Concerts 2012

Another year has begun, which means another season of concert going! 26 concerts in 2011, a personal record. I highly doubt I can beat that this year. But I am going to try my damnedest!

Concerts In 2012:

1. Queensrÿche
2. Ghost / Blood Ceremony / Ancient VVisdom 
3. Children Of Bodom / Eluveitie / Threat Signal
4. Testament
5. Iced Earth / Symphony X
6. Goatwhore / Hate Eternal 
7. The Black Dahlia Murder / Skeletonwitch / Nile
8. Sepultura / Death Angel
9. Decibel Magazine Tour: Behemoth / Watain / The Devil's Blood / In Solitude
10. Overkill / God Forbid / Suidakra 
11. Scorpions / Geoff Tate
12. Def Leppard / Poison / Lita Ford
13. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
14. Iron Maiden
15. Abigail Williams / Dead Vessel
16. Journey / Pat Benetar / Loverboy
17. Demon Hunter
18. Mumford & Sons
19. Korpiklanni / Moonsorrow / TYR
20. Night Ranger
21. Static-X / Winds Of Plague / The Browning
22. Kreator / Accept
23. Nightwish / Kamelot
24. Rob Zombie / Marilyn Manson
25. Buckethead
26. Morbid Angel / Dark Funeral
27. Epica / Alestorm 
28. DRI
29. Trans-Siberian Orchestra
30. Dethklok
31. Alice Cooper
32. The Faceless
33. Megadeth

Lifetime Concert Total: 129

Van Halen's new "Tattoo"

Careful what you wish for, because it may come true... that's what went through my mind when I watched the video for, recently reunited, Van Halen's new single "Tattoo". This sounds more like a late 80's David Lee Roth solo track than the original Van Halen the world loves. More often than not I felt like yelling "Get David some printed lyrics!" because they left in the times you could obviously see he didn't know the words but was still trying to mouth it... and his dancing in the video (especially the first minute or so) reminds me of Steve Martin's dancing in the movie The Jerk. With all the reasons not to enjoy this video and the song in general, I will be buying the new album that comes out. One because I have a CD addiction; and two because maybe, just maybe, the rest of the album will be good. Fingers crossed...

Random Music Thought 01.03.12

Anthrax

"Worship Music," the newest album by Thrash Metallers Anthrax, is hands down one of the most surprising albums I got in 2011. Out of the three recording singers they've had (Neil Turbin, Joey Belladonna, and John Bush), I mostly enjoy them with John Bush John Bush Vocals "Crush". His voice has always seemed to fit the bands playing a lot more than Joey's Old Joey Belladonna Vocals "Indian". I was not expecting much with the return of Mr. Belladonna (to the bittersweet dismay of us John Bush fans) on the newest album. But I was astoundingly pleased by the masterpiece that Anthrax made with "Worship Music!" New Joey Belladonna Vocals "Crawl" I will even go as far as saying it is the BEST Anthrax album so far, even better than any John Bush era album I enjoy so much.