Death of Dubstep

wooom wwooom bllep bleep dish pwrwaaaaaaik.. woom woom bammmm meooow...baaaaaam hmmmmmm hmmmm wooooom ...
            No its not a brocken down car with a parrot and a cat having interracial sex in it. And its not Aliens messaging or having sex. Its Dubstep put to words. Or letters. For those who have no idea what it is, i suggest you go over to google and search about it. come on put Google to other uses than browsing porn or completing your assignments. Heck, even i browse porn and watch , but hey i do other things too, things that are productive. Do something new for a change *laugh-out-loud*

                     So it’s been taking the world by storm for a while now. Dubstep is everywhere. We all know about it, many of us love it, You haven't ? Where have you been ? oh browsing porn *another-big-fat laugh* Now the problem is not being you not 'informed about this whole new musical genre'. No no no, i don't give a fuck whether you have listened to it or not. Its your loss, not mine, right ? make perfect sense. But there’s a massive problem brewing for us people that admire good music and its 'continuablity'……the yanks have got hold of Dubstep! NO PLEASE !, this is not an anti-american rant by another anti-american, scumbag,commie, Bin Laden, Ahaajinajad this that... not even Joseph Kony.

           But 'some American people', not the good day to day soldiers,farmers,work force, and good people of 'good' art forms, But 'some people' who are after to make fast bucks and fame and possibly some pussy, tend to go up on wild adventures of getting something famous and freaking that to their own profit. And maybe because the country is large and the big population, america has the vast numbers of it.

            Anyway , if you are reading from here on i strongly suggest to go and read about Dubstep and listen to some good dubstep by artists like Datsik(3 fist style, my favorite track), and then continue. Because if you don't, again is not my fault but you wouldn't be able to make a head-or-tail out of this post.

             Coming back to the topic at hand : after some research of a miniature scale i noticed that at the moment there is a wave of American producers coming into Dubstep from other genres. more the artists better right ? WRONG ! What is wrong is, these producers are flooding the genre with horrible mid range wobbled melodic shit, they have an addiction to the almighty ‘filth’(Obvious duuuh). It’s gored-out mosh music as opposed to dance music. Not to say these beatmakers don’t have talent(covers my self from the tomato's). But Take the new award winning - 'Skrillex' for example (that's the biggest laugh some of my friends and me had) , some of his intro’s are rare, the melodic trancey intro for ‘Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites’ is very good and well produced and is something not many does. His production is tight…….then comes the drop. The song turns from a catchy, trancey rhythm into a violent racket of overwhelming wobbles. His sound after the drop is plain and simple and there is a fairly long list of American producers my friend Sandaruwan(a persons name for those who only know english, a producer) can say the same about. The bass is growly and reminds me of nails on a chalkboard, it’s just all a little silly and a million miles away from the garage and dub inspired scenes in Britain. Yeah think that's where Dubstep was born according to my researches.

Skrillex - How gay and emo can you look at the same time

We should say NO to that kind of crap, c'mon. Stop yelling "OMFG ! Its Skillerx.. So Uber !" over the net with your Capslock on. The bugger wouldn't been another ordinary person if he didn't get that award heh. Or more likely if an artist like Deadmau5 didnt bring him upto his feet, OR MORE LIKELY if Dubstep didn't go to American producers.

      The yank producers are generally giving the genre a bad name, like they do with most. my friend actually said dubstep is now actually is dying. For me after listening to the genre for more than a year, Hearing shit from producers such as Skrillex, Excision and Figure is heartbreaking. They are butchering the sound of Dubstep and calling it Dubstep. It’s like sticking your cock in Vanessa Feltz and telling everyone you fucked Megan Fox.
                          As i found out Skrillex, released his first EP on the Mau5trap label, that helped him gain notoriety very very quickly. Due to the backing of the Mau5, all 8 tracks off his first EP were top rated. It’s a great achievement yes, but if the core american electronic music listeners user base (which i dont think has really acknowledged Dubstep that much as yet, fuck awards ! ) is going to finally acknowledge the genre through an artist like Skrillex and his shit, then I worry for the future. Now, there could be some producers over in Uncle Sam’s land that don’t produce this terrible gorestep. I don’t know. In fact there are bound to be, but I’m going on the producers that have gained reputations fast and are big names over there. Now I’m not picking on these guys, they have found a way to be successful and have hit a chord with Americans between the ages of 16 and 24. They are mad for it over there, and the money, the fame, the sex flows in.

          So there are people that say the genre needs to evolve, sure it does, every genre does to an extent, especially a relatively new one such as Dubstep.  To have longevity, evolution of a sound is a must. The problem is that there is a difference between evolution and perversion. Dubstep is going through both processes at once and the results couldn’t be further apart. When classical music evolved there wasn't suck cases like this. When Rock and Metal evolved the bands didn't go crazy and end up with non-nonsensical shit. Everyone made sure they made positive contributions.

       It’s definitely going to be interesting to see where we are heading. This violent pony that Skrillex and co. are producing is not going to go away. Not while the record companies have these money making machines on their hands. Capitalism will rear its ugly head and if they are making money, that’s it and if I’m honest, aslong as the sound doesn’t start influencing young, talented producers out there in the world, I don’t care. There is however, a problem in identifying what dubstep is these days. Unfortunately to some, it includes sounds that are so far apart from what I and many others perceive it as.
                 
             Still at the end of the day, difference in opinion is what makes the world go round. But if there's a thing that money can move things. yes not some, but the mass.. the mob, money can move that. Its because of the need of money that there are thieves, that there are smugglers, that there are hookers, and that there are artists who has no passion on what they are doing. If such happens a good form of music can die out. Not completely, but would go underground, only to be cherished by those who loved it, and lost for the future. At the moment Dubstep is not dead. Its alive, but there is destruction. Dont let it die.

LokiMelkoR your good old Neighbor signing out. Leave a comment below(What ever, against the post or complements) for my efforts, so i know its appreciated.

Martyr Of Eros

Bright Skies, overshadowed by streaks of gray,
The sun dies out as the moonless dark sweeps the sky .
Look across the barren land what was once a field of green,
Look through a mist that tries to blind me,
with tears…

Cold wind echoes through my ear drums,
Not a voice to be heard, far across the leagues beyond.
No bird sings, no bat cries,
Nothing that makes music reaches through,
Voices echo in pain…

A hoarse voice lets it self out, a cry for help,
And it echo’s from stone to stone.
A dried tongue hangs for a drop of rain,
Cracks scars across with shades of dust

A hollow beat echo’s through somewhere,
somewhere deep inside that need to reach out.
The skin burns, Sight slowly plunging to darkness
Slowly as the noose tightness around the neck
The Martyr hangs in the name of named holy to his heart.

 

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LokiMelkoR pleads mercy from his fans for the long absence. But I am currently working on another project I had eye’s on for long. A novel. Lets see if it makes to the light of day.
Also Loki has learned that  When your nerves are pushed to its very limits where you cannot bear it, Creativity erupts.

She sells, her self. But please let her be….

