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For anyone who didn't hear the new song on Radio 1 Rock Show last night, here it is: Divinations Goddamn, it's very very very good, 'Crack The Skye' is gonna be one of the albums of 2009 if this is anything to go by.

WE'RE THE HURRICANES!! OUR CHAMPION SPIRITS HERE TO STAY!! WE'RE THE HURRICANES!! STORM TIME IS COMING TO YOU TODAY!! Awesome show. Especially the Brazilian who looked a bit like Jason Lee (of Nottingham Forest fame). The team was essentially most Premiership teams today, having every nationality other than English. But with the odd error of having a talented American football player

I hate statements like this. Bozzio is good, but there's people just as good. Bozzio in Korn won't be anything special, as the majority of Korn's drumming is simple metal stuff, nothing too technical or complex. It'd be like Michael Angelo or Joe Satriani joining Metallica and saying "you'll be lucky to see them, as he's the best in the world". They won't be adding much if anything to the mix, just playing the songs. And boo to Borland rejoining LB, he'll be gone again in about 6 months and replaced with a guitarist from some mediocre nu metal midcard band.

exactly what i thought last year, 2008 was rather shit. and if they're doing this 'fan forum' for choosing the bands at the festival now, it's basically going to be what metal hammer or kerrang tells the kids is cool.

Yeh, WITTR are a band I definately want to see live, they're gig in Manchester has sold out, theres 10 tickets on the door though on Feb 2nd, so I'm gonna try to go. I also wanna see Nachtmystium live too, another ace black/death/dirty jazz metal band.

Yeh, it's acquiring to my taste perfectly. Wacken is far too power metally this year (mainly because it started as one and it's the 20th anniversary), and Download is just shit festival wise now, both musically and experience/money wise. Main reason for Hellfest is Manowar & Electric Wizard, as neither tours that much for me too see.

Manowar will most likely play as they're headlining Hellfest. But the on the whole, Download looks gash as per usual. Bizkit were god awful when they broke up, and won't be much better reformed without Borland. And Korn, well, they've been horrendous for years. Was looking forward to Wacken this year, but line up is looking horrendous as well with crap like Dragonforce and BFMV on it. Only decent band on there is GWAR. But it's Hellfest in France for me, it's possibly the greatest line up I've seen in a few years, already 35 bands I want to see, still 40 to be announced. And maybe at Bloodstock this year too, as my band might be playing it For anyone interested on the Hellfest line up so far, here you go: Spoiler: Click here to view * Aborted * Adagio * All Shall Perish * Amebix * Amon Amarth * Anthrax * August Burns Red * Aura Noir * Backyard Babies * Betrayed * Black Dahlia Murder * Blockheads * Bloodclot * Bonded By Blood * Bring Me The Horizon * Cathedral * Coalesce * Dagoba * Deicide * Despised Icon * Destruction * DevilDriver * Electric Wizard * Enslaved * Entombed * Epica * Eyehategod * Forged in Flame * Friar Rush * Gama Bomb * Girlschool * God Forbid * Gojira * Gorgoroth * Grand Magus * Heaven and Hell * Heaven Shall Burn * Holyhell * Jarboe * Kataklysm * Keep of Kalessin * Kickback * Kingdom of Sorrow * Kylesa * Mad Sin * Manowar * Melechesh * Misery Index * Misfits * Moonsorrow * Motley Crue * Nachtmystium * Napalm Death * Obituary * Orakle * Orange Goblin * Outlaw Order * Parkway Drive * Pentagram * Sacred Reich * Slapshot * Soilent Green * Stratovarius * Suicide Silence * Taake * Terror * The Business * Torche * Ufomammut * Vision of Disorder * Volbeat * W.A.S.P. * Whitechapel * Wolves in the Throne Room

"I feel like I'm being beaten up under water... I can feel bits of my brain, falling away like a wet cake." Probably my favourite line ever.

Just finished World War Z by Max Brooks. Get it, it's far more than a zombie apocalypse-esque book, does it all from a much more realistic political and social viewpoint. And hopefully the film will be good too.

