Recent content by Hacki

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    TGE Review Thread

    Andreas - The guy is, from reading his text, not the sharpest tool in the shed. So IMO you should consider the rating just perfect. A 100% from him would imply he got all the complexity in the album, meaning that you're aiming low. Now I got the feeling a lot of stuff went over his head, and...
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    Seventh Wonder Song Meanings

    Yes, we hear the story of a young boy lured by "Näcken" to the water, sadly the little boy's misstake is copied by his grieving mother. "Näcken" is a well known character in Sweden and there are even several sculptures of him around. This being one of the wierder examples (from Uppsala, north...
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    Seventh Wonder Song Meanings

    From Wikipedia: The Neck/Nixie (German: Nix/Nixe/Nyx) are shapeshifting water spirits who usually appear in human form. The spirit has appeared in the myths and legends of all Germanic peoples in Europe. and further: The Scandinavian näck, näkki, nøkk, nøkken, strömkarl, Grim or Fosse-Grim...
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    Sales updates

    I plotted the figures mentioned by Andreas against time (release year for the records), and then fitted an exponential curve (y0+A*exp(x/t)) extrapolated to 2010. This resulted in an expected sale of approximately 5.8 times of the sales for Become. Nerdy? Yes probably...interesting? Perhaps.
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    Interview Thread for TGE

    I let Google translate the Italian interview to Swedish and it did a fairly good job. As always some misses here and there, and surprisingly it occasionally translated some English words rendering funny phrases like (sorry to those who don't speak Swedish): Interviewer: "Det sjunde är...
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    Release Part for The Great Escape - Dec 4, 2010

    ..it's unseasonably cold in Stockholm right now - Siberia style! (-12 Centigrades right now, 10 am in the morning).
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    Release Part for The Great Escape - Dec 4, 2010

    Hello everyone, this is my first post on this forum. I'm really looking forward to this release party. In my opinion it would be completely awesome to get Break The Silence followed by Hide and Seek. These two songs are outstanding. But its a release party for a new album so I guess there will...