                   

                        Its not easy to speak one's mind. surely when the society is flooded with people with conservative's,the busybodies who scavenge on ones apathy and hypocrites, especially the latter two, since conservatives are now a endangered species anyway,.. like, anyway as I was saying: When the society is flooded by such stereotypes the open minded really get branded as freaks or some kind of person with a 'psychotic depression' or anyway they find fit to call. But hey ! that doesn't mean one has to be silent and let to be get pushed around right ? at least not me or few other who will approve this post. Or at least those who holds some value for free thought.

    And no .. No pictures for this post too .. go and watch a porn and wank off, or girls finger your selves.. that will be better than a picture.

                  Lets get to the story shall we..So like i am like really fed up with this anti-prostitution slogan going around the community for the past few months.. oh wait did i say the community ? Let me correct my self, our ‘Sri Lanka blogger community’, yeah lets go with that. I don't know who the mind-fuck-hypocrite started it, but suddenly between a 2 months time period, the bloggers in our country started posting about prostitution and well .. bum bum baaa …saying its bad. Just to put it short that way, you know the usual conservative ideas yeah ? ah those. But they never were conservatives really,just plain hypocrites i mean, they didn't prove any point how it is bad, but just you know few random photos of foreign hookers you just find on Google and all the post was saying was "Prostitution is bad". The most funny part is that well all.. well at least just say 99% of theses bloggers were between 18 to 25 years old.

    Hooray ! ! !  we have a bunch of new wave of male-young-good-moral'd band of bloggers. Then again in the course did we forget or let it slip our mind how hypocrites they them selves have been. Or the idiots who commented approving the post ??  I mean shit c'mon who are they kidding, Some of them i know personally and too well. I’ve seen them drooling when they see a MILF pass by.Ok not MILF, any chick. They've been watching Xena the warrior princes and wanking to it, gosh most of 'em are single lol,and few are not. 

    So as i was saying this bunch is also same perverted as you and i, watches porn as you and i, glances at MILF as you and i, and does every shit like you and i , expect they and i are bloggers except you guys LOL ! (point and laugh), goes into this anti-prostitute rant over their blogs. Don't get angry, that was an ice breaker.

     So like anyway , why does the society take down on prostitutes ? Can somebody give a reasonable, decent, mature enough keeping the fact in mind that we are humans and subject to our animal instincts.(keep the utopian wise talk out okay. That really annoys me,cuz it makes me feel like im arguing with a dum ignorant with a an over stuffed philosophical mind). Is it just because they are so silent that , you can actually throw shit at them them all you want and get no shit back … and doing so you feel so macho of actually pawning somebody ? I mean you don’t see prostitutes rallying up on street for their rights like you bastards who get to streets brandishing your pitch forks and all those slogans just whenever something is not in your way or.. you want a pay rise.

    AND DONT ! come up with the silly argument about morals and little kids. The morals have been long gone and i don't know when, and kids.. well they have been there always and of course since time back when porn was was first created they have been watching them too. I mean i remember me and 99% who I know in my age first watched a porn when we are just 14 years old. And its porn video, not just some silly nude pictures of women, that came way before that. the left over 1% ?? oh they watched in the following year. They observed what kind of effect porn had on us for a whole year and finding non … decided to give a shot.and look.. we are still functioning normal.. we don't go pick up fights in the streets like you do, we are not rapists like some of you do, we don't sexually harass like you do, and most of of all we we don't call 'gay-fags' to anyone who doesn't agree with our opinions like you do over the internet. I bet we could give more delight in sex to a girl than a guy who hasn't watched a porn . That would be a trouble really.. I mean to find a guy who hasn’t watched porn .. lol. Girl's, don't feel so "oh what he is talking about ??"  or "God my guy isn't like that" ... if males weren't so pervert as they are now and ever will be, human race would've been extinct ages ago, and neither would you have a guy. Or it might've been girls fighting over guy's to gat laid than the other way around which is of course the Drama that goes around teen guys.

             So amidst porn and the hookers and the strip clubs and the sex clubs' human kind still prevails. If you want something to keep your kids away from.. that's politics and war. Politics and war i tell you ! keep your kid away from those.

     For all in my part i don't think a big deal out about prostitutes. I just say, if someone wants to be a prostitute.. let them me. Its their choice, its their life. Let them live it in their own way. The profession has been for so long and earned the title as the oldest profession in mind kind. They are bunch of ordinary bunch of male or female species, who go in their normal lives except as they chose to delight most etiquette desires of the unlucky males and the females(c'mon give a chance for  lesbians and the bi's eh? ) who never got enough sex life for their money making thingy .. sounds a good sacrifice to me. No one goes to choose prostitution because somebody said so right ? and nobody uses a prostitute just because somebody says so. The both parties operate under their own decisions. Its just a simple argument.

So just let it be people.. just let prostitutes and what ever the fuck associated with them be..

you just wanted a picture didn’t you … well . here’s something I like. It’s a favorite shoot of mine.

"... My Friends Metal is here to stay. It not going back..." – It was Psycho Martyrdom

           At this time around last week i was slowly recovering from a aching neck and a aching leg .. which i thought is broken. Plus an aching Spine , working on a java software.. no its not the software ...

         Good things do not come easy , and so should not be taken easily for the granted. They come and within a short period of time and without a warning may pass you by even without realizing it actually did. So that you must take to note that those seconds golden and even though, you inevitably fail to do so should do your utmost to squeeze and hold that precious little time that comes and goes by.

    Why , why this start .. well the thing are not simple anymore. Last few weeks this country was toured by numerous bands from around the world. Playing along with our local talents. Bringing the house down, singing their hearts away, playing like there's no tomorrow and the head bangs , mosh pits like there was never a thing to care about. Yeap, without a warning Colombo's Metal scenario erupted like Vesuvius on Pompeii. No prisoners man. Myself with my fellow brothers of chaos had the fortune to attend of one. And none the less it was as i was speaking .. PSYCHO MARTYRDOM.. Featuring Cyanide Serenity from UK , Nervecell from Dubai , and of course Pure Sri Lankan metal giants Stigmata.(6th May 2011 British International Auditorium)
    Me and my friends were so psyched up fir it from the very beginning when the first few hints ran up in none other than the much known social networking place to all : Facebook.  Running down to get tickets, ordering the gig shirts. LoL ok we weren't the organizers. But surely as a fan , these things do take you up till you cant actually bear it. And well finally we came to that day.. I remember waking up on the bed expecting a Nuke to go up. Really that was the atmosphere down in Colombo, and every metal head was biting his or her's nails.

     Well coming to the show then, after jumping in with security clearance and all that customary that goes on, The show was opened by a surprise by R.A.G.E taking up stage. A new band with familiar faces and promising talent. The guys did killer covers of Cowboys from Hell by Pantera and Grace by Lamb of God ...Hey ... did i get that LOG song right ? because i went to a real psycho-head-banging-frenzy to that and cant remember shit. Im a real Lamb of God fan .. Totally. I cant remember either why my knee hurt after that song. The pain went for four days .. well that's battle scars anyway. The Guys did real something to warm up the crowd for what's in store for the night.

     Then ... mnyehahaha (Evil Laugh) ...Cyanide Serenity took stage, Some thing i mentioned is they've added Travis from Divine Heresy (A very Notable track to me is Facebreaker). Now that was a real awesome piece of a vocal add. It was very obvious that Travis is a good change for the sounds of the band. As i was much familiar with the voices from Matt , this was a pleasant surprise really. A very lively person up the stage with previous experiences together with DH. The tracks "Belive In the Sun" , "System Failure" , "Foundations" really shifted the crowd from their feat and their necks working out. I remember at a one place where Travis asked the crowd "Are you ready Colombo ?" To which i blurted out "Bring the fuck on ..." which was echoed by him and and replied by their track foundations.. Very amusingly it is my favorite track out of CS. It was a such a sadness to see the guys get off the stage after few tracks.

I mean last Sri Lanka experienced was As i Lay Dying with a drizzle of rain.. but at indoor conditions where 'Psycho ...' was at you just don't want it to stop like that.

    

 

 

                        Well after Cyanide its none than The Pure Sri Lankan Metal’ists Stigmata took the stage. And well you cant imagine the response of the crowd.. They all went up in feet chanting "Stigmata" like some spirit all of suddenly took over their body.. Well same goes with me. I just don't know what happened to me that night. It was like an experience of being possessed , only you just wish it would never end.  Stigmata kicked of with 'Spiral Coma' and well very much suites for the possessed minds. Followed by their own Mariachi song "Jazz Theory". Well if you didn't get it right there is a Mariachi guitar solo infused with this thrash metal track. Again this was followed by an anthem of the band 'Andura' and of course finishing of their act by their own ode to their fans .. 'March Of the saints'. Well Stigmata really stole the spot light there with their own uniqueness. Its very awesome shit.

       

 

 

 

 

                                Next up of course its the Metal Giants from middle east. Nervercell. Currently setting up their HQ in Dubai,whereas the quartet are from four different locations of this planet, which i mentioned before. The band played its usual Thrash and Death metal infused music, which was very much taken roots into the band than the last time they toured  Sri Lanka a year ago. The guys were very distinct from others in their act and well that should be admired. To be frank fully truthful i was never a great fan of the genre so its almost Zero that I've heard on Nervecell. I even missed the last time they toured Sri Lanka. Well its this time that it got a full dose out of them to my ears and man .. they really are mesmerizing. I mean, to me , unlike many other bands in the same Genre these guys were quite different. There was a lot of 'soul' into the music as i say... Its really hard to put the finger to the point , but these guys are really something. Its no wonder that they are well recognized around the world playing along Opeth , Amon Amrath , Machine Head and Arch Enemy.

           

 

 

 

 

           Well so as good things come , so they must go. Time is not merciful, amidst the screams, Growls, fast riffs , slow Strumming's , Camera flicks, moshess, Head bangs and flirting along's ... the whole fiasco drew from start to the very end. I saw lots of people walking out saying what a wonderful night it had been. Well indeed it was.. such a memory will be etched forever.

    This show had its own significance in the Sri Lankan Metal industry as well. This show stood up to say that Rock and roll in this country is not a 'Silent Revolution' no longer, that this island will be known in future as "The Loudest Island on Earth". Kudos for all those shed their blood and sweat along with 891 Crew to make this event a success. And of course Nervecell and Cyanide Serenity for coming down and being super-down-to-earth-cool through out, and giving 200% out of them selves. To wrap up things in this post quoting Suresh De Silva of Stigmata "... My Friends Metal is here to stay. It not going back..." and a "meeeow" from Tennyson Napoleon.

The Cyanide Nervecelled Stigmata. ‘Psycho Martyrdom’ – The Revolution is Silent no longer.

      Things have been gearing for some time. The smell in the air.. The sounds I’ve been hearing … NO I mean really. There were voices. Nope…  Not a specter. Real People, speaking in the street, well yeah duuh they do. But the subject. That really threw off me to the air. There were people speaking about Rock. Save Metal and its sub genres, but people are suddenly speaking about a presence of ‘new musical’ genre in this country. Well don’t be surprised, cause like this land is really somewhat late catching up with rock, except for few. But now there are things moving gears changed peddle to the floor.

       I remember a time where Metal was ‘Our Silent Revolution’. It’s not the scene now mates. Just another few flicks here and there and itll be joining the main stream and taking everyone off their steps. All dedication goes to the Bands that toiled hard. Relentless-bleeding-sweating… committing everything they had to offer for the cause. Really guys… you guys can be proud of your selves.

      Somewhat after a year and some months from popular metal band ‘As I Lay Dying’ touring Sri Lankan soil along with Nervecell from Dubai, there came Colombo Open Air last 30th April. Ok you didn’t hear it wrong.. It’s not Waken Open Air... It’s COLOMBO OPEN AIR! there were respectful Sri Lankan Metal bands Fallen Grace, HOLLOW , Mass Damnation Plus The Vedic Band coming down Rudra plus Absence of Sacred from Singaporean lands. OK guys and girls I wasn’t there , I was more like in the Counter Strike 1.6 server when I should be studying for the Java exams. But hey there were lots of sources I got , and by the info goes, things were really awesome and killer.  Mmm yea saw some flicks by Natalie Soyza and Thiva Arunagirathnam who were always making magic stills around the biggest happ’s around town. Damn I somehow feel I missed something dear..

     

      Well hey... Things don’t need to be all bad don’t they? I mean for gosh sakes, there another shit this week end and my java paper is over today. I’ll cut the long words and say the show title is none other than “Psycho Martyrdom”. Yeap that’s it. Why am I so Psyched? Well another two foreign Metal bands are going to hit the Lions Turf. Hell Yeah! Just a week after one here comes another. Somebody pinch me! ! !

    

Nervecell

  Nervecell, A band that toured with along ‘As I lay Dying’ around early 2010 as I recall or very late 2009 Dec. Cant remember.. I have a good memory but frankly its short. Anyway, Nervecell is hitting back once again, they must have really enjoyed our fans last tour and well they are coming back to feel the sensation to roar along with the Lions. What is really a something of a fact is that although the band resides in Dubai beating in the Dustbowl as you’d might imagine... they have a quite a unique line up. Because like their members are from Lebanon , India , Jordan and well a drummer from Australia as I  am informed (Beat up the guys from ‘Encyclopedia Metallum’ if I am wrong). It’s a unique symbol feature of music that It has no boundaries, no care for skin color, no idea about religion.. But it’s all about moving the grey mind domain, beat along with the vein-center.  

Shunq (the Despaired…King of Darkness)... a notable track of their album gets a new video around this time. Quite a band. They have a number of notable tracks and they’ll be here along in the touring process of supporting their latest album PsychoGenocide.

