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Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php

My recommendations are

Alejandro Escovedo Allison Moorer Andy Timmons Capercaillie Cherish the Ladies Danú Dervish Don Henley Déanta Emmylou Harris Eric Johnson Flook G3 Gillian Welch Hem Iris DeMent Jay Farrar John Hiatt John Petrucci John Prine Karan Casey Kasey Chambers Kathleen Edwards Led Zeppelin Liz Carroll Lyle Lovett Lúnasa Mannheim Steamroller Mary Chapin Carpenter Mary Gauthier Michelle Shocked Nanci Griffith Neko Case Neko Case and Her Boyfriends Patrick Street Patty Griffin Rosanne Cash Savatage Shawn Colvin Shelby Lynne Son Volt Steve Earle Steve Vai The Be Good Tanyas The Bothy Band The Doobie Brothers The Jayhawks Tift Merritt Uncle Tupelo Yngwie Malmsteen

Weird Al Yancovik
Straight Outta Lynnwood

3
The End is Begun (mp3)

3 Inches of Blood
Advance and Vanquish
Battlecry Under a Winter SKy (mp3)
Fire Up the Blades
Ride Darkhorse Ride (mp3)
Sect of the white Worm (mp3)

12 Stones
Potter’s Field (mp3)

Abaddon
I Am Legion

AC/DC
AC/DC Live
Back in Black
Ballbreaker
Blow Up Your Video
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
For Those About To Rock
High Voltage
Highway to Hell
Let There Be Rock
The Razor’s Edge

Accept
Balls to the Wall (mp3?)
Restless and Wild

Acid Bath
When the Kite String Pops (mp3)

Adam Ezra Group
crawl

Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Get A Grip
Honkin’ On Bobo (burnt)
A Little South Of Sanity
Permanent Vacation
Rocks
Toys in the Attic

Agnostic Front
Another Voice

The Agony Scene
The Agony Scene
The Darkest Red
Get Damned

Aina
Days of Rising Doom (mp3)
The Story Of Aina (mp3)

Airbourne
Runnin’ Wild

Alcatrazz
No Parole From Rock n Roll (mp3)

Alestorm
Black Sails at Midnight (mp3)

Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
Along Came a Spider
Billion Dollar Babies (2-Disc Edition)
Constrictor
Dirty Diamonds
Dragontown
The Eyes of Alice Cooper
Freedom (Single, vinyl burnt)
Hey Stoopid
Killer
The Last Temptation
Nobody Likes…Alice Cooper Live (mp3)
raise your first and yell
School’s Out
Special Forces
Trash
Welcome to My Nightmare

Alice in Chains
Dirt

Alizée
En Concert (mp3)
Gourmandises (mp3)
J’ai pas Vingt Ans (single mp3)
J’en Ai Marre! (single mp3)
Mes Courants Electrique (mp3)
Moi…Lolita (single mp3)
Psychédélices

All That Remains
This Darkened Heart (mp3)

Allen-Lande
The Battle
The Revenge (mp3)

Allgood
Uncommon Goal

The Allman Brothers Band
Beginnings
Brothers And Sisters
Eat A Peach
Stand Back: The Anthology
Where It All Begins

Alter Bridge
One Day Remains

Alyson Avenue
Omega (mp3)

Amon Amarth
The Arrival of the Fimbul Winter (mp3)
Avenger (mp3)
The Crusher (mp3)
Fate of Norns
Once Sent From the Golden Hall (mp3)
Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds (mp3)
Thor Arise (mp3)
Twilight of the Thunder God
Versus the World (mp3)
With Oden on Our Side

Amorphis
Far From the Sun

Angel
A Woman’s Diary –Chapter 1


Angel Dust
Border of Reality
Enlighten the Darkness

Angra
Angels Cry
Holy Land
Rebirth
Temple of Shadows

Anthrax
Among The Living
Return Of The Killer A’s
Spreading The Disease

Apocalyptica
Worlds Collide

Armored Saint
Symbol of Salvation (mp3)

Arthur Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (mp3)
Fire! The Story of Arthur Brown (mp3)

As I Lay Dying
Shadows Are Security

Asia
Asia

Astral Doors
Astralism (mp3)

Atreyu
The Curse
A Death-Grip on Yesterday
Lead Sails and Paper Anchor
Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses

Austrian Death Machine
Total Brutal

Avalon
Vision Eden

Avantasia
Lost In Space-Part 1 (single)
Lost In Space-Part 2 (single)
The Metal Opera
The Metal Opera, Part 2
Scarecrow

Avenged Sevenfold
City of Evil
Sounding The Seventh Trumpet

Avian
From the Depths of Time

Axel Rudi Pell
The Ballads(mp3)
The Ballads II(mp3)
The Ballads III
Between the Walls (mp3)
Black Moon Pyramid (mp3)
Diamonds Unlocked (mp3)
Eternal Prisoner (mp3)
Kings and Queens (mp3)
Knights Live (mp3)
Made in Germany (mp3)
Magic (mp3)
The Masquerade Ball (mp3)
Mystica (mp3)
Nasty Reputation (mp3)
Oceans of Time (mp3)
Shadow Zone (mp3)
Tales Of The Crown (mp3)
The Wizard’s Chosen Few (mp3)

Axehammer
Windrider

B.B. King
Why I Sing The Blues

Babylon A.D.
Babylon A.D. (mp3)

Bad Company
Bad Company
Desolation Angels
Straight Shooter


Badlands
Badlands (mp3)

Battlelore
Evernight

Beastie Boys
Liscensed To Ill

Beatallica
Beatallica (mp3)

The Beatles
Anthology

Behemoth
Demigod

Big Brother And The Holding Company
Cheap Thrills (burnt)

Big Sugar
Five Hundred Pounds
Ride Like Hell ep

Bill Parrish
Stature

Billy Joel
An Innocent Man (burnt)

Black Label Society
1919 Eternal
Blessed Hellride
Kings of Damnation
Mafia
Shot to Hell

Black Majesty
Sands of Time

Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Symptom Of The Universe
Vol. 4
Cross Purposes
Dehumanizer
The Dio Years
Headless Cross
Heaven And Hell
Master Of Reality
The Mob Rules
Never Say Die!
Paranoid
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Technical Ecstacy

Black Stone Cherry
Black Stone Cherry
Folklore And Superstition

Black Tide
Light From Above

Blackguard
Profugus Mortis (mp3)

Blackmore’s Night
Blackmore’s Kingdom (mp3)
Fires at Midnight
Ghost of a Rose
Paris Moon
Past Times With Good Company
Secret Voyage
Shadow of the Moon (mp3)
Under a Violet Moon
The village Lanterne

Bleed the Sky
Murder The Dance

Blind Guardian
And Then There Was Silence (single)
Battalions of Fear
Imaginations From The Other Side
Live
Lucifer’s Heritage
A Night at the Opera
Nightfall in Middle-Earth
A Twist in the Myth

Blissed
Waking Up the Dead

Blondie
The Best of Blondie
No Exit

Bloodsimple
A Cruel World (mp3)

Blue Man Group
The Complex

Blue Oyster Cult
Agents of Fortune

The Blues Brothers
A Briefcase Full Of Blues (mp3)

Bohse Onkelz
Es ist soweit (mp3)
Keine Amnestie fur MTV (mp3)
Kneipenterroristen (mp3)
Live in Hamburg
Dopamin (mp3)

Bon Jovi
7800 Fahrenheit
Cross Road
Have A Nice Day
Keep The Faith (mp3?)
Slippery When Wet

Boston
Boston
Don’t Look Back
Third Stage
Walk On

Breaking Benjamin
Saturate

Bruce Dickinson
Accident of Birth
Balls to Picasso
The Chemical Wedding
Skunkworks
Tattooed Millionaire
Tyranny of Souls

