The Dance Of Eternity:
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
DIMENSION X - So... This Is Earth
Progressive Rock & Metal [Underrate Band -- Dream Theater Fans Would Love This
Band Prog Metal yg Unik dengan sound band yg Raw tapi dengan komposisi yg apik dan virtuosity yg maknyus..silahkan di nikmati!
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
iPhone IMAP and gMail Server Issue Fix
For no good reason at all, my iPhone's ability to access Gmail's IMAP server occasionally goes wonky, producing the dreaded "The connection to the server 'imap.gmail.com' failed" error. That sucks, because it leaves me without easy access to Gmail.
Suffering from the same problem? The fix is easy. From the iPhone (or computer) you're using to access your Gmail IMAP account:
1) Visit this link.
2) Enter your name, Gmail password, and the supplied Captcha phrase (the string of nonsense letters provided on the page)
3) There is no step three -- after doing this, the iPhone or computer you're working from will have no problem at all accessing Gmail's IMAP server.
Suffering from the same problem? The fix is easy. From the iPhone (or computer) you're using to access your Gmail IMAP account:
1) Visit this link.
2) Enter your name, Gmail password, and the supplied Captcha phrase (the string of nonsense letters provided on the page)
3) There is no step three -- after doing this, the iPhone or computer you're working from will have no problem at all accessing Gmail's IMAP server.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Dragonforce – Ultra Beatdown (2008) — Review
Ini merupakan album ke-4 dari Dragonforce,dimana saya dengernya lebih kenceng dan banyak riff2 yang garang dari Herman Li dan Sam Totman sang Twin gitaris.
Dari segi musikal,album ini cukup punya “greget” dan masih membuktikan kalo mereka merupakan band yang “Extreme Power Metal” dari England.Lagu pertama “Heroes Of Our Time” dan kedua “The Fire Still Burns” dan lagu ke-4 “Heartbreak Armageddon” merupakan track Favorit saya karena lagu2 ini merupakan lagu yang kenceng dan merupakan ciri khas Dragonforce,Riff & solo gitar yang mantap,double bass drum yang kenceng,keyboard yang menambah garang lagu mereka .Vokal yang epic dan catchy di telinga sehingga akan menambah semangat kita apabila kita dengerin album ini ketika baru bangun pagi2..:) ..Satu semi-ballad juga hadir di album ini “A Flame For Freedom” juga favorit saya karena solo gitarnya mantap dan lagunya manis banget (bukan kaya coklat lho.hehehe)..Saya tidak mereview track by track karena kalo anda memang penggemar Power Metal,anda pasti akan suka lagu2 di album terbaru Dragonforce ini.Satu hal yang kurang dari album ini adalah lagu-lagunya kedengeran mengulang dari album2 sebelumnya.Semoga album mendatang lebih kreatif dan menyengat.oh iya,album ini juga dirilis resmi di Indonesia karena waktu ini saya jalan2 ke Kuta sempet liat CD-nya barengan ama Metallica yang baru “Death Magnetic”.So,This Is Still GREAT album by Dragonforce…Enjoy!
Salam ,
Ray Sanctuary
Dark Is The Path Into Eternity.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
TERMINOLOGY IN METAL GENRE
HEAVY METAL (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and fast guitar solos. Allmusic declares, "Of all rock & roll's myriad forms, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality."
POWER METAL is a style of heavy metal music with the aim of evoking an "epic" feel, incorporating characteristics of primarily traditional metal along with thrash metal or speed metal, often within symphonic context. There is some dispute about the term, which can refer to two different, but related styles: one pioneered and largely practiced in North America, and one based in Germany, Italy and Scandinavia. In contemporary usage, "power metal" describes music influenced by or derived from the European variant, with the exception of several American bands that are associated with both power metal and thrash metal.
SPEED METAL is a sub-genre of heavy metal that spawned in the early 1980s and was the direct musical progenitor of thrash metal. When Speed metal first emerged as a genre, it innovatively increased the tempo of the music template set forth by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple while keeping their melodic ideas. Speed Metal can find its significant beginnings with NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) bands.
THRASH METAL is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by its high speed and aggression. The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (creating a new genre and developing into a separate movement from punk rock.) This genre is much more aggressive compared to its relative, speed metal. There is often significant crossover from one metal category to another, and the influence of non-metal genres, including classical music and jazz, is not uncommon.
