spielwiese. (Posts about metal.)https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/metal.atom2019-11-17T10:45:26ZfelixNikolalumessakahlaajat by timo rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2010/12/13/lumessakahlaajat-by-timo-rautiainen-trio-niskalaukaus/2010-12-13T18:00:40+01:002010-12-13T18:00:40+01:00felix<div><p>the twentythird video is <i>lumessakahlaajat</i> (german: <i>schneewanderer</i>) by the finnish band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Rautiainen_%26_Trio_Niskalaukaus">timo rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus</a>. it is about the finnish-russian war (though i also read that it is about the yugoslavian war, and the video seems to back this up), when many finnish people had to leave their towns behind and flee into the forests, leaving them with the only two choices of dying or leaving their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimat">heimat</a>. a really depressing song. the finnish lyrics can be found <a href="http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/timorautiainentrioniskalaukaus/rajaportti.html#8">here</a>, and the german lyrics <a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/viewlyrics.php?id=437167">here</a>. the video here is the finnish version; in case you want to prefer german: the german version can be found <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIy8vhp2kao">here</a>.</p>
<p>this is metal. you might like it.</p>
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<p><i>i like it because… </i> it is a very sad, very moving story, about the dark side of wars, about the endless suffering of the civilians. i think this is really well delivered by the rather plain, but intensive style of the band.<br>
the band usually makes finnish songs, but they have two german albums, with translated songs. the results are very remarkable, and sometimes pretty strange, especially the first album, “in frostigen tälern”. <i>schneewanderer</i> can be found on the second album, “hartes land”.</p></div>alive but dead by rage.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2010/12/12/alive-but-dead-by-rage/2010-12-12T18:00:39+01:002010-12-12T18:00:39+01:00felix<div><p>the twentysecond video is <i>alive but dead</i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_%28band%29">rage</a>. this is a live version of a song from a metal band for an orchestra with amplified guitars, played with the lingua mortis orchestra from minsk, belarus. other bands did such projects earlier, but this is still one of my favorite orchestra and metal combinations (next to <i>waltari</i>, but more about that later ;-) ). the lyrics can be found <a href="http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/rage/linguamortis.html#2">here</a>.</p>
<p>this is metal. it also has an orchestra. try it if you want.</p>
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<p><i>i like it because… </i> it’s a really good blend of classic and metal. in my opinion, one of the best. i also first heard this on the <i>dark winter nights</i> sampler, which i already mentioned several times during this series :-)</p></div>torture by music.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2008/12/12/torture-by-music/2008-12-12T14:46:39+01:002008-12-12T14:46:39+01:00felix<div><p>i just read an <a href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/605/451320/text/">article</a> on torturing of inmates of, say, guantánamo bay and american prisons in iraq by exposing them to too loud, repeatingly played music, for example songs by <i>metallica</i>, <i>nine inch nails</i>, <i>eminem</i>, etc. this is really shocking, but what made it way worse was the last paragraph, which states that while bands like <i>rage against the machine</i> and <i>massive attack</i> are opposing the misuse of their music, <i>metallica</i> apparently likes it.<br>
first i hoped that the article was somehow wrong, that they meant it in an ironic or sarcastic way. then, i started searching the web, and found a video interview on <a href="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=104234">blabbermouth</a> by <i>3sat</i> with james hetfield from <i>metallica</i> and an article in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/19/usa.guantanamo">the guardian</a>. some quotes:</p>
<blockquote><p class="quote">“if the iraqis aren’t used to freedom, then i’m glad to be part of their exposure”</p>
<p class="quote">“we’ve been punishing our parents, our wives, our loved ones with this music for ever. why should the iraqis be any different?”</p>
<p class="quote">“part of me is proud is because they chose metallica because he [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_al-Kahtani">mohammed al-qahtani</a>] thought he was hearing the sound of satan”</p>
<p class="quote">“it is just a thing — it’s not good or bad.”</p>
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<p>this already sounds pretty bad, but then i read <a href="http://strongandtheloud.com/2008/09/07/metallica-used-for-torture/">this</a> and watched the video, from 4:45 starting. sorry, but i really had to think, “what kind of idiot is this guy?!” if you compare listening to phil collins on the car’s radio for a few hours to constantly listening to the same piece of music with a <i>very</i> high volume for a whole day, you’re either a complete idiot or you talk without really thinking.<br>
in any case, shame on him.</p></div>the rock 2008.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2008/08/27/the-rock-2008/2008-08-27T00:56:27+02:002008-08-27T00:56:27+02:00felix<div><p>on saturday, i visited <a href="http://www.rock-festung.de/">the rock 2008</a>, a one-day festival held on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festung_K%C3%B6nigstein">königstein fortress</a>, located in the beautiful landscape of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_Switzerland">saxon switzerland</a>, together with a friend. here are some pictures from the fortress:</p>
