SWORN TO A GREAT DIVIDE

 

On Saturday the 29th of November 2009, I attended my first ever comic book signing!

It was an all-afternoon event that took place in Northampton (where I currently reside).

I arrived 30mins late but I didn’t miss anything thank god, so I joined a long queue at precisely 1:30pm which stretched all the way outside.

That queue soon split into three separate ones depending on who you came to see.

The first queue was for Mr Adi Granov, an extremely talented artist who currently worked on several Iron Man comics for Marvel and acted as an adviser for the Iron Man movie was being made.

The second queue was for Mr Alan Davis who did a lot of X-Men comics for Marvel and is considered royalty in the comic book world and also the best that Britain has ever produced.

The third queue belonged to Mr Ian Churchill who did some X-Men issues as well and currently making the on-going Red Hulk series out now.

So by the time I reached the three queues, I joined the Alan Davis line as I had some of his stuff to sign as well as asking for a personal sketch, few minutes later, it was announced that he was leaving early and there was no way for me to see him, I was gutted!!!

And so the middle line disappeared, so I decided to join the Churchill line knowing that Adi is a more established artist.

By the time I reached the front desk to greet Mr Churchill, it was 5:25pm… yep, I queued the whooole time, I felt this pain in my lower back that I never felt before from all that standing! Lol

The first thing I asked him was to sign one of his Uncanny X-Men graphic novels which he was involved in which he did and also signed it to me personally.

Afterwards, I pulled out a blank A4 piece of paper and asked for a sketch of Chamber which surprised him and stated that he has never been asked to do one of him before.

The sketch took 35mins to make and at the end I asked to sign it to my name again which was awesome.

For this day the sketches were free, normally in a convention, a sketch like mine would have cost you £35 ($55) but not today as it was a small event.

I then quickly went over to Adi and asked to sign my second comic and that was pretty much the end of my day and went home a happy man.

 

 

 

TOP PIC: Me holding the signed Chamber sketch seconds after completion.

MIDDLE PIC: An issue with a cover designed by Adi and signed in gold to me.

BOTTOM PIC: A graphic novel made by Churchill and again signed to me.

 

If you want to see more pics of the day's event, just head to:     http://www.flickr.com/photos/krimzon23

 

 

 

Fear Factory began in 1990 and were originally called Ulceration which didn’t really mean anything apart from the fact that it sounded really cool being only teenagers at the time, they later on the same year changed it to Fear Factory as it closely represents the music they were projecting at the time.Their early demo CD was pretty much a straight up death metal record which would later on be turned and re-recorded into their debut Soul of a new machine, released in 1992.It turned out a lot less death metal than the previous demos and lead singer Burton C. Bell started doing what is now known as the aggressive verses with melodic choruses that we all know and love today, industrialising the sound at the same time, they have stumbled upon gold and the world of heavy music started to take notice because something new and exciting was happening in their backyard.To the band, that album was just a blueprint compared to what they had in mind for Fear Factory, they have by now completely shed their death metal sound and opted for a very machine-like, cold and dark fusion of industrial and metal, by this time the band has accidentally created a new sub-genre for themselves: Cyber-metal.

 Demanufacture was the second release which came out in 1995 and by now they have been established as a force to reckon with by sharing stages with Sepultura, Pantera, Ozzy and other Rock/Metal royalty. The new record could not have been more perfect and to this day still remains their best release to date. Lead single Replica saw the band making their first video for it. The songs on the record are extremely calculated with deadly precision but at the same time the choruses would humanise the songs, something that bands at the time were either too scared to do or too stubborn, Fear Factory took the leap and smashed all boundaries by incorporating electronics and other small but effective experiments. This was also the record that saw them being known for the machine gun riffs along with the drums syncopated to produce that stop/start rhythm you hear a lot these days. After the success of Demanufacture, they were due to make a new record and in 1998, they unleashed Obsolete.

A concept album that follows a story which is closely intertwined with the main songs, with each song serving as highlighted episodes of the whole story which needs following through the booklet that came with the CD *illegal downloaders are missing out on this one*. The story revolves around the idea that man and machine can not co-exist and in time, the machines will rise and wage war on mankind *this predated The Matrix by a year*. Musically it’s very fitting too, the opener Shock pretty much gives you a taste of what’s to come through out the album and also acts as an intro to the story lyrically. Through a combination of technological advancements and experience, Fear Factory have evolved like a computer virus, constantly reconfiguring itself to maximize its destructive impact. This was the first Fear Factory album I bought… in fact, it was the first metal album I bought and I still remember 9 years ago when I received it by post, the excitement I felt, I haven’t felt like that since that day, I can easily say that part of me has changed forever for the better knowing that a band exists with the sounds of my dreams, a sound that I thought one day I hoped to have stumble upon and it turned out to be that they were doing it since I was in primary school. Skipping 3 years after the successful Obsolete, the band released their final album with Guitarist and founding member Dino Cazares, the portly Mexican is now officially an innovator surrounded by imitators.

 Digimortal was released in 2001, their most commercial and radio friendly to date. This time round, they decided that this record would only have the core aspects of Fear factory and completely peel away the rest and the result turns out to be a more direct and simple approach to song writing, more electronics has been added to transform them into a more futuristic sounding beast of an album. Its not a concept album like the last one but a message still flows throughout the record, still dealing with the same topics of an dystopian future, the message of Digimortal is that we need the machines and it needs us and that we can live side by side in harmony, digital mortality, without them we die, without us it dies, Burton has said that this idea came to him while being at home and realising that he was surrounded by technology and electronic gadgetry, feeling extremely co-dependent on the things that have potential of stripping someone of their humanity as time goes by, computers, phones, fax machines, televisions, microwaves and other very helpful contraptions that we all are in need of in this day and age.

Shortly after a brief tour in 2002, singer Burton decided to leave the band publicly stating that he didn’t want to play with the band anymore, especially with Dino, thus begins the dissolution my beloved Fear Factory. They made enough records to last me a lifetime in my opinion but I was still devastated that I’ve only known of them for couple of years. Burton shortly after decided to concentrate on his side project; Dino went to form Asesino, a death grindcore band with fellow Mexican Tony Campos of Static-X on bass and vocals. The remaining members of Fear Factory were Christian Olde Wolbers who played bass and Raymond Herrera who played the drums and without anybody knowing, they secretly decided to start writing a new record and recorded demos, those songs were later on presented to singer Burton who liked what he heard which signalled the reawakening of the deathly machine that is Fear Factory. This meant that Dino would be left out in the cold due to their fallout which came to the conclusion that Christian has now officially switched from bass to guitar and recruited the assistance of Byron Stroud of Strapping Young Lad to fill the bass duties.

An album was shortly recorded with those early demos and the album was released in 2004 appropriately titled Archetype to signify and send the out the message that Fear factory are firing all cylinders and let the world of metal know who started that sound. This time round, the whole man/machine concepts has been ditched and therefore allowing Burton to write about the last 4 years of his life outside Fear factory. The first single Cyberwaste takes a swipe at the people using the net to talk shit about people and never actually dare express those feelings to their faces.

 

“Assume that you know my thoughts
(All I want to do is see)
Infect me with your disease
(Tapping only on the keys)
Change your face in front of me
(Safe behind the cyberscreen)
Wishing that you knew the truth
(All I know is what I read)”

 

This was the first album to have been self-produced by the band themselves and received great reviews by critics and fans alike and it turns out that things are going well without Dino. Just a year later, the band announced that they were releasing a new record which was too soon in many opinions…

The record received the title Transgression which was an experimental album to try things that they never dared to do before, the album contained two cover songs of U2 and Killing Joke. The whole thing felt rushed and Christian stated that he was unhappy with the guitar sound and production in general even though the album redeemed itself by the fact that half of the record contained songs heavy enough to break skulls.

There has been a long silence since 2005, due to the fact that Burton was busy completing, releasing and touring his side project. During that time, Christian and Raymond started writing the next record stating that “it will be a heavy record from start to finish” but Burton was too busy to rejoin them. To their frustration, Christian and Raymond recruited Jon Howard of Threat Signal to start a new side project and let him sing on those already-written songs instead of them going to waste, that project has come to be known as Arkaea. While Arkaea were busy doing their stuff, Dino and Burton buried their hatchet and became friends and so talks of playing together again has surfaced. They recruited the legendary Gene Hoglan of Strapping Young Lad on drums along with current bassist Byron Stroud and decided to call themselves Fear Factory…

A monstrously mutated version of the previous model.

The problem with that great idea is that no one told Christian and Raymond, were they in the band anymore? What was their role in this? The two camps were not in contact anymore due to Burton and Dino not responding to Christian and Raymond. So weeks goes by and the Arkaea duo decide to launch a law suit stating that they were very much still FF members and are refusing for the newly assembled FF to use that name to record an album which will be called ‘Mechanize’ out in Feb 2010…

The story continues…

Despite the messy ending there, this band is as close to me as my heart is and no matter whom the members are, they know what Fear Factory is, what it means and what it stands for. Fear Factory has since directly influenced Killswitch engage, Korn, Spineshank, Devildriver, In Flames, Linkin Park, Machine Head, Meshuggah, Slipknot, Soilwork, Trivium, Static-X and other countless bands who came and went over the years. There will be a time when they will be replaced by a new , fresher and younger band that will carry that same signature sound that I love most but that time won’t be for a while more as things are getting really exciting once again… just like the first day.

 

 

 

I'm pretty sure that most of you were taught about the evolution theory at school; it's an alternative 'belief' to religion that teaches evolution rather than creation.

It all stems from the writer Charles Darwin who wrote the book "The origin of species" published in 24 Nov 1859 which apparently states that a big bang is what initiated the universe as we know it today, man descended from early homosapien ape-like creature and slowly but surely was able to stand up and that this all a matter of chance, a mistake... a beautiful mistake.

The topic of creation VS evolution has raised a considerable amount of contention over the years and the world of science has fully enveloped itself with evolution as the prime source of all that is science and everything between and negates any mention of a creator of any shape or form.

 

Ok so far so good, now allow me to pin point what the problem with the theory is...

 

In his book, Darwin saw the natives of Australia and Negros as being at the same level of

Gorillas and claimed that these races should disappear.

He maintained that it was essential to prevent them multiplying and so for these races to be brought to extinction.

Furthermore, Darwin's theory's denying the existence of God had been the cause of peoples' not seeing that man was something created by God and therefore all men were created equal. This was one of the factors behind the rise of racism, the acceleration of its acceptance in the world.

Darwin's closest friend professor Adam Sedgwick was one of the first people who recognised the dangers of such a theory, after reading and digesting the origin of species he said:

 

"If this book were to find general acceptance, it would bring with it a brutalization of the human race such as it had never seen before."

 

And truly time showed that Sedgwick was right to doubt his good friend because the 20^th century had gone down in history as a dark age when people underwent massacres simply because of their race.

 

This nicely leads me to a certain Mr Adolf Hitler.

 

Yep, Hitler fell in love with the theory which played a key role when 'The final solution' was being formulated.

Just like Darwin, Hitler believed that humans were animals to whom the genetics laws could be applied to.

The Nazis also believed that instead of permitting natural forces and chance to control evolution, they must direct the process to advance the human race.

The first step according to Darwin is to isolate the 'inferior races' in order to prevent them from further contaminating the 'Aryan' gene pool.

The Nazis believed wholeheartedly in Darwin and that they were simply applying facts "proven by science" to produce a master race as part of their plan for a better world.

Everyone at some point thought that the mass exterminations that took place in Auschwitz were out of mindlessness killings and pure hatred but it later turns out that they were just simply following instructions... carefully laid out details of how to conduct and progress with the process.

 

Those details were from the very pages of 'The origin of species'.

 

Yes it's a theory and its nothing but words but somebody decided to put that theory to practice and that practice turns out to have taken place in Auschwitz where camps were set up to eliminate those people who did not fit the criteria that was laid by Charles Darwin.

 

The worst thing about all this is the fact that it's widely accepted as fact and everyday people actually believe in the theory but refuse to discuss the vast majority of the theory which of course talks about extermination and natural selection.

Adolf Hitler was only someone who followed written guidelines to the dot and scientists still believe in the theory but everybody knows that if you're a scientist and hold dearly to a theory, they usually put it to practice... so why hold on to it? You can't cherry-pick the best bits out of an apple that's covered in excrement.

 

I know most of you don't have a religion and think that Darwinism is your only option to believe in something but I strongly suggest you look elsewhere and not get drawn in to this evil conjecture that was written by a mad man some 200 years ago.

You wouldn't call your great grandfather a monkey so why would anyone call their entire ancestors apes and savages? Most people would love to meet their bloodlines in person.

It's being taught in schools everywhere and everybody wonders why the world has gone to shit.

Supporting or believing in this theory doesn't make you clever at all and it doesn't make you any better than the ones who don't fit the criteria either, if you're still at school and you are hearing this shit, ask about the practice of this theory and I promise you that they will not divulge the gritty parts to you in case of offending anyone who isn't white, tall, blue eyed with natural blond hair and pinkish skin.

I personally wished I knew all this when I was at school so I could scold my teachers but thanks to the World Wide Web, Darwinism must be unfolded and exposed for what it truly is...

Highlights of 2008

This is a bit late but it took a while to put together and deciding upon how, who and what makes it in this award-like journal.

COUNTDOWN OF BEST ALBUMS OF 2008


#10. SOULFLY - conquer
Still raging on with album number 6, they got really thrashy with copious amount of solos, max still retains that recognizable voice of his and showing no signs of slowing down one bit!!! with rumors of sepultura reunions still around, it doesn't affect the pace and destructive passion that he has for metal and doing what he wants to do!

#9. DAGOBA - face the colossus
This is probably the most monstrous and powerful album of 2008 without dispute, its beyond belief that its only 4 french guys that are making that much noise which can be overwhelming at times, heavily influenced by the mechanical rhythms of Fear Factory, they mix things up with other sources in the dark world of black metal and as a result, they created a terrifying album that doesn't let up one bit!

#8. METALLICA - death magnetic
Nuff said... lets move on...

#7. ONE-WAY MIRROR - self titled
Another cooool french supergroup that consists of Mnemic and Scarve, not exactly breaking new grounds here, just a fun album that has that '90s' sound that i love most and they are doing it with finesse and style, very nu metal-ish but not repeated from past glories which makes it refreshing i guess, only one album under their belt and already causing a bit of raucous.

#6. HEAD save me from myself
This album pisses all over Korn's last album from a great height! this is the surprise of 2008 for me, as i was expecting some church driven drivel, but nope, its as heavy as it needs to be, very catchy but NEEDS the vocals of Jonathon Davis to really take this to dizzy heights, other wise its a good and strong debut from one of the coolest guitarist ever!!!!

#5. SEVENDUST - chapter 7
Anything that sevendust releases is gold dust!!! its not their best but their most experimental, the contrast in this album is well balanced and has that feel of... thing that sevendut do and are good at. Lajon sounding more and more like the best singer out there probably and totally inimitable, this was the last recording made by guitarist Sonny Mayo who will be missed but the return of the co-founding guitarist was what everyone wanted and now we all wait patiently for what might the BEST sevendust album to come next!!!

#4. MuDvAyNe -  the new game
A very difficult album to listen to at first because i had to erase the though that i was gonna get another LD50, but scratch the surface and you might just see the most intelligent and well crafted songs that has come from mudvayne, an open mind is what's required here to fully appreciate this album, otherwise, its an average album to the average ear... so open your mind!

#3. SLIPKNOT - all hope is gone
I knew that they would continue with the whole metalcore influence that somewhat plagued the last album but this time round the songs are well tuned and focused, you can tell that this is what they wanted from the start, leaving behind their nu metal past and becoming a behemoth of a band that is on the verge of greatness.

#2. MESHUGGAH - obzen
this is the most straight forward album they've done and still its still is a mindfuck! only god knows how and why this band exists, the band have now been using 8-STRING IBANEZ guitars to create a landscape of terror! the precision of the songs are beyond belief, everything these guys are, nobody out there comes close, they have forged a world of their own where they remain unchallenged and nobody would even dare!

#1. DISTURBED - indestructible
And finally, the most exciting band I've ever known (apart from fear factory) have had this at number 1 in the album charts and STILL no recognition!! WTF??? the songs as usual are very catchy and sticks to your mind like spiderman's underwear!! davis draiman crazy vocals are still present and more crazier than ever!!! these cant do anything wrong at all, their shit songs are still miles away better than most radio crap out there... by miles!!!!


LIVE ALBUM OF 2008
Static-x: cannibal killers


BEST THING TO EMERGE FROM 2008
Rumplestiltskin grinder


DICKHEADS OF 2008
Those anti metal brigades out here who are scared of turning up their amps a bit!


HERO OF 2008
max cavalera.... for being max cavalera!


TOP TIPS FOR 2009
Arkaea (you heard it hear first!)


QUOTE OF THE YEAR
"Oh, you ironic pop-rock fuck!
Don't you fuck with metal!
One line and you're out of control,
Yeah we fucking own you" 
                                    Devin Townsend from SYL

  No one ever likes to hear about the other side of stories… especially one that involves pride and honour, the lengths that people go to just to cover things up. Being a soldier is probably the worst mistake that you could ever make if you love your life, I wouldn’t even wish that on an enemy, the worst about it all is that its young people who are enticed and taught into believing that they’re Rambo only to find out that their limbs have filed a divorce against their own bodies and that’s where the excitement ends… and that’s the last you’ll hear from that person.

 I’ll touch upon to the deceased in a minute, the cost of losing an arm or a leg seems trivial as if artificial limbs are the ‘natural’ replacement of something that was so much more to begin with… its true when they say that people do not know what they have until its gone…your hand for instance… no amount of technology will ever replace the dexterity and capability of your hand bearing in mind what you use it for in everyday life, such as playing guitar, knitting, drawing, moulding or even feeling your loved one’s face… you get the picture, nothing is replaceable!

 The treatments of those who come back alive minus certain parts of themselves get treated like shit! All they get is some manufactured limb and get called a hero…

“There’s your 15 minutes of fame mate! Grab your cash and disappear as you are of no use to us…”

OUCH! That’s right! No one ever hears that! Because it’s bad for morale, the troops need to think that they’re indestructible, the ‘good’ side always win against the ‘baddies’… that’s usually how it works………………..right?....o_O Those people appear on documentaries years after their unfortunate event to tell you about how life has dramatically changed, nothing is the same anymore… the sad thing about that is the majority of them say that they don’t regret joining the army so that it doesnt come across they made a the mistake which might offend ‘the patriots’.

 Then there’s the psychological side of things… only ‘strong minds’ (heartless) will go on fighting and killing… those who were taught about compassion and value of life have no place there, they’re usually the ones that were told that they were ‘winners’ and that they’ll come back victorious only to find themselves in the front-line being screamed at by their commanders to fight! What a nightmare. Those with ‘fractured’ minds are taken to hospitals and treated for shock, depression, reoccurring nightmare about seeing his best mate blown up in 14 pieces, sleepless nights… the list goes on… happiness will never find them……never!

 Now for the dearly departed… how deluded must one be to be told that their beloved son/daughter lost their life for freedom… whose freedom? Certainly not the parent’s that’s for sure, I’m glad that some of them have angrily reacted to such response because how callous must they be to use people like that to fight? No one ever gave them the chance to tell them that they lost their life for a cause that was never truly theirs and that is a little hard to swallow… it is if anyone ever cared.

 

 

 A lot of you didn’t know this but the news feeds in the U.S are very censored compared to the U.K as we see everything, even corpses of soldiers during daytime television, the truth never gets covered here as there are those who fight for viewers so therefore shock tactics draws people in… we see the American and British coffins coming back from Iraq while you’re watching Fox news telling you fibs about the exact numbers of casualties and then show the viewers adverts about joining the arm forces… I heard that those kind of adverts are strategically shown between football games mostly to attract the young (and the mindless).

 Personally, if I get to have kids, usually the parents always supports the career choice that the child makes but I promise you that no child of mine is signing up in some place where there’s a chance that they’ll hand me over his coffin… its not natural that the parent buries his kid… it’s the other way round! That’s how its suppose to be! There are enough dangers in life around us as it is, people get killed everyday from getting hit by buses, motorway accidents, car crashes, plane crashes, choking on food, illness, disease… so why risk your one and only life… There is no way back.

 

 If its pride you’re after then go ahead and join your local regiment, chances are you’ll be the next contestant to back on a wheelchair with bandages looking like Daffy Duck on a bad day, if you have lost a family member to a war then Im very sorry for your loss and please try to hold on to your other loved ones by not supporting them to sign up, that way at least they’ll live a little longer than expected all thanks to you… I say choose life because national pride will lead you to an early grave.

  when all is done and dusted... apart from your family, who else will remember your name?

Throughout this journal, I was listening to Metallicas one for inspiration and judging from the lyrics below, these are the words of a man who had no idea what life was gonna be for him after being given his uniform... these could be your words...

METALLICA one

I cant remember anything
Cant tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
Im waking up I can not see
That there is not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me

Back in the womb its much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But cant look forward to reveal
Look to the time when Ill live

Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me
Now the world is gone Im just one
Oh god,help me hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God help me

Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell

OK! So I went to see Babylon A.D. on Saturday and its been a film that I’ve been waiting for since its emergence couple of years ago But after viewing the film, and with a few facts to put the film in context -- like the fact 20th Century Fox didn't screen Babylon A.D. for critics, like the fact director Mathieu Kassovitz has already disowned the film days before the release day which is unheard of for a director to do for a major movie such as this, I spent the whole of last week searching and looking for critic reviews of the film and ALL were very very bad…. Extremely bad, as if to say this is the worst film ever made which was disheartening to read as I was looking so much forward to it but that was just critics, comments from movie goers were posted and begged to differ to say that this film is flawed but it was good nonetheless.

 

 With that in mind I made the trip to my local cinema on Saturday only to find that there was on 9 people in the room with me, baring in mind that the film was released the day before!!!!That was quite shocking that people bought the reviews and decided not to see it, I can claim that I saw and really enjoyed it but the flaws became evident as time went on which I will touch upon in a mo, to briefly tell you what the actual film is about, In a near-future Europe (we're never told the year, but when someone mentions the last Siberian tiger died in 2017, it's implied that was a while ago), a mercenary named Toorop is hired to escort a young woman and her guardian from a monastery in Mongolia to New York. The young woman, Aurora has never left the convent; her watchful protector, Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh), cautions Toorop that Aurora is to be shielded from the world. Toorop's taken the job for the payoff -- he's been promised a wad of cash and, more importantly, a new passport that'll get him off the terrorist watchlist that's exiled him from America, so through the journey, he discovers the importance of this woman and why she needs to get out… she’s pregnant with a genetically –modified messiahs and she’s still untouched by no other.

 

 The film is 90 minutes long which is fine until you discover that the director originally shot this film and was gonna be 240 minutes long and also the fact that it was meant to be a R-rated film which in the end was turned into a PG-13. And so I dug deep as to what happened in the making of this and why would a director disown his film 2 days before its worldwide release and the answer became evident and clear as to who was to blame for this mess……. 20^th Century fox. It was recently revealed that Fox is not popular with big directors, to name one Alex proyas who directed blade trinity and I-robot who was offered the chance to direct a possible Silver Surfer movie but declined and publicly stated that he will never do a film with Fox ever again after an unhappy experience with them during the making of I-Robot.

 

 It seems that the studio did not share the same vision as Kassovitz as to where to take this film, Kassovitz was more intested in the ‘message’ of the film, Fox wanted and an action film for the summer and during some point, Fox took the film away from Kassovitz and edited the film themselves by starting to cut from 240 to just a puny 90 minutes which meant that there will be holes and major gaps… the film is now completely butchered and the message is lost, not giving the viewer the answers to explain certain crucial parts of the movie. During the filming on the set, Fox were sending groups of lawers to keep Kassovitz on a tight leash as to what to shoot and what they needed, they planned this from the start! Kassovitz admits that, while he doesn't hate the film, he insists that "I had something much better in my hands but I just wasn't allowed to work" and then openly berates them for "just trying to get a PG-13 movie."

 

 Its completely out of Kassovitz hands as to what we see in the pictures but he insisted that the definitive version will be made for the DVD as a director’s cut which Fox has to accept… so to recap this film is still my film of the year despite the ridiculous amount of great films outthere and would encourage anyone to see it but its completely flawed and tampered with, I for one was not disappointed but it left me angry that it could’ve been great if some assholes in suits didn’t tamper with it while trying to make a quick buck! If you are not too sure and don’t wanna risk your money then wait for the uncut DVD version as this truly is an awesome film despite the majority.

Ok so its not exactly news that i for one am not in favour of trends of any kind... each one that surfaces, people always jump on it like flies to shit! and those left behind who didn't are the not-so-cool-kids who are the losers because they are not with it. Majority of people are in denial that its mostly trends that are the main focal point in bullying at schools...YEP! don't you deny it! if you're not part of the majority scenes, you get look down on and bullied or worse, beaten... which could easily lead to suicide.
What has to be understood that having a stupid haircut will not bring integrity because all the smiles and pretence will all go away in the end which will leave you with nothing.. because it was never truly about the music was it??? DUH! Some bands out there are so disgusted by this that the only way to not be associated with all this crap is to get heavier... pure and simple! (Id love to meet a scenekid who likes cannibal corpse....id eat my shoe!) This is basically a disease and i cant help but be sickened by it... oh and people tend to wonder why school shootings happen.. well its simple, if those classmates of those lunatics accepted them for who they were no matter how odd or weird they were, lives would've be saved, no doubt about! no maybes about it! i hold the classmates partially responsible for fuelling the hate even more.. pushing those already disturbed kids over the edge all for the sake of groups and trends... and thats still happening as i type this somewhere... and still they still wonder why it happens......... so dumb!
the lyrics below was written by the great Texan band Pantera which was released in 96... but boy are these lyrics so vital and true in this day and age...

