John Baizley of Baroness @ 2017 Copenhell

@COPENHELL #copenhell @YourBaroness

I’m 90-something percent sure that I will be back for 2018 Copenhell. No bands have been announced yet. I wish Baroness could be there again, but Copenhell doesn’t invite the same band in back-to-back years. Hopefully, as far as the lineup goes, the headliners are better in 2018. Slayer and System of a Down were great, but Prophets of Rage, Five Finger Death Punch, and Rob Zombie are not my cup of tea.

If I could pick three headliners for 2018 they would be: Iron Maiden, Rammstein, and Mastodon. Other bands I’d love to see at 2018 Copenhell, in no particular order, include: Aosoth, Diamond Head, Nervosa, UFOMAMMUT, Exodus, Devin Townsend, Possessed, SUMAC, Enslaved, Kreator, Watain, Accept, King Diamond, Yob, Death Angel, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Pentagram, Satyricon, KAMPFAR, Cradle of Filth, Russian Circles, Wolves in the Throne Room, Coroner, Sodom, Neurosis, and Swans. Exceptions to the “no consecutive years rule” are occasionally made for local bands. If so, please have Slægt play again.

October 23rd, 2017 | Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.8G lens, baroness, concert photography, copenhell, metal, Nikon D750 | Category: Denmark | Comments Off on Metal Monday

Jizo and the hebi

This (2017) is not the year of the snake, or the horse, but this photo was my random, desktop image of the day. These guardian deities, and I’m guessing there were twelve, each had one of the zodiac animals with them. The blurry one to the far right probably had a sheep.

2017 is the year of the rooster. The next year of the snake will be 2025.

October 21st, 2017 | Tags: buddhist, Daishoin 大聖院, jizo, miyajima, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600 | Category: Japan | Comments Off on Guardian Deities

Max Kolesne

Moyses Kolesne

October 20th, 2017 | Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.8G lens, concert photography, gefle metal festival, krisiun, metal, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED Lens, Nikon D750, sunstar | Category: Other | Comments Off on Krisiun @ Gefle Metal Festival

When I was in the airport on my way to Scandinavia last summer I noticed that someone had left The Girl in the Spider’s Web at the gate. I picked it up and started reading. A few weeks later I found myself in several of the exact locations mentioned in the book when I visited Stockholm.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web is the fourth book in the Millennium series so I went back and read book one (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) when I got back to the USA in August. Currently I’m reading book two (The Girl Who Played with Fire).

During my reading a couple nights ago, a scene is described in which Lisbeth Salander is chased up a hill in a park-like setting to get to a church. I thought, “hmmmm…, that sounds like the church I climbed a hill to get to when I was killing time before my bike tour of Stockholm a few months ago”. Sure enough, they are one in the same place. With a little more research I found out that the place I ate my lunch next to (across the street from this church) is where Lisbeth’s first apartment was and the author, Stieg Larsson, is buried at Högalidskyrkan. Small world or something…

October 19th, 2017 | Tags: buildings, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D750, stockholm, sweden | Category: Other | Comments Off on Högalid Church (Högalidskyrkan)

Built in 1853, I was lucky enough to get views from every angle of the classic Ceremonial Hall on the campus of the University of Copenhagen this past summer. In the summer of 2018 I plan to experience my fifth summer in Denmark.

October 18th, 2017 | Tags: buildings, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED Lens, Nikon D750, university of copenhagen | Category: Denmark | Comments Off on Ceremonial Hall interior @ University of Copenhagen