Ah, March.
Hammerfall is coming through. Megadeth is on one of the best Thrash Metal tours I've heard of in a while. To any of you on heavymetal@, this is old hat. If so - GOOD, I like to maintain a well-informed metalocracy.
Our first show is firing the cannons live this Thursday("Friday") night("morning") from 2-3am and will do so for every week thereafter. Once we're in the throes of it, we'll be able to pepper the lot of you with a wide span of information for calling in for comments, making requests, full playlists, future plans, and what mailing lists you can sign up for if you're interested in hearing more from the mouths of kings.
As for less-happy news, I feel an obligation to pour a proverbial 40 for the dissolution of Luna Mortis, a great start-up band out of Wisconsin with only one album (at least under that name). They remain the best surprise of an opener that I've ever encountered.
Of course, I am still further obliged to rig several tankers of Carlsberg with explosives and to flood Gothenburg's Scandinavium with the alcoholic dross in tribute to Jesper Strömblad. Jesper formed both Hammerfall and In Flames, spending a solid 17 years in the latter effectively revolutionizing the fusion of Death Metal and Thrash into what is arguably the most advanced form of Metal any of us have ever seen, Melodic Death Metal. Jesper has spent something on the order of an entire year at home resting from the tribulations of alcoholic (and possibly World of Warcraft) rehab and officially declared his exodus from In Flames in mid-February.
I cannot wait to see what the man does next.
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