Hi!

I'm an English metalhead trapped in Saudi Arabia, looking to keep up to date with my metal, in a country with no record stores and severe punishments for owning heavy metal....

I miss the blog.

Oh that seems just so wrong how they can do that.

But hey welcome to the forum and hope you'll enjoy the stay.

Severe punishments for owning heavy metal Infidels....

Welcome to the forum, hope you have fun. The blog have sort of moved to the bottom off the page

Welcome!
Fav bands/genres?

Welcome aboard dude!

Welcome abroad.

How's it going. Welcome to the site dude.

saudi arabia has laws against owning heavy metal?! O.o thats just quite... retarded...

Welcome aboard my fellow Englishman!

Hi! Welcome on the forum

Ugh, Saudi, I don't ever plan on visiting there. Fucking close minded...Oh, hey there! Welcome aboard! What bands you like?

Favourite bands - too many to list really, like almost all genres, though with slightly less emphasis on folk than most.

Recent likes - Darkestrah, Fen, Kalmah, WitTR, ....

Best Live Performance: Dark Tranquility and Enslaved in the London Astoria in the early 90's

Used to work for a music magazine so have met quite a few of the bigger bands.

And thanks for the welcome folks.

You`ve seen Enslaved live?! damn, I envy you lol
aaaanyway, have fun here

I'm old and used to get paid to review bands, so I've seen almost all of the early wave of BM bands live (including the Nocturno Culto performance with Satyricon at Wacken - to catch the "Darkthrone" moment).

I haven't been to an extreme gig in 2 years due to scheduling conflicts, was supposed to get to Metal Camp this year and blew it unfortunately... I got married instead though so that was pretty cool.

Have seen Arch Enemy, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Opeth, The Scorpions and a few others in Dubai though, which while not as good is not bad either....

Welcome dude! come to dubai I LIVE THERE!!!

fuck the middle east :/

I used to live in Dubai, I've been to Dubai Desert Rock twice (Maiden and Motorhead headlining years, Muse and Korn got skipped for being shit) and I often go to The Music Room in the Majestic Hotel for the Rockspiders and their admittedly tame, selection of Metal cover versions...

ah cool! what the fuck made you go to saudi? desert rock had good line-ups sometimes but honestly i hate the people who go there...............they fucking ruin everything

and i take it you were here this year? arch enemy and motorhead.....

Yup, I only showed up for Arch Enemy, Opeth and Motorhead. It's the first time I've ever enjoyed Motorhead live.

I had a great time, got shit faced, moshed like a maniac, kissed a few girls, that sort of thing.

Festivals are what you make of them. I've only ever been to one shit festival and that was the last time I went to Wacken, and they started ripping us off for more cash on top of the ticket price. Their loss, I'd been 6 times before that, and not once since.

I went to Saudi for a job. Simple as really.

Welcome to the Pit!

ah that makes sense then lol

but most so called "metal heads" here are fucking posers...like my friend went and he was like half of them diddnt even know who AE was, they were just there coz it was a "metal concert" so yeah...

I WANNA BE SHIT FACED TOO!!!!