Journal

So once again one of these interesting / funny questionaires. Damn I love them ^^
Update, because of the changes last year :)

How did you get into 31?
System of a Down
Heard "Chop Suey!" somewhere...

What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Meat Loaf
Rock 'n Roll Dreams

What is your favorite lyric by 29?
Testament - Over the Wall

"Restart my life
Or self destruction
To climb this wall
Of dark construction
Holding the quest for freedom
That beckons me"

What is your favorite album by 49?
Lordi
Get Heavy

How many albums by 13 do you own?
Judas Priest
Five.

What is your favorite song by 50?
Pantera
Fucking Hostile

Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad?
Iced Earth
Watching Over Me

What is your favorite song by 15?
Bolt Thrower
Embers

What is your favorite song by 5?
Iron Maiden
Too many very good songs. I can't point out THE Maiden song .. maybe "The Trooper"

Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Metal Will Never Die

What is your favorite album by 40?
Edguy
Vain Glory Opera

What is your favorite song by 12?
Sodom
Bombenhagel

What is a good memory you have involving 33?
Chinchilla
Some really fun concerts in my town..

What is your favorite song by 37?
Hypocrisy
Roswell 47

How many times have you seen 24 live?
Dropkick Murphy's
Haven't seen them yet. Next time when they're in the area.

What is the first song you ever heard by 17?
Summoning
Really no Idea .. I think something of the "Let Mortal Heroes..." Album

What is your favorite album by 11?
Savatage
Dead Winter Dead

Who is your favorite member of 1?
Slayer
Dave Lombardo

Have you ever seen 14 live?
Amon Amarth
About 4 (?) times .. they're playing on nearly all metal festivals in Germany every second year.

What is a good memory involving 21?
Bruce Springsteen
Hours of calmness and relaxation

What is your favorite song by 16?
In Flames
Only for the Weak

What is the first song you heard by 47?
Dio
Holy Diver

What is your favorite album by 45?
Korpiklaani
None.. don't listen to them very often.

What is your favorite song by 18?
Accept
Monster Man

What is the first song you ever heard by 38?
Finntroll
Trollhammaren

What is your favorite lyric by 3?
Sabaton - The Price of a Mile

"And as the night falls the general calls
and the battle carries on and on
How long?
What is the purpose of it all
What's the price of a mile?"

What is your favorite song by 2?
Johnny Cash
I See a Darkness

What was the first song you heard by 32?
Cannibal Corpse
Hammer Smashed Face

What is your favorite song by 8?
Metallica
Seek and Destroy

How many times have you seen 10 live?
Motörhead
Not yet. Always had no money or no time.

Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Queen
Don't Stop Me Now

What is your favorite album by 9?
Blind Guardian
Somewhere Far Beyond

What is the worst song by 46?
Kalmah
No idea .. haven't listened to them for a long time.

What was the first song you heard by 34?
Volbeat
Maybellene I Hofteholder

What is your favorite album by 42?
Rammstein
Sehnsucht

How many times have you seen 39 live?
Dismember
Once at the Summer Breeze Festival

What is your favorite album by 35?
Ensiferum
Victory Songs

What was the first song you heard by 28?
Immortal
One by One

What is your favorite album by 7?
Running Wild
Death or Glory

The first in a regular journal which I thought I might take up writing.

The best discovery for me this month was Transatlantic - a band which I'd been meaning to check out for some time because they share a drummer with Dream Theater in Mike Portnoy. One of their vocalists is also Neal Morse of Spock's Beard fame, neither of which I am really a fan of but I do like his voice, having heard him sing on an Ayreon song. Anyway I managed to check out their latest offering The Whirlwind, an album which features a 77 minute song on its main disc, with 4 originals and 4 covers on the special edition bonus disc. It's well worth owning for the main disc, though the extra stuff isn't bad in its own right. It's definitely one of the best albums I've heard from this year and the band has made such an impression on me I've ordered all three of their studio albums, SMPTe, Bridge Across Forever and the aforementioned The Whirlwind.

Another great discovery this month was Pharaoh, a power metal band, who had a thread made about them in my forum and I managed to get a hold of their most recent offering Be Gone. The band has re-kindled my interest in power metal and hope to see some recommendations in the comments section here. This discovery is also to thank for the next one.

Control Denied. The prog/power metal band formed by the late Chuck Schuldiner of Death fame. Same singer as Pharaoh, which was what finally got me around to checking them out, as I'd been meaning to for ages, being a fan of Death already.

