Ali...Photographer&HeadBanger

Rock Grip.

2006-12-23T16:47:00.000-08:00

finally it happened ..

Rock Grip that toke place in "Al balad Theater" was awesome in the meaning of the word.

bands from lebanon&Jordan played there best tracks ever...

the bands who were playing are...

1-Blood Ink (Lebanon)
Lebanese Metalcore band. released a great album earlier this Year. Bleed The Ink is one of the best arabian releases. band also used to play covers for Killswitch Engage, Mudvayne, Pantera, Drowning Pool, KoRn, System of a Down, Rammstein, Seether, Deftones, bullet for my valentine and atreyu.

2- Roswell (Lebanon)
Alternative Rock act from lebanon also. Roswell released an album also this year. Its Available for sale on Virgin Megastore lebanon, the same store the band had the album launching celebration in. fans of Creed, 3 Doors Down and NickelBack will have a very great evening.
3- Blind Vision (Jordan)
Jordanian Prog/heavy metal band. working on their first album. played many covers for metallica, megadeth and dream theater and some originals as well.

4- Esodic (Jordan)
Jordanian Thrash/Death band. previously, the band covered creator, testament and slayer. the band also released a demo in 2004 and a single "Jordanian Heart" in early 2006.lately, the band's covers changed into arch enemy, hypocrisy, judas priest, black sabbath. the band will start recording their first album soon.

5- Spade (Jordan)
leaders of the upcoming scene. with their post-thrash style, they gained a huge fan base from their first appearance. with covers for megadeth and their great originals, Spade seems to have a great potential to go on.

and here are some pictures from the event.. more can be found on Jorzine

it was just amazing...

Rock on \m/

a night tour in amman !!!

2006-12-19T07:46:00.000-08:00

at 4:00am while i was seting on the computer..it just came to mind ... i put my
heavy clothes on and went out...i just walked and walked
when i see a cool thing i just take the camera out and take the picture
i came out with allot of pictures but half of them were not good at all to be even uploaded
to the computer...anyways it was a really fun walk..i walked all the way from 3rd circle
to downtown amman..then toke a taxi to Roman theater and then toke another taxi to
4th circle were the new bridge was made...and i toke some pictures
i decided to do this everytime it comes to my head..hope some day ill be able to do it
with a more professional camera...but this is what i have now and I'm going to take the most
of it ...i really hope one day i can take amazing shots...i wanna be a professional photographer
and I'm going to work on that even if it's the last thing i do in my life..
god help me...
you can see more pictures at my flickr profile here
pleas guys if you have a account there..feel free to comment on my pictures
i could really use some reviews and opinions...

Who's Ali ?

2006-12-18T17:13:00.000-08:00

I'm a simple guy ... i get along with people fast.. I'm 22 years old ..studied graphic design and
photography in college...I'm into photography more then anything else..i enjoy taking pictures
of everything i like...i have plans to go to places in jordan and take pictures...
I'm in love with metal music..it's my favorite ever...you can see that from the blog title..hehehe
i made this blog just to post my personal thoughts and everything i feel like...
i will be adding some of my pictures that i take...hope you all like them...

Why Do We Like Metal/Rock !!!

2006-12-17T18:46:00.000-08:00

i was cruising the Jorzine.com Forum .. and i passed by a Topic talking about
why we like Metal/rock ... one post by a Female member there
said the following

1 - instruments can almost speak with metal musicians
2 - every single thing done by the bands require hard work and need lot's of effort.
3 - vocaling is so deep in metal either in sadness, anger or madness!
4 - it makes me feel being absolutely myself
5 - it is not about love and meaningless stuff as other genres
6 - it is unique music!!
7 -it is easier to headbang .. since I hate and donno how to dance

I'm with these words 100% and this is my exact feeling...

long live metal \m/

Opeth were supposed to come to Jordan!

2006-12-17T18:14:00.000-08:00

I think most metal heads in Jordan know about this story ... but I'm posting this for
who didn't know.. for who know who are Opeth .. the real legends of metal ..and as i call them
" The God's Of Metal " << Seriously they are...
here is the article about it...

Jordan Gig canceled! - Nov. 26, 2003

OPETH have been forced to cancel their previously announced gig in Jordan due to sickness.

The following is OPETH front man Mikael Åkerfeldt's official statement on the matter:

"It's seem to be a dark spell upon OPETH at this moment. First Chile and now Jordan. I'm in a terrible state myself right now but will try to explain to you our reasons for canceling.

"[OPETH drummer] Martin Lopez called me 10 minutes before I was supposed to get in the cab for the airport saying he couldn't go. He's suffered a stress-related breakdown and said he simply couldn't do this. We've never canceled a gig ever before due to the state of the band, so I knew he was serious when he said this. He has a doctors appointment and my guess is that he's suffering from panic or anxiety attacks. This is the reason why we decided to cancel this gig in Amman, Jordan.

"Yesterday our entire (all but one) crew dropped off due to the recent terrorist attacks. See, our crew is from the UK and were worried they'd be going into trouble. So at one point we had no crew, and the gig was in danger of being canceled. After close talk with Mute Records we decided that we'll go anyways regardless if we had enough crew guys or not, and now this!!

"I want to stress out to all the fans that has traveled high and low to get to the venue in Amman that we are beyond sorry! I can't tell you how bad we feel about this. We sincerely hope that we'll get another chance to do a gig in Jordan soon, in fact we are trying to talk to Mute Records about that possibility. All of us really looked forward to going to Amman, not only because of the gig but also because there was a day set out for us to do some serious sightseeing of your country.

"These are dark times for OPETH and it seems like the circumstances got the best of us this time. We've done over 150 gigs this year I believe so in a way I'm not surprised.

"As I'm writing this I've just got informed about a death in the Akerfeldt family so my mind is not what it should be. I'm trying to keep it together here and explain to you, and apologize for all the problems we've caused.

"Anyways, we love you all and again, we're so sorry!! I'm gonna post something about Martin Lopez state as soon as I know myself."

Damn.. some of my friends told me they almost cried when they knew that the gig
was canceled .. if i knew opeth in that time..maybe i would have had the same
feeling...but i just knew them recently... and now all what i can do .. is pray
they come for a show here ... if the ticket was 100jd... ill kill to get it's money ..
these are Opeth.. Not anyone ...