Nothing about social and political psychology in there. Tut tut. My band escaped the theory But funny none the less

Saw it last night, loved it. And incase anyone didn't know: Incase you don't know who Paul E. Normus was in the film, he was in the backstage shots for the WXW show. This is him:

Nope not yet, still waiting on that, I might be able to sort guestlist though.

Nah, it wasn't a plug, if it was, it's pretty vague. Just wondered who was into em, as I've never really listened to em considering they're quite a well known band. But yeh, for anyone interested, here's the details of the gig SCUMSTOCK 2009 @ The Independent, Sunderland 13th April - Starts about 12 Akercocke Lazarus Blackstar Theoktony Machiavellian (My band) Agonyst Cerebral Bore Mountain Became Machines Dawn of Chaos Def-Con-One That Hideous Strength Zero Death in Blood Hand of Grief Vomicide

Only just started giving them a listen, not too bad. Thought I may as well, my band is supporting them in April, in Sunderland, on a Monday night, which is odd.

Yeh, Made In Heaven was basically put together as Freddie Mercury recorded as many vocals as he could, months before his death. He basically told the band to finish the songs later, after he'd died. He basically told them to write anything, he'd sing it, and leave them with whatever he could to make a song from it. So with what he recorded, they mixed it with old material he had recorded and constructed an album from it.

It wasn't, 4 years after Freddie Mercury died. Innuendo was the last album written and released whilst he was dying. Hence why most of the songs have a deathish overtone to them. Innuendo was release 5th February 1991, Freddie Mercury died 7 months later, 5th September 1991. I tried to argue Innuendo was the last album released when he was alive, he thinks it was Made In Heaven.

Yeh, but more irish and gay.

.. the fact that I have to prove to my drunken father that 'Made In Heaven' wasn't the last Queen album made whilst Freddie Mercury was still alive. Hell, he doesn't even believe 'Innuendo' is a Queen album. It's a real shame, as he saw Queen live 3 times, before they got huge, and at one gig in Manchester, some shit band opened for em callde 'U2'.

Way of the Fist by Five Finger Death Punch? It was released in 2007, then re-released in 2008.

I saw Fuck Buttons & Errors both supporting Mogwai this year, both amazingly good experimental bands.

Even though it wasn't in there, I'd highly recommend the new Misery Index album and the new album by The Faceless. Both face meltingly good.

I've gotta admit, the Nachtmystium is unreal. Anyone who uses dirty cheesy saxophone with black metal is cool in my book.

Damn you Xenu!! *shakes fist* But seriously, horrible to die so young.

Trailer Che (Film) So, yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching all of this in one go. My local cinema did a special preview of both Che: The Argentine & Che: Guerrila. I have to say, this is Academy Award material. del Toro is severely on form in this. It was a bit intense watching almost 5 hours of it (20 minute intermission between films), but it was so worth it. If anyone gets the chance to watch it all at once, do it.

Mine is definately screwed I think since I swapped from Winamp to Itunes early in the year, so mine is pretty old and outdated me thinks. Artists 1. The Blood Brothers 2. Jonah Matranga 3. Supergrass 4. Beirut 5. The Ataris 6. Crystal Castles 7. Frank Turner 8. Gallows 9. Andrew WK 10. Death From Above 1979 Albums 1. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes 2. The Divine Comedy - Casasnova 3. Frank Turner - Sleep is for the Week 4. Doug Stanhope - Something to Take the Edge Off 5. Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth 6. Family Guy - Live In Las Vegas 7. The Fratellis - Costello Music 8. Declan O'Rourke - Since Kyabram 9. The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends 10. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Ashbury Park, NJ Songs 1. Neil Hannon - So Long & Thanks for All The Fish 2. Frank Turner - The Outdoor Type (Lemonhead's Cover) 3. Genghis Tron - Chapels 4. Beirut - Scenic World 5. Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds 6. The Divine Comedy - To Die A Virgin 7. +44 - No It Isn't 8. Ian Love - The Only Night 9. Final Fantasy - Adventure.exe 10. The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four