RIP this journal. Here's the upcoming releases I actually care about:
DREAM THEATER - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Devin Townsend - Ghost 2 (September)
Nightwish - Storytime (Single September, Album December)
Old Silver Key (Alcest) - Tales of Wanderings (Sept 16)
We Came As Romans - Understanding What We've Grown To Be (9/13/11)
ANGELS & AIRWAVES - LOVE PART 2 (11.11.11)
Lunar Aurora - ? (December, hopefully!)

2011 Releases:
1) Format is "Artist - Album (Genre) (Best songs, if I so choose)"
2) Note that these ratings are based on the album as a whole, not individual…

I am fairly open-minded (as you should be), so expect any genre in here, though metal is definitely my favorite. However, I usually won't bother to review non-metal releases unless it's one of the extremes - really good, or really bad and I feel like trashing it. Though, I'm just realizing that my taste has shifted away from metal even more this year…

This is my final list, containing almost every album I have listened to which came out in 2010. I will not be updating this entry any more unless someone enlightens me to something super-fantastic that came out…

I am fairly open-minded (as you should be), so expect any genre in here, though metal is definitely my favorite. However, I usually won't bother to review non-metal releases unless it's one of the extremes - really good, or really bad and I feel like trashing it.

Keep in mind, I am rating these albums as a whole, not judging it based on the quality of particular songs. For example, if there are no songs that stand out as good, but the album is a concept album that reveals to me the meaning of life through music, it would probably…

New version without reviews. This is the one I will continue to update. - http://www.last.fm/user/hurricane_mario/journal/2010/09/01/3vx1pl_my_favorite_albums_of_2010._updated_91

I am fairly open-minded (as you should be), so expect any genre in here, though metal is definitely my favorite. However, I usually won't bother to review non-metal releases unless it's one of the extremes - really good, or really bad and I feel like trashing it.

Keep in mind, I am rating these albums as a whole, not judging it based on the quality of particular songs. For example, if there are no songs that stand out as good, but the album is a…

We all know the official Helloween best of album was nowhere near what it could/should have been (read my review here) so if you were to compile an album for the band to rerecord (or preferably not rerecord :P) What would it be?

(I threw this chronological track list together in like 20 minutes and I have not listened to them in quite some time, so I have two or three choices per album. I'd likely cut it down to 1 or 0 per album if I wanted to spend the time.)

1. Oernst Of Life (Death Metal - 1984)…

stolen from someone

Dragon people are balls of fire! They are full of vitality and love of life. Always on the run, they drag their faithful band of admirers behind them. Dragons are egotistical, eccentric, demanding, and giving.

They are proud, direct, and loaded with high ideals which they always try to live up to. Having a zeal for life, they want to live it on a grand scale. They have the potential for accomplishing many great things as long as they don't get too far ahead of themselves. When dragons do something, good or bad, you can be certain…

Fri 17 Jul – Summer Slaughter 3

First off, to all those hardcore dancing twats, you can do that all you like but dont punch, kick, attack, and jump on top of people. Ever heard of a "mosh pit"? Try it sometime. Douchebags.

Anyway.. (in reverse order)

Necrophagist- amazing

Ensiferum - amazing

Darkest Hour - good

Winds of Plague - WINDS OF FVCKIN PLAGUE! amazing. Oh and i want to find the douche that threw water at the keyboardist and punch him/her in the face. Who does that?

Dying Fetus - NO SHOW! :(

Born of Osiris - pretty…

Sun 12 Oct – Joe Satriani, Mountain

Mountain was great, reminded me of old black sabbath, except more experimental. That song about the whales (forget name) was soooooooo epic.

Making this short because I'm feeling lazy. Joe Satriani is officially the best guitarist ever. Both composition wise and playing wise. You just have to see it to believe it. It seems so simple when you just listen to an album but to see him doing that insane stuff with the guitar (including playing with his teeth), is just, wow. He Played "Flying in a Blue Dream" and "Revelation" like…

Sat 11 Oct – Edguy, Crimson Shadows, Borealis, Ash Lee Blade

1. Crimson Shadows was some really good melodeath, though i did not care for the random, unintelligible vocals. But I'll be listening to them in the future.

2. Borealis was awesome, way better than last time i saw them, i bought their album, really unique sound. It made my moosehead oh so much more enjoyable.

3. Ash Lee Blade was really f'ing creepy but I guess that's all they have going for them, since the music is unoriginal. Pretty good but it's all been done before. 50/50 chance I…

"Hi to all,

First of all thank you for all the patience you had in these last times despite the lack of news regarding the band.

We wanted to inform you that we are in the middle of a hard legal fight with MCM and his main representative Mr. Joey De Maio.

That's the reason why in the last months we had to keep all strictly confidential and could not release any official declaration that could obviously be used against us from the opposite side. And that's also the reason why we were constricted to stop completely our band's activity.…