Sacrifi-sir 2008

Fragma
toca's miracle
Kontor - House of House Vol. 4

Wow ... I love this song, well I love every song that follows as well, still, indeed a miracle to see it on the top though. I have listened a lot to songs taken from this album and most of them stayed on my mp3 player for months. I'd like to describe why this song impressed me so much, I cant though. There is nothing outstanding about this song, maybe its exactly this why I had to press the repeat button in Mediamonkey whenever the song was about to stop. Solid beat through the whole song, calm voice, lyrics ok, atmospheric touch at the end of the song ... sometimes less is more.



Peter Bjorn and John
young folks
Kontor - House of House Vol. 4

Phew ... the next song from the same album on place 2 of my yearly charts. That song is just incredibly relaxing, how the mix of the beat and the soothing voices play together. I was immediately fascinated by this song when I heard it at work the first time.




Therion
kali yuga II
Sirius B

Amazing chorus ...

Kali Ma, Great Durga, black guna of Maya ... See the signs in the end of kala in the yuga

this still gives me the chill whenever I listen to this song. Perfect harmony between the choir, guitars, drums ... a masterpiece by Therion.



Colonia
covjek s 2 lica
Pod Stretnom Zvijezdom

Is this love ? ... oh yeah, it is. A love dedicated to Turbo Folk and all its extraordinary singers and bands. Amazing intro, great beat through the whole song, the powerful voice of Ira and a touch of Eurodance. That song accompanied me the weeks before, during and after the trip to Prague for the Iron Maiden concert, both will last forever in my memories.



Paola & Chiara
tu sei il futuro
Win The Game

A fantastic track from their latest album, great beat, 2 beautiful voices that play so well together, awesome "futuristic" keyboard in the background during the chorus ... first class song.



Happy New Year!
Sacrifi-Sir

Daddy Yankee - que la enamoren (Los Homerun-es)
Dark Fortress - twilight (Tales From Eternal Dusk)
Jag Panzer - shadow thief (The Fourth Judgement)
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - 20th of july (Aimée & Jaguar Original Soundtrack)
Justin Timberlake - still on my brain (Justified)
Krezip - why falling [live]
Kylie Minogue - the one (X)
Medway - slow resurrection (ChilloutInIbiza)
Mónica Naranjo - enamorada (Mirage)
Murat Başaran - bir öpücük kesmez (Hadi Sende Kudur)
Seka Aleksić - sviđa mi se tvoja devojka (Dođi I Uzmi Me)
Sonic Reign - to rebel and to fril (Raw Dark Pure)
Thunderstone - land of innocence (Tools of Destruction)
Vangelis - monastery of la rabida (1492 Conquest of Paradise)


Sacrifi-sir & Sapnish

Mixtape Christmas holidays 2008

SIDE A
Carlos Silva feat Nelson Freitas & Q-Plus - cré sabe 2008 (hardwell sunset mix)
Basshunter - all i ever wanted (fonzerelli remix)
Timbaland feat Keri Hilson & Nicole Scherzinger - scream
MGMT - electric feel (justice remix)
Cutting Crew - (i just) died in your arms
Sezen Aksu - herşeyi yak
Lhasa - el desierto

SIDE B
Metallica - cyanide
Jimsonweed - bride
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - given
Tiamat - will they come?
Therion - black sun
Tarja Turunen - i walk alone
Anna Netrebko - meine lippen, sie küssen so heiß


--Sapnish--

At the Gates - kingdom gone [live] (The Red in the Sky is Ours)
In Flames - jotun (Whoracle)
Kataklysm - machiavellian (the prophecy 08)
Kreator - awakening of the gods (Flag Of Hate)
Mor Ve Ötesi - son deneme (Dünya Yalan Söylüyor)
Nirvana - very ape (In Utero)
Satyricon - i en svart kiste (The Shadowthrone)
Stratovarius - lead us into the light (Twilight Time)
Atheist - room with a view (Piece of Time)
Rush - 2112 (2112) ... 20:33
Indira Radić - tetovaža (Zmaj)

... And Oceans - white synthetic noise (AM GOD)

Giogos Giannias - paei poly (18 Vimata)

Destiny's Child - dance with me (Survivor)

A nice selection to start the day, I had to stop after Stratovarius for another Christmas appointment, just being drawn into a vision of Rush of the future when I was coming back to continue. A little shock there as Mediamonkey crashed completely and it wasnt possible to start it again, a nightmare embraced me imagining another loss of the database. Its all well though, just needed a PC restart.

No sign yet that Indira is coming for another perfomance to Nachtwerk in 2009, but 2009 is just about to begin, in the meanwhile there is of course her appearance in Today.

Sacrifi-Sir

potters field
ANTHRAX
(SOUND OF WHITE NOISE)
mein Lieblingsalbum der Band. heavy, kraftvoll und breitschultrig

a crescendo of passion bleeding
CRADLE OF FILTH
(THE PRINCIPLE OF EVIL MADE FLESH)
Satans Flitzefinger in damals noch bescheidenem Sound

mystery
DIO
(THE LAST IN LINE)
unverkennbare Stimme, schön altmodisch, nett hymnisch (vielleicht ein bisschen ZU hymnisch). hab auch gemerkt, dass ich scheinbar eine verkorste Version dieses Songs habe...

trail of fear
DISPATCHED
(MOTHERWAR)
klasse Anfangsriff, dann ein akustisches Break, das man wahlweise "kreativ" oder eben "unpassend" und "seltsam" nennen kann. gute Melodien, aber irgendwie komisch.

damnation (raping the angels)
IMPALED NAZARENE
(DECADE OF DECADENCE)
sehr unweihnachtliches Rumpeln ohne erkennenswerte Höhepunkte

day of redemption
NORTHER
DEATH UNLIMITED
und nochmal Norther's "Death Unlimited", heute aber langsamer und mit amateurhaften Keyboards. sorry, da geht echt gar nix.

good-night, you kings of new england
RACHEL PORTMAN
(THE CIDER HOUSE RULES SOUNDTRACK)
klingt sehr viel weihnachtlicher als Impaled Nazarene

arche
SUBWAY TO SALLY
(MCMXCV)
das Intro klingt wie Soulsisters "the way to your heart", ist es dann aber nicht. mit gutem Willen Folk Rock, mit schlechtem nervig.

o rosental
MGV SCHNEEROSE ST. MARGARETEN
(20 SPITZENCHÖRE)
eines der tollsten Kärntnerlieder, oder zumindest eines von denen, die ich am liebsten habe

i'm lonely
SCOOTER
(DREAM DANCE VOL. 48)
wahrscheinlich das Schlimmste, was einem im Anschluss an ein Kärntnerlied passieren kann. computerverzerrte Gnom-Stimmen gehen ja gar nicht. grässlich.

flames of thy power (from blood they rise)
VIRGIN STEELE
(HYMNS TO VICTORY)
typisch gut, typisch DeFeis. leider auch mit typisch komischem Sound.

can't f*** with queen bee
LIL' KIM
(LA BELLA MAFIA)
ihr Soul-Song. egal ob die spinnt oder nicht, ihre Stimme ist unendlich cool.

pass the courvoisier, part II
BUSTA RHYMES feat. P. DIDDY & PHARRELL
und hier das Gegenbeispiel. bisschen öd, keine Funken

deathchrist
WARHAMMER
(DEATHCHRIST)
klingen tatsächlich wie Hellhammer. somit Operation geglückt.


--Sapnish--

A bit breaking the habit, I try a new format for today's Today - to not get bored while reading (or posting). And I try another language, too.

death unlimited
NORTHER
(DEATH UNLIMITED)
schnell und melodisch, leider unterstützt von unangenehmem Gekreische

the naughty song
CORY LEE
(THE L-WORD SEASON 3 SOUNDTRACK)
naughty, soso. nicht nur the l-word, auch the f-word.

four seasons
WORLD OF SILENCE
(MINDSCAPES)
behäbig und progressiv, phasenweise verspielt. und nicht so irre spannend.

rescue me
MADONNA
(THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION)
durchschnittlich und esoterisch pumpend

marching to the beat
MENTAL HARAKIRI
(PEDAL TO THE METAL)
sehr bemüht eigenständig, dabei wahlweise "interessant" oder "seltsam"

and the little things that make us smile
...AND OCEANS
(CYPHER)
von lächeln kann hier wohl keine Rede sein... ratternder Cyberspace Metal. nicht angenehm zu hören, aber ist wohl so gedacht.

speed
ANGRA
(FIREWORKS)
Melodic Speed Metal-Attacke aus Brasilien, himmelhoch jauchzend: Andre Matos

always
BON JOVI
(THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT)
alternative Version des Schmachtfetzens - müsste man ob der verkitschten Produktion eigentlich hassen, aber besonders der Refrain ist wirklich schön.

scarab
IHSAHN
(ANGL)
einfach (schwierig) Ihsahn.

aşk aşk aşk
NADIDE SULTAN
(AŞKTAN ÖLSEM)
geniales Intro und flotter Track, hörenswert

belief
NEUROSIS
(TIMES OF GRACE)
Gebrüll in Wellenform.

strange
TORI AMOS
(SCARLET'S WALK)
schön, warm und gefühlvoll

truth and understanding
RON KAVANA & THE ALIAS ACOUSTIC BAND
(IRISH SONGS OF REBELLION, RESISTANCE & RECONSILIATION 1798-1998)
Ireland.

storm detonation
ZYKLON
(WORLD OV WORMS)
Kla(n)gwelten. nichts verstanden, leider.


--Sapnish--

Little spurts of insanity?

Do you think it's alarming if someone, let's call the person "Napnish" (name altered), is one week away from PC, MediaMonkey and last.fm, and listens to music away from all these things via mp3 player, and brings the backup external hard drive with all mp3s, and not only installs MediaMonkey on the PC of Napnish's mum so that "today" can be used, but also thinks about re-playing the songs that were listened (mp3 player) on mum's PC MediaMonkey incl. last.fm script, so that they can be scrobbled and show up in the last.fm charts?

Is this still adorable music-nerdness, or is it dangerous? Does Napnish need professional help, or praise for accurateness?


--Sapnish--

Winter in the Abyss

TYR + HOLLENTHON + ALESTORM + SVARTSOT

Szene Wien - 17.10

This was the second time this year that I have seen Hollenthon live on stage and again it was an awesome performance. Supported by Supul's energetic presence we headbanged to evergreens like "To Kingdom Come", "Y Draig Goch", "Fire on the Blade" and lots more.
Alestorm with their Scottish touched music and the unmistakeable influence of ... erm, Pirates, was a big suprise on this evening. That performance was just fun to watch and it was cool being dragged into the crowd who just took up the whiskey laden spirit and kept on headbanging and singing. You could almost have mistaken the location for an old wooden pub near the sea.

DARK TRANQUILLITY + POISIONBLACK + FEAR MY THOUGHTS
Szene Wien - 06.11

Back in the little Szene Wien location, little in space maybe, but perfect for exactly this concert - Dark Tranquillity. The band might not draw the same attention as other bands currently do, but one quick glance at the audience and you could see how eager everyone was to see Dark Tranquillity on stage. It didnt took them long to get the crowd and heads moving and it lated until the last song :)

SONATA ARCTICA + PAGAN'S MIND + VANISHING POINT
Gasometer Wien - 13.11

Sonata Arctica was a "blank file" for me and to finish this wordplay, yeah "blank file" is one of most favorite songs. Unfortunately this song didnt make in on their setlist, but they made it up with a fantastic performance on stage.

UNHOLY ALLIANCE

SLAYER + MASTODON + TRIVIUM + AMON AMARTH

Gasometer Wien - 16.11

The Alpha and the Omega, Slayer and Amon Amarth were the reasons to join the masses to this event in Vienna. Even the short 30 minutes where Amon Amarth were on stage justified the money for the concert ticket already. Of course the 30 minutes were too short, but they will be back in March for more.

"Slayer" screams and raised hands all over the place shortly before Slayer appeared behind a big white transparent curtain. Extraordinary performance, bit less interaction with the audience, but 90 minutes rough Thrash Metal what probably no one in the hall expected the full "Reign In Blood" album ... incredible :)

THE DARKEST TOUR: FILTH FEST

CRADLE OF FILTH + GORGOROTH + MOONSPELL + SEPTIC FLESH + ASRAI

Gasometer Wien - 08.12

Sapnish, Supul and me arrived there a bit later and Moonspell was the first band on stage and a great evening started with a great band. The music didnt touch me as much as it did my 2 friends, still after listening to Wolfheart a few days later and some bits of their newest Im convinved of their dark touched music. It was cool to share this concert with my friends, in the end its not the sound quality, naked people hanging on the cross (Gorgoroth) or other special effects on stage that counts as long as you can enjoy good music with your friends.

Cradle was great again, im still very impressed by the voice spectrum that Dani is able to fill the air with, just amazing.

@Picture, unfortunately this is not a picture taken from the concert in Vienna. Even after a torough search on the web I didnt find any taken from this particular picture. Maybe the following video on youtube gives a good impression :)

YouTube - The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh

METALFEST 2008
MORBID ANGEL + KATAKLYSM + MARDUK + KEEP OF KALESSIN + ARSIS
Gasometer Wien - 13.12

Panzer Divisione Marduki (hope its not mispelled), a little insider term and of course referring to Marduk. Their albums give me a hard time, I dont understand all of their songs, but live on stage they are more than capable to deliver good, fine Black Metal.
Kataklysm was a neckbreaker again, raw, piercing Death Metal. Maybe a bit too many announcements from Maurizio, which have might led people to believe not all of them are serious ;)

SEKA ALEKSIC

Nachtwerk Wien - 13.12

After a short taxi ride I was at Nachtwerk, long it has been ... too long, to see Seka again :). That place is undenieable awesome, they even put the bass speaker tower back on stage and you could feel every low tone humming through the floor. Luckily I have not been to late and Seka started even later as in her concerts before. Favourite tracks ... they were all great again and if it wasnt already a long day I would have been glad to see her second outfit after the break already early in the morning/late at night. Seka, you can come as often as you want, ...

