2016. The Best Video Release of the Year: Sixx:A.M. “Prayers for the Damned” (Official)

2016. The Best Album Releases

Zephyra “As the World Collapses”

Crematory “Monument”

Primal Fear “Rulebreaker”

Omnium Gatherum “Grey Heavens”

+ almost all Buckethead albums

Disappointments of the Year:

Dream Theater “The Astonishing”

Metallica “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct”

Insomnium “Winter’s Gate”

2016 wk 52. Video of the Week: Lordi “Blood-Red Sandman” (Official)

2016 wk 52. Top 10 Rock & Metal Tracks

Schlafes Bruder „Heilig” („Heute war Gott nicht hier“ 2013)

Distant Thunder “Distant Thunder” (instr.) (“Welcome the End” 2004)

Golden Resurrection “Heavenly Metal” (instr.) (“One Voice for the Kingdom” 2012)

Rick Renstrom “Symphony #40” (instr.) (“Until the Bitter End” 2003)

Firewind “The Fire and the Fury” (instr.) (“Burning Earth” 2003)

Lilitu “The Delores Lesion” (“The Delores Lesion” 2004)

Фактор Страха “Бег” (“Театр военных действий: Акт 2” 2006)

Solerrain “Побеждая иллюзии” (“Побеждая иллюзии” 2010)

O.N.E “Наш новый мир” (“На грани” 2013)

Янтарные Слёзы “Когда растает снег” (“Ключ к декабрю” 2010)

2016 wk 51. Video of the Week: Paradise Lost “The Enemy” (Official)

2016 wk 51. Top 10 Rock & Metal Tracks

Iron Maiden “Afraid to Shoot Strangers” (“Fear of the Dark” 1992)

Primal Fear “The Healer” (“Devil’s Ground” 2004)
Dream Theater “The Glass Prison” (“Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” 2002)

Metallica “Seek and Destroy” (“Kill ’Em All” 1983)

Queensrÿche “I Don’t Believe in Love” (“Operation: Mindcrime” 1988)

Blaze Bayley “Smile Back at Death” (“The Man Who Would Not Die” 2008)

Van Canto “The Seller of Souls” (“Break the Silence” 2011)

Joe Satriani “The Extremist” (“The Extremist” 1992)

Emergency Gate “Trust in Me” (“Rewake” 2009)

Eternal Oath “A Face in the Crowd” (“Wither” 2005)

2016 wk 50. Video of the Week: Anilah “Medicine Chant” (Official)

2016 wk 50. Top 10 Rock & Metal Tracks

Joe Satriani “Crushing Day” (instr.) (“Surfing with the Alien” 1987)

Accept “Monsterman” (“Russian Roulette” 1986)

Accept “Heaven is Hell” (“Russian Roulette” 1986)

Primal Fear “Diabolus” (“Seven Seals” 2005)

Primal Fear “Rollercoaster” (“Seven Seals” 2005)

Powerwolf “Gods of War Arise” (Amon Amarth Cover) (“Blessed & Possessed” 2015)

Eluveitie “Thousandfold” (“Everything Remains As It Never Was” 2010)

Noumena “A Day to Depart” (“Absence” 2005)

Septic Flesh “Therianthropy” (“The Great Mass” 2011)

Iced Earth “Ten Thousand Strong” (“Framing Armageddon” 2007)

2016 wk 49. Video of the Week: Mercenary “Isolation (The Loneliness in December)” (Amateur Fan Video)

2016 wk 49. Top 10 Rock & Metal Tracks

W.A.S.P. “Babylon’s Burning” (“Babylon” 2009)                                  

Mercenary “Isolation (The Loneliness in December)” (“Architect of Lies” 2008)

Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing” (“Dire Straits” 1978)

Xmal Deutschland „Eisengrau“ („Viva“ 1987)

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers “Out in the Cold” (“Into the Great Wide Open” 1991)

Brother Firetribe “Going Out with the Bang” (“Heart Full of Fire” 2008)