Bullet For My Valentine
Hand of Blood
The Poison
Scream Aim Fire

Bush
Golden State (burnt)

Corrosion of Conformity
In the Arms of God

Cactus
Cactology: The Cactus Collection (mp3)

Cans
Beyond the Gates

Carnal Forge
Firedemon

Cellador
Enter Deception

Cheap Trick
Dream Police
Greatest Hits (Burnt)
Lap of Luxury
Rockford
Silver
Special One

Chevelle
Point #1 (burnt)

Chickenfoot
Chickenfoot (mp3)

Children of Bodom
Are You Dead Yet?
Bloodrunk
Bodom Covers (mp3)
Chaos Ridden Years: Stockholm Knockout Live
Follow the Reaper
Hate Crew Deathroll
Hatebreeder
Something Wild (mp3)
Tokyo Warhearts: Live
Trashed, Lost, and Strungout

Cinderella
Heartbreak Station
Long Cold Winter
Rocked, Wired, and Bluesed: The Greatest Hits

Cirith Ungol
One Foot in Hell (mp3)

The Clash
Combat Rock (mp3)
London Calling

Coal Chamber
Chamber Music
Coal Chamber

Coldseed
Completion Makes the Tragedy

Collective Soul
Collective Soul

Comus
Song to Comus – The Complete Collection (mp3)

Conception
Flow (mp3)

Consortium Project III
Terra Incognita (The Undiscovered World)

Coverdale/Page
Coverdale/Page (burnt)

Cradle of Filth
Nymphetamine (mp3)

Craig Chaquico
Acoustic Highway

Crash Kelly
Electric Satisfaction

Cream
Disraeli Gears

Crimfall
As the Path Unfolds… (mp3)

Cronian
Terra

Crossfade
Crossfade

Crucified Barbara
In Distortion We Trust

The Cult
Beyond Good and Evil
Born Into This
Electric

Dave Meniketti
On the Blue Side (burnt)

David Bowie
Changes (burnt)
Outside
Ziggy Stardust

Dead Flowers
We Apologize

Deathlike Silence
Saturday Night Evil (mp3)

Death Prevails
Hackneyed

Deep Purple
Burn
In Rock
Fireball
Live at the California Jam
Machine Head
Made in Japan
Nobody’s Perfect
Purpendicular
Rapture of the Deep
Slaves and Masters
Stormbringer
Who Do We Think We Are?

Def Leppard
Pyromania

Demon Hunter
Demon Hunter

Demons & Wizards
Demons and Wizards
Touched By the Crimson King

Depeche Mode
Violator (mp3)

Destroy Destroy Destroy
Battle Sluts (mp3)

DevilDriver
The Fury of Our Maker’s Hand (mp3)
The Last Kind Words (mp3)

Diamond Head
Lightning to the Nations (mp3)

Diecast
Internal Revolutions
Tearing Down Your Blue Skies

Dies Irae
Immolated

Dio
Angry Machines
Dream Evil
Evil or Divine – Live in NYC
Holy Diver Live
Holy Diver
Inferno: Last in Live
Intermission
Killing the Dragon
The Last in Line
Lock up the Wolves
Magica
Master of the Moon
Sacred Heart
Strange Highways

Dire Straits
Money for Nothing (mp3)

Disciple
Rise Up
Scars Remain

Dishwalla
Dishwalla
Pet Your Friends

Disturbed
Believe
Ten Thousand Fists

Divinity
Allegory

Dokken
Back for the Attack
Beast from the East
Dysfunctional
Heaven Sent (Single)
Hell to Pay
Prisoner (Single)
Shadowlife (burnt)
So Many Tears (Single)
Tooth and Nail
Under Lock and Key
The Very Best of Dokken
Walk Away (single)
Will the Sun Rise Again (single)

Domine
Dragonlord

Doro
Warrior Soul

Doug Aldrich
Alter Ego (burnt)

DragonForce
Inhuman Rampage
Sonic Firestorm
Ultra Beatdown
The Valley of the Damned

DragonHeart
Vengeance in Black (mp3)


Dragonland
Astronomy
The Battle of the Ivory Plains
Holy War (mp3)
Starfall

Dream Evil
The Book of Heavy Metal
Children of the Night
Dragon Slayer
Evilized
The First Chapter
Gold Medal in Metal
United

Dream Theater
Awake
A Change of Seasons
Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Falling into Infinity
Images and Words
Pull Me Under (single, burnt)
Scenes from a Memory
Systematic Chaos
Train of Thought

Drowning Pool
Sinner (burnt)

Eagles
Hell Freezes Over
Hotel California
Long Road Out of Eden
The Long Run
One of these Nights

Echoes of Eternity
The Forgotten Goddess

Eddie Money
The Essential Eddie Money

Edguy
Superheroes (mp3)
Burning Down the Opera
Hall of Flames (mp3)
Hellfire Club
King of Fools
Kingdom of Madness (mp3)
Mandrake
Rocket Ride
Savage Poetry (mp3)
Theater of Salvation
Tinnitus Sanctus (2-CD Edition)

Eisbrecher
Antikorper
Eisbrecher
Fanatica (mp3)
Leider/Vergissmeinnicht
Mein Blut (mp3)
Sunde (mp3)

Eldritch
Neighbourhell

Electric Love Hogs
Electric Love Hogs (burnt)

Elf
Elf (mp3)
The Elf Albums

Elis
God’s Silence, Devil’s Temptation

Eluveitie
Slania (mp3)
Spirit (mp3)
Ven (mp3)

Elvenking
Heathenreel (mp3)
The Scythe (mp3)
The Winter Wake (mp3)
Wyrd (mp3)

Elwing
War

Emigrate
Emigrate

Empire
Asparagustus (mp3)

Ensiferum
Ensiferum

Eric Johnson
Ah Via Musicom
Live from Austin, TX

Eric Singer Project
ESP (mp3)

Eths
Soma

Evanescence
Fallen

Eyes of Eden
Faith

The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Hot Stuff: The Greatest Hits


Fairyland
The Fall of an Empire (mp3)
Of Wars in Osyrhia (mp3)

Faith No More
The Real Thing

Falconer
Chapters from a Vale Forlorn (mp3)
Falconer
Grime Vs. Grandeur
Northwind (mp3)
The Sceptre of Deception (mp3)

Falkenbach
... Magni Blandinn Ok Megintir (mp3)
En Their Medh Riki Fara (mp3)
Heralding – The Fireblade (mp3)
Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty (mp3)

Fantasia (now Fairyland)
Realm of Wonders

Feinstein
Third Wish

Fejd
Storm (mp3)

Fifth Angel
Fifth Angel (mp3)

Finntroll
Jaktens Tid
Midnattens Wildunder (mp3)
Nattfodd (mp3)
Rivfader (mp3)
Trollhammaren (mp3)
Ur Jordens Djup
Visor Om Slutet (mp3)

Finsterforst
… Zum Tode hin (mp3)

Firewind
Allegiance
Between Heaven and Hell
Forged by Fire
The Premonition

Flotsam and Jetsam
Cuatro (burnt)
Doomsday for the Deceiver (burnt)
Swatting at Flies (burnt)
Wading Through the Darkness (burnt)
The Master Sleeps (burnt)

Folkearth
By the Sword of my Father (mp3)
Drakkars in the Mist (mp3)
Father of Victory (mp3)
Fatherland (mp3)
A Nordic Poem (mp3)
Songs of Yore (mp3)

Foreigner
Agent Provocateur
Complete Greatest Hits
Foreigner
Inside Information
Live in 05