           

Cyanide Serenity with Travis added to the line up

Cyanide Serenity hailing from UK will be also joining the mayhem. The Brits .. Long known in our soils for occupying for some time to warm up around the  tropical sun and well Cricket, is also Famed for Rock and Metal. Releasing their debut EP “Consume Me” in February 2011 which depicted a mix of Metal, Melodic and Death core has earned their own status in UK soils. Their much known act was supporting Iron Maiden  in Bangalore, India for almost a 30,000 strong Indian crowd. Gaining fast crowd, fame, along with adding Travis of Divine Heresy for the Vocalist department. For me a well known track is Facebreaker from him with DH. While a sog that I like of CS is none other ‘Foundations’. The band is due to re-record the album with Travis, but they’ll be giving a sample how it’ll sound like on Lion soil.. LIVE.

Stigmata - Picture by Natalie Soysa

Well... Coming to the hosts... It’s none other than Sri Lankan Metal Giants Stigmata who’ll be whipping the crowd and welcoming the two foreign bands. Stigmata after releasing their album ‘Psalms of Conscious Martyrdom’ last year is fast set in motion increasing their fan-base around the world. Resulting a Australian tour last October where the wallabies got whipped out of their feet. The band entering way back the years with distinct sounds of Thrash Metal , Death Metal now is experimenting Progressive Metal not straying far from their roots.. Adding new color and dimensions. Sri Lankan Metal heads...I know you need no particular introduction. But the non-metal heads.. people around the world. Things are a tough uphill to explain Stigmata to you. It’s very hard to explain guys and girls. Because they have their own notion of sound and things put up together, that even I can’t say they ‘sound like this’. You just have to take a go and see for your selves.

      So like me and my rag-a-tag team is all psyched up and waiting to hit the Gig “Psycho Martyrdom” which is held on 6th May 6 to 11pm on British International College Auditorium, Colombo Sri Lanka. Organizers have released a killer shirt to celebrate the event... And well... It has a something of an artwork too.  Those who’ll be there... catch ya around. Be there though.. I highly recommend it that it’ll Psyche you guys.

      The Silent Revolution is no more .. Things are going to get loud here on… No prisoners…

Cisco releases security, network convergence upgrades for storage switches

Ok this is very out of the way for me to post something like this you might say. But hey Im a tech geek too i follow a IT degree which also covers Networking ... so i better put up some contribution to the IT industry too right  ?? After all Girls love geeks. Because Geeks knows HTML (How To Make Love).

Just a bit of change in word style and the Topic today ...

Just following on CISCO news i found out that Cisco 30th March unveiled security and network convergence upgrades to its line of director-class data center switches, including a new multi-hop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capability for the Nexus 7000, 5000 and 3000 series and MDS 9500 switch family.

The data traffic unification features extend to Cisco's Unified Computing System, its Data Center Network Manager software and to NX-OS, the data center operating system that spans the company's data center portfolio of switches.

Cisco also have announced a new MDS 9000 Storage Media Encryption tool, which encrypts data whether it's being stored to disk or tape and requires no storage area network (SAN) reconfiguration.

The company said it has also completed the integration of its Data Center Network Manager software for SANs with VMware, allowing users a single view of their entire network infrastructure right down to virtual machine (VM) paths.

Cisco also announced a new Data Center Management API that allows third-party network management software to see traffic across Cisco's line of Unified Computer System (USC) blade servers and data center switches. For example, Cisco's hardware can now be viewed through Hewlett-Packard's OpenView, EMC's Ionix or IBM's Tivoli management sofwtware.

The Data Center Management (DCM) API works by using the Storage Networking Industry Association'sStorage Management Initiative Standard (SMI-S), an XML-based messaging interface for unified management of heterogeneous storage systems.

Looking for Band Aid, For live 8 … For Humanity.

        

    Sorry for the lack of image... I just don't feel like it…

Accident happen when least expected, Disasters take place uncalled for. Both leaves valuable lives tortured to their very edges of lives. Most of people who meat with a terrible accident and were lucky to still get away with a limb of claim that they were lucky that their lives remains. But have you realize how much of a turmoil and torture they face after losing a limb? Or maybe it's their loved ones, whatever, they do hurt. Hurt a lot. Imagine in a mass scale when that cake gets topped with a cream of natural disaster. It makes you feel it's the Apocalypse ,or maybe walking in hell.

Out of all sudden? Why? Ah yes, you are intelligent enough to realize. Japan mon ami's. J-A-P-A-N… Japan

    What one nation faces today is totally almost the Apocalypse. Believe me, I'm a Sri Lankan (Lions Rawrrr ! ) and we faced a terrible Tsunami down in the end of 2004(correct me if I'm wrong). And things were like hell. Families ruined by loosing loved one's. Some lost not just one, but maybe the whole family. Like Child left after losing brother, mother father… or maybe a Wife left without her loved husband and child. Most of these victims were totally distorted in their psychological entity. Sri Lanka and well, the other countries that were affected back then were I think a little lucky to get away like that. Unfortunately, things aren't the same with Japan out there today.

I mean adding a cherry to that cream cake is Nuke plant mayhem.

    Damn, I'm not there, but I guess people who are there are maybe like, as I said walking in hell. You maybe wondering why I am writing ll this shit. Maybe that I'm a Cute Japanese girl fan, or the pervy Manga's and Anime's.. Sure I'm a huge fan of the Yakuza girls, the Manga, Anime, Sushi and the culture... But what it's all about is feeling towards humans. Last week ago I think, I saw some idiots(a priest actually) and some cahoots of his post claiming this as a payback from God for the attack on Perl Harbor and the killings of Marines in the war Pacific theater of WW2. I was like... Well I was not shocked at first, but more like:

" Oi !!! What the Fuck???".

Seriously this is true and and not a pathetic lie that I waste my time writing a blog. If I don't have juice on my blog I don't write…ok not type wise guy. But surely not lies.

    Where the hell that idiot gets the idea or maybe the imagination to link this with the attack on Perl harbor? And at moments like this? Surely can you call that person as a man of god? What a world we live in.

We are humans, nothing perfect, and nothing immortal in us, subject to all the miseries tha go around the world. And I know there aren't a lest enjoyment like being a sub to another human Master or Mistress. We are born sub's to mistress of nature and boy she hurts a lot when she punishes. And well l, as a human I do feel a huge pain, maybe it's not the same as them in that plight. Still, when humans are hurt, they are.

    But even in that plight we as human can stand shoulder to the others. We have the power. There are numerous stories to standing up together for a cause. And please do get together for the cause. There is huge beach party going at Libya with firecrackers and Noise. But let's forget that for a bit and let the proper people like the army handle that and we humans contribute on whatever we can do for Japan.

Man I do wish for a Band Aid tour in collecting the dollars for Japan …

Tears of a Soldier …

As slowly the wind blows across the fields..
I wonder how is she..
Where have all the young girls gone
the teasing eyes glinting like stars ?
reminds me of her face..like the moon..

Where have all the eagles flown,
Wonder why the crows fill the trees..
Mama told me to sleep under blue skies...
Cant remember when i did last.
Daddy told me to hold tight..
But I'm afraid.. I'm not supposed to be.
Cant smell the sunflowers like a bee.

