Mot Fjerne Land....

Through the vastness of the sea, the vikings of the Nord and the mythologies come Leaves' Eyes. At first when I listened to this band as my brother's recommendation - I was a Nightwish fan - I found Liv Kristine's voice way too soft for my liking, so I lay it aside.

Took me a while to get into Leaves' Eyes but when I first started listening to them I was playing World Of Warcraft and that's the image I still have in my head when I hear them now. Same goes for my fiancee who also has created this image to go along with the music from Leaves' Eyes. I see the landscapes of Azeroth ^^

No seriously, Leaves' Eyes are very different in style than any other symphonic, female fronted metal band. Their songs are about vikings and mythology and simply very enchanting. I almost saw them live on 18 Nov 2009 but I got the flu in that week so I had to pass. Hope to see them live soon though.

They've just released their album Meredead which is again a totally different angle than they have gone into before, but it rocks nonetheless... It seems like they have mellowed down a bit but the typical Leaves' Eyes style is definitely there!

Tying the "Slipknot"...

My first exposure to Slipknot was an innocent one. I had known the song Vermillion for some time through my brother but never really gave much into it, that is, until I got myself Guitar Hero : Legends Of Rock. The song on there, Before I Forget, sparked my curiosity to check out more of this strange band with masks.

Now my favorite songs are still not many as I still need to listen to Slipknot more than I have already, but Before I Forget, Vermillion, Dead Memories, Duality, Child Of Burning Time, This Cold Black.
I am sure that once I check out more of Slipknot this list will get bigger :)

The "Opeth" Experience

For something that started off really easy and calm, with the album Damnation, I was completely not aware of the 'real' Opeth sound at first.

Damnation was part of a 2 album release in 2003 of which the other, Deliverance, I have yet to check out. Damnation is a really calm, non-grunts album which spews tranquility and easy-listening mellow darkness around, but without the sound in it that would shake me at a later stage.

Damnation has grown on me as it's such an easy listening CD, that you can almost have it playing the entire day without it getting boring or annoying.
So at one point my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to take a leap into the undiscovered metal kind of Opeth, which later turned out I liked even better...

Watershed brought along some of my favorite songs, like Heir Apparent, Lotus Eater, Porcelain Heart, Burden, Hessian Peel... Hell this entire album is a favorite of mine... And with a new album that is in the making I am really curious about what the new release will bring. According to sources Opeth front man Åkerfeldt is writing new stuff...

To be continued...

In the beginning....

In the begin stages of my metalheadness it started off with the older metal courtesy of my sweet boyfriend, to ease into it if you will. Basic influences were Metallica and Iron Maiden. With each passing year I sunk deeper and deeper into the metal pool and became more and more a metal head at heart. At some point with Within Temptation I got into buying myself a Goth metal compilation CD which led me to Nightwish.

The portal Nightwish and goth metal then led me to look into Lacuna Coil amongst other things, Epica, and then on into the more tough stuff later on, a place I lingered at for quite some time before being exposed to tougher stuff less than a year ago.

One of my brushes with tougher stuff was when I came across Slipknot and a personal all time favorite, Opeth. And from there darker and tougher it went... ^^

Here in the continuation of this little blog you will find posts about bands / CD's / concerts that I liked and that I want to share. Beware that the contents will constantly vary between the 'easy listening' stuff and the hard-to-reach depths of darkness within black metal.

Welcome!

After being into metal for some years now I decided that it would be a good idea to dedicate a blog to the metal I'm into. This does not mean that I only listen to one type of metal... No... I'm into all sorts of metal, varying from symphonic metal to black metal... And as I am a very diverse person you will find all sorts of metal posts here. I hope you'll enjoy :)