Battleroar

After the awesome To death and Beyond... , which has become one of my three best album of the year, with an act of extreme mercy, I'm giving you a chance to lay your dirty hands on the two first albums of BATTLEROAR. I runsacked a DISC UNION brig today and they've become part of the Cpt. personal treasure chest! Epic Metal at its best! Get them before they expire!

Johnny in LA. Capt. at sea!! Dethklok 6/6/08

Gentlemen,

This is my first post to Port Royal blog, the site I am committed to! You have recently seen my travels with the Capt. in Los Angeles. This is where I thrive so give me some love for the Lakers winning tonight 87-81! The Saga continues on Thursday.

Breaking News: Boat from Canada ready to dock in LA..details coming soon...

It goes like this... Summer Slaughter Tour 2008 at HOB and Rockstar Mayhemfest at Glen Helen Pavilion! Details to come!! Buddy Big Pipes Journeys to LA, f***ng legendary!

Support METAL! , it's all that's real!!

By the way, last Friday... Metalocalypse: Dethklok World Tour in Los Angeles at the Wiltern 6/6/08!!

If you don't know these guys I'm sorry!! They Killed!! Best death metal animation ever!

Somewhere Back in California (2008/5/31, Irvine)

There you go, dudes!
Direct link to a bootleg of the Irvine (Verisign Wireless Amphitheater) gig of Iron Maiden, J13 and Cpt attended and reviewd the past week. Thanks to buddy Pipes, we managed to get hold of one copy. It's not soundboard quality, but it is still pretty good! At least, to us who were there, it is a VERY nice listening...! The cover is just a crop of the gig's flyer (thanks Pipes!). I worked it out... Stay tuned: we will get a better one for sure!
Have fun... until the link expires!

LATER POST: maybe somebody is curious, or simply may enjoy it: Lauren Harris (Maiden leader & bassist daughter) album. Nice chick and nice rock! Give it a bite!

New PRIEST album. Any impression?

Already while in L.A. the promo of the new Judas Priest's album started to be available here an there on the net, and J13, that gave an advance listen to it, one day shocked me telling me "Dude, it's a shit! It's strange, I really don't like it!!".

Back home, I got my copy, sat down and concetrated on it and...
Well, it's a different stuff. In my impression, more slow, more melodic and more complex than a usual Priest stuff. It gets close to an epic metal... perhaps because of the concept behind it. You need to listen to it a couple of times to get an hold of its content... But if you let yourself go with it, you can get how heavy it actually is! Tracks load slowly and then burst from half-a-way on. It fits a less screamy but more melodic and chanting Halford voice, in my opinion.

I have to say, I like it! And I'm sure also J13 will do... It's just that after a Maiden gig with backstage passes and a 3 Inches of Blood live you are understandably much more in a Vader mode, rather slow Priest's tunes! ;-)

Give a try to the PROMO (before the link expires)!

Donald Luck!

By the way, I forgot to mention that... While in L.A., digging in AMOEBA Records collection, I stumbled again into a treasure: a signed copy of NEVERMORE's This Godless Endevor...!

J13 wanted to kill me twice: one because I got there alone; the second because I found it!

Back to the village...

Sailors...!

Cpt. mind and heart are still in L.A., but his carcass is definitely back to the village (Iron Maiden fan will recognize the reference to omonymous track from Powerslave)!

Just one freeky curiosity: Mo's Bacon Bar!

This chocolate is weirdly awesome! Applewood smoked bakon and salt in it!!
I found it by chance in a supermarket arond Brentwood, when I was killing the time with the nicest LA guide before the dinner at OSTERIA LATINI. Every one I had trying it, after the first legitimate doubts, has fallen in love with it! It's relly addictive. Me and buddy Boris (had a stopoover by his house before heading home once arrived in Tokyo) ate one up after a pizza!

I'll trey to get more inside this stuff and maybe.. import it in Japan!

Stay tuned and have fun!

Show must go on!

Show must go on, dudes!
Ready to weight anchor and hoist the sail... this time heading home.
Leaving tomorrow...

Also today the Captain's got an unforgettable time in L.A.: blue sky, hot sun, cooling shadow of palm trees, the most beautiful girl in L.A. showing him around to Venice Beach and West Holliwood; the best people of this town eating with him in one of the finest Italian restaurant in the city...

By the way, if you are in L.A. or you ever plan to get there and want to eat Italian, please, try out OSTERIA LATINI (Brentwood, CA 90049): you won't regret it (fuck the negative review you may come across on the net - idiot people who's got the head and mouth full of shit)!

Had you not understood it yet: I really got an unforgettable time here!
An awesome series of coincidences (perfect weather, job openings, event's calendar, etc.) offered me a lifetime experience over here: I got the chance to experience a fantastic city; I attended incredible gigs; met unique people... words are enough to describe it anyway. And all this thanks to J13 and our fucking (no censorship this time...) amazing PORT ROYAL! Ah, last but not least, the trophy of the day (from J13) - the most incredible so far: an awesome Harley Davidson leather jacket!!

Fucking HEAVY METAL... to the bone!

Cpt. Roger

PS: By the way... Who's the governor here? Yeah, him! "I'll be back!"