Watch My Path

Listening to Amon Amarth's newest album "Surtur Rising" via stream.

Loving the outro of "a beast am I", I cannot get enough of it. So beautiful.

At home, purchasing the mp3 album on amazon.de.

In the morning, looking for the outro while waiting for the bus.

Outro is not there.

Googling, finding that there seems to be a version with this outro, another one with the same thing as intro to the next song, "doom over deadman", and apparently one without it: mine.

Feeling like an idiot, going back to the stream to listen to it there.

--> Illegaly downloading.



--Sapnish--

Surrounded by Chaos...

I find my peace in you.

Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
Awesome Melodic Death Metal with good vocals. And the melodies, the melodies...!

REV 16:8 - Grand Tidal Rave
Tidy and flashing Black Metal with wasp guitars - very enjoyable

Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
The new star of modern Soul/RnB. Gives this "tape" away for free to download. This MUST be THE record for a laidback summer night, where you don't talk much, maybe because there is no need, or because there's not much to say.

Milczenie Owiec - frozen
The only really good cover of this Madonna revelation

DJ Project - esti tot ce am
The normal edit or the extended version - this beautiful chorus gets me every time.


--Sapnish--

An Unholy Night of Music

I just came back from an awesome night playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band with my friends. There were a lot of remarkable moments, but a few outstanding ones, such as Lupus singing Fade to Black which was just beautiful or Painkiller hitting even the high notes which would make Rob blush, Sapnish singing clairvoyant with such a passion and Margot performing a version of Nothing else matters that you really felt "nothing else would matter". Well, I had my moments, although I guess passion in singing "Can I play with madness" counts more as being dropped out in the middle of the song.

My thanks to my friends on stage: Margot, Sapnish, Supul and all a good night !!!

Here is the playlist, although I cannot remember the correct order anymore:

Metallica

- battery

- enter sandman

- welcome home (sanitarium)

- seek & destroy

- fade to black

- the unforgiven

- wherever I may roam

- master of puppets

- nothing else matters

The Beatles

- a hard days night

- I want to hold your hand

Faith no More - epic

Hole - celebrity skin

Black Sabbath - paranoid

Kiss - detroit rock city

Blue Öyster Cult - (don't fear) the reaper

Judas Priest

- painkiller

- electric eye

Iron Maiden

- the clairvoyant

- can I play with madness

- the number of the beast

Sacrifi-Sir

Work Playlist

Die Krupps - fatherland
Die Krupps - der amboss
Die Krupps - to the hilt
Amon Amarth - war of the gods
Amon Amarth - embrace of the endless ocean
Helrunar - kollapsar
Helrunar - unter dem gletscher
Satyricon - commando
Labyrinth - moonlight
Sanctuary - die for my sins
Fates Warning - sorceress
Rush - red barchetta
Fear Factory - hk
Schweisser - eisenkopf
Megadeth - holy wars... the punishment due
Arckanum - bafomet

METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wollt ich nur wieder mal sagen.


--Sapnish--

Sapnish 2009

Because I had saved the track ranking, but I never actually wrote it down - here we go, the top tracks of Sapnish's last.fm charts 2009.


Noa & Mira Awad
there must be another way
Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The Israeli entry in 2009 was a magical, bilingual and peaceful ode to what the Song Contest should be all about. Not only the song, also the performance was flawless and unforgettable.

Read the post here for the complete memory. A logical and well-deserved number one for 2009.

Giusy Ferreri
novembre
Gaetana

This stunning track about November hit us in Athens in summer 2009. Yes, the lyrics were autumnal, but this driving, up-beat song works in every season and probably every mood.

Giusy Ferreri, who I'd never heard of before, has an incredibly strong and powerful voice - the comparisons to Amy Winehouse don't really find their target here.
The rest of the album is not as strong, but features various other very good tracks and ideas, which makes this a fine pop album with some soul and rock touches at hand.

Kejsi Tola
carry me in your dreams
Eurovision Song Contest 2009

This song was obviously awesome at first listen, but the crazy and weird performance that evolved on stage really didn't help in realizing that. And so it came to pass that 'carry me in your dreams' earned a strong 2 rating-wise at that point.

With time though it turned out that this is an absolute hit - strong beats, tempo and a great singer. Unforgettable and can be listened to over and over again.

ABBA
lay all your love on me
gimme! gimme! gimme! (a man after midnight)
Super Trouper

These two tracks off the CD version of "Super Trouper" could basically be representative for all the millions of times I have played ABBA that year. Both are genius, beautiful and simply hits. But I think I have said all of this before, so without quoting myself this is the respective entry to worship ABBA - the Gods of Pop.

ABBA
hey, hey helen
ABBA

One of ABBA's lesser known hits, this track is a great rocker, marvellously produced (the sounds, the sounds!) and sung with such angelic drive and beauty - don't miss this one, in fact, don't miss any ABBA song or album or video. Your life cannot be complete without ABBA.

Al Bano & Romina Power
makassar
Libertá!

Not a lot of people from Carinthia will say that this pop duo doesn't spark memories of countless vacations in Italy in the 80ies. When we hear Al Bano's impressive tenor and Romina's silky whispers we are taken back to all these warm summer nights at the beach, or eating pasta and drinking wine.

2009 was my year of rediscovering this Italopop sanctuary, and of all the great tracks they produced together, 'makassar' probably stands out a bit. A song between pop and schlager, enchantingly sung and blessed with one of the best chorus melodies ever. Even people who are ashamed to admit that they still like Al Bano & Romina Power (they are obviously lying) are saying that this track was actually a good one. Which would be the biggest understatement.

--Sapnish--

Mixtape Christmas Holidays 2010

SIDE A
Negură Bunget - pămînt
George Michael - careless whisper
Odyssey - our lives are shaped by what we love
Lady Gaga - dance in the dark
Snap! - rhythm is a dancer
Eddie "Ski" White - baby be mine

SIDE B
Dimmu Borgir - a succubus in rapture
Cradle of Filth - the persecution song
Taylor Dayne - tell it to my heart
Haddaway - rock my heart
Opeth - in mist she was standing
Atlantean Kodex - disciples of the iron crown


--Sapnish--