In my child i used to gaze upon the horizon,
Does myopia surround me ?
I used to have lots of smiling friends,
Crack a joke and laugh with the wind..
Now they all seem to leave me,
I know I’m not supposed to cry, but how can i refrain
as each of them reach the grave before my eyes.

I look up the sky and i see a a ray of hope,
and i resolve,
"I'd fight all I've got too keep my friends alive",
And may be when someday i pass,
like them,
i can have a smile on my face,
like them,
did they think the same
as me...

as slowly the wind blows across the fields..

Voices in a cage

Tied,Bound and gagged ,
In midst the walls that Were raised,
To hear intestines inside,
Scream out for freedom.
To Wish those echoes,
would tear down the walls.
Vain would be that hope
And agony is left to embrace my world

Count the days, yet no day seams to near,
to keep hope on,to cling into salvation,
The burning desire, to fly into horizon,
that dove rests in peace, so long has it withered.

Find no freedom,so is to make this bound a pleasure ?

Birthday cakes for the Angel of Peace …

In the years of monochrome,
While our insignificant lives awaited to breath,
There came Johnnie Ol' boy-The Gandalf the Gray,
The wanderer, the story teller,
The Funny guy at Quarry Bank High School

And Johnnie clad him self in white,
Like Gandalf after the Zirakzigil.
Along with four others,
To make the beat - in name of The Beatles
To spread of love and Peace.

Where is Johnny, O' Where is he now ?
Where does he wander,i do not know,
To whom does he sing - Jealous i am,
But,Aye he might be in better days than
Poor ol' sod's like us.

I only wish there'd be more like you to come,
To spread the word of love and peace...
But i know it will never be true..
For no one will replace Johnnie Ol’ boy
Thats why we so much miss you…

 

Happy 70th Birthday John Lennnon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)... Simple words above or here does not express how much we miss you…

-Gara-Yaka-

 

“Johnny can't you come out to play in your empty garden…” (Elton John - ‘Empty Garden’)

 

Burning heart and the smiling face…

Beyond the curtain, In front the crowd,
Dance out - beat, float on the clouds.
Joker took a bow, and looked at the crowd,
To see a smile, perhaps a glinting eye,he sought.

All in laughs, none to smile,
Joker all joked,turned as he walked aisle,
Wondered aloud :”Aren't thou have a caring for the maker ?”
“Are these all vein ploys, Of a beggar ! ! ”

Helpless thoughts gnaw the,broken heart,
Though all black,yes it feels pain apart.
Just as the glint of the neon firefly,
"Unjust thou are, cruel world"
Said Joker as many uttered,
Reverted Grim, but a smile on face,
To hide the heart that burned in pain

None saw the Show, in the Monte Carlo
Where the Joker was famed, even around parlor
As he glanced down from the building top,
Hanging the Gov'ner from the antenna top,
It hid the face when lightning struck behind,
It hid the Joker face as it fell a Tear Drop.

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Roses to the Blackened Heart…

Dreamy eye’s, Searching Faces,
Hopes against the hopeless mind,
Myopia Dreams-broken windowpanes,
The Angel stare at the pure light,
The Devil Sparks the Craving Heart.

Take me away to the Realm of your own Device,
Bind with voice of Enchantment-and send me to a dream,
Pain the Blacken heart with you fairness,
How can pain be a pleasure,yet when we are blind.
From our own dreams.

It’s all a dream, a mist in the dawn,
How could the moon glow,without the sun.
And if the two eye’s met  what would they say ?
What would decay ? What would be made ?
What would be the ending at the end of our time…

 

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Gara-Yaka made no comment when he passed this note to me scribbled on a Doughnut Paper Bag(Doughnut half eaten). After finishing the doughnut, well i thought of putting up the poem… Pooh.. Gara-Yaka, the poet.. LoL.

SAVE PORN INDUSTRY ! ! BAN LAME SEXED UP ADVERTISING !

      Yes Most of you don't get WTF does that mean.If you are one of those conventional types who literally hates porn, well you better beware, Either this going to make you sick or perhaps make you give up your ignorant conventional principals. On my part well, I'm straight tongued and i don't lie, yes i do watch porn occasionally and well there's nothing bad in it for me to criticize about it.

     When Porn hit the main stream, well ok not main stream, but somewhere becoming a normal ‘thingy’ to watch, most of those conventional blobs turned up with slogans,rants,rallies and all sort of schemes they could device against it. Saying its bad,inhuman bla bla.. For WTF how can two people having the pleasure of their lives, can be bad,evil to be discussed or watched (If they are allowing.. which Pamela Anderson and her Motley Crue boyfriend did). My aim is not to Justify porn here, of course i can, but lets save it for another time. What's more insulting and perhaps where you can say evil is, sexing up your average Advertising !

     Brand name. Really a very much of a Big deal to a company. Its the Icing on the Cake. That's what's attractive, that's what’s uttered by the clients, and every Marketing manager’s dream is to make people mumble their product name. If a company can market their brand successfully it would simply become a status Symbol around the world regardless of age,Race,Religion or any other insulting racial statement you can come across in Monday mornings… Lets look at few :

NIKE\Addidas -  They can mark Under-wares for 100000 $ and people would still by ‘em.

Coca-Cola\Pepsi – We still don't know what it taste like, neither whether it actually quenches the thirst… yet look at the sales !

Nokia\Samsung – Phones come and go by fortnight and people still buy them.

ASUS – What ever shit they make, they are the best at it.

Final Fantasy – Games,Manga,Anime,Movie.. Dolls.. Hentai what ever gets released under this name sells out BIG TIME ! 

Metallica – Do i need to mention ???

  So why are these Product\Brand\Band names so big shots ?? Why there are Lines of people waiting for the Final Fantasy XIV release in 30.08.2010 ?? Why people Drink Coke,Pepsi even though its not Alcohol,Water ?? Why this much of status recognition given to people who you these ? You would probably say its the service and the quality … But hold on. There are Bands good as Metallica, There are Games,Manga,Anime,Movies Good as Final Fantasy, and Water or Alcohol is better than Coke .. no no.. its not the service or Quality.. IT’s the Marketing.. Duuh.

In big business marketing plays a Key role. A good marketing can make you richer than Trump,Warren,Brandson… Aye pick a good name, and do a good advertisement Bingo ! Most Marketers pick good names these days. But what about the Advertising ???

There’s a huge mistake Marketers make when going to advertising.. well at least the Advertisers… As the good old advertising rules goes, it never hurts to have a pretty lady endorsing your product. Or at least standing along it. Nothing wrong in that. Women are used to promote particularly anything, like in ‘Hotel California’ by Eagles, ‘She’ is used to bring out Drugs. So nothing wrong with beautiful women using,endorsing,standing beside your product.   What's really a shame is Using pornography.. well ok no, lets put it as ‘Soft-pornography’ into promoting products. “Dading Biding Dodang !” For where the fuck people get focused to ?? to the half naked-sex-provocative girl or the product you are dying to sell ??

