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Errrr... "Shame on Lucassen" is quite literally the last thing anyone should be thinking at the prospect of Tommy on the next Ayreon album.

Yeah, who wouldn't want to rejoin a band with fans as fucking charming and mature as Lost Horizon's?

Wait a minute, are you serious?! Two people from two different countries competing for a medal bothers you because the countries lie in the same part of the world? Would you say the same if it was a French person vs a German person?

I hope it trolls power metal fans even harder than the last two. Certainly seems promising so far. :D

Here's some info at least, based on the song titles (it's pretty obvious what they refer to if you know Swedish history): "Lejonet från Norden" means "Lion of the North" and refers to Gustavus Adolphus who is considered to be the "founder", or at least the first king, of the Swedish Empire. He...

I think this is great. With so many Swedish bands and so few Swedish lyrics, I'm glad that some bands are starting to appreciate their own language too. And the Swedish Empire is excellent and woefully overlooked source material for metal lyrics.

I definitely feel like metal fans in general are further to the right than I am, even here in Scandinavia. And I'm a left-leaning moderate in Swedish terms (which would probably be considered "far-left", certainly to the left of Obama, in America). I suspect the metal community has a...

Subtle? I disagree. To me it's standard libertarian fluff, using standard metaphors, written in the typical political metal lyrical style: A bad thing is happening It's bad like another bad thing We must do a good thing So that the bad thing goes away Mark Jansen does this all the time.

Ugh, I hate political songs by metal bands. They're all so ham-fisted and preachy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet It has existed for a few years now.

Road Salt Two has generally been well received, at least on the Internet, which no recent Queensryche album has been.

Amazing album. Might be my favorite PoS release so far, just because of how consistent it is.

I've seen them twice. Amaranthe is a fantastic live band with lots of stage presence. The kind of band you can enjoy live even if you don't care for their studio material. Nobody will be disappointed by them.

Surprised no-one has mentioned Save Me. When you need a painfully generic title for your painfully generic power ballad, just call it Save Me.

Man, this sounds amazing.

Vermont passed a bill this year to introduce state-wide single-payer healthcare. In a few years we might know how that turned out compared to earlier/other states.

100 years is nothing? On what do you base this assumption? I really couldn't disagree more. From the mid-1800s up until now, practically everything has changed fundamentally. The 1940s =/= right now. Sweden has been one of the most politically stable countries in the entire world for almost...

"Got our act together"? Ye gods. Do you expect a country to be the same as it was 100 years ago? The USA definitely isn't, and neither is Sweden. We went from being a poor, peripheral and starving country (mostly due to our low population and disadvantageous geographic location, which "American...

... You know that the vast majority Swedish Americans emigrated about a century ago, right? If not, it's right there in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article you yourself just linked to. Add two, three, maybe even four generations after that. They aren't "a quarter of the world's...

No, Norway doesn't have capital punishment. Prisons in Norway (and Sweden) are generally considered extremely "soft" by international standards. But a prison is still a prison, and this guy's crimes are kind of... unprecedented in Norway, at least since WW2, so there's no telling what will happen.