Al

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Living in Leeds, UK
Musical interests:
  • Favourite genres: Heavy Metal (and it's myriad of subgenres), Thrash, Industrial, Punk, Bits of everything else that takes my fancy
  • Bands that Float my Boat: Tool, Arch Enemy, Metallica (pre-Load), Slayer, Sepultura, Machine Head, Kyuss, Alice in Chains, Nine inch Nails, Shadows Fall, Iron Maiden, In Flames, Alkaline Trio, AFI, System of a Down, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Fear Factory (Early), At the Drive In, The Mars Volta, Coheed & Cambria, Fugazi, Hell Is For Heroes, The Smashing Pumpkins (pre Adore), Iced Earth, Rob / White Zombie, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend Band, Killswitch Engage, Avenged Sevenfold, Refused, Pantera, Children of Bodom, Queens of the Stone Age, Green Day, Exodus, The Haunted, NOFX, From Autumn to Ashes, Sigur Rios, Monster Magnet, Anthrax, Kamelot, Ampast, Katatonia, Pelican, Dark Tranquility, Draconian, Opeth, Satyricon, Jesu.
  • All time favourite album: Tool - Aenima
I'm human too:
  • Cool day job: Admin Bollocks, nothing exciting but it pays the bills
  • Hobbies: Guitar, Film, Literature, Discovering new and exciting ways to intoxicate myself and writing for this site!
  • Bragging about education/college degrees: 2 years of a computing degree, studying Media, English Lit and History at the moment and one day hope to make a career out of this
Other stuff I can be proud of: I've lived in 6 countries and failed to learn a single language aside from English (barely). I've seen Metallica play witrhout Lars (a vast improvement)
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REVIEWS
PLAYLISTS

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Elektra Entertainment Group Inc.
Stoner Rock
93 / 100 Archive review
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Steamhammer/SPV
Melodic Power Metal
90 / 100 Album of the month
Year of Desolation - Year of Desolation
Prosthetic Records
Thrash / Death Metal
84 / 100 Surprise of the month
Bloody Herald - Like a Bloody Herald Remains
My Graveyard Productions
NWOBHM influenced Metal
40 / 100
Machine Head - The More Things Change
Roadrunner Records
Modern Thrash
85 / 100 Archive review
Purified in Blood - Reaper of Souls
Alveran Records
Thrash / Metalcore
68 / 100
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
EMI
NWOBHM
CLASSIC
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Warner Bros. Records
Ambient / Electronica Infused Metal
89 / 100 Major event
Deftones - White Pony
Maverick Records
Alternative Metal
93 / 100 Archive review
Domain - Stardawn
Limb Music Products
Symphonic, Melodic Hard Rock / Metal
86 / 100
Deadstar Assembly - Unsaved
Pure Records
Gothic / Industrial
35 / 100
Burn in Silence - Angel Maker
Prosthetic Records
Metalcore
73 / 100 Surprise of the month
Halo of Shadows - Manifesto
Massacre Records
Melodic Death Metal
70 / 100
Merendine Atomiche - RAW
Mausoleum Records
Old School Metal / Metalcore
68 / 100
Wastefall - Self Exile
Sensory Records
Progressive Rock / Metal
75 / 100 Surprise of the month
Countime - Broken, Blinded, Betrayed
No Joke Records
Gangsta Hardcore
15 / 100 Crap of the month
Zonaria - Rendered in Vain
Self Financed
Melodic Death Metal
no quote
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Before the Bleeding Sun
Spinefarm Records
(Very) Melodic Death Metal
88 / 100
Dynamic Lights - Shape
DVSRecords
Progressive Rock
78 / 100 Surprise of the month
myGrain - Orbit Dance
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
68 / 100
Niels Vejlyt - The Predator
Ronin Records
Neoclassical Guitarwork Showcase
35 / 100
Tool - 10,000 Days
Volcano
Tool Metal
95 / 100 Album of the month
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
13th Planet
Industrial Thrash
92 / 100 Major event
Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
Geffen Records
Glam Tinged Industrial Rock
75 / 100 Major event
Crimson Death - Death is Essential
Podre Productions
Melodic Death Metal
60 / 100
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Peaceville Records
Dark Atmospheric Rock
93 / 100 Album of the month
Himsa - Hail Horror
Prosthetic Records
Gothenburg Influenced Metalcore
83 / 100
Contrive - The Meaning Unseen
Shock Records
Heavy Metal
35 / 100
Amorphis - Eclipse
Nuclear Blast
Progressive / Folk Influenced Heavy Metal
91 / 100
The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra
InsideOut Music
Progressive Metal
93 / 100 Album of the month
Live Report - Soulfly, 13th Feb 2006, Club Paradiso, Amsterdam
Live Gig
No Quote
Eyes of Fire - Prisons
Century Media
Atmospheric Metalcore
40 / 100
Callenish Circle - [Pitch.Black.Effect.]
Metal Blade
Melodic Death Metal
68 / 100
Legion of the Damned - Malevolent Rapture
Massacre Records
Thrash
72 / 100
Adagio - Dominate
Avalon
Progressive Neo-Classical Metal
92 / 100 Album of the month
Tool - Undertow
Volcano
Tool Metal
93 / 100 Archive review
Neurothing - Vanishing Celestial Bodies (EP)
Self Financed
Metalcore
no quote
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Roadrunner Records
Modern Thrash
CLASSIC
Nodes of Ranvier - The Years to Come
Facedown
Melodic Metalcore
60 / 100
Soulfly - Dark Ages
Roadrunner Records
Thrash Influenced Tribal Metal
89 / 100 Major event
Morning - Hour Of Joy
Black Lotus Records
Progressive Pop Metal
25 / 100 Crap of the month
Winterfell - The Veil of Summer
Self Financed
Technical Power Metal
81 / 100
Wet Animal - Wet Animal
Escapi Music
Heavy Stoner Rock
84 / 100 Surprise of the month
Searing I - Bloodshred
Black Lotus Records
Thrash Metal
72 / 100
Bullistic - Chronicles of Love and Hate
Backstreet records
Heavy Metal
48 / 100
Current playlist All Time Albums