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Wacken Open Air has just ended for this year's edition and of course I was there (again).

This year, W:O:A offered us Iron Maiden, At the Gates and Watain (my personal favorites) and I was impressed by all three of them again. Of the first two, I managed to make (horrible quality) videos that I'd like to share.

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

Let's buy tickets for W:O:A 2009 now!

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Last Sunday I went to 013, Tilburg to see Ministry in concert. Joffie was kind enough to accompany me and like predicted. It was awesome!

I tried to smuggle my Canon IXUS in there, but since they have fairly strict rules banning cameras (and they search anyone going in), I left it in the car and had to use my Nokia N95 instead.

The pictures are up at Flickr and I even had a chance to take two clips (crappy quality):

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Last Friday, I had the pleasure to see Insomnium, Swallow the Sun, and Amorphis (three wise bands that (hey, like me!) all have a .net domain name).

The concerts were located in Tivoli de Helling, a small venue which had amazingly good sound! Not too loud (no earplugs needed) and all the instruments could be heard fairly well.

See the photos on Flickr, or my favorite Amorphis song of all time, Drowned Maid, below (or House of Sleep, or The Castaway on Jumpcut.)

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I'm a lazy guy and when I can look something up online instead of getting out of my chair, I'll do it.

Today I was listening to my mp3 collection of Bruce Dickinson and I wondered about the lyrics of a song called Devil On A Hog. So I searched for lyrics "Devil on a hog". Luckily the query returned a lot of results.

The first search result showed me the lyrics of this song, but I was puzzled by all of the '?' characters. Was the original author not sure? Did the site scrape these lyrics from some other place and did something wrong with encoding? Some of the lyrics didn't even make sense!

So it was time to get out of my chair and look the lyrics up in the CD booklet (yes, I have the CD too, I just think mp3 is easier. Lazy, remember? ;-). The lyrics in the booklet showed me something completely different.

Let's look at a few differences:

...and it goes on and on full of errors.

Now I don't see a big problem when one guy writes down wrong lyrics on a drunken night, yet it scares me when these bad lyrics somehow appear on a lot of lyrics sites.

Since this torrent or retiring kind seems quite unique, let's construct a fun query.

Yahoo returns 14 sites when I search for "devil on a hog" "shy or torrent kind". Google shows us only 9.

Apparently, these sites are simply crawling each other and uploading incorrect lyrics.

Oh well, lesson learned. Bruce Dickinson does not sing about a "torrent" kind, nor about "handling wider". He also didn't say "I guts like hand". This should be enough proof to become less lazy and get out of my chair more often. Then again, the correct lyrics can be found online too ...

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Dismember, Entombed, Grave, and Unleashed were united under the name Masters of Death.

Last night, the tour hit the Netherlands, and of course I had to see the masters.

We started off with Grave and I was impressed with the sound! Massive death metal, of course closed by the all time favorite Into the Grave.

Unleashed was next. Since I never cared about this band, I missed the entire gig ;-)

Up to Entombed, our true masters and founding fathers of Swedish Death Metal. Two words sum up the gig: they sucked. Seriously. The sound was horrible; I couldn't even recognize the songs. Besides, the new crap they bring out, just isn't my style.

Luckily we still had Dismember to come. One of my favorite bands to begin with. The Dismember gig was just awesome. The guys were psyched, the sound was good and the songs just awesome. How can anyone not like Dismember playing good old Pieces, Of Fire and Dreaming in Red ?

Just remember, when Dismember hits your town, just see them, it's always worth it.

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