A sad day.

“Vedi, la vita devi lasciarla scorrere… In armonia, non devi fare troppo rumore e fissarti sulle cose che non servono… Lasciala girare!!”.

RIP Maestro.

The day I saw Neurosis.

Neurosis is not just a band.
At least for me.
For me Neurosis represents something more important and something more personal that just a band.
It is something that goes over the music.
There is a connection between me and their music.
Yesterday night I went to see them playing live for my first time and it made me really happy.
I met 3/5 of them and it made me really happy.
I could talk about the show now, but it was exactly as it was supposed to be.
What is important is that now I have seen Neurosis live, and my life is better.

Rise shining blank

Scars burn way down

It parts ways of the 

Serpent view cast

Stones where to stop

Calling you they all

Lower me to the ground

Stick him they all

Lower me to the soil

Stick him

Star reign down

On you

You'll starve

Bright star in the

Dripping sun

Writhe on saints

Steal from your actions

Step in right on it's

Function stick him

Star reign down

On you

You all lower me

Christ's shine blinds

Your world

Your belief is scars

The will to power

Ascension manifest

That which is above

Is as that which is below

Thy will be done

Thy kingdom come

On earth as it is in heaven

So mote it be

Here some picture:

 Look at this: I'm smiling! It's rare!

P.S.: a well deserved note for the opening band, Dispossessed. Angry and extremely politicised with the clear intent of spread their message about aboriginal people. They deserve all our support. Unfortunately, it's pretty rare to find something about them on-line

 Dispossessed

Listen to "Locust star" by Neurosis.

Top albums 2016

2016 is over (a pretty damn busy year for me).

A lot of of good albums. Here is my undisputed list (with no apparent order).

1) Neurosis "Fires within fires"

2) Hungry Like Rakovitz "Nevermind the light"

3) Ulcerate "Shrines of paralysis"

4) Whores "Gold"

5) Wormrot "Voices"

6) Cough "Still they pray"

7) Mike & The Melvins "Three men and a baby"

8) Venomous Concept "Kilck me silly"

9) Zeit "Monument"

10) Nick & The Bed Seeds "Skeleton key"

11) Ihsahn "Arktis"

12) Meshuggah "The violent sleep of reason"

Listen to all of them.

Extinction.

Extinction is forever.

Donate & support:

www.wwf.org

www.seashepherd.org

www.greenpeace.org

Listen to "Countdown to extinction" by Megadeth.

Baroness live report!

Finally! Finally I saw Baroness live!

I missed them twice back in Dallas and I have had to cross the ocean and the equator to see them live... But I finally did it.

The opening band was Grieg, from Brisbane. I didn't know them, and I'm happy that I had the opportunity: I really liked them and their show, so support the scene and buy the new album (here).

Then it was Baroness time. Technically perfect, with a good selection of songs from the Red, the Blue, the Yellow & Green, and the Purple album (maybe too many from the Purple album, which is not my favourite, or maybe I haven't well assimilated yet). Anyway, great show, full of energy and sweat (and one farting dude).

Here a couple of pictures from the show:

Note: because I'm old, no more head banging, but only groovy bop.

Note number two: am I the only one who recognised Nick Jost before the show?

Listen to the Yellow & Green album from Baroness.

Deftones + Karnivool live report!

...just a couple of quick words for my first metal gig down under (2 days ago): Deftones + Karnivool + The voyager (who????).

The Voyager: boring to me, not my kind of music. I laid down on the grass sipping beers.

Karnivool: perfect. Like listen straight from the CD. Amazingly prepared (meh.). They played a new song: new album soon? Hopefully.

Deftones: not from this planet. Everything is on Chino' shoulder, and he knows that and he loves it. A lot of moshpit, a lot of fun, a lot of songs. Great!

Two comment about the Australian metalheads: 1) they watch and listen not through their phone and they enjoy the show. How about that americans? 2) They love weed. A lot.

The end.
Kill yourself now.

Listen to Deftones and/or Karnivool.

100 reasons of why being a metalhead is awesome and you suck.

1. Because is the best music ever
2. Because you don't have idea of what's going on in my head while I'm listening to Brutal Truth
3. Because of Burzum and the smell of fire
4. Because sometimes we don't have anything else left
5. Because we learn thousand of names/bands/songs and we brag about it
6. Because of the distortion
7. Because the sound is like a solid wall of concrete
8. Because of the continue search for bands, sounds, etc.
9. Because sometimes it's the only thing we can hold on
10. Because of the people
11. Because of the live
12. Because of Master of puppets, Reign in Blood, Aenima, etc
13. Because of the moshpit
14. Because life is shit and then you die, and it's ok and we have a soundtrack for that
15. Because we ate proud
16. Because of the hours spent to read the lyrics
17. Because we are disgusting, and we love it
18. Because fuck you, that's why
19. Because of the t-shirt
20. Because of the cold, the dark and the winter
21. Because of DIY
22. Because at some point we all ran away from home for a concert
23. Because we are freaks
24. Because we like punk as well
25. Because of Manowar
26. Because of Manowar' fans
27. Because of the never ending search of music
28. Because there is more culture, quality, knowledge and work in a Iron Maiden' chord that in the entire life of the fuckin' Rihanna
29. Because sometime we just want to be nasty
30. Because sometime we just want to be ugly
31. Because sometime we just want to be evil
32. Because of the Cannibal Corpse album cover/t-shirt
33. Because of the anger
34. Because Phil Anselmo is our uncle
35. Because James Hatfield is our step-dad
36. Because we pretend to know German, Norwegian, Finnish and dead languages
37. Because there is melody in the noise
38. Because we all still remember Cliff Burton, Dime and Chuck Schuldiner
39. Because of the thrash, the beers and the weed
40. Because ignorants call it "noise"
41. Because of the chiodo
42. Because we learn literature/science/things
43. Because "I don't like Black Sabbath..." "Die motherfucker, die!"
44. Because of the ballad
45. Because of the tape-trading
46. Because of the indecent and obscene volumes
47. Because is a stress relief better than meditation
48. Because for most of us it is our only and real English teacher
49. Because we care a lot
50. Because Metallica vs. Megadeth
51. Because of the fanzines
52. Because metal is just classical music on steroid
53. Because of the compilation on tape
54. Because is a state of mind
55. Because we don't care
56. Because play an instrument is cool
57. Because antaa tulla tanne vaan, Suomi Finland perkele
58. Because with Eyehategod, heroin sounds ok
59. Because of the hours spent in the record stores
60. Because fuck authorities, fuck the laws and fuck the rules
61. Because we got lost in the album covers
62. Because "What a fuck is this noise?!" yelled by our parents
63. Because we still have hope in TooL and their new album
64. Because speed is good and faster is even better
65. Because of the drop B tuning
66. (6) Because of the Beast
67. Because of the discomfort
68. Because we support the scene
69. Because some metalheads are stubborn and dumb like a rock
70. Because of the air-guitar
71. Because sometimes we get lost in the songs
72. Because we are unite
73. Because we like also other types of music and we are open minded (sometimes)
74. Because god hates us all
75. Because there is no god, and we know it
76. Because we have a lot of nice song for every occasion
77. Because of the trve
78. Because of the poser
79. Because we like brutal things
80. Because of the demos and the bootlegs
81. Because it's so much more than just music
82. Because the "I grew up and I don't listen to that shit anymore" people are ridiculous
83. Because of the headbang
84. Because is great, indipendently on your mood
85. Because we can change and evolve, but we will never forget our roots
86. Because we are mostly outcasts
87. Becuase metal up your ass
88. Because of the growl, the scream and everything in between
89. Because we are good persons after all
90. Because of the passion
91. Because sometimes is not even music, but just noise, but is cool anyway
92. Because of the loyalty to some bands
93. Because some songs stick forever and some of them leave a scar
94. Because they blame us almost all the time
95. Because of the black clothes in summer
96. Because we are fun and we have fun
97. Because of the hair
98. Because we are not pretty and beautiful and nice and cool and smart as you are
99. Because of Odin and all the legends from the North
100. Because, finally, we don't give a fuck of what you think

Listen to "Decade of aggression", by Slayer. The best live album ever created since the discovery of music.

Good tunes to make your ears bleed.

A must-listen list (something new, something old, something who cares):

1) Neurosis "Fires within fires".

2) Wormrot "Voices": grindcore flirting with black metal.

3) Whores "Gold": never enough.

4) Zeit "Monument": an italian spoon of cement.

5) Baroness "Purple album": it takes time.

6) Nick Cave and the bad seeds "Skeleton tree": deep and hollow and black.

7) Meshuggah "The violent sleep of reason": pachydermic.

8) Tool "Aenima": it was its birthday 2 days ago (20 years old).

...btw, 4 years ago today I met Mike Patton.

...see?

Listen to "Cougars, not kittens" by Whores.

Whales.

This weekend I was frolicking into the ocean and I saw several whales doing whales-related business.
It was the first time for me.
Such a great animal. 



Listen to "Seabeast" by Mastodon.

Jupiter's pole.

Juno has just sent us pictures of Jupiter's pole.

Click here for the news.

NASA says "Jupiter's north pole unlike anything encountered in the solar system".

Cool.

Listen to "When Good Dogs Do Bad Things", by The Dillinger Escape Plan (ft. Mike Patton)

The hypnotising fingering of Steve Harris...

...it sounds weird, but it's true.

After 30 and more years, I am still impressed by his technique, precision and style.

Steve Harris inspired me 20 years ago when I decided to play bass.

Listen to everything from Iron Maiden.

Trilobites and co.

...aren't they cute?
Long story short: I love dinosaurs and fossils, and I've been lucky enough to live in an area in Italy with a lot of fossils, and I was collecting them since I was a kid.
I still love them, of course.

Hug a dinosaur.



Listen to "The reptilian brain", by Intronaut.

I'm in the news...

Because is never too late to brag a little bit... Click here and share!
(in case you've missed it, I'm talking about this)




Listen to "Le brigate della morte", by DSA Commando

W40K

"We are the Ultramarines, the sons of Guilliman. Whilst we draw breath, we stand. Whilst we stand, we fight. Whilst we fight, we prevail. Nothing shall stay our wrath."

Marneus Calgar

































































...eheheheh an old passion lives again.
Stay tuned...



Listen to "Massive killing capacity" from Dismember.

100 Km down under!

Yep, it's time for another race report.

...because I might not have time for doing too many other things since I've just moved to the other side of the world, but I have time to run ultras.

Specifically: ultra number 14, River Run 100 in the middle of Brisbane. A nice strolling along the river, stretched for 100 km. Actually, 102.78 km.

It was my second ultra on pavement and not on trail, and it was nice (I miss trails though!!!!!).

I had two options: run a 5 km loop or a 10 km loop.

Since the 10 km loop wasn't allowed until dawn, and since I started to run at 11:40pm, I didn't have too much choices: run like a hamster on the 5 km loop.

...and it turned out to be the right choice: the 10 km loop really sucked. I ran it 2 times (for the 60-70 km) and for the 75-85 km) and it was terrible.

Anyway, I had a nice race: I finished in 11 hours, 29 minutes and 57 seconds. I have improved my PR on the 100 km distance of about 10 hours (ah!), but honestly, the Habanero was totally a different thing...
I ran all night and I saw a lot of cute australian possums, that are really different from the possums in the States: they look like little cute monkeys.

I'm happy to see that my time for the 50 km is now constantly around the 4 hours (a little bit less), and I wonder what could I do in a 50 km race (it's long time since I've run a 50 km race)... Also, I had a very good pace up to the 80 km (50 miles, for the purist), running 80 km in about 8 hours, confirming what I did last time.

Anyway, long story short, it was a nice race. A nice introduction to ultras here in Australia.

Finally, a very big special thanks for all the support received from my personal pacer/care-taker/fan#1.

That's it.

Run ultras, eat vegetables and worship Satan.

Here some picture from the race:

Done.

Ramen <3

Soaking and napping at the same time.

Edit: I forgot to mention an important fact. During the first 2-3 hours of running, those stupids Pokemon Go players were all over the places, and running was actually challenging. Those mindless idiots were indeed too busy to catch imaginary creatures and they were not paying attention to the real world around them. Moreover, because of their stupid game, the signal of my GPS was constantly dropping down because the poor satellite was too busy with those zombies... Natural selection should do its course: get rid of those weak 30ish year old fuckers...

Listen to "In the end of life", by Obituary.

I'm still alive.

I'm still alive.

I moved to the other side of the equator.

Peace and hug eucalyptus.

Listen to "Killing in the name of", by RATM.

A couple of good albums and some other random thoughts about music...

Here a couple of good albums. Buy them. Support the scene.

1) "Nevermind the light" by Hungry Like Rakovitz. I love these guys. 100% italic passion and chaos. A frontal assault of grindcore and black metal. Click here and buy the album.

You can get it for free, but don't be cheap and support them. They really fucking deserve your money: spread their filth all over the world.

2) "Still they pray" by Cough. Discomfort with harmony. Listen to "The wounding hours". Not as sick as I was expecting, but they nailed it.

Random shit and whatnot:

...today "Angel dust" is 24 years old. Happy birthday.

...I want to go back to vinyl.

...so I need a turntable, but 8,000$ for a McIntosh is a little bit too much.

...since I saw them live, I am completely under the Melvins.

...I'm wearing my "Mike Patton for president" t-shirt and I'm happy.

That's it. Stay brutal.

1.78783747e-10 Parsec

...which is 5516.69 km, but in Parsec is cooler.

This is how much I ran during my "run year 2015-2016", that it goes from June 1 to May 31.

It's about 400 km longer than last year.

Nothing to brag about, just pure statistic.

End of the story.

Listen to "Irreligious" by Moonspell. 20 years old, but still able to give me goose bumps.

New paper!

I have published a new paper!

This is what I've been doing in the last 3-4 years...

A lot of sweat, blood and anger...

...but now is out.

I could talk/write for hours, but I won't: one day maybe I will talk about all this Science-business.

Not now. Anyway, I don't think it will change the perception that people have about Science, and there will be always some _______ (insert here you favorite adjective) complaining about it or start some stupid crusade based on nothing (like the anti-vax lately)...

Peace.

Listen to "Your achievement", by Napalm Death.

Rust in peace Nick.

When I woke up yesterday, the first news I read was about the death of former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza.

Terrible news.

I grow up with his songs.

Rust in peace Nick.

I will never forget this show.

Listen to "Rust in peace", by Megadeth.