*note* if you're offended by the lyrics... it only means that they were directed to you....

*NOTE* I’m not writing this to start any kind of arguments or anything, I’m doing it because one: Freedom of speech and two: this is simply from my point of view, any inept opinion is very unwanted but be my guest… -_-

 

 

 

 

Its been going on for ages but it seems things are getting much worse for the record industry, decades of ‘stealing’ and plundering hard-earned cash from music lovers all over the world by putting up ridiculous prices for CDs has finally caught up with them and now they don’t like it when it happens to them… hypocrites!

 

Technology is the weapon that the music masses are using for this fight and they are winning BIG TIME! You hear stories of people getting sued in the US and are asked to pay millions of dollars that they don’t have, this is the greed of the industry at play here for all to see and hate.

 

It’s very easy for me to imagine middle-aged men in suits planning and clamoring to sue little boys and girls and ruin lives for the sake of songs. Adverts have been published with ‘artists’ complaining about the illegal downloading and how it affects them. The industry is telling people that these artists are the big losers in all this if the downloading continues…

 

BULLS**T!

 

It has been told a thousand times that it’s the industry that are the ones in danger here; artists NEVER truly get the money that they are entitled to, and the ones that are moaning are the ones that NEVER TOUR!! The only money they make is from CD sales, interestingly enough, the most outspoken against piracy tend to be Pop singers because they don’t tour… (Lazy bumholes!)

 

Its very obvious that these so-called artists made a deal with their companies to fleece every penny kids have by setting trends that will make the closed-minded person to go out and purchase only because  their favorite singer told them to, so the singer get their share and the rest goes to the big wigs…. What a plan!

 

I’m glad at least people have caught on to the old forgotten speech about how “piracy funds terrorism”, nobody bought that idea; they really thought people were THAT stupid! LOL also the very idea of suing the same people you are selling thing to is somewhat baffling! They put vulnerable people under pressure to buy their stuff and yet they hunt them like dogs.

 

Consumers are obviously upset with their tactics. Now, another group affected by high CD prices, piracy, and the lawsuits are speaking up. Recording artists are venting their anger with the direction the recording industry has taken.

Here are some quotes from TRUE artists:

 

"Lawsuits on 12-year-old kids for downloading music, duping a mother into paying a $20,000 settlement for her kid?" said rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy. "Those scare tactics are pure Gestapo."

 

"File sharing is a reality, and it would seem that the labels would do well to learn how to incorporate it into their business models somehow," said genre-busting DJ Moby in a post on his Web site. "Record companies suing 12-year-old girls for file sharing is kind of like horse-and-buggy operators suing Henry Ford."

 

Moby and Chuck D are right on the money, and they are part of an industry that has been unable and unwilling to adapt to changes in consumer expectations and buying habits. While the lawsuits fly, the FAKE artists feel the pain of decreased record sales and shrinking royalties. They also dont buy the notion that the companies have their interests at heart as it sues their fans:

 

The record companies did not initiate these lawsuits to defend artists rights, the musicians say, but to protect corporate profits.

 

"For the artists, my ass," said [hard-rock band Disturbed member David] Draiman. "I didnt ask them to protect me, and I dont want their protection."

 

Due to the rise of myspace, bands these days can function very well unsigned, the only way band profit and make money is to tour and sell their merchandise, so you will never lose your favorite band……. Unless they’re manufactured crap!!

So if you love your band and want to show them TRUE support, go see them live and buy a t-shirt… the days of one-hit-wonders from shoddy TV program will shortly come to an end… no more annoying popstars pushing their crotch in your face!!

 I think it’s been well documented that one the most overpopulated countries in the world is china, were couples are encouraged to conceive one child preferably boys which are always favored over girls for one reason or another.

 You’d be surprised to know that their neighboring Japan, are experiencing the exact opposite.

 Over the past few decades, children are short in supply, while the burdensome population of the retirees is increasing with no in sight.

 There is no explanation as to how this came to be, one reason may be that the expensive living costs of today may be putting off couples to conceive so it becomes a personal restriction unlike their neighboring china.

 Furthermore, the technology that was to made Japan superior to the rest of the world and a futuristic paradise of easy living is keeping people alive for inconveniently extended periods.

 Japan’s situation has raised number of issues about the way the world is running in general, it’s possible to consider the possibility that human beings are temporary growths like leaves on trees, fated to fade and die while the real organism, society itself, lives on regardless.

 It’s a provocative and unsettling thought that reduces human beings to consumers and customers, mere cogs in a much larger system that is only interested in them as long as they are productive and the eradication of individuals.

 One of the reasons of Japan’s predicament is obstructive attitude towards immigration; “Japanese-ness” is not a matter of someone’s place of birth or chosen allegiance, but a racially defined characteristic that is all but impossible for a foreigner to acquire.

 Even Koreans who migrated to Japan four generations ago, who severed their ties with their history, are still considered foreigners although it does not affect them financially.

 The only way to solve this issue is for Japan to really open up their borders and invite their Asian counterparts to contribute by not being pressured to migrate to make a real difference.

 Repopulating the youth of Japan would not be an overnight task and at least will not further upset the balance.

In 2001, I was diagnosed with a condition called Asperger syndrome which I was born with but never really thought much about it until things started going downhill for me, the reason why it was a late diagnosis was because mine was quite mild according to the doctor at the time, I got by without any REAL issues compared to standard sufferers who depending on the wide spectrum, need constant care and support to which I was fortunate to not needing it.

I personally didn’t know anything about it and after finding out what it was about, it still doesn’t change anything but it does explain quite a lot of the strange preoccupation throughout my life...

 

GENESIS

Like I said before, extensive research and tests has lead scientists to believe that this is gene based, the common symptoms that contributes to AS is mainly associated with the fathers, I.E. if your dad use to collect stuff, then there is a small chance that the AS offspring will inherit an obsession which will develop fully unless it's caught early and managed.

A child with AS will do things differently and will struggle with the norm which will have a major effect on his/her development of the mind, that’s when the communication bit of learning takes a hit and the consequences are that they won't know what the hell you're talking about and of course, vice versa.

People with AS often have a limited range of intonation; speech may be unusually fast, jerky or loud. Speech may convey a sense of incoherence; the conversational style often includes monologues about topics that bore the listener, fails to provide context for comments, or fails to suppress internal thoughts. Individuals with AS may fail to monitor whether the listener is interested or engaged in the conversation. The speaker's conclusion or point may never be made, and attempts by the listener to elaborate on the speech's content or logic, or to shift to related topics, are often unsuccessful.

 

CAUSE

Abnormal migration of embryonic cells during fetal development may affect the final structure and connectivity of the brain, resulting changes in the neural circuits that control thoughts, so it happens soon just after conception.

 

 

CHARACTERISTICS

A pervasive developmental disorder, Asperger syndrome is distinguished by a pattern of symptoms rather than a single symptom. It is characterised by a significant impairment in social interaction, engaging in restricted patterns of activities and interests, and by no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or general delay in language. Intense preoccupation with a narrow subject, one-sided verbosity, restricted intonation, and motor clumsiness are typical of the condition, but are not required for diagnosis but the lack of good communication is.

My personal interests are pretty much on display on my buzznet page, there are only few things I like but it was only recently that it was pointed out... there are direct links to what I like... patterns that I subconsciously develop and seek for when looking for something and the common theme is anything that's futuristic... which explains why I use to watch films like Terminator and Robocop a hundred times over.   it wasn't the film itself but the visual ideas and aspects of it that was what became my interest... which lead to computer games that where all quite similar and the same genre, friends became fed up with me playing the same type which was really boring for them as you can now imagine. Those ideas and interests became prominent for me as I got older and found more of the same but in different media.

 

CONTACT

Things became somewhat surreal throughout my teenage life, having friends come and go because of the lack of understanding that we both had, most of the time I was too odd and said way too many weird things that would've freaked anyone out, there was a lack of social and emotional reciprocity which didn’t help me out at all in certain situations almost to the point where I even asked myself "how do I feel sorry?" because I really couldn’t so I came across as callous and cold simply because I couldn’t relate. All I had was logic and common sense but that's only good for dealing with computers, not the complexities of people.

 

THE WINNING HAND

So far, it’s been very negative but there are positives to all this... (I will do my best to explain, if you don't understand, I apologies beforehand) things that I would've never known if I wasn't so determined, things I wouldn't have known if my thought process was not so jumbled, looking at things from a different perspective that no one else can has helped a lot, right now I'm getting the best from both worlds, there are more positives then negatives.

 

CONCLUSION

I'm at a stage in my life where I’ve got my grip on things but the truth is this will never go away, I will always struggle with people and understanding in general but the main question is: would I ever wish to get rid of this condition of mine if I had the choice? and every time, the answer would be NO!....... this is part of what made me be me today, it had a major role in building my actual self, removing it would be to remove my heart... it's here to stay. (^_^)

• BEST BANDS

1. Fear Factory (well duh!!!)
2. Divine Heresy
3. MuDvAyNe
4. Skindred
5. Disturbed
6. Static-X
7. Devildriver
8. Sevendust
9. KoRn
10. Killswitch Engage

• BEST SONGS

1. Self Bias Resistor (FEAR FACTORY)
2. Wait And Bleed (SLIPKNOT)
3. Shock (FEAR FACTORY)
4. Small Silhouettes (MuDvAyNe)
5. Freak On A Leash (KoRn)
6. Scapegoat (DOWNTHESUN)
7. Sad But True (METALLICA)
8. Prayer (DISTURBED)
9. Pass Out Of Existence (CHIMAIRA)
10. Paper Tiger (DRY KILL LOGIC)

• BEST GUITARS

1. Ibanez
2. Jackson
3. ESP
4. Gibson
5. P.R.S
6. Washburn
7. Dean
8. Schecter
9. Fender
10. Yamaha

• BEST GUITARISTS

1. Dino Cazares (DIVINE HERESY) (sharing the No1 spot with Dino is: PINKY!!!!)
2. Dimebag Darrell (DAMAGEPLAN)
3. Tom Morello (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE)
4. Max Cavalera (SOULFLY)
5. Wayne Static (STATIC-X)
6. Greg Tribbett (MuDvAyNe)
7. Christian Olde Wolbers* (FEAR FACTORY) he switched from bass to guitar in 2004.
8. Jimmy Page (LED ZEPPLIN)
9. Tony Iommi (HEAVEN AND EARTH)
10. Adam D. (KILLSWITCH ENGAGE)

• BEST BASSISTS

1. Ryan Martinie (MuDvAyNe)
2. Christian Olde Wolbers (FEAR FACTORY)
3. Tony Campos (STATIC-X)
4. Tim C. (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE)
5. Fieldy (KoRn)
6. Alex Webster (CANNIBAL CORPSE)
7. Chi Cheng (DEFTONES)
8. H. C. Banks III (AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE)
9. Byron Stoud (FEAR FACTORY) current bass player
10. Flea (RHCP)

• BEST DRUMMERS

1. Igor Cavalera (CAVALERA CONSPIRACY)
2. Raymond Herrera (FEAR FACTORY)
3. Tim Yeung (DIVINE HERESY)
4. Chris Adler (LAMB OF GOD)
5. Jordan Mancino (AS I LAY DYING)
6. 'Dirty' Araya (SKINDRED)
7. Joey Jordison (SLIPKNOT)
8. Matt Mcdonough (MuDvAyNe)
9. Andy Herrick (CHIMAIRA)
10. Dave Mclain (MACHINE HEAD)

• BEST VOCALISTS

1. Burton C. Bell (FEAR FACTORY)
2. Howard Jones (KILLSWITCH ENGAGE)
3. Lajon Witherspoon (SEVENDUST)
4. Chester B. (LINKIN PARK)
5. Cliff Rigano (DRY KILL LOGIC)
6. Benji (SKINDRED)
7. Speed (SOILWORK)
8. Amy Lee (EVANESCENCE)
9. Jonny Santos (SILENT CIVILIAN)
10. Christian Machado (ILL NINO)

• BEST MOVIES

1. Dark City
2. Matrix Trilogy
3. Blade Trilogy
4. Natural City
5. Battle Royale
6. Casshern
7. Chronicles Of Riddick
8. Transformers
9. Blade Runner
10. Sin City

• BEST ANIME

1. Akira
2. Fist OfThe North Star
3. Ghost In The Shell
4. Neon Genesis Evangelion
5. Cyber City Oedo 808
6. Street Fighter II
7. Macross Plus
8. Karas
9. Castle Of Cagliostro
10. Dominion Tank Police

 

Ascension of the Watchers, are a dream come true — literally.

The musical vibe, artwork and title for the band's full-length debut all stemmed from a dream Bell had in 2000. In it, he was traveling over vast expanses of land and came to a clearing, where he saw a burning tree. The branches were silhouetted against the bright sky and Bell was struck with a sense of peace and awe. Then, he realized someone was behind him, but when he turned around, he woke up.

The musical vibe, artwork and title for the band's full-length debut all stemmed from a dream Bell had in 2000. In it, he was traveling over vast expanses of land and came to a clearing, where he saw a burning tree. The branches were silhouetted against the bright sky and Bell was struck with a sense of peace and awe. Then, he realized someone was behind him, but when he turned around, he woke up.

Unable to shake the dream from his mind, the singer discussed the imagery with a friend, who is an expert in dream analysis, and she told him that he had experienced a numinosum, a term famous psychologist Carl Jung used to refer to a mystical or religious experience that occurs outside oneself.

"That dream has stayed with me and inspired me, and I think the creation of this record has been truly a dream experience for me," Bell said. "I've always felt my dreams are pretty much reality. I wake up exhausted because they're so intense."

With roots in spirituality and surreal dreams, it's no surprise that Ascension of the Watchers' Numinosum, which comes out February 19, isn't a blazing metal album. Rather, the songs are melancholy and atmospheric, resembling '80s and '90s goth-rock bands such as the Mission UK, Swans, Fields of the Nephilim and Pornography-era Cure.

If it sounds like Bell is pushing Ascension pretty hard, it's because he's got a lot on the line. Sure, the album is one of the priorities of Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen's new label, 13th Planet Records. Yeah, Bell really wants to establish himself as something other than a singer. But there are other, more important things on Bell's mind, including his mental well-being — and maybe even his immortal soul.

"Basically, these are my songs of repentance for God to hear and forgive me so I can get to heaven," he explained. "To me, these are my true confessions. I don't go to church, so I can't confess that way, but in the past I hurt a lot of people, and for that I'm truly sorry."
Bell started writing his new confessional songs in 2002. Stressed out and on the verge of a breakdown, he left Los Angeles and traveled to Pennsylvania to work with former FF touring keyboardist John Bechdel. The two named the group "The Watchers" after angels who breed with men in the "Book of Enoch," a story from the Dead Sea Scrolls, which some believe predate the Bible. Later, a cease-and-desist order from a Chicago band called "The Watchers" prompted the extension of the group's name. In 2003, Bell and Bechdel recorded a demo and started shopping it around but were unable to drum up any label interest. So, Bell released the EP Iconoclast on his own, and started selling the disc on his Web site in 2005.

The next year, he recruited Still Life Decay guitarist Edu Mussi, and the band embarked on a short East Coast tour. Its big break came after Bechdel — who had worked with Jourgensen since the band's 2006 album, Rio Grande Blood — told Bell that the Ministry mainman was launching 13th Planet. Intrigued, Bell called Jourgensen and wound up offering his services to Ministry's The Last Sucker, which came out last year.

"Ministry was one of my favorite bands of all time," Bell said. "So I said, 'Al, lemme be on your record. I work cheap.' And he said, 'OK, come on down to Texas.' While I was down there working on the record, we started talking about 13th Planet, and that's how it all came together. We developed a real mutual respect for each other."
First, Bell leant vocals to The Last Sucker tracks "End of Days Pt. 1" and "End of Days Pt. 2." Then, Jourgensen started producing tracks for Numinosum, which features re-recorded versions of the five songs from Iconoclast, six new songs and a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence."

"Not only is Al one of my musical heroes, I've enjoyed his mixing and producing abilities throughout his history," Bell said. "So, to be there with Al sitting in the back of the room saying, 'Try this,' or, 'Try that,' was amazing. I learned a lot from that guy. I was living at his house while we were recording, and I got to feel like part of the family."

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

AUDIOSLAVE: cochise

AUDIOSLAVE: your time has come

AUDIOSLAVE: set it off

RAMMSTEIN: tier

AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE: self

NIRVANA: smells like teen spirit

DISTURBED: a welcome burden

ONE MINUTE SILENCE: holy man

ONE MINUTE SILENCE: fish out of water

P.O.D: boom!

GODSMACK: moon baby

GODSMACK: keep away

GODSMACK: goin' down

MUSE: supermassive black hole

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: bombtrack

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: wake up

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: guerrilla radio

ILL NINO: cleansing

ILLNINO: te amo... i hate you

ILLNINO: how can i live

ILLNINO: unreal

 

 

"I found the text below somewhere and apparantly it has something to do with track 11 from 'the end of all things to come' album by mudvayne, really strange but interesting..."                  linchpin          

The very idea of a stand alone complex is an interesting concept as it means to conceive a copy from an original source that never physically existed therefore being unique in everyway.

This concept I believe, can be applied to human beings in spiritually and mentally in the way they grow into becoming their own and how they are influenced by the littlest of things such as words, ideas or events that shape and form them as a person.

The process of becoming an authentic individual can be hindered and compromised by for example, living the life of another, idol worship, imitating, belonging and being subjected and submitting to constant discontent t from non- individually minded people.

It’s safe to say that an individual could not live in a close knitted community due to differences in perspectives on conformity and personal liberty.

Individualists believe that the way to maximize human freedom and happiness is to abolish the very ideas of involuntary relationships, organizations and institutions, they believe that all people should be free to choose with whom they associate, what kind of work they do, where they want to live and what kinds of recreations in which to engage.

The one and only limit to someone’s freedom of action should be the equal freedom of others to live their lives unmolested.

In other words, the area in which someone may freely swing their arm ends where the nose of another person begins.

Individualists see no need for committees, councils or other standing bodies to oversee the day-to-day relationships of people, the equilibrium that’s already in place and generated by the social and economic interactions of free individuals would produce all the structure necessary to sustain community life.

The very thought of walking groups of free spirits in any place strikes deep fear into the hearts those who cannot seem to read them, they see them as unpredictable beings so therefore are automatically labeled dangerous all because of the unknown of who they truly are.

There are times when an individual will do something others will not be happy about, not necessarily  a transgression of a sort but i.e. will be compelled to disobey, not to displease, not to cause distress but all in the name of self- preservation… looking after the actual self.

Another major no-no is patriotism, there will always be a time when a patriot’s loyalty will be questioned in a time when his or her country is on the verge of committing an act which that person may feel they do not relate to but pressure from fellow patriots will indeed be too much for any to refuse and resist or they face exile from the fold and live as outcasts on the back of the society they once truly and blindly believed in.

It’s basically all about living without the need of others to give approval that your life is worth something or not, such dependence is very dangerous and worrying as it can lead to certain death if one is very docile.

Inept opinions are those which are not welcomed because there is an undercurrent of malign and defamation that usually runs within them to mainly try and bring you down to those people’s much abhorrent and repugnant level that they want the world to be in.

