Chris & Claire Epting's Avenged Sevenfold "Save Me" Antarctica Tribute.

Chris & Claire Epting promised the Avenged Sevenfold family that if they won the trip to Antarctica they would produce a video along to Avenged Sevenfold's song "Save Me" and plant an Avenged Sevenfold flag into the icy continent. Fans voted, they won, and here's their final product.

Avenged Sevenfold's "Save Me" is copyrighted and licensed through Warner Brother records. I do not own this song.

"Brain Cheat"

 
Try your eyes focus on the + sign in the middle of the picture .. You have to look in the pink dots that died was replaced by green spheres, whereas the original is not the rolling green dots if our eyes do not focus to a + sign
What do you see? Yes, a background image with gray, pink spots surrounded by the dead one by one alternately clockwise
Now try to concentrate totally on the mark + concentration agan .. Really focus your concentration, do not consider anything else other than the + .. What happened?
Pink dots disappear!
Yes, buletan pink disappears, leaving only green bultean revolves around the + sign .. But the moment you concentrate dispersed, pink buletan going back again

Project Featuring Mikael Akerfeldt, Mike Portnoy, and Steven Wilson Has (Finally) Launched!

infusing all shades of rock into a “twisted” and “experimental” musical incarnation is a long-anticipated and newly embarked project – to feature Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson, Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt, as well as Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy. In a recent interview with Chordstruck Magazine, Wilson explained how the project is still “in [its] very early days,” as he is currently getting the concepts out and onto the paper, drafting the first few tunes with Akerfeldt. Thus far, both European progressive metal masterminds have churned out “15 minutes of music” in Wilson’s London studio.

Now, Akerfeldt, Wilson, and Portnoy – are dudes that keep themselves busy, dabbling in dissection with all types of music – exemplified by and ranging from the traditional death metal calls of Bloodbath’s Resurrection Through Carnage, through to the progressive, experimental tunes of records like Dream Theater’s When Dream and Day Unite, and Opeth’s My Arms, Your Hearse. Nonetheless, zooming in on the present and collaborative effort at hand, Portnoy added that, in spite of their more traceably progressive metal backgrounds, “people are going to be very surprised by the direction” – especially those who may spin the record with expectations of the “death-metal-progressive rock” feel. He assured readers of this, so too that “if you put the two of [both Wilson and Akerfeldt] together,” the “last thing [they’d] do is something similar to what people already known from our most high-profile project.” In short, they itch to innovate, forever avoiding that easier but all-too common path of writing music that is predictable, familiar, and perhaps more welcomed by their established fanbases.
Despite the fact that the duo (and soon to be, trio) intends to venture into the more “mellower” and less “prog” sonic realms, they have promised that their direction is “arty…ambitious,” and inevitably, “epic” – undoubtedly “dark” – a sure-fire way to hook listeners on the deliberate melodies and the introspective lyrics that gave both musicians a solid status in the musical world. They have walked into the studio’s with the intent of doing “something really, really special and really different” – a desire that they have kept in mind for years. Added Portnoy in a 2009 interview with Pyromusic.net, “the three of us each mentioned wanting to work with each other years ago, and since then it’s kind of been this rumor that won’t go away.” Rumor-turned reality? Not quite, as he also explained how the exponential “hype and anticipation” has ironically made them “hesitant” to go forward with the project. Perfectionists as they are, it’s due to the overwhelming reception from a record that has barely been drafted, to-date, that they feel the hype has “surpassed anything [they can] realistically deliver.”
As opposed to a more silent and understated entry of new music into the libraries and flowing from the headphones of music listeners, Portnoy attributed the excitement to the Internet, on which news and music getting “leaked” is an increasingly common phenomenon: often a source of bliss for beloved yet impatient fans, and a royal nuisance for bands (and their loving labels). He vehemently critiqued such “leaks” and the internet for too often “[opening] up [a] can of worms of discussion,” after which “people starting discussing and discussing and discussing and dissecting and anticipating…[building] up such a level of hype and expectation in their head that it’s impossible to ever satisfy.”
As far as expectations are concerned, Portnoy and Wilson wish to keep the project’s growth “under the lid,” but have promised that they “would love to work together” and get it all together, synthesizing a record that’s “different” as anything they’ve ever made but essentially, and perhaps most crucially, straight rockin.’

Mike Portnoy Out OF DREAM THEATER

Perhaps this is the most shocking news before the end of the year. Among lovers of prog very dihebohkan with Mike Portnoy's unilateral decision that choose retreat as DREAM THEATER drummer. Bands that have been built and raised his name in the last 25 years.
"Previously I never imagined this would happen. but after 25 years finally has a big decision I made to come out of DREAM THEATER. The band is I love, which had me a quarter of a century.
"Perhaps many people will be shocked by this news, but please understand the most important decisions I've made. It was a difficult decision but honestly this upheaval has been around since last year ... ..
"After last year more intense playing in several bands such as Hail!, Transatlantic and also AVENGED SEVENFOLD, to be honest I feel more pleasure and closeness with their current situation compared with DREAM THEATER.
"But please do not misunderstand I hate judging DREAM THEATER. I have a long story with a band and I love DREAM THEATER shot that name also comes from my father's gift. But I think I need a new atmosphere at least for a while now.
"There are also other feelings that DREAM THEATER I feel like I want to make the scheme out of the band and the decision I did to save personal relationships with other personnel to make DREAM THEATER remain full of inspiration.
"I'm sorry for all of fan of DREAM THEATER but please understand the situation now. Right now I just want a break from the band and it does not mean out completely, "said Mike Portnoy as quoted from the official records of temuat on facebook.
DREAM THEATER are major role models in the world of progressive metal scene. Formed in 1986 the band has rarely changed personnel and the release of Mike Portnoy became the third man who fled the original personnel where previously there vocalist and keyboardist Charles Dominici Kevin Moore. Practical living John Myung and John Petrucci who became the original members of this band.
Since forming in 1986, along with DREAM THEATER Mike Portnoy has released at least ten full albums including their debut "When Dream and Day Unite" in 1989 and "Black Cloud and Silver Linnings" in 2009.
Mike Portnoy, or whose real name is Michael Stephen Portnoy has won several major awards as the best drummer in several versions including 23-time winner of Modern Drummer Magazine. And men who have a blood descendant of these Jew born 20 April 1967.

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The Rev is in a

A great loss has been experienced by the band avenged sevenfold. In the midst of busy working on a new album for the year 2010, the best drummer had left the band and his fans forever. End year 2009 is the worst time for sevenfoldism across the world.Avenged sevenfold heartbeat like losing in the game musiknya.Tidak excessive if we call it the best. Perhaps there are many more great drummer from the rev, call it a super drummer Mike Portnoy with the complete or Travis Barker with his punk style. But not anyone can replace the rev in this sevenfoldism favorite band. His distinctive style with the style of the game super insane rev nobody could match. And another thing that makes him indispensable in this band is that he also often played the piano / keyboard and also contributed his voice. Things could not be done any other drummer.This has been a great loss for avenged sevenfold and his fans. Here's a picture of how much meaning the rev of a7x and all sevenfoldism in the world.
The Rev ... Adios amigo.Rest In Peace ....I Hope that you get a little piece of heaven ....

A great loss has been experienced by the band avenged sevenfold. In the midst of busy working on a new album for the year 2010, the best drummer had left the band and his fans forever. End year 2009 is the worst time for sevenfoldism across the world.

Avenged sevenfold heartbeat like losing in the game musiknya.Tidak excessive if we call it the best. Perhaps there are many more great drummer from the rev, call it a super drummer Mike Portnoy with the complete or Travis Barker with his punk style. But not anyone can replace the rev in this sevenfoldism favorite band. His distinctive style with the style of the game super insane rev nobody could match. And another thing that makes him indispensable in this band is that he also often played the piano / keyboard and also contributed his voice. Things could not be done any other drummer.
This has been a great loss for avenged sevenfold and his fans. Here's a picture of how much meaning the rev of a7x and all sevenfoldism in the world.

The Rev ... Adios amigo.
Rest In Peace ....
I Hope that you get a little piece of heaven ....