expertly - and emotionally - done, with Ray Alder delivering some fine vocal melodies conveyed through intensely personal lyrics.

Album of the year candidate(s):

This was very difficult indeed given the two at the top, both highly commendable for their own reasons. A very close second goes to:

Black Math Horseman - Wyllt:



In a time when most female-fronted metal has been defenestrated and decried by the large majority of fans, BMH have come out with something entirely different and welcome. OK, it may not be metal in the standard definition of the term, edging more towards post-rock/metal and ambient, but it's one of the freshest 2009 releases. Largely instrumental with only the odd smattering of echoey, pained female vocals, Wyltt is a lonely voice in the world of metal - vox clamantis in deserto - ringing out to be noticed and understood. This won't appeal to those looking for metal in its more standard forms, but for those needing something new and innovative. Each passage, each bar and each note has its own individuality and feeling, made even better by their simplicity. In the end it's the stark, bare-bones feel of the music which makes it even more powerful, effective and unnerving. A fantastic debut.

Leaving the primary spot to:

The Mars Volta - Octahedron:



TMV had already threatened to make a pop record after several albums of post-ten minute songs, indecipherable lyrics, dissonant guitar solos and frenetic tempo changes. It's easy to see why the band are both revered and reviled, but they're one of the most original, talented and inventive ensembles around. Octahedron is a sea-change from the loud and frenzied The Bedlam in Goliath and sees the band put out a more 'acoustic' and mellow album. Some of it may be a little too mellow in places, and it's a shock to the system that they can put something like this after the relentless, spasmodic Bedlam. Maybe this was exactly the point, and to be able to carry off both styles with convincing aplomb is a hugely impressive feat, especially when so many bands have failed to do so.

Pending albums of interest:

Kauan - Aava tuulen maa
raison d’être - The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice
The Morningside - Moving Crosscurrent of Time

Discoveries not released this year worth mentioning:

Arcana - Le Serpent Rouge
Armin van Buuren - Imagine
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Cloudkicker - The Discovery
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Dieter Müh / Mnem - Atomyriades
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
Fates Warning - No Exit
Fates Warning - Parallels
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Forgotten Silence - Kro Ni Ka
Herbst9 - The Gods are Small Birds but I am the Falcon
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Katatonia - In the Great Cold Distance
Love Spirals Downwards - Flux
Lull - Like a Slow River
Maeror Tri - Myein
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
Niyaz - Nine Heavens
Savatage - In the Hall of the Mountain King
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly

1. How did you get into 29? The Mars Volta
I got a promo copy of Bedlam in Goliath from my work. At first the music was a little too sporadic for me. Then my TMV friends gave me De-Loused and since I've been hooked. Once the new album came out and I heard Cotopaxi is when I think I became a big fan. I have all the albums now.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Fates Warning
It had to have been something off of Spectre Within or Awaken the Guardian my friend showed me, and I honestly wasn't blown away. At least not until I heard some of the newer songs played live on Portnoy's latest DVD. I'm much more into the Alder era FW.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? Mastodon
The first few lines in Crack The Skye (track) are amazing..
"Blessed visionary, cut me with your sun,
The rivers ran in blood, spark fueled to fire
Deep within the endless void
Searching for a sign
The vessel forged inside me
Watches over like the death of the moon"

4. What is your favorite album by 49? Devin Townsend
Ziltoid! I remember my friend showing me this album before it was released. I couldn't take it seriously with the cover. I thought this Devin Townsend guy was a little over the top. Well he is! And now that's the reason I like him so much. He writes in a manner of "not giving a fuck" and I love that now that I "get it".

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? The Dear Hunter
Act's I, II, and III which is pretty much all you can find. I'm not sure if there are other small singles or anything available, so as far as I know I have everything!

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Genesis
I'm a big fan of The Knife and Return of The Giant Hogweed. I can't really decide which I like more.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Obscura
Not that I could say. All I have by them is cosmogenesis and it's pretty much in your face tech-death the whole way through. Fucking amazing album though.

