Led Zeppelin - your time is gonna come (I)
Therion - symphony of the dead (A'arab Zaraq Lucid Dreaming)
Agent Steel - taken by force (Skeptics Apocalypse)
Solitude Aeturnus - shame on the night (Holy Dio)
Kamelot - creation (Dominion)
Evergrey - rulers of the mind [live] (A Night To Remember)
Cathedral - tree of life & death (The Garden Of Unearthly Delights)
Emperor - towards the pantheon (In The Nightside Eclipse)
Ásmegin - slit livets baand (Hin Vordende Sod & Sø)
Dragonforce - the flame of youth (Inhuman Rampage)
Kampfar - lyktemenn (Kvass)
Marduk - the black... (Fuck Me Jesus)
After Forever - come (Mea Culpa)
Tarja Turunen - sing for me (My Winter Storm)


Wow, a very very metal Today :-) (Thou shalt not question the eternal wisdom upon which Today choses)

My God, Emperor's 'towards the pantheon' is an epiphany of Metal! This intro is something that you never forget once you've heard it. What unbelievable genius. Oh, Emperor...

I said it before and I say it again, Tarja Turunen's album is really good. The track featured here, 'sing for me', has a great melody line and is just completely epic and cool and well done. So much better than the new Nightwish album, and I'm not saying that because of personal preferences regarding that big fight and break up. Even if I seem to be the only person on the planet: this is so much better than "Dark Passion Play".

I didn't understand one single second of the Cathedral track, and I so wanted to... But this album just doesn't work. The Kampfar song was very impressive - this must be a great album to hear in winterwoods. I've yet to hear the rest of "Kvass", but this song was amazing. And then the Symphonic Diva Metal package at the end - that was a great session! And Dragonforce were funny, too ;-)


--MightySapnish--

Mystic Prophecy - the traveller (Regressus)
Bobby Goldsboro - honey
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - barbare, perchè fuggi? (Così fan tutte)
Francesca Gregorini - my flight
Anathema - judgement (Judgement)
Candan Erçetin - melek (Melek)
Connie Francis - heartaches by the number
Bruce Springsteen - war [live] (Live/1975-85)
Cream - deserted cities of the heart (Gold - In The Studio)
The Beach Boys - help me rhonda (Hits Of The Beach Boys)
Dreamtone - reasons (Sojourn)
Joy Division - wilderness (Unknown Pleasures)
Agathodaimon - bitter end (Serpent's Embrace)
Marduk - darkness it shall be [live] (Live In Germania)


'honey' is positively gruesome. Francesca Gregorini's song is one of her better tunes, the demo production is a bit weak, but this track is really enjoyable. My weeping all-time-greatest Connie Francis was also featured again - anyone who hears this voice and doesn't understand why she's special must be dead, or deaf, or both. This is not her best (cover version of a Ray Price song that has must have been covered a million times), but needless to say, it's great.

I may just be ignorant, but I never felt much for Springsteen. Still don't. Plus, I think he improvised a bit and sang the line "war is something that I despise" - really... duh. I don't know the original version of this (I think by The Temptations), but here it didn't work for me. Dreamtone were interesting - did you ever wonder how a progressive Heavy Metal band would sound if Meat Loaf was singing for them? Here you go.

So, Marduk, The Beach Boys, Mozart and Joy Divison in one session - this is what we're here for :-)


--MightySapnish--

Irina Mikhailova - dushenika
Judas Priest - bloodsuckers (Demolition)
Malevolent Creation - shock and awe (Warkult)
Asgaard - mare tranquillitatis (XIII Voltum Lunae)
Enslaved - as fire swept clean the earth (Below The Lights)
Hande Yener - hadi geçmiş olsun (Sen Yoluna... Ben Yoluma...)
Kamelot - fire within (Eternity)
Dismember - autopsy (The God That Never Was)
Desaster - profanation [live] (Brazilian Blitzkrieg Blasphemies)
Pearl Jam - garden (Ten)
Mike Oldfield feat Bonnie Tyler - islands (Elements)
Massive Attack - dissolved girl (Mezzanine)
Occult - work of a legend (Rage To Revenge)
Vesna Pisarović - sklona avanturama (Pjesma mi je sve)


All in all a very good Today (although I had to fight through Oldfield's piece, and to be honest, Vesna Pisarović's song was a little nerve-wracking as well). Enslaved and Desaster were the greatest eyebrow raisers, and it was beautiful to hear Hande Yener and Asgaard again. Also, Today chose almost no love/heartbreak songs. Thanks, I really appreciate that. ;-)

Today's performers - countries of origin:

Kazakhstan - England - USA - Poland - Norway - Turkey - USA - Sweden - Germany - USA - England - England - Netherlands - Croatia


--MightySapnish--

14 sad songs...

... in no particular order:

Rebekah del Rio - llorando (crying)
Stabbing Westward - sometimes it hurts
Anathema - don't look too far
Paradise Lost - over the madness
Inner Shrine - elegiacus in re-min
Madonna - paradise (not for me)
Judas Priest - diamonds and rust [live]
My Dying Bride - the cry of mankind
Massive Attack - special cases
Mor Ve Ötesi - küçük sevgilim
Korn - 4 u
Anthrax - black lodge
Tiamat - do you dream of me?
Auf der Maur - overpower thee


--Sapnish--

Mediæval Bæbes - secreit nicht (Undrentide)
Slayer - die by the sword (Show No Mercy)
Pink Floyd - breathe (The Dark Side Of The Moon)
Cradle Of Filth - queen of winter, throned [live] (Live Bait For The Dead)
Octavia Sperati - future is (Winter Enclosure)
Astrud Gilberto - the girl from ipanema (Late Night Jazz)
Sonata Arctica - broken (Winterheart's Guild)
Impaled Nazarene - hardboiled and still hellbound (Absence Of War Does Not Mean Peace)
Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum - a felicidade (Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum)
Shaggy - boombastic (Dance Mission 10)
Iron Maiden - afraid to shoot strangers [live] (Live At Donington)
Crashdïet - thrill me (The Unattractive Revolution)
Hank Shocklee - railroad (American Gangster Original Soundtrack)
Dorretta Carter - i need the thing (Look To The Light)


Finally Iron Maiden - an amazing live version of the fantastic 'afraid to shoot strangers'. All in all a very nice, very revealing Today (yeah, I have 'boombastic' in my collection, Today likes Bossa nova and Funk, and online sources rank Sonata Arctica as "Power Metal" - hmm...)

Mediaeval - Thrash Metal - Progressive Rock - Black Metal - Gothic Metal - Bossa nova - Melodic Metal - Black Metal/Punk - Bossa nova - Reggae - Heavy Metal - Hard Rock - Funk - Funk


--MightySapnish--

Dania - el salam (Dania II)
Six Feet Under - manipulation (Warpath)
Paul Anka - rembember diana
Judas Priest - devil's child (Screaming For Vengeance)
Haifa Wehbe - a khadtesh baly (Beddi Eesh)
Biomechanical - hunted (Eight Moons)
Ancient Rites - (ode to ancient) europa [live] (And The Hordes Stood As One)
Trivium - requiem (Ember To Inferno)
Orquesta Casino de Hawana - cristal (Selection Of Tangos)
Darkthrone - sempiternal sepuchrality (Soulside Journey)
Black Sabbath - the wizard (Black Sabbath)
Disbelief - the thought product (Navigator)
Snow Patrol - shut your eyes (Eyes Open)
Ray Charles - your love keeps me satisfied (Would You Believe?)


I don't know how Haifa Wehbe from Lebanon got a record deal - but it sure as hell wasn't because of her voice ;-)

Not being very talkative, I just put the genres that Today chose this time:

Arab Pop - Death Metal - Oldies - Heavy Metal - Arab Pop - Progressive Metal - Dark/Viking Metal - Metalcore - Tango - Death Metal - Heavy Metal - Deathcore - Alternative Rock - Soul


--MightySapnish--

Alfred Polansky - recuerdos del generalife (Gran Reserva)
Amr Diab - olt eih (Aktar Wahed)
Crematory - Take (Believe)
Dissection - a lond forlorn (The Somberlain)
The Duskfall - downright dreadful (Lifetime Supply of Guilt)
Enthroned - terminal annihilation (Armoured Bestial Hall)
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - the last one one for life (A Virgin And A Whore)
French Affair - my heart goes boom (Desire)
The Gathering - my electricity (Superheat)
Iron Maiden - Sanctuary (Best of the Beast)
Judas Priest - one shot at glory (Painkiller)
Opeth - in the mist she was standing (Orchid)
Persuader - turn do dust (Evolution Purgatory)
Solitude Aeturnus - the fall (Adagio)

Good morning Today, I know, I neglect you for a long time as the evil power of Fantasy Sports drained the last of my energy ... im back and I can see you present with an extraordinary selection of songs. What shall I say Amr Diab, The Duskfall, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Opeth and Persuader, few of the finest bands I have in my repertoire.
Starting with an accoustic song from Alfred Polansky, excellent guitar play with a touch of Spanish, very relaxing tune. Kind of music that you listen to in the sunset with a glas of whiskey contemplating about life. Something funny on the side, if you search for Alfred Polansky over Google, oh yeah ... unholy Today is the top search result. Is this the beginning of the unholy crusade of Today ?
We are turning to Pop and Amr Diab and a very catchy guitar part in the middle of the song, bit slow ... Id probably know why if I could understand the lyrics.
The next song catches my attention as the "synthi" part is quite good, the growls in German took the atmosphere a bit and a sudden switch in language bit later as well. Im not so familiar with Dissection, but this was a solid Black Metal song with nice double base parts.
May I introduce you to The Duskfall, incredibly amazing band that caught my heart since I was listening to their first song from Frailty. The vocals suit this kind of music so well and the fast parts are well done again, im just missing the melodic touch in this album ... there are other songs from The Duskfall that knock you out of the chair.
From Black to Death to Black ... might be a song title, nevertheless Enthroned surrounds me with an image as id im standing on the battlefield, no vocals on this track though. The keyboard tune in the next song from Eternal Tears of Sorrow stick out and all in all this is good Melodic Death Metal track, suprising change from clean to growls in the start of the song as well.
Ah well ... my heart goes boom, or rather my "old" heart goes boom when I listened to this all time classic from French Affair. At least in this part of the world it was impossible to not hear this song when it got released in 2000. You know what its still cool :)
The next song from The Gathering taken of their Live album Superheat surprised me a bit, as I was taken to the sinister deep of darkness and then back to the sky where the sun rays stroke your face ... ah well, maybe im not still awake, that song kinda caught me.
And my pair of music history is on the list again, Iron Maiden with Sanctuary and Judas Priest with One Shot at Glory :). We are taken to the very early days of Iron Maiden and even if the song is taken from the later compilation you can clearly hear that its an old recording ... love that. It seems only songs from Painkiller make it on my list ... (low thundering rumble in the background) ... ok, I mean im blessed with songs taken from Painkiller and that album is great indeed :).
So here we are on the peak of the my olymp of music, Opeth an extraordinary band that accompany for so many years already. The first song from their first album sparkles with intensive growls from Akerfelt and amazing parts on guitar and drums. Dont be scared of the 14 min, this band takes you on a journey from hard and sinister metal parts to melodic breaks where you can let your soul rest in the sound waves ... <3

now its time to get ready for the concert tonight as INDIRA RADIC is on stage ... YEAH !!!

Sacrifi-sir