Frank Zappa (including Mothers of Invention material)
Apostrophe’
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
Freak Out!
Have I Offended Someone?
Joe’s Garage
Lather
London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1 (mp3)
Lumpy Gravy (mp3)
Make a Jazz Noise Here (mp3)
The Man from Utopia
Mystery Disc (mp3)
Orchestral Favorites (mp3)
Sheik Yerbouti
Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
Just Another Band from L.A. (mp3)
Mothermania: The Best of the Mothers (mp3)

G3
Live in Tokyo (mp3)
Rockin’ In the Free World
Live in Concert (one with Eric Johnson)

Gamma Ray
Heading for Tomorrow
Land of the Free
Majestic (mp3)
No World Order
Power Plant
Sigh No More

Gary Hoey
Ho Ho Hoey! The Complete Collection (mp3)

The Gathering
Accessories: Rarities and B-Sides
How to Measure a Planet
Nighttime Birds

GBNE
Greatest Band that Never Existed

George Lynch
Furious George (mp3)
Sacred Groove (mp3)

Giant
Last of the Runaways

Glee Club
Mine (burnt)

Glenn Frey
20th Century Masters: The Best of Glenn Frey (burnt)

Glenn Tipton
Baptism Of Fire

Gobblehoof
Freezerburn

Godsmack
Awake
Godsmack
The Other Side

Golden Earring
The Continuing Story of Radar Love (burnt)

Gotthard
Domino Effect

Grand Magus
Iron Will (mp3)

Grave Digger
Yesterday

Gregg Allman Band
I’m No Angel (mp3)
[album artist=Gregg Allman Band]Just Before the Bullets Fly

Guns N Roses
Appetite for Destruction
G’N’R Lies
Use Your Illusion I
Use Your Illusion II

Haale
No Ceiling

Halford
Crucible
Resurrection

HammerFall
Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
Crimson Thunder
I Want Out (mp3)
Legacy of Kings
Masterpieces
No Sacrifice, No Victory (mp3)
One Crimson Night (My first disc and case are missing hmmm…)
Renegade
Threshold

Hammerwitch
Return to Salem (mp3)

Hawkwind
The Legends Collection

Heart
Jupiter’s Darling

Heaven & Hell
The Devil You Know
Live at Radio City Music Hall

Heavenly
Coming from the Sky

Helloween
Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2
Walls of Jericho

The Hooters
Nervous Night

House of Spirits
Psychosphere

Hypersolid
Concert Sampler

Ian Gillan
Gillan’s Inn

Icarus Witch
Capture the Magic

Iced Earth
Alive in Athens (3 Disc Set)
Burnt Offerings (2 Disc Set)
The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part 2
The Dark Saga
Days of Purgatory
Enter the Realm
Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1
The Glorious Burden (2 Disc Set)
Horror Show
I Walk Among You
Iced Earth
Melancholy EP
Night of the Stormrider
Overture of the Wicked
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tribute to the Gods

In This Moment
The Dream (mp3)

Into Eternity
The Scattering of Ashes

Iron Butterfly
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (burnt)

Iron Maiden
Brave New Worlds
B-Sides of the Beast (mp3)
Dance of Death
Fear of the Dark
Flight 666
Iron Maiden
Killers
Live After Death
Maiden Japan (mp3)
A Matter of Life and Death
The Number of the Beast
Piece of Mind
Powerslave
Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Ultimate Rarities (mp3)
The X-Factor

Iron Savior
Unification

It Dies Today
The Caitiff Choir
Sirens

Jag Panzer
Age of Mastery
Chain of Command
The Fourth Judgement
Mechanized Warfare
Thane to the Throne

Jason Becker
The Blackberry Jams

Jethro Tull
Aqualung

Jimi Hendrix
Band of Gypsies

Joachim Witt
Bayreuth 3

Joe Bonamassa
The Ballad Of John Henry (mp3)
Had to Cry Today (mp3)
Live From Nowhere In Particular
A New Day Yesterday Live
Sloe Gin
So, It’s Like That (mp3?)
You & Me

Joe Satriani
The Extremist
Flying in a Blue Dream
Not of this Earth (mp3)
One Big Rush: The Genius of Joe Satriani
Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock
Surfing With the Alien
Time Machine

John Mellencamp
Dance Naked

Jorn
The Duke (mp3)
Live in America (mp3)
Lonely Are the Brave
Out to Every Nation
Spirit Black (mp3)
Unlocking the Past (mp3)

Journey
Arrival
Captured
Escape
Evolution
Frontiers
Revelation

Judas Priest
Angel of Retribution
British Steel
Defenders of the Faith
Hell Bent for Leather
Metalogy
Nostradamus
Painkiller
Sad Wings of Destiny
Screaming for Vengeance
Sin After Sin
Turbo
Unleashed in the East

Kamelot
Ghost Opera (mp3)

Katatonia
Dance of December Souls

Killer Dwarfs
Dirty Weapons (mp3)

Killswitch Engage
Alive or Just Breathing
The End of Heartache (burnt)

King Diamond
Abigail

King’s X
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

The Kinks
Come Dancing With the Kinks (burnt)

KISS
Alive!
Alive! II
Alive! III
Alive! Millenium Concert
Destroyer
Dressed to Kill
KISS
Love Gun
Psycho Circus

Korpiklaani
Korven Kuningas
Tales Along the Road (mp3)
Tervaskanto

Kotipelto
Waiting for the Dawn

Krzystof Kiljanski
In the Room

L.A. Guns
Holiday Foreplay

Lacrimosa
Echoes
Fassade

Lacuna Coil
Comalies (Ozzfest Tour Edition)
In a Reverie
Karmacode
Lacuna Coil
Shallow Life (mp3)
Unleashed Memories

Leaves’ Eyes
Elegy
En Saga I Belgia
Legend Land
Lovelorn
Vinland Saga

Led Zeppelin
II
III
IV
Houses of the Holy
In Through the Out Door
Led Zeppelin
Physical Graffiti
Presence
The Song Remains the Same


Leviathan
Riddles, Questions, Poetry, and Outrage

Lies Beneath
Locofest 2007 Preview

Lillian Axe
Poetic Justice (mp3)

Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory
Meteora (burnt)

Lion’s Share
Lion’s Share
Perspective (mp3)

Liv Kristine
Deus Ex Machina (mp3)

Live
Birds of Pray (burnt)
Secret Samadhi (burnt)
Throwing Copper (burnt)
V (burnt)

Lockup
Hate Breeds Suffering

Lordi
The Arockalypse
Blood Red Sandman (mp3)
Deadache
Get Heavy
The Marketsquare Massacre (mp3)
The Monsterican Dream (mp3)

Loreena McKennitt
An Ancient Muse

Lost Breed
Save Yourself

Luca Turilli
Demonheart
Prophet of the Last Eclipse

Lullacry
Be My God
Crucify My Heart
Fire Within
Vol. 4

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Box Set
Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd

Machine Head
Old

Machine Men
Circus of Fools

Madball
Legacy

Maddam Ink
Maddam Ink

Magica
Lightseeker (mp3)
The Scroll of Stone (mp3)

Magnum
Chase the Dragon

Malevolent Creation
Warkult

Mangled
Ancient Times

Manowar
Triumph of Steel

Masterplan
Aeronautics
Masterplan

Mediaeval Baebes
Salva Nos (mp3)
Undrentide (mp3)
Worldes Blysse

Megace
Inner War

Megadeth
Countdown to Extinction
Cryptic Writings
Hidden Treasures
Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?
Rust in Peace
The System Has Failed
United Abominations
Youthanasia

Megaherz
Herzwerk II
Himmelfahrt (mp3)
Kopfschuss
Querschnitt (mp3)

Men at Work
Contraband: The Best of Men at Work

Mental Home
Upon the Seas of Inner Shores

Mercury Tide
Why?