8. What is your favorite album by 15? Bloodbath
Easily Nightmares Made Flesh. Cancer of the Soul, Soul Evisceration, and of course.. EATEN. SO GOOD

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Katatonia
July. If I could combine that string of songs half way through The Great Cold Distance (Rusted, Increase, July, In The White) I would say that, but hands down July is my favorite track.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Between the Buried and Me
A few songs! Firstly Shevanel Cut A Flip because of the double break down, Secondly Backwards Marathon because of the final IT'S RAAAAAAAAIIIII!!! The hoedown in Ants Of The Sky as well! haha

11. What is your favorite album by 40? Necrophagist
Epitaph solely because of Seven and Diminished to B.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Meshuggah
Pineal Gland Optics. Closely followed by Dancers to a Discordant System.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? The Tangent
Many of the memories I have of The Tangent involve the track Sun In My Eyes. Anyone who knows this song understands why.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? Yes
Heart of the Sunrise for sure.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Anekdoten
YES THERE IS! And for a reason that may seem silly to others. On there first album they have a song called Wheel and they land on a suspended 4 chord that doesn't resolve down to the cliche major 3rd. They just hold the 4 for 2 measures and then move to a new part! Makes me so happy cause I get tired of hearing the same cliche lines over and over.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? dredg
Sadly none yet. The first chance I had was election night and the second chance I had I was away visiting family

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? BeardFish
I actually can't remember. I'm assuming it was As the Sun Sets, because I don't think there were any previews that I found. I just heard many good things about them that I found their, at the time, latest album Sleeping In Traffic: Part Two.

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Camel
The Snow Goose. The whole album flows so well, like the story it's based off of.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Dream Theater
It has to be Mike Portnoy. He opened me up to a whole other realm of music with Liquid Tension Experiment and Dream Theater. Being a drummer myself he just came to be one of my biggest inspirations as an artist.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Coheed and Cambria
Yes at Lollapalooza 2009. Also got to do the meet and greet with them. Lots of fun

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Helloween
Oh Helloween, I love those guys. Always reminds me of Nick and John Walsh as they both took part in getting me into them. The concert John and I went to was just an awesome time.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Pain of Salvation
Hmm this is a thinker. I love Rope Ends and Fandango. Also Nightmist. Chainsling is sick too. I'm not too sure if there is a definite best, but if I had to choose it would be Rope Ends.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Type O Negative
Love You To Death, and damn was I instantly hooked.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Spock's Beard
V for sure. At the End of the Day and Thoughts Part 2 are easily my two favorite songs by them.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Gojira
Esoteric Surgery definitely.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Pagan's Mind
I just realized Dredg and Pagan's Mind are tied at 25 but I saw dredg first. So PM gets this question. It was The Celestine Prophecy. Totally not what I was expecting. Really cool stuff

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Opeth
It was always Blackwater Park, but I'm so in love with Watershed still that I think that it's my most favorite now.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? Porcupine Tree
The Sound Of Muzak. Easy.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Oceansize
It was Commemorative T-Shirt. I got the Frames album and a group of us had a listening party to this new band.

30. What is your favorite song by 8? The Flower Kings
Monkey Business probably. I love Silent Inferno too, along with Chicken Farmer Song, Last Minute On Earth, and Adam and Eve.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Symphony X
Twice. So good the first time I saw them a second.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Rodrigo y Gabriela
Pretty much all of them. I really enjoy the Orion cover.

33. What is your favorite album by 12? Muse
I think Origin Of Symmetry is the most consistent even though Absolution has some of my favorite songs.

34. What is the worst song by 45? Powerglove
Hmm lets see. I'm not a fan of there Power Rangers cover as there are versions I've heard that were much better

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Dark Tranquillity
Another one that I'm not sure of. Probably something off of Character.

36. What is your favorite album by 48? Andromeda
The Immunity Zome! It's the only one I have, but damn I love it.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? Miles Davis
None goddamnit.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? OSI
That would be Go off of Free.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Into Eternity
One I remember! Splintered Visions

40. What is your favorite album by 7? King Crimson
This is tough. It's a 3-way tie between Red, Larks' and Discipline.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Are You Ready Eddy? cause it's silly.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Ayreon
Probably 01011001 because Jonas is amazing on it along with Gildenlow and Hansi.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? Frost*
Definitely Black Light Machine. SO GOOD.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? Frederik Thordendal
The reaction my friend had to the drum solo.... anyone who knows understands and probably had the same reaction. I know I did.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Protest the Hero
Bloodmeat and Spoils are my top 2. Probably Bloodmeat first though.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Rush
Faithless because the lyrics are totally how I feel.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? Lamb of God
Sacrament by a long shot.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? 3
It has to be Joey Eppard. So Good.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Dethklok
The Coffee Jingle of course! If you don't count the theme song.

50. How many albums do you own by 20? Iron Maiden
Number of the Beast, Powerslave, Seventh Son, and A Matter Of Life And Death. I also own the flight 666 dvd/cd combo.