DEATH METAL is an extreme metal subgenre. It is one of the major subgenres of heavy metal, which began as an evolution of thrash metal in the late 1980s. Death metal is usually fast, low, powerful, intense, and played very loudly. The genre is often identified with downtuned rhythm guitars, fast percussion, and dynamic intensity. Blast beats and exceedingly fast drum patterns are frequently used to add to the ferocity of the genre. The vocals are often grunts, snarls, and low gurgles colloquially called death grunts or death growls. Death grunts require use of the throat and guts, unlike traditional singing styles which discourage this technique. Some people consider it an overtone style of singing. Music journalist Chad Bowar notes that, because of the similarity of the vocals to those of the Sesame Street character, the style is sometimes called "Cookie Monster vocals". This term has become commonly used as a show of disdain for the genre. Death metal is known for abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, as well as extremely fast and complex guitar and drumwork. Death metal may include chromatic chord progressions and a varied song structure without a standard verse-chorus arrangement. These compositions tend to emphasize an ongoing development of themes and motifs. Bands of this genre frequently utilize downtuned and distorted guitars, a downtuned, sometimes distorted bass guitar, and a drum kit almost universally using two bass drums or a double bass drum pedal. Although this is the standard setup, bands have been known to incorporate other instruments such as keyboards and saxophone.Death metal lyrics usually address more violent themes than other forms of metal music (with a few exceptions such as Satanism and Nihilism), often using gruesome metaphors to explore a larger concept. It also involves singing about havling sex with the dead, torturing people or killing people. It is very gross and brutal. The genre, originally an offshoot of thrash metal, was established to celebrate the darker underlying ideas that lay dormant in metal music. The focus on mortality along with the extreme nature of the music likely inspired the naming of this genre.
BLACK METAL is an extreme metal subgenre. It is typically characterized by the use of heavily-distorted guitars, harsh or growled vocals, fast-paced rhythms, and unconventional song structures. The first bands to pioneer the black metal style include Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, and Hellhammer/Celtic Frost. These bands were mostly thrash metal bands that formed the prototype for black metal; they are referred to collectively as the First Wave. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a Second Wave emerged in Norway, including prominent bands like Mayhem and Darkthrone. Although there is no well-defined Third Wave, modern black metal bands have incorporated new musical and lyrical trends into their music. Black metal has been met with considerable hostility from mainstream culture, mainly because of the misanthropic and anti-Judeo-Christian attitude of bands contributing to the genre. Additionally, a few black metal bands have been known to have associations with church burnings, murder, and National Socialism. Black metal is generally seen as an underground form of music, in part because it does not appeal to mainstream tastes and because its musicians often choose to remain obscure.
DOOM METAL is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized metal sub-genre in the early/mid-1980s. Doom metal is heavier and slower than other metal genres. Lyrics play a very important role in this genre, and are traditionally rife with pessimism, evoking an atmosphere of darkness, despair and misery. Musically, doom metal is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath. A number of early Black Sabbath tracks, such as "Black Sabbath" are often considered embryonic or prototypical doom metal songs. Many of the tracks on their third album Master of Reality (released in 1971) seem to have more in common with what today is seen as doom metal, with tracks such as "Sweet Leaf", "Into The Void", and "Children of the Grave" that featured Tony Iommi's guitar and Geezer Butler's bass tuned down to C# for heavier riffing and reduced string tension for Iommi's previously injured fingers. However Black Sabbath was not the only influence- many doom metal bands started up only a few years after Black Sabbath's debut, some of whom hailed from countries that had not yet seen the rise of Black Sabbath's popularity.
MELODIC DEATH METAL, (also referred to as Gothenburg metal, melodeath, Scandinavian metal, and post-death) is a subgenre of death metal. Originally the genre combined the harmony style and groove melodies of Heavy metal with the thrashing, harsh sound of death metal and thrash metal. Later the genre evolved through many influences and evolutions, a notable evolution in the genre being the addition of keyboards. Melodic death metal contains more melodic guitar riffs, solos, and acoustic guitar work than death metal. It also contains more understandable lyrics as well as coherent singing along with traditional death grunt vocals. The song structures are generally more progressive, using diverse themes throughout the songs.