Mercyful Fate
Don’t Break the Oath
Melissa

Meshuggah
I (mp3)
Nothing

Metallica
…And Justice For All
Death Magnetic
Garage Inc.
Kill Em All
Master of Puppets
Metallica
Reload
Ride the Lightning
S&M

Michael Jackson
Greatest Hits: HIStory, Vol. 1
Number Ones

Michael Schenker Group
The Michael Schenker Group

Midnattsol
Nordlys
Where Twilight Dwells

Moonsorrow
Kivenkantaja (mp3)
Suden Uni (mp3)
Tulimyrsky (mp3)
V. Havitetty (mp3)
Verisakeet (mp3)
Voimasta Ja Kunniasta (mp3)

Moonspell
Wolfheart

Motley Crue
Dr. Feelgood
Girls Girls Girls (burnt)
Kickstart my Heart (single)
Shout at the Devil

Motorhead
Ace of Spades
Iron Fist

Mudvayne
The End of All Things to Come (burnt)
L.D. 50 (burnt)
Lost and Found (mp3)

Mushroomhead
XX (burnt)
XIII

My Ruin
Horror of Beauty

Mystic Prophecy
Never-Ending
Regressus
Savage Souls
Vengeance

Nevermore
Dead Heart in a Dead World

Nightrage
A New Disease (mp3)

Nightwish
Wishsides (mp3)
Amaranth (mp3)
Angels Fall First
Asylum Choir (mp3)
Century Child
Dark Passion Play
End of an Era
End of Innocence (mp3)
From Wishes to Eternity (mp3)
Oceanborn
Once
Wishmaster

Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine (vinyl copy)

Nocturnal Rites
Afterlife
Grand Illusion
New World Messiah
The Sacred Talisman
Shadowland
Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Nostradamus
Hellbound
The Third Prophecy
Words of Nostradamus

Oomph!
Ego (mp3)
Glaubeliebetod (mp3)

Opeth
Apostle in Triumph (mp3)
Blackwater Park (mp3)
Damnation
Deliverance (mp3)
Ghost Reveries
Morningrise (mp3)
My Arms, Your Hearse (mp3)
Orchid (mp3)
The Roundhouse Tapes
Still Life (mp3)
Watershed

Orgy
Canyass (mp3)
Punk Statik Paranoia (mp3)
Vapor Transmission

Ozzy Osbourne
Bark at the Moon
Blizzard of Ozz
Diary of a Madman
The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
No More Tears
No Rest for the Wicked

Page & Plant
No Quarter (burnt)

Pamela Moore
Stories from a Blue Room (mp3)

Pantera
Cowboys from Hell
Far Beyond Driven

Paragon
Revenge (mp3)

Paramore
The Summer Tic EP (mp3)

Pat Boone
In a Metal Mood (mp3)

Peter Gabriel
Us

Pillar
Fireproof
Nothing Comes for Free: EP
Where Do We Go From Here (burnt)

Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon

Powerman 5000
Destroy What You Enjoy
Transform

Praying Mantis
Live at Last (mp3)

Primal Fear
16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)
Jaws of Death
Metal is Forever: The Best of Primal Fear
New Religion (mp3)
Primal Fear
Seven Seals

Primordial
The Burning Season (mp3)
Dark Romanticism (mp3)
The Gathering Wilderness (mp3)
Imrama (mp3)
A Journey’s End (mp3)
Spirit the Earth Aflame (mp3)
Storm Before Calm (mp3)
To the Nameless Dead (mp3)

Prong
Cleansing

Pure-X
Anal Expander (mp3)
The Best of the Best (mp3)
Heavy Mental (mp3)
Svartsmor Vol. 1(mp3)
Svag for tidelag (mp3)

Pyramaze
Immortal
Legend of the Bone Carver (mp3)
Melancholy Beast (mp3)

Queensryche
Empire
Greatest Hits
Operation: Mindcrime
Operation: Mindcrime II
Q2K
Queensryche
Rage for Order
The Warning

Quiet Riot
Alive and Well

Ra
Duality
From One

Rainbow
Bent Out of Shape
Difficult to Cure
Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll
On Stage
Rising
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow

Rammstein
Mein Teil (mp3)
Asche Zu Asche (mp3)
Das Modell (mp3)
Du Hast (mp3)
Du Riechst So Gut (mp3)
Engel (mp3)
Herzeleid
Live Aus Berlin
Megamix (mp3)
Mutter
Reise, Reise
Rosenrot
Seemann (mp3)
Sehnsucht
Volkerball

Ramones
Ramones

Ratt
Out of the Cellar
Ratt & Roll 8191

Renaissance
Tales of 1001 Nights, Vol. 1
Turn of the Cards

Rhapsody of Fire
The Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Vol. 2: The Dark Secret

Rigor Mortis
Rigor Mortis Vs. The World

Riot
Fire Down Under (mp3)

Robert Plant
Manic Nirvana (burnt)

Robin Trower
Bridge of Sighs

The Rods
Wild Dogs (burnt)

Roger Waters
Radio K.A.O.S. (burnt)
What God Wants, Pt. 1 (burnt)

The Rolling Stones
Aftermath
December’s Children (And Everybody’s)
The Singles Collection: The London Years (burnt)

Ronni Le Tekro
Extra Strong String (mp3)

Royal Hunt
The Mission (mp3)
The Watchers (mp3)

Running Wild
Victory

Rush
2112
All the World’s a Stage
Caress of Steel
Counterparts
Exit…Stage Left
A Farewell to Kings
Fly by Night
Grace Under Pressure
Hemispheres
Hold Your Fire
Moving Pictures
Permanent Waves
Power Windows
Presto (burnt)
Roll the Bones
Rush in Rio
A Show of Hands
Signals
Snakes and Arrows Live
Snakes & Arrows
Test for Echo
Vapor Trails

Sabaton
Attero Dominatus (mp3)

Saint Vitus
Mournful Cries (mp3)

Samael
Ceremony of Opposites
Rebellion

Samson
Head On (mp3)
Live at Reading ’81 (mp3)
Shock Tactics (mp3)
Survivors

Savage Circus
Dreamland Manor

Savatage
Gutter Ballet

Saxon
The Eagle Has Landed Part II

Scorpions
Blackout
Humanity, Hour 1
Love At First Sting
World Wide Live

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie
Voodoo Jive: The Best of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

Sebastian Bach
Angel Down (mp3)

Seven Reasons
Seven Reasons (burnt)

Shadows Fall
The Art of Balance
Dead Fall
Fallout from the War
Of One Blood
Somber Eyes to the Sky
Threads of Life
War Within

Sherwood
A Different Light (mp3)

Shinedown
Leave a Whisper

Sigh
Imaginary Sonicscape

Sigur Ros
agaetis byrjun (mp3)

Silent Civilian
Rebirth of the Temple

Sinner
The End of Sanctuary
There Will Be Execution

The Sins of Thy Beloved
All Alone (mp3)
Lake of Sorrow (mp3)
Perpetual Desolation (mp3)

Skid Row
Forty Seasons: The Best of Skid Row
Skid Row
Slave to the Grind
Subhuman Race

Skillet
Comatose

Skinlab
Revolting Room

Slaughter
Mass Slaughter: The Best of Slaughter

Slayer
Reign in Blood

Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream

Smile Empty Soul
Smile Empty Soul (burnt)

Solefald
Pills Against the Ageless Ills

Sonata Arctica
For the Sake of Revenge
Reckoning Night
Winterheart’s Guild

Sonic Syndicate
Only Inhuman

Soul Motor
Soul Motor (burnt)

Soundgarden
Superunknown


Soundtrack
Almost Famous
FLCL, Vol. 3 (mp3)

Split Shift
Tension

Staind
Dysfunction

Starbreaker
Love’s Dying Wish (mp3)
Starbreaker (mp3)

