I would highly recommend Coldplay's new cd "X&Y", its amazing and every song on its spectacular. I used to think their last cd "Rush of Blood to the Head" was their best cd, and one of the best cds ever, but I think X&Y is on par with that, maybe in some ways even eclipses it.

Cds to skip: Becks latest "Guero". Its been out a few months now, but I recently bought it and I think it sucks. The only worthwhile song on it is E-pro, but don't go buying the cd just because you think all the songs will be that good because you will be very dissapointed like I was. Now I am a big Beck fan, and I am well aware hes a little odd to say the least and you can't expect all his songs to be normal mainstream rock, but that said, some songs on here are horrible. The only thing I thought while listening to it was "I could have used this money to buy a different and probably much better cd from my list".

Well BLS (black Label Society) came out with there new CD mafia, the bands front man, singer/guitarist Zakk Wylde is insanely great he played with ozzy from the late 80's to the mid 90's and still plays with him dusring some tours, the rock is hard heavy music primarily about drinking, and life. Most of his albums have 3 or 4 speed metal heavy songs then 3 or 4 really long heavy metal songs and then 3 or 4 ballads, really slow paced sometimes accustic stuff, BLS has put out an album every year since 2000 and all of them are worth owning mafia falls dead center it doesnt contain the real fast paced metal that sone of the other albuks had but it also contains only one ballad, it is a solid album.

While we are on solid albums anyone who is a fan of metal or rock, or melodic beats should scope out vintersorg, this man has put out albums every year since 2000 (in addition to working with at least 5 other bands and 2 other side projects) the man bleeds music and although the stuff he did before 2001 was all norwiegen ( as in the guy only learned to speak english a short period of time ago) he is brilliant, his IQ is something like 178 and it shows in his music which deals primarily with space, time, phyics and the like, in addition to playing every instrument in the band he also writes his mucis and his range of vocals is amazing.

his newest albums are "visions from a spiral generator" (this whole album is about spirals how we percieve them and what pourpose they serve) "The cosmic gennesis" (all about the cosmos and earths reaction in and of it) "the focussing blur" (which is all about perception)

Vintersorg sounds interesting, I'll check it out, because I actually do really love heavy metal too (Ozzy, Rob Zombie, Deftones, StaticX and PM5K are some of my favs). I am also curious how a cd all about how we percieve spirals would sound. I should also tell my friend Stu about it who is basically a mathematical and computer genius and thinks of the whole world in mathematical terms anyway and is also a musician, actually I could completely see him making a cd like that :lol:

E.S.P. Mirage (from the spiral generator


A spiral orbit circumnavigates the axis
Fragments, threads of the origin's shape
The dreary synopsis of an aeon-old praxis
Encircles the thoughts from which minds escape

"And when my soul and spirit unites
in a oneness of the four elements
I'll be the magician of cosmic rites
Using astral instruments"

Like the released psyche of the creator
Swirling around the origin's indicator
Visions from the spiral generator
E.S.P. Mirage!
I intersect the shining pulsator
When I travel in this spirit simulator
Receiving visions from the generator
E.S.P. Mirage!

Perplexed by the questions of our existence
The patterns in external reality
Secretive formulas along an unthinkable distance
Force the thinking into unexplored philosophy

An entity which spins in the galaxy hurricane
With a plasticity changing by the age
The director of periodic meteor rain
Which seems to be framed by a mathematical cage

Mother to events so violent
But as no one hears it, it may be silent

"Therefore my thinking I'll incubate
and search in the duality of I and Me
'cause from trumpets you can alienate
But from silence you can't flee"

Remotely viewing other planes
Using my mind's eye to gaze
As I detect the spiral's stains
In microbes, mountains and every inch of space

Trembling before its divinity
It may be larger than infinity

9. The Enigmatic Spirit (from the album cosmic gennesis)

[Music & Lyrics: Vintersorg]

from a far existence a phantom came
to gibe and curse the mortal.
Abhorrent was its bleareyed glance
wich petrified everything, even the wind.
So, from wich dimension did it travel?
This metaphysical envoy.
Which breaks the logical symmetry,
and stand above our planetary puzzel.

All this is symptomatic for those
who's been baptized in fire.
It is at least my thesis, so I
want the spirit to speak.

[THE SPIRIT:]
"In heaven I am a wild ox.
On earth I am a lion.
A jester from hell,
and the shadows allmighty.
The scientist of darkness
older than the constellations.
The mysterious jinx and
the error in heavens masterplan."

An amorphous energy spawned in
a cataract of flames, invisible for our
supervision. Do we dare to open
our minds and souls to even
analyse it? Or should it rest in
secrecy? All I know is that I can't
deny its licentious attraction,
so I want the spirit to speak.

[THE SPIRIT:]
"In heaven I am a wild ox.
On earth I am a lion.
A jester from hell,
and the shadows allmighty.
The scientist of darkness
older than the constellations.
The mysterious jinx and
the error in heavens masterplan."

Wow, thanks for taking all that time to type up those beautiful lyrics, I can see he is very poetic, and since you (NGC) know who my favorite poets are, you can probably see this is right up my alley ^_^ I'll see if I can download a song of his and then I'll tell you what I think, thanks again :D

his other 2 albums in the band vintersorg (and 2 albums with his band Otyg) are all in norwiegen I dont understand the lyrics but they are quite beautiful, and I actually like music in other languages (when me and my grandmother cook we put on opera and listen to it, most of the time it is italian or latin)

One more month till the new Children of Bodom CD hits the shelves, and I thought mafia was subpar compared to there other stuff.

I would recommend Avenged Sevenfold's newer CD City of Evil not like their older stuff but as good.

I would really stay away from Meshuggah's newer CD Catch 33 a piece of crap in my mind.