Last year hasn't been such a good year (that is just so I don't have to say it has been by far the friggin' worst of the 21 years I've passed on this world)

Let's hope 2007 will be better, anyway, here are the numbers:

2006's top artists were:
1. Diary of Dreams
2. anathema
3. Paradise Lost
4. Novembers Doom
5. l'âme immortelle
6. Agalloch
7. Opeth
8. Draconian
9. Lacrimosa
10. Blind Guardian

No big surprises here, except that Bling Guardian managed to maintain it's top 10 spot event hough I haven't been playing a lot of them…

… AmoK.

I've been listening to a lot of Diary of Dreams lately, I wonder if it's taking on unhealthy proportions…


Since I don't feel like doing anything else I might as well comment on my current overall top 10 here.

1. Diary of Dreams (434)
Diary of Dreams is just plain great, I only discovered them pretty recently but I've listened to them so much that they just rocketed to No1 in no time. They really manage to produce songs that I very often can identify with.

2. Anathema (395)
I was listening to them a lot a…

Novembers Doom, Agalloch, Saturnus and Thurisaz at Biebob Voselaar

After playing Agalloch's music until it nearly fell apart and doing much the same for Novembers Doom's stuff I finally got the chance to see both live on the same evening even!

With them came two other bands which I didn't know: Saturnus and Thurisaz, but after this show I'm sure as hell going to check both out.

Thurisaz got to do the honours of opening the concert, and hell, I didn't know we had suck good Doom Death bands in Belgium, shame on me! They played a…

Well, I normally don't care about these numbers much, I don't consider myself an to be antichrist so the number of the beast (666) has no special meaning to me.

So that aside, my 6666th played track on last FM was I Cannot Be Loved which I found pretty ironic as my gf left me some three months ago…

Heh, I just notice we're friday the 13th too, now where did that black cat go…? ;p~

Oh well, one can't say mother nature has no sense of humour (or is it sarcasm or even cynisism?) ;)

Btw, My Dying Bride…

I couldn't resist…;) So here goes:

Go through your top 10 artists and add up the total number of listeners. Divide that number by 10; this is the average number of listeners for your top ten. Now divide the average by the number of Radiohead fans (Radiohead is the artists with the most listeners). Multiply the result by 100 - that is your "mainstream percentage".

1) Anathema 35,616
2) Paradise Lost 30,407
3) Opeth 68,801
4) Agalloch 14,777
5) London After Midnight 10,613
6) Blind Guardian 62,962
7) Lacrimosa 18,628
8) Diary of Dreams 7,103
9) Switchblade Symphony 12,944
10)…