Star Star
The Love Drag Years

Static-X
Beneath…Between…Beyond
Cannibal (mp3)
Cult of Static (mp3)
Machine
Push It
Shadow Zone
Start a War
Where the Hell Are We
Wisconsin Death Trip

Steel Panther
Feel The Steel (burnt)

Steve Perry
For the Love of Strange Medecine

Steve Vai
Alive in an Ultra World
The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1
Fire Garden

Stevie Ray Vaughn
Couldn’t Stand the Weather
Texas Flood

Stone Temple Pilots
Core

StormHammer
Fireball (mp3)

Stratovarius
Elements, Pt. 1
Episode
Infinite
Polaris

Stuck Mojo
Declaration of a Headhunter
HVY1

Suede
Sci-Fi Lullabies

Symphony X
The Damnation Game (mp3)
The Divine Wings of Tragedy (mp3)
Live on the Edge of Forever (mp3)
The Odyssey
Paradise Lost
Symphony X (mp3)
Twilight in Olympus (mp3)
V: The New Mythology (mp3)

Symphorce
Godspeed

Tad Morose
Modus Vivendi

Taproot
Welcome (burnt)

Tarja Turunen
Henkäys ikuisuudesta (mp3)
My Winter Storm
Yhden Enkelin Unelma (mp3)

Tarsha
Prophecies (burnt)

Ten
Spellbound

Tenacious D
The Pick of Destiny

Tesla
Mechanical Resonance (mp3)
Real to Reel

Testament
The Formation of Damnation
The New Order
Return to the Apocalyptic City (burnt)
The Very Best of Testament

Theatre of Tragedy
Aegis
Theatre of Tragedy
Velvet Darkness They Fear

Therion
Lemuria (mp3)
Gothic Kabbalah

Thermal Rain
Pain for Pennies

Thin Lizzy
Dedication: The Best of Thin Lizzy
Jailbreak

Thousand Foot Krutch
The Art of Breaking
Phenomenon

Three Days Grace
One-X
Three Days Grace

Thunderstone
The Burning (mp3)

TNT
All the Way to the Sun (mp3)
Firefly and Live! (mp3)
Intuition (mp3)
Knights of the New Thunder (mp3)
My Religion (mp3)
Realized Fantasies (mp3)
Tell No Tales (mp3)
TNT (mp3)
Transistor (mp3)

Tony Iommi
The DEP Sessions

Trans-Siberian Orchestra
The Christmas Attic (mp3)
Christmas Eve and Other Stories (mp3)
The Lost Christmas Eve (mp3)

Trapeze
Medusas (mp3)

Triumph
Surveillance

Trivium
Ascendency
The Crusade (mp3)
Ember to Inferno
Shogun

Trixter
Trixter

Trust
le meilleur des années CBS

Turisas
Battle Metal 2008
Battle Metal
The Heart of Turisas (mp3)
The Varangian Way

Tyr
Land (mp3)

UFO
Obsession (mp3)

Ugly Kid Joe
America’s Least Wanted (mp3)
As Ugly As They Wanna Be

Union
The Blue Room (mp3)
Live in the Galaxy (mp3)
Union (mp3)

Uplift
Nothing Left Behind

Uriah Heep
Look at Yourself

Vader
The Darkest Age-Live '93

Valhalla
Hail to the Fallen Majesty

Van Halen
1984
Balance
The Best of Both Worlds
Diver Down
Fair Warning
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Van Halen

Vandenberg
The Best of Vandenberg

Victory
Culture Killed the Native

Virgin Steele
Age of Consent
Book Of Burning (mp3)
The House of Atreus, Act I (mp3)
The House of Atreus, Act II
Guardians of the Flame (mp3)
Hymns to Victory (mp3)
Invictus
Life Among The Ruins (mp3)
The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell (mp3)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Pt. 2 (mp3)
Noble Savage
Virgin Steele (mp3)
Visions Of Eden (mp3)

W.A.S.P.
The Neon God, Part 1

Warlock
Triumph & Agony

Warrant
Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich

Whitesnake
The Definitive Collection
Slide it In (mp3)
Slip of the Tongue
Whitesnake

The Who
Tommy

Winger
Demo Anthology (mp3)

Wintersun
Wintersun (mp3)

Within Temptation
The Heart of Everything

Wizard
Odin (mp3)
Thor (mp3)

Y&T
Contagious (mp3?)
Earthshaker (mp3)
Endangered Species (mp3)
In Rock We Trust
Mean Streak
Musically Incorrect
Unearthed, Vol. 1 (mp3)
Yesterday & Today Live (mp3)

Yngwie Malmsteen
Angels of Love (mp3)
Odyssey
War to End All Wars
Eclipse (mp3?)
Inspiration
Perpetual Flame (mp3)
Rising Force
Unleash the Fury

ZAO
Parade of Chaos
Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest

Zappa Plays Zappa
Zappa Plays Zappa

ZZ Top
Afterburner
Antenna
Eliminator
Fandango
Live from Texas
Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top
Recycler
Rhythmeen
Tejas
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top’s First Album

This list is pretty short now... considering I'm still some kid without transportation living in Southern California with very few concerts I'm interested in.

After the Burial
Ana Kefr
Ares Arising
Beneath the Massacre
Biomass
The Black Dahlia Murder
Blackguard
Born of Osiris
Celestial Tremble
Children of Bodom
Coheed and Cambria
Dark Haven
Darkest Hour
Darker My Love
Dying Fetus
Ensiferum
Forever the Sickest Kids
G3, consisting of: Joe Satriani, John Petrucci and Paul Gilbert (2007 tour)
Girl in a Coma
Heaven & Hell
In This Moment
Kid Cudi
Kill Memory Crash
Krypterium
Lamb of God
Less Than Jake
Metallica
Minsk
Necrophagist
Nine Knives (and a few shitty -core bands that played before them)
NOFX
Norse Horse
Origin
Phillip Sayce
Ossification
Skeletonwitch
theSTART
Suffocation
The Sword
Underoath
"Weird Al" Yankovic
We The Kings
Wolves in the Throne Room
Winds of Plague
Zsa Zsa Gabor
3OH!3

Total: 48

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MANTIS 031
GUNJACK + HELLFIRE MACHINA on the showcase. Presented by DVNT.
Broadcast 14th February 2009 at 18:00 GMT on www.brap.fm

DVNT
Intro
Chase And Status - Eastern Jam [RAM Records]
absolute time - Cascade [Bio-Mechanics]
B1tCrunch3r - Coronal Mass Ejection (Zeno Remix) [dubplate]
C.Mantle vs G3 - Isle of Dogs v3 [dubplate]
Danjel Esperanza - Rote Tunke [Backdoor Beauty]
dessben - Tabu [Offaudio]
Black Twang - Travellin' (Elite Force Remix) [dubplate]
GYU - Spike [dubplate]

SHOWCASE /
GUNJACK
Sinistra - Kakax (Gunjack Track Mute Mix) [LOCKED]
Gunjack - 110h St. [BLUELINE]
Unknown - Jack is Dead (Remix) [JACKED SERIES]
Gunjack - Favela Rules [unreleased]
Gunjack - Cumbia Sobre El Villaducto [P SERIES]
Gunjack - Batu [unreleased]
Gunjack - Ugly Boys Have More Fun [CONSUME]
(b)racket - Coma91 [CONSUME]
Blackmass Plastics - Uncle Charlie [CONSUME]
charlton - Rotterdamn [CONSUME]
The Orb and Bill Laswell - Praying Mantis (Gunjack edit) [CONSUME]
Forss - Tacit Knowledge [SOULHACK]

DVNT
Mothboy - Endless Summer [Acroplane]
Point B - Figit [point-b.com]
Ellen Allien - Down [BPitch Control]
SynchroNoise - untitled [dubplate]
FM - Hellium [diggarama]
Jemset - Work [Audioexit Records]
CONCRETE DJZ - Humanoid [Armatura Records]
The Erx - Sublimation [Dark Audio]
Phil Kieran - My House [skint]
Chris McCormack - Blackfathom [Materials]

SHOWCASE /
HELLFIRE MACHINA
Hellfire Machina - Hellfire Intro
Hellfire Machina - Mantis Stalag
Hellfire Machina - 3 Prayers To Buddha (Junior Gong edit)
Hellfire Machina - Guitar Hero (Mantis edit)
Hellfire Machina - Buddhafist Style
Hellfire Machina - Average Teenager skit
Hellfire Machina - Alien Technology
Hellfire Machina - Living Off Of Grass
Breakzhed - Forever (Hellfire Machina Remix)
Hellfire Machina - Hellfire Outro

DVNT
Primal Scream - Jailbird (weatherall Dub Chapter 3 Mix) [Creation Records]
Close

Being that we broadcast this show on Valentine’s day, we have a bit of massacre for you. Not one, but 2 showcases on offer, courtesy of Gunjack and Hellfire Machina.

SHOWCASE no.ONE
Heading up our first of this weeks 2 showcases, we present Gunjack.

Native to Los Angeles, California, Gunjack AKA Brian Gibbs started his first label, Deafmosaic while residing in Tokyo, Japan. Gibbs later moved to Spain and released many techno gems through Jaxx Records, Madrid. Currently Gibbs is in South America. His beats are utter filth, and his production showcase is going to be a relentless listen make no mistake.

SHOWCASE no.TWO
Stepping out from the Big Apple, but originating from London, Hellfire Machina have been turning heads since the projects inception last year. Sonic exploration in the realm of 140 bpm, with an ethos of non conformity, heavy bass and fierce attitude, the Hellfire crew are set to explode. Their productions have already been devastating dancefloors around the world which has led to a biweekly DJ residency in New York, numerous releases penned for the first part of 2009 not to mention a host of remixes that are currently being crafted in their studio ‘Planet Twisted‘.

Hellfire consists of Jody Shires aka Mechabot1 (one half of Sunz of Mecha + Uncouth Youth / label boss of mechanoise / owner of BreaksFM), Tom Williams aka Chosen Substance (founding member of Junglist Movement and Raw Groove), and Michael Deane aka Mikey FX (one half of Cause n FX / part of the team behind Mechanoise)

As usual the archive MP3 is fully track ID’d.

LINKS
Gunjack / Consume / Hellfire Machina / Mechanoise / BreaksFM / Mechabot1 / Chosen Substance / Mikey FX

MANTIS
MANTIS / myspace / last.fm / facebook / twitter / makemassair / brap.fm

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MANTIS 031 / GUNJACK + HELLFIRE MACHINA
MANTIS 030 / ENOUGH RECORDS
MANTIS 029 / DESSBEN
MANTIS presents: Mr Seavers Serpent Mix
MANTIS 028 / PAUL BLACKFORD
MANTIS 026 / MISS KOSMIX
MANTIS 025 / KERN
MANTIS 024 / THE INVENTORS of AIRCRAFT + TIBURCE PALMIER
MANTIS 023 / CONFOUNDED
MANTIS presents: Ion Driver - 033 Promo Mix
MANTIS 022 / HENRY (MYUZYK) vs DVNT
MANTIS 021 / CONCRETE DJz
MANTIS presents: Stormfield - Anger Finds A Way
MANTIS 020 / NYMATE ASSOCIATION
MANTIS 019 / ION DRIVER
MANTIS 018 / THRENODY
MANTIS 017 / JAY PACE
MANTIS 016 / ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (1st Year)
MANTIS 015 / C. MANTLE
MANTIS 014 / TEUTONIC KABOOM
MANTIS 013 / NEUTEK
MANTIS 012 / LAWGIVERZ
MANTIS 011 / JOHN BUSHBY
MANTIS 010 / DYthLAN (LIVE)
MANTIS 009 / FILIPPO ALDOVINI
MANTIS 008 / DR. SCHMIDT
MANTIS 007 / MAD-TEK
MANTIS 006 / H0FFMAN
MANTIS 005 / SI BEGG
MANTIS 004 / EVAC
MANTIS 003 / MR. SEAVERS
MANTIS 002 / JNR HACKSAW and ZILLA/KING CANNIBAL
MANTIS 001 / STORMFIELD

We all question ourselves about our own existence and its purpose.
Fear is what ignorance is made of, and I’m surely not afraid of dying but I really want to know why I’m here before that happens. And to be honest I would rather die suffering the most terrible pains than to just fade out while I sleep.

Some people shut down this way of thinking by simply believing in something that supposedly offers them all the answers, which are never really answered. And that something we call religion

What is the real purpose of religion?
It is supposed to help people curb their lower nature; man transiting from the animal to the human specie, has so much of the lower nature ingrained in him.
As a human being, you have the technology of mind, senses, intellect, and self awareness; all this equipment is supposed to help you to accelerate your evolution. Being steeped in lower nature, humans just create more problems and degradation in the world; they create imbalance, destroying the rest of humanity.
Religion was formulated to help man rise above and subdue the lower nature through fear and superstition. In this way, society will be of higher quality and we will be better human beings. This will help to create a better world. That should be the purpose of religion.
But the more I study history, the more I see that religion has been the source and the cause for most of the conflicts in the world; most of the wars and atrocities In the world were in the name of religion. That makes one wonder what is the real purpose of religion.

Religion creates so much hatred and fanaticism, causing people to lose all sense of humanity, where instead, the real purpose of religion is to make people more loving, tolerant and kind.

Throughout the world people are being exploited in the name of God.
Religious leaders use that fear of God and their power to control people, keeping them in bondage and superstition.

When you control people’s mind and keep them in ignorance and darkness that is the greatest violence.

When people are enslaved physically, they still have freedom of mind, as expressed by Jean-Paul Sartre in The Flies referring to freedom as a state of mind. Having spent some time in prison camp, he knew quite a bit. And his point about freedom is worth considering. In his philosophical view of existentialism, being free mostly has to do with knowing that you are free.
So even if you are imprisoned you are allowed a freedom of mind, of morality, of belief, and of self, even if physically confined.
But when you take away the freedom of mind and instill fear and superstition in people’s minds, then they would be degrading their consciousness. ENSLAVING YOUR MIND

People are enslaved anyhow all the time in the pursuit of wealth and pleasure, trying to satisfy their greed.

The Dilemma of Desire developed by Arthur Schopenhauer explains Life as an expression of the will is basically goal-oriented. We are always seeking something. This is true of all life, but most of all of the higher conscious animals. So long as we seek our goal, we are not satisfied and the unfulfilled desire drives us forward. If we do not satisfy the desire, then we remain unfulfilled. But if we do satisfy the desire and win the goal, then we have no more motivation and life has basically come to an end. Thus, life is motion towards a goal. If we do not get the goal, then we remain dissatisfied. If we do get the goal, then the life-force ceases. Either way, the fulfillment of desire is impossible. We cannot have a fully fulfilled life and enjoy it too.

If reality is the blind will to live, and the world is the objectivity of such a blind will, life is painful misery. To desire signifies suffering distress on account of the lack of what is desired. If the desire is not satisfied, the distress remains and increases; if it is satisfied, satiety and annoyance follow, and this in turn causes new desires and new distresses. ENSLAVING YOUR MIND

Well, if this has not cheered you up let me tell you we shall do best to think of life ...as a process of disillusionment: since this is, clearly enough, what everything that happens to us is calculated to produce.
This may sound harsh but it opens a whole new world of ideas and possibilities, i will try to make it plain and simple for you all to understand. If you really want to enjoy life see the glass totally empty, that way you will never get disappointed.

