Tuesday Top 3

1. In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading

2. Axegressor - Next

3. The 69 Eyes - Back In Blood

In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading

Sweden seems to be the cradle of good music these days. Today the album to prove my point is Sounds Of A Playground Fading from In Flames. Influences from Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath can be heard from the very first track, the guitar in the beginning of the song makes one almost certain that Bruce Dickinson starts singing soon enough. But even though the influences from those bands are strong, In Flames has a distinguish sound of its own. And this Swedish band has grown famous throughout the world as well. Making sure the success continues the band has gotten a song on the Guitar Hero III game, a song on the Canadian billboard top 200 as high position as number 7, a great amount of different awards and lately their song Deliver Us from their latest album has been playing constantly on radios.

The band was formed in 1990 and it has been evolving both member wise and musically. Members have been coming and going (Niclas Engeling, nowadays a full-time member) and they've switched from one instrument to another (Björn Gelotte, from drums to guitar) but at least for now it seems the band has found its line-up for good. Hopefully so, because it seems the band has been more than lucky not to break up during all the changes and yet somehow managed to gain success.

I haven't been a huge fan of In Flames before but I'm getting to that direction slowly. This album will probably end to my collection at some point and not least because I like the choises for their cover art (Dave Correia/Sounds Of A Playground Fading and Derek Hess/Come Clarity).

http://www.inflames.com/

http://www.myspace.com/inflames

Midsummer Music

Flashback Friday on break because of the midsummer festivals. Enjoy this clip instead.

Summer Madness - Kool And The Gang

Tuesday Top 3

1. Adelitas Way - Home School Valedictorian

2. Sixx A.M. - This is Gonna Hurt

3. Alter Bridge - Blackbird

Adelitas Way - Home School Valedictorian

The story behind the name, Adelitas Way, is almost beyond imagination. The band ended up to a brothel named Adelita Bar after being robbed by corrupted Mexican cops. The way the girls were living there seemed sad and the lead vocalist Rick DeJesus wrote a song about it and that ended up being the name for the band and their first album as well. The band was formed in Las Vegas in 2005 and Home School Valedictorian is their second album. Only time will tell if this album is going to be as successful as their previous album was. If I know anything about music, I'd say this will be even more so.

For what I've listened to this album it is at least heavier than the previous and that's fine by me. First single Sick has been playing over and over in the radio which is fine as well, the song stops me everytime I hear it. And there's more jewels on the album. Opening track Collapse is one of the heavier tracks and sounds to meas if Stone Sour was mixed with Three Days Grace. That might not be far from the truth since the band has been touring with such great bands as Sick Puppies, Hailstorm, Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin and the already mentioned Three Days Grace. Less hard rock but more positive is the song named Alive which became instantly one of my favourites. Not that there's any bad songs on the album.
Worth your money if you like bands like Daughtry, Alter Bridge or Saliva. :)

http://www.adelitaswaymusic.net
http://www.myspace.com/adelitasway

Flashback Friday

King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime is the fifth studio album from Faith No More and let me say, it is one of their best ones even though the album sale wasn't a huge success. Everybody knows (or at least should know) the songs Ricochet and Evidence from this album which were also released as singles, as well as Digging The Grave.

In music circles where I roam The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies is highly valued but this song doesn't belong to my absolute favorites. The band was planning to release this one as a single too but the plans were cancelled. The poor success of the sales did affect on Take This Bottle as well which was supposed to be the fifth single from the album. The latter one is especially a shame because it happends to be a great song.

Singles or not, the tracks on this album really work. And besides, who wouldn't want to be a king for a day?! And I know all of us are fooling throughout our lifes, some people more than others.. :D

http://www.fnm.com/
http://www.myspace.com/faithnomore

Tuesday Top 3

1. Alter Bridge - Blackbird
2. Skillet - Awake
3. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak