Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

As I am writing this review, my 3 weeks old son is sleeping on my chest. He does sleep tenderly to the music of Amorphis. He does seem to enjoy as he open his eyes from time to time with an interrogation point in his face. He wonders what is that great music, those majestic melody only Amorphis can stick in your head. I am sure that if he could talk, he would ask me to raise the volume in those rare faster moment of the album.

As An adult, I see thing a bit in a different way, I think this album lack a bit of originality.
Some time, the singer growls , more than in previous album, but it never last and after 15 seconds, the music goes back to the classic Amorphis sound.

I feel that I am listening to the older album, again and again.  Lucky for me.. the older album were damn good so in the end it's still a great album, I recommend it.

Feel free to comment on this post or on the other posts from this blog, it does badly need some discussion going on.

Here is a sample of the album for you to enjoy

Septic Flesh - The Great Mass

A lot of bands these days can say they are producing an "atmospheric metal" but none of these band can rival with what Septic Flesh can achieve. This band can produce an atmosphere like no other band can. 

After 3 or 4 listen.. I came to the conclusion that it's not their best album at all but is still a great piece of work.

Website worth looking at for any metal fans!

Every week or so, I check all my RSS feeds and sites related to my favourite genre of music, Metal.
Here are some good source of information related to everything going on in the metal scene. those site have very good reviews as well!


- MetalStorm this is really my favourite one, very well done, information is easy to find and the shoutbox is very nice. Myspace player is embedded there, very useful
- Thrashocore (french)
- Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives this is the reference for some people (I think this one was created before distortion was invented)
- Spirit of metal (multi-language!)

I'm sure there are a lot more, don't hesitate to comments!

Why is itunes so slow to start playing a song

I had that problem where my mp3 would start playing only after 2-4 seconds.

I found out that the problem is that Itunes totally sucks when it's time to decode a mp3 that was encoded with LAME, I even tried different version, I didn't find any way to decode the mp3 faster.

The only way I did find was to convert again to mp3 using the Itunes encoder, then it would be lightning fast to start a mp3 playback.

If someone has a way to speed up the decoding of an mp3 encoded with LAME in Itunes under mac, please tell me, I would appreciate because I'm not sure I want to convert all of my mp3 collection!!