        Still don't get it ? One of the most failing products in Sri Lanka as i see it, is The “Prima-Kottthu-Me”(Food). The advertising ploy they put up recently is an Epic fail. A big no no. They wind a popular ‘baila’ song to their product, and make a video showing tattooed Chick belly buttons,tongue licking waitresses and lots of ‘booty-shaking’. What does an average personal look at ? The babes or the Product ? Obviously it’s the babes.. not the product… Try comparing it to the much beautiful Coca-Cola advertisement.

The idiotic Sexed up Advertisement

The much lovely Coke add....

See the difference ???

I really don’t have much time to wind up on this. Neither any interest, for these are very Idiotic attempts and are proven to be EPIC FAIL !

So to conclude i would like to Add –> Watch porn, get some Sex Education from it. Believe me its worth it. Don't waste your time Jacking off to stupid advertisements….

Also fight to save the Porn Industry from Sexed up Advertisements …

Gara-Yaka would like to thank Dananjaya Ramanayake for suggesting to do this article. Please Visit his much interesting blog at :

http://pc-cookies.blogspot.com/

Thanks Dan…

“Et-tu MARK ANTHONY ?” and the Ibanez bankruptcy against the U.S.Dollar ….

Brutes stabbed Ceaser. We cant blame the poor ol’ sod without a spine.The Case is still open in the courts and Anthony did nothing about it except steal Caecer’s Egyptian mistress and get laid with her, to be made into a bane among lovers and porn industry.Shit, the first Adult movie we talked about when we came into adult-hood was ‘Anthony and Cleopatra‘.Shit we never have seen it,not to this date. Still that was the first to be brought up as lil’ men who found out that there is something called ‘Porn-Movies’ .Anthony you Lucky bastered, Cleopatra- Bitch ?? I don't know.  its no wonder that he asked the famous “Et-tu Brute ?” from Brutes. It’s the Irony is that Ceacer actually was surprised that his friend was a part of the assassination squad and not the fact that he’s being murdered. But shouldn't it be that Caecers ghost should later come to Mark’s bed where he did the 69’s,Cowgirl’s,Doggy style with Cleo ?. Wonder for how long that the lil’ twerps been scheming on this. which brings us to the question, was it really Mark who staged Ceacers death ? and not Casius, Casca, Brutus or Shakespeare ? Was he the ultimate master mind in the shadows that fueled ‘Nationalism,Democracy’ to bunch of Senators so that he could eliminate them later and steal the Egyptian mistress,and Roman Empire ?? God bless Octavius…. Ok ok LoL Absurd yea,im being like a stupid news paper writer without any juice.But the point is not- Anthony killed Julius ol’ boy,but  we face beck-stabs here and there all the time,like it or not,that is man and the bane of man kind.

            To Evade this kind of situations we have to always be aware those who we call as ‘friends’. Posers,Scavengers,Vampires come and go..They are abundant and its not wise to pick up fights with those kind. In these kind of situation, i would rather appreciate we should pay attention to those who criticize us rather than appreciates us. Appreciations sells, its every where and cheap. Put a honest critic is valuable. You might say, “Sure everybody’s a critic” trying to make your own salvation. But ,good critics – friends that criticize are hard to come by. What i mean is, they should be friends and they should criticize you when you go off the track. My my, sounds simple eh ? but have you ever wondered how many of your friends of yours are actually like that ? LOL.

           I guess recently i realized there are only two, two – of my friends, that would honestly criticize me. Speak openly about their opinion without bringing friendship amidst it. We could butt heads,bite each other,have the most heated arguments on an topic and still be friends at the end of the storm. I like that. I like friends who will argue with pure logic without thinking about friendship,because after all they are doing it in the sake of friendship.

           There was this particular case when i was a ignorant brat regarding guitar playing. I used to believe on things like Guitar shredding.(Well i do know that some people are still on that belief), he argued about it, about that guitar playing is not shredding, he mentioned the most famous Opeth’ist Michael (Guitar-Vocals) rarely shreds. Yet he plays imba tunes in the string box. Sure you fell pain when you get criticized like that.But damn like Bondage is an awesome way of pleasure, that too brought me to realize that what he(friends) was saying is actually the naked truth. We are still friends, and i value his friendship.

The opposite side of it is that, some loud mouth made a comment as “Who is Steve Vai ? He’s a damn ice guitarist who keeps using whammy’s.. He is not good.I dont even practice his song’s anymore.” I mean, it’s good to be a critic when you know about something really well.. okay lets say at least 50% about it.Well i guarantee this piece of ding dong is nothing but ignorance, and high leveled-ness. Just because his parents buy him an Ibanez for his crying out loud he keeps under-rating pro’s.So without making much fuss i politely(really i was) replied, “Who are you to say Steve Vai is not good ? Sure you may own a Ibanez guitar,but that doesn't make you pro enough to say that…”. Later on, this bugger posts status updates on the much famous Social-networking place, trying to diz my own name by bringing’ other into the mud. Damn, if people have any issue against me, i don't mind if you can throw it to my face. We are not lil’ kids to be give up friendships for trivial issues like that. Let the fuckers be and rot in their own grave…

            Bottom line is, Be careful when you choose your friends : They are more than they appear and very likely to run off with your mistress while unguarded. And YOU FUCKING DONT HAVE TO OWN AN EBANEZ TO BE A PRO’ GUITARIST !

Oh my goodness im having such a laugh here….

 

 

Notice that this bugger is trying to annoy me with comments,trying to show that he is laughing. Ha ha. I know the bugger, he must be really crying out loud about this to go like this…  In my point, i had a good laugh on someone’s ignorance and people who thinks they can own everything ,including  talent just when they have money….

If Alpha March of Aries Wails for light in Spiral Coma for Nothing Purer than an Od(d)yssey !

            A song is not just conversion of words into beautiful voice, then adding into epical music and then to yell “Eureka!” in middle of open mouthed Alexandrian streets. As I desperately tried to hammer somewhere in time (Oh yes the last article) - the formula must be multiplied by ‘soul’ into ‘technicality’’ to stand against the tides of time. In Metal MuZak there are more to consider, it’s not hammering drums in Kotthu beats, pumping raw distortion like an old Indian motor bike, and screaming like old hags in Alfred Hitchcock movies in the name of technicality(In some cases even those hags feels better). And mostly it should not be uttering some kind of words you found in a ‘Kadala Packet’ (Bite that come in paper bags. For 10/= on road sides in LK and India).There should be a meaning for everything, every word uttered, every cymbal that crashes, Every string that’s slapped, picked, tapped, every note- palm muted.

Neither is an ‘Album’ to be an addition of songs (think about adding number 1 over and over…). Than a ‘journey’ where the listener open eye’s into places he never dreamt of. It’s more the Flying Dutchman that takes ‘eyes’ into the far lands to see the unseen and the unbelief’s due myopia. It is the first even before Einstein that proved ‘time’ is not the inertial frame of the universe as Newtonian principles suggest.

