To Silence the Machine

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In the mornings I like my Metal Black, just like my Coffee

 
Silly post headings a side, a friend, knowing my peculiar fondness for black metal, asked me to create a compilation CD for him. A crash course, as it were, on this much-maligned, often misunderstood sub-genre of extreme metal. Being particularly jobless today, I thought why not. Now that it’s done I figured I might as [...]

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The Winds Of Uva

Been meaning to post this for sometime.
The Winds of Uva
By: Chathuranga Fonseka of Funeral in Heaven
I hear the tales of warriors of a forgotten past
Sacrificing in the name of freedom and honor
A battle fought against a tyrannical reign
A cause once patriotical now lost
I’ve felt their blood beneath my flesh, iv felt their fear beneath their [...]

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My Latest Addiction

Cryptopsy.
A guy in a forum I frequent said it best: “And as for Cryptopsy, the more you remove the dicks that have been placed in your ear from listening to generic rock for so long, the more you understand the beauty of it all.” Took me a couple of years to get it, but now [...]

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Stigmata - Live in Delhi

So Stiggies will be playing this Saturday between 8 and 9 at the SAARC Band festival. They’ll be the only metal band and only Sri Lankan act playing so ’tis a double honour for the lads. Wish I could be there, but education calls and I can’t ignore it any longer. Oh well.
To Suresh, Tenny, [...]

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Top Albums of 2007

DEVIN TOWNSEND – Ziltoid The Omniscient

I recently joined a Facebook group called ‘The Devin Townsend Is An Absolute God Amongst Men Society’. Hero worship, I hear you say disapprovingly. Well, duh! The man is a mad genius whose musical ideas sometimes defy belief. His last album with Strapping Young Lad (The New Black) had more [...]

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Stigmata Reviewed by MetalForge Zine

Regular readers of my blog will know how much I adore Stigmata. This admiration is not merely for their music - of which there is plenty to lose my head over -  but also for the hard work, dedication and humility they display day in and day out. When they make it - and the [...]

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Shadows of the Sun - October 2, 2007

Words can’t even describe how excited I am at the prospect of these bastards releasing new music.

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Paranoid Earthling and Overdrive

I didn’t need any more convincing, but Paranoid Earthling’s performance at Overdrive  proved that they are hands down the best alternative rock/hard rock band in Sri Lanka.  Their two hour set consisted of a nice mix of originals and covers of Pink Floyd (Another Brick in the Wall), Jimi Hendrix (Voodoo Chile), Rage against the [...]

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Overdrive

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