Bank Holiday Monday

A fourth and final day off work. It's been good but it's been quick. No more holidays now until christmas and already it's getting colder in the nights and mornings. Where did the summer go? Flew by!

Anyway I thought I would post my top 15 albums of the year as it stands in reverse order. Maybe something else will be released later in the year with hopes of denting that 15 who knows eh!

15 ReinXeed - Majestic
14. First Signal - st
13. Sinbreed - When Worlds Collide
12. Axel Rudi Pell - The Crest
11. Wuthering Heights - Salt
10. Masterplan - Time to be King
09. Wicked Sensation - Crystallized
08. InnerWish - No Turning Back
07. Astral Doors - Requiem Of Time
06. Grand Illusion - Brand New World
05. Treat - Coup De Grace
04. Dream Evil - In The Night
03. Pathfinder - Beyond The Space Beyond The Time
02. Rage - Strings To A Web
01. Sabaton - Coat Of Arms

Community Shield

United win the season curtain raiser 3-1 against Chelsea. A good performance to start the season in what is the most open Premier league season probably ever seen. City spending massively big and if they don't deliver a trophy the arabs will ask plenty of questions. PersonallyI have been in the doldrums lately. My ongoing foot problems have recently got much much worse. Of course it's all a curse brought about by being overweight but damn the pain is actually getting me down badly to the point where I feel things are coming to ahead.

Musically speaking I haven't been to any gigs and still stuck in a job going nowhere bloody fast. Life ain't that good at the moment though my chin is usually not down for long. Best album heard lately is an unknown symphonic power metal band from Poland called Pathfinder. I have been waiting for them to finally get their debut out after discovering them on youtube and loving their demo. They finally made it to album number one called Beyond The Space Beyond The Time and it was truly worth the wait. The best thing to come out of Poland since Decapitated!

Hurricane blows out

Alex Higgins died. In my snooker loving youth I used to watch the Hurricane blowing people out on the green baize but he has blown his last. I was never a fan of his though, I liked Davis and Jimmy White but I used to admire the way Higgins flew round the table when at his best. The fact that he lasted till his 61st birthday is a bit of a miracle in itself in my opinion with the booze, drugs and finally the cancer to deal with. So long Hurricane!

yeah well we're...

shit and we know we are! we're shit and we know we are! The ball was miles over the line at 2-1 down but the second half was one of the most atrocious displays of football ever witnessed. It was truly abysmal. Mind, if it goes 2-2 who knows what can happen. Anyway I don't really give much of a hoot about England but this performance was just the pits. The absolute pits!

England v Germany

Well it's baking hot and it's D-Day in South Africa. I am not normally a massive England fan but I make an exception to that rule when playing the Krauts teehee! Come on Wazza put your striking boots on for once will ya. Let's give these Germans a beating they'll never forget!

Fave 16 songs of the year so far

I always like to make a cd-r of fave songs every now and then so I can put it on the old death deck and blast it forth for all the neighbours to enjoy my awesome melodic metal. Here are my current faves. 1 song per band and I managed to fit 16 on the cd. You can download the whole thing below and burn and the blast!

Axel Rudi Pell - 01 - Too Late
Grand Illusion - 02 - 157th Breakdown
Dream Evil - 03 -See The Light
Rage - 04 - The Beggar's Last Dime
Shining Line - 05 - Highway Of Love
Poets of the Fall - 06 - Dreaming Wide Awake
Inner Wish - 07 - Minas Tirith
Reckless Love - 08 - Wild Touch
Sedona - 09 - California Ballad
Human Temple - 10 - Ghost Of You
Astral Doors - 11 - Anthem of the Dark
Sabaton - 12 - White Death
Asia - 13 - Holy War
FM - 14 - Unbreakable
H.E.A.T - 15 - Nobody Loves You (Like I Do)
Treat - 16 - Roar

Download the songs

On another note the World Cup has got off to a terrible start for me. Can't buy a win at the moment and the matches have been rather tame and boring to say the least. It can only improve from here whilst the bookie's satchels are fit to bursting point after England failed to even beat the Americans after a monumnetal mother of all keeping howlers. I hope I get a win soon cause my betting ammo has been taking a hammering so far.

Going to 2020 for a laugh

Hope it don't piss down tomorrow cause i'm going to my first ever 20/20 match at Lord's. Should be laugh if that blasted rain keeps away. At the moment it looks like it's going to be a dodgy day of mixed weather tomorrow. Hopefully by the evening it will be pleasant. Getting some World Cup fever as well as is the whole country as you would suspect. Gonna have a biggish bet on England. By my usual standards anyway! No gigs on the horizon although amazingly the Japanese band Versailles is actually playing here late June. The tickets are an eye watering £25 plus add ons. I love Versailles and I'm sure it will be a spectacular show but that's a heft dent in my wallet and lately that damn thing has been taking a pounding!