Just spent 3 weeks in North America. 1 week in Las Vegas for work (yeah right) where the highlight was the Raiders cheerleaders attending our big booze-up and two weeks in wider California. Managed to grab a few cool shirts - Savatage "Hall of the Mountain King", Marduk "Wormwood", Running Wild "Port Royal" etc. My son grabbed RUST in Peace and Marduk "World of Blades" shirts plus 12 x Iron Maiden guitar picks, Megadeth, Metallica and KISS guitar tab books and a Slayer poster for his room. Wife grabbed some nice key rings bless her (non-metal) heart.
The 16 hours flight back was spent mainly digesting the new Ocean of Grief (its good), new Shores of Null, new In Flames (which I thought was reasonably good until the Majesties debut dropped last week and exposed this and the post-Slaughter of the Soul melodic death world as the diluted, overproduced formulaic sham that it is). New Wormwitch is sounding really promising. And for anyone who cares to check them out Inexorum are fast becoming one of my favorite bands.