Band: Avantasia

Genre: Power Metal

Discography: "Avantasia" (EP, 2000), "The Metal Opera" (2001), "The Metal Opera Part II" (2002), "Lost In Space Part I" (EP, 2007), "Lost In Space Part II" (EP, 2007), "The Scarecrow" (2008)     

Power metal is very often the portal to the metal world for newbies in listening to this field of music. Why?...well, power metal is easy to digest, melodic, vocal based and generic. It is also true that after one learns to listen to music, to pay attention to the instruments, power metal  becomes really boring......

My Ideal Someone 

I once saw her clearly

Through my imagination´s eyes

A tall marvel standing solemnly

Crimson hair glowing towards the skies

She smiled at me a little and looked away

Her demeanor dark, serious yet kind

A thin silhouette with much pride in display

And that natural beauty so hard to find

Just a glance at her told me

She is not the romantic type

For her, reason is all......

Band: Explosions In The Sky

Genre: Post - Rock

Discography: "How Strange, Innocence" (2000), "Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever" (2001), "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place" (2003), "Friday Night Lights Soundtrack" (2004), "The Rescue EP" (2005), "All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone" (2007)    

Not long ago, I discovered a mesmerizing field in the musical spectrum that some call post-rock. The term does little to accurately describe the music and it involve heterogeneous bands with not many common grounds,......

Name: Amarantha LaBlanche

Country: Holland

Age: 23 

Height: 1,68 m

Weight: 58 kg 

Belluci Scale Rating: 9

Band: The Project Hate MCMXCIX

Genre: Industrial Death Metal

Discography: "Cybersonic Superchrist" (2000), "When We Are Done Your Flesh Will Be Ours" (2001), "Killing Helsinki" (2002), "Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate" (2003), "Armageddon March Eternal" (2005), "In Hora Mortis Nostrae" (2007), "The Lustrate Process" (2009)      

When you´ve been listening to metal music for many years, the times when a band blows your mind become more rare and distant. Although......

Band: Amon Amarth

Genre: Melodic Death Metal

Discography: "Sorrow Throughout The Nine Words" (EP, 1996), "Once Sent From The Golden Hall" (1998), "The Avenger" (1999), "The Crusher" (2001), "Versus The World" (2002), "Fate Of Norns" (2004), "With Oden On Our Side" (2006), "Twilight Of The Thunder God" (2008)

A band playing melodic death metal with northern mythology lyrics...sounds pretty average, right?...well!...you are wrong!...

One could write such a simplistic description about Sweden's Amon Amarth, but......

In the darkening horizon

Of an ethereal evening past

As I cried, her smile wizened

And lifted her soul was at last

Or so the Father said to me

He believed she no longer was

Although I never fully agree

Is empty this mirage with no flaws?

She seems as embedded in a still life

Livid lips drawing a sweet grimace

In my gentle kiss the luminous love is rife

As the bodies collide I feel amazed

Isn't she beautiful?

Her silky skin cold and tender

Isn't she beautiful?

Her love for me hasn't surrendered

Wrong were the wedding vows

In her......

The following is just my opinion, so feel free to disagree with me. No scientific data this time.

I think one of the most dangerous messages society writes in our heads is this one: You can have it all.

As they say in the program of the same name: Bullshit!!! The fact is you can´t. Single successful persons understand this really well. We as humans have limited time on this earth, and in order to be great in any area you have to dedicate most of that time to it.

So you can not be the greatest wife or husband, and the greatest mom or dad and be truly great in your......

This post is the continuation of my post Happiness Outside The Cliché

This post has the following purposes:

a. To expose and contradict empirical preconceptions (social agendas) regarding homosexuality, gay marriage and gay parenting.

b. To get religious and other highly prejudiced persons into thinking and reconsidering their stand in the matter and to get them to stick their fucking prejudices up their asses (pray the lord you don't enjoy it)

c. To create an space for discussion of the subject

Foreseeing the mandatory stupid comments of equally stupid people......

Band: Novembers Doom

Genre: Doom/Death Metal

Discography: "Amid Its Hallowed Mirth" (1995), "Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers" (1999), "The Knowing" (2000), "To Welcome the Fade" (2002), "The Pale Haunt Departure" (2005), "The Novella Reservoir" (2007)

Novembers Doom belongs in the elite of doom/death metal bands along with the legendary My Dying Bride and the extraordinary Mourning Beloveth.

When listening to Novembers Doom, the first thing that comes to mind is the dynamics of the songs. Ranging from slow tempo to fast blasting tempo,......

Band: Amethystium

Genre: Ambient/Electronic/New Age

Discography: "Odonata" (2001), "Aphelion" (2003), "Evermind" (2004), "Transversa" (2005), "Emblem: Selected Pieces" (2006), "Isabliss" (2008)

Amethystium is a one man project of the Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Øystein Ramfjord. His musical style can be described as the combination of ambient music elements such as slow tempo and background soothing orchestration with high doses of electronic core rhythms and new age elements including monk chanting, angelic voices, non traditional chants and non......

