RIP GENE COLAN

Welcome to my DNA

Blackfield was ion tour with the great radiohaed sigur ros alike North Atlantic Oscilliation.
The sound was wonderful, the crowd marvelous, the show great... A bit at a loss of words.. thank you guys.


Blood
Blackfield
Glass House
Go to Hell
Open Mind
Pain
DNA
Once
Rising of the Tide
Waving
The Hole in Me
1,000 People
Zigota
Miss U
Oxygen
Epidemic
Where Is My Love?
Dissolving with the Night

Far Away
Hello
End of the World
Cloudy Now

Chocolate Frogs

It goes with these songs

Chocolate Frogs
State of Mind
Somebody Special
Brother 52
Just Good Friends
Slàinte Mhath
Punch and Judy
Kayleigh
Family Business
Vigil
A Gentleman's Excuse Me
Incubus

Fugazi

Sugar Mice

It is more than 2 hours in company of one of the greatest performer and song writer I have encountered, Derek William Dick a.k.a Fish.
Live acoustic in the new morning on april 23th.
The voice may have some problems with the high keys and has lost some power but the magic is still here.
Thank you FISH.

The Cold Still

The boxer rebellion is starting to make themselves a name in France due to touring and a great spotlight provided By Zegut.
Here a link from their radio sessions.
Their new album the cold still is on sale right now.

http://www.rtl2.fr/emission/session/poprockstation/acoustiques/7661335741/the-boxer-rebellion.html

Amanethes

Here a note to talk about the last audio that went through my ipod, Tiamat last release Amanethes.
Let's do a roll call of the track list.

1. The Temple of the Crescent Moon
Typical goth rock from Tiamat, loud, big voice (but not death) small female participation, lyrics that go with the usual devil / god kinda of lyrics.

2. Equinox of the Gods
This one is more heavy, more devillish than the opener, nice tune.

3. Until the Hellhounds Sleep Again
My personnal favorite, we go into the calm side of Tiamat with a great use of the bells and a great chorus.

4. Will They Come?
Another calm one with a nice heated chorus and nice lyrics.

5. Lucienne
damn after lucy now lucienne, typical and not very inspired Tiamat again here.

6. Summertime is Gone
7. Katarraktis Apo Aima
These too come as a pair. First is the bluesy with great orchestration using strings that leads into a rasping coda, definitly one of the highlight of the album.

8. Raining Dead Angels
This one is the heaviest, most satanic, great for a wrestler heel entry song of the album.

9. Misantropolis
Back to the calm and fragile side of Tiamat again with a nice song with again the nice concept in the lyrics.

10. Amanitis
Wonderful aphasic song leaning toward the greece (where I think the singer now lives)

11. Meliae
The Faux-pas of the album. A uninspired pop song of love straight from the 90ies. Amazing piece of work in itself but kills the flow and mood of the album.

12. Via Dolorosa
Ahhhh good old heavy satanic song back again... feels good. Another Highlight here.

13. Circles
14. Amanes
The last songs sadly tend to end the album not in a very powerful way and are easily forgotten.

15. Thirstsnake
Bonus song that should have caught Meliae's place.


A good album very typical of Tiamat range with a great first two third before being a bit killed by an out of place song , leaving a song left to remember.

http://www.churchoftiamat.com/

Remedy Lane

Next stop for the Pain of Salvation marathon : Remedy Lane.
As usual, a strong concept, much more biographic than before runs throughout this album.
Remedy Lane is about love, lost, relationship and feelings around these sentiments.
It's about everything from falling in love, being betrayed, losing a child, not coping with sentiments and life.
As usual the music is very much a work of art, rythms, little riffs, syncopic guitars and vocals, drums and bass. Every piece of music has its own soul.
The album though less metal than the previous, has its share of slow and sad songs and other very powerful.
This one has it all. every song is great, the concept is strong (though as usual not very joyful) My favorite album, quite perfect in every aspect (even the ugly 3D stuff made by I-do-everything-myself-Daniel Gildenlöw.

Very much worth owning.

6 years ago...in mémoriam Will Eisner