Copenhell 2014.

Copenhell, which is a metal festival, was this year moved from the weekend and added an extra day, which means it this year was 3 days long. It happened on the 11th, 12th and 13th of June.

Last minute I found out that my mum wanted to pay for me going to Copenhell, and of course I said yes please. There were a lot of bands that I wanted to see and I also got to see some I didn't know. The best ones were definitely Twisted Sister, Of Mice & Men, Tyr and Thy Art Is Murder. 

The three days were spent drinking beer, eating way too expensive festival food and running into a lot of my friends who were there as well, all whilst listening to pretty awesome music. I also met most of the guys from Of Mice & Men, which is one of my favourite bands. They were all so sweet, even though they had to leave pretty quickly. They only came out to see Iron Maiden perform.

The last day I was pretty drunk and it's kind of a blurr, but that's just a proof of how awesome the day was! We started out with a Swedish tradition called "krebsegilde" at 11am (after rarely any sleep), which is translated to "crayfish party". At which you literally just eat crayfish and drink schnapps and beer. It was pretty fun! 

I was also at Copenhell back in 2012, but I can only say that this one was a much better experience. So much fun, all the time! I hope to go back next year as well, and hopefully if I do, it'll be just as fun.

Here are some pictures that pretty well captures how the days were. They were all taken with iPhones, so I apologise for the poor quality.

Album reviews.

So this week there's been two new albums out, both from some of my favourite bands. Monday was the release date of You Me At Six's fourth album Cavalier Youth and Tuesday was the release date for Of Mice & Men's third album Restoring Force. I gave both a listen and I thought that I wanted to share my thoughts with you about those albums.

I have to admit that I was in fact disappointed by this album. I've been a fan of You Me At Six for three years and some and they nailed their first two albums so precisely that all my expectations to their future albums skyrocketed. The third album, Sinners Never Sleep was, with the words of one of my friends "Well, you can do that better next time, boys", which describes my feelings about it pretty well. It wasn't as I expected it would be, but it still wasn't bad. So my expectations were still high for this album, but I was even more disappointed than I was with SNS. The different sound isn't what's bothering me, not at all, I'm perfectly aware that bands evolve and develop and grow. What is bothering me about this album is that Josh's vocal is really weak. On the older albums he had this dirty little twist to it where it would almost crack and he'd be a little hoarse, but in a really good way. And on this album it's just not as powerful at it usually is. Also it seems like the other guys aren't doing what I know they can do with their instruments. The guitar isn't being shredded, the drums aren't being smashed and the bass isn't being slapped. It's just so much more.. silent, if that's a word you can use for that. It feels like they haven't poured all their hearts and souls into this album, which ironically is what they say they have done. I seriously hope it will be different live. My favourite song off the album is definitely Win Some, Lose Some because to my ears that song is what they have put the most effort into, the bassline is absolutely incredible and the vocals aren't as weak on the rest of the album.

This album kicks so much ass it almost hurts mine. It's the first time Of Mice & Men has released an album with me as a fan, so I didn't have a lot of expectations, except that I of course hoped it was going to be good. I know about their history with different frontmen and I know that even Austin has been singing clean vocals at some shows because they didn't have a frontman whose job was clean vocals. But since I've only listened to their former albums and never seen any live videos with them (I prefer to experience concerts myself and not watch videos of them) I didn't know how Aaron's voice would sound. And I was only prositively surprised. His voice is amazing and it's in perfect harmony with Austin's. Besides that the lyrics on this album are so heartfelt and the music is really good quality. I can't wait to experience this album live, as well as a few songs from the old ones, sung by Aaron. He fits perfectly in the band and I hope that he'll stay for a while. 

New header.

I've wanted a new header in a while. Well, before it was just text because I didn't know what to put in my header picture, but I wanted a custom one. So last night I sat for like an hour, struggling with Photoshop and tutorials on Youtube.

But now I've made the perfect (in my opinion) new blog header. I think it's amazing and it fits my blog really well. It represents two of the things I love the most.

I used a Photoshop action that can be found on my friend Mia Malene's blog HERE. To be more exact, I used action number seven, if you'd like to know. Then I downloaded a few new brushes with music notes, because I don't think I will ever have a blog header without music on it in some sort of way. Believe me, it was really hard for a retard like me to use brushes. As the background picture I used one of my own pictures I took while I was in Bristol, of the harbourside. I also have that picture on my new Mastercard!

And last, but not least, the text in my new (and old) header is inspired of a song made by the band Of Mice & Men named Let Live. It originally goes "Met a drug that changed my life", but I changed it into my own little phrase, because it fits me so well. If it wasn't for music, I don't know what my life would have looked like. Without music I wouldn't have most of my amazing friends I have today. Without music I wouldn't know how to go through my day.

So I hope you'll enjoy my new header at least half as much as I do, since I'll probably always be enjoying it mostly, because well, I made it and it's actually one of the few things I made with Photoshop that I'm really proud of. Probably the thing I'm most proud of.