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Enterprise, indeed, has my CD case that I left in my rental car! YAY! It would’ve been a tragedy to lose my Metallica CDs and a bunch of Dream Theater, but they were all easily replaced if worst came to worst. What would NOT have been replaceable, however, is Kevin Moore’s This Is A Recording. [...]

THE CONCERT~~! Setlist, as best as I can recall. band history video (intro tape) As I Am This Dying Soul Beyond This Life (w/ extended improv section) Hollow Years (w/ extended guitar solo) War Inside My Head The Test That Stumped Them All Endless Sacrifice Finally Free ~~~intermission~~~ New Millennium The Ones Who Help To [...]

Today was awesome, only because I got off work and Eagle 102, our local pussy-rock station, was playing “For Whom The Bell Tolls” when I got in the car. WTF? I’ve NEVER heard anything Metallica pre-Black album on that station. Sure, they have to mix it up a bit because they’re giving away Metallica concert [...]

The history of The Gathering is long and varied. Beginning as a Dutch death metal band, this was changed dramatically by the replacement of their various vocalists with Anneke van Giersbergen in 1994. Since then, their catalog has drastically moved away from anything remotely death metal and has settled into an atmospheric, doomy rock sound, [...]