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Fear Factory & Sylosis Live at The Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London
Fresh from having my ears destroyed the previous night at Brixton Academy courtesy of Machine Head's overloud sound setup, I really wasn't sure if I was going to make this show. After numerous attempts to ship the tickets, I was unsuccessful, and thus headed down to The Electric Ballroom in Camden with Matt in tow for an evening with Burton, Dino and friends. We arrived too late (6pm doors, finish work at 6pm) to catch much of opening band October File apart from the last couple of songs, which ....
Festival Choices: Download 2010 vs Sonisphere 2010
So we've had a couple of rounds of announcements of bands from the UK's two main alternative/metal festivals. Both seem to be trying to pull out all the stops in the battle for our money. The headliners of both will attract a lot of different kinds of fans. AC/DC are arguably the world's biggest hard rock band ever, and the Download organisers have been trying to get them since 2003. Iron Maiden on the other hand, rival Metallica for the title of the world's biggest metal band, and Maiden headli....
My top 10 albums...of 2008
While everyone else has been churning out their 2009 top tens, I thought I would post a top ten with a little bit of a difference and go back in time slightly as I never managed to get this published at the start of last year. Please let me know what you think, enjoy.
1) Trivium - Shogun
After being accused (more than ever) of trying to sound too much like "Trivtallica" on 2006's The Crusade, Shogun is somewhat more of a return to Ascendancy territory, but the complexity and fierci....
After being accused (more than ever) of trying to sound too much like "Trivtallica" on 2006's The Crusade, Shogun is somewhat more of a return to Ascendancy territory, but the complexity and fierci....
Pay For Content? We need oyster card for online payment (or one touch shopping)
(First off, I will apologise if this is retreading old ground, I have not read anything on this subject and want to see if anyone else has similar opinions or other ideas).
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the concept of paying for content and various websites (namely those operated and owned by Rupert Murdoch) starting to charge for full access to their website content, either through subscription models or one time usage charges. There has been a lot of comments and discuss....
2010 - The Year of Rocksins?
Before anything else, I'd just like to say happy new year to anyone who reads this with this being the first post on My Sweet Shadow of 2010.
Secondly, a lot of you will know I am one of the writers at rocksins.com, a rock and metal news site. This site only started in August, so we're officially only 5 months old, but we are already getting over 20,000 hits a month and doing very well in the Google rankings. I just wanted to draw attention to a couple of posts I have written on there recently.....
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