Scream Bloody Gore!

Greetings to you, my little lovers of all things metal!

As if there weren’t enough writings on this website, we decided to start a blog. It was very necessary, because I never shut up and have to squeeze my 2 cents here and there. In general, I hope this will be a place where I and the rest of Music Photocalypse crew will elaborate on various music-related matters that happen to cross our peaceful (and sometimes not) minds. Plus, for me it is also a place, where I can slip an occasional juicy ‘fuck’ or two, since, face it, we’re not Metal Hammer (yet) and we have to play nice with censorship and shit like that (see!). But what’s heavy music without an appropriate obscenity?

I wanted to be less pathetic and start the blog at the end of 2009, because, you know, normal people really like starting things at the beginning of the year. But I couldn’t escape the fate of being so usual and predictable (read: I had better things to do), so we’re going to start it not at the beginning of just some pfft year, but at the dawn of a goddamn decade!! Now that sounds more brutal!

It was a matter of great importance to choose a right name for such a blog, because the name will define its whole life! As I still couldn’t escape the pathetic fate, I dived into my metal encyclopedia in search for something really influential. While nobody shared my excitement about taking the name of Death’s debut album “Scream Bloody Gore”, after a long debate and a few dead bodies, we finally came to a compromise. The savior was Megadeth’s debut release in 1985 “Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good!”. But as killing is not really our business (it has always been just a hobby), we adjusted it to fit us more and changed "killing" to "music". I still couldn’t resist putting Death at least in the name of this entry! My post – I can name it whatever I want.

Going on with mine and this blog’s pathetic fate, I will stick to the pathetic scenario of all posts usually written at the beginning of the year: what are your expectations for the upcoming 365 days? And since this is a music-related blog and not my personal one (luckily for you!), I will not tell you about my own tour of Europe in summer or how I want to sign Alexi Laiho’s boobs, or any other stuff you never wanted to know about me. Instead, I will tell you that there are quite a few releases I am looking forward to, such as: Down, Dimmu Borgir, Ov Hell, Finntroll, Poisonblack, Enemy Of The Sun and most definitely Stone Sour and of course Iron Maiden! I am most eagerly looking forward to attending Helsinki Metal Meeting, Machine Head, Rammstein and Ulver concerts in February, because all of those are going to be a fucking blast. I am shitless excited about Ruisrock festial in July, which is having its 40th anniversary this year, and last, but the most important one – Sonisphere festival in August, because its un-fucking-believable greatness is beyond words (and because Anthrax will play there).

I do not share this common excitement about the news of Soundgarden reunion. Nothing against Soundgarden though, I just can’t be bothered, but as long as this makes someone happy, then why not? Compared to this, the rumours about System Of A Down reuniting is a lot more tasty piece of news for me. Although there is this specific thing about reunions – you can never know for sure whether they’re going to suck or rule.

As my personal hope and pray to whoever is responsible for things like that: this year I really really REALLY wish and hope to see Alice In Chains and Steel Panther.

So what is it about 2010 one thought of which makes YOUR pants soaking wet? Share your thoughts with us and win a cookie. Or not.

Proud to be loud.

-Tanja.