Fredrik Thordendal works on new Solo album!!!

This is the single best news of the year for me. His solo album is one of my favorite albums ever and he is one hell of a tallented composer and guitarrist.

MAVIIIVAM wrote: I cant believe it . . . ALL these years enjoying Version "3.33" to find out 2 (maybe more) Tracks were omitted from the Original pressing! WaaaAAAAAAAAA!!!! Now I must scower the Earth for the original Copy . Hopefully Fred will Re-Release another Version with ALL the Tracks. I have been saying since 1st hearing this album, then being lucky enough to buy it at a CD Store that it be great if Fred had the time to do another, so we can hear more of his "Soloing", I love Meshuggah but I miss the solos that are prevalent on Destroy Erase Improve. I'm with you CCVP great album and I just couldnt believe a guy from YOUtube reached me to let me know he was Recording .

Yes, the original version is as awesome as it can get. Unfortunately, just because I live where I live, I can't get my hands on the CD itself. I either have to pay 150 dollars to buy it or get the crappy remixed version. This is actually part of a blog entry I have been working on to post on PA: The problem of buying music in the periferal areas of the world: living behind the World Wide Schengen Wall (or something like that).  I mean, it is damn hard to buy culture (books, CDs, attend to concerts, etc) here, not only bacuse of the abusive prices (mainly because of the higher-that-European taxes), but  also the lack of investment and interest.

But it is not all that bad, believe it or not. The CD prices have been falling for some time and it is not as bad as buying books (as long as costs go). One day if I ever travel overseas i'll maybe be able to buys some of those stuff.


Edited by CCVP - 03 Sep 2010 at 2:05am

I understand ,

I have a friend at Progulus.com from Brasil by the name of "arcarneiro" who has the same problem,
and he is into Prog and Math/Tech-Prog/Metal as well.  I saw something in the Documentary for
"Global Metal" or one of the others Docs that there is a "Heavy Metal Plaza" somewhere in Brasil
(Sao Paulo perhaps)?
I would imagine though, its filled with the easier stuff to find.

MAVIIIVAM wrote: I understand , I have a friend at Progulus.com from Brasil by the name of "arcarneiro" who has the same problem, and he is into Prog and Math/Tech-Prog/Metal as well.  I saw something in the Documentary for "Global Metal" or one of the others Docs that there is a "Heavy Metal Plaza" somewhere in Brasil (Sao Paulo perhaps)? I would imagine though, its filled with the easier stuff to find.

Well, lemme get you a better picture. Rock and roll and heavy metal in Brazil are pretty strong. metal-archives have an static thing that shows that BR is the thinrd country in number of bands. That isactually no surprise for me. Where live (southestern region) has the strongest musical scene in the contry in every regard (obviously including metal and progressive rock, being the latter my greatest passion) and S�o Paulo is the strongest for that matter also, not only because it is the most populated state, but also because it is the economical powerhouse of the contry, holding more that 30% of the contry's economy!

There are many metal joints throughout the southestern region, but the biggest ones are in S�o Paulo, without a doubt. The famouns Galeria do Rock is a whole shopping mall devoted entirely for rock music and heavy metal and it is the house of many independent metal and rock labels, such as Hellion Records.

http://www.portalgaleriadorock.com.br/

However, in my case, there are some setbacks. First, I don't live in S�o Paulo, nor in Rio, nor in Belo Horizonte, the big metropolies in the region, I live in Vit�ria, Esp�rito Santo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vit%C3%B3ria,_Brazil ), which is 550 KM away from the nearest of the three (Rio), making it specially expensive to go to any important concert, virtually doubling of tripling the price of everything I go see. Secondly, ins spite of having a pretty strong internal scene, most albums I wanna buy are imports and Brazil have a 50% taxation on everything costing up to U$60k and 100% above that, plus the currency thing (U$1 = R$1,7 / 1 euro = R$2,30), so you can see how things are pretty grim.

However, on the albums that are produced here, prices are much milder, usually ranging between R$10 to R$ 20. Even so, if i want to buy something over the internet I still have to pay for transportation fees, which cost something like R$6. Add to that the fack that I am currently unemployed.  Happy happy, joy joy.

Awesome! I'm so stoked for this! There has never been an album quite like Sol Niger Within.


until now...