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I came for the references to the heavy metal music, and was not disappointed.

I like the layout, reminds me of facebook, but with an emphasis on gaming trophies. Congrats on the new job, whatever it is! I need mine to give me more hours.

Virtual Future - Loved it, sounds like production values are low at first but it picks up and gets going, it gets awesome, might be my favorite of what you said to listen to.

Midnight Madness - This I've actually heard and seen the video for before. I think the video turned me off a bit, but it's a decent song with some cool solos, though I'll always see "Kissing the Shadows" as the best example of Alexi's (and Janne's) soloing.

Passage to the Fourth World - Starts out sounding a bit like Trivium's "We are the Fire." Overall, I thought it was ok. (And I'm not sure if your link was to a low quality one, but I think the one I listened to was high def enough; I had Youtube open so I just typed the titles in).

Suicide by My Side - In the video I found, solo started about 3:00, was good though. Again, not a great music video, but the song more than made up for it, this was one of my favorites.

I Spit on Your Grave - It sounds like a female Bruce Dickenson ... awesome. It's weird, but I notice now how often Alexi spits before songs. lol

Well, "Downfall" is a staple song for them, and FtR is widely considered their best album, so they usually play stuff from Hatebreeder on, but yeah, Alexi doesn't like Something Wild for some reason I can't understand.

I've liked all their styles to varying degrees, I actually really like Are You Dead Yet? and their newer stuff as well; it's been a while since I was really into them, but I do love a lot of their songs.

Never really listened to Sinergy, though I did know of them and that he was engaged or married to the singer, but I love the punk band he does guitar for, Kylahullut.

My new blog is all about it, to make up for the lack of mentions this blog. lol

Urge to play, rising. Of course, I'd rather feel like I've won than just be handed something, but that's not to say I never appreciated the Cici's at the end of a lost little league game, so hey, if they want to give me a freebie I can live with that. lol

I love that whole album myself. I was secretly hoping they'd play either "Red Light," "In the Shadows," or "Touch Like Angel of Death," when I saw them at Gigantour a few years ago. I knew that wasn't going to happen, but I had a dream.

I was a bit annoyed they didn't play ANYTHING from it though, no even "Lake Bodom." Oh well, their set was still amazing.

Reading that again, I see where you could interepret a certain tone in that first sentence, but I didn't mean there to be. I think I'm going to start recording audio on Soundcloud and comment that way, cause I come across as more of a dick than I'm trying to be in text.

I used to have Netflix in the mail, and was heavily considering Gamefly, but you're right, shipping can be a bitch, plus no post on weekends at all anymore (that's in effect, right? I know USPS said that would happen anyway), so Steam is the thing I'm most considering for gaming fix right now ... that, and maybe plugging my old systems back in.

Good story, Zelda like, and what Zelda 2 (only Zelda game I don't like) should have been? I'm in. Especially with that interesting "medieval future" concept.

I heard about the Gamecube version, and its difficulty, a lot, and since I'm not great at these shmups, that turned me off, but hearing your impressions makes me want to try it. I get bored with these types of games as much as I suck at them usually, but that polarity mechanic may be just enough to make me want to play it.