Recently finished my collection of albums by one of my favourite musicians - Tim Skold. While there are a couple of things I'm missing, I have everything that I actually want. So let's go through it: Terrible picture I know, but it's hard to fit everything in at a good resolution without the file size being too big. Anyway, at the top left we have his solo project - Skold: Skold Anomie Suck EP Tonight EP Top middle, we have the KMFDM albums with him as a member of the band: Symbols A
Right, following up on the last entry, I guess I figured out the gender identity thing to some degree. Which means that I will now identify as female. Again, I spoke about it in detail on my Tumblr, but ultimately I am now ready to be myself and this is the first step towards that. So that's nice, I guess.
Never quite paid attention at how expensive university accommodation can be until I started applying for it for my first choice university today. The cheapest self-catered option is £97.86 weekly or £3914.40 annually, as a 40-week contract... That's a lot of money for a student ;_;
I left this off a bit late as I've been pretty busy, but I thought I might as well still do my yearly music list. Before we get to the actually good stuff, why not have a look and maybe laugh at some of the albums that have been less than excellent? These are the albums of 2014 that I have been considerably disappointed by, for one reason or another. A World Lit Only by Fire by Godflesh I'm not really a big Godflesh fan, but I like Streetcleaner well enough and respect their influence in ind
Had my Sociology exam today and am now official done with exams. Forever. Well, until university. It went quite well, but the 33 mark question was all kinds of nasty. "Assess whether interpretivist methods are appropriate for sociological research". Eugh, that's the one specific question I was hoping would not come up. Still, I think I did pretty well on it, and the other three questions were very nice, especially since one of the 21 mark questions was on suicide. So hopefully I got that A I nee
Finally managed to get my hands on a physical copy of my second favourite Boris album, and it is beautiful. Boris CDs are always really neat. Makes me feel a lot better about the prices of these Japanese-only ones.
Gravedigger 2: The gallows-maker, for that frame outlives a thousand tenants. Gravedigger 1: I like thy wit well in good faith. The gallows does well, but how does it well? It does well to those that do ill. [...] To't again, come. Gravedigger 2: Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter? Gravedigger 1: Ay, tell me that, and unyoke. [...] Gravedigger 2: Mass, I cannot tell. Gravedigger 1: Cudgel thy brains no more about it [...] and when you are asked this question next, say
Since I now have a blog, I thought I might as well start doing occasional short album reviews. And since Tragic Idol - the thirteenth album from the founders of Gothic Metal, Paradise Lost - comes out in a week's time, I thought I'd review it's predecessor: 2009's Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us. This was Paradise Lost's twelfth album, and is my favourite by them. It actually also is one of my favourite albums of all time. In comparison to their previous albums, it continues the darker
So I decided to get myself a copy of the 20th anniversary special edition of Rage Against The Machine's debut album. Although usually I try to avoid reissues, especially of albums I already own, the demos and unreleased tracks included on the second CD were enough for me to get this one. I'm quite happy with it. As you can see, the packaging is great and includes some good pictures of the band, although more liner notes from the band members themselves would have been nice. The remaster of the
I probably won't start collecting playing cards again, but I had to order a few decks that looked nice. These arrived today: The Karnival Inferno deck. The colours are a bit bright, but I do like them.
So I'm just gonna jump in on the tide of YouTube posts and leave one of my favourite pieces of music here:
Being able to do this certainly is nice. Should make the 'Rate The Song Above You' topic a lot easier too.