PROGRESSIVE METAL is a sub genre of heavy metal music which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock. Some progressive metal bands are also influenced by jazz fusion music. Like progressive rock songs, progressive metal songs are usually much longer than standard rock songs, and songs are often thematically linked in concept albums. As a result, progressive metal is rarely heard on mainstream radio and video programs.
GRINDCORE, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of crust punk, most commonly associated with death metal, a very different, though similarly extreme, style of music. Grindcore is characterized by heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars often showing crust punk-influenced riffs, blast beats by drummers, short songs, and a vocal style consisting of growls and higher-pitched vocals, often similar to those found in black metal. Lyrical concepts range from social and political issues to gore and horror to humor.
FOLK METAL is a diverse collection of music, encompassing a wide variety of different styles and approaches. As the name suggests, the one common ground between folk metal bands is a shared interest in fusing heavy metal music with elements of folk music.
GOTHIC METAL is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the mid 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a fusion genre of doom metal and death metal. The definition of gothic metal is commonly debated amongst fans and the media; older fans and musicians have a firm concept of the genre and its characteristics, having been around for its conception, and having strict ideas of what bands pertain to the genre. Newer fans reject this categorization as limiting, useless, or wrong, often claiming bands are gothic metal that do not meet the criteria of the older fans. Gothic metal is commonly characterized lyrically by either one of two distinct characteristics: dual vocalists (growls and female vocals) or a single vocalist with a low, operatic tone. Instrumentation is heavily based on the use of modern keyboards and distorted guitars with varying tempos and rather complex compositions. Gothic metal tends to take influence from the doom metal, black metal, and death metal subgenres of Heavy metal for its composition. The heavily synthesized styles of their melody and rhythm ideas in its guitar riffs often cause the music to be aggressive and fast paced like death metal, while sometimes the sound is slow and heavy like doom metal.
VIKING METAL is a cross-genre reference usually used to describe the lyrical and thematic elements of bands rather than the music itself. The bands associated with Viking metal cover a broad range of musical genres and influences, such as folk metal, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, and power metal.
Thanks to Wikipedia & buasbgt.
POWER METAL is a style of heavy metal music with the aim of evoking an "epic" feel, incorporating characteristics of primarily traditional metal along with thrash metal or speed metal, often within symphonic context. There is some dispute about the term, which can refer to two different, but related styles: one pioneered and largely practiced in North America, and one based in Germany, Italy and Scandinavia. In contemporary usage, "power metal" describes music influenced by or derived from the European variant, with the exception of several American bands that are associated with both power metal and thrash metal.
SPEED METAL is a sub-genre of heavy metal that spawned in the early 1980s and was the direct musical progenitor of thrash metal. When Speed metal first emerged as a genre, it innovatively increased the tempo of the music template set forth by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple while keeping their melodic ideas. Speed Metal can find its significant beginnings with NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) bands.
THRASH METAL is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by its high speed and aggression. The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (creating a new genre and developing into a separate movement from punk rock.) This genre is much more aggressive compared to its relative, speed metal. There is often significant crossover from one metal category to another, and the influence of non-metal genres, including classical music and jazz, is not uncommon.
DEATH METAL is an extreme metal subgenre. It is one of the major subgenres of heavy metal, which began as an evolution of thrash metal in the late 1980s. Death metal is usually fast, low, powerful, intense, and played very loudly. The genre is often identified with downtuned rhythm guitars, fast percussion, and dynamic intensity. Blast beats and exceedingly fast drum patterns are frequently used to add to the ferocity of the genre. The vocals are often grunts, snarls, and low gurgles colloquially called death grunts or death growls. Death grunts require use of the throat and guts, unlike traditional singing styles which discourage this technique. Some people consider it an overtone style of singing. Music journalist Chad Bowar notes that, because of the similarity of the vocals to those of the Sesame Street character, the style is sometimes called "Cookie Monster vocals". This term has become commonly used as a show of disdain for the genre. Death metal is known for abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, as well as extremely fast and complex guitar and drumwork. Death metal may include chromatic chord progressions and a varied song structure without a standard verse-chorus arrangement. These compositions tend to emphasize an ongoing development of themes and motifs. Bands of this genre frequently utilize downtuned and distorted guitars, a downtuned, sometimes distorted bass guitar, and a drum kit almost universally using two bass drums or a double bass drum pedal. Although this is the standard setup, bands have been known to incorporate other instruments such as keyboards and saxophone.Death metal lyrics usually address more violent themes than other forms of metal music (with a few exceptions such as Satanism and Nihilism), often using gruesome metaphors to explore a larger concept. It also involves singing about havling sex with the dead, torturing people or killing people. It is very gross and brutal. The genre, originally an offshoot of thrash metal, was established to celebrate the darker underlying ideas that lay dormant in metal music. The focus on mortality along with the extreme nature of the music likely inspired the naming of this genre.
BLACK METAL is an extreme metal subgenre. It is typically characterized by the use of heavily-distorted guitars, harsh or growled vocals, fast-paced rhythms, and unconventional song structures. The first bands to pioneer the black metal style include Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, and Hellhammer/Celtic Frost. These bands were mostly thrash metal bands that formed the prototype for black metal; they are referred to collectively as the First Wave. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a Second Wave emerged in Norway, including prominent bands like Mayhem and Darkthrone. Although there is no well-defined Third Wave, modern black metal bands have incorporated new musical and lyrical trends into their music. Black metal has been met with considerable hostility from mainstream culture, mainly because of the misanthropic and anti-Judeo-Christian attitude of bands contributing to the genre. Additionally, a few black metal bands have been known to have associations with church burnings, murder, and National Socialism. Black metal is generally seen as an underground form of music, in part because it does not appeal to mainstream tastes and because its musicians often choose to remain obscure.
DOOM METAL is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized metal sub-genre in the early/mid-1980s. Doom metal is heavier and slower than other metal genres. Lyrics play a very important role in this genre, and are traditionally rife with pessimism, evoking an atmosphere of darkness, despair and misery. Musically, doom metal is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath. A number of early Black Sabbath tracks, such as "Black Sabbath" are often considered embryonic or prototypical doom metal songs. Many of the tracks on their third album Master of Reality (released in 1971) seem to have more in common with what today is seen as doom metal, with tracks such as "Sweet Leaf", "Into The Void", and "Children of the Grave" that featured Tony Iommi's guitar and Geezer Butler's bass tuned down to C# for heavier riffing and reduced string tension for Iommi's previously injured fingers. However Black Sabbath was not the only influence- many doom metal bands started up only a few years after Black Sabbath's debut, some of whom hailed from countries that had not yet seen the rise of Black Sabbath's popularity.
MELODIC DEATH METAL, (also referred to as Gothenburg metal, melodeath, Scandinavian metal, and post-death) is a subgenre of death metal. Originally the genre combined the harmony style and groove melodies of Heavy metal with the thrashing, harsh sound of death metal and thrash metal. Later the genre evolved through many influences and evolutions, a notable evolution in the genre being the addition of keyboards. Melodic death metal contains more melodic guitar riffs, solos, and acoustic guitar work than death metal. It also contains more understandable lyrics as well as coherent singing along with traditional death grunt vocals. The song structures are generally more progressive, using diverse themes throughout the songs.
PROGRESSIVE METAL is a sub genre of heavy metal music which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock. Some progressive metal bands are also influenced by jazz fusion music. Like progressive rock songs, progressive metal songs are usually much longer than standard rock songs, and songs are often thematically linked in concept albums. As a result, progressive metal is rarely heard on mainstream radio and video programs.
GRINDCORE, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of crust punk, most commonly associated with death metal, a very different, though similarly extreme, style of music. Grindcore is characterized by heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars often showing crust punk-influenced riffs, blast beats by drummers, short songs, and a vocal style consisting of growls and higher-pitched vocals, often similar to those found in black metal. Lyrical concepts range from social and political issues to gore and horror to humor.
FOLK METAL is a diverse collection of music, encompassing a wide variety of different styles and approaches. As the name suggests, the one common ground between folk metal bands is a shared interest in fusing heavy metal music with elements of folk music.
