One of my favourite Finnish metal bands, Sonata Arctica,  (www.sonataarctica.info) is touring US and Canada. Tourdates are 15.09.2007 The Clubhouse, Tempe USA 16.09.2007 Key Club, Hollywood USA 17.09.2007 Galaxy Theater, Santa Ana USA 19.09.2007 Bluebird Theater, Denver USA 21.09.2007 The Metro, Chicago USA 22.09.2007 Harpo's, ...

Amorphis is a Finnish band playing melodic metal, for those of you who don't know it, one of my favorites. They play kind of death metal too (some grunts here and there) however I don't count that since it's 99% melodic. :-) They find lyrics to their songs from Finnish Kalevala, the national epic. They are releasing new ...

XML, Web Services, ASP.NET, etc. guru/author/speaker Dan Wahlin, along with buddy Spike Xavier, has recorded a great song entitled NO MORE DLL HELL. If you've lived in the Microsoft development world for a few years you'll no doubt find it very funny, even if you are not a heavy metal fan. Rock on, Dan and Spike!

Band Schedule was: Devil DriverMadballThrowdownAll That RemainsA Life Once LostUnearthEvery Time I DieNorma JeanPoison the WellStrapping Young LadOpethGWARClutchChimairaLamb of God (If I missed any one or got them out of order I apologize in advance.) All bands were excellent! Devil Driver did a great job of opening up! GWAR was a blood fest ...

I just bought it yesteday and have listened to it several times! I think on a whole it's not quite as good as their previous albums, but this one has a lot more diversity. From heavier to their usual distinct ''Evil Disco'' (techno/metal) kind of of sound. So, far ''Just In Case'' is really sticking with me, the drums are simple but cool, and it ...

Well, quite some time has passed since my last post, so it's finally time to get started again! My wife's now over 8 month's pregnant, so that's a little bit of an excuse, lol. Drum lessons have been going well. There was a big change as soon as we moved from 1/4 quarter notes to 1/8 eighth notes. So, my son, hasn't quite caught up there yet. ...

We got our first drum set today! A Pearl Forum Fusion 5-Piece Drum set.I'm glad it came with a pretty good video on how to set everything up!I think the drums need a little better tuning still, especially the bass, but we'll definitely have a good set to practice our lessons on.Kaleb got behind a drum set for the first time in our lesson yesterday ...

We had our second drum lesson! Now we get to try and learn how to Paradiddle! I saw on a website some where, a very good tip, Par-a- Diddle-Diddle. Say that as we're practicing to remember it's R-L-RR and L-R-LL. We've got to get a drum set! At this point, I don't see how one could very easily at all really learn how to play the drums and not ...

So far the only thing my 6 year old, Kaleb, has expressed any interest in to the point of being willing to take lessons is Drums! We've tried to talk him into taking Karate lessons and numerous other things, but he'd just rather stay at home and play Age of Mythology and Command and Conquer Red Alert, Red Alert 2, and Yuri's Revenge! He knows ...

Over the years I've seen many contests and shows (VH1), etc that have asked the question What is the best hard rock band in the world? It seems Led Zepplin is chosen 9 out of 10 times. I'm sorry, but MAYBE ''rock'' band, but definitely not HARD ROCK band! Metallica deserves a massive amount of credit for the metal music scene. Granted, I didn't ...