Fri 25 Mar – Carnage Over Finland - Mini Tour 2011
While not really one of my favorites, Vomitory are entertaining on album at least so I went.

First time to PRKL after their renovations so they can hold concerts there as well. It's a pretty tight place so I expected tight quarters, but it wasn't, not so much at least. A fairly large floor right in front of the stage, but while there's room in the back as well, there are tables and pillars in the way and the elevation is not done very well for seeing over the…

Thu 17 Mar – European Carnage Tour: Megadeth/Slayer - Seen both before and while I'm not terribly fond of what they've been doing recently, I figured that it would be a good investment. And I suppose it was:

Megadeth went up first. The day before they'd only thrown a short set (half an hour) due to Mustaine's illness (kidney stone apparently?). Fortunately, that was not the case today. I watched them from a bit ways away, eighth row or something (ice hockey arena) on Broderick's side. We came in so late that getting closer would've been hard…

Thu 30 Sep – Black Mass Ritual Fest III

Day I:

Vorum: Unfortunately there was a long queue to the venue (all who entered passed through the one ticket-seller/stamper/list checker) so I missed most of them which is a shame since I quite enjoy Grim Death Awaits. Only caught the last minutes of the last song, but their playing sounded good even outside and they seemed to be having fun up there.

Neutron Hammer: Never heard them before, just the name thrown around, watched them from upstairs and quite far so couldn't really get into the mood…

King of the Dead is probably the best album of the 80s and better than 100% of its kind. I can see why people might get hung up on the vocals, they certainly are more of a mad screech than actual singing, but that is a large part of the charm. As can be heard on Frost & Fire, Tim Baker can do those 70s hard rock vocals as well, but chooses not to. I watched an old live performance of King of the Dead on YouTube and it was just completely ahead of its time and out of…

The best album of this year was released two days ago. I am of course talking about Reverend Bizarre's III: So Long Suckers. It is hard to say after so few listens, but it probably isn't as good as their debut even though Caesar Forever and Anywhere Out of This World are in the top ten tracks they have ever written.

As can be seen from my favorite artists from last couple of weeks, I've been on an electronic music kick lately. Mostly the synthpop of Project Pitchfork (loving Kaskade at the moment), the trance of Hallucinogen and trance[]control as well as some trance and other electronica mixes of classic C-64 games and Robert Miles's Dreamland.

I've disliked most synthpop I've heard but Pitchfork's Kaskade just got to me somehow. I've liked their song Timekiller for some time but Kaskade's Instead of an Angle really hooked me and with more listens, I realized that the rest of the songs are…

I must have hit my head or damaged by brain chemistry since these last two weeks I've been mostly listening to stuff like Indica (a Finnish pop band), new Masterplan and new Helloween. The last two albums are surprisingly refreshing power metal and if you lean at all in that direction, they're worth checking out. Especially the new Helloween surprised me a bit. Occasion Avenue is equal in quality to the Keepers-era songs and Mrs. God, Pleasure Drone and Come Alive aren't that far behind. The only sub-par song on the album is Born on Judgement Day.

I've also…

During a recent dialogue with myself, I came to a conclusion which states as follows:

Axis of Advance is the ultimate band.