GOTHIC METAL is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the mid 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a fusion genre of doom metal and death metal. The definition of gothic metal is commonly debated amongst fans and the media; older fans and musicians have a firm concept of the genre and its characteristics, having been around for its conception, and having strict ideas of what bands pertain to the genre. Newer fans reject this categorization as limiting, useless, or wrong, often claiming bands are gothic metal that do not meet the criteria of the older fans. Gothic metal is commonly characterized lyrically by either one of two distinct characteristics: dual vocalists (growls and female vocals) or a single vocalist with a low, operatic tone. Instrumentation is heavily based on the use of modern keyboards and distorted guitars with varying tempos and rather complex compositions. Gothic metal tends to take influence from the doom metal, black metal, and death metal subgenres of Heavy metal for its composition. The heavily synthesized styles of their melody and rhythm ideas in its guitar riffs often cause the music to be aggressive and fast paced like death metal, while sometimes the sound is slow and heavy like doom metal.
VIKING METAL is a cross-genre reference usually used to describe the lyrical and thematic elements of bands rather than the music itself. The bands associated with Viking metal cover a broad range of musical genres and influences, such as folk metal, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, and power metal.
Thanks to Wikipedia & buasbgt.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Eniac Requiem - Space Eternal Void (1998) -- Review
Eniac Requiem?wah,mungkin banyak dari kita yang asing mendengar nama band ini.yach,begitulah,karena band ini memang setau saya hanya mengeluarkan 1 album ini saja di tahun 1998 di bawah label Sharpnel Record yg biasanya khusus untuk band - band prog metal ataupun para shred guitar.
Saya sendiri tau band ini dari kakak sepupu yang memang dari tahun 80's suka banget ama music Metal 'n Glam rock pada masa itu ( Hello Pak 'Man,thanks for "Radiation" in taste of Metal music ).Waktu itu kira2 tahun 2000'an saat kakak sepupu baru dateng dari Seoul n bawa oleh oleh banyak buanget Kaset metal (Waktu itu disini "Bali" masih jamannya pita kaset belom ngetrend CD kaya sekarang ini,huhu..) yang kebetulan waktu itu juga masih seneng dengerin band Power ' Prog Metal kaya Gamma Ray,Rage,Impellitteri,Primal Fear, dan band sebangsanya.Saya tertarik dengan cover band ini yang "prog-banget" dimana ada elemen - elemen atmospheric yang didominasi dengan warna hijau.
Band ini sendiri dimotori oleh Derek Taylor yang merupakan salah satu sherd dan vokalis dari amerika yang sudah tidak asing lagi oleh para prog mania.Formasi dari Eniac Requiem pada album ini adalah :
Line-Up :
Derek Taylor - Vox,Guitar
Scott Stine - Guitar
Breet Stine - Keyboard
David Perry - Bass
Rob Stankiewicz - Drums
Saya merasa terkesan dan kagum sekali waktu pertama kali mendengar semua lagu lagu pada album ini.Terasa sekali pengaruh dan nuansa music music dari Dream Theater,Pink Floid dan raungan gitar dari Yngwie Malmsteen pada almbum ini yang mungkin juga inspirasi dari band ini.Mendengar satu demi satu lagu dari awal sampai akhir sangat enjoy dan TIDAK membosankan karena kita dsuguhkan dengan music yang variatif ,atmospheric kadang2 dengan fast tempo ataupun slow ala Pink Floid,begitu menawan dan petualangan yg mengesankan (Of Me,in my opinion) ke dunia prog yang tidak ada ujungnya (Close to the Edge ).
Bagi para penggemar Dream Theater,Symphony X,Yngwie Malmsteen ataupun yang suka Neo-Classical saya yakin mereka akan suka dengan album ini..MOST RECOMMENDED!! rating 4,5 of 5 Star...Keep On Progging...
Yours Progressivefully,
Ngurah1241
Dengarkan Musiknya HERE :
Monday, March 24, 2008
The Beginning Of The Time
Welcome To The New Dimension
Welcome!
You have entered the cranial vistas of psychogenesis.
This is the place of no-time and no-space.
Do not be afraid for I am merely the vocal manifestation of your eternal dreams.
I am as water, as air - like breath itself.
Do not be afraid.
Look around, but linger not.
Where I lead you will follow.
Mark these words well.
Ignite my anger with your delay and punishments will come your way.
You are eight souls of the flesh, chosen from different eras ancient and modern.
The trivia of your mortal lives is unimportant to me...
Indeed, some may die...
You have a task: to release yourselves from this Web of Wisdom, this knotted Maze of Delirium, you must enter the nuclear portals of… the Electric Castle!
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