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A world dedicated to music.

I love rock, metal, and progressive, but you'll also hear classical, Big Band jazz, oldies, and anything else that tickles my ears.

Queensryche - Screaming In Digital

Great song from Seattle prog metalers Queensryche off their 1986 album Rage For Order.

Renaissance - Black Flame

Haunting and beautiful.

Scar Symmetry - The Anomaly

I love my heavy metal, but my problem with a lot of the metal out there is that its often too extreme for me: not enough melody, and with lyrics that are too graphic/nihilistic. There's the power metal bands, like Kamelot and Nightwish that are more epic and fantasy-based, but I also just like to bang my head to some heavier stuff at times, and there are few bands that fit the bill.

Luckily I think I've found a new band to help satisfy this need in Scar Symmetry, who hail from Sweden (and the Swedes know their metal) and have a more progressive sensibility to their music.

Black Bonzo - Tell Me The Truth

Currently hung up on this song.

Berlioz - Vallon Sonore

I'm not usually an opera fan, but a clip from this piece in Star Trek: First Contact grabbed my attention so I had to check it out. Pretty good stuff.

Composer: Hector Berlioz
Piece: Vallon Sonore, the start to Act V of the opera Les Troyens (The Trojans)