One of the most desirable and rare features in a woman is cuteness. It is that kind of beauty which is so natural and constant that one can not do other thing than to contemplate it and be amazed. A cute woman will look as gorgeous wearing a designers dress or a simple jean and blouse, with or without make up and no matter how hard they try to look hot or dangerous, they always end up looking beautiful and cute.   

In my post The Belluci Scale To Rate Women  I gave the following definition for the word "cute" when used to describe a woman:

Cute: A girl so gorgeous that you can not stop looking at her, men and lesbians would want to have sex with a cute girl but they can see themselves in a relationship with her and if given the right amount of drugs, even get married with her.

In the Belluci Scale, cute women are rated with 9 and they are in a higher level than any hot girl you may think of. So take a look at this examples......

Band: Opeth

Album Reviewed: "Damnation" (2003)

Genre: Progressive Metal

Track Listing:

1. Windowpane 7:44

2. In My Time of Need 5:50

3. Death Whispered a Lullaby 5:49

4. Closure 5:16

5. Hope Leaves 4:30

6. To Rid the Disease 6:21

7. Ending Credits 3:40

8. Weakness 4:09

Total playing time 43:19

On 2003, the outstanding Swedish band Opeth made a project consisting in the released of two simultaneous albums with opposite names and concept, one being the great "Deliverance", featuring all the characteristics I describe in my previous post (http://blog.bitcomet.com/monti84metal/post_40461/......

Band: Opeth

Genre: Progressive Death Metal

Discography: "Orchid" (1995), "Morningrise" (1996), "My Arms, Your Hearse" (1998), "Still Life" (1999), "Blackwater Park" (2001), "Deliverance" (2002), "Damnation" (2003), "Ghost Reveries" (2005), "Watershed" (2008)

Opeth is probably the best known metal band from Sweden. Their name is synonym of excellence and they have built a huge fan base over their 13 years of existence. The band is the brainchild of front-man Mikael Åkerfeldt, guitar player, composer and lead vocalist;......

So now that I can not make a serious music post with song samples because of the fucking auditing system (FUCK THE AUDITING SYSTEM YET AGAIN!!), I decided to post some idiotic stuff that will piss off women all around, just for fun...This is what I call "The Belluci Scale" and it is the one I created to rate women BASED PURELY ON PHISICAL APPEARANCE. The scale does not give a shit if the woman is a rocket scientist or if she can not say a complete sentence right, it is only based on looks.

As in any scale, we need a model to compare other women with, so in this case the perfect woman (a 10) will be Monica Belluci, to me the best looking girl alive (go figure!, she isn´t even goth...hehe). She has the pretty face, sexy look, hot lips, great body and adequate height.

......

  Lady Morgana

  Fetish/Gothic/Lingerie Slideshow

Band: Diablo Swing Orchestra

Genre: Avant-garde Metal

Discography: "Borderline Hymns" (EP, 2003), "The Butcher's Ballroom" (2006)

When it comes to pushing the boundaries of the metal spectrum, Sweden's Diablo Swing Orchestra goes so far that you end up wondering if it is correct to categorize this kind of music as metal. Many adjectives are use to label the subgenres, but I think that the two more appropriate to describe Diablo Swing Orchestra's music would be avant-garde and eclectic.

Let's reviewed what the dictionary has to say about those two words:

 ......

Band: Kalmah

Genre: Melodic Death Metal

Discography: "Swamplord" (2001), "They Will Return" (2002), "Swampsong" (2003), "The Black Waltz" (2006), "For The Revolution" (2008)

I listen to metal because of its variety and high standard playing (at least in good metal I mean). Other reason is that I can find an album, band or subgenre to make me company in any mood I'm in any particular day. Especially I love the bands that when listening to them turn the day a better one.

One of such bands is the extraordinary Kalmah, the lords of melody. Every time I listen......

  Really beautiful goth model, she is more on the cute side than on the hot side if that makes any sense...let me know what you think of her... 

Band: Summoning

Genre: Epic Black Metal

Discography: "Lugburz" (1995), "Minas Morgul" (1995), "Dol Guldur" (1996), "Nightshade Forests" (EP, 1997), "Stronghold" (1999), "Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame" (2001), "Lost Tales" (EP, 2003), "Oath Bound" (2006).

Originality does not come often in the metal scene. Although you can hear a lot of good albums, the sensation of "that´s been done before" always is present. So when I first heard the austrian band Summoning, it hit me right in the face with its totally innovative......

Celleste D´Acide is one of my favourite gothic models. I couldn´t find much information about her on the net, except that she is 22 years old and currently living in Nuernberg, Germany. She´s a little more extreme looking than the previous models, but she´s astonishing nevertheless...Enjoy!...