It’s been since June 26th that I had the practice of plugging my headphones and go through the new Stigmata album “Psalms of conscious Martyrdom” whenever I sat in front of the PC (almost 12hrs from my 16 awake hours). Each time I listen to it the more I love it. It’s more a cryptic journey through Stigmata’s trials and tides of time. The song consists of good elements according to their title and each element of the song is in harmony of the other. It’s a rather complex burden of pure-mathematics to try to decrypt these lyrical sounds yet euphoria to hear. At one certain time I’m pretty sure it dwells into individual thought patterns of mankind. Yet then again you find it’s the Spirit of Stigmata singing about its martyrdom. Well... since this journey is about martyrdom for the purest religion of all history, so let’s follow noses through the songs keeping that in mind and at least get the surface in.

The new album cover

The much familiar Sri Lankan conch shell blowing out, and so starts the first track ‘Spiral Coma’. “The numbers and names …”- well kind of give you a chill that there were times’s where everything was like a spiral night mare. Where you can’t make head or tail of anything and the dark passages you run through seem endless and each footfall is aimed in the darks. The song chorus melodically asks to: “Sleep like a child, ride the Lunar tide. Dream like a child, waken from your coma”. So it’s more like Suresh saying- Open eye’s from the nightmare’s, wake up from the Coma and sleep more at peace in now on for it’s a new beginning. A request to sleep like a child - Break free in complexities of thought and action, and be more simple and lucid. The Opening with the sound of Conch-shell brings the Sri Lankan way of a new beginning, exorcizing the daemons of the past.  And surely it’s a great track to spin along.

Next we stumble on PuRer (Libera NoS A Malo). Its’ more a song where, Stigmata gives a piece of their mind to the diabolical busybodies that tried to pull their leg through their years. It states that ‘purpose never drove me’ and asks to pacify the restless peace within those diabolists’. What’s really kicking in this song not only the catchy music (Good job on musical arrangements Tennyson and the Bass doodle by Javin) but the tone of the words that say “I am PuRer more than you”. Brings out the idea: It’s not trying to push down the other and raise oneself in status, but more like saying- we are human and yeah we make mistakes, but GOD! We don’t do stuff like that. We are way better.

“Summoning Cry of Aries” follows up “PuRer”, and by far this is the most Epic song in the album. It’s like a piece out of “Danube” with lyrics. I still haven’t figured out what this song actually could mean. But at the moment it feels like a confession about the few seconds where human adrenaline boils up out of suppressed grief-melancholy/ confusion. The 9mm bullet: a mental breakdown (I prefer 30 or 50 cal’s though).  It’s that flutter of the eye lid where ‘life fell still when time seduce my soul ’… and where conscious becomes the bane of soul, where foresight is at the weakest making every vision blacken and torn.  It’s those few ticks of father time where mind slowly plays games on the soul. The song sends vibrations not to be guided by those feelings by convincing “not be led astray…, not let future beat my ways…”. Just to go on with my innocent muses, The music gives you the feeling of being on an Galleon where the navigator Suresh voices out while the music shows sea of by Andrew, consistent crashing waves by Taraka, the air and atmosphere by Tennyson and added Keyboard guy… an image of an Individual thought pattern in breakdown and rising back to the former shell with new resolution.

It’s all nothingness after that, I mean the song “Nothing” beats into the ear of the listeners with a very catchy drum beat and effects. To me it feels like a 9 minute psychedelic drift within a kaleidoscopic space full of vivid colors flashing within the eye. For me (and for any other), who never had got the luck of stepping into the joyful LSD fused trips like The Beatles, this would be what the doctor will recommend. When listening through headphones with eye’s closed, The track is full of full of sounds, beats, echo’s that makes the inner soul float with the colors that take various psychedelic shapes. “Nothing” somewhat listening to a much loud, heavier, version (consisting different lyrics and music) of “learning to Fly” by Pink Floyd. It’s a song that takes time to get tune into, but do believe and mark my word when I say- You MUST put your headphones, close you’re eye’s layback you’re chair and let the journey begin.

Stigmata

                                ‘Nothing’ gets followed up by the much all familiar track – “Dead Rose wails for light”. There are great improvements from the last version release where it came with some what a ‘dark’ video (I’m not saying dark as in evil. It’s just dark with less light). As the title goes a souls wails to shed some light to its decaying soul, consumed by anger, hate, grief, confusion of right and wrong fallen into despair.  The atmosphere is so strong that you almost feel the person is going to suicide any moment. And by last ending guitar whams, it’s almost as if the human being met the end.

From that share of grief, it’s “If Alpha meets Omega”. Listening to the track, even I myself wondered what it would be if the beginning met its end. It’s a instrumental, no words- only the beat of drums, the slaps of base the pump of rhythm and the much noticeable melodies and shreds by solo guitarist(Andrew, Kick ass dude). Starting with all-hell-lose shredding may be to point the ‘alpha of the omega’, to then ending with melodies... What I imagine is the beautiful way of putting the enveloping and the conclusion of ‘Omega’ (Haven’t you seen those destructo kinds of scenes with beauty? You should pay more attention when watching movies rather than watching couples kissing or shouldering each other. To man there is nothing more beautiful and passionate like creating and destructing things).

                After the Omega it’s “Od(d)yssey” . The song brings out an invitation to join to live the life at the maximum in the presence. ‘Come, pear into the now, the future is here - the future is forever and never,’- To hasten to live in the present (for after all today was yesterdays’ tomorrow) letting the past of which no value (except the experience and the lessons learned) fall behind.  As I see it, it point out that “Humanity’s ultimate decay” is their subconscious vulnerability of dwelling in the past oblivious of the present that fades with each flutter of the eye and the thirst of obliteration (War or the destruction of environment? I guess everything included). Though I still didn’t quite get what it does actually mean there is a quite an appreciatable harmonical chant – “Step out of your shadow, Take this life back into to your hands. Brothers of passion and sisters of solace, Echoes of eternity and their violent recourse…”. For those who haven’t heard it it’s like a chant of one of those ‘Yaka-dura’-Sort of like Witch Doctor. Though they don’t chop of human limbs or make human sacrifices. And what they do is chase devils away and give some kind of mental relief for the sick. Only in harmony and going like the opening of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody (‘Is this the real life…’).

The album launch- photo by Natalie Soysa

                Finaly, I mean sadly though the finale - we step into the last track- “March of the Saints”. As the stigies put it it’s their (almost) 12minute ode’ for their fans, those who helped to keep their spine straight in troubled times. This song is somewhat everything included one-big-Orgasm (really, I don’t have any other word). As the title song goes’ the lyrics are like a pre march prep talk. Remember Lieutenant Aldo Ryan from Inglorious Basterds? Yeah that’s the feeling you get. Omit the Yankee accent and it is not WW2 so the words are more hmm metal/Rock. There’s a real crashing 1minute ending to conclude the album. You’ll love that part.

Considering the album whole, it’s magnificent-No, I mean there are no words for it, It’s like Orgasm- you can’t describe it and the only remedy is too feel it. After listening to the ‘Psalms…’ it’s hard to face fact -It’s by the same band that did ‘Silent Chaos Serpentine’ four years back. Stigmata has experimented and added sounds and beats of traditionality – sounds of Geta-beraya,Conchshell,Thammettam,Udekki and the much familiar Baila beats(Great job by the guy behind those and great ideas Stigs). There are lots of sounds to be heard in this album. More than that, it’s an expansion of rock music. There are people who complain Rock is all about Bashing ‘takaran’(piece of metal-real unpleasant noise),and screaming heads off. This is not such fancy dress charade. This is more musical… damn im out of words fellows. Great art work and album cover concept by Tennyson. It’s not Daemons everywhere, blood splattered here and there, or semi-nude chicks liking lips provocatively (That is the sickest sadistic way of marketing-specially in music that goes around). It’s the shades of yellow against black, shedding light on the unseen.

The word for the first time plungers, skeptics, or those who never listened to rock is - think this not as a Metal album and leave it aside. Take your chance, there’s nothing to be lost listening to this CD, Not even time. Speaking of time (Typing actually, heh-bad joke *cough* *cough*).  In whole this album takes really a huge amount of time to dig into. There are the fast catchy ones like ‘Purer’, ‘Summoning cry…’,’March of…’ the rest are really a huge portrait to get your eyes properly fixed in one go. There are more elements in this piece that would leave you gaping. Other than that I better stop here, this note is getting quite a length. I’m really sorry, I wish I could go on,I didn’t cover all the songs 100% whole, but it will get very lengthy and boring to read on. There are lots in these songs to be seized; even I haven’t got all 100% sunk in. All I can say to wind up this lengthy document is – Get the album, put your head’s on  and sink in.

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Finaly i would like to give an infinite sorry for Natalie Soysa for using her much hard worked camera shots of stigmata without prior notification. But all credit should go to her role as a camara-man,Uhem..*cough* camera- woman. And Stigmata for the oppertunities met.

Robot with soul - chinese cigar blues mix...

The Yin and Yang is basically a principle of duality that we see in nature, but the theory is far deeper than that. If I put more technical mumbo-Jumbo into it; The concept of Yin-Yang is used to describe how 'polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and independent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn'.Still don’t get it?? Perhaps if I put it this way you might get it: Dark and light, female and male, high & low cold and hot...Etc etc that goes like opposites of each other. Let’s take the very simple duality to understand; Man and Woman: Man, Woman has very different, independent attributes both physically and mentally (except the most special cases). Yet even though that, they’re interconnected and give rise to each other; both Man and Woman desire each other and need of each other for their sustainability (Excluding the exceptional like me) in the physical world. So that’s explaining Yin and Yang with a basic example which any person with a logical, intellectual mind would understand.

In the Yin and Yang Logo:

>> The white circle against black; Yin, is usually characterized as: slow, soft, insubstantial, diffuse, cold, wet, and tranquil, and associated with things like water, earth, femininity, birth and generation, and with the night.

>> The black circle against white; Yang, by contrast, is characterized as: fast, hard, solid, dry, focused, hot, and aggressive, are associated with things like fire, the sun, masculinity and daytime.

So now you might be thinking; “Okay I get it, in & Yang Co. explains the shows that there are opposites in nature and actually supporting each other for existence rather than contracting each other. But what does it have to be with music?? Music is man\Woman made and not a part of nature..."

Wrong! The very Basic building block of music is Beat! Any person who knows physics will tell you that. This beat, is actually a very creation of nature...You didn’t notice it out there? Well they can be catchy too: The sound of rain drops, the crashing of waves and you may have not noticed, but the very First sound you have heard in this world is a Beat: You're mother’s heart beat! So it might be very obvious to you that Beat is the foundation of Music and Music must have a YIN and YANG! But what is it??

Ever notice that in some certain Music that is considered great it makes you feel oblivious of time, heart catching, spine tingling or make you're body-hair stand ?? That is if you are not a fashion model completely shaved...hahaha! Anyway, this sensation we shall name as 'Soul' in music. The one that makes music 'a living spirit’. We’re not talking about Soul Music okay, just name those soul moving song's whatever type they are as 'Soul’. For example for the sake of an average listener let’s take a look at the Avenged Sevenfold song "Dear God", it touches every love sick lulu heart and every Girl so far listened to it. This is an example of 'soul'. The ability to tap into the human which is not physically visible.

Then there are the type of Music that are considered as great though they don’t have a much of a 'soul' into it for an average listener. But taking a close look (actually an ear), you might find that these music either technically hard or INSANE! To play. For example; What Drummer Mario of the Metal band Gojira plays may
not have great soul into them to tap into the inner nerves of an average listener, but have you noticed that they are technically advanced??

In Rock\Metal music the Yin-Yang balance is vital as the things you chow down to keep up you're survivability(well same goes with other genre’s too). Since Rock/Metal are music that are normally loud. A good balance in Technicality and Soul will ensure the health, survivability, longevity in a such music\song. Such an interesting song is "Scavenger of Human Sorrows" by Death that I have stumbled pone. As the title suggests you can get a picture what this song actually deals about. In this song rather than use Technical elements to exhibit their capabilities in instruments, Death uses technicality to give life, soul to their music. Thus you get a music that matches the theme. I’m sure many metal heads will agree to it.
What Gojira lacks to certain extent (as I believe) is that. Mario can beat the
heart out of rhythm when he's on that drum stool... But they do not feed the essential technicals to the music... Or rather shall we say, they are not using the technicals to give life to the words… Which leads to the point that not many average listeners know or prefer Gojira(excluding metal heads and myself).

By now you may be wondering; to feed the complex human wanderings and Saga's a drummer\guitarist must be really technically advance in playing the music.

NO. You don’t have to be an insane shredder in guitars or to be related to Jimi Hendrix to feed the soul to music... Look at Opeth, Mikael Åkerfeldt is not an insane shredder in guitars. But look at the music he creates with the Guitar..Same with Avenged Sevenfold's lead guitarist Synyster Gates-in "Dear God"(since most of you are familiar with this one) yes a betiful one...but not insane. Yet, it fits to the scope of the music. Look at Guns and Roses-“November Rain”. Ok the guitars are something, but see how simple the drum work is? In fact in most GnR song’s drum work is like that. Simple but sweet.

So it's very vital for you to accept this balance as a music maker to create good, long living music..And of course I wish the very best for it.

To sum up:

Putting the bullet through the head I will type: The Holy commandment for 100% pure music regardless of their genre is the Balance of its Yin-Yang. Soul-The Ying, Technicality-The Yang. Thou full-fill this and it will create an immortal sound.
Take this logic slowly in and perhaps you might stumble pone what I have.


peace sells...
-Morgoth

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The above document was mailed by Morgoth in hopes to impress the editor of a new tabloid magazine, and hopefuly get a Job there.Whether fortunately or unfortunately Gara-yaka found the document used as a wrapping when he bought fish from the local fishmonger. Without breaking poor morgoth's heart by revealing the truth,Gara-Yaka uploaded it to his blog.