Rambles about the wonderful world of wrestling.
I did a podcast for university on Aberdeen’s impressive start to the season. Now while I wouldn’t call it a masterpiece, I am kind of happy with it in an embarrassed kind of way, so feel free to give it a listen. Credit for the inventive title goes to Sean Douglass.
So Coppo and co have announced their final headliner, a special guest and a little something extra to please the internet trolls the cheeky buggers.
Marvel’s cinematic universe has taken on a life of it’s own and has introduced a whole new world of people to the fantastic comic books which have long captivated people across the world.  The latest entry to the canon comes in the shape of Thor: The Dark World the follow up to Thor and the third appearance of Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddlestone as the quarrelsome Asgardian brothers Thor and Loki.
Oh Mr Copping. After causing the Internet to explode with yesterday’s Download announcement, you only went and topped it this morning by announcing the second headliner and another special guest. Â Here’s my latest reaction to the Download announcements.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was a surprisingly touching and fun film that also had a big dollop of surreal weirdness.  It was also a surprise success so naturally we now have a sequel on our hands.  The rather boringly named Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 is that sequel and has seen most of the original cast return apart from Mr. T who has been replaced by Terry Crews as Eric Devereaux.
Festival season is up and running and while festivals like Bloodstock have been pulling out exciting line ups involving the returning Emperor and the always loved Megadeth Download have held off on letting the cat out of the bag on their headliners for next summer.  That is until today, when Andy Copping and co have decided to let the first of said cats out of said bag and let the world know exactly who they can expect to see when they are set up in that beautiful field down Donnington way.
Huntress were shot into the metal world’s attention with their very solid debut album Spell Eater, which took elements of trad metal and thrash and mixed it with very occult lyrics and the incredible voice of Jill Janus.  They’re now back only a year later with their second album Starbound Beast, which has presumably been pushed out in order to capitalise on that publicity.
This is a bit late but I’ve had a busy week.  With WWE going through a PPV heavy period we had Hell in a Cell last weekend.  Once again this is obviously full of spoilers so don’t read it if you don’t want to know (although I imagine by now everyone is aware of the results) and definitely don’t bother it if you don’t like wrestling.
When the Djeent scene exploded a few years back TesseracT were quickly pinpointed as MVPs.  Their brand of progressive metal is more intelligent, and better crafted, than nearly anything on the market at the moment and their second album Altered State will be looking to expand upon their already lofty reputation.  It features Ashe O’Hara on vocals for the first time and is also their first release to feature entirely clean vocals.
