Now that the year is over I can finally do this. I'm glad I did as I saw some kickass movies very recently:
Albums:
Opeth - Watershed
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting At The Devil
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Nachtmystium - Assassins
Movies:
Rambo
The Wrestler
Gran Torino
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Games (sequel city!):
Fallout 3
Gears of War 2
Saints Row 2
Midnight Club LA
Grand Theft Auto 4
Concerts/Shows:
Watain @ Studio Seven
Gospel of the Horns @ Studio Seven
Dream Theater, Opeth and 3 at the Wamu Theater
Dismember, Augury and Tyrants Blood @ the Cobalt
Queensryche @ WRA
"Regrettable... I was hoping for a colleague, but at least we have
another experimental subject..." -Mesa of Lost Women
Hank Williams III - Damn Right And Rebel Proud
Opeth - Watershed
Meshuggah - Obzen
Zimmer's Hole - When You Were Shouting At The Devil...
Ihsahn - AngL
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
Movies:
Dark Knight
Wall-E
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
(I don't see a lot of movies and when I do it's usually with my daughter)
Shows:
Haruspex @ Vnuk's - Cudahy, WI (because it's the only show I played this year)
Suffocation @ The Pearl Room - Mokena, IL
Exodus/Goatwhore @ Vnuk's - Cudahy, WI
Megadeth (Gigantour) @ The Rave - Milwaukee, WI
Trouble @ Vnuk's - Cudahy, WI
Albums due in 09:
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Lamb Of God - Wrath
Cannibal Corpese - Evisceration Plague
Suffocation - Blood Oath
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
Megadeth - ???
Misery Index - Traitors
Zimmer's Hole - While You Were Shouting At the Devil...
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Opeth - Watershed
Greg Laswell - Three Flights From Alto Nido
Concerts:
Lamb of God/Hatebreed/Behemoth - McDonald Theater, Eugene
Jagermeister MusicTour feat. Hatebreed, Type O Negative, Three Inches of Blood and NORTHWEST ROYALE - Roseland Theater, Portland
Movies:
The Dark Knight
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Cd's;
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
The Human Abstract - Midheaven
Meshuggah - obZen
Cynic - Traced in Air
Atmosphere - When life gives you lemons you paint that shit gold
ONLY HUMAN - The Dismantling (can't help it....we put a lot of work into this disc)
Ani Difranco - Red Letter Year
Common Market - Tobacco Road
Mouth of the Architect - Quietly
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
and special mention to artists that I just found out about or got around to liking in 2008 but didn't have any releases this year.
John Mayer - Continuum
Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia
The Frames - The Cost (also the movie Once and it's soundtrack)
Andy Mckee - Art of Motion
Iron & Wine - The Shepard's Dog
[color="DarkOrange"][SIZE="4"]Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal. ~ Mevlana Rumi [/SIZE][/color]
- Roseland Theater, Portland
