August 2011
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Match Report: Villarreal vs. Odense
After a surprise Danish win in the first leg, Villarreal knew that defeat at home was not an option. A single Hans Henrik Andreasen goal from a shocking Cristian Zapata defensive blunder in the 84th minute gifted the Danes with a win that shocked the footballing world, giving them the perfect advantage heading into tonight’s second leg contest at Camp El Madrigal. But the question was could they...
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Match Report: Arsenal vs. Udinese
A team that is ridden with injuries, surrounded by vocally unhappy fans, and has just lost their captain is not a team that will fill many with confidence, but despite all of this, Arsenal’s prospects of advancing from their Champions League qualifier against Italy’s Udinese looked quite promising. It was always going to be close, but just how close would it prove to be?
After only four minutes...
June 2011
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ARTICLE: My Tippeligaen Love Affair
Last night, I got my first guest article for The Elastico published on their site, entitled “My Tippeligaen Love Affair”, centred around why, in my opinion, the big football leagues are not the best and why, in my eyes, the Tippeligaen is. I should have at least another two articles appearing on The Elastico over the next month or so, so keep an eye out for those. They’re a great...
REVIEW: Wolves In The Throne Room - Malevolent...
Yesterday evening, I stumbled across a collection of old movie and music reviews that I wrote a good year or two ago, and I found this, a review I wrote after my first listen to Wolves In The Throne Room’s incredible release “Malevolent Grain”. I think it was published somewhere, but I can’t remember. Anyway, I didn’t hate it, so I thought I’d repost it here:
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REVIEW: Inquisition - "Ominous Doctrines of the...
I’ve had a few articles published on a few different places over the last few weeks, and I’ll be posting them up on here over the coming days. The first article that was published was a short review I did of Inquisition’s latest record Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm for a Greek website called Orthodox Black Metal, which - yep, you guessed it - centres around underground...
I have returned
I feel pretty bad for this blog. Since January 2010, I haven’t paid any attention to it at all. I must admit, this is mainly due to laziness, but I guess I have also been somewhat busy. Kinda…
Anyway, I’ve decided to breath life into it once again, and from now on it will act as my main blog and home on the internet, a place where I can showcase my writing, both that which is...
February 2010
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My 5 Favourite/Most-Played Releases: Week 15/02/10...
Starting from now I have decided to blog every Monday with my top five favourite/most-played releases of the previous week, to give y’all an idea of what has been rockin’ my world and what you should be listening to. Kinda. These aren’t new releases (although, one or two may be, at some point), just releases that have been getting a lot of listens.
This week has been a great...
BURZUM - Belus
I love Varg Vikernes. I’ve blogged about him and, especially, his views before, explaining that despite not agreeing with almost anything that he says, I find myself oddly respecting and understanding his somewhat crazy point-of-view. Yes, he’s a church-burning racist murderer, but he’s badass enough to get away with it. Despite this, my love for Burzum fails to match my love for...
January 2010
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TOUCHÉ AMORÉ - To the Beat of a Dead Horse
Touché Amoré make so much sense in hardcore right now. There’s not much I can really say about them apart from the fact that they play honest, true and heartfelt hardcore, brilliantly bridging gaps between various sub-genres. Elements of post-hardcore, real screamo and melodic hardcore can all be found here, and in great numbers. The band successfully fuse together beautifully melodic and...
Real Shit to Make Ya Feel Shit
Firstly, I should explain that the title is a reference to a DJ Hazard tune. I’m not a fan of it much myself, but you can listen to it here if you so wish.
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of music in our lives, and, more specifically, music that has a negative affect on us emotionally, mentally, etc. It may make us angry, depressed, agitated, cynical, pessimistic,...
V/A - New York Reality Check 101
New York Reality Check, mixed by DJ Premier, is a solid example of 90s underground New York hip-hop. If you have any sense at all and even a slight hint of a decent taste in music, you should download this compilation right away. Listening to this time and time again, I’ve come to the conclusion that East Coast hip hop is more intelligent than West Coast, but I guess that’s an argument...
My Top 10 Releases of the "Noughties"
Compiling this list was probably one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. The last decade has revealed to us so many fantastic records from so many fantastic artists, so to narrow it down to ten is such a hard task. But, it had to be done so I persevered and I feel I have chosen ten worthy artists.
I have also tried to make the list as varied as possible, trying to incorporate as many...
GUAPO - Black Oni
I still haven’t come to terms with how good this album is. There’s something so fantastic about it, but it’s so damn hard to describe. The only word that I can think to use to describe it is, quite simply, “avant-garde”; Guapo are a prime example of experimental, yet clever and interesting, music at it’s absolute best. Subtle psychedelic and 70s progressive rock...
INSIDE OUT - No Spiritual Surrender
Thanks to the recent “Rage Against the X-Factor” campaign over here in the UK, I’ve been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine recently. In fact, I must’ve listened to each album at least three times over the course of two days. It was great as I haven’t listened to Rage Against the Machine so intensely for a good few years. The campaign made me realise just...
ANTESTOR - Det Tapte Liv
“Christian black metal”, “unblack metal”, “white metal”, call it what you want, it doesn’t matter. Anyone who listens to black metal has an opinion on this infamous sub-genre of a clearly evil and Satanic genre of music. I for one see myself as tolerant towards black metal boasting Christian themes, but it definitely is a tricky issue. “Trve,...
Faith & Truth
I’ve been thinking a lot about faith and truth recently and whether or not one can be used along with the other, as they so often are. I have no problem at all with faith. I myself have faith in something, and I’d bet anything that we all, no matter who you are, also have faith in something. Of course, that something is different for all of us, but that something seems to always be...
ALCEST - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
I have no idea why I haven’t blogged about this album before. I’ve recommended it to so many people over the years, so it only makes sense for me to finally give it a well-deserved shout out via Tumblr!
Despite its undoubtable brilliance, there’s not much that I can say about Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde, apart from the fact that it is simply beautiful and breathtaking. This...
DRUDKH - Blood In Our Wells
Perfect for these long Winter nights.
As of late, I have been concentrating fully on redeveloping my strong love and admiration for the black metal scene. In my eyes, Drudkh are a prime example of how powerful true black metal can be. They are also a prime example of the infamous national socialist black metal sub-genre. Despite its obvious racist undertones, NSBM is a very fascinating genre of...