Recent content by Maturin

It's definitely Vince Neil with a bra and high heels.

The Darkness - Dreams on Toast was released today, 28 March. I love every other album since the comeback... So this is a good one, of course. Last one, Motorheart (2021) wasn't my thing, Easter is Cancelled (2019) was amazing, Pinewood Smile (2017) was okay-ish, The Last of Our Kind (2015) their...

A fairly recent one which could be something for this thread - Wildness - Ultimate Demise (2020). Small Swedish band, reeeeally good record, but what the hell am I looking at? Robocop and a man with a bra? It's so bad it's good... Captures the bad 80's art vibe perfectly - has to be intentional...

Not sure I agree on that one. He took all the joy out of that solo.

My favourite way of doing it was Hardcore Superstar's take in the late 00's. Record a super-polished album with fantastic backup vocals? Yes (for example Dreamin' in a casket, 2007). Go tour as a quartet, no extra add ons except for taped intro? Sure. Backup vocals sounded rough as hell...

I have an Korean LTD Kirk Hammett, limited & numbered Nosferatu, and while I think that is a 2016, I wouldn't hesitate to buy an LTD again. Excellent quality guitars. My oldest ESP is a 2009 ESP Eclipse 1CTM, made in Japan Standard Series. I see a slight bit of a difference between a 1000-Series...

I saw him when he was doing Rage for Order and Empire in full during a single show after the pandemic... I don't know if you're a longtime fan, or anything, but it was really good. I recommend going! Saw Kent in Stockholm this weekend. Reunion show, big thing - 6 concerts at 3Arena (40,000...

There's been a lot of discussion about what is happening. Poor defence is a given. Team is built around a flashy offence, winning no games 1-0; 2-0 but rather 6-4. Or if losing, losing 4-5. Scoring the most amount of goals, winning top scorer and most points with big margins (having 4 out of 10...

Read The Shards (2023) by Bret Easton Ellis and found it excellent. Beautifully executed, proper literature. Also read The Last One at the Wedding (2024) by Jason Rekulak, a book I found to a quick read and an okay thriller but nothing more. Currently reading The Kaiju Preservation Society...

Saw Mickey17 (2025) at the pictures. A pretty decent movie based on Edward Ashton's excellent Mickey7. As the title change might suggest, it plays pretty loosely with the source material. I'm not too keen on the heavy handed political satire and would much rather have stayed in the...

Just a question, if your team's starter goalie had a save percentage of 88.66 towards the end of the season - is it the goalie's fault or the coach continuing to let him start?

Honestly? The key change is anything but pointless. It's one of the most effective key changes in their entire catalogue and a great example of how to (not-so-subtly) increase the energy and an understated but nonetheless bombastic arrival of the verse riff - which is simple, but really cool. I...

Read The Future (2023) by Naomi Alderman. A dystopian thriller about the approaching end of the world and how the leaders of the biggest tech-companies (not so covertly parodized verions of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos etc.). plan their survival while our main character, a survival influencer...

Read Cage of Souls (2019) by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A dying Earth science-fiction novel, written like a fictional memoir. Riffs on (I'm not sure Tchaikovsky would use this word) everything within the subgenre from H.G. Wells and onwards - personally I found it very reminiscent of China Miéville's...

Another one if you are into melodic hard rock / AOR. Wildness - Avenger released January 24th on Frontiers.