Sacrifi-Sir

Bon Jovi - woman in love (Keep the Faith)
Judas Priest - angel (Angel of Retribution)
Rob Zombie feat. Ozzy Osbourne - iron head (The Scorpion King O.S.T.)
Amr Diab - oddam oyounak (Kammel Kalamak)
Rita Coolidge - all time high (The Best of James Bond)
Stratovarius - coming home (Visions)
Iconz - get crunked up [lil' kim mix] (Darker Than Blue)
Type 0 Negative - 3.0.i.f. (Bloody Kisses)
Babylon Zoo - spaceman (The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes)
Black Sabbath - snowblind (Vol. 4)
Green Day - no pride (Insomniac)
Seka Aleksić - boli stara ljubav (Kraljica)
Al Green - let's stay together (Pulp Fiction O.S.T.)
Destiny's Child - apple pie à la mode (Survivor)


--Sapnish--

Sapnish - recently obtained

Arkona - Ot Serdca K Nebu
Bethlehem - Dictius Te Necare
Drain - Horror Wrestling
Hand of Doom - Live in Los Angeles
Peccatum - Amor Fati
Morgul - The Horror Grandeur
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Beto Vazquez Infinity - Darkmind
The Beatles - The Beatles' Second Album


--Sapnish--

Sapnish - recently listened

Moonspell - Night Eternal
ABBA - Ring Ring
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse


--Sapnish--

Death - story to tell (The Sound of Perseverance)
Charlie Barnet - skyliner (Swing Era)
a-ha - cry wolf (Scoundrel Days)
Giuseppe Verdi - zitti, zitti (Rigoletto)
Everlast - what it's like (Whitey Ford Sings the Blues)
Alice Cooper - brutal planet (Brutal Planet)
Monrose - shame (Temptation)
Ragnarok - pagan land (Nattferd)
Susperia - objects of desire (Predominance)
Nine Inch Nails - ruiner (The Downward Spiral)
Diego Ray - afterlife (Firstclass 2007 - The Finest in House)
Guča - merakliski oro (Trubatschi Guča)
Unearth - march of the mutes (III: In the Eyes of Fire)


This time only 13 real tracks, because the 14th was just Allison Crowe saying "thanks" to her crowd : )

--Sapnish--

Camilla - malinconia (Nuova Dimora)
Catherine-Ann MacPhee - o hi ri lean (Island Blues)
Mors Principium Est - the glass womb (The Unborn)
Nevermore - narcosynthesis (Dead Heart in a Dead World)
My Dying Bride - it will come (Like Gods of the Sun)
Uhrilehto - vain flesh grandeur (Viimeinen Vitutus)
Killah Priest - high explosives (Heavy Mental)
Kaiser Chiefs - modern way (Employment)
Cream - sleepy time time [live] (Gold - Live)
Astral Doors - in rock we trust (Astralism)
Bewitched - glorious are the ways of death (Spiritual Warfare)
...And Oceans - melting the skies (Cypher)
Tiamat - amanitis (Amanethes)
M.I.A. - jimmy (Kala)


--Sapnish--

Originally heard on 07.10.2008

Testament - hail mary (Low)
Mack 10 - hate in yo eyes
Nataša Bekvalac - navika (Stereo Ljubav)
Zyklon - deducted to overkill (World ov Worms)
Valeria Rossi - straniero (Ricordatevi dei fiori)
Travis - mid-life krysis (12 Memories)
Arkona - intro [kolomyika] (Vo Slavu Velikim)
Celtic Frost - caress into oblivion (Into the Pandemonium)
Morbid Angel - brainstorm (Blessed Are the Sick)
Lexy & K. Paul - let's play
Iron Maiden - run to the hills [live] (Live at Donington)
Saxon - hole in the sky (Forever Free)
Sear Bliss - thorns of deception (The Arcane Odyssey)
Alestorm - death before the mast (Captain Morgan's Revenge)


Sacrifi-Sir & Sapnish

work.fm

as you already probably reckoned from the title of this blog I only listened to last.fm over the weekend, all day long.

Of course to the best radio stations on last.fm ...

the station where you will get stuck on .... the sticky station
&
the top radio for metal, pop, turbofolk, ... music of all kind, sweet station

Sacrifi-Sir

GODDESS.

Vienna 2008 - we were there

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"Baby your hands are like rock'n'roll"

We all know it - you hear a cool song somewhere, but don't know what it is.

When I was a kid this used to cause some serious trouble - how to find it? How to find the song that you cannot live without anymore?

Nowadays of course, things are different. With the help of global internet one can easily find out what they're looking for. Googling the lyrics and you should be fine.

Not that this cannot be tricky. Like for example, I heard a song in the TV show Nip/Tuck once, maybe just 10 seconds, but it sparked an eternal flame. So, I looked up the show's fanpages, and as all important TV shows of our time, these sites have sections about the music that was featured in the different episodes. It was easy to find out which song I fell in love with, it said: Emergency - theme song. Yay! So, off to find it. On the internet. Which album is it on, who are the musicians, and how to get it?

Four hours later I had to understand that this band may be cousins of one of the production assistants, or some US local phenomenon that no one ever heard of before. In any way, I could not find the band, nor the song, nor anything that was of help. Obviously, this song was never officially released.. no way to find it. No one had it, no one heard of it.

This must have been about four years ago now. Why do I post this? CARE TO GUESS? I FOUND IT!!!

"Emergency" was sort of right, their name was The Emergency, later they changed it to Enemy Ships and called their first (and only) album "The Emergency". And 'theme song' was on it... and I have it. I HAVE IT!!

Why I googled it again today I don't know. And I was close to giving up again (I'm a good googler, you see? So if it takes me 1 hour to find something, it obviously doesn't exist).

Thanks to the kind people who made this one forum thread about the band and the album - without you, I'd be nothing.

Never, never, never, never give up.
-- Winston Churchill


--Sapnish--

Enthroned - radiance of mordacity (Carnage In Worlds Beyond)
Sentenced - shadegrown (Down)
The Offspring - self esteem (Smash)
Amr Diab - wala leila (Aktar Wahed)
Ceca - zamalo (Gore od ljubavi)
Carpathian Forest - submit to satan!!! (Fuck you all!!!!)
CSS - off the hook (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
Dave Gahan - a little lie (Hourglass)
Gardenian - two feet stand (Two Feet Stand)
Mithotyn - trollvisa (King of Distant Forest)
Hande Yener - kibir[yanmam lazim] (Nasil Delirdim)
The Duskfall - the option and the poison (The Dying Wonders Of The World)
God Dethroned - luciferian episode (The Grand Grimoire)
Deutsche Reimachse - 100% positiv (Bravo Hits 05)

I guess the first thing that actually almost kills the sight on that playlist is the album from Carpathian Forest, the chain of exclamation marks in the song title and album title are real ... its even displayed on the album cover. I have to admint I rather SHRED for satan than submit to him ;-)
Dave Gahan caught my attention in a more positive way, definately worth to listen to more songs of this album, cool stuff. Im glad that most of my playlists are always spiced with some good Turbofolk, Amr Diab, Hande Yener, ...

The end of the list was, sorry to say this ... 100% awful.

back to MM3 and autoDJ :)

Sacrifi-Sir

Cemetary of Scream - landscape of sadness (Melancholy)
Yesterdays Rising - torn and weathered
Tommy Dorsey feat Frank Sinatra - yearning (Swing Era)
Black Sabbath - sabbra cadabra (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath)
Savatage - warriors (Power of the Night)
Stratovarius - the abyss of your eyes (Visions)
Primal Fear - save a prayer (Jaws of Death)
Sepultura - saga (Nation)
The White Stripes - forever for her [is over for me] (Get Behind Me Satan)
Lunar Aurora - beholder in sorrow (Ars Moriendi)
Testament - careful what you wish for (The Gathering)
Velvet Sound Orchestra - milonga sentimental
Sandi Cenov - za mene rodjena (Popravi mi dan)
David Guetta - joan of arc (Pop Life)


What a funny ride today - first the melancholic beginning, then the Metal middle and to round it up a quite cheesy goodbye only to throw us out with a wink of genius - 'joan of arc'!


--Sapnish--

What a wonderful sunday ...

Auf der Maur - Auf der Maur
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Rock Goddess - Rock Goddess

samples from Necrophagist

lunch: Burger & Fries

weather: sunny and warm

not much to add from my side, doesnt this sound already like a perfect sunday @work :). Its nice when you can turn on the music a bit louder without "pestering" your colleagues in the other rooms or probably even scare them with the deep growls from Nile or Necrophagist. The last band was recommended by a friend and the first few samples sound interesting, bit progressive approach imo.
They made a cool ending to "only ash remains" taken from the theme that is played in the scene "Dance of Knights" in Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet. Well Hollenthon made a whole song out of that theme, Lords of Bedlam :)
Rock Goddess fit perfectly to the warm and sunny day and to the last hour of my shift at work.

