random photos - europe 2016 (the tranqulity and not so peaceful moments) - foto itik, foto bilik rumah orang aku sewa, dan sebagainya.

Hello All..
Today, lets just look at some random photos of my rocking europe 2016.
I wish I can blog in detail next time, hopefully next time...

But for now.. random photos..

Donington Park Download Festival SECOND STAGE.
BREAKING BENJAMIN is playing. They are good, I like this band.

Boleh nampak platform tinggi tu, tu untuk OKU, orang cacat, buta, pakai kerusi roda, apa je la dan sebagainya...
Walaupun Download Festival Donington Park memang kena cemuh dan asyik kena kutuk je cara organasasinya, tapi tetap festival muzik di Eropah dah sampai tahap tinggi ni semua untuk semua peminat muzik.

Kalau HELLFEST, tak payah berbual ok, sapa pakai wheelchair, kerusi roda, betul2 bawak kaki TSUJDER, bawah kaki IMPIETY, bawah kaki Destroyer 666, waktu dorang main....
paling depan kat kaki pentas LOL!! 

Sorry i realise below photo not fully uploaded. Will repair it soon. LoL.

AIRBNB moments...

I was always lucky with AIRBNB.. Basically I get the whole house usually.. LOL!!

Ni tempat bilik aku tidur kat rumah orang, ni yang kat Derby, aku pakai sistem airbnb pasal aku boleh dapat harga2 murah...
selalunya, end up, aku dapat konker bilik air, dan dapur dan sebagainya...
tapi aku mainkan peranan, sebagai seorang yang datang tumpang tidur, sopan santun dan jaga rumah elok2...
dan selalunya, tuan rumah terus alrite je apa hal pun...
dan langsung tak nampak muka sapa2 pun lepas hari pertama aku jumpa tuan rumah ambik kunci rumah.

Derby moments... DUCKS and PEACE AND TRANQULITY BEFORE THE CRAZY RAINS AND HORROR MUDDY SWAMPS OF DONINGTON

This is the scene of Nightwish playing....

This is when I am a bit late as I went to watch Electric Wizard and GOJIRA plays in stage 3 far far away walking distance... LOL!!!

NO DENYING, NIGHTWISH HAS LOTS OF FANS.


LUMPUR YANG SANGAT GILER, bayangkan air lumpur semua turun mengalir pergi bahagian depan pasal Donington Park ialah bukit2 gitu, dahsyat...


ELECTRIC WIZARD AND GOJIRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two different worlds completely these bands, but both are so rocking... and they have certainly lots of fans in stage 3 of Download Festival 2016.

SOME RAIL PHOTOS IN GERMANY...

Oberwesel this one....  I need to change trains in here or was it another station I forgotten, from Franfurt to Sank Goar to see Ritchie Blackmore Rainbow plays in Lorelei...

I have a wonderful 4 nights stay in the small town/village of Sank Goar facing the Rhine River.

SANKT GOAR from hilltop.

Kat Sankt Goar pun aku duduk tumpang kat rumah orang gitu...

Dan lagi sekali, bilik air, siap dapur.. AKU PAKAI SORANG... 

Kalau nak masak ke hapa ke, sila bawak sabun sertu..


MEGADETH IN DONINGTON,

Megadeth, in the last minute was given permission by the Promoter to play an extra song.

WHAT EXTRA SONG THEY PLAYED??

THEY CALLED UP NIKKI SIXX ON STAGE TO PLAY ANARCHY IN UK..

A nice rare moment to be there and see them do this. LOL!!

And Dave Mustaine give TRIPLE H the WWE star some Lemmy Award..

Waiting for the owner of the house that I rented a small room to sleep in to arrive in Derby.

OK last saje nak cakap...

betapa pun rock omputeh cam aku cakap kat atas ni semua...

ROCK MELAYU TETAP DI HATI....

Cant resist to paste this photo in my blog...


These are fellow RAINBOW fans who were taking the ferry to Sankt Goarhausen as we have to cross RHINE RIVER from Sankt Goar,
to go to Loreley..

To be continued...

I hope wih a proper post next time...