Most recently I got around to checking out the music of Doro. Only just started listening this evening but I've been checking out the full tracks on her Last.fm page and sounding really good, classic heavy metal.

Amberian Dawn - a symphonic power metal act. Just been checking out their first album River Of Tuoni. Good vocals, good riffs. Managed to get their debut off of Play.com for the great price of £3.60, because apparently the CD case has a small crack in it. Big deal, I'll be having that!

Also did some re-discovering this month, the bands in question being Blind Guardian and Alice in Chains. I've had at least 1 albums by each of them but got my backside in gear to get some more Blind Guardian recently, buying the albums Follow The Blind, Somewhere Far Beyond, and Imaginations From The Other Side. For Alice in Chains in my opinion they made the album of the year with Black Gives Way To Blue, which made me order copies of Dirt and Alice in Chains, which completes my collection of their full length albums (when they come through my letter box anyway), with just the Sap EP missing from the major releases.

Until next month,

adg

CD's

AC/DC – Live
Ajattara – Kuolema
Alestorm – Captain Morgan's Revenge
Amon Amarth – Once Sent From the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth – The Avenger
Amon Amarth – The Crusher
Amon Amarth – Versus the World (Viking Edition digipack - signed)
Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns (digipack)
Amon Amarth – With Oden on Our Side (digipack)
Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thundergod (ltd box set)
Amorphis – Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Ancient Rites – Dim Carcosa
Ancient Rites – Rubicon
Ascension - Durin's Bane Demo
Axenstar – Far From Heaven
Axenstar – Perpetual Twilight
Axenstar – Inquisition
Axenstar – Final Requiem
Ayreon – The Final Experiment (remastered)
Ayreon – The Human Equation
Bad Company – 10 From 6
Bal-Sagoth - Battle Magic
Bal-Sagoth – Atlantis Ascendant
Basil Poledouris – Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack
Bathory – Blood Fire Death
Bathory – Hammerheart
Bathory – Nordland
Bathory – Nordlan II
Battlelore – Where the Shadows Lie (signed)
Battlelore – Sword's Song (digipack, signed)
Battlelore - Third Age of the Sun (Signed)
Battlelore - Evernight (signed)
Battlelore - The Last Alliance (signed)
Battlesword – Failing in Triumph (digipack)
Black Jade – Of Forest and Fire (digipack)
Black Sabbath – Under Wheels of Confusion (box set)
Blackguard - Profugus Mortis (promo)
Blaze – Silicon Messiah (signed)
Blaze – Tenth Dimension (digipack, signed)
Blaze – As Live As It Gets (promo, signed)
Blaze – Blood & Belief (signed)
Blaze Bayley – The Man Who Would Not Die (signed)
Blaze Bayley - The Night That Would Not Die (signed)
Blind Guardian – Follow the Blind
Blind Guardian – A Twist in the Myth (digipack)
Bolt Thrower – Realm of Chaos (remastered)
Bolt Thrower – The IVth Crusade
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
Bolt Thrower – Who Dares Wins
Bolt Thrower – Mercenary
Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
Bretwaldas Of Heathen Doom – Battle Staffs in the Mushroom Woods
Carpathian Forest – Black Shining Leather
Celesty - vendetta (promo)
Children of Bodom – SomethingWild
Children of Bodom – Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom – Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll
Chrome Division – Doomsday Rock 'n Roll
Cock Sparrer – Shock Troops/Runnin Riot in '84
Crystal Viper - Metal Nation (signed)
Cutting Daisy – The Fools Crowned Themselves Gods
Dark Moor – The Hall of the Olden Dreams
Dark Tranquility – Damage Done
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - The Pest Called Humanity
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Follow the Calls for Battle
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Nocturnal March
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Evoking a Decade
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Hora Nocturna
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Saldorian Spell (digipack)
Darkthrone – A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Darkthrone – The Cult is Alive
Deathchain – Deadmeat Disciples
Deathchain – Deathrash Assault
Deep Purple – Made in Japan (remastered)
Destruction – The Best of Destruction
Dethklok – The Dethalbum (deluxe)
Diamond Head – Best of...
Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli
Dissection – The Somberlain (ltd remastered boxset)
Dissection – Storm of the Lights Bane/Where Dead Angels Lie (digipack)
Dissection – Live Legacy (digipack)
Dissection – Reinkaos
Dragobrath – Scripture of the Woods
DragonForce – The Valley of the Damned
Dragonforce – Sonic Firestorm
Dragonforce – Inhuman Rampage
Dreamtale – Beyond Reality
Edguy – The Savage Poetry
Edguy – Mandrake
Edguy – Hellfire Club
Edguy – Superheroes EP
Edguy – Rocket Ride
Elexorien – Elexorien (signed)
Eluveitie – Spirit (signed)
Eluveitie – Slania
The Embodiment – Razor Cut Reality
The Embodiment – Legeon
Emperor – Emperial Live Ceremony
Endstille – Navigator
Ensiferum – Ensiferum
Ensiferum – Iron
Ensiferum – Dragonheads EP
Ensiferum – Victory Songs
Equilibrium – Sagas
Fairyland – Of Wars in Osyrhia (signed)
Fairyland – Fall of an Empire (signed)
Falconer – Falconer
Falconer – Sceptre of Deception
Falkenbach – Heralding the Fireblade
Finntroll – Nattfödd
Folkearth – By the Sword of my Father
Forefather – Ours is the Kingdom
Free - Live
Freedom Call – King of the Crystal Empire
Freedom Call – Eternity
Freedom Call – Live Invasion
Galadriel – The Mirror of Ages
Galadriel – Oblivion
Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Grave Digger – The Reaper
Grave Digger – Tunes of War (digipack)
Grave Digger – Knights of the Cross (digipack)
Grave Digger – Excalibur (digipack)
Grave Digger – Rheingold
Grave Digger – The Last Supper
Grave Digger – Liberty or Death
Graveland – Will Stronger Than Death (digibook)
Halford – Resurrection
HammerFall – Glory to the Brave
Hammerfall – Crimson Thunder (Comic Book Edition)
Hammerfall – Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken (box set)
Hanging Doll - Reason & Madness (signed)
Hawkwind – Space Ritual (digipack)
Hawkwind – Masters of the Universe
Hawkwind – Live Chronicles
Hawkwind – Epoch Eclipse; the Ultimate Best of...
Heidevolk – De Strijdlust is Geboren
Heol Telwen – An Deiz Ruz (digipack)
Highland Glory - Forever Endeavour (signed)
Hozz – Live (demo)
I – Between Two Worlds (digipack)
Iced Earth – Dark Genesis (Box Set)
Iced Earth – The Dark Saga
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth – Days of Purgatory
Iced Earth – Alive in Athens (3-disc edition)
Iced Earth – The Melancholy EP (reissue)
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden (digipack)
Iced Earth – Overture of the Wicked EP
Iced Earth – Framing Armageddon (digipack)
Iced Earth – I Walk Among You (Single)
Iced Earth – The Crucible of Man (digipack)
Icy Steel – Icy Steel
Immortal – At the Heart of Winter
Immortal – Sons of Northern Darkness (reissue digipack)
Immortal Souls – Once Upon A Time in the North (digipack)
Iron Fire – Thunderstorm
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden – Killers
Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden – Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of A Seventh Son
Iron Maiden – Maiden England
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For the Dying
Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden – A Real Live One
Iron Maiden – A Real Live/Dead One
Iron Maiden – Live at Donington (reissue)
Iron Maiden – The X Factor (signed by Blaze Bayley)
Iron Maiden – Virtual XI (Signed by Blaze Bayley)
Iron Maiden – Ed Hunter (signed by Blaze Bayley)
Iron Maiden – Brave New World
Iron Maiden – Rock in Rio
Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
Iron Maiden – Death on the Road
Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Savior – Unification
Iron Savior – Interlude
Iron Savior – Condition Red
Iron Savior – Battering Ram
Iron Savior – Megatropolis
Ironically Maiden – Here's Your Sodding Demo Disk (Demo)
Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne
Jag Panzer – Mechanised Warfare
Jeff Wayne – Musical Version of the War of the Worlds
Judas Priest – Sad Wings of Destiny
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Judas Priest - Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance
Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
Kamelot – Epica
Keep of Kalessin – Armada
Kreator – Past Life Trauma (1985-1992)
KromleK – Strange Rumours...Distant Tremors
Kult – Winds of War
Legion of the Damned – Sons of the Jackal
Leonard Rosenman – The Lord of the Rings Soundtrack (1978)
Luca Turilli – King of the Nordic Twilight
Lux Occulta - Dionysus
Manegarm – Vargstenen (digipack)
Marduk – Panzer Division Marduk
Marduk – Rom 5:12
Megadeth – Killing is my Business...and Business is Good
Megadeth – Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth – So Far, So Good...So What!
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth – Youthanasia
Megadeth – Hidden Treasures
Megadeth – Cryptic Writings
Megadeth – Risk
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Menhir – Hildebrandslied (digibook)
Mercenary – Everblack
Metallica – Kill 'Em All
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica – Metallica
Metallica – Load
Metallica – Reload
Metallica – Garage Inc.
Metallica – S&M
Metallica – Live Shit: Binge & Purge (reissue box set)
Midnattsol – Where Twilight Dwells
Moonsorrow – Kivenkantaja
Mors Principium Est – The Unborn (digipack)
Mors Principium Est – Inhumanity
Motörhead - Overkill
Motörhead – Ace of Spades
Motörhead – Another Perfect Day
Motörhead – No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
Motörhead – Bastards
Motörhead – Take No Prisoners
Mountain – Twin Peaks
Municipal Waste – The Art of Partying
Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
Nebelhorn – Gen Helwegs Grund
Nightwish – 1997-2001 (Digibook)
Nightwish – Century Child
Nightwish – Once
Nightwish – End of an Era (ltd box set)
Nightwish – Dark Passion Play (digipack)
Olympos Mons – Conquistador
Olympos Mons – Medievil
Orden Ogan - Vale (signed)
Overkill – Hello From the Gutter
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera – Offcial Live: 101 Proof
Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder
Queen – Greatest Hits
Queen – Greatest Hits II
Queen – Greatest Hits III
Rhapsody – Legendary Tales
Rhapsody - Emerald Sword (single)
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory (ltd box set)
Rhapsody – Rain of a Thousand Flames
Rhapsody – Power of the Dragonflame (dvd edition)
Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Vol 2: The Dark Secret (digipack)
Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolus
Rotting Christ – Theogonia (digipack)
Running Wild – Masquerade
Satyricon – Now, Diabolical
Siebenbürgen – Loreia
Siebenbürgen – Grimjaur
Siebenbürgen – Delictum
Siebenbürgen – Darker Designs & Images
Silent Force – Walk the Earth
Silent Prophecy - Silent Prophecy Demo
The Sins of Thy Beloved – Lake of Sorrow
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Slechtvalk – The War That Plagues the Land
Sodom – Ten Black Years: The Best of Sodom
Status Quo – Whatever You Want
Storm – Nordavind
Stormlord – At the Gates of Utopia
Stormlord – The Gorgon Cult (signed)
Summoning – Minas Morgul
Taake - ...Doedskvad
Tankard – Beast of Bourbon
Teräsbetoni – Vaadimme Metallia
Thronar – For Death and Glory
Timeless Miracle – Into the Enchanted Chamber
Tuatha De Danann - Tuatha de Danann
Tuatha de Danann – Tingaralatingadun
Tuatha de Danann – The Delirium Has Just Began
Tuatha de Danann – Trova di Danu (digipack)
Twilight Guardians – Wasteland
Twisted Tower Dire Battle Hymns to the Pantheon
Týr – How Far to Asgaard? (signed)
Týr – Eric the Red (signed)
Týr – Ragnarok (digipack - signed)
Unleashed – Midvinterblot
Uriah Heep – The Collection
Various Artists - Blackend
Various Artists - Transformers: The Movie Soundtrack
Various Artists – Pagan Battle Tunes V
Various Artists – The Rock Box
Various Artists – Headbanger's Bible
Various Artists – Rock Star Soundtrack
Various Artists – This is Thrash
Various Artists – Noord Geldersch Metaal: Liederen Voor in het Vagevuur
White Skull – The Dark Age
Winters Bane – Redivivus
Wintersun – Wintersun (ltd with slipcase - signed)
Wizard – Odin
Wolfsbane – Lifestyles of the Broke and Obscure
XIV Dark Centuries – Jul EP
XIV Dark Centuries – Skithingi

DVDs
AC/DC - Live at Donington
Amon Amarth - Wrath of the Norsemen
Аркона - Live - For the Glory
Аркона - Noch Velesova
Blaze Bayley - Alive in Poland (signed)
Blaze Bayley - The Night That Would Not Die (signed)
Battlelore - The Journey (signed)
Dissection - Rebirth of Dissection
Ensiferum - 10th Anniversary Live
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Nightwish - From Wishes to Eternity
Nightwish - End of an Era
Stormlord - The Battle of Quebec City: Live in Canada (signed)
Wintersun - Tour Edition DVD

Gig Memorabilia
Battlelore - Setlist (Signed, Manchester Moho w/ Finntroll 28.09.09)
Celesty - Plectrum (BOA 2009)
Crystal Viper - Red plectrum (sent free by manager)
Crystal Viper - Blue plectrum (sent free by manager)
Hanging Doll - Setlist (Signed. Metalfest, Dudley 27.09.09)
Highland Glory - Setlist (Skuret, Oslo 12.12.09)
Power Quest - Setlist (Signed. Metalfest, Dudley 26.09.09)

Shirts:
Amon Amarth - Versus the World (tshirt)
Amon Amarth - Viking (white longsleeve, signed)
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side (tshirt)
Amon Amarth - Asator (tshirt)
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side (flag)
Asphyx - Death...the Brutal Way (tshirt)
Battlelore - Sword's Song (tshirt)
Battlelore - The Last Alliance (tshirt)
Blaze Bayley - Kill & Destroy (longlseeve)
Blind Guardian - Twist in the Myth (tshirt)
Crystal Viper - Metal Nation (tshirt)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - The Pest Called Humanity (tshirt)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Follow the Calls for Battle (tshirt)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Hora Nocturna (tshirt)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Saldorian Spell (hoody)
Death - Logo (workshirt)
Dissection - The Somberlain (ltd edition tshirt from remastered The Somberlain boxset)
Dragonforce - Valley of the Damned (tshirt)
Eindhoven Metal Meeting - 2009 (tshirt)
Elexorien - The Curse (tshirt)
Eluveitie - Spirit (tshirt)
Ensiferum - Ensiferum (tshirt)
Ensiferum - Ensiferum's Super (tshirt)
Falconer - Logo (tshirt)
Falkenbach - Heralding the Fireblade (tshirt)
Folkearth - Viking Head (tshirt)
Forefather - Shieldwall (tshirt)
Grave Digger - Rheingold (longsleeve)
Hail of Bullets - Death Metal Supreme (camo tshirt)
Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave (tshirt)
Heidevolk - Wodan Heerst (tshirt)
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes (tshirt)
Iced Earth - Overture of the Wicked (tshirt)
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness (longsleeve)
Immortal - Reunion 2007 (tshirt)
Iron Maiden - Brave New World (football shirt)
Metal Fest - Festival shirt (tshirt)
Metallica - 5 (football shirt)
Metalliac - logo (polo shirt)
Motörhead - England/Everything Louder Than Everything Else (tshirt)
Olympos Mons - Logo (tshirt)
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild (tshirt)
Tankard - the Beauty and the Beer (tshirt)
Vader - Rycina All-Over Print (tshirt)
Wacken Open Air - Logo (workshirt)
Wacken Open Air - 2006 (tshirt)
Wacken Open Air - Roadsign (tshirt)
Wacken Open Air - Christmas 2007 (tshirt)
Wintersun - Beautiful Death (tshirt)
Wintersun - Snow and Sorrow (tshirt)
XIV Dark Centuries - Jul (tshirt)

Other Merch:
Amon Amarth - logo (beany hat)
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side (Flag)
Amon Amarth - Logo (Belt)
Amon Amarh - Logo (Ltd Edition Bottle Opener)
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side (Balloon)
Amon Amarth - Logo (Wristband)
Darkthrone - Logo (beany hat)
Iron Maiden - The Trooper (Belt Buckle)
Nightwish - Logo (Belt)
Wintersun - Logo (Wristband)

kengetsu's top albums (3 months) 1. Versailles - Noble (80)

I actually like Lyrical Sympathy just a little better overall, but otherwise Noble would've been my favorite album of all. Plus, Noble has Aristocrat's Symphony, which I lovelovelove. Favorite song second only to SILENT KNIGHT, and the song that got me into Versailles in the first place. I love this album so much.

Favorite Songs: Aristocrat's Symphony, After Cloudia, -Second Fear-Another Descendant, History of the Other Side, SUZERAIN, Fuck I love them all, but they're my favorites.


2. Versailles - PRINCE & PRINCESS (68)

I blame SILENT KNIGHT for this. This is what, a three-song single, and it tops all the full-length albums I have (except Noble)? I love that song way too much. I love Prince and Princess, too, but god, SILENT KNIGHT. FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME. SO MUCH LOVE.

