I wouldn't go jumping to any conclusions just yet, but it may just be that the simmering, smouldering dark mountain that has been the Journals Section for the last month or more is counting down towards eruption in a volcano of ideas and entries. Maybe. At any rate, there are a few updates this week, as well as (gasp!) a new journal from an old and respected member. Let's see what it's all about then, shall we?
Anteater is looking at progressive metal, with a review of Queensryche's "Promised land", as well as a plug for Metal Month! Nice one, Ant! You'll find it all here in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...n-dollars.html
That new journal whereof I spake is from our old friend
Engine, and he's started delving into
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...avy-music.html, with so far contributions from Siege, Carcass and Cattle Decapitation. Um. Expect it to get only more brutal! (No, it's spelled correctly)...
Ki is staying the course, and in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html he and I are having something of a difference of opinion over Axxis's cover of the Yes classic "Owner of a lonely heart". Apart from that, he's got another song stuck in his head and is looking at his friends Pg.Lost again. Oh yeah, and the new Trivium album gets his attention too.
While his better half is rifling her
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ic-memory.html and digging out gems from Iron Butterfly, Ric Ocasek and the Stones, among others.
A broken computer doesn't keep
Powerstars down! He's using his 3DS to make the occasional update, and this week in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...sicalness.html he's got a review of "Wasting light" by the Foos. Good on ya mate!
And so we come back to me. As Metal Month enters its third week in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html, we have reviews of albums from System of a Down, Moonsorrow, Bathory, Trivium, Satyricon, new albums from Sabbath and Megadeth, as well as another fall into the Meat Grinder, a Triple Box Set featuring Helloween, more of the Metal That Made Me and a whole lot more besides.
Apart from that, in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html there's (finally!) the promised return of Supernatural for season two, while The New Statesman season one wraps up, and I've even managed to get something reviewed for
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html, with an album from a prog act called Willowglass.
And as ever,
Unknown Soldier holds the line as he continues
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html through 1978, with more Judas Priest, live efforts from AC/DC and Ted Nugent, more albums that failed to be included as they did not reach his high standards, and even a heavy metal soundtrack album!
In other news:
DJChameleon tells me he's working on material for his journal which should see the light of publication soon, and the lovely
Vanilla has hinted she may grace us with her stunning presence, so perhaps things are beginning to look up.
Or am I just dreaming all this? Was that an alarm clock I heard? Time to get up already?
Fingers crossed for next week.
Till then,
Toodles!