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Also, seeing Aura Noir today and Morbid Angel tomorrow. Covenant is 20 years old so Morbid Angel is gonna play it from A to Å. Because of this I've picked up Covenant again, an album I've never really been into before, but I've become a fan. Great album! I think the setlist will be Covenant from A to Å, a couple of songs from their debut and one song from the other albums. Can't wait!

But tonight, Aura Noir! Saw them last year or something and they were great. This time they'll play at a smaller venue so it'll be intimate and fun.

This version of Mirage with Fenriz handling the vocals are way better than the other version btw.

I'm probably the only one, but I thought the video was dreadful. Some good ideas, but the execution is awful. Looks like one of those videos we made during our school years when we were 13-14 years old. Ew.

The song however is fantastic. Really enjoyable!

Tell Me Something - Dark and gritty, yet stylish horror-influenced thriller som South-Korea, in the vein of Se7en, but obviously nowhere near as good. It's bloody and violent, which is obviously positive, but it's like Youn-hyun Chang has been getting way too much to work with and isn't sure about how to handle it all, because at the end it gets a bit too messy. The cinematography is great, but there's some awful cuts here and there that ruins the current mood, and that annoyed the living shit out of me. But I did like it for what it is, though, and the atmosphere is great.

I really like older Dark Funeral. Dark Funeral, The Secrets of the Black Arts and Vobiscum Satanas are fantastic, and Diabolis Interium are pretty good. After that however - no thank you, sir. I also like their new vocalist Heljarmadr, but I don't think he fits the overall sound of the band. But he's great in Grá and Domgård, both great bands btw.

I haven't tried the new Fen yet, but I've got massive expectations. Great band.

Jesus. That's the most unifitting and unnecessary blasting I've heard all year. Disgusting.

Batman - Tim Burton's Batman is still the best superhero film out there, though it should be said I still need to rewatch Batman Returns. But until then this daek, gothic piece of superhero action will remain the best. And Jack Nicholson's Joker is obviously the superior one, and he steals every single scene he's in. Crazy and over the top, but not out of place or annoying like that. Very impressive. Keaton is also brilliant as Bruce Wayve/Batman, and obviously way better than Christian Bale.

Everything in this film works for me, especially the set designs, visuals and the brilliant atmosphere. Dark, adult and cooler than ice. Amazing!

But I am not talking about the asian hop hop scene as a whole, I am simply talking about every single pop group out there (2ne1, Brown Eyed Girls ++++) who utilizes poor raps by awful rappers in their regular pop songs.

This is not a problem limited to just korean pop groups of course. It's a problem all around the world. Ludacris' awful part in the otherwise brilliant Break Your Heart is one example of the same shit. Great song, poor, unfitting rap. It's a trend that'll be my death.

And with that said, I can't stand hip hop in other languages than english. God knows I've tried. I love french and consider it the most beautiful and wonderful language on earth, but I have yet to hear hip hop in french that doesn't suck. I love finnish, japanese and korean as well, but as with french I have yet to hear a rap in these languages that doesn't suck. Norwegian and swedish rap? Awful. I just can't stand hip hop in any other language than english no matter how talented or not the rapper might be, and it doesn't matter if I understand the language or not. It just doesn't work for me.

Either you misunderstood what I meant, or I am misunderstanding you now. But I think both CL and GD are awful rappers along with the rest of the rappers in the kpop and jpop world. It's especially annoying when these groups throw in a horrible rap in an otherwise good pop song, just for the sake of having some "badass" rap there, despite none of the members in the group being able to actually rap in a decent manner. It's just sad IMO.

None of these japanese and koreak pop stars are good rapper. They're all awful. With that being said, this song doesn't suck because of CL and G-Dragon. They're no worse than the music itself. This song suck because every single element suck.

Safety Not Guaranteed - A sweet, fun and very charming romantic comedy with beautiful direction and a good cast. The dialogue was perhaps the best thing about the film. It felt so natural, and it was so well-witten. I also fell in love with Aubrey Plaza during this film.

A lot of artist have a lot of art in them that they want to get out. Starting a new band, going solo or whatever is a way of getting that out without interfering with the main band. Because maybe the songs you've written, and are so damn proud of, just doesn't fit into the style your main band is doing. Then releasing it with another band (that may or may not share the same members), or release it solo or whatever. It's just smart. I'd kill Mirai if he released Enoch or Cut Throat as Sigh. Both are great band, but neither are Sigh, and therefor shouldn't be released as Sigh either. Starting new bands to get these out was a dam fine move. And so on and on and on.

Let's say I play in a melodic death metal band. Would it really be so bad if I decided to get my black metal or heavy metal songs out there alone or with another band? O would it be better if I just wrote a shitload of great songs and left 'em behind without doing nothing with 'em?

Warring Clans - Wow, what a film this was! When putting this on I didn't know it was made by Kihachi Okamoto so I didn't have too high expectations, but as soon as I found out he had directed it I was not surprised by the high quality throughout this film. Kihachi Okamoto is the man behind masterpieces such as The Sword of Doom, Samurai Assassin and Kill!. However, this one was made earlier than those and are quite different. It's less serious and much more over the top. You've got samurai, ninja and fucking pirates in one and the same film. How cool is that?

This is a comedic action-adventure which is both fun, clever and exciting as fuck. Great direction by Okamoto, great acting, at times stunning cinematography and a cool, unexpected and kinda odd, jazzy soundtrack to top it all of. It's also got a fantastic spaghetti western-feeling to it, which I really liked, and it is cut in a way that makes non-matrtial artists look talented. Clever work. Awesome film!

Horrible Bosses - Rewatched this while eating yesterday. I still love it. Charlie Day is fantastic, Jennifer Aniston probably does her best ever role and Colin Farrell is hilarious. Great film.

This have been the song of the day for several days now. Jesus christ. Caaaatchy as fuck!

With the success of Gareth Edward's GODZILLA hit, and the passionate support from the icon's fans, TOHO is jumping back into the game and are producing a secondary Godzilla series of their very own with a 2016 Release!

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/monstroushotzone/news/?a=112081

So it came something positive out of the american shitfilm after all. Awesome!

Another new Marduk track: https://soundcloud.com/centurymedia/marduk-wartheland

Yeah, it's allright. Mid-tempo and way more enjoyable than the first one. Great vocals.

Three more vinyls to add to my collection:

David Alexander Hess ‎– The Last House On The Left (Original 1972 Motion Picture Soundtrack)

David Alexander Hess ‎– The Last House On The Left (Original 1972 Motion Picture Soundtrack) pic disc

Fabio Frizzi - City Of The Living Dead (Original Motion Picture soundtrack)

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I've only given it one spin, but my first impression is that this album contains some of their best as well as worst songs to this date, and it's 10-15 minutes too long. Phenomenon and Cause of Fickleness are the worst of the lot. Disgusting.

Blue Ruin - A crowdfunded revenge-thriller written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, the man behind the well-received horror-comedy Murder Part, which I have yet to see. The story is great, the cinematography is beautiful, it's full of suspense and it's at times extremely bloody. Great cast as well. I don't think I've ever heard of Macon Blair, but him not getting an Oscar for his performance here is absolutely ridiculous. He's pretty much carries this film on his own back, and he does it with so much power you can't do nothing but get impressed by it. Grim, gritty and fantastic.

Blue Ruin is a simple and straight-forward, yet smart and superbly written, played and directed revenge-thriller that will keep on the edge of your seat for 80 out of the 85 minutes it lasts.

From the 73 films I've seen from 2013, this is the very best (excluding documentaries).

To be honest, I don't think Nightwish are very cheesy as far as the music goes. There's only a few songs each on Once that I'd catogorize as cheesy. That's mainly Wish I Had an Angel, Nemo and Planet Hell. Dark Passion Play had a few more, but that's as expected considering they got a new vocalist who had a very regular, poppy voice. Need to be said it's a very long time since I heard DPP, but Once is not what I'd personally catogorize as cheesy at all. Songs like Creek Mary's Blood, The Siren, Ghost Love Score, The Poet and the Pendulum and Last of the Wilds are songs that I just consider well-written, powerful, majestic and cinematic symphonic metal songs free of both good and bad cheese in my ear. So yeah, not what I really consider cheesy.

Also, THAT live performance of Creek Mary's Blood with John Two-Hawks is one of the best live performances ever, despite Tarja and the rest of the band on stage. John Two-Hawks is porno. Shows more emotion and joy during those 10 minutes than the rest of the band ever did combined.

As far as "Nightwishian metal" goes I think probably Epica did it best during their first 3-4 albums or something. Should probably revisist the band some day.

I just tried watching The Frozen Ground, and it was utter shite as expected. Didn't last more than 35 minutes. Got Nicolas Cage, John Cusack as well as Vanessa Hudgens in the leads, and suddenly 50 Cent pops up as well. That's when I had to struggle not to shit my pants. Jesus. The only positive is Vanessa Hudgens being sexy, and some tits. But if I want to look at either Vanessa Hudgens or tits I can just google something. Don't need to waste my time on a film.

Stay the fuck away!

I'm not sure if you're joking or not. I've never liked a single photo of Nightwish, and aside from Angels Fall First I don't like any of their covers either. Nor do I care for their lyrics. The only thing I ever liked about Nightwish was their music. Never cared for anything else. Never seen 'em live, nor will I ever see them unless someone pays me decent money to come with them. So yeah, I'm not a huge fan, I just enjoy some of their albums, with Angels Fall First being my favourite. Best performance Tarja ever did despite being the technically worst.

And there's good cheese and there's bad cheese. Nightwish pictures are bad cheese, and I don't like bad cheese.

The original I Spit on Your Grave is highly recommended from me. I love the original, but I can't stand the remake. While the remake has better production value and to some degree acting, it just doesn't atch the bleak and honest atmophere of the original. Such a huge difference there, at least for me.

I think there's a big chance she'll stay. By far the most talented vocalist they've had, and she can easily handle both Tarja and Anette's song perfectly well as well. And she's always come off as a great girl as well, ever since the begining of After Forever and till now.

Awful coverart and awful band picture. No expectations for the album whatsoever either. Don't even think I checked out the last one.

Lethal Weapon - This is simply one of the best action(comedies) films ever. It's exciting is and funny as fuck, and the chemesty between Mel Gibson and Danny Glover is nothing short of brilliant. This film is to buddy cop films what Die Hard is to the lone hero action flicks. Obviously not on par with Die Hard, but this isn't too far behind to be honest. Just brilliant!  And just like Die Hard, it's one of the best christmas films ever.

The Sacrament - Ti West is, as you've probably gathered, one of my favourite directors from the "new generation" and he's impressed the living shit out of me with The House of the Devil (one of the 10 best horror films ever made!), The Innkeepers and his segment in V/H/S. SO my expectations wasn't exactly low. OK, so we're not getting a new The House of the Devil or The Innkeepers here, but I think The Sacrament is great nonetheless. Yeah, it's unoriginal, predictabe, basic, quite slow, and on top of that the characters are quite weak.That sounds so negative, and it kinda is. But if you ask me, its bright side overshadows its negative ones and makes it highly enjoyable. It's got a charismatic and genuinly creepy Gene Jones as Father, leader of the religious cult, and plenty of atmosphere to wrap your head around.