Sacrifi-Sir

What I did last late-summer

Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Ebru Gündeş - Kaçak
In Flames - Reroute to Remain
Type 0 Negative - Bloody Kisses
V/A - Kontor - The House of House Vol. 1
V/A - Dream Dance Vol. 48
Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear
Britney Spears - Blackout
Samael - Passage
Narnia - Awakening
Sanguis et Cinis - Wie der unberührte Traum einer Jungfrau
Mystic Circle - Infernal Satanic Verses
Paola & Chiara - Win the Game


--Sapnish--

Songs to check out

Type 0 Negative - christian woman
Britney Spears - heaven on earth
Ebru Gündeş - iyi şanslar
Theatre of Tragedy - der tanz der schatten
Topmodelz - entre dos tierras
Euphonix - my girl wants 2 party
Sanguis et Cinis - die braut im regen (fiction 8 mix)
Patsy Cline - crazy
Samael - moonskin
Guru Josh Project – infinity 2008
Murat Başaran - bir öpücük kesmez
Haddaway - shout
Grossstadtgeflüster - ich muss gar nix


--Sapnish--

Forhekset!

Having time to listen to music is like a magic forest - Zauberwald. And the future and the truth unfolds before you, and all you have to do is experience it.

I have thought about putting music (and emotions) into written words and tend to say that I will - if I will - write reviews on rateyourmusic in German instead of English, because it's easier for me and will maybe motivate me to write more. Maybe. I still think that rating music is a difficult task, without a doubt.

So, anyway - the journey.. on the train I've listened to Ebru Gündeş - Kaçak and Satyricon - Nemesis Divina.

I've also tried to listen to Reroute to Remain (In Flames), but I didn't like it... So I went back to Dream Dance Vol. 48 (feat. Topmodelz - entre dos tierras <3) and Kontor - House of House Vol. 1 (feat. Euphonix - my girl wants 2 party)

Today I had another small revelation listening to Theatre of Tragedy's Velvet Darkness They Fear. I remember I bought the album quite cheap a couple of years ago, listened to it once while I was working on the PC and never touched it again. But today - outside - in the sun - of course, everything was different, and I loved listening to this classic Gothic Metal album. Seen as single components one could criticize the keyboard sound, maybe the growls, maybe the demureness that is so apparent. But as a whole, this album totally worked for me. Maybe it will not work again in a rainy city in front of a PC. But then again, you can always close your eyes and let the artists take you back to where you loved and lived the songs.

I gave Nemesis Divina another spin before starting to "really listen" to Britney Spears' latest album Blackout. The first couple of songs, as expected - really good beats, but all killed by a soulless and seemingly indifferent Britney. There's a lot to be said about this, and we'll see...


--Sapnish--

Dismal Euphony - flyineye (Python Zero)
Marlene Dietrich - mein mann ist verhindert (Ich bin die fesche Lola)
Savatage - fighting for your love
Giuseppe Verdi - schiudete, ire al carcere (Rigoletto)
The Shirelles - will you love me tomorrow (More Dirty Dancing)
Emperor - inno a satana [live] (Emperial Live Ceremony)
My Dying Bride - the deepest of all hearts (Anti Diluvian Chronicles)
Indira Radić - tika-tak (Zmaj)
Mayhem - anti (Ordo Ad Chao)
Johnny Cash - i walk the line [live] (At San Quentin)
Belphegor - march of the dead (The Last Supper)
In Flames - the chosen pessimist (A Sense Of Purpose)
Tosca - ocean beat (Suzuki)

Only 13 tracks this time cause I had to delete the Taake demo "Manndaudsvinter". Due to the abysmal quality of this recording the track sounded like a next door neighbor mixing a strawberry margarita.


--Sapnish--

Children Of Bodom - follow the reaper (Follow the Reaper)
Enthroned - rites of the northern fullmoon (Prophecies of Pagan Fire)
Nile - i whisper in the ear of the dead (In Their Darkened Shrines)
Kamelot - red sands (Eternity)
Las Ketchup - un de vew en cuando (Hijas del Tomate)
Megadeth - never walk alone...a call to arms (United Abominations)
Ragnarok - nattferd/outro (Nattferd)
Sonata Arctica - draw me (Winterhear's Guild)
Howard Stone - treebeard (The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers OST)
Stratovarius - out of the shadows (Twilight Time)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - là ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni)
Kemal Malovčić - ja volim je (Tek tek)
Sejo Kalac - a jesam te volio
Spite Extreme Wing - non dvcor, dvco (Non Dvcor, Dvco)

I took Today for a walk to Belvedere and enjoyed the last rays of the sunset :). Was cool setlist, favorites were Nile and Mozart, 2 songs on the opposite sides of the music's spectrum but it worked.

... and I <3 my Turbofolk folder :)

Sacrifi-Sir

Dark Angel - an ancient inherited shame (Time Does Not Heal)
Sodom - agent orange (Agent Orange)
Bleak House - rainbow warrior (Bleak House)
Carl Orff - tempus est iocundum (Carmina Burana)
Beherit - intro (Drawing Down the Moon)
Glenn Miller - the spirit is willing (Glenn Miller in Hollywood)
James Brown - get on the good foot (Golden Hits)
Funny van Dannen - flache ratte (Herzscheiße)
Led Zeppelin - whole lotta love (II)
Tori Amos - china (Little Earthquakes)
True - legal robbery (Pedal to the Metal)
Deströyer 666 - i am the wargod [ode to the battle slain] (Phoenix Rising)
Iced Earth - stand alone (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
ABBA - gonna sing you my love song (Waterloo)

The transition from the Drawing Down the Moon intro to Glenn Miller was great :-) Funny van Dannen's track was crap (yes, he has much better stuff).

Interesting was the track off the Sampler "Pedal to the Metal" featuring young metal bands from Croatia - the traditional instruments made quite a nice difference between the grunting.

Oh, and: ABBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--Sapnish--

Tace il fragor

Weekend.

Kemal Malovčić - Tek Tek
Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Sanja Đorđević - Sanja Đorđević
Vincenzo Bellini - I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Therion - Sirius B


--Sapnish--

Mandragora - pantheo (Live at Posthof)
Alexandra - was ist das ziel? (Ihre größten Erfolge)
Bal-Sagoth - hatheg-kla (A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria)
Electric Light Orchestra - that's the way life's meant to be (Light Years - The Very Best of)
Mors Principium Est - pressure (The Unborn)
Mortal Love - hate to feel (All the Beauty...)
Judas Priest - running wild (Unleashed in the East)
Marilyn Manson - the beautiful people (Antichrist Superstar)
Moby - lift me up
Virgin Black - requiem, kyire (Requiem - Mezzo forte)
Therion - gothic kabbalah (Gothic Kabbalah)
Jag Panzer - jeffrey - behind the gate (Dissident Alliance)
Rotting Christ - mephesis of black crystal (Non Serviam)
Conjunto Gloria Matancera - esa china (Cabana Mambo)


Sacrifi-sir & Sapnish

11th hour

@work with music from

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Kontor - House of House Vol. 4
Amr Diab - Laily Nahary

I call it the Shadowfall mix :)

Sacrifi-Sir

Late night shift

@work today

Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely
Günce - Volume II
Madonna - everything live


--Sapnish--

Iron Maiden - aces high (Powerslave)
Viki Miljković - mariš li (Viki)
Pink Floyd - brain damage (The Dark Side of the Moon)
ABBA - as good as new (Voulez-Vous)
Cirith Gorgor - sons of the new dawn (Onwards to the Spectral Defile)
Schandmail - püree (Wahre Helden)
Ancient Rites - dim carcosa (Dim Carcosa)
Christina Aguilera - candyman (Back to Basics)
Frank Sinatra - let's fall in love (Romance)
Enthroned - rites of the northern fullmoon [demo '94] (Prophecies of Pagan Fire)
The Vision Bleak - kutulu! (Carpathia)
Tierra Santa - tierra santa (Las mil y una noches)
Mors Principium Est - lost beyond retrieval (Liberation = Termination)
Timbaland feat Keri Hilson & D.O.E. - the way i are (Shock Value)


Schandmaul's track was a nice instrumental, not as dumb as the track title implies... ahem.

'candyman' - nooooo... :-( I'll say it again, what a decline after an album like "Stripped"...

The Vision Bleak was extremely cool, and the Mors Principium Est track was a true discovery - atmospheric and very interesting.

By the way, Timbaland's well known 'the way i are', with all due respect, is a fine tune, but once more the writing of the vocal melody lines cannot keep up with the exquisite flow of his beats - "instrumentally" this man is an absolute genius.


--Sapnish--

The House of Sapnish - New Lights in the Dark

Newest music:

Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Ihsahn - angL
HIM - Venus Doom
Made of Hate - Bullet in Your Head
Martriden - The Unsettling Dark
Textures - Silhouettes
Labyrinth - Return to Heaven Denied
Busta Rhymes - Genesis


--Sapnish--

Inner Shrine - the inner shrine (Samaya)
Judas Priest - deal with the devil (Angel of Retribution)
Korn - no one's there (Untouchables)
Marvin Gaye - trouble man (Anthology)
Masterplan - crimson rider (Aeronautics)
Nile - execration text (In Their Darkened Shrines)
The Rolling Stones - 2000 light years from home (More Hot Rocks)
James Horner - end credits (Braveheart OST)
Thin Lizzy - vagabonds of the western world (BBC Broadcasts 1972-77)
Virgin Steele - arms of mercury (The House of Atreus, Act II)
Agathodaimon - sacred divinity (Chapter III)
Gustav Mahler - der abschied (Das Lied von der Erde)
Stars of the Lid - even if you're never awake [deuxime] (Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline)
Abigor - demon's vortex (Channeling the Quintessense of of Satan)

The sun breaks through the clouds, yesterday's rain lays a mist over the partly disappointing group phase of Euro 2008 ... Today is never disappointing me though and presents great songs right from the start. Inner Shrine, Nile, Priest, Thin Lizzy on top, nah every song was kinda great this morning, but nothing beats the 29:30 track length of Gustav Mahler's "der abschied" <3

Sacrifi-Sir

Klezgoyim - chessene (...nisch ka Konzert)
Paradise Lost - one second (One Second)
Thyrane - travesty of heavenly essence (Travesty of Heavenly Essence)
Paw - jessie
Johannes Brahms - romanze in f-moll (Sechs Klavierstücke, Op. 118)
Hypocrisy - killing art (Abducted)
Impaled Nazarene - nyrkillä tapettava huora (Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace)
Bruce Springsteen - cover me (Live/1975-85)
Believer - sanity obscure (Sanity Obscure)
Into Eternity - eternal (The Scattering of Ashes)
Kreator - no escape (Terrible Certainty)
Vuco - ne pitaj me (Volim narodno)
Vlado Georgiev - nisam kao on (Žena bez imena)
Nachtmystium - solitary voyage (Demise)


--Sapnish--

Tourniquet - servant of the bones (Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm)
Moloko - sing it back
Rudra - there the sun never shines (Brahmavidya: Primoridal I)
Mor ve Ötesi - cambaz (Dünya Yalan Söylüyor)
Impaled Nazarene - something sinister (Pro Patria Finlandia)
Darzamat - the burning times (Transkarpatia)
Connie Francis - the look of love
Subway To Sally - henkersbraut (Hochzeit)
Scheitan - black rain (Nemesis)
W.A.S.P. - maneater (The Headless Children)
Timbaland - oh timbaland (Shock Value)
Primal Fear - countdown to insanity (Black Sun)
Tarja Turunen - sunset (My Winter Storm)
Wisin Y Yandel - ahora es (Los Extraterrestres)


Darzamat - a Polish Gothic/Dark Metal band. Quite chaotic, but great vocals by Nera (Agnieszka Górecka). Maybe worth checking out.


--Sapnish--

Sapnish: Un montón de cosas nuevas

Primal Fear - New Religion
Xandria - Ravenheart
Seabound - No Sleep Demon
Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
Mónica Naranjo - Minage
Mónica Naranjo - Palabra de mujer
Mónica Naranjo - Tarantula


--Sapnish--

Candan Erçetin - bir dalda iki kiraz/sallasana sallasana (Aman Doktor)
Dark Lunacy - fall (Devoid)
Louis Armstrong - i got rhythm (Golden Hits)
Nightwish - tutankhamen (Angels Fall First)
Siebenbürgen - thou blessed be by night (Delictum)
Mike Batt & The London Philharmonic Orchestra - journey to badek (Caravans)
Louis Prima - just a gigolo/i ain't got nobody (Mickey Blue Eyes OST)
Michael Lloyd & Le Disk - merengue (More Dirty Dancing)
Therion - fly to the rainbow (A'arab Zaraq Lucid Dreaming)
Hand Shocklee - checkin' up on my baby (American Gangster OST)
Barry White - i've found someone (Greatest Hits)
Don Omar - to no sabes (King of Kings)
Pharao - i show you secrets (Young Techno 90ies Vol 2)

ah its good to be back and post on Unholy Today again ... <3 Today

Sacrifi-sir

Sacrifi-sir's Treasure Hunt

Gjallarhorn - Land of Forgotten
Hypocrisy - Virus
Kataklysm - Prevail
Hollenthon - Opus Magnum
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Alight - Alight (Demo)

Sacrifi-sir

Sapnish's newest music

Behexen - My Soul for His Glory
Devin Townsend - Infinity
Giorgos Giannias - 18 Vimata
Jerry Rivera - Ay mi vida
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Daddy Yankee - Los Homerun-es
Seka Aleksić - Idealno tvoja
Wisin & Yandel - Los Extraterrestres
V/A - Super Italia Vol. 1


--Sapnish--

Dania - la tehtar (El Hilwa Di)
Sarah Vaughan - a hundred years from today (My Kinda Love)
AC/DC - get it hot (Highway To Hell)
Bad Religion - no direction (Tested)
Dornenreich - wundenküssen (Bitter ist's dem Tod zu dienen)
Travis - mid-life krysis (12 Memories)
Wind Of The Black Mountains - black goat (Sing Thou Unholy Servants)
Artrosis - żywiołom spętanym (Ukryty Wymiar)
Wilfried - ikarus
Stavros Xarhakos - emena logia mh mou les (Rembetiko - Original Soundtrack)
Ride The Sky - black cloud (New Protection)
Second Impact - masakra 2007 (Polski Dance Vol. 5)
Vlado Georgiev - samo bez ljubavi (Žena Bez Imena)
In Flames - sleepless again (A Sense Of Purpose)


--Sapnish--