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malbecmusings · 3 months

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Palestinian farmer Salman al-Nabahin with a Byzantine-era Roman mosaic he discovered while trying to understand why the olive trees he planted weren't taking root. Archaeologists with the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the French Archaeology School believe artists created the flooring sometime between the fifth and seventh centuries.

#salman al-nabahin #roman mosaic #gaza #palestine #2022 news #history #what's your roman empire

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a-silent-symphony · 1 year

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Nightwish's Floor Jansen reveals she is now cancer free (by Metal Hammer)

Nightwish Floor Jansen announces that she is now free of breast cancer after undergoing surgery

Floor Jansen has revealed that she is now cancer free.

The excellent news arrives after the Nightwish frontwoman underwent surgery to tackle her breast cancer.

Now, after successful treatment, the vocalist is now entirely rid of the disease, as she announced via social media.

"Great news! I am cancer free," she writes. "The surgery took everything cancerous out and it hasn’t spread! I’ll get local radiation therapy in February to make sure everything stays out.

’I'm getting my energy back after the surgery and feel a huge relief to know it was successful! I’m not back to a 100% but I have no doubt the shows will give me the power push I need to rock with all of you on the upcoming European tour"

"Thank you for your amazing support and well wishes"

Jansen first shared news of her diagnosis last month in a post, where she revealed that her prognosis was "very good".

"I have breast cancer" the vocalist wrote. "It was diagnosed a little over 2 weeks ago and I will have surgery tomorrow to remove the tumour. My prognosis is very good!!! It seems to be a non-aggressive cancer, which seems to not have spread. I will keep my breast. And I will be cancer free after this surgery, plus a local radiation treatment that will take place three months after this surgery, hopefully. We will know more after the surgery to see if this positive prognosis stands.

"The word cancer is a shocker. All that you found important in life before this diagnosis changes radically within minutes. Now I just want to be healthy again. I want to see my daughter grow into a woman; I want to live! And the scariest part of this diagnosis is that I thought I was healthy! I didn’t feel the cancer, I didn’t know it was there until I, as a 40+ woman, went to a standard mammogram check-up. Something many countries offer, for free even for the lucky ones."

Following the successful operation, Jansen posted an update to share details of her recovery as well as to thank the medical staff who took care of her. She declared: "The tumour removal surgery went well without any surprises. I’m recovering well and should be up and about soon.

"It will take a few weeks to know what the findings are regarding the tumour and lymph node that will be tested. I’ll keep you posted."

Nightwish's European tour will kick off on November 20 in Birmingham's Resorts World Arena.

#nightwish #floor jansen #breast cancer #2022 news

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x--daughters-of-darkness--x · 1 year

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EVANESCENCE's 'Fallen' Album Certified Diamond In U.S.

On November 30, EVANESCENCE's "Fallen" album was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) for sales and streams of ten million units in the United States.

Led by the smash single "Bring Me To Life", which also appeared on the soundtrack to the movie "Daredevil", "Fallen" yielded three more singles with "Going Under", "My Immortal" and "Everybody's Fool". EVANESCENCE also won Grammys in 2004 for "Best New Artist" and "Best Hard Rock Performance".

Asked in a recent interview with Rock Sound if there are any plans for EVANESCENCE to commemorate "Fallen"'s 20th anniversary in 2023, singer Amy Lee said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I do have an idea. It's gonna take a little bit of work. But I think it probably won't be what everybody expects. I think everybody just is, 'Oh, why don't you do a show that's, like, [playing] the album front to back?' We've been playing so many shows, I would rather do something that, to me… I don't know. I don't wanna give it away, in case it doesn't work out. Maybe I'll do nothing. Expect nothing, and then if I do something, you'll be really, really grateful. [Laughs]"

Amy also talked about the fact that "Bring Me To Life" experienced a resurgence this past summer, 19 years after its original release. The song, which initially reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was EVANESCENCE's first U.K. No. 1 single, reached No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes chart in August.

"It is satisfying," Lee said about the track's renewed popularity. "And it's cool now, because I remember a lot of the feeling in the beginning. It was so much about, like, 'What's next?' And, 'Are we gonna be able to make it?' And, 'Are we gonna be able to survive?' And, 'Are people gonna listen to our next song?' And, 'What about the next record?' And just getting to the next place always.

"There is an element to a song like 'Bring Me To Life' that didn't exist before, which is this nostalgia," she explained. "The song has grown live. It's something that we've added to. But part of how it's grown is with its history and with what it means to everybody in the room. It's not something new; it's just something that you already have known for so long that has a place in your heart. It's just able to be more than it would have been then. So I, in a lot of ways, love it more than I did."