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<p>after strolling around the fortress interior a bit, we walked near to the stage to watch the first band, <a href="http://www.krieger.eu/">krieger</a>, a german hard rock band. usually, the first band(s) playing on a festival have the ungrateful job of killing some time, while most of the crowd hopes they’ll stop soon. often, they aren’t exactly experienced or aren’t too good. but not <i>krieger</i>; they played a pretty solid kind of hard rock, maybe not exactly my style, but it was good and we enjoyed it. some photos:</p>
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<p>after <i>krieger</i>, a short break took place when the stage was prepared for <a href="http://www.lacrimas.com/">lacrimas profundere</a>, a german gothic metal band. the break went on pretty fast, and the band entered the stage. i haven’t heard them before, just their name. i think i have to listen to some of their albums before i can give a better judgement, but they sounded pretty good. a photo:</p>
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<p>a very noticeable thing about this festival was that all stage reconstructions were done very fast, and the sound quality was really good all the time. i haven’t seen this combination ever before; often, it seems that the reconstruction times were eternal and the sound quality still really bad.<br>
another admireable thing was the strict adheration of the time table. the first two bands had like 30 minutes, and the whole festival was planned to be over by around 23 o’clock, and so they managed to do. even though the doors opened a few minutes later than planned. (well, please admit it, have you ever experienced some festival or concert without any delay?)<br>
anyway, the third band was <a href="http://www.schandmaul.de/">schandmaul</a>, a german medieval metal band. i know a bunch of people who like them a lot, but this doesn’t change the fact that i managed to not know a lot of them except a few songs, maybe. <i>schandmaul</i> did a very nice show. they managed to get the last bits of the party rocking and rolling. definitely a very good live band. some photos:</p>
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<p>then, finally, it was time for the big stars of the evening, the finnish cello rockers <a href="http://www.apocalyptica.com/">apocalyptica</a>. i’ve already <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/10/apocalyptica/">seen</a> them last november in zürich, and they were one of the main reasons why i travelled so far for this festival. the stage design was as usual: four large metal chairs, formed like skulls, with a huge drumkit in the middle:</p>
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<p>their performance was, as usual, excellent. it’s always amazing how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicca_Toppinen">eicca</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perttu_Kivilaakso">perttu</a> manage to combine heavy head banging with playing their cellos perfectly. unfortunately, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antero_Manninen">antero</a> wasn’t playing with a burning cello this time, though. besides that, they managed to let the crowd freak out, and played lots of great songs, including some of my very favorites like <i>prologue (apprehension)</i> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_(Apocalyptica_album)">reflections</a> and the <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/10/apocalyptica/">norwegian black metal classic</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Hall_of_the_Mountain_King">hall of the mountain king</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_(album)">cult</a>, featuring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_L%C3%B6tj%C3%B6nen">paavo</a> stomping around the stage while playing the mountain king. simply great. here are some photos:</p>
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<p>after maybe one and a half hour, everything was over. we took a peek at the merchandizing booth, where the guys from <i>lacrimas profundere</i> were waiting for their fans to talk, being photographed, autographing and talking. then, we took the bus down to the city of königstein and walked back to our <a href="http://www.rock-hostel.de/">hostel</a>, where its owner, lutz, was waiting for the concert attendees at a nice bonfire.<br>
well, i think this concert/festival qualifies for being one of the best i’ll attend this year. the technical stuff was marvellous, the timing good (except that at least lacrimas profundere should have played a bit longer and, well, apocalyptica could have played the whole day anyway :-) ). all four bands were ranging from good to excellent, and in particular the last two made the crowd go crazy. (even though i still don’t get it why on earth one wants to have a mosh pit while a gothic metal band is playing. but then, hell, kiddies aren’t exactly predictable…)</p></div>the gathering.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2008/02/23/the-gathering/2008-02-23T18:16:28+01:002008-02-23T18:16:28+01:00felix<div><p>yesterday i stumbled about <a href="http://www.gathering.nl/">the gathering</a>‘s latest live dvd, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Noise_Severe">a noise severe</a>, recorded in march 2007 in chile. a few months later, their singer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneke_van_Giersbergen">anneke van giersbergen</a>, quit the band. (which, in my opinion, is the end of the band; if they will continue, they will be something very different…)<br>
the dvd contains a lot of songs from their older albums, like the “debut” <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/10/18/mandylion/">mandylion</a> (their first album with anneke and, in my opionion, their best one), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighttime_Birds">nighttime birds</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_To_Measure_A_Planet%3F">how to measure a planet?</a> (which i don’t like too much) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_then_else">if_then_else</a>. the first two can be more categorized as <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2008/01/18/doomology/">atmospheric doom</a> with progmetal and gothic influences, while <i>how to measure a planet?</i> drifts off into a very experimental alternative rock/prog direction; the last, <i>if_then_else</i>, is more into a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_rock">trip rock</a>.<br>
well, so much about the facts.<br>
i’ve already mentioned <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/10/18/mandylion/">several</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/26/best-albums-so-far/">times</a> that <i>mandylion</i> is <i>really</i> good. and i’ll do it again. it’s one of the few albums (next to <i>sentenced</i>‘s <i>frozen</i>) where i like every track, to which i can listen for hours, again and again. so filled with energy, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove_%28music%29">groove</a>, raw power, emotions. so beautiful. (my favorite song is probably <i>leaves</i>, whose music video you can watch <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZICzcPJjwk">here</a>.)<br>
well, <i>mandylion</i> is their best album, i’d say, but they also have other good ones. one which i don’t really know—shame on me!—is <i>nighttime birds</i>, <i>mandylion</i>‘s successor, which seems to be very good, too. and there’s <i>if_then_else</i>, which has several really good tracks, like the melancholic <a href="http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/thegathering/ifthenelse.html#9">saturnine</a> or a beautiful instrumental called <i>beautiful war</i>.<br>
somehow it’s <i>really</i> a pity that i never managed to see them.</p>
<blockquote><p class="quote">“the day you went away<br>
you had to screw me over<br>
i guess you didn’t know<br>
all the stuff you left me with<br>
is way too much to handle<br>
but i guess you don’t care”</p>
<p class="quoteorigin">from <a href="http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/thegathering/ifthenelse.html#9">saturnine</a> by <a href="http://www.gathering.nl/">the gathering</a>.</p>
</blockquote></div>vivaldi, played by two e-guitars.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2008/02/19/vivaldi-played-by-two-e-guitars/2008-02-19T14:49:36+01:002008-02-19T14:49:36+01:00felix<div><p>just found something very cool on <a href="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=91087">blabbermouth</a>: on a guitar workshop, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexi_Laiho">alexi laiho</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roope_Latvala">roope latvala</a> from the finnish melodic death metallers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Bodom">children of bodom</a> played <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi">vivaldi</a> on their guitars! more precisely: <i>summer: presto</i> (op. 4, concerto no. 2, mvt. 3) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_%28Vivaldi%29">the four seasons</a>. check it out:</p>
<div class="youtube"><div class="youtube-disclaimer">[[for legal reasons, i do not want to include youtube videos here anymore. please click on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKJzIEjPIoM">this link</a> to watch the video at youtube.]]</div></div></div>doomology.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2008/01/18/doomology/2008-01-18T23:02:41+01:002008-01-18T23:02:41+01:00felix<div><p>here i want to write a bit about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_metal">doom music</a>, as a huge part of the music i listen to can be counted to this category. in general, it can be characterized as slow, heavy music with dark lyrics, dealing with depression, death, despair, gloom, dying, doomed/unhappy love, and despair. it appears in various shapes, blended with many different genres, including death metal, ambient, noise, gothic music and jazz. even though non-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music">metal</a> doom music does exists, most of doom music is probably metal.<br>
(note that i like all the bands i mention here quite alot, except probably the older stuff of <i>celtic frost</i> which, i have to admit, is mostly unknown to me.)</p>
<p>one of the more traditional doom metal bands is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemass_%28band%29">candlemass</a>, with their 1986 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicus_Doomicus_Metallicus">epicus doomicus metallicus</a> being a major landmark in the doom metal genre. the album is opened by the song <a href="http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/candlemass/epicusdoomicusmetallicus.html#1">solitude</a> (“please let me die in solitude”) which is, in my opinion, one of the best doom songs.</p>
<p>an important crossover doom genre is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death/Doom">death/doom</a> which is, surprise!, a crossover between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_metal">death metal</a> and doom music. usually a bit faster than other doom styles but still being way slower than usual death metal, it features <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_growl">death growls</a>, sometimes mixed with clean vocals, and certain playing styles from death metal such as fast <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_drum#Double_bass_drum">double bass</a> kicking. two bands in this genre i like are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_the_Sun">swallow the sun</a>—one of my most favorite bands; see <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/10/09/swallow-the-sun/">here</a>— and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novembers_Doom">novembers doom</a>. notably are also the older works of bands as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema_%28band%29">anathema</a> (see <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/13/anathema-porcupine-tree/">here</a>), now playing atmospheric metal, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gathering_%28band%29">the gathering</a> (see <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/10/18/mandylion/">here</a>), now playing progressive/alternative/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_rock">trip rock</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentenced">sentenced</a>—another one of my most favorite bands; see <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/16/sentenced/">here</a>—, who later turned to more gothic doom or plain heavy metal, before disbanding 2005.</p>
<p>out of death/doom, another doom crossover called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_doom">funeral doom</a> developed, by slowing down the music, resulting in something which is as slow as a funeral march, hence hinting where its name comes from. besides the lack of speed, the music is even heavier, but also features more <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music">ambient</a> like parts. two bands in this category are <a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=14817">tyranny</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unholy_%28band%29">unholy</a> (see <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/09/27/into-cold-light/">here</a>).</p>
<p>related to funeral doom is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_doom">drone doom</a>, abstracting even more by reducing to a kind of minimalistic music, mainly consisting of a stream of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_%28music%29">drones</a>, i.e. very long lasting notes, while often lacking traditional music structures like rythm or melody, with vocals often so distorted that they are barely understandable. the songs usually last very long, from something between ten and twenty minutes to sometimes filling a whole cd with one song. two important bands in this genre are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunn_O%29%29%29">sunn o)))</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_%28band%29">boris</a> (see <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/09/11/altar-by-sunn-o/">here</a>).</p>
<p>another doom genre which is pretty detached from metal is <i>doom jazz</i> or <i>noir jazz</i>, a blend of doom music and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz">jazz</a>. the only example i know is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohren_%26_der_Club_of_Gore">bohren & der club of gore</a>, a german band who started mixing jazz with hardcore and ambient, resulting in some kind of doom music. later, when their guitar player left, they replaced him by a saxophonist, turning the band completely into a jazz ensemble. their current style is a very dark kind of jazz, without vocals, somehow almost more ambient, somehow similar to funeral doom.</p>
<p>a lot of other more experimental acts exist, like early <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_3rd_and_the_Mortal">the 3rd and the mortal</a> (see also <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/05/the-3rd-and-the-mortal/">here</a>) stuff, which can be described as <i>experimental/atmospheric doom</i>, or the zürich based metal legend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Frost">celtic frost</a>, whose last album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotheist_%28album%29">monotheist</a> could be in parts counted as a certain kind of avantgarde/experimental doom.</p>
<p>another, more “standard” doom metal approach is <i>gothic doom</i>, a mixture of doom with gothic metal. my favorite in this area is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_O_Negative">type o negative</a>, and in particular their most depressing album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Coming_Down">world coming down</a>. some bands which i would also count into this category are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat_%28band%29">tiamat</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_of_Tears">lake of tears</a> and later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentenced">sentenced</a>. <i>tiamat</i> evolved more to gothic rock and had included also different influences besides gothic doom. <i>sentenced</i> began with death/doom, switching to more gothic doom and finally more to a kind of heavy/gothic metal. <i>lake of tears</i>, whose origin lay more in the death/doom origin, went through a change between several different genres; the albums which fit best as gothic doom are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headstones_%28album%29">headstones</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Crimson_Cosmos">a crimson cosmos</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Autumn_%28album%29">forever autumn</a>, all being somehow different to each other.</p></div>best albums so far.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/26/best-albums-so-far/2007-12-26T23:19:08+01:002007-12-26T23:19:08+01:00felix<div><p>after making a <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/25/best-concerts-this-year/">best of concerts</a> list for this year, i decided to make a best of albums list for all albums i have bought until now. i divided this up into several categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>prog;</li>
<li>punk/punk rock;</li>
<li>trip hop, alt rock;</li>
<li>other non-metal;</li>
<li>metal: atmospheric;</li>
<li>metal: death/black;</li>
<li>metal: doom;</li>
<li>metal: extreme prog;</li>
<li>metal: folk/pagan/viking;</li>
<li>metal: gothic;</li>
<li>metal: power;</li>
<li>metal: prog;</li>
<li>metal: other.</li>
</ul>
<p>note that this list reflects a snapshot of my current interest and remembrance of most of the albums. it could already be different in a few days. but feel free to comment or discuss this with me.</p>
<h4>prog.</h4>
<ol>
<li>porcupine tree: deadwing.</li>
<li>pure reason revolution: the dark third.</li>
<li>frost: milliontown.</li>
<li>opeth: damnation.</li>
<li>porcupine tree: the sky moves sideways.</li>
</ol>
<h4>punk/punk rock.</h4>
<ol>
<li>die ärzte: die bestie in menschengestalt.</li>
<li>wizo: uuaarrgh!.</li>
<li>die toten hosen: kauf mich!.</li>
<li>die ärzte: planet punk.</li>
<li>die ärzte: 13.</li>
</ol>
<h4>trip hop, alt rock.</h4>
<ol>
<li>kari rueslåtten: other people’s stories.</li>
<li>radiohead: ok computer.</li>
<li>portishead: portishead.</li>
</ol>
<h4>other non-metal.</h4>
<ol>
<li>kari rueslåtten: spindelsinn.</li>
<li>nine inch nails: the downward spiral.</li>
<li>eläkeläiset: humppasirkus.</li>
<li>bohren & der club of gore: black earth.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: atmospheric.</h4>
<ol>
<li>the 3rd and the mortal: tears laid in earth.</li>
<li>finntroll: visor om slutet.</li>
<li>tool: 10 000 days.</li>
<li>anathema: a natural disaster.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: death/black.</h4>
<p>note that i took out the prog death/prog black (avantgarde) albums into its own category, called <i>metal: extreme prog</i>.</p>
<ol>
<li>bolt thrower: those once loyal.</li>
<li>moonspell: the antidote.</li>
<li>wintersun: wintersun.</li>
<li>amorphis: elipse.</li>
<li>childen of bodom: hatebreeder.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: doom.</h4>
<p>i think this is the category where i could have made the longest list. there are many really good albums missing, for example <i>down</i> and <i>love and death</i> by <i>sentenced</i>, the other <i>swallow the sun</i> albums, <i>sunn o)))</i> and <i>boris</i>‘ <i>altar</i>, some <i>candlemass</i> albums, <i>unholy</i>‘s <i>the second ring of power</i>, and some more.</p>
<ol>
<li>sentenced: frozen</li>
<li>swallow the sun: ghosts of loss.</li>
<li>type o negative: world coming down.</li>
<li>tiamat: prey.</li>
<li>unholy: rapture.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: extreme prog.</h4>
<p>this category is dominated by opeth; therefore, i decided to list the top seven instead of the top five.</p>
<ol>
<li>opeth: still life.</li>
<li>orphaned land: mabool — the story of the three sons of seven.</li>
<li>opeth: blackwater park.</li>
<li>distorted: memorial.</li>
<li>opeth: orchid.</li>
<li>borknagar: epic.</li>
<li>edge of sanity: crimson (part one).</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: folk/pagan/viking.</h4>
<ol>
<li>moonsorrow: viides luku: hävitetty.</li>
<li>moonsorrow: verisäkeet.</li>
<li>primordial: to the nameless dead.</li>
<li>finntroll: jaktens tid.</li>
<li>moonsorrow: voimasta ja kunniasta.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: gothic.</h4>
<ol>
<li>lacuna coil: karma code.</li>
<li>tristania: beyond the veil.</li>
<li>lake of tears: a crimson cosmos.</li>
<li>poisonblack: lust stained despair.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: power.</h4>
<ol>
<li>nevermore: dead heart in a dead world.</li>
<li>nevermore: dreaming neon black.</li>
<li>symphony x: paradise lost.</li>
<li>communic: waves of visual decay.</li>
<li>nightwish: oceanborn.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: prog.</h4>
<ol>
<li>dream theater: train of thought.</li>
<li>the gathering: mandylion.</li>
<li>ayreon: the human equation.</li>
<li>dream theater: metropolis pt. 2 — scenes from a memory.</li>
<li>dream theater: images and words.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: other.</h4>
<ol>
<li>timo rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus: hartes land.</li>
<li>rage: lingua mortis.</li>
<li>samael: solar soul.</li>
<li>annihilator: king of the kill.</li>
<li>apocalyptica: cult.</li>
</ol></div>best concerts this year.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/25/best-concerts-this-year/2007-12-25T13:25:15+01:002007-12-25T13:25:15+01:00felix<div><p>i think it’s time to take a look at the list of <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-have-been-at/">concerts</a> i <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-want-to-attend-this-year/">attended</a> this year and to list the best ones. at these two links, you can find a pretty complete list of the concerts i attended. i decided to divide the top list into two categories: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock">prog</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music">metal</a>.</p>
<h4>prog</h4>
<p>for the third place, i cannot decide between three concerts, all which took place in pratteln in the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a>, namely, first, the <a href="http://www.spocksbeard.com/">spock’s beard</a> gig on the 16.05.2007, second, the <a href="http://www.anathema.ws/">anathema</a> & <a href="http://moondawn.ch/">moondawn</a> gig on the 31.05.2007, and, third, the <a href="http://www.the-company.com/">fish</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/28/fish/">gig</a> on the 27.11.2007. all three gigs have been very good. most memorable was probably <i>spock’s beard</i> keyboardist, playing with both hands and feet, while his poor technician had to hold the keyboard construction together so it wouldn’t fall apart.</p>
