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It has been an interesting transformation, watching my sister over the years as her look has changed with each musical trend she adopted. In the elementary school days of Michael Damien and New Kids On the Block, she remained decked out in fluorescent colors and side ponytails. From there to junior high, she started watching [...]

God Among Insects – World Wide Death Threeman, 2004 1. Legions of Darkness 2. A Gush of Blood 3. Headless Nun Whore 4. Wretched Hatching 5. Chainsawed Christians 6. Purified In Carnage 7. Uprising of the Rotten 8. Severe Facial Reconstruction 9. Uhr-Nazuur Sporting cover art banned in Germany, over-the-top song titles and lyrics, and [...]

God fucking dammit. One person, always pushing these exact perfect buttons. So tonight I was asked if hypothetically I could be set up with an interview with Dream Theater if I would take it. Let me back up a few steps here. First, Tanya was with me when we met the band in Milwaukee a [...]

For being someone with an album collection nearing the 7,000 mark, it seems rather odd that my favorite band would have stayed consistent for almost twelve years. Yet those who meet me learn first and foremost that I’m more than just a tad music obsessed and that this centers primarily on one band: Dream Theater. [...]

YAY! Good Dream Theater. BOO! Nothing from Awake. NOTHING! YAY! Pull Me Under, for the first time I got to hear it without them jerking around during it. BOO! Two DT instrumentals in full, one LTE song in full. Good lord, that’s a lot of wanking. YAY! Beatallica with Mike Portnoy crashing in on the [...]

I forgot to tell you all! I pulled a Mustaine last night and fell asleep on my arm. Woke up and it was completely fucking numb from the shoulder on down. I just picked it up with my opposite arm and tucked it on the other side of me and went back to sleep as [...]

Shadows Fall – The War Within Century Media, 2004 1. The Light That Blinds 2. Enlightened By the Cold 3. Act of Contrition 4. What Drives the Weak 5. Stillness 6. Inspiration On Demand 7. The Power of I and I 8. Ghosts of Past Failure 9. Eternity is Within 10. Those Who Cannot Speak [...]

So I walked to and from work today — to, I listened to Dark Tranquility’s The Mind’s I and on the way back I listened to Katatonia’s Last Fair Deal Gone Down. Both wonderful in completely different ways. Track nine on the Katatonia disc is this song called “Passing Bird.” I don’t think it’s supposed [...]