Some tasty blues-rock/metal this time around. I was introduced to them by my fellow co-workers on the production floor. Left Lane Cruiser has a pretty heavy hard-rock sound infused into some Mississippi hill country blues. It makes for a good compromise for those of use on the production floor that like to listen to country music, and those of us (myself included) that prefer hard rock

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More Avatar goodness!

This certainly is an interesting album, filled with a pleasingly wide variety of influences and sounds. I remember an interview somewhere (YouTube perhaps?) a while back with Johannes Eckerström, the lead singer, saying the band did not want to get stuck making the same sounds and music again and again. They succeeded quite well here; a veritable cornucopia of different styles here!

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More slide guitar and dobro goodness!

(Unknown - discotecnia ottanta)

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On the power metal cheesy fun scale from "At home in the 80's" to "Featured on the box art for a graphics card", Gloryhammer certainly pegs the metre. The first song is about a wizard leading an army of undead unicorns which sets the tone for everything that follows.

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A bit of neo-psychedelic rock here. Think "Doors" mixed with "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club". If you enjoyed Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from (much) earlier, odds are you will enjoy this.

(johnjoseco - Rocktavia)

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The classics.

Not really much to say here

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Not much to say here as there is not much available on the 'tubes about this band. It is composed of sole musician Ben Sharp, and is some quite nice instrumental prog metal.

(PegasusJedi - Daily Sketch 61)

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A bit of folk pop and blues rock today. Barns apparently is a bit of an up and coming musician, so there is not much available now. He has one EP released currently, and I must say I love his voice.

Oddly enough I discovered him though a video ad on YouTube, which has to be up there on my list of "serendipitous times to disable adblock".

Here is hoping for more in the upcoming years.

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Celldweller is a bit of an interesting beast. Very similar to Blue Stalhi previously with the electronic industrial metal. Celldweller expands on it though with a healthy dose of orchestrical composition with measures of D'n'B and dubstep mixed in. If you enjoyed Blue Stalhi, here is an extra serving of that electronic metal goodness.

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That's not a commentary on the following video, by the way. I'm just pretty sure that if he came back to life, he'd be trying to get out of there.

(And yes, one of the two basses in this jazz trio is made out of balloons.)

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So I finally got around to posting my musical work up on Bandcamp.
Right now, just one album for Trans-Atmosphere: The Cosmic Concert is up. Give a listen if you want.

So, on a whim, I decided to see how difficult it would be to find a heavy metal cover of the 60's bubblegum classic "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" on YouTube. As it turns out, the answer is "not difficult at all."

I will never cease to be impressed by the fact that Ashleigh Ball's natural singing voice sounds nothing like the singing voice she gives to either Rainbow Dash or AJ.

I don't know how many are still reading this story at the moment, but maybe you noticed that the title of every chapter is actually a song. A song often has a story to tell and I picked these song because their meaning/story adds to the chapter in some way. The problem is, sometimes I used German songs and not everyone here understands German. But for one very important song I searched the world wide web for a translation. The original German title of "Chapter 80 - Restoring The Light, Facing

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Saw this here and had to share it.

So, I've been seeing a few fellers 'round the sight posting music blogs and the like. I thought, maybe, I'd do the same. Probably will be just a way for me to collate my songs and stuff, despite those very songs being held on my phone, and on my computer, and my laptop, and on several other back-ups...

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This is probably going to sound stupid after my previous post or if you've seen my comment history on YouTube, but at least I don't claim to be a "musicologist". And I know my Soundcloud doesn't exactly suggest that I take music seriously, but I probably know it better than somebody with no experience in music at all.

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Has anyone heard of Erutan? They're amazing!