The success of "Fallen" led to turmoil within the group, as founding guitarist Ben Moody left in late 2003, leaving Lee as the only original member of the band.

Lee continued with new members, and EVANESCENCE issued "The Open Door" in 2006. While a hit, it did not equal the sales of "Fallen". Lee told The Pulse Of Radio at the time that she wasn't concerned about matching the previous album's success. "I just haven't ever looked at it that way," she said. "'Fallen' is a great record, but I don't think you can try to match the success of another body of work. I think that's only gonna frustrate you. And if, honestly if what you really care about is record sales and money, there's no way you're gonna make a great piece of art, because then you're just gonna get all confused and make something ingenuine."

This past February, EVANESCENCE's music video for "Bring Me To Life" — which featured guest vocals from Paul McCoy of 12 STONES — surpassed one billion views on YouTube. The Philipp Stölzl-directed clip, which was uploaded to YouTube in December of 2009, was filmed in Romania in January 2003. It features Lee in a night gown and barefoot, in her room, inside a tall building in the city at night. The rest of the band is playing on a higher floor of the building.

In March 2021, Lee told Alternative Press that EVANESCENCE's original record label Wind Up threatened not to release "Fallen" if she and her bandmates didn't add a male voice to lead single "Bring Me To Life" to make it more palatable for radio.

EVANESCENCE's latest album, "The Bitter Truth", arrived in March 2021 via BMG. It was EVANESCENCE's first album of original music in ten years.

#Amy Lee #Evanescence #fallen #2022 news

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handsofdarkness · 1 year

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WITHIN TEMPTATION Releases New Single 'The Fire Within'

Dutch heavy rockers WITHIN TEMPTATION have released a new single, "The Fire Within". The band stated about the track: "Back in 2019 we wrote 'The Fire Within', but it's never made its appearance on an album. However, to brighten up your festive December mood some more, we've decided to release it as a standalone song! Enjoy!"

Speaking to Riff X's "Metal XS", WITHIN TEMPTATION vocalist Sharon Den Adel elaborated on how "The Fire Within" came together. She said: "We recorded it during corona times. And we release it now for the game with IRON MAIDEN, [our collaboration with] the 'Iron Maiden: [Legacy Of The Beast' mobile] game. This is a song that didn't make it for the next album. So we like the song, but it has a different kind of vibe to it. And it's about keeping things real. 'The fire within' [is] the thing that drives you, the thing that you feel the most. That's what the song is about."

"The Fire Within" seven-inch single features both the single version and instrumental version of the track. Due on January 20, 2023, it is available for pre-order as a limited edition of 666 individually numbered copies on orange-colored vinyl at the WITHIN TEMPATION music store.

In recent years, WITHIN TEMPTATION shifted its focus from releasing albums to releasing a series of singles, enabling the bandmembers to indulge themselves in their creative processes thus delivering freshly inspired music. The group has released "Entertain You", "The Purge" and "Shed My Skin", singles that have all thrilled their fanbase, had great critical reception in Europe, peaked in the Top 20 of the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Indicator charts and topped the official German charts. In July, WITHIN TEMPTATION also released the official Jeb Hardwick-directed music video for the band's most recent single, "Don't Pray For Me". It was the fourth single of the band's independent releases and will lead up to WITHIN TEMPTATION's next studio album.

In an interview with Barbara Caserta of Linea Rock, Den Adel spoke about WITHIN TEMPTATION's new approach to making its music available. She said: "We already decided before we had the pandemic to do it this way. A lot of music scenes already do this — music genres, actually — but in the rock [world], we still do a lot of the traditional way of releasing albums. And we just wanted to try this out. And then the pandemic happened, and everybody started doing the same thing. Which is a good thing, because you live in the moment and you write something and you release it… So this is really how we feel at the moment, and it's what we re reflecting with our music, I think. It's a good thing."

Regarding the differences between recording and releasing singles and concentrating on making full-length albums, Sharon said: "We put a lot of time extra now into every single, where normally this is the maximum of singles that we release, and we're gonna release more. So I think there's more time spent to it. But it's scattered all over a time, so it's really sometimes difficult to get back into the flow of writing again; that's the negative side of it. So it has its positive and negative sides. And with a whole album, it takes sometimes two years when you've written a song that it finally gets released, and it already feels outdated sometimes. So now it's really [easy to give each track] a fast release."

