I've been listening to classical music quite recently, don't ask me what, it was just on the classical radio station here so they have lots of artists I've never heard of, not that I remember artist names anyway. I always have listened to classical music but this is the first time I've started listening to it regularly.

And inbetween classical music I have been listening to metal (of course).
SOAD, Sevendust, Nightwish, APC.

I just bought a new cd by a band called 'Red'. Good stuff. I'm listening to a lot of Project 86 as usual.

My Last.fm page

Here's this weekend's albums listening list:

Around the Fur - Deftones
White Pony - Deftones
Deftones - Deftones
B-Sides and Rarities - Deftones
Team Sleep - Team Sleep
Saturday Night Wrist - Deftones
Deadwing - Porcupine Tree
The Acoustic Verses - Green Carnation
Sleep is the Enemy - Danko Jones

I wonder what the theme is today, eh? Well, I decided to play my entire Deftones collection (as well as side projects, which means the Team Sleep album) to celebrate the new Deftones CD that was just released called Saturday Night Wrist. So far, I've been very impressed with what I heard. Fans of the White Pony album will be very happy with it.

Currently, I'm listening to the title track of the "Around the Fur" CD.

Hurray! White pony is a good album, I'll be sure to get saterday night wrist, when I can get it second hand of course.

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday! Thats means, CDs, CDs, CDs! Here's this weekend's list:

Slaughter of the Soul - At the Gates
Made Me Do It - The Haunted
rEVOLVEr - The Haunted
The Dead Eye - The Haunted
Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun - Red Sparowes
The Eye of Every Storm - Neurosis
Monday Morning Apocalypse - Evergrey
Master of the Moon - Dio

Well this weekend goes to celebrate the new CD by The Haunted called "The Dead Eye". I started with the At the Gates CD because most of the members in The Haunted started in that band. Going back to the new CD though, I have to say that they implemented a new sound with "The Dead Eye". It leans towards heavy metal instead of the thrash metal that they've done in every other release. Personally, I find that very refreshing to hear; they still keep some of the thrash elements in their music, but with this release they're more subdue. The music doesn't go straight for the listener's juggular, instead it's more cerebral in it's attack.

This weekend I wanted to listen to a new CD that I got this weekend, which is the Red Sparowes (sic) CD. It's basically an instrumental band that plays long songs that are supposed to tell a story. The premise of the story is told in the song titles, which are a complete sentence long. The premise of this story is based in the 1950s when the Chinese government told it's people to kill all the sparrows so that their crop would grow better. The people complied, and when they did, the locust population grew to a devastating number. They ruined the crops, which caused a mass starvation in China where millions died from hunger.

I haven't given it a complete listen yet, but it's pretty melodic stuff. It's similiar to Isis' music only without the heavy cresendos of distorted guitars. This band still uses distorted guitars though. If the reviews I've read are true, this band contains members from Isis and Neurosis. It should be an interesting listen nonetheless

Metal Mallet, you have named so many awesome bands that I like! I love heavy metal, like As I Lay Dying, In Flames, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, and a ton of other stuff.

Radont, I love Project 86 as well!!

Yea, heavy metal does seem to be my genre of choice. But most of all I just like to consider myself a fan of well crafted music as I often listen to music from other genres as well (though most of it is generally different forms of rock).

I haven't really given As I Lay Dying or In Flames much of a listen, but I do agree with you on Trivium, Killswitch, and All That Remains. I've been waiting in anticipation for the new Killswitch CD "As Daylight Dies". Only 8 days away! Unless what happened when I tried to get the new Isis CD happens.

I've read pretty much everywhere that the new Isis CD came out on Hallowe'en, yet for some reason in Canada I was told it comes out a week later. So I go back a week later, and they tell it's actually NEXT week (which is now this week). So I told them to give me a call when it actually comes in. So hopefully I get a call this week, even if I don't I'm still going to showup on the weekend and see if it's there.

I'm going to be soooo angry if it turns out that I hate it too. But given the reviews I read, that doesn't seem to be the case. I really want to have it this week though... 2 weeks of expecting to get it is too much.. *sobs*

yeah i was thinking about getting that cd. definitely listen to As I Lay Dying, get Shadows Are Security, its my favorite CD. I am also excited about Killswitch's upcoming cd, and AILD is coming out with a new one too.

Listening to The Mars Volta's Concertina, from their Tremulant EP.