<p>the <b>second place</b> goes to the <a href="http://www.blackfield.org/">blackfield</a> & <a href="http://www.purereasonrevolution.com/">pure reason revolution</a> concert, which took place on the 24.02.2007 in pratteln (<a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a>). i think this was the first concert where i really liked the opener, so much that i bought one of their albums. actually, i had to order it by mail, as the ones they had with them were sold out at the end of their concert (hence, i wasn’t the only one who liked it alot). the main act itself, <i>blackfield</i>, a collaboration between the <a href="http://www.porcupinetree.com/">porcupine tree</a> frontman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wilson">steven wilson</a> and the israeli rock star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviv_Geffen">aviv geffen</a>, was also really good.</p>
<p>the <b>first place</b> goes to the <a href="http://www.porcupinetree.com/home/">porcupine tree</a> & <a href="http://www.anathema.ws/">anathema</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/13/anathema-porcupine-tree/">concert</a>, which took place on the 12.11.2007 in zürich (<a href="http://www.volkshaus.ch/">volkshaus</a>). despite several people in the audience didn’t like <i>anathema</i> too much (“too boring”), i was pleased to see them <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-have-been-at/">again</a>. for me, their music expresses simply too many emotions to be boring, eating up energy until bursting into the listener’s ear. the main act, <i>porcupine tree</i>, one of my favorite bands, was as good as i expected them to be. even though they played a lot from the current album, <i>fear of a blank planet</i>, which i don’t like as much as some of the older ones, they also played many classics. unfortunately, they didn’t played <i>arriving somewhere but not here</i>, which i would really loved to listen to. but, besides that, i still think this is the best prog concert i attended this year.</p>
<h4>metal</h4>
<p>again, as before, i cannot decide on someone for the <b>third place</b>, but i have two canidates in mind. the first one is the <a href="http://www.dreamtheater.net/">dream theater</a> & <a href="http://www.symphonyx.com/">symphony x</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/01/dream-theater-and-symphony-x/">concert</a>, which took place on the 31.10.2007 in winterthur (<a href="http://www.eulachhallen.ch/">eulachhallen</a>). the second canidate is the <a href="http://www.apocalyptica.com/home/">apocalyptica</a> & <a href="http://www.sturmunddrang.fi/">sturm und drang</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/10/apocalyptica/">concert</a>, which took place on the 09.11.2007 in zürich (<a href="http://www.volkshaus.ch/">volkshaus</a>). all these bands are really good, and the shows they delivered were so, too, featuring many small details, as neat decoration. but both of these concerts also have their sides. namely, <i>symphony x</i> played way too short (but then, i’ll see them again next february as headliner), the location was strange (the wardrobe was outside), and <i>dream theater</i> could have played longer, too (i heard the rumor that the local organizer fucked this up by not registering the concert with the authorities, which in turn resulted in the police ordering the concert to be ended earlier). at the <i>apocalyptica</i> concert, i didn’t like the opener <i>sturm und drang</i> too much; they played really good and professional, but it simply wasn’t the kind of music which i really like.</p>
<p>the <b>second place</b> is filled by the <a href="http://www.amorphis.net/">amorphis</a>, <a href="http://www.swallowthesun.net/">swallow the sun</a> & <a href="http://www.insomnium.net/">insomnium</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/19/amorphis-swallow-the-sun-insomnium/">concert</a>, which took place at the 18.11.2007 in pratteln (<a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a>). (videos from the concert can be found <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/22/videos-from-last-sundays-concert/">here</a>.) this concert featured three very good finnish bands, one of them, namely <i>swallow the sun</i>, being one of my favorite ones. their shows were good, the selection of songs was, too (i would have loved to hear some more <i>swallow the sun</i> songs, but then, i would probably have only been really pleased if they would have simply played all songs from their three albums, which is slightly unrealistic to expect from a co-headliner). i was headbanging a lot, met some friends, had a lot of fun.</p>
<p>the <b>first place</b> goes to the <a href="http://www.moonsorrow.com/">moonsorrow</a> & <a href="http://www.swallowthesun.net/">swallow the sun</a> concert, which took place at the 09.04.2007 (easter monday) in pratteln (<a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a>). actually, there was a third band playing as an opener, whose name i forgot. this concert was one of the most incluencal concert for me this year, not only as it introduced me to two bands, namely <i>moonsorrow</i> and <i>swallow the sun</i>, which i now count as two of my most favorite bands. besides that, the atmosphere was simply perfect, and so was the audience. i still remember headbanging with eric (a guy i met on this concert and on another one a bit later, who’s also an <i>opeth</i> fan), even though headbanging right next to the mosh pit can be pretty painful…</p></div>videos from last sunday's concert.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/22/videos-from-last-sundays-concert/2007-11-22T20:48:21+01:002007-11-22T20:48:21+01:00felix<div><p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mellipossu">mellipossu</a> <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=117645762&blogID=330078503">posted</a> some videos from last sunday’s <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/19/amorphis-swallow-the-sun-insomnium/">concert</a> by <a href="http://www.insomnium.net/">insomnium</a>, <a href="http://www.swallowthesun.net/2007/">swallow the sun</a> and <a href="http://www.amorphis.net/">amorphis</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li><i>insomnium</i>:
