Battle Beast

Let's talk about metal music. About a young heavy metal band from Finland: BATTLE BEAST

Mostly known for their supporting Nightwish during their European tour, Battle Beast released their debut album "Steel" in 2011. The actual line-up is :
Nitte Valo - Lead vocals
Anton Kabanen - Guitar & vocals
Juuso Soino - Guitar
Eero Sipilä - Bass & backing vocals
Janne Björkröth - Keyboards & backing vocals
Pyry Vikki - Drums

background (left to right) : Eero, Janne, Pyry, Jusso,
foreground: Anton & Nitte

Nitte's voice make me think of Rob Haldford's one. And their music is simply awesome!! Anton & Jusso are fantastic!
And as every Finn, they love to laugh and are very funny!!

Hope you'll like them. I personnally love their album!!

Excalibur in Broceliande

On Saturday, I surely spent the best evening of my life!!!
I was in Paimpont, Brittany, to see the Excalibur live show. And when I say "Excalibur", I'm talking of Alan Simon's celtic-rock opera trilogy.
Here are some pictures:

Moya Brennan, from Clannad
(Enya's big sister)

Chris Leslie, from Fairport Convention

Pat O'May & Alan Simon

Alan Simon

James Wood

And a sad news to finish: Jon Lord, keyboard player in Deep Purple, passed away today... RIP Mr Lord!

Selkeä

News

2 pieces of news today.
A bad one first: Children Of Bodom's frontman, Alexi Laiho, is currently in hospital in Oslo, Norway. He suffers from a "serious infection", according to the band's website. Don't know the exact illness however. As every single COB fan, I wish he'll recover soon.

Then a good one: I had the results of my exam this morning... and I pass!!!! I'm so happy! 
Ok, a little song know : Valokeilojen Vampyyri, by Indica

wishing you a good evening and a great week-end!!

Selkeä

Hyvää syntymäpäivää !!

Today, 7th June, is Henkka Seppälä's 32th birthday!
Most of metalheads know him as Henkka T. Blacksmith. He plays bass for the finnish melodeath band Children Of Bodom.
Here's their song Shovel Knockout, extract from their last album, Relentless Reckless Forever

Soooo sad I can't see them at the Hellfest next weekend :( Anyway..
Hyvää syntymäpäivää Henkka!!! (that means "happy birthday", in finnish)

Selkeä

Future

Hi :)
I haven't been posting for a while, but I have some exams soon, and I have to work hard! I've almost finished high school now...
I'll spend next year in Germany, and I promise I'll post more often, with sometimes photos from where I'll live... and something else. More to come soon
Good luck to those who, like me, have exams this year. Go go go!
Best regards
Selkeä

Last night's discovery of mine: Arkona

Last night, I discover a new band. Arkona (Аркона), Pagan metal/ Folk metal band from Russia.
Here's the actual line-up:

• Maria "Masha Scream" Arkhipova: vocals, keyboards
•  Sergei "Lazar" Atrashkevich: guitars 
• Ruslan "Kniaz": bass
• Vlad "Artist" Lyovushkin Sokolov: synths, drums
• Vladimir "Volk": wind ethnic instruments

Here's their song "Slavsia, Rus" (russian:  Славься, Русь)

Hope you'll like it! Enjoy anyway!!! :)

Claire

All the best!!!

I learn last night that Yves Huts just left Epica, after having played bass with them since the beginning. Almost a decade spent in this band...
Yves explains the reasons why he left on Epica's website. Here are his words:

"Hi everybody,

013 is the venue where we did our first show with Epica and, almost a decade later, also my last. I'm leaving the band because I have another career opportunity that is not combinable with the schedule of a world touring band. I've tried to live these two different lives simultaniously for as long as I could but in the end I just had to make a choice, one of the most difficult ones in my life. I look back to these 10 years in Epica satisfied and enriched with life experience. As a founding member I'm proud of what we've achieved so far and I'm sure the future has a lot more great things in store for the band.
I would like to thank the band, crew, fans and everybody else involved for the good times and I wish my successor good luck.

Those of you that might be interested in any possible future musical plans of mine can visit my artist page on facebook

Kind regards
Yves Huts"

You'll be missed Yves. Anyway, I wish you all the best for your upcoming project(s) and I hope we'll see you soon with a bass guitar again.

Harry Potter RPGs

Did you guys know that you can also use Facebook to play?
Role Play Games, for exemple. You have a facebook account which you use only for the character you're playing. On facebook, there are many RPGs about Harry Potter. You are a character of the book/films and you're studying in Hogwarts :) My best friend and I do own one of them! Lots of fun :) but we're needing someone to play Harry Potter, the Weasleys, Draco Malfoy, Who-Musn't-Be-Named, Bellatrix Lestrange, Luna Lovegood, Cho Chang... And many more!
So if you speak French well enough to understand all-day conversations, things related to Harry Potter, and if you want to play one of those characters, join us!
You can find our fb page here: http://www.facebook.com/hplegends.roleplay
Hoping to see some of you there soon :)
Claire

P.S: are you sad that this magical series are over, like me?

One week left...

Still one week before the release of Epica's new album, Requiem for the Indifferent. Can't wait to hear it!!!!
Hope I'll soon be able to see Simone, Mark, Isaac, Coen, Yves and Arien live!

See Who I Am :)

Hi everyone!
I'm Claire, nice to meet you :)
Here I'll talk about everything and nothing, so if you're ready to hear me, welcome on my blog!
Let's talk a bit about me:
You must know that music takes a huge part of my life!!!! I'm a big big big fan of metal (black, melodeath, symphonic...) and I have a band project called Aoides with my best friend Sissie.
I also write, sometimes. I began a little fanfic about Harry Potter's world, which you can find here /!\ It's in French! I'll try to translate it

Enjoy my little stupid discussions ;)

Claire

P.S: The title of this post is a song by Within Temptation