Etch Us Reloaded

Lucky Dumpling!

burning my speakers nowadays

Datu's Tribe

Hehehe.. remember this album? If you're 30 and below probably not.

South Park Metallica

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ei!! what don't kill ya make ya more strong! -eric cartman

Death Magnetic

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..kicks ass!!

..here are my reasons why, track by track:

1. That Was Just Your Life starts off like Battery + noticeable difference in James' vocals apparent.. he's back to growling rather than singing + infectious groove all throughout the song + some middle riffs reminiscent of The Four Horsemen + Yes! Kirk's doing a solo again!

2. The End of the Line catchy riff at the beginning + great riff shift at 1:00.. enters a Master of Puppets / Creeping Death style structure + there goes Kirk again.. unleashed + the guitar and drum punches are back + song enters a Load-style section but what the heck.. + only two songs so far and that's it.. this record already rocks!

(by this time, it's safe to max out the volume!)

3. Broken, Beat & Scarred this wouldve probably been a song off the Justice album.. + great riffs , great lyrics + best James vocals in this song

4. The Day that Never Comes by now, I'm a bit deaf.! time for a slower track..without the sissy attitude of Load and St. Anger.. and this One-type fits well + this is a definitive Metallica slow song of old.. not as good as Fade to Black or Sanitarium but close.. perhaps after 50 playbacks, it will become a classic +"love is a four-letter word"?

5. All Nightmare Long interesting Middle eastern intro.. then transcends to one of the album's great riffs + this one is pure thrash.. reminiscent of Whiplash and Ride the Lightning + my favorite track in the album!!

6. Cyanide this has been my the subject of my LSS for the past few days + it gets better and better

7. Unforgiven III WTF.. ill pass this one for the title. + anyway still sounds ok. no hints from the horn intro of the first Unforgiven-s + well.. not the best track in the album.. but Ride the Lightning had Escape right?

8. The Judas Kiss after a meh song, a redeeming one! + this is the album's version of Leper Messiah

9. Suicide and Redemption the 10 minute instrumental song is back!

10. My Apocalypse .. and so is the sonic end song like Dyer's Eve or Damage Inc. + pure pure pure Metallica

all in all.. album is fast awesome and listenable for another 3 years.. on a daily basis.. and best played LOUDDD..

Footallica

Cyanide and Happiness

1. Cyanide..

The new Metallica single "The Day That Never Comes" is due out any hour soon, but I heard em play a new song off the Death Magnetic album, "Cyanide". Wow.. Sept. 12 for the release of the new album.. can't wait! :D

Hmm.. it could mean the new album might, just might, kick ass.. It sounds closer to Justice, without the softness of the last 3 albums with Newsted, and without the meh-ness of St. Anger. . But the drum tracks, guitars and solos, vocals and the bass lines are all solid, old school stuff. Damn, they really are into going back to their roots.

One thing they can never reverse though is.. impending baldness?

.. and 2. Happiness.

Another Attempt..

.. of winning me, the old fan, back. Of me, getting to buy their latest album (I skipped St. Anger). From the demos I've heard so far, it's still gonna be a disappointment. We will never ever get to hear James Hetfield and the gang rock again. Ever. Again. Face it, Cliff is dead, Jason left.

At least, they brought back their pre-Load logo. Plus the concept art for the next album is quite interesting.. a magnetic coffin. I heard they were gonna package it like a coffin too. I just hope I don't bury it after listening to it.

For now i'll keep this as a wallpaper.

Everything You Know is in 3D

...according to U2.

Stone Temple Pilots - Core

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Another song in my head, from Core:

Where the River Goes
Stone Temple Pilots

Yeah, I could hide in the calm of the eye of the storm

And never blow away

Well, I'm a young man with a knife to my back

Some things never seem to change

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

Sing the song or keep it inside

Bought the farm, but the farmer done died

Sing that song, sing that song inside


I wish I could live in the dream
that I fly on the tarred & feathered wings

Well, I'm losing a game of reality

dice where the dealer never ever pays

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

Sing the song or keep it inside

Bought the farm, but the farmer done died

Sing that song, sing that song inside


I wanna be as big as a mountain

I wanna fly as high as the sun

I wanna know what the rent's like in heaven

I wanna know where the river goes

If I was stronger

I could be a mountain range

If night was longer

Could I escape the day?

Where the river goes Where the river goes Where the river yeah

Where the river Where the river Where the river Where the river

Where the river goes

Jar of Flies

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This has got to be Alice in Chains' second best album.. after Dirt. It's a departure from their usual hardcore stuff, with more melodic songs, albeit edgy - but I am not into too much heavy stuff at the moment so I will enjoy this album for now..

The World's Greatest Bass Player is..

.. this dude.

Death Angel Rocks!

They say you should never revisit your childhood heroes. They're better in your head than in real life..

Well sorry to disappoint guys but these quintet of metal geniuses which I listened to since way back when, are still around and unlike the aging metal gods Metallica, they still kick ass! Got to listen one track from their 2004 album - The Art of Dying - and woooo! Still got the same edge as "Kill As One" and their experimental stuff in "Act III". The reason why I like these guys is because unlike the other thrash metal stuff, their songs are well structured and very melodic. No trashy stuff and pointless screams, just pure MUSIC. (Sort of like a better version of Megadeth.)

Yeah.. and the best part is that these guys are FILIPINOS. 100%. 5 more reasons to be proud indeed.

Check em out here.

Spider on the Ceiling

This one could pass for a good record sleeve for a possible single :D

The Great Cliff Burton

The reason why I love playing bass is because of this guy.

Etch Us Days Revisited

nols bing johnpaul celes vizky

Yup I'm reminiscing.. band days. Used to play with 4 other brods - Bing on guitars, Vizky on drums, Nols on vocals, John Paul on his feet.. haha.. to disguise our (my) lack of talent, we didn't (cannot) play covers and so ended up doing our own stuff - not that we wanted to cut a record deal or anything, just to have material to play on stage. To (Etch) Us, being in a band was simply to play and get some rockin' time going.. ending up in Tomas Morato's Persian Kebab after a gig, gobbling shawarma would be the ultimate reward back then :).

This song was originally written by Nols and Bing.. didn't really get to notice how poetic the lines were until now. It does sound a bit suicidal.. but that's probably part of the rebellious (and idiotic) side of youth.. you get lost in love's tug-of-war and you'd feel pretty much the same way the song goes.. haha. Nevertheless I found the song cool, much cooler if you would get to listen to the melody - it started out with Sandman-like riffs then eventually ended up with a blues-like groove..

Spider on the Ceiling


As I drift into my endless sleep
I look up at the spider as it gently weeps
Its web engulfs the neon flames
As I recall my endless shame

Spider on the ceiling
Don't weep for me

I look up at the spider in the air -
As I think of this world which for me hath no care

Spider on the ceiling
Don't weep for me

Slowly but surely I drift into slumber
The spider in confusion looks back at me and wonder

Spider on the ceiling
Don't weep for me

..hope we can record the song in digital format soon..:)