Individualists argue that the initiation of force is always unjust, and that groups of people are entitled to no more freedom of action then are individuals.

Activities that are unacceptable when engaged by one person always tend to be tolerated engaged by a group of people which pretty much shows that one person can never carry the voices of a thousand.

It must be said that being an individual comes with baggage and not all is what it seems, apart from the usual disagreements with the rest of the planet about pretty much everything, the feature  beneath shows the highs and lows, the good and the bad, the plus and minus of being one and it comes with a price.

The Heart Centre: Moves towards others - Underdeveloped feeling.
Original Loss: "I was too plain and common."
Problem Emotion: Sadness
Decision: Being unique and special allows you to survive and be loved.
False Claim: "I am not ordinary. I am one of a kind."
Four Adjectives: Intuitive and creative, but self-absorbed and depressive                                           Self-image: "I am different. I’m not like you."
Compulsion: To be unique and have a special style.
Avoidance: Ordinariness, everyday commonness.
Sin: Envy
Gift: To bring out the unique, special qualities of a situation or a person.
Three Wing: More extroverted, upbeat, ambitious, flamboyant, and image-conscious.
Five Wing: More Introverted, intellectual, idiosyncratic, reserved, and depressed.
Stress Point: 2 - Excessive helping, compulsive intrusion, hysterical, and desperate.
Security Point: 1 - Steady, principled action, distinguishes between feelings and values.             Crossing the River: Uses fancy styles and even does a water ballet.
Affirmation: "I will value each day no matter how ordinary."

It all began one night in grebe where I resided for a while and late that night in the darkness of my chamber of isolation, I was listening to the radio 1 rock show with Mary–Anne Hobbs playing the usual typical generic rock/metal tunes through my little portable radio which rested in my sink for extra bass as it had none … I was kind of bored so I decided to do some spring cleaning even though the place was kind of immaculate and then all of a sudden there it was… straight after the song that was playing, IT came on; I stopped what I was doing and sat on the edge of my bed and listened carefully to every detail of what I was hearing.

This, it turns out to be, is exactly what I’ve always dreamed of, what I always wanted to hear, what I always wanted to make but did not have the means nor the knowledge that was necessary to do it.

This is the kind of music that has finally ignited something within me that was kind of always there, almost in a cryogenic state but needed the catalyst to set things in motion.

As I sat there in the dark with my jaw miraculously touching my knees, the song finished and Mary-Anne gave the name of the band, the song and the album which it was lifted from, I quickly switched on the lights to look for pen and paper while repeating the details to myself so that I don’t forget it, the band’s name was Fear factory and the name of the song was Shock from which the album it came from was called Obsolete and as soon as I wrote the details down, I knew that from that moment onwards my life was about to take a different direction, one that was going to be exciting, challenging and rewarding all at the same time.

The next day came and as soon as I had the opportunity to use the phone, I called my beloved brother to get me this album and send it to me A.S.A.P!!!

In the mean time, a few weeks before that day, I purchased a cheap but simple CD player from my local shop so all I was hoping for was that the batteries don’t run out as the album was about to arrive within the next two days.

So I waited a painstaking three days until it came and there it was… the ‘Obsolete’ album, I rushed it out of its security seal and placed it in my CD player and the opening track was ‘Shock’

which was great because I wanted to hear that one first in digital quality as opposed to that of the puny pathetic little disposable  radio that I first heard it from.

The song starts and I am as excited as a new born because it was the most beautiful and terrifying sound I have ever heard and was wandering why this took so long to find me.

All was going well until a few seconds into the song the batteries ran out, panic and horror ensued to the point where I had ask people that I knew if they had spare batteries as I did not have any change on me to purchase replacements.

Four frustrating days went by with no hope of finding any until the day I got paid which I bought ten batteries because I already knew that I would be somehow contingent on those headphones of mine for the rest of week.

As I listened the album, I realized that it was a concept album and that there was a story within it that ran through the music, the story was to be followed via the booklet it came with and that the songs were either scenes or an introduction to characters and events.

The genre of the story is at best described as ‘Cyberpunk’ which is a sub-genre of science fiction in general which was originally first coined back in 1983 by the author and novelist Mr William Gibson with one of the groundbreaking and influential book ‘Neuromancer’.

Like the ‘Obsolete’ story, most Cyberpunk themes tends to take place in a very distant future where the writer has free will to explore and toy with  impossible  ideas of what could be considered as unrealistic and sometimes unfathomable.

Going back to Fear factory, the next opus they released was not a concept LP but one that explored digital mortality,

meaning if people just memories that could be transferred from one shell to another which would mean that there would be no lifespan on an individual i.e. to age or deteriorate thus achieving the inevitable gift of immortality.

After getting the ‘Digimortal’ album, I was compelled to explore the back catalogue of FF and I found ‘Demanufacture’, a prominent release which came out before ‘Obsolete’ and this one carried a more harsher industrial type of sound that was raw and mechanical, and in that album that I found what I would consider and describe as the perfect, all-round and well assembled song of all time like every other songs in the world should be put together, that song is called ‘Self bias resistor’ and according to the singer Burton C. Bell, it’s a rebel song where the weak has to, in this case, stand against  mental erasure and expurgation by the powers that be because of small differences of opinions on what the individual is made of and the way he or she thinks and therefore resistance of all kinds of psychological and physical incursion  means a full on war of attrition would be  inevitable from the transgressors, the ones in charge that supposedly look after your well being… a slight touch upon reality there … eh?

i know im a bit behind (almost 10 years!!!) bt i recently got hold of the neon genesis evangelion boxset and the movies that were issued to correct the original ending which was just ot of this world and i must say after sitting throgh 16 or so hours of the damn thing i was amazed but also left confused to what actually happens in the end.
like i said, two seperate movies were released to explain the ending of the series but that was not enough so they are planning to release TWO more movies again but i dought it will get the fans anywhere near the director was trying to convey.
the concept and ideology of evangelion is the most fascinating aspect of it, especially the embryo of adam and the crucified shell beneath the city.
with almost every character having some sort of mental issues, that just does not help them fight off the 16 angels that will come to pass.
i have never seen a franchise so underground and yet massive among anime fans, nothing like it outhere and it's safe to say that there will never be!
if you get the slightest chance to see this masterpiece of a film, you will not be disappointed (apart with the ending for not understanding it) miss this this at your peril!

hello evry1, im tring to find the time to update and respond to all u guys and girls who added me and for that i thank u and i will sit down one of these days and do everything including posting journals and pics. speak to you soon xxx