Derdian

Happy Halloween you guys, hope it's a great one :D

I recieved a friend invite on YouTube from a Symphonic Metal band from Italy today, I approved of course since I'm always looking for new bands to listen to. Anyways listening to their song Battleplan sounded like Manowar clashing with Sonata Arctica....it was very 80s metal with a hint of symphonicness and I liked that very very much. Right now having listened to their ballad Forevermore, which I am so so touched by with a piano/guitar solo also vocalists Joe and Elisa Lisy Stefanoni duetting just bought a tear to my eye :') That's enough evidence to me that this band are also very versitile with their music, their songs don't sound the same and I love bands who can be versatile.

For fans of Sonata Arctica, Manowar and Rhapsody of Fire

The link to their YouTube page is below

 http://www.youtube.com/user/derdianmetal#p/a/u/1/JiIncWMC1IU

Dead By Dawn

Today I recieved a MySpace invite from Dave Cook, the vocalist for an unsigned alternative metal band from Bournemouth called Dead By Dawn, looking for fans in the local area. Despite only having listened to only a couple of songs by them, hopefully I'll get to listen to more, I reckon they could be supporting bands like Killswitch Engage, Machine Head etc. soon. I'm not too familiar with those bands but I'm sure friends of mine who are into that kind of metal will give them a listen :)

For fans of: Machine Head, Lamb of God and Killswitch Engage :)

http://www.myspace.com/deadbydawnband

That time of year again

Well guys, it's that time of year so that means deciding what song you want to see as Christmas Number 1, I personally try not to get mixed up in this business but sometimes you just can't help getting involved to make sure your favourite song goes to number one before Christmas Day. At the moment the popular nominee at the moment is The Bird is the Word by The Trashmen, the original 1960s hit which was recently made famous by Peter Griffin from Family Guy as he sings the song throughout one episode then a slower more romantic version of the same song appears again in Family Guy. It already has it's own Facebook group which you can join, more and more people have been trying to knock X Factor off the top spot since for the past few recent years it has always been an X Factor contestant at Christmas number 1. 

Last year broke the chain of X Factor victories seeing Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name as Christmas number 1, my younger sister and I had a gut feeling this would be number one; it happened in dream my sister had and I felt it because it was the thing that would cause an uproar in the Media since it's not your 'conventional' number, I didn't care what was number one as long as it wasn't X Factor :P

It would be very very amusing to see The Bird Is The Word at Christmas Number one since so many of us love the show Family Guy and I think there will be heated competition between that and X Factor :)

Sabaton

This post is all about Swedish power metal heads Sabaton, I found the name of this band from the Poets of the Fall forum and thought about giving them a listen since I love Scandinavian power metal. The first few bars of the song Masters of The World sounded exactly like a classic Manowar hit from the 80s and it had me hooked, the lead vocalist sounds exactly like Mr Lordi. I loved that. This music also had a Final Fanstasy vibe behind it, I like those kind of bands where you can just imagine in your head what could be going on and imagine some sort of story line. I need this kind of influence for my Writing Fiction workshop, I am to come up with a story for a short film. Sabaton may be a great influence :)

Download : Master of The World, Ghost Division and Purple Heart

Phoenix Effect

I found a link to this band's MySpace page on the Poets of the Fall official forum and I am highly impressed. I like their smooth guitar riffs and unique vocal style in the songs. Also seeing this band are from Finland is an added bonus; I absoulutely adore music from Finland, it's a breeding ground for rock and metal bands. Nightwish, HIM, Lordi, Poets of the Fall and now these guys.....Finland definately deserve the positive rock and metal reputation it has.

Open mic nights are absoulutely wicked

Hey peeps, hows things? Last night I went to an open mic night for the first time, so far any gig like event has been mental and brutal...well with the mosh pits and all. Anyways I entered The Orange Rooms in Southampton to meet some friends and well, I love the fact you could just chill out and relax on big comfy sofas rather than being forced to dance because of the drum 'n' bass blaring out the speakers or getting beaten up in a mosh pit to a thrash metal band playing.

Once the musicians were kitted up and sound checked the night was well underway with up coming musicians playing acoustic covers of well known songs such as Naive - The Kooks, ABC -The Jackson 5 and even Pendulum. I imagined doing an acoustic cover of Propane Nightmares would be virtually impossible but last night I was proved wrong; these musicians pulled it off very well. I even liked an acoustic cover of Justin Bieber's song and usually I can't stand Justin Bieber.......I still don't like him but then acoustic cover of his song I did like :P

Overall, a chilled out evening it was the very thing I needed, just chilling out with my friends as the sweet acoustic music played in the background.

Some seriously awesome dude

I was doing my usual browsing on YouTube and was listening to a new favourite band Poets of the Fall; I clicked on the video of a guy covering my favourtie POTF song Lift, I was blown away. His piano skills were enough to upstage Finnish muscial genius Tuomas Holopainen from Nightwish and his voice sounded exactly like the POTF's lead singer.

Here's a link to the video :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnPVoguhOYs

Here's the link to his YouTube channel, he's got some seriously awesome covers here. I'm listening to his piano cover of Micheal Jackson's Beat It and it's awesome :D 

http://www.youtube.com/user/Karabuja25