Neue Konzertreview online: Teil 2 unserer Berichterstattung zum #Skaldenfest 2025 mit den #Metal-Acts #DISILLUSION aus Leipzig, #SYLVAINE aus Norwegen und den Lokalmatadoren DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT in der Würzburger Posthalle http://bit.ly/3YzgvqD
https://www.rockstage-riot-rheinmain.de/skaldenfest-2025-2.html
My concerts for 2026:
Definitely going:
12.02. #RayWilson
31.03. #Wheel
08.04. #LongDistanceCalling
25.04. #Iotunn
09.05. #Disillusion
Undecided. Don't have a ticket, might be going:
02.03. #Jinjer
27.03. #BluesPills
08.07. #Marillion
Gestern war das #Skaldenfest in der immer noch lebenden Posthalle in #Würzburg, das musikalisch den dringend benötigten Ausgleich zur Tags zuvor überlebten betrieblichen Weihnachtsfeier darstellte.
Ein super Billing u.a mit #Disillusion, #CountlessSkies, #DerWegEinerFreiheit und meinem Überraschungshighlight: #Sylvaine. Sie hat mich mit ihrer Band und den dargebotenen #blackgaze Soundwänden durchdrungen von ihrem kathartischen Heulen echt in den Bann gezogen. Völlig unerwartet grandios.
Folk Metal ist eigentlich nicht meine Baustelle, aber #Ūkanose aus Lithauen hatten so viel Spaß auf der Bühne, dass man sich der Freude eigentlich nicht entziehen konnte.
#Disillusion just announced a new tour, starting April 2026. Mostly Germany, with one event in Norway, one in Austria.
Supporting will be #AnAbstractIllusion and/or #Stellvris.
#MetalheadConcerts
Ahh, mountains. Mountains, mountains, mountains.
This is going to be a wild list. Wild in the range of the type of music, anyway. I guess.
#ThursdayFiveList #MusicOfTheMountains
The most obvious choice, of course:
#Disillusion - The Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOJeWu_vHQ
Angry Metal Guy Speaks: 10,000 Posts
By Angry Metal Guy
There’s almost no good way to mark these anniversaries without getting a little self-referential, maybe a little maudlin… or without tooting your own horn until you’re red in the face and everyone’s embarrassed. Still, it has come to my attention that this is the 10,000th post of AngryMetalGuy.com. Actually, as of this writing, the number of posts in the entire system is supremely metal 10,666. Also, we have something like 600 drafts that never saw the light of day and 49 pending posts that have never been published.1 To say that we’ve been productive carries with it a drunk Bilbo Bagginsesque tone of bemusement.
“My, we have been productive.”
During the 16ish years of unbound fecundity that it took for us to reach this dubious landmark, many a writer or would-be writer (over 60, at this point) has spilled internet ink within these unhallowed halls. We have extolled the virtues and excoriated the shortcomings of wonderful records and forgettable platters. We’ve opined, and raged, and littered the page with so many puns and dad jokes that you’d think this website was the patriarch of a family of 10. The total result of this hard work has resulted in been 8,032,385 words that have been written.2 Divide that by 10,000, and that’s an average of about 803 words per post—53 more than our max review length.3 The Year of Our Angry Overlord, 2019, was our most productive year ever. It saw us jam through 983 posts—a mind-numbing number if you think about it for long enough. Our longest average posts to date were last year, in 2024, where our average post had 955 words. I can’t even imagine how that’s possible, but there you go.4
And what are the core bits of writing that really drive readership? Well, here’s where the horn tootin’ comes in. Of our Top 20(ish) posts, 10 are Angry Metal Guy’s Top Ten(ish) Record(s) o’ the Year lists (with 2015 taking the cake for the most read post of all time). Three more of those are other lists: songs 50-41 of my Top 50 Heavy Metal Songs list; 10-1 of that same list; and my Top 15(ish) of the 2000s. The most viewed non-list was Steel Druhm‘s April Fool’s post from last year about Ripper Owens leaving KK’s Priest for BB’s Maiden. And then there’s the reviews. El Cuervo‘s review of Opeth The Last Will and Testament,5 my review of In Flames’ Foregone, Druhm‘s review of Megadeth’s The Sick, the Dying…and the Dead!, both Veil of Imagination and Epigone (landing very close to each other in terms of views and written by El Cuervo and myself), Batushka’s Litourgiya (TYMHM from 2015, penned by our dear [not actually] deceased Roquentin), and my review of Opeth’s Pale Communion round out the Top 20 posts.6
And even after all this time, we are still changing the world and keeping up with the times by spreading disinformation about incorrigible self-Googler Ripper Owens. That Ripper Owens post that was posted on April 1st, 2024, has moved from parody into objective fact, as it has been picked up by Google’s AI as the answer to the question: “Is Ripper Owens still in KK’s Priest?” The answer? “No, Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens is not currently with KK’s Priest. He left the band in early 2024 to pursue a new project with former Iron Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley.” A round of applause for both Druhm and the superiority and inevitability of AI!7
What do I take away from this list? Well, aside from pride at what I—nay, we—have wrought, it pays to review big bands’ records if you want a lot of views. I know that’s tough to imagine, but there we are. Better, however, than the super obvious thing is that I’m particularly proud of how we helped to spread the word about Wilderun and Batushka. But this list also brings with it some melancholy and nostalgia. Seeing Druhm and me as the only active writers on this list is a bit of a bummer. But as time moves on, we’ll make new memories with new exploited writers who will pen review after review without compensation, only to watch us feast ourselves even fatter on the spoils of our seniority.
And the raft of contributors who have come and gone deserve recognition. In the end, I want to thank everyone who has contributed to making Angry Metal Guy what it has become over the years—from the Potatoes Jim of the world to the Steels Druhm.8 Without you, this would never have happened. I appreciate the blood, sweat, and/or tears that you have put into carrying my boulder up that hill every day. And so even though your names aren’t at the top of this list, know that I tolerate each one of you with the same cold-hearted disinterest that I always have. Your service has been noted.
As for you readers? Without you, it would’ve taken a lot of refreshing my browser and switching between VPNs to get enough daily readers, so as to result in a desire to keep pushing on until we hit 10,000 posts. So, thank you for your loyalty over the years. We love (most) of your comments. We enjoy (most) of your opinions. And we are (entirely) happy that you spend your hard-earned money on the bands we love, and thank you for your trust. You reading, listening, and supporting the scene means we’re all making the world a better place one overwritten review or blog post at a time.
#2025 #AngryMetalGuySpeaks #Batushka #BlogPost #BlogPosts #Disillusion #InFlames #Landmarks #Megadeth #Opeth #Wilderun
My #health journey has brought me to absolute #disillusion with my short and pointless life. I can no longer celebrate with food and drink, while I aim to starve this #cancer.
You'll find me hanging out with these early #Buddhist nuns, who also saw right through the transient and toxic trappings along the #path between birth and death. I hope not to have to be born again after this drag of a life, instead realising an end to clinging to this unsatisfactory cycle.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/thig/index.html#top
For @lpl's #SaturDoom. something from the vaults:
#Fvnerals: For Horror Eats the Light
https://song.link/dq2ktr9vpxnvj
We can think of the ideal world. There will always be someone with a different idea and the power to destroy your dreams.
Disillusion is a great experimental game, but more specifically I'm overcome by a sense of empowerment through this one line of dialog:
I wonder who I am
Reflections offer nothing
I wonder where I stand
I'm afraid of myself
-Mastodon
That's the band, of course, not this platform
You know who that #Aeons album reminds me of? #Disillusion!
Meine #Platte #record #vinyl heute im Home Office
#disillusion #TheLiberation 🤘🤘🤘 Sau geiles Teil
I guess #SilentSunday is an appropriate hashtag here because i just finished this book by @entreprecariat and I need some silent meditative time after this.
Biohazard und Life Of Agony
22.03.2025 München / Backstage
Disillusion
02.05.2025 München / Backstage
Peace of Mind
18.01.2025 München / Kafe Kult
#Backstage #Biohazard #Disillusion #KafeKult #Munchen #PeaceOfMind #SteelFeed
They are just puppets and they know it. But they don't care.
How about a #SweetSweetLullaby for #ThursdayFiveList ?
Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire
https://song.link/i/192816780
Pantera - The Sleep
https://song.link/i/1163813995
Disillusion - The Sleep of Restless Hours
https://song.link/i/210601389
Slayer - At Dawn They Sleep
https://song.link/i/57665791
The Gathering - Morphia's Waltz
https://song.link/i/1045517906
#RageAgainstTheMachine #Pantera #Slayer #Disillusion #TheGathering
#TheOcean: Anthropocentric
https://album.link/wq79n2mv5mwjs
#PostMetal #ProgressiveMetal #Sludge
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Disillusion:
"You could grow up to be the #President someday" (3/4)
...your opponent's crazed #billionaire fans (supporter is too benign these days) will devise a new box that's impossible to tick and point to that made up unchecked box as reason to #cancel you entirely, while simultaneously deploying psychologically manipulative #algorithms on the #socialmedia platforms they've bought to behaviorally modify the masses such that the users do their bidding. The #disillusion is real.