Rojak Post - Kerrang's Maiden Heaven Vol 2 Tribute Album, Thomas Zwijsen's Preserved In Time, and a bits more photos of Rockin Europe 2016 TRAVELLING EXPLORING photos..

Hi All.
As usual a mix-mashed post.

A detour from my rockin europe backpacking trip travellog as I have not resized the photos to ones that can be uploaded easily..


I want to review and give my opinion on

- the new Kerrang's Maiden Heaven Vol 2 ALL-STAR TRIBUTE to Iron Maiden which was found on the Kerrang Magazine Download Festival Preview Issue which is also their 35 Years Anniversary Issue with lots of Maiden of course (maybe next time I show the articles) 

- and the new double cd of Thomas Zwijsen Nylon Maiden's Preserved In Time.

I'll start in the Malay Language and proceed to English next.

I'll try keep it short, I am late for work.. Its bloody SUNDAY Evening, and I am going to work... LOL!!!

Selalunya aku seronok dengar cover versions lagu2 aku minat dipersembahkan orang lain.

Seronok kalau lagu lelaki tapi orang pompuan nyanyi balik, atau vice-versa.
Seronok kalau lagu heavy dan bising jadi lagu senyap dan sayup2.
Satu yang ditunggu ialah seronok sangat setiap kali Paradise Lost buat cover version lagu2 pop dan electronics.

Iron Maiden nye covers, ada la jugak banyak jugak cd2 album2 cover versions dari merata tempat aku kumpul terutama zaman 90an dan awal 2000an nye rilis.

Untuk Iron Maiden, aku suka dengar cover versions yang lari jauh dari asal.
Dari heavy jadi pop.
Kalau yang buat FAITHFULLY kat original, aku takde masalah, tapi lagi lagu2 tu ditributekan ke tahap extreme ke Utara, atau arah Selatan, lagi aku suka...

Aku jugak suka, band2 buat tribute versions kalau lagu2 baru...
Penat dan boring la, kalau lagu2 80an dan 90an sekalipun...

Kerrang Vol 2 Tribute kat Maiden ni memang dah lama tunggu, rasanya VOL 1 ialah 10 tahun dahulu??
Yang ada Metallica tu?

Untuk Vol 2, korang try dengar TRIVIUM nye cover. TRIVIUM sangat terbaik... Aku ada link kat bawah contoh2 sikit dari album2 ni...


OK yang Thomas Zwijsen ni, memang terbaik... aku suka... Tengok la aku link dari youtube sikit2 apa ada kat album terbaru Nylon Maiden dia,
k tu je la...
Take care semua...
STAY HEAVY K.


KERRANG Maiden Heaven Vol 2 An All Star Tribute To Iron Maiden which comes on the very nice issue of 35 Years of Kerrang.

I dont read Kerrang anymore, but this issue reminds of why KERRANG used to be such a most important HEAVY METAL and HARD ROCK latest reference. Lol.

THAT IS A CAKE... THAT EDDIE IS A CAKE!!!!!!!!

For Me,
Tribute Albums to Iron Maiden...

I really like if

The tribute is played to either side of the extremes,

I dont mind if the covers are played faithfully to the originals, but I prefer if
the songs are tributed in a completely different way...

and I would rather have covers from the latter era of Maiden, and not the same old 80s/90s songs tribute.
Kerrang really did well,
some post2000 songs got covered for this wonderful release.

Enjoy..

These are the more unusual ones,

I like the girl singer song on Wickerman... Muncie Girls??

A bit of change of lyrics..

Brother - Brother part changed to...

Daughter and their mothers...








And at the other end of the other extreme..



a ROUSING version of Powerslave by Anaal Nathrakh


Next is..

the simply beautiful and sometimes haunting melodies of THOMAS ZWIJSEN NYLON MAIDEN new DOUBLE CD of IRON MAIDEN (and two Bruce Dickinson solo tunes) songs...

So on this album you not only have the amazing JERUSALEM and tears of the dragon,
you also have Burning Ambition among others..

amazing..

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One of my favourite songs from the X Factor. This is a great live version from Thomas Zwijsen and Blaze himself.



Like I say above, I most like it to hear interpretations by other musicians on newer Iron Maiden songs.
Thomas Zwijsen is always UP TO DATE. LOL!!

This is simply another haunting version of an already haunting song...





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Last but not least, I hope to upload some photos I took while backpacking to the Rhine River territory in Germany to watch Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow play in Loreley.

Here are some of the photos I took while exploring some portions of the Rhine River.
I stayed at Sankt Goar,
and exploring by boat along the FEARSOME Rhine River...
I ended up at the amazingly beautiful Rudesheim.

THIS IS WHAT I DISCOVERED tuck away AT ONE OF THE LANES OF RUDESHEIM..

A seriously shocking discovery of a TORTURE MUSEUM which is simply mind-boggling.

I will try to create a post on this Folter Museum next time.

I TOOK A PHOTO OF EVERY EXHIBIT POSSIBLE. LOL!!!

TO BE CONTINUED...

Some Amazing Pro-Shots Videos of Iron Maiden in Donington 2016 are broadcasted on British Television. Hurry before YOUTUBE remove all of these few songs. LOL!!

Firstly in Malay Language
Secondly all the videos, before youtube brings them down again
Thirdly a round up in English Language.

Untuk sapa tak tahu, "PRO-SHOT" pertama untuk Tour Book Of Soul 2016 dah ditayangkan kat salah satu cenel di England, aku tak tahu BBC ke hapa ntah.
Empat lagu dari persembahan Iron Maiden di Donington Park sebagai headliners hari Ahad 12/06/2016 dan jugak band penutup bagi Festival Download 2016. 
Lagu2 tersebut ialah Speed Of Light, Children Of The Damned, Blood Brothers dan Book Of Soul.
YOUTUBE nampaknya sentiasa menurunkan apa yang diupload pemnat jadi video2 ni mungkin tak lama jugak.

Walaupun Bruce umum 85,000 peminat sewaktu Maiden main, tapi aku rasa konfem beribu2 peminat yang punya tiket tak dapat tengok Maiden pasal jam teruk kat jalan2 menuju Donington, dan jugak pasal hujan tak berhenti, lumpur sangat teruk, dah banjir lumpur, banjir tanah liat,
maka ramai jugak terpaksa balik kerana tempat perkhemahan mereka semua runtuh... Memang dahsyat.

Aku sendiri terpaksa buang boot Caterpillar aku, seluar aku semua lepas je hari terakhir Donington tahun ini. Pergi Primarks dan beli kasut kembes murah untuk teruskan backpacking ke Jerman untuk tengok Rainbow main pulak.

Walaupun Iron Maiden kena lahar teruk2 pasal arahan mereka, bila Iron Maiden main, semua pentas lain kena shutdown. Takde band lain boleh beraksi. Jadi ni dah kira tak adil kepada mereka yang ada tiket festival tapi tak mau tengok Iron Maiden beraksi dan oleh kerana Iron Maiden beraksi malam terakhir jadi maknanya kalau sapa tak mau tengok Iron Maiden maknanya festival muzik ini bagi mereka tamat pukul 8malam. Pasal kul 8.30PM gitu Iron Maiden mula beraksi dan waktu tu semua pentas lain dah kena tutup, semua band dah kena berhenti main.

SANGAT TAK ADIL KAN APA ARAHAN IRON MAIDEN KEPADA PENGANJUR?? Untuk aku ni sangat tak adil kepada peminat2 muzik yang ada tiket festival dan berhak untuk enjoy band2 lain, tapi tu la keras kepala dan degil dan suka tok nenek Iron Maiden buat arahan begini.

Tapi ada baik nya, kerana hari Sabtu Black Sabbath beraksi pentas pertama, mungkin ada 70,000 menonton dan mereka yang kat belakang sekali melaporkan sound bunyi bocor boleh dengar dari pentas kedua walaupun jarah jauh.

Aku pernah alami sound bocor dari pentas ke pentas kat Hellfest, dan tu memang sangat rasa PUAKA bila ni terjadi, tapi berbanding HELLFEST, Donington Park lagi besar giler la kan size dia pada aku.
Dan Hellfest pentas pertama dan pentas kedua ialah sebelah2, sedang Donington Pentas pertama pergi pentas kedua jauh giler lagi keadaan berlumpur dan berbukit berlereng gitu.

Aku speku, kalau Iron M aiden akan keluarkan dvd/blueray/live album rasmi untuk tour 2016 ni,
aku speku dorang mungkin akan pakai rakaman kamera2 Donington ni, atau Wacken nanti malam terakhir tour 2016 mereka, pasal aku tak rasa ada mana2 show Iron Maiden lain yang dorang bawak berbelas2 kamera, jadi mungkin mereka akan gunakan kamera2 festival2 muzik besar yang sedia ada.
Dan jugak Download Festival persembahan dorang memang dahsyat, sila tengok Book Of Soul nye persembahan kat bawah.. sangat terbaik dari Bruce dan semua anggota band kat lagu ni.


Children Of The Damned - Beautiful video isnt it? Makes all the seriously flooding muddy fields and non stop rain and horrible disaster conditions worth it for me for my Donington 2016 backpacking trip.





Speed Of Light -




Book Of Soul
(Eddie Appeared starting 06:40minutes,
scratching his ass/backside.
scratching his private parts in public.
giving the middle finger to the audience
HOW RUDE!!!  LOL!!)




So could footage from Donington Download Festival 2016 be the official live DVD/BlueRay/Live Album?
Maiden played a blinder that night, an example as can be seen during the song Book Of Soul above,

When I view these videos a few times, I realised how brilliant they were that night, so I vote this performance as to be an official release. LOL!!

So it could probably be, with Youtube keep removing all the uploads of the FOUR SONGS available since the British TV Channel broadcast of footages from Download Festival 2016.

Now in Youtube there is only 3, fortunately good quality uploads, but I cannot find the Pro-Shot of Blood Brothers.

So enjoy, a horrible horrible weekend, the trouble begins from Friday about 3pm till all the way to Sunday night with non stop rains, and muddy disaster zone environment.

And Sunday with lots of great bands, and Maiden headlining, I think there are over demands of Day-Tickets for Sunday which cause so much chaos in traffic and human flow to Donington.

Bruce says 85,000 but surely thousands cannot make it due to traffic jams, and floodings of mud waters which destroys some camping setups of fans.
I myself threw away my boots and pants after Sunday night. LOL!!!


So enjoy these videos if you have not seen them. I AM THERE SOMEWHERE IN THE CROWD!!! LOL!!!

Donington is a special place , a dream for me since I hear/read/listen to tapes of great bands playing there of it as a little boy till now I can backpack to this special place.
I thought, I will be going to Donington only once, due to the horrible conditions of English Weather in the open environment for the weekend
but here I am returning again,
so I am not surprised few years down the road, when Iron Maiden plays their final Donington ever, I will be there again.

Eid Fitr Greetings, end of Ramadhan & some new Iron Maiden related mags & cds incoming last few weeks

Aloha Everyone.. this time around a bit ""terbalik"" upside down, in English language first before I close this post in Malay language.

Lets get the Heaviness side of things out of the way first...

Some new incoming Iron Maiden related stuffs both Magazines and CDs I obtained for past few weeks.

Some of the above are 

-1) the Kerrang Magazines Issue before the weekend of Donington Park Download Festival with all the build up excitments write-ups...

-2) the Kerrang Magazine Issue just after the weekend of Donington with the reviews and photos.

-3) The Iron Maiden Fan Club Magazine Number 102. Super thick and all colour and great stories, interviews and photos as usual.

-4) The MAIDEN HEAVEN TRIBUTE CD VOLUME 2 which comes with the after Donington Kerrang issue.

About 15 songs being played by newer bands and established ones like Trivium. No.. No Metallica this time around LOL!!!

-5) The beautiful amazing thrilling NYLON MAIDEN Preserved In Time double CD, by Thomas Zwijsen. I got it as a pre-order way before hand. 

Will reviews all these sooner or later. I hope... I have even write up on IMFC magazines 100 and 101 yet. LOL!!!!

Thats about it...

As I am writting this, the holy month of Ramadhan is just about 24 hours left.

It is an experience for me this year, as I got to experience Ramadhan while backpacking Europe to catch ACDC, Sabbath, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Nightwish, Electric Wizard, RAINBOW, and lots more....

Its a fucked-up feeling knowing that many of the terror and tragedies of the innocent are laced with the Muslim and Islam name. Especially so in the most holiest of Islamic Calender Month.

Whatever it is, only God knows whose hands are behind all these. 

Maybe we wont know who they are in this world, but on Judgement Day.. We surely will.

But I wish the world will be a better place.

So... Happy Celebrating the arrival of Syawal, and bid sadness goodbye to Ramadhan, and hope our love ones got to live to see it next year.

Thats all...

Salam Semua,

Untuk Jauh, Untuk Dekat, 

Selamat Menyambut Bulan Syawal lagi sikit lebih kurang 24 jam.

Selamat Mengucapkan Selamat Tinggal kepada Bulan Ramadhan, semoga ahli keluarga kita, sahabat2 kita baik real life atau cyber world, semua umur panjang, dapat jumpa lagi Ramadhan tahun depan,

Macam siol kan? Bangladesh kena, Istanbul kena, Puchong kena... ni on top of the ruckus yang biasa2 kat seluruh dunia.

Abis tu nama Islam dan Orang2 Muslim jugak kena taik.

Sapa yang calit taik tu, lebih penting... SAPA OTAK BERGELIGA yang calit taik tu??

Mungkin kita tak tahu dunia ni, tapi Allah tahu. 

Dan untuk mereka yang senang kena bubble, kena buih buat itu buat ini, jadi itu jadi ini, semoga mendapat kesedaran..

Cehhhh... Korang jangan lahar aku, jangan cakap aku YO-YO-OH nak berbual macam bagus je kan benda2 ni semua... padahal aku la chief Setan.

Aku tahu sapa aku....    Sua terang lagi bersuluh. Tapi ye la, selagi aku tak mampos lagi... sapa korang untuk menafikan hak aku untuk berbuat dan berfikir baik, walaupun sebesar kuman.

Anyway....  Thats about it, Selamat Hari Raya Puasa..  Selamat Menyambut Aidil-Fitri..

Baik korang menyambut nye dengan macam pesta ramai2 berpuluh2 beratus2 ahli keluarga dan beribu2 kawan riang ketawa gelak ria....

atau korang sambut sorang2... dalam keadaan paling PATHETIC.. 

Tu semua tak penting...

Yang penting hanya hati korang dengan Allah je, dan Nabi Muhammad kalau korang selawat kat atas dia then of course, kena konfiden Nabi Muhammad akan dengar korang selawat la kan..

Pasal dalam dunia ni, tak pedulik apa Masyarakat pandang kat kita, apa taraf kita kat masyarakat...

paling penting kita kena konfiden when it comes to hubungan ngan Allah dan Rasul walaupun kita perangai seperti hardcore bala tentera Setan.

Jangan lahar aku ok.  Inilah pegangan aku.

Anyway aku baru perasan, ORANG MELAYU ADA WORD BARU UNTUK TUNJUK DAN BERLAWAN2 SAPA LAGI BERILMU DAN UNTUK MENDAPAT SANJUNGAN DAN PENGARUH.

Selain dari perkataan KAFIR dan DAYUS...

Aku perasan orang Melayu sekarang suka perkataan MUNAFIK. dan macam jadi trend label2 orang lain MUNAFIK.

Ni mungkin pasal tempias pilem wayang tu hari... 

Kira trendy la kan, nak tunjuk betapa Islam kita, kena pakai word KAFIR, DAYUS dan MUNAFIK kat orang lain..

Baru kita rasa kita hebat, dan mendapat sanjungan dari sekeliling manusia yang berebut nak sanjung pangkat kita, dan status kita dalam masyarakat.

WELL...  Masing2 la kan...... 

 Maaf Zahir Batin.