Animal Alpha
EP

Children of Bodom
Chaos Ridden Years Stockholm Knockout Live Special Edition (DVD + 2 CD)
Follow the Reaper Special Edition


The Clash
Combat Rock
London Calling

KoЯn
Issues
Take A Look In the Mirror

Megadeth
Youthanasia

Punk's Not Dead (DVD Documentary)

Ramones
Greatest Hits

Sex Pistols
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

Stam1na
Raja

Sum 41
All Killer No Filler
Chuck
Does This Look Infected?
Introduction To Destruction (DVD)
Sake Bombs And Happy Endings (Live DVD)
Underclass Hero

Turbonegro
Apocalypse Dudes
Ass Cobra
Party Animals


CDs: 18

DVDs: 3

EPs: 1

I will buy more:
Children of Bodom
Megadeth
Norther
Stam1na

One part extreme metal, one part big balls rock'n roll, a whole lot of sweat and more energy than a raging flock of bulls. Monolithic (http://www.zxzw.nl/2008/act/483) seek to push the boundaries of what is physically possible in rhythmic music today. Monolithic is total awareness and explosive energy throughout! Baritone guitarist Stian Westerhus also plays in PUMA (also on ZXZW Tuesday 16 September), Bladed and Jaga Jazzist. Kenneth Kapstad is also the drummer in Motorpsycho and Animal Alpha.

Monolithic is part of the Norwegian Invasion and will play the 013 on Tuesday 16 September. Norwegian Invasion is a collaboration between ZXZW and our Norwegian counterparts of the independent music club Bla, in Oslo, and is supported by Bureau Cultuurmakelaar in Tilburg. The Batcave will host a whole week of cool Norwegian bands and acts including Shining, Svarte Greiner and Shari Vari.

Check www.zxzw.nl for all info!

In alphabetical order... Not all are included, because I don't care about them.

Animal Alpha (Øyafestivalen, 2005)
Asphyxsis (Checkpoint Charlie and De Røde Sjøhus, 2006)
Avenged Sevenfold (Hove, 2008)
Band of Horses (Folken, 2008)
Bare Eagles Band (Folken, 2008)
Bare Egil Band (Folken, 2008)
BIG BOMBASTIC COLLECTIVE (Cementen, 2007)
Black Lips (Hove, 2008)
Black Sabbath (Oslo Stadion, 2005)
Cat Power (Roskilde, 2008)
Cavalera Conspiracy (Hove, 2008)
Chrome Hoof (Hove, 2008)
deLillos (Bjergstedsparken, 2007)
Dengue Fever (Roskilde, 2008)
The Dillinger Escape Plan (Roskilde, 2008)
Duffy (Hove, 2008)
The Dø (Roskilde, 2008)
Fitts for fight (Tou Scene, twice)
Franz Ferdinand (Øyafestivalen, 2005)
Gatas Parlament (Metropolis, 2008)
Grinderman (Roskilde, 2008)
Hayseed Dixie (Folken, 2008)
The Hellacopters (Pulpit og Hovefestivalen)
Ikke Bare Bare Egil Band Band (Folken, 2008)
In Flames (Hove, 2008)
Influence of the Dead Marsipan (many times...)
Iron Maiden (Oslo Stadion, 2005)
Jackman (Pulpit, 2005)
Jóse Gonzáles (Roskilde, 2008)
Job for a Cowboy (Hove, 2008)
Johnny Hancocks (everywhere)
Juan Formell y los Van Van (Roskilde, 2008)
Judas Priest (Roskilde, 2008)
Kaizers Orchestra (many times)
Katzenjammer (Folken, 2008, twice)
Killswitch Engage (Hove, 2008)
The Lovestreets (Checkpoint Charlie, 2008)
Lukestar (Hove, 2008)
Lupe Fiasco (Hove, 2008)
Madrugada (Pulpit, 2005)
Mannepenis (around....)
Mogwai (Roskilde, 2008)
Motorpsycho (Folken and Roskilde, 2008)
Mugison (Roskilde, 2008)
The National Bank (Folken, 2008)
Neil Young (Roskilde, 2008)
The Raconteurs (Hove, 2008)
Radiohead (Roskilde, 2008)
Roger Waters (Stavanger Stadion, 2006)
Rosa Parks (Grottene, 2008)
Rumble in Rhodos (Roskilde, 2008)
Satyricon (Pulpit)
Sebastian Waldejer (Tou Scene, 2007 and Folken, 2008)
Teitur (Roskilde, 2008)
Thom Hell (Folken, 2008)
Thomas Dybdahl (Pulpit and Stavanger Sentrum, 2006)
Timbuktu (Pulpit, 2007)
Turbonegro (Pulpit, 2005)
Ungdomskulen (Folken and Hove, 2008)
The Violent Pineapple Syndrome (Metropolis, 2008)
Yessayer (Hove, 2008)

...more to come...