The song is basically Omar and Cedirc putting the blame for the death of Julio Venegas on their former bandmate in At the Drive-In, Ben Rodriguez. Kind of harsh, even if justified, but it's still a good song, with well-written lyrics.

This post has been edited by Dantrag: Nov 14 2006, 05:11 AM

Well, I have taken a sudden liking to the BGMs of King Kong: The Official Game of The Movie.

here's the site

I only like some of each catagory though (including Vampires, raptors, and Skull Island).

This post has been edited by Lord Revan: Nov 15 2006, 03:29 AM

Well I may just be out of place here but music wise, it really depends. My playlist for the weekend consists of DJ Champion (A Canadian Like me!) with his song "No Heaven."
Chris Cornell and his song for the new 007 movie - you know my name.
Some New Billy Talent - Red Flag, Fallen Leaves etc...
Some Bodyrockers with "I like the way you move."
And for filler we have some John Mayer, K-Os, Dave Matthews Band, AFI, and oddly enough we have some Great Big Sea and Justin Timberlake in here too

Eh Taillus, have ya heard the new K-Os CD yet? Atlantis: Hymns for Disco is a friggin' sweet CD! It's definitely going to be high up in my year end list. Cat Diesel, Equalizer, and Ballad of Noah are my favourite songs on that CD so far. His stuff is just so toe-tapping.

Anyways, I decided on a more mellow weekend work listening this weekend. Just for a change of pace. Here's the list of today's albums:

Goodbye Friends of Heavenly Bodies - Neverending White Lights
Eyes Open - Snow Patrol
Final Straw - Snow Patrol
Damnation - Opeth
The Mantle - Agalloch
The Acoustic Verses - Green Carnation
Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun - Red Sparowes
Absolution - Muse

Right now, "Shut Your Eyes" from the Eyes Open albums is playing.

The White Stripes - Little Room
This is an absolute triumph of minimalism; fusion of blues and punk was never so flawlessly executed no wonder TWS are so popular all over the globe.

Hotel Lights. Really good mellow band. Listening to 'Miles Behind Me'. Check them out sometime, though you may not be able to find the album in a record store. Check online.

Recently I bought faith no more-Album of the year, pretty much soley for Ashes to Ashes but the rest is good and I also finally bought Blue Sky Research by Taproot which I like, it sounds quite similiar to audioslave but only when compared to previous Taproot albums, it is a lot slower and the vocals are stronger than their previous music.

Lately I've listened to a lot of 30 Seconds From Mars, Soilwork, Sevendust, Stone Sour and Guns 'N' Roses - all great stuff if you ask me Listened to a lot from Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death..

Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin.

I am presently learning the entire thing on guitar, solos and all... Led Zeppelin has managed to become my favorite band, especially since i got my hands on their discography

Well here's this weekend's CD listening:

The Undying Darkness - Caliban
Alive or Just Breathing - Killswitch Engage
The End of Heartache - Killswitch Engage
As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage
The Fall of Ideals - All That Remains
Gone Forever - God Forbid
Constitution of Treason - God Forbid
Origo- Burst
The Poison - Bullet for My Valentine

The theme this weekend is playing basically all my metalcore collection. I just got the new Killswitch CD, As Daylight Dies, and I'm quite happy with it. I'm actually listening to "The Arms of Sorrow" off that album right now. I actually like their new one more than The End of Heartache, simply because they musicianship and vocals have improved once more. But it's still the relative same formula for them. Hopefully for their next release they try something a little different or take a few risks. But I certainly enjoyed this new one. "This is Absolution" is a friggin' beast!

I've also been listening to a lot of Into Eternity lately. I recently just got their last two CDs, 2006s The Scattering of Ashes, and 2003s Buried in Oblivion. Basically to describe them, I would call them an "extreme" power metal band, since they use all sorts of different vocal styles. Most of it is sung though in a progressive metal / power metal style, that makes it super catchy. The Buried in Oblivion CD in particular has a very Dream Theater guitar sound to them, just with harmonizing arpeggios and the shredding solos. Though the song "Black Sea of Agony" has a definite Dream Theater mid-tempo kinda groove to it. But still, it's amazing stuff, particular for fans of guitarwork.

Oh yes, and they're from Canada, I forgot to mention that! From the middle of nowhere too, Regina Saskatchewan.

Finally someone else knows who I'm talking about. When I say I like Project 86 most people are like "Who?".