This past August, Den Adel told EMP about the WITHIN TEMPTATION songwriting process: "The thing is we've been around for such a long time that we try to be inspired by new bands that we hear and implement it with our own kind of sound and try to stay updated with the sound that is sounding more modern nowadays and what is more 'in' nowadays. Not to be going along with new sounds but something that sounds refreshing and inspiring to us. And that keeps us going and makes it fun for us to make still music. We've been around almost for 25 years, even longer — now I really feel old — but, anyway, you need it; you need to evolve. So there's no formula, but it's more every time looking what inspires you. And it can be anything."

WITHIN TEMPTATION's last album, "Resist", was released in February 2019 through Spinefarm Records, the specialist hard rock label of Universal Music Group.

"Resist" featured guest appearances by PAPA ROACH's Jacoby Shaddix, IN FLAMES' Anders Fridén and ARID's Jasper Steverlinck.

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#within temptation #the fire within #2022 news

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voice-of-anarchy · 2 years

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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH Attends BEHEMOTH And ARCH ENEMY Concert In Berkeley

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich and his wife Jessica Miller attended ARCH ENEMY's May 13 concert with BEHEMOTH and NAPALM DEATH at The UC Theatre in Berkeley, California. The show took place just one day after the final date of METALLICA's six-concert South American tour, which ended on May 12 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Miller, who is apparently friends with ARCH ENEMY singer Alissa White-Gluz due to their shared interest in animal rights causes, posted a backstage photo from the Berkeley show, and she wrote in an accompanying message: "Straight from Brazil —> Berkeley…jet lag could never hold us back from this hang! THANK YOU @archenemyofficial for the most mind blowing welcome home!"

BEHEMOTH frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski also shared a few backstage photos on Instagram, and he wrote: "Berkeley, Twas not only one of my top best shows on this tour but also a hang out of the year! @larsulrich thanx a lot for all the energy and meaningful conversations. Means world! Joe Huston @jaredmaceachern @robbflynn @chris.kontos it was pleasure hosting u brothers".

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn, who was also in attendance, posted a picture of his own, and he captioned it: "Epic meeting of the heavy metal (and punk) minds last night. Lars, Michael Amott, Sharlee, Doyle, Chris Kontos. Talking All things metal and punk, debating JUDAS PRIEST and IRON MAIDEN, such a great hang after the BEHEMOTH ARCH ENEMY show".

#arch enemy #Live 2022 #Metallica #lars ulrich #2022 news

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hopeymchope · 2 years

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We live in unprecedented times where a video game console's price just got an announced INCREASE

I've been playing video games of various types since I was three years old. I've been following gaming news as long as I can remember. Been studying the consoles before my time and playing everything old OR current that I can get my hands on.

But never have I ever seen a console manufacturer announce a price increase... until today.

Don't be fooled by Sony's claim that only "select markets" are going to see the price for the PS5 go up, because the United States is currently the ONLY major gaming market that doesn't have an announced price hike. Everywhere else? The price of the PS5 is going up approximately $100.

Sony says this is happening due to unprecedented inflation rates, supply chain issues with important system components, and basically like, 2022 in general.

So naturally, the world of gamer is asking "Does that mean the U.S. increase is just coming later, or does that mean the U.S. is the only place where you feel like you can't do it because Xbox is actually legit competition here?"

If the United States does eventually get an equivalent price increase, that would mean that the new price of the PS5 would be... Mr. Hirai, would you do the honors?

...alas, for the rest of the world? The price is already that much.

At least we can use these old memes again! RECYCLING 👍

#599 us dollars #playstation 5 #ps5 #ps5 price increase #ps5 price hike #2022 news #video games

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nicostiel · 1 year

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#bye tumblr 2022 it’s been fun

#happy new year #new year #tumblr #2022 #2023 #twitter #andrew tate #greta thunberg #supernatural #spn #new years eve #elon musk #memes #meme #funny #lol #tumblr meme #destiel #goncharov #*myedits

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trashworldblog · 10 months

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love that ryan shane and steven dont have active public accounts on tumblr, so either we are here with tumblr user wearewatcher as a babysitter, or they are lurking. stalking.