[Die!]
3 Inches of Blood
36 Crazyfists

Age Are (2x)
Airbourne
Alestorm
Alic
All That Remains
Alter Bridge
Animal Alpha (2x)
Apocalyptica
Arch Enemy
As I Lay Dying (2x)
At the Gates
Avantasia
Avenged Sevenfold (2x)
Axxis

Bad Religion
Banished Force
Behemoth
Belphegor
Benighted
Black Horizonz (2x)
Black Rosie
Blind Guardian
Blood Red Angel
Bloodlights
Bullet
Bullet for My Valentine (2x)

C-FICTION
Caliban
Cannibal Corpse
Carcass
Cavalera Conspiracy
Children of Bodom
Coheed and Cambria
Company Of Heroes (2x)
Contradiction
Corvus Corax
Cradle of Filth
Crematory
Crikey
Ctulu
Custard (GER)

Dark Age
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult
Darvin (GER)
DAVIDIAN (2x)
Deathstars
Decay (GER(Aachen)) (2x)
Desaster
Dew-Scented (2x)
Die Sklaven
Die Toten Hosen
Dimmu Borgir (2x)
Dimple Minds
Dir en grey
Disturbed
Downtime
DragonForce
Duke Rubin

Eisregen
Emerald (CH)
Endstille
Enraged By Beauty
Ensiferum
epilogue
Evocation
Excrementory Grindfuckers
Exodus

Face the Fact
Fair to Midland
Finntroll
Frei.Wild

Galskap
Girlschool
Gorgoroth
Graupel
Grave
Grave Digger
Gurd

Hader (3x)
Haggard
Hatebreed
Hecate Enthroned
Heaven Shall Burn
Helmet
Heralder
Holy Moses

Icon (GER)
Immortal
In Extremo
In Flames (3x)
Inari
Incubator
Infaust
INRUINEN
Insane (GER)
Iron Maiden (2x)

J.B.O.
Jimmy Eat World
Job for a Cowboy
Johnny Panic

KadavriK
Kamelot
Kid Rock
Killswitch Engage (2x)
Kneipenterroristen
Knorkator
Kreator

Lacuna Coil
Lanfear
Leaves' Eyes
Lord Belial (2x)
Lord Bishop Rocks
Lordi
Lostprophets

Machine Head
Mambo Kurt (2x)
Marduk
Marilyn Manson
Mastodon
Mercenary
Meshuggah
Metakilla
Metallica (2x)
Mortal Sin
Mötley Crüe
Motörhead
Motorjesus
Mudvayne
Municipal Waste
Mustasch
My Decadence
Mystic Prophecy

Nachtblut (Osnabrück)
Nachtgeschrei
Narziss
Nashville Pussy
Neaera (2x)
Nebelsturm
Negură Bunget
Never Comes Silence
Nifelheim
Nightwish (2x)
Nile
Non-Divine

Obituary
Onkel Tom Angelripper
Oomph!
Opeth (2x)
Outburst (GER)
Overkill

Papa Roach
Pencilcase
Powderhog
Powerwolf
Primordial (2x)
Pro-Pain

Redrum INC.
RESPAWN inc.
Retribution (GER)

Sabaton (3x)
Sacred Reich
Saiph
Samiam
Samsas Traum
Saxon
Scar Symmetry
Schacht
Scornage (2x)
Seether
Setherial
Shadows Fall (2x)
Shining (SWE)
Silverstein
Simple Plan (2x)
Six Feet Under
Six Flying Putanas
Slaves Under Machine Gods
Slayer
Slipknot (2x)
Sodom
Solicitude
Sonata Arctica
Sonic Syndicate (2x)
Soulfly
Still It Cries
Subway to Sally
SuidAkrA (2x)
susp.act
Sweet Savage

The Black Dahlia Murder (2x)
The Crimson Ghosts
The Haunted
The Hellacopters
The Offspring
The Sorrow (3x)
The Vision Bleak
Thyrgrim
TONK!
Torture Squad
Totenmond
Towers of London
Transilvanian Beat Club
Trivium
Turbonegro
Turisas
Type O Negative

Unearth
Unleashed

V8 Wankers
van Canto
Vendetta
Vengeance
Volbeat
Vreid

Watain
Wednesday 13
Within Temptation



Meine 5 besten Auftritte:

1. Unleashed (Satans Convention 07)
2. Sabaton (One More Beer Party 2008)
3. Volbeat (Wacken 07)
4. Metallica (RAR 08)
5. Slipknot (RAR 05)

Rules: Put your playlist on shuffle and write down the first 25 songs you get:

1. Strawberry Switchblade - deep water
2. Peter Sarstedt - where do you go to (my lovely)
3. Plastic Tree - 睡眠薬
4. Peaches - operate
5. Placebo - teenage angst
6. Belle and Sebastian - if she wants me
7. The Jesus and Mary Chain - happy place
8. Talking Heads - heaven
9. The Cure - friday i'm in love
10. Björk - i miss you
11. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - dawn of the dead
12. The Style Council - the whole point of no return
13. The Orders - desperation takes hold
14. Bauhaus - the spy in the cab
15. The Damned - i just can't be happy today
16. Culture Club - it's a miracle
17. The Beatles - yellow submarine
18. IAMX - you stick it in me
19. The Dresden Dolls - modern moonlight
20. ELLEGARDEN - marry me
21. The Crash - big ass love
22. Animal Alpha - i.r.w.y.t.d
23. Alphaville - summer in berlin
24. Siouxsie and the Banshees - spellbound
25. Wire - start to move

Now take the first line from the first song, the second line from the second song, third line from the third song, etc. and put them in order below to make your scrambled song. If the song doesn't have enough lines loop back to the beginning--like if you need the 22nd line but the song only has 15 lines, you start counting again with the first line as line 16 and end up using line 7.

i think of you
and you dance like zizi jeanmaire
shorteness of breath
i think his zippers stuck

pull the lever, break the fever
and it was hard
oh, i wish that i could feel
everyone will leave at exactly the same time
saturday, wait
or what is more important

if you say so
could rid our world of all their kind?
when desperation, it takes hold on you
the priests hang on hooks
the plastic smiles and micro heat
yellow submarine, yellow submarine

where you climb down
we're gonna take your cities one by one
won't you marry me if I could be a rich boy
where all I could think of was you

it's so easy being me
in the middle of the crossroads
smell the stench.


a true work of art!

Fri 8 Aug – Jurassic Rock

Better late, than never, eh?
Here comes a short report from the 2nd Jurassicrock at Mikkeli, Finland.
Since I'm suffering from a frequent loss of words, I'll use some pictures instead.

The friday was a bit of fiasco, with too much alcohol and a missed gig. But at least we got to see PMMP and Ismo Alanko Teholla, which was the saving act for the day with a great set of old and new songs, ranging from Sielunveljet to BLANCO SPIRITUALS.





(haha, ismo's ass is very well presented above :3)

Saturday was about to have a same miserable start, but fortunately I made it to Kauko Röyhkä & Mikkelin kaupunginorkesteri, which really made my heart melt. Especially the arrangement of Sateinen päivä. (Although there was so few people, I felt ashamed for the audience--)




After Kauko, I hung around a bit and then went to spend next few hours in front of the main stage waiting for Amorphis and Mokoma, the two mighty ones.
The weather wasn't as bad as the day before, but it still was rainy and the front of the stage had already turned into a mud bath.
(I fearfully waited, if there was going to be a pit during Mokoma in these conditions--)




As always, Amorphis threw a brilliant gig and singer Tomi Joutsen's dreadlocks were dead sexy...




The most personal moment of the rainy festival for me, was of course Mokoma's gig. With the pouring rain and the sound I had longed for I was reduced to mere feeling. Tears, joy, excitement, aggression. There hasn't been any other band yet to guide me through those intense emotions both on album and during live performances.


I let myself become a pathetic fanboy once more and brought the "Marko Nassukka"-paper. Though it seemed that it was going unnoticed by the band this time, I gave it a shot when Marko Annala approached our end of the stage during Marras- It paid off! For a brief moment, Marko just stared straight to the paper... (and me.) And there was the tiniest bit of smirk on his face. That was enough for me, nothing more I could have asked from this festival.

After Mokoma, I couldn't get myself excited over Turisas, so I stuck around only for a few songs and then hit the camping area with my friends to enjoy some booze.



But even if Mokoma's gig had been once again a perfection, it still wasn't the absolute best gig of the festival. That was the totally unknown norwegian band's, Animal Alpha's totally intoxicating raging performance which really set me and my friends on fire. Ugh, can't remember when was the last time I had jumped around 'til complete breakdown and exhaustion... and still been that happy!




All in all, I loved the whole festival to bits, even if we came back extremely tired and muddy and beat down. It was the perfect end for this summer's festival frenzy.

everything gets fixed in one day.
magical.

my mac is OKAY AGAIN :D:D
and I finally scrobbled everything I've listened to when on vacation! Almost everything, I think.
AND
I'm seeing Sigur Rós, Grand Island, Animal Alpha, Sonic Youth and maybe some more today! Øyafestivalen with my dad :)

wohoo

Hove was fantastic :D I love festivals so much (except for the fact that I got some sort of virus and my stomach is totally hating me atm).

Highlights: Seeing Panic at the Disco, The Used, The Wombats and The Kooks. I also talked to Dan Whitesides and Jeph Howard of The Used and got Spencer Smith from PATD's drumstick :D Which is totally awesome.

I was also plesantly surprised by Blood Red Shoes and Animal Alpha. I'm definitely going to watch those two bands in the future.

Also, clubbing/rave dancing is so much fun, holy crap.