This all sums up in this phrase left by writer Isaac Asimov:
"Whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."
Our minds are in control. Instead of the mind being the tool, we are the tool.

The vast majority of the population is unaware that they are slaves to their own minds and emotions.....which is why there is so much suffering, addiction, dishonesty and etcetera in this world. In fact, it is the soul cause of all humanity's greatest woes.

We can never have a true sense fulfillment in our lives as long as our minds are either constantly in the past or in the future.

Only when we are able to separate ourselves from our minds constant analyzing and judging of everything can we grasp truth.

...Is this the truth?
And is the path to "enlightenment" learning how to observe and separate yourself from your mind and emotions?
To live in the moment?
Is there any connection in this to the meaning of life?


Life is just a ride, Bill Hicks:
”The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.”





Slayer Marty Friedman Paul Gilbert DragonForce System of a Down Radiohead Origin Decapitated Cacophony Liquid Tension Experiment Mayhem Cannibal Corpse Arsis Impaled Nile Death Septic Flesh Bloodbath G3 Kiko Loureiro Dream Theater Megadeth Black Dhalia Murder Van Halen Deicide Cryptopsy Buckethead Rusty Cooley Arch Enemy Suffocation Racer X Mr. Big Zakk Wylde Black Label Society Ozzy Osbourne Amon Amarth John 5 Emperor Belphegor Carcass Brujeria Caliban Pink Floyd Whitesnake Judas Priest Pantera Metallica Joe Stump Slayer Amon Amarth Led Zeppelin AC DC Deep Purple Black Sabbath Guitar Heroes Opeth Children of Bodom Anthrax Sodom Frank Zappa Korn Deftones Marc Rizzo Trivium Lamb of God Sonata Artica HammerFall Rhapsody Stratovarius Blind Guardian Ed guy Kamelot Rhapsody of Fire Dragon Land Iron Maiden Helloween Avantasia Dark Moor Angra Iced Earth Gamma Ray

Here's my [pretty modest] bootleg collection, along with a rating for sound quality:
If anyone wants to trade or anything, just ask.

A+ : Official release quality/radio broadcast, near flawless
A : Almost flawless sound quality, but perhaps slightly faded
B : Very good sound quality, but perhaps a little quiet or dulled.
C : Good sound quality, but maybe noticably faded or patchy
D : Noticably flawed sound quality, but still very much listenable
E : Reasonably poor sound quality, just about listenable
F : Terrible sound quality, barely worth listening to, and for completists only

Basically, anything from D (inclusive) upwards is good.

Aerosmith
-Cincinnati, OH (1973) - A
-Live in Winterthur (1990) - A+
-Night at the Rainbow (1994) - A

The Alan Parsons Project
-International Forum, Tokyo (1997) - B
-Riverbend Music Theatre (1995) - A+

Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan
-In Session: Hamilton, Ontario (1983) - A+

Blackfoot
-Live in Denver, Colorado (1979) - B

Blue Öyster Cult
-Empire Theater, Cleveland (1991) - A+
-The Thing (1981) - A

Bob Marley
-Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh (1980) - B

Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
-Back In '72 (1973) - A+

Bon Jovi
-Acoustic Journey (2002) - A+
-Keep the Faith Tour (1993) - B

Boston
-Greatest Hits Live (1997) - C
-King Biscuit Flower Hour (1977) - A

Bryan Adams
-Straight From the Heart (1988) - A+

Buckethead
-Flagstaff (2008) - A

Creedence Clearwater Revival
-Fillmore West, San Francisco (1971) - A
-Forum Los Angeles (1970) - D

The Darkness
-Quart Festival, Norway (2004) - A+
-Tokyo, Japan (2006) - B

David Lee Roth
-Eat Em' Tour (1987) - B

Deep Purple
-Live at Expo Genova (with Joe Satriani) (1994) - B

Def Leppard
-On the Eighth Day (1992) - B
-The Circus Comes To Town (1993) - A

Dick Dale
-Ann Arbor, Michigan (1997) - C

Dire Straits
-On Every Stage (1992) - A+
-Solid Rock (with Eric Clapton) (1986) - A

Dokken
-Live in Yokohama (1988) - B
-Live Without Warning (1985) - B

Dr. John
-Bottom Line (1978) - A+

Dream Theater
-Dark Side of the Dream (2005) - B
[This isn't a bootleg, strictly speaking, but oh well...]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
-Live at Anaheim (1973) - A+
-Live in Munich (1973) - D
-Mid South Coliseum, Memphis (1977) [incomplete] - A
-Uniondale, NY (1978) [missing one song] - A

Eric Clapton
-Les Trois Mousquetaires (1988) [with Elton John and Mark Knopfler] - A

Eric Johnson
-ACL Live (1984) - A
-Acoustic Bootleg (2003) - A
-Boulder Treater Live (1990) - A+
-Live in Iowa City (2005) - B

Fleetwood Mac
-Live at Fillmore West (1970) - C
-Record Plant (1974) - A+

A Flock of Seagulls
-Grand Ole Opry (1983) - B

Foreigner
-Live Zenith Paris (1986) - B

Free
-Berkshire 10-14-1972 (1972) - C

G3
-Live in Santiago [Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Robert Fripp] (2005) - A

Gamma
-

Garbage
-Berlin 04/04/2005 (2005) - A+
-Boston (2005) - A

Gary Moore
-Belfast 1989 (1989) - B

Genesis
-Palais des Sports (1978) - A

Grand Funk Railroad
-What's Funk Lives? (1982) - B

Grand Slam
-1984-05-10 - Live at SFX Hall, Dublin (1984) - C
-BBC Sessions (1984) - B
-Final Slam [Marquee Club/Nostell Priory Festival] (1984) - C
-Glasgow Kiss (1984) - B
-Live Document '84 (1984) - B
-A Whiter Shade of A Rolling Stone (1984) - B

The Grateful Dead
-Swing Auditorium (1977) - A

The Greedies
-Camden Electric Ballroom (1978) - D

Guns 'N' Roses
-The Ultimate Live Era (1987-93) - A

Huey Lewis & The News
-Portland 1987 (1987) - A+

Jaco Pastorius
-Live in New York (1984) - A

Jethro Tull
-Thicker Than A Thousand Bricks (1972) - B

Jimi Hendrix
-Woke Up This Morning And Found Myself Dead (with Jim Morrison) (1968) - B

Joe Perry
-Live at Webster Hall (2005) - D

The Joe Perry Project
-Live at Uncle Sam's (1982) - D

Joe Satriani
-Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater (2002) - A
-Seattle 1993 (1993) - B

Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Brian May, Joe Walsh, Extreme
-Guitar Legends Expo (1992) - A+

John Fogerty
-Live at Glastonbury (2006) - A

John Lee Hooker
-Golden Gate Park, SF (1985) - B

Journey
-1981-07-31 Tokyo, Japan (1981) - A
-Another Night In Any Town (1986) - D
-A Night At The Spectrum (1986) - A
-Comisky Park, Chicago (1979) - A+
-Eastern Frontiers (1983) - A
-Live in Florida (1986) - E

Kansas
-Canada Jam (1978) - A
-King Biscuit Flower Hour (1989) - A+
-Milwaukee, Power Tour (1987) - D

Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Double Trouble
-Live at Showbox, Seattle (2000) - A

Led Zeppelin
-Live at Knebworth (1979) - B

Living Colour
-Live in Amsterdam - Paradiso (2004) - A

Lynch Mob
-Live in Atlanta (2001)

Marillion
-Live at Donington (1985) - B

Megadeth
-Live Bs As (1995) - C

Michael Jackson
-1996-11-09 - Auckland (1996) - A+
-Live and Dangerous (1992) - B