Except Jilemnicky Okultista, this list is in no particular order.

Master's Hammer - Jilemnicky Okultista
Master's Hammer - Ritual
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas
Manilla Road - Mystification
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Rush - Moving Pictures
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Mortuary Drape - Into The Drape
Enslaved - Hordanes Land
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract

1983

First concert ever:
March 12th Ozzy Osbourne- Speak Of The Devil Tour w/ Vandenberg, Pershing Auditorium-Lincoln, Nebraska

October 23rd Iron Maiden-World Piece Tour w/ Coney Hatch, and Axe, same venue<

1984

March 10th Ozzy Osbourne-Bark At The Moon Tour w/Mötley Crüe, Omaha Civic Aud. Omaha, Nebraska

July ? Aerosmith-The Reunion Tour w/Orion The Hunter, same venue

September ? Twisted Sister-Stay Hungry Tour w/Y&T, same venue except this show was in the music hall

December ? KISS-Animalize Tour w/ Queensrÿche Pershing Aud.

1985

January ? Dio- Last In Line Tour w/ Dokken Omaha Civic Aud.

April ? Krokus-Midnight Maniac Tour w/ Accept Omaha Civic MH

June 27th Iron Maiden-World Slavery Tour w/Accept Omaha Civic Aud.

September ? Mötley Crüe- Theater Of Pain Tour w/ Loudness Omaha Civic Aud.

October ? AC/DC-Fly On The Wall Tour w/ Yngwie Malmsteen Omaha Civic Aud.


1986

January ? KISS-?Tour w/W.A.S.P. Omaha Civic Aud.

May ?? Aerosmith w/ Ted Nugent, Omaha Civic Aud.

May ?? The Iowa Jam-Aerosmith w/ Ted Nugent, Dokken, Metallica and Armored Saint-State Fairgrounds, Des Moines Iowa

June? Metallica-Master Of Puppets Tour w/ Armored Saint, The Peony Park Ballroom-Omaha Nebraska

July ? Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin Tour w/BOC Omaha Civic Aud.

September ? Journey-Raised On Radio Tour w/ Honeymoon Suite-Devaney Sports Center, Lincoln Nebraska

1987

March ? Iron Maiden-Somewhere On Tour w/ (I don't friggin remember!) Omaha Civic Aud.

June 20th-The Texxas Jam-Boston w/Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Tesla and Poison-Cotton Bowl Stadium-Dallas Texas

August ? Whitesnake w/ Great White Omaha Civic Aud.

October 26th- Boston-Third Stage Tour w/ (damned if I can remember!) Devaney Sports Center

The following day: U2 The Joshua Tree Tour w/ (yep, you guessed it!) Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri

1988

April ? Rush-Hold Your Fire Tour w/ The Rainmakers Omaha Civic Aud

May ? Pink Floyd-A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Tour- Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri

July ? AC/DC-Blow Up Your Video Tour w/ White Lion Omaha Civic Aud

Somewhere around here was a Robert Plant show!

August
? The Monsters Of Rock Tour- Van Halen w/ The Scorpions, Dokken
Metallica and Kingdom Come-Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City Missouri

1989

June 14th Metallica-Damaged Justice Tour w/ The Cult-Omaha Civic Aud.

September??-The Rolling Stones-Steel Wheels Tour-w/Living Colour-Arrowhead Stadium-Kansas City, Missouri

1990

May ? Nirvana-Duffy's Tavern-Lincoln Nebraska (kiddos, this is my ultimate claim to fame, I walked out on Kurt Cobain and co. half way through their show!) Dave Grohl had not yet joined them

June 20th Rush Presto Tour w/ Mr. Big-Omaha Civic Aud.

November ? Judas Priest Painkiller Tour w/ Megadeth and Testament Omaha Civic Aud.

1991

March ? Queensrÿche-Empire Tour w/ Suicidal Tendencies-Omaha Civic Aud

July ? Clash Of The Titans Tour- Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer-Omaha Civic Aud

November 4th-Rush Roll the Bones Tour w/ Eric Johnson-Omaha Civic Aud.

November 27th Metallica-Omaha Civic Aud.