Favorite Songs: All of them. But most of all SILENT KNIGHT. That song by itself I could listen to forever and ever and ever.

3. REPO! The Genetic Opera Soundtrack - Repo! The Genetic Opera - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (66)

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial... enough said.

Favorite Songs: Legal Assassin, Zydrate Anatomy, Let the Monster Rise, Chromaggia

4. Versailles - Lyrical Sympathy (56)

There's Lyrical Sympathy. Favorite album, ever. If Aristocrat's Symphony and Silent Knight and Serenade are on it it will become an album of way too much godliness to handle. But sadly, they aren't. Dx
Still my favorite album of all time.

Favorite Songs: Love From a Dead Orchestra, The Red Carpet Day, Beast of Desire (same sentiments I have for Noble, and everything Versailles ever comes out with)

5. Adagio - Archangels in Black (48) 6. Lacroix Despheres - Dernier Paradis -The Symphonic Gothic Rock Opera- act1 (40)

Gah. I love Sho and Saya's vocals. I'm a sucker for Opera vocals, and you'd expect Saya to have a little cutsey J-pop voice, but no. FULL-BLOWN OPERA VOCALS. Amazing.

Favorite Songs: 古の刻より舞い降りし者たち, La vérité fermée

7. Versailles - ASCENDEAD MASTER (29)

Most of Versailles's releases are going to be on my top ten and stay there. :D I love Ascendead Master, but nothing tops SILENT KNIGHT for me.

Favorite Songs: It's a single. Let's leave it at everything on there.

8. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth (29)

I fucking love the vocals. So powerful.

Favorite Songs: Nightfall, The Eldar

9. Aina - Days Of Rising Doom - The Metal Opera (28)

This is Epic. That's all I have to say.

Favorite Songs: The Siege of Aina

10. Kamelot - Karma (25)

Finally, Kamelot, all these recent discoveries... But Kamelot is still my favorite band after Versailles, even if I haven't been listening to them as much lately. And Karma is certainly a great album.

Favorite Song: Elizabeth I,II, III, Don't you Cry

11. GPKISM - Atheos (24) 12. Kamelot - One cold winter's night (23) 13. Emilie Autumn - Opheliac (21) 14. BIG BANG - Remember (21) 15. HIZAKI grace project - Ruined kingdom (20) 16. Mika Nakashima - Voice (19) 17. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (18) 18. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Disc 2 (18) 19. Dream Theater - Octavarium (18) 20. Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force (17)

After Forever
All Shall Perish
Audioslave
Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian
Born From Pain
Caliban
Children of Bodom 4x
Chimaira
Dark Tranquillity
Deadlock
DevilDriver 2x
Equilibrium
F.R.E.U.D
Grave
God Forbid 3x
Gorefest
Hail of Bullets
Hatebreed
Heaven Shall Burn
Ill Nino 3x
Impaled Nazarene
In Flames
Kataklysm
Korn
Krisiun
Laaz Rockit
Lamb of God 2x
Legion of the Damned 2x
Lauren Harris
MachineHead
Magnacult
Marilyn Manson
Mastodon
Motorhead
Negura Bunget
Nile
Papa Roach 2x
Rammstein
Remains
Satyricon
Shadows Fall
The Sorrow
Shining
Slayer 3x
Slipknot 4x
Soulfly 2x
Swashbuckle
Taake
The Hollow Men
The Lucifer Principle 2x
Thine Eyes Bleed
Thyrfing
Trivium
Warbringer
Wolves In The Trone Room

Top 20 Bands:

1) Frank Zappa (1,146 plays)
2) Iced Earth (796)
3) Primal Fear (720)
4) Amon Amarth (547)
5) Alice Cooper (519)
6) Dream Evil (509)
7) Joe Bonamassa (490)
8) Journey (484)
9) Children of Bodom (474)
10) Axel Rudi Pell (467)
11) Rush (464)
12) Helloween (459)
13) Virgin Steele (452)
14) Blackmore's Night (440)
15) Edguy (390)
16) Pure-X (347)
17) Turisas (337)
18) Dream Theater (319)
19) Iron Maiden (315)
20) Dio (277)

Top 50 Songs:

1) Turisas-To Holmgard and Beyond (178)
2) Primal Fear-Under Your Spell (175)
3) Blackmore's Night-All Because of You (162)
4) Dream Evil-The Book of Heavy Metal (March of the Metallians) [158]
5) Journey-Change For The Better (151)
6) Journey-Faithfully (143)
7) Iced Earth-Angels Holocaust (130)
8) Frank Zappa-Disco Boy (127)
9) Joe Bonamassa-Around the Bend (124)
10) Iced Earth-Dark Saga (119)
11) Amon Amarth-Twilight of the Thunder God (107)
12) Midnattsol-En Natt I Nord (87)
13) Ramones-Blitzkrieg Bop (66)
14) Alice Cooper-Catch Me If You Can (65)
15) Joe Bonamassa-Sloe Gin (60)
16) Primordial-The Burning Season (59)
17) Journey-Turn Down The World Tonight (58)
18) Amon Amarth-Guardians of Asgaard (58)
19) Aerosmith-Amazing (53)
20) Joe Bonamassa-Asking Around For You (50)
21) Alice Cooper-Wrapped in Silk (50)
22) Avantasia-Serpents in Paradise (50)
23) Seven Reasons-Headlights (49)
24) Iced Earth-Burning Times (48)
25) Testament-More Than Meets the Eye (48)
26) Alice Cooper-Vengeance Is Mine (46)
27) Journey-Open Arms (43)
28) Iced Earth-Pure Evil (42)
29) Amon Amarth-Asator (41)
30) Dream Theater-A Rite of Passage (40)
31) Iced Earth-Desert Rain (40)
32) Primal Fear-In Memory (39)
33) Iced Earth-Watching Over Me (39)
34) Alice Cooper-Salvation (38)
35) Children of Bodom-Needled 24/7 (38)
36) Blackguard-This Round's On Me (37)
37) Korpiklaani-Let's Drink (36)
38) Eluveitie-Inis Mona (36)
39) Primal Fear-Final Embrace (36)
40) Children of Bodom-Angels Don't Kill (35)
41) Iced Earth-Travel in Stygian (33)
42) Frank Zappa-Cosmik Debris (33)
43) Pure-X: Lucia (33)
44) Blackguard-Allegiance (32)
45) Avantasia-Breaking Away (32)
46) Blind Guardian-Majesty (31)
47) Turisas-Rasputin (30)
48) Journey-Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) [30]
49) Iced Earth-Colors (30)
50) Virgin Steele-We Rule the Night (30)

Top 20 Albums:

1) Alice Cooper: Along Came a Spider
2) Turisas: The Varangian Way
3) Primal Fear: Jaws of Death
4) Amon Amarth: Twilight of the Thunder God
5) Journey: Revelation
6) Blackmore's Night: Fires at Midnight
7) Dream Evil: The Book of Heavy Metal
8) Primal Fear: 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)
9) Joe Bonamassa: Sloe Gin
10) Journey: Frontiers
11) Avantasia: The Metal Opera
12) Blackguard: Profugus Mortis
13) Iced Earth: Night of the Stormrider
14) Frank Zappa: Have I Offended Someone?
15) Virgin Steele: Noble Savage
16) Michael Jackson: Number Ones
17) Iced Earth: The Dark Saga
18) Primal Fear: Seven Seals
19) Iced Earth: Something Wicked This Way Comes
20) Testament: The Formation of Damnation

Other Stats:

Average Gap Between Listening Periods: 178.96 Minutes
Total Playtime: 2098 Hours or 87.4 Days or 12.5 Weeks
Average Plays Per Day: 79.68 (Average of 5.95 Hours Per Day)
Most Consecutive Track: Dio-Heaven and Hell
Most Consecutive Artist: Children of Bodom

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Iced Earth, Draconian, The Gathering, Opeth, Lacuna Coil, Kamelot, Evanescence, Grave Digger, Blind Guardian, Nightwish, Anathema, Iron Maiden, Amaran, Seether, Within Temptation, Apocalyptica, Battlelore, Epica, After Forever, Subway to Sally, Demons & Wizards, Katatonia, Beseech, Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom, Heaven Shall Burn, Dark Tranquillity, Dream Theater, Evergrey, Pyramaze, Metallica, Ayreon, Tristania, Joe Statriani, Megadeth, Bruce Dickinson, Agua de Annique, Rammstein, In Extremo, X-Ray Dog, Agalloch, Disturbed, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, 3 Doors Down, Böhse Onkelz, In Flames, Sirenia, Sonata Arctica, Elane

I know it's a long and disturbing list of connections and some of you may hate it but... who cares? Title of the journal says it is something personal, so it's fine :).