The Moody Blues
-Amsterdam 1972 (1972) - A+
-Hard Rock Live (1999) - A+
-Isn't Life Strange? (1982) - A+
-Live in Poplar Creek (1981) - A
-Louisville 1973 (1973) - D

Mr. Big
-Get Bigger - Live USA (1992) - A

Pete Tosh
-Live Bootleg (1981) - B

Peter Frampton
-Elmira, NY (2007) - C

Phil Lynott
-Live in Sweden [this one actually went on sale] (1983) - A
-Various TV/Live Tracks (1976) - tracks come from various different sources
-Palace Theatre, Paris (1982) - D

Pink Floyd
-A Passage Of Time (1994) - A+

The Police
-Park West (1979) - A+

Power Station
-Live From Houston Texas - The Southern Star Amphitheater (1985) - B

Premiata Forneria Marconi
-Live at Reading Festival (1973) - C

Procol Harum
-British Biscuit (1976) - B

Queensrÿche
-Anarchy-X (1990) - B

Rainbow
-Osaka, Japan (1980) - A

Ray Charles
-Basel, Switzerland (2000) - A+

Ritchie Blackmore & Jackie Lynton
-American Blues Legend Fulham (1987) - C

Rush
-A Desert Passage (1978) - A/B
-Bigger & Better in Texas (1996) - A
-Birmingham '88 Remastered Edition (1988) - A
-Careful with That Axe, Alex (1995) - A
-Countdown Platinum Edition (1983) - C
-Exit Stage Right (1981) - B
-The Fifth Order of Angels (1974) - A+
-Hartford (2002) - C
-Here Again at Agora (1974) - A
-Live in Baltimore (1986) - D
-Live in Birmingham (1980) - F
-Live in Maryland (1984) - A
-Mirrors (1992) - A
-Nuts and Bolts (1994) - A/B
-Return to Cleveland (1974) - A
-Richfield, OH (1991) - D
-Rockford Armoury (1975) - D (music)/F (vocals)
-Visions and Illusions (1986) - A
-We Are The Priests (1976) - D

Santana
-Stuttgart, Germany (1996) - A+

Skid Row
-Live at Wembley (1991) - B

Starcastle
-1976-03-10 - Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI (1976) - B

Steve Miller Band
-Live Like An Eagle (1975) - A

Stevie Ray Vaughan
-Live at the Stone Pony (1989) - A
-Westwood

Thin Lizzy
-The Berlin Shows (1973) - D
-Birmingham '73 (1973) [Disc 1 Only] - F
-Birmingham Breakout (1976) - B
-Dallymount Park (1977) - D
-Dublin '75 (1975) - A
-Edinburgh '76 (1976) - D
-Farewell Lightning (1983) - C
-Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle (1972) - D
-Gary's Jig (1974) - B
-Germany 1974 (1974) - C
-Glasgow Apollo (1979) - D/E
-Got to Give It Up (1980-82) - Varies
-Hitchin, UK (1983) [video] - A+
-If Six Was Nine (1974) - Varies
-Kokusai Hall, Japan (1980) - C
-Leeds University (1976) - C, but deteriorates and has tape noises
-Live and Dangerous in Paris (1978) - C/D
-Live at the Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA (1978) - D
-Live in Chester (1973) - E
-Live in Gothenburg (1976) - D/E
-Live in Philadelphia (1977) - A+
-Live in Preston (1979) - B
-Live in Rock City (1976) - C
-Live in St Austell (1981) - B
-Live in Stockholm (1977) - D
-Liverpool 1974 (1974) - E
-Ludwigshafen '75 (1975) - C
-The Man And His Music Vol. I - VIII (1996-7) [includes demos, unreleased live tracks and rarities]
-Memory Pain (1980) - B
-Out on Bail (1980) - C
-Paradise by the Soundboard (1978) - B
-Renegade Tour 1982 (1982) - A+
-Riviera Theater, Chicago (1976) - A/B
-Sydney Opera House (1978) - B

Toto
-Energy (1992) - A
-Seventh Heaven (1988) - B

UFO
-Chicago 1980 (1980) - C

Uli Jon Roth
-The Sky Academy (2006) - B

Ultravox
-Live in Dortmund (1983) - A

Van Halen
-Monsters of Rock 1984 (1984) - B

White Lion
-When the Lion Cries (1991) - A

Wild Horses
-BBC In Concert (1981) - A

Winger
-Heartbreak in Detroit (2004) - B

XYZ
-XYZ Sessions (Demos) (1981) - B

The Yardbirds
-Anderson Theater, New York (1968) - C
-Filmore West (1968) - F

Yes
-Gothenburg/NewHaven (1971) - A
-Hard Rock Live (1999) - A
-Live at Wembley BBC London (1978) [incomplete] - A
-Live in Phoenix (1984) - B
-Madrigal Mystery Tour (1978) - B
-Siberian Khatru (1974) - A+

Yngwie Malmsteen
-Atlanta Masquerade (2001) - B
-Live at Wolfgang's, San Francisco (1983) - B
-Live in Singapore (2006) [Disc 1 only] - D
-No Mercy "Fire and Ice World Tour" (1992) - C

Antonio Vega
Freak Kitchen
Andy Timmons
Tony Hernando
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Dream Theater
Tool
Extreme
Yngwie Malmsteen
Maneta de Camioneta
Voodoo Six
Stratovarius
The Flower Kings with Daniel Gildenlow
Thunderstone
G3 ...with Robert Fripp, Steve Vai & Joe Satriani
Symphony X
The Gathering
Pale Forest
Eric Sardinas
Paul Gilbert
Kip Winger
Dare
Jorn
Pure Inc.
Lamar Chase
Triosphere
Tyketto
Eden Lost
The Chariot
The Human Abstract
Protest the Hero
Megadeth
Judas Priest
Testament
AC/DC
Mr. Big
Deep Purple
Opeth
Bigelf
Unexpect

some of them more than once...and I am probably forgetting something, mainly openers

Billy Sheehan / "Taj" / Cosmic Troubadour (9) / 2005

Artist: Billy Sheehan
Original Album: Cosmic Troubadour
Track: Taj

I hope we're all feeling well rested as it's time for another instrumental from a bassists solo album! This one however doesn't have a guitarist to relieve the bass playing duties of the wonderful Mr. Sheehan (ex-David Lee Roth, ex-Mr. Big, Talas, and many more). There's an eastern tinge to this structured, accompanied, bass showcase, but more than anything there's just really amazing bass playing from Billy.

Here's some lesser known (or at least lesser quoted) facts about the legend that is Billy Sheehan:
- Billy is a scientologist.
- Billy was briefly a member of UFO
- Billy was a member of Mike Portnoy's (Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, OSI) The Who tribute band Amazing Journey along with guitarist Paul Gilbert (Racer X, Mr. Big, G3) and singer Gary Cherone (Extreme, Van Halen III)
- Billy recorded an album (Brotherhood) and with Japanese hard rock band B'z (The first artists from Asia to have their handprints and signatures put up in Hollywood's RockWalk).
- Billy wrote Shyboy for David Lee Roth's [album artist=david lee roth]eat 'em and smile[album] all on his own.

Anyway, there are vocal tracks on the album too. All vocals are sung by Billy himself. His voice isn't too bad, so the vocal tracks are worth hearing if you like some good hard rock. There are guitars on the album too, they're played by Billy himself also. If you happen to have come over from the Liquid Tension Experiment page, there's a good chance you're someone who appreciates a really gifted musician on any instrument, so you'll want to have a listen to Billy's solo albums primarily for the instrumental tracks. you should know who Billy Sheehan is anyway, but do checkout his two solo albums if you get the opportunity, they are both a great showcase and a benchmark for bassist solo albums.