My hitlist for 2011

As every year here is my annual hitlist:

Albums:

Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
Machine Head - Unto The Locust
Powerwolf - Blood Of The Saints
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl

Gigs:


Death Angel @ 70000 Tons Of Metal Cruise
Sanctuary @ 70000 Tons Of Netal Cruise
Forbidden @ 70000 Tons Of Metal Cruise
Fates Warning @ Essen
Nevermore @ 70000 Tons Of Metal Cruise

Movies:


X-Men First Class
Agora
Kidnapped
Machete
I Spit On Your Grave

Books:


George R. R. Martin - A Song Of Ice And Fire
Stieg Larsson - Milennium Trilogy
Keith Richards - Life
Henning Mankell - The Man Who Smiled
Art Spiegelman - Maus

Timekillers:


World Of Warcraft (I know, big surprise...)
Diablo 3 Beta
Portal 2
Starcraft 2
Mass Effect

Best Investment:


My Kindle

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all of you, see you on tour next year :-)

The end of the tour

After 15 months on the road we just finished the "At the edge of time" world tour with a fantastic show in Warsaw. I want to thank our crew for making life on the road easy for us and a special thanks goes out to all of you guys for celebrating so many awesome gigs with us!
See you all again next year!

New Arch Matheos Video released :-)

I have always been a die hard Fates Warning fan, with their "Awaken the guardian" album being  my very favourite album ever, this one is pure magic for me. So of course I was completely thrilled when they announced this kind of "reunion" of the old Fates Warning, and Sympathetic Resonance turned out to be an awesome album, it perfectly shows how the old Fates Warning would sound like in 2011. Here is the first video for this album, the song "Midnight Serenade", my personal highlight for 2011 :-)

The real me

Did you ever surf the internet and suddenly stumble upon yourself? Sometimes this happens to me, there are some cool sites online just paying tribute to myself or Blind Guardian, on the other hand there are also some freaks creating pages or profiles using my name and pretending to be me, which is not cool at all. So how can you know if it is really me that you found online? Actually this is very simple, aside from the official Blind Guardian homepage, the GMC homepage and this blog there are only two more places where you can find me:

Facebook - Yes, I have a Facebook account, no, I won't add you ;-) I am using Facebook only to babble with some friends of mine, there is no such thing as an "official" profile, it is only private so don't bother sending me requests there.

Google+ - I am also using Google+, originally I only wanted to see how it is compared to Facebook, in the end I liked both so I also kept my profile on Google+. Since this is not as private as my Facebook account you can even feel free to add me there, just don't expect too much posting from my side, you see how often I update this blog ;-)

If you see "Marcus Siepen" anywhere else on the internet you can be absolutely sure it is not me, I am not running any other pages or profiles on whatever communities.