Satan Claus was nice this year...

So, Christmas came and went. I drove up to Sandviken a few days before Christmas eve, even if I was working it was nice to get out of the office. Also, the last couple of miles of driving it was real winter. A few degrees below 0 and snow on the road and on the trees. Very pretty. It almost stayed over Christmas too. But I must admit, I don't like green christmases, I want snow. Didn't have time for many activities up there. Perhaps I should have planned better and arranged meetings with my friends, but I'll take that next time. At least I had relaxing days, no stress at all

Now I'll have a few days more working from home. I have a few things to finish but hopfully I will have the chance to use some of my vacation days, still have quite a few left. So now I'll have time to dig in to the lists of the year and finish my own list. The one for Metal Kaoz has been online for about a week now. Rather diverse list I say...

To add it up, just by sum up the places it looks like this;

1. THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - “Deconstruction”
2. MACHINE HEAD - “Unto The Locust”
3. VENOM - “Fallen Angels”
4. JACK STARR’S BURNING STARR - “Land Of The Dead”
5. PRIMORDIAL - “Redemption At The Puritan’s Hand”

Then of course, we've been preparing ourselves for the upcoming gigs with Cult Of The Fox. One bad thing is that Pelle decided to leave the band due to his new family situaton took too much time. The good thing is that Fredric was in almost right away, at least for these gigs so we could start to rehearse right away. And it has been going really good. But it will be a challange to play for almost an hour... Was LONG since I last played a gig that long.  



So the gigs confirmed now are;

13 Jan @ The Rambler, Eindhoven, NL (w/ Surpuissance and Ear Danger)

14 Jan @ La Chimere, Lille, FR (w/ Surpuissance and Aywarn)

Then it was time for Christmas!!! So I started to get some for myself... Band guitarpicks... Both of them turned out really cool. Now all I need is to learn how to throw them out in the crowd while playing.

Then I've must have been really nice this year! Got a lot of really nice gifts... 

 A Void Moon tea cup to heat me up during these dark ages!!! All with a "rockstar" picture of myself on it as well!

Wine glasses, for white wine... Even if these perhaps are a little too big for that. But atleast they're smaller than the ones we already have (it's hard to doze when you just get one glass each out of a bottle)! The Tony Iommi "Iron Man" (but why the hell did they add the Iron Maiden M in the title?) Biography will be some really interesting reading, it will be fun to hear his version of the story since I've just finished "I am Ozzy". And then another guitarhero of mine, Michael Schenker Live DVD... Very nice!

Waiting for dinner at my parents place I started to check the books a little. I found one big in the bottom shelf that looked rather anonymous with a brown leather binder and small gold letters on the back, John Bunyan "The Holy War". Just looking briefly at it it seemed to be some religious propaganda. Looking it up later it should be a novel. But the pictures, or engravings were amazing. The first one cathing my eye was one of Diabolus and Infidelity at the gates of hell. Then Infidelity the Great escaping prison... And it kept going like that. Of course, good won in the end though, Diabolus had to see himself conquered.  

To find this book at my parents house was a bit of a surprise. I thought I rescued most of them from my grandma's after she died. My parents isn't religious what so ever but of course, this book was rather special. Still most everythig was given to charity organizations. Of course, my parents had no clue where this book came from, mom thought at first she'd gotten it as a bonus from one of the book clubs she used to be a memeber of. But printed in 1893, this was too old for that. It makes sense if it comes from my grandma. But my dad don't remember taking any of her books. So I guess it will be a mystery for a while. But it was a cool book at least.

Cheers

E 

NP: Chariot - Burning Ambition