1992

May 23rd-Rush Roll The Bones Tour w/Mr. Big-Kemper Arena Kansas City Missouri

June 13th Rush Roll The Bones Tour w/ Mr. Big-Starwood Amphitheatre, Nashville, Tennessee

September 11th-U2-Zoo TV Tour w/ Primus and ?-Cyclone Stadium Ames Iowa

September 29th-The Moody Blues-Lied Center-University of Nebraska Lincoln

October 18th-U2 Zoo Tv Tour w/ The Sugarcubes-Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City Missouri

November 2nd-Black Sabbath w/Exodus-Omaha Civic MH

somewhere around here was an Alice in Chains show in Omaha!

1994

March 29th-Rush Counterparts Tour w/ Primus-The Rosemont Horizon Chicago Illinois
March 30th-Rush-Counterparts Tour w/ Primus-The Rosemont Horizon Chicago Illinois

April 5th-Rush Counterparts Tour w/Primus-Kemper Arena Kansas City Missouri

April 22nd-Pantera Far Beyond Driven Tour w/Crowbar-Memorial Hall Kansas City Kansas

October 28th-Eric Clapton-Kemper Arena Kansas City Missouri

1995

February 7th-Pantera w/ Type O Negative-Omaha Civic Aud.

May 3rd-Queensrÿche-Promised Land Tour w/ Type O Negative-Omaha Civic Aud.

May 5th-Page & Plant w/ The Tragically Hip-Kemper Arena Kansas City Missouri

1996

March 23rd-Tesla-The Royal Grove Lincoln, Nebraska

October ? Ozzy Osbourne w/ Danzig-Pershing Aud. Lincoln, Nebraska

October 23rd-KISSReunion Tour-Omaha Civic Aud.

October 28th-Rush T4E Tour-United Center- Chicago, Illinois

October 29th-Rush-T4E -The Target Center -Minneapolis, Minnesota

1997

May 24th-Rush T4E-The Starplex Amphitheatre-Dallas Texas
(this is where The Trees from Different Stages Live was recorded)

June 7th-Rush T4E-Sandstone Amphitheatre-Bonner Springs, Kansas

July 8th-Queensrÿche-Hear in the Now Frontier Tour-Sandstone Amphitheatre-Bonner Springs, Kansas


September 25th Great White Royal Grove Lincoln Nebraska

November 21st-Sammy Hagar-Pershing Aud.Lincoln Nebraska

1998

August 25th-Deep Purple w/ Emerson Lake and Palmer and Dream Theater-Grand Casino Hotel-Hinckley Minnesota

2000

February 8th-Dream Theater-SFAM Tour w/ The Dixie Dregs-Fillmore Aud Denver, Colorado

February 11th-Dream Theater-SFAM Tour w/ The Dixie Dregs-State Theatre-Minneapolis, Minnesota

July 1st-Yes- The Masterworks Tour w/Kansas-Sandstone Amphitheatre-Bonner Springs, Kansas

August 12th-Dream Theater-SFAM Tour-The Quest-Minneapolis Minnesota

2001

May 9th-Tesla Reunion Tour w/ Doubledrive-Sokol Hall-Omaha Nebraska

2002

March 15th-Dream Theater-6DOIT Tour-The Vic Theatre-Chicago Illinois
March 16th-Dream Theater-6DOIT Tour-The Vic Theatre-Chicago Illinois

August 1st-Rush Vapor Trails Tour-Sandstone Amphitheatre-Bonner Springs, Kansas

August 2nd-Rush Vapor Trails Tour-UMB Bank Pavillion-St. Louis Missouri

September 5th-Tool Lateralus Tour w/ Tomahawk-Omaha Civic Aud.

November 1st-Rush Vapor Trails Tour-Hilton Coliseum-Ames Iowa

2003

July 19th-Queensrÿche/Dream Theater w/ Fates Warning-Aragon Ballroom Chicago, Illinois

November 25th-Symphony X-The Odyssey Tour w/ Devin Townsend-The Ranchbowl-Omaha, Nebraska

December 15th-Lacuna Coil-Comalies Tour-The Royal Grove-Lincoln, Nebraska


2004

March 15th-Dream Theater-The Uptown Theater-Kansas City, Missouri

March 19th-Dream Theater-The Riviera Theater-Chicago, Illinois

June 12th-Rush-R30 Tour-UMB Bank Pavillion-Maryland Heights Missouri

June 13th-Rush-R30 Tour-Verizon Wireless Amphitheater-Bonner Springs, Kansas

September 5th-Dream Theater w/Beatallica-Barrymore Theatre-Madison, Wisconsin

2005

April 28-Tesla-Music Hall-Omaha, Nebraska

October 15th-Porcupine Tree-Deadwing Tour w/ Marjorie Faire-Fox Theater-Boulder Colorado