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3vidVs3TFw">bereavment</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_e3hk260JA">change of heart</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsYUkXpsjp8">devoid of caring</a>;</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><i>swallow the sun</i>:
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8jCRbIhuE">these hours of despair</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmgLRIFkdbs">out of this gloomy light</a>;</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><i>amorphis</i>:
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl9EZT3UlAw">silent waters</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70joqlqXc8M">against widows</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkQgF_vj81I">perkele (the god of fire)</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dx9psSUrPw">a servant</a>.</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ul>
<p>thanks a lot for the videos!</p></div>anathema. porcupine tree.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/13/anathema-porcupine-tree/2007-11-13T01:34:28+01:002007-11-13T01:34:28+01:00felix<p>being late. getting there, still in time. being able to stand in the very front. meeting some guys who i met on <a href="http://www.anathema.ws/">anathema</a>‘s last <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-have-been-at/">concert</a>. listening to <i>anathema</i>. rocking. having a great time. break, after 45 minutes. looking out for other guys who announced themselves for the concert, not seeing anyone. <a href="http://www.porcupinetree.com/">porcupine tree</a> coming up. having another good time. for around two hours. then, silence, again. crowd flowing to the outside. checking out the merchandize. buying an <i>anathema</i> cd, getting it signed by the band, talking to the band. queueing up to fetch my jacket. meeting another mathematician i didn’t expected to see. seeing in the distance another one whom i knew to be there. leaving, alone. taking the tram. happening to see a friend in his kitchen from the tram window. buying some pizza. writing this crap. feeling good.<br>
thanks for everyone who helped making this evening so great. i appreciate that a lot.</p>lingua mortis.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/11/lingua-mortis/2007-11-11T23:46:46+01:002007-11-11T23:46:46+01:00felix<p>besides <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/10/apocalyptica/">apocalyptica</a>, there’s another creat classic/metal crossover to mention, <i>lingua mortis</i> by <a href="http://www.rage-on.de/">rage</a> and the <a href="http://www.fok.cz/">symphonic orchestra prague</a>. this is not simply a version of some songs with an orchestra in the background (that’s more common, see, for example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica">metallica</a>‘s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26M_%28album%29">s&m</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater">dream theater</a>‘s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_%28album%29">score</a>), but a complete rewrite of several older <i>rage</i> songs for orchestra together with the usual <i>rage</i> instruments. my first contact with this really excellent piece of music was, <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/10/18/mandylion/">again</a>, the sampler <i>dark winter nights</i>, which contained the <a href="https://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/rage/linguamortis.html#2">alive but dead</a>.<br>
this year, <i>rage</i> was on <a href="https://www.rage-on.de/content/de/live/07.html">tour</a> with the <i>lingua mortis orchestra</i>, playing in <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiew">Київ</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg">Санкт-Петербург</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow">Москва</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizovice">vizovice</a> and, finally, at the <a href="http://www.wacken.com/">wacken open air</a>. originally, they were supposed to also play at the <i>metal dayz</i> in pratteln, but as these were <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/Z7Forum/viewtopic.php?t=3729">cancelled</a>, i had no chance to see them… :-(</p>apocalyptica.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/10/apocalyptica/2007-11-10T19:23:30+01:002007-11-10T19:23:30+01:00felix<p>yesterday i attended <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/10/apocalyptica/">apocalyptica</a>‘s concert in zurich. supported by the youngsters from <a href="http://www.sturmunddrang.fi/">sturm und drang</a>, which were acting pretty professional, both from their playing skills, and their stage performance. that was pretty nice, though not exactly the kind of music i like to listen to.<br>
then, after half an hour of <i>sturm and drang</i> and another half an hour of stage rebuilding and waiting, <i>apocalyptica</i> started off with an (as usual) great atmospheric intro. well. the show was simply great. though, i’m still not convinced that drums fit in there; though some songs a great with drums, most i would prefer to hear most songs without drums, or at least with less audible drums. fortunately they played some songs without, but just a very few… at least, they didn’t started to take a vocalist along their tour…<br>
besides these things, though, the concert was really, really great! besides playing songs from the current album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_Collide_%28album%29">worlds collide</a>, they also played many older songs and also some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica">metallica</a> covers, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg">edvard grieg</a>s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Hall_of_the_Mountain_King">in the hall of the mountain king</a>, one of my very favorite songs, declared by <i>apocalyptica</i> to be a great piece of norwegian black metal (i think they said that on their previous concert here in zurich, around two years ago).<br>
after two encores, they finally left the stage, leaving back a thrilled and enthusiastic crowd.</p>abstrakt algebra.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/10/23/abstrakt-algebra/2007-10-23T23:08:49+02:002007-10-23T23:08:49+02:00felix<p>no, this post is not about the area of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra">abstract algebra</a> in mathematics, but about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_metal">experimental metal</a> project <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstrakt_Algebra">abstrakt algebra</a> founded after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemass">candlemass</a>‘ dismanteling by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling">leif edling</a>. they released one album and started with a second, but ran out of money, and leif ended up escaping bankrupcy by re-using some of the second albums material to create another candlemass album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylis_Glomerata">dactylis glomerata</a> (named after a flower he’s allergic to). the 2006 reissue of <i>dactylis glomerata</i> contains as a bonus disk the unfinished version of the second <i>abstrakt algebra</i> album, entitled <i>abstrakt algebra ii</i> (now guess how the first one was called). well. the arrival of that one kicked me out of bed this morning, when the mailman rang the doorbell. but it was worth getting up for it, and even if it is not a very good album, it is not good, it is interesting, and it is one of the albums every mathematician who has a similar strange taste of music than me should have in his cd shelf. of course, together with their first album, which i just ordered. ;-)</p>sentenced.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/16/sentenced/2007-08-16T01:45:40+02:002007-08-16T01:45:40+02:00felix<p>during updating my music player, i had to think about which albums to put on it and which ones to delete. my previous playlist was really biased towards heavy and dark music, so i decided to lighten it a bit up. well, at least from the musical side. but nonetheless, i decided to add something more heavy, namely something from <a href="http://www.sentenced.org">sentenced</a>, which was my favorite band for a very long time. i was thinking hard about which album(s) to put on the player. maybe something oldskool from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_from_Here">north from here</a>? it contains the beautiful song <i>northern lights</i>. or maybe the <i>love and death</i> ep, containing classics like <i>love and death</i> (go hand in hand once more) and <i>the way i wanna go</i>. then, there’s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_%28Sentenced_album%29">down</a> album, my favorite beauties from this one are <i>bleed</i> (to death), <i>sun won’t shine</i> (on me without your love) and the agressive <i>i’ll throw the first rock</i>. well, then there’s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_%28album%29">frozen</a> album, my first sentenced album after all, and in my opinion still the best one. it contains one of my all time favorite songs, <i>dead leaves</i>. besides that (and many other great songs), it contains the slow rainy ballad <i>the rain comes falling down</i>, <i>grave sweet grave</i> and the (almost) instrumental <i>burn</i> (the pain away). but then, there are also beautiful songs like <i>fragile</i>, <i>dead moon rising</i> and <i>my slowing heart</i> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_%28Sentenced_album%29">crimson</a> album, in particular the latter being so expressive through its monotony. it’s a really sad song, only being topped by <i>no one there</i>, the last song on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_White_Light">the cold white light</a>. <i>no one there</i> is one of the saddest songs i know. (if you have never heard it, consider watching its <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ulTo4s3So">video</a>.) besides this song, <i>the cold white light</i> features some more songs i want to mention: namely <i>cross my heart and hope to die</i> (may my end come tonight), the self-ironic <i>excuse me while i kill myself</i> and the ballad <i>guilt and regret</i>. and, last but not least, there’s sentenced terminal album, fittingly entitled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funeral_Album_%28Sentenced_album%29">the funeral album</a>, which ends the misery with the great, even though more aggressive and more hateful, songs <i>may today become the day</i> (as i plunge into the gray), <i>ever-frost</i>, <i>vengeance is mine</i>, <i>drain me</i> and <i>end of the road</i>. so, there’re a lot of albums to chose from. my final decision was to include exactly the songs mentioned here, instead of a whole album. i’m really looking forward to tomorrow, when i have plenty of time to listen to this great collection of misery. it’s really a tragedy that sentenced is no more. rest in peace.</p>