Sarcophagic | Only Death Is Real

Metaltown is over for this year and I had a great time. My brother came all the way from the north of Sweden to visit me and see some great metal. My highlight of the festival was to finally see Nifelheim live, they did a great gig. Their final words before leaving the stage… “Fuck off”.

Other good gigs I checked out was Graveyard, Satyricon (filled in for Opeth who cancelled), Dimmu Borgir, Amon Amarth, In Flames and Witchcraft. An important improvement at this years feast was that they had a better system in the bars and more personel, no 20 minutes wait to get a beer this time.

If I have to complain on anything it has to be the soundlevel on the concerts, tooooo fucking low!

The mighty Nifelheim is playing at the Metaltown festival in Gothenburg Sweden this friday (27th June). I haven’t seen them live before but I am sure they will deliver a hellish gig.

Metaltown got a great lineup 2008, this is the bands I will (try) to see. In Flames, Cavalera Conspiracy, Dimmu Borgir, Dark Tranquillity, Tiamat, Amon Amarth, Clutch, Opeth, Witchcraft, Graveyard and Torture Division.

The American artist Ed Repka has done many cool album covers over the years. He has done amazing work for bands like Megadeth, Death, Nuclear Assault, Possessed, Venom, Toxic Holocaust, Municipal Waste and many more. Here are some of my favourites…

…and of course the Megadeth mascot Vic Rattlehead.

Love it or hate it seems to be the way people are responding to Nostradamus. I think it is great! Not as great as Painkiller but very good, and different. I have gone through it many times now and its getting better and better, favourites so far is Revelations, Sands of time, Pestilence & Plague, Exiled, Persecution, Nostradamus and Future of mankind.

This is a tip I got from the great swedish blog “I förbund med omoralen“, The man in black performing a song, written by another man in black… black magic.