Elis “I Come Undone” (“Catharsis” 2009)

Elis “Ghost of the Past” (“Catharsis” 2009)

Raintime “Moot-Lie” (“Tales from Sadness” 2005)

Twisted Sister “The Fire Still Burns” (“Come Out and Play” 1985)

EXTRA EXCLUSIVE: Facebook Has Blocked and Disabled My Account for No Reason

  Facebook is a totalitarian and ultracapitalist criminal gang that sets its commercial interests above human rights. When you sign up for Facebook, you lose your privacy and your human dignity. All you write and share on Facebook, including your private messages, turns into commercial items that are unscrupulously used and misused by Facebook. You are no longer the owner of your own private information. All your private information can be passed on to businesses and secret services. Facebook spies on you.

  Facebook doesn’t allow you to delete your private messages. You can only “archive” them – in order to enable Facebook to misuse them for its own dubious goals.

  Facebook doesn’t allow you to delete your account. You can only “deactivate” it – in order to enable Facebook to misuse it for its own dubious goals.

  Facebook denies the right to anonymity on the Internet – a basic human right which is indispensable for independent journalists and human rights activists living in countries ruled by dictators. Facebook requires, you should sign up under your real name, which is unacceptable for civic activists living under oppressive regimes. Thus, Facebook helps oppressive regimes.

  Facebook deletes posts and blocks accounts of users who criticize oppressive regimes.

  You can easily lose access to your Facebook account, if you log in from an IP or PC you haven’t used before. Facebook claims, it “protects you from suspicious activity”, “it’s for your own good”. Is it really for your own good, if you use your friend’s computer or go to another city or country and as a result lose for good access to your account? One of the ways to recover access to your account is to receive 3 codes from your 3 designated “trusted friends” on Facebook. But what if one of your “trusted friends” or even all three of them are locked out  for the same reason? Then say farewell to your account… Or there is a second way, which is unacceptable for any human with dignity…

  The second account recovery option is to send to Facebook a picture of your ID card, passport or another document with your real name and photograph. The insolent Facebook gangsters have laid their hands on the right to control people’s identity papers. Facebook misuses this identity check very often. It locks you out, disables your account, claims that you are not who you are and demands to see your ID. That was exactly what happened to me on December 4, 2016. I used my real name in my account: Eugene Novozhilov https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007884435516  Nevertheless, I was locked out. The impudent SuckerZuckerberg motherfuckers won’t get what they unrightfully demand. I can live without an account on their sewer website, so GO AND FUCK YOURSELVES AND LET YOUR SUCKERZUCKERBERG SUCK HIS OWN DICK. I urge your SuckerZuckerberg to take a picture of his dicksucking and put it on his ID card. He will send a photo of this new ID card to recover his Facebook account, if he gets locked out someday.

  I call on all decent people: Boycott and sabotage Facebook, harm it in any way you can!

 

  And, of course, never forget that there are alternatives to Facebook on the Web.

Eugene Novozhilov

Russian human rights activist

P.S. The screenshot of this article is uploaded to Facebook as a “recovery option”.

2016 wk 48. Video of the Week: Dream Theater “Forsaken” (Official)

2016 wk 48. Top 10 Rock & Metal Tracks

Fejd ”Farsot” (”Eifur” 2010)

Primal Fear “Seven Seals” (“Seven Seals” 2005)

Primal Fear “Fighting the Darkness – The Darkness – Reprise” (“New Religion” 2007)

Accept “Metal Heart” (“Metal Heart” 1985)

Accept “Balls to the Wall” (“Balls to the Wall” 1983)

U.D.O. “Heart of Gold” (“Faceless World” 1990)

U.D.O. “System of Life” (“Faceless World” 1990)

Judas Priest “Painkiller” (“Painkiller” 1990)

Judas Priest “Blood-Red Skies” (“Ram It Down” 1988)

Halford “Silent Screams” (“Resurrection” 2000)