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"If music were a woman, I'd be desperate to fuck her." - Mikael Ã…kerfeldt

About Me


I live, breathe and talk music. Guitar is one of my most treasured past times, and I'd have it no other way, and I am currently studying for Certificate IV in music at TAFE. Obviously I'm a fan of metal, but not limited 'just' to that genre. If you'll have a browse to the left of my page to see my taste, you shall notice I'm into a decent variety (although it does have it's limits).
I do a bit of writing here and there (reviews, news rtc...) for Metaholic Music , take a gander. And in my spare time I do a buit of design, photography, and play instruments for a couple different projects. Contrary to what you might pick up from this little description here, I am nice guy who's just here to chat and meet others. I just suck at writing about myself.
And as for you bands out there, I know how you like to get fans and everything, but I'm not interested if it has the words pop, punk, hardcore, techno etc etc. Don't expect me to add you if you have no music up either that's just silly..
My band for those interested:
Deviant Art
Games!!
Diablo
Morrowind
Oblivion
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 4
Half-Life
Counterstrike
Batllefield
GTA series
Postal 2
F.E.A.R
Quake 3
Fallout
Age of Empires
Starcraft
Command & Conquer
My steam ID: Matus666
Current Addictions:
Music
Coffee
Cd and Vinyl Collecting
eBay
Guitar
Concerts
Opeth

My Interests

Music
Record collecting
Bands
Meeting bands
Playing my guitars
My friends
Hanging out and having fun
Drinking
Movies
Gaming
Meeting new people
Creating visual art

I'd like to meet:

Mikael Ã…kerfeldt, Peter Lindgren, Martin Lopez, Martin Mendez, Per Wiberg, Fredrik Ã…kesson (all from Opeth, past and present; I've met Mikael and Per once sofar, and Fred when he was on tour with Arch Enemy), Chris Cheney, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Steven Wilson, ... Anyone with the same sort of interests as me, other musicians, potential friends, people just up for a chat or a beer, you get the gist.

Bands/musicians I've met: Immortal, Arch Enemy, Ill Nino, Cog a few times, Mikael Akerfeldt and Per from Opeth... sofar.

OPETH - WHEN
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Opeth - Heir Apparent

Music:

BANDS; I will not add you here. go to one of my music sites.

What I'm hearing:
Click for a link to the bands website
My Projects:

Etherium

Effusion

Bands I Enjoy: Aeturnus Dominion
Ajattara
Alchemist
Alice Cooper
Alice In Chains
Amon Amarth
Arch Enemy
Arcturus
Ayreon
Bane of Isildur
Be'Lakor
Behemoth
The Berzerker
Blatherskite
Bloodbath
Bloodrust
Camel
Candlemass
Cannibal Corpse
Cattle Decapitation
Celtic Frost
Children of Bodom ..
Cog
Countersunk
Cradle of Filth
Cryptopsy
Cult of Luna
Daemon Foetal Harvest
Dark Tranquillity
Darkthrone
Decapitated
Deftones
Deicide
Dimmu Borgir
Disgorge
Dismember
8 Foot Sativa
Ebolie
Edge of Sanity
Empyrean
Exmortem
Explosions In The Sky
Fifth Angel
Fingerprint Resistant
Frankenbok
Frenzal Rhomb
From The Sky
Hades / Hades Almighty
I
Immortal
In Lingua Mortua
In Mourning
Insomnium
Iron Maiden
ISIS
Judas Priest
Jakob
Japunga
John Petrucci
Kataklysm
Katatonia
Kreator
Krokus
The Living End
Megadeth
Mirrorthrone
Moonspell
Morbid Angel
Mortician
My Dying Bride
Nazxul
Necrophagist
New Blood
Nevermore
Nile
Norse Novembre
Obituary
October Tide
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
Psycroptic
Quo Vadis
Red Sparowes
Satyricon
Sefton
Sepultura
Side Effect X
Sinasizem
Slayer
Sörskogen
Spiritual Beggars
Static-X
Suffocation
Sunk Loto
The Furor
The Mark Of Cain
Three Point Tilt
This Collision
To-Mera
Tourettes
Unleashed
Vangelis
Wykked Wytch
Zatokrev

Movies:

Zeitgeist, Cannibal the Musical, Donnie Darko, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ringu trilogy, anything Monty Python, Wayne's World 1 & 2, Ghost in the Shell, Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Beetlegeuse, Clerks 1 & 2, Hannibal, Red Dragon.

Television:

Stargate, Sliders, Futurama, Daria, Scrubs, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Band of Brothers, Angel, Supernatural, Harvey Birdman: Attourney At Law, Metalocalypse...

Anime: Ghost in the Shell, Escaflowne, Ah! My Goddess, Gantz, Azumanga Daioh, Trigun and .Hack//sign, Death Note, Bleach.

Books:

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tomorrow When the War Began, the series by John Marsden
Stephen Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Heroes:

Musicians:
Mikael Ã…kerfeldt
..
Peter Lindgren

Chris Cheney

John Petrucci

My Blog

Bloodbath - Metaholic Music Post Sunday, 20 April 2008

Bloodbath have released news of a new full length album to be released very soon! I took the info from their website, bloodbath.biz, and have pasted it below (with a few spaces to make it easier to re...
Posted by -Mat- on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:56:00 PST

Immortal Blashyrkh tour, Australia 2008 - March 15th, The Metro, Sydney

What can be said about this band that hasn’t been said before? They’ve been around for some 18 years and only just now decided to grace Australian fans with their presence, which seems to ...
Posted by -Mat- on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:57:00 PST

Gigantour 08 - A shit review.

Gigantour!So, those of you that actually read my bulletins would have seen that I had tickets to both Gogantour Sydney shows, one being an 18+ show which I attended with a few mates and the other...
Posted by -Mat- on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:19:00 PST

FUCK! Stop it already you god damn idiots!

Fucking hell. Is it just me or is anyone else out there REALLY fucking sick of the "repost this now and such and such will happen, if not then something bad will happen" bullshit???Okay, let me break ...
Posted by -Mat- on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:49:00 PST

Iron Maiden Tickets...

Good job Ticketek..... on handing all the good Iron Maiden tickets to scalpers. I, and many other fans who waited outside of the ticketeck office in Wollongong missed out on prime positions eats, beca...
Posted by -Mat- on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:37:00 PST

Guitar of awesomeness.

Hello all,As some of you may already know I've been doing a course at tafe painting shit (to be blunt about it), and part of that course covers air brushing, so I decided to be creative about it all, ...
Posted by -Mat- on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:03:00 PST

Myspace just dont know when to stop...

Now they have ads on the front page with shit music attached? Just to go along with those shitty noisy ads for emoticons that probably piss more people off than you know it.Next thing you know, myspac...
Posted by -Mat- on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:41:00 PST

Alice Cooper Concert Photos

As some of you may know, I attened a show on Alice Cooper's Psycho Drama tour, which took them all over Australia, including Wollongong. It wasn't cheap to see, but it was so worth it in the end. And ...
Posted by -Mat- on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:29:00 PST

Bloodrust's cd cover designed by me

I was asked to make up some shit for a cd cover for Bloodrust, so I did. Here's the result:Front Cover:Back cover:Inside book:Back of cd (behind where the cd sits):Of course they don't all have my log...
Posted by -Mat- on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:39:00 PST

Fuck myspace are idiots

Why are they idiots? I'll tell you why. whenever someone has something linked on their page, be it an image to a website or a url, or they post a link in a bulletin, bot now myspace alters the link to...
Posted by -Mat- on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:17:00 PST