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Nish

THISSS ISS SPARTAAAAA!!!!!!

About Me

I live and breathe music, mostly into metal (prog/power/melodeath/tech death), a bit of metalcore/hardcore, and the occasional miscellanous song, and I've played guitar for 6 years and drums for 3 years. I play an Ibanez RG1570 using a Line 6 Spider II 212 150 Watt amp, they're the only material possessions that I value.. apart from my computer I guess hehe. I play guitar in My Burning Empire . Just completed a BE(Hons)/BCS degree at Melbourne Uni, bit scary not being a student anymore lol.

My Burning Empire - Reality Check

My Interests

Music, Food, Guitar, Metal!!, Shredding Sweeping Solos, Pinch harmonics, Whammy dives, Kebabs, Blast Beats, Gravity rolls, Alitalia Mexican Pizza, Poker, cars, KFC Popcorn Chicken, random mathy/sciency shit (e.g. String theory, special relativity etc.), Cold Rock icecream, Battlefield 2, Age Of Mythology, Warcraft 3, Unreal Tournament, Nintendo Wii.

Music:

WINTERSUN! = best band ever, can't believe it's only 2 people (playing on the album), fkn genius!... Dragonforce (got epic?), The Human Abstract, Cellador, Protest The Hero (the only emopowermetalmathcore band in the world!... as far as I know), Blind Guardian, Rhapsody Of Fire, Angra, Kalmah, Parkway Drive, Sonata Arctica, Hibria, Necrophagist, Heed, Lost Horizon, Trivium, All That Remains, As Blood Runs Black, Lamb Of God, Darkest Hour, Tesseract, The Red Chord, Dimmu Borgir, Jason Becker, Still Remains, Nevermore, Arsis, Kamelot, He Is Legend, Iced Earth, Black Majesty, Bullet For My Valentine, Children Of Bodom, Stratovarius, James LaBrie's solo work, Symphony X, Liquid Tension Experiment, Racer X, Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine, Flipsyde, Unearth, Soilwork, August Burns Red, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Black Dahlia Murder, Funeral For A Friend, God Forbid, Adagio, Winter Solstice, Ion Dissonance, Neuraxis, Textures, Beneath The Massacre, Origin, Sinergy, Arch Enemy, It Dies Today, Avenged Sevenfold, Heaven Shall Burn, Saosin, As I Lay Dying, Rise Against, Bleeding Through, Senses Fail, In Flames, Meshuggah, NOFX, The Haunted, Evergreen Terrace, Story Of The Year, Thrice, The Berzerker, Muse, Killswitch Engage, Alexisonfire, Shadows Fall, The Mars Volta, Dark Tranquility.. cbf continue.

Movies:

300, V for Vendetta, Fight Club, Crash, Blood Diamond, Nightwatch, Lock Stock, Snatch, Pan's Labyrinth, Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle, Wedding Crashers, Donnie Darko, Jarhead, LOTRs, The Butterfly Effect, Pulp Fiction, Harry Potters, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Zoolander, Anchorman, Ice Ages, Identity, Sixth Sense

Television:

Lost, Prison Break, 24, Heroes, Stargate SG-1 (r.i.p):(, Stargate Atlantis, Southpark, The Simpsons, Futurama.

Books:

Harry Potter (not long till book 7!), Artemis Fowl, Inheritance Trilogy, random fantasy and sci-fi shit (yes dragons are OP). What the hell's the point of reading about realistic stuff when you can observe it all around you anyway?

Heroes:

Favourite musos: Jari Mäenpää (guitar/vocals/keyboards/bass - Wintersun), Herman Li (guitar - Dragonforce), John Petrucci (guitar - Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment), Muhammed Suicmez (guitar/vocals - Necrophagist), Thomas Haake (drums - Meshuggah... listen to their song 'War', it is the MOST brutal and insane song EVER written, bar none), Jani Liimatainen (guitar - Sonata Arctica), Daniel Heiman (vocals - Lost Horizon/Heed), Alexi Laiho (guitar/vocals - Children Of Bodom, Sinergy), Mike Portnoy (drums - Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment)