Are You Dead Yet? ~ Children of Bodom

This is a great album, the songs are intense!! Children of Bodom have the talent of creating hard core songs without loosing a varied melody. The instrumentals are technically awesome and have a sufficient range giving each song it's own flavour and unlike a lot of other artists I don't confuse one song with another. On this album I'd have to say that my preferred track is Are You Dead Yet? I've loved this song for quite some time and no matter how many time I listen to it it never gets old or repetitive. Next I guess would be Living Dead Beat... but honestly all the tracks are pretty good.

With Oden On Our Side- Amon Amarth

This band is my current favourite, because of the song Hermod's ride to Hel. It doesn't matter what mood I'm in, when i hear that song... it feels like i'm soaring inside. The awesomeness, it fills me. I love the instrumentals. sometimes I focus only one the instruments and block out the voices because they just... sing to me, for lack of better phrase :P but I also enjoy the vocals. as opposed to other, similar kinds of music, I find the vocals to be oddly clear... in a guttural sort of way (if you listen to death metal/ other guttural stuff, you'll know what I mean) its almost relaxing. But yes, Hermod's ride to Hel is my absolute favourite song right now, everything in that one clicks for me, but the other songs are good too. Great album

Surfing With The Alien ~ Joe Satriani

I really enjoy this album, it's amazing. The guitar's nuts. The songs are technically intense, and sometimes when this happens the quality of the song suffers so that the guitarist can show off their mad skills, not so much the case with this album. All of the songs have amazing range and melody and can be listened to by the average person as just really great songs, not only by guitar students marvelling at what this guy can do, which is pretty intense in it's own right, but I'm hardly the person to talk up this guy's skill. This is more of an up beat album, not madly energetic, but calmly up beat, if that makes sense. I'd have to say that my favourite songs would be surfing with the alien and lords of karma, but quite honestly all of the songs are amazingly well done