Oliver - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Firstly, a message to people who want to add me as a friend. If I can't work out why you've added me, you WILL be denied. Where bands are concerned, I may have a few in my list, but these are ones special to me. I'm not a friend collector so there's a 99% chance you will be denied. If after reading this you still want to add me, it would be nice if you could at least send me a message request first.
With that out of the way...I'm Oliver from London, currently studying BA Photography at Westminster University. Extreme Metal is my main passion in life and you'll find me wearing something other than a Metal shirt only now and then. Having said that, I'm not a fan of dousing myself completely in black, as I find it a little oppressive.
During term time University tends to take up most of my time. I enjoy going to Metal gigs and in October I'm marching over to Lyon with a few friends to see Behemoth and Aborted! A few days after that, 1349 are playing in London! Yay, yay, yay!
Now and then I write reviews for www.metalteamuk.net and you can find a live review for Vader and Belphegor there. Hopefully I'll do a bit more soon.
I know smoking is a social thing to do, nevertheless, I really don't like it and am so glad that smoking has been banned in all venues in England! Where drinking is concerned, I don't get drunk. Merry is as far as I will go. I honestly think it's quite sad if you can only have a good time when drunk.
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My Interests

Music (mostly Metal), Photography, going to Metal gigs and Wacken open air festival, reading for pleasure (when I have the time), seeing friends...that's all I can think of really.

I'd like to meet:

Nice friendly people!

Music:

I adore Metal but I'm fairly open minded about music. I enjoy many differnt styles and artists,including Kate Bush, Jeff Buckley, Alanis Morisette, Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs, KT Tunstall and a fair few more. I listen to Classical now and then and oddly enough traditional Bosnian music too.
Where Metal is concerned I tend to sway more towards the Black side of things. I like to hear atmosphere, melancholy, drum annihilation and plenty of emotion. The following bands are very close to my heart: Opeth, Vader, Behemoth (hurrah Polish Metal!), Emperor, Mayhem, Cryptopsy, Belphegor (very theraputic), 1349 (shredding the light of day!), Drudkh, Aborted (pre Slaughter and Apparatus era), Primordial, Secrets of the Moon, Marduk, Burzum, Shining, Keep of Kalessin, Watain, Immolation, Nile and many more nasty, horrible bands! Pre 90s Metallica (the Black album was okay actually) and Iced Earth (the pre Tim Owens era mostly) also deserve a mention as they're both fantastic!
I listen to most Metal genres, but Power Metal is something I don't have much time for. Metalcore and Nu Metal are practically the same genre as far as I'm concerned, and I will not touch either with a barge pole! Slipknot aren't a band, they're a bloody circus!

Movies:

As long as it isn't Charlie's Angels I should be okay. Films of that nature make me feel like I've wasted a couple of hours of my life. I enjoy foreign films, horror, comedy and animation.

Books:

I like many different genres, though murder mysteries tend to go down well with me. I don't have much (or any) time to read for 'pleasure' as University reading lists tend to dominate this part of my life sadly. The last thing I read was 'The Interpretation of Deams' by Sigmund Freud, which I actually thought was pretty interesting.

Heroes:

I wouldn't say I have heroes, but I greatly admire the voices of Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) and Lord Worm (ex Cryptopsy) in particular.

My Blog

A nice new page!

I just felt like a change! I'd had enough of that black background and the little picture of Cryptopsy (which loaded up once in a blue moon) and wanted something livelier! Keep of Kalessin have b...
Posted by Oliver on Sat, 26 May 2007 12:39:00 PST

Time for a new song.

After quite a few months of 'Adeste Infidelis', I thought it was probably time for a change. Hopefully Keep of Kalessin will be appreciated by all; they're fan-bloody-tastic anyway, so you should all ...
Posted by Oliver on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:05:00 PST

The best of 2006

I enjoyed writing my top 10 albums last year for www.live4metal.com and so I decided I'd do it again here on My Space. This time I've extended it somewhat, so it covers some of my life rath...
Posted by Oliver on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:29:00 PST

What in God's name is going on?!?!

I've just read on Blabbermouth that Bullet for my (goddamn awful!!!) Valentine are playing at Wacken 2007! What in God's name is going on!!?!?! I thought Soulfly last year was bad enough, but th...
Posted by Oliver on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:14:00 PST

I'm on another DVD!

The Aborted DVD arrived on Monday, and I went straight to the bonus material and the Wacken 2006 footage. Hehe, I was pleased to see myself in a really brief clip during 'The Inertia'. Yay, go me...
Posted by Oliver on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:19:00 PST

Aborted :'(

Nooo!!!! Giles and Olivia have left Aborted!! (enter crying smilie here) Oh, and they were such good band members...*sigh*
Posted by Oliver on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:03:00 PST

Belphegor!!

I'm sure Belphegor were supposed to be playing London soon. There was a tourdate announced wasn't there, unless I'm going completely mad? Will someone please explain what is going on? I want to ...
Posted by Oliver on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:41:00 PST

Finally some music!

I've finally put some music on my page! It does seem to be turning into a Cryptopsy shrine though which is very unintentional. Maybe I'll change the background soon, and have something a bit more...
Posted by Oliver on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:23:00 PST

Swooning over Black Metal bands

I've been browsing various Black Metal bands' my space pages, like Behemoth (well, theyre Death, but they wear corpse paint), Vesania, Keep of Kalessin and a few others, and have noticed a lot of...
Posted by Oliver on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:19:00 PST

Emperor playing in London!!!

This seems to be a pretty good place to start a blog. It's a perfect topic for raving about anyway! I found out this morning Emperor are playing the Astoria on October 28th! Seeing as I'm g...
Posted by Oliver on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:44:00 PST