2006

March 17-Dream Theater-Octavarium Tour-State Theatre-Minneapolis, Minnesota

2007

[bMay 12th-Tool-10,000 Days Tour-Mid America Center-Council Bluffs, Iowa

May 15th-Porcupine Tree-FOABP Tour w/3-Fox Theatre-Boulder Colorado

June 29th-Roger Waters-Quest Center-Omaha, Nebraska

August 9th-Rush-S/A Tour-Red Rocks Amphitheatre-Morrison, Colorado

2008

April 29th-Rush-S/A Tour-Journal Pavilion-Albuquerque, New Mexico

June 7th-Rush-S/A Tour-Starlight Theatre-Kansas City, Missouri

2009

May 5th-Opeth-Watershed Tour-Sokol Hall-Omaha Nebraska

September 22nd-Porcupine Tree-The Incident Tour-w/King's X-The Vic Theater-Chicago, Illinois

Due to lapses in memory this list is not complete!

Andromeda – “The Hidden Riddle”
Kansas – “The Spider”
Fish – “The Company”
Knight Area – “Dark souls”
Sylvan – “Answer To Life (Live)”
Camel– “Rhayader”
Madder Mortem – “Resolution”
The Watch – “The Border”
Yes – “South Side of the Sky”
Riverside – “Cybernetic Pillow”
Fates Warning – “Another Perfect Day”
Mastodon – “Divinations”

Ot, garść statystyk po pierwszym roku obecności na last.fm ;)

29 273 plays
592 artists

Unique Tracks Listened (UTL): 5785
Song Repetition Index (SRI): 5.048 (29204)

first track - 12 X 2008, 16:59 : The Devin Townsend Band – Let It Roll
last track - 11 X 2009, 18:45 : Bohren & der Club of Gore – Karin


Top Artists

1 Dream Theater 839
2 Queensrÿche 734
3 Faith No More 689
4 Ulver 646
5 Ayreon 600
6 Devin Townsend 536
7 Quidam 522
8 Mastodon 488
9 Riverside 477
10 Pearl Jam 452

11 Porcupine Tree 429
12 A Perfect Circle 396
13 Tool 355
14 Deftones 353
15 Skunk Anansie 349
16 Strapping Young Lad 342
17 Professor Fate 336
18 Down 312
18 Puscifer 312
20 Stream of Passion 310

21 Coma 307
21 Fish 307
23 Sepultura 298
24 Indukti 296
25 Alice in Chains 280
26 Fates Warning 264
26 Waglewski Fisz Emade 264
28 Devin Townsend Project 257
29 Lovage 255
30 Robert Rodriguez 245


Top Albums

1. Professor Fate - The Inferno (328) 2. Waglewski Fisz Emade - Męska Muzyka (264) 3. Devin Townsend Project - Ki (257) 4. Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (255) 5. Devin Townsend - Terria (251) 6. Robert Rodriguez - Grindhouse: Planet Terror (245) 7. Coma - Hipertrofia (236) 8. Ulver - Perdition City (227) 9. Down - NOLA (207) 10. Mastodon - Crack The Skye (205) 11. Fish - 13th Star (205) 12. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (197) 13. Head Control System - Murder Nature (190) 14. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (184) 15. Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Seven days of Falling (179) 16. Puscifer - V is for Vagina (172) 17. Kinga Preis i Mariusz Drężek - Ballady morderców (167) 18. Faith No More - Angel Dust (164) 19. Ulver - Blood Inside (164) 20. Indukti - S.U.S.A.R. (163) 21. Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself (161) 22. Explorers Club - Raising the Mammoth (161) 23. Riverside - Out of Myself (161) 24. Ulver - Kveldssanger (157) 25. The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra (154) 26. Rollins Band - Nice (154) 27. Ayreon - The Human Equation (152) 28. Ayreon - 01011001 (152) 29. Faith No More - Live at Download Festival, 12.06.2009 (152) 30. Fates Warning - Disconnected (151) 31. Caamora - She (148) 32. Astrid van der Veen - Beautiful Red (147) 33. Handsome Boy Modeling School - So... How's Your Girl? (145) 34. Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet (144) 35. Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill (144) 36. Strapping Young Lad - The New Black (143) 37. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (140) 38. Stream of Passion - Live in the Real World (140) 39. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (139) 40. Quidam - Alone Together (136) 41. Testor - Next Stop Insanity (135) 42. Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer (134) 43. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient (134) 44. O.S.T.R. - Ja tu tylko sprzątam (132) 45. Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding (131) 46. Indukti - Idmen (131) 47. Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburnt (131) 48. Alice in Chains - Dirt (129) 49. Virgin Snatch - Act Of Grace (129) 50. Original Cast - Leonardo - The Absolute Man (127)
50. Nouvelle Vague - 3 (127)
50. Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime (127)



Top Tracks

1 Professor Fate – Limbo 50

2 Quidam – Sanktuarium 38

3 Lux Occulta – Mane-Tekel-Fares 37

4 A Perfect Circle – Magdalena 36

5 Professor Fate – The Glutonous 35

6 Virgin Snatch – It's Time 34
6 Head Control System – Kiss From A Rose 34

8 Professor Fate – The Wrathful and Sullen 33
8 Professor Fate – Heretics 33
8 Professor Fate – The Lustful 33
8 Professor Fate – Avarice and Prodigality 33

12 Professor Fate – The Gates Of Hell 32
12 Down – Stone the Crow 32
12 Juliette Lewis – Hardly Wait 32
12 Ulver – Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses 32

16 Professor Fate – The Violent 31
16 Ulver – Lost in Moments 31
16 Sabaton – 40:1 31

19 Mastodon – The Last Baron 30
19 Mastodon – Oblivion 30
19 Devin Townsend – Nobody's Here 30

22 Professor Fate – The Fraudulent 29
22 Mastodon – Divinations 29
22 Mastodon – The Czar 29

25 Indukti – Uluru 28
25 Indukti – Tusan Homichi Tuvota 28
25 Faith No More – Evidence 28
25 Devin Townsend – Olives 28

29 Professor Fate – Treachery 27
29 Waglewski Fisz Emade – Męska Muzyka 27
29 Ulver – Hallways of Always 27
29 Mastodon – Quintessence 27
29 Devin Townsend Project – A Monday 27
29 Porcupine Tree – Lazarus 27
29 Peeping Tom – Mojo (feat. rahzel & dan the automator) 27
29 Robert Rodriguez – The Grindhouse Blues 27
29 Porcupine Tree – Even Less 27

38 Fates Warning – Still Remains 26
38 Faith No More – Land of Sunshine 26
38 Mastodon – Crack The Skye 26
38 Rush – YYZ 26
38 Devin Townsend – Mountain 26
38 Indukti – Cold Inside... I 26
38 Lovage – Koala's Lament 26
38 Mastodon – Ghost of Karelia 26

46 Devin Townsend – Earth Day 25
46 Nouvelle Vague – Too Drunk to Fuck 25
46 Indukti – Freder 25
46 Waglewski Fisz Emade – Majty 25
46 Massive Attack – Teardrop 25
46 Ulver – Tomorrow Never Knows 25
46 O.S.T.R. – Co by się nie działo 25


Monthly Top Artists

Oct-2008 Ayreon (114 plays)
Nov-2008 Explorers Club (120 plays)
Dec-2008 Damian Wilson (139 plays)
Jan-2009 Robert Rodriguez (175 plays)
Feb-2009 Porcupine Tree (72 plays)
Mar-2009 Pantera (105 plays)
Apr-2009 Waglewski Fisz Emade (178 plays)
May-2009 Slayer (118 plays)
Jun-2009 Faith No More (209 plays)
Jul-2009 Pearl Jam (337 plays)
Aug-2009 Dream Theater (178 plays)
Sep-2009 Deftones (237 plays)
Oct-2009 A Perfect Circle (132 plays)


Monthly Top Tracks

Oct-2008 Head Control System : Kiss From A Rose (14 plays)
Nov-2008 Mech : brudna muzyka (10 plays)
Dec-2008 Virgin Snatch : It's Time (29 plays)
Jan-2009 Down : Stone the Crow (19 plays)
Feb-2009 Sabaton : 40:1 (15 plays)
Mar-2009 Deftones : Digital Bath (11 plays)
Apr-2009 Mastodon : The Last Baron (22 plays)
May-2009 O.S.T.R. : Co by się nie działo (18 plays)
Jun-2009 Faith No More : Reunited (19 plays)
Jul-2009 Dream Theater : The Shattered Fortress (15 plays)
Aug-2009 Massive Attack : Teardrop (18 plays)
Sep-2009 Misery Signals : Worlds & Dreams (20 plays)
Oct-2009 A Perfect Circle : Magdalena (18 plays)

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