#DO NOT TAG WEAREWATCHER /GEN #its ok for them to see this they just dont need to be tagged #watcher #ryan bergara #shane madej #steven lim #watcher entertainment #ALSO STEVEN DOES HAVE A TUMBLR ACCOUNT BUT HE HASNT POSTED SINCE 2022? 2021? he did new years posts #beth silly posting

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hayden-christensen · 19 days

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OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) Cinematography by Chung-Hoon Chung

@pscentral event 26: minimalism

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a-silent-symphony · 2 years

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News about Floor’s diagnosis in the main music sites.

You can read all in the links below:

👉 Loudwire

👉 Loud

👉 Metal Hammer

👉 Blabbermouth

👉 Kerrang

👉 Metal Injection

👉 Revolver

#Nightwish #floor jansen #breast cancer #2022 news

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x--daughters-of-darkness--x · 2 years

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EVANESCENCE's 'Bring Me To Life' Tops U.S. iTunes Chart 19 Years After Release

EVANESCENCE's breakthrough 2003 hit "Bring Me To Life" is experiencing a resurgence 19 years after its original release. The song, which initially reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was EVANESCENCE's first U.K. No. 1 single, is currently No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes chart.

EVANESCENCE commented on the single's return to the charts in a social media post Monday night (August 22). The band wrote: "19 years and still going strong! Bring Me To Life is #1 on iTunes. Thank you for the love!"

This past February, EVANESCENCE's music video for "Bring Me To Life" has surpassed one billion views on YouTube. The Philipp Stölzl-directed clip, which was uploaded to YouTube in December of 2009, was filmed in Romania in January 2003. It features singer Amy Lee in a night gown and barefoot, in her room, inside a tall building in the city at night. The rest of the band is playing on a higher floor of the building.

The album version of "Bring Me to Life" — which featured guest vocals from Paul McCoy of 12 STONES — was included on the soundtrack of superhero film "Daredevil".Stölzl previously stated about the video: "On the one hand, it brings out the most catchy part of the song, the bridge, the duet with the male and female vocals. On the other hand, it reflects the ['Daredevil'] soundtrack background of the song. I did not know if I would have to use a stunt double for most of the angles, which would have restricted me a lot, but then it turned out that Amy did everything herself, hanging on Paul's arm for hours without getting tired. In the end, she is the one who made that shot strong."Last year, Amy spoke to Germany's Sonic Seducer about the lyrical inspiration for "Bring Me To Life".

"I remember what I wrote 'Bring Me To Life' about, because I wrote it about my current husband before we were married," she said. "There was this moment — I was in a tough place and in a bad relationship. And my husband now, Josh, at the time was just a friend and a person that I barely knew; it was maybe the third or fourth time we'd ever met. And we went in to go grab a seat at a restaurant while our friends parked the car. And we sat across from each other, and he looked at me and he just said, 'So, are you happy?' And it took me so off guard, and I just felt like it pierced my heart, because I felt like I had been pretending really well, and it was, like, somebody could see through me. And then that whole first verse came out of it: 'How can you see into my eyes, like open doors.' It really made me feel and recognize the sense of yearning that I had to get to a better place. And it really kind of set me out on a journey. And it's amazing that that became the song, the first song that broke us on to the scene and made everyone hear of us, because it was about something — I don't know — something so personal that I was recognizing in my life."

In March 2021, Lee told Alternative Press that EVANESCENCE's original record label Wind Up threatened not to release the group's debut album, "Fallen", if she and her bandmates didn't add a male voice to lead single "Bring Me To Life" to make it more palatable for radio.

"Fallen" sold 17 million copies and won two Grammys, including "Best Rock Performance" for "Bring Me To Life".

EVANESCENCE's latest album, "The Bitter Truth", arrived in March 2021 via BMG. It was EVANESCENCE's first album of original music in ten years.

#Evanescence #Amy Lee #fallen #bring me to life #2022 news

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handsofdarkness · 2 years

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WITHIN TEMPTATION Announces 'Don't Pray For Me' Single

On July 8, WITHIN TEMPTATION will release a brand-new single, "Don't Pray For Me". It will be the fourth single of the band's independent releases and will lead up to WITHIN TEMPTATION's next studio album.

In recent years, WITHIN TEMPTATION shifted its focus from releasing albums to releasing a series of singles, enabling the band members to indulge themselves in their creative processes thus delivering freshly inspired music. The band has released "Entertain You", "The Purge" and "Shed My Skin", singles that have all thrilled their fanbase, had great critical reception in Europe, peaked in the Top 20 of the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Indicator charts and topped the official German charts.

Vocalist Sharon Den Adel comments: "'Don't Pray For Me' strives against forcing beliefs and fears onto others and bears witness to being acceptive of everyