RIP Paul



Kerry King on Drummers - Joe Nunez couldn't join Slayer because his mother wouldn't let him, Adrian Erlandsson hits his drums like a fag, and Raymond Herrera has no hands.

Saturday

free soulfly/dillinger escape plan song

for anyone interested you can download a free track from the upcoming album Omen by Soulfly, featuring some guy from Dillinger Escape Plan (im guessing you guys like them?), entitled "Rise of the Fallen".

just listened to the song on motherfucking youtube. Really good, similar to Primative, catchy, chunky riffs and effective use of sampling and effects. look out for an album review in May.

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/new-soulfly-track-available-now/

Heavy Rain

i am now permanently scared of rain.






in other game related news FM Live finally started letting in new applications so i can start playing FM online, hurray!

and FF XIII is still the greatest game ever.

Monday

shitstorm

so, mindarie got pretty fuck faced.

marmion - looks like a warzone. there's dirt across both sides of the road, epic lakes covering half the road, with the tops of signs sticking out, the roundabout was a roundaocean (4WD ftw).

mindarie - lots of water damage, most houses seem ok. lost power but got it back before i got home. next to ocean so expecting tsunami during the night.

my house - some tiles came off the roof and nearly killed my neighbours house, had to climb up and fix it.

family friends house - ceiling in bedroom collapsed. no photographic evidence cos she was crying :/

uncles house - flooded. everywhere.

joondalup shopping centre - full report from joe and myself to come. includes video evidence.

schools - most are flooded/damaged. no school tomorrow for many. fingers crossed.

the storm itself - looked so beautiful for such a dangerous thing. why is that always the case? video and photographic evidence to follow.

Sunday

Leader of many, champion of none.

I'm starforsaken, im in flames upon an oaken throne. This dreamscape is clad in shadows as i hide behind space. The lunar strain is timeless as i stand ablaze. I'm ever dying in this dead eternity, safe within the moonshield from the jesters dance. My artifacts of the black rain form into a graveland as the lord hypnos sturs the dead god in me. I am the wayfareer within these december flowers, i have become food for the gods. These worlds within the margin have made dialouge with the stars, and i know that everything counts as i begin morphing into primal. The hive becons me as i bemoan to the whoracle, why must this be my ordinary story? I scorn the colony and their coered coexistence with the new world, they embody the invisible with their putried resin. I feel like the clayman as i swim through this place and brush the dust away from my oaken throne, square nothing and suburban me. Those satelites and astronauts above remind me of another day in quicksand, as i trigger the dawn of a new day with a wave of my hand and these dark signs of my now emblazed oaken throne. Everything seems like a metaphor in this free fall, minus this system, dismiss the cynics. I will watch them feed in this land of confusion upon my oaken throne. My sweet shadow is in search for i, i am dead alone as i see the touch of red within me. I would like to think i like you better dead, but i know you will discover me like emptiness. I am the superhero of the computer rage, i am the evil in a closet, i am your f(r)iend. I scream at the vanishing light, this dead end i must reach as i crawl through knives. I am pacing deaths trail. Maybe i should take this life...

But alas, the mirrors truth speaks to me. I see myself drenched in fear, condemned, disconnected. These delight and angers force me to become sober and irrelevant, the chosen pessimist in the jester race.

I am sleepless again, upon my dead wood throne.

Final Fantasy XIII - the past 12 hours

epic.




- no leveling system. kinda a bummer but a return of the sphere grid format from FF X is a nice addition, weapon ugrading could lead to epic overkill if done properly.

- back stories for each character is incredibly fucked up. they all intertwine and they all unknowingly meet up and the black guys kid was the reason for the giant genocide fight and the whole world nearly blowing up and its MESSING WITH MY HEAD

- summons turn into vehicles. WTF. shiva is a MOTORCYCLE NOW. A MOTORCYCLE.

- some characters are VERY class orientated which is fucking annoying cos now i have to play the game the way they want me to and not how i want to. hate you so much right now snow you fuckstick.

- lightning grew a concious. before killing a giant mechanised lizard. victory.

- the little kid has a boomerang. can he have any more of a crappy weapon?

- the combo animations are awesome. lightning can shoot stuff in midair!

- i accidentally overloaded lightnings gunsword so now im overkilling everything :(

- NAME THE FUCKING CHOCOBO ALREADY

- lack of boss fights, 6 in 12 hours is not good.

- so far not very free roaming, its a very strict straight line path, you cant wander off if you want to.

- for some reason theres punk music

- the dubbing is awful, the whole reason it was delayed a year after the japanese release was to redo the dubbbing. AND ITS CRAP

- wont be able to play for 3 days. already having withdrawl symptoms. im seeing c'ieth everywhere...

- snow needs to learn how to PICK UP A FUCKING WEAPON INSTEAD OF PUNCHING EVERYTHING

- WHAT KIND OF NAME IS SNOW




can i survive three days?

Tuesday

FF XIII - the first 3 hours

amazing. absolutely amazing. stunning.

firstly, the musical score is bang on. Final Fantasy is known for its genre defining music, but this just takes it to a whole new level. it ties in so well with the story and the context.

the graphics are just what you expect from a blu-ray, its almost better than reality itself. you can even see the dimples in the characters faces, and the veins on plant leaves.

a minor down point is that the game doesnt mask its loading screen like it did in previous installments, instread a rather chuggy and ugly "now loading" next to a weird spinning thing sits in my bttom right corner almost teasing me about the prospects of whats gona happen next.

THE INTRO. OH MY GOD. simply put, the best FF intro i have seen since the epic battle intro between Squall and Seifer in FF VIII. i would have paid the $140 just to see that 6 minute intro.

according to the developers this game would be the first to make the transition between cut-scenes and actual gameplay seamless. whilst after the intro the quality does drop slightly, as of yet it is the only point in which i have been able to notice when its a cut-scene and when its gameplay, apart from the whole i can now control them thing.

THEIR WEAPONS FREAKING FOLD!

theres a funny black guy, who has a baby chocobo living in his hair. hes badass and holds his dual guns like a gang member. and he has a baby chocobo!




that wraps up the first 3 hours. ill be back tomorrow for the next 5 hours.

Dont let the fal'cie get you!

(havn't figured out what the fal'cie actually do to people yet)

My three year wait is over

One of the most aniticipated games for the PS3 is here, the latest installment of the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy series.

Final Fantasy XIII

Wednesday

Eluveitie

Leaders of the new wave of Folk Metal, they combine elements of Folk Metal with more Melodic Death metal sounds and techniques, such as keyboards and harmonised dual guitars.

Yes Folk Metal sounds kinda gay, but after spending a few weeks listening to them i think they're pretty good, they have that base Melodic Death Metal influence but with the interesting sounds of Folk Metal.

Worth a listen.

Check out their new song, Thousandfold, which has more Melodic Death Metal influence than their previous installments.

Similar Bands:

Alestorm
Turisas
skyclad
Attack! Attack! (purely on the uniqueness, sound nothing like them)

Sepp Blatters latest idea

Yep. The madman of football is back. And this time hes carrying a hatchet.

The newest item on the chopping block? The offside rule.

Seems old Blatty thinks the offside rule makes football too boring for spectators and is seeking to follow in the footsteps of hockey, who scrapped their offside rule in 1998, apparently to raving reviews from fans.

But seriously, football without offside? Its like conor being in a room full of crabs (the underwater sea creature, not the disease) and not crabcore-ing.

It defeats the purpose of having any tactical side to the game, and decreases the abilities of both the defenders and strikers positioning, timing and creativity.

if he isnt deposed soon, Sepp Blatter will ruin football beyond repair.

full story can be found here

Monday

Im so doing this

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/swedish-heavy-metal-fan-qualifies-for-disability-p/10778/