15 - Asia, Urban Dance and Warpath by Boris I'm going to treat these three albums as one for the purposes of this list, just to make it easier. Which should be fine, since they were released at the same time, and are obviously meant to be part of the same trilogy. They released a pretty big album last year, so for the most part this is just Boris relaxing a bit and doing some noise and drone rather than writing songs, and as usual, doing it very well. Usually one probably wouldn't describe
Time for an updated Ghost in the Shell collection post, now that I have all the new Arise stuff. We have the DVDs: Ghost in the Shell / Innocence / Ghost in the Shell 2.0 boxset Stand Alone Complex 1st GIG boxset Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG boxset Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man Stand Alone Complex - Individual Eleven Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Borders 1 & 2 Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Borders 3 & 4 Ghost in the Shell: The New Movi
Received my copy of the 20th anniversary reissue of Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse today. One of the most well regarded and influential black metal albums, and for very good reason. That cover art is so good. It's a 2 CD package, with the first disc containing the remastered album, and the second containing a previously unreleased alternative mix of the album, along with a few rare tracks from EPs and demos they did around the time. This is also a good excuse to show off my collectio
It's been a long time since I used the blog, eh? Might as well do a little life update thingy, as it's been a strange month or two for me. Right now I am approaching two months of having worked in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, which is pretty far from home. It's a job for an Austrian company, which looks like it will last around half a year. I'll occasionally fly back home to London for holidays and stuff, but for the most part I'll be living here, which has been pretty interesting. It's nice to
Well, submitted my last two assignments this morning, and with that it's the end of my first semester of university. Got to say it was quite enjoyable. Very enjoyable even. Definitely the most enjoyable time I've had in education so far. I'm glad that I decided to go with Law after all, as it's actually a very interesting and relevant subject. Although the workload multiplies at a rather staggering rate if left unattended for even the tiniest amount of time, most of that work is fairly interesti
I wish a most happy holiday season upon you all. I am having a great night trying out a slightly new look. Which can totally look festive and jolly for the occasion too.
Yeah, I don't have that kind of money to spend on a CD >.> I also don't quite understand why so few people have heard of Roky Erickson. The guy's band invented psychedelic rock.
So, Paradise Lost just announced this thing: Tragic Illusion 25 (The Rarities), which will be released on the 25th of October to celebrate the band's 25th anniversary and will be a compilation of rarities and B-sides from over the years. It will also contain a brand new song - Loneliness Remains - as well as re-recorded versions of Gothic and Our Saviour. I'll definitely be picking this up. I already have five of the songs from limited edition copies of albums, but I am interested in the re
After some delays with the official Century Media store, my copy of the new Paradise Lost album finally arrived yesterday: A thing of beauty, and probably my album of the year. Of the announced albums I'm aware of this year, only Refused or Ihsahn have a chance of dethroning it. This also means that it's a good time for a Paradise Lost collection post: ^Click for a bigger picture So, the two on the left are: Drown in Darkness - The Early Demos Symbol of Life (Limited edition digi
One of my favourite record labels - Century Media - mark their 25th anniversary this year and have released 25 of their classic albums as limited 2CD editions, which is pretty cool. I got myself City by Strapping Young Lad today and will probably end up getting Paradise Lost's In Requiem despite owning the original, just for the second CD and because that album means quite a lot to me. Might also use these reissues to get some albums by bands I've been wanting to try out, like Turisas, Iced Ear
Why can't it just be rainy and miserable like England's supposed to be? The heat was bad enough yesterday to get in the way of enjoying The Dark Knight Rises, but today it's just horrible. Won't be able to do anything worthwhile at all. I really hate the heat >.>
Time for an updated Ihsahn collection post I guess, given the new album: ^Click for a bigger picture Starting on the left: Thou Shalt Suffer, which is essentially the earliest incarnation of Emperor. They originally released one death metal/black metal EP in 1991 - Into the Woods of Belial - before the band split up, with Ihsahn and Samoth forming Emperor immediately afterwards. However, Ihsahn used the name again in 2000 to release his solo album Somnium, this time it being a neoclassica
I got a ridiculous amount of work to do for tomorrow and it looks like it will take me the night to do it... Well, that's what I get for so foolishly leaving it off until now. At least I have an empty timetable for tomorrow, so I'll just turn up, hand in the work, go home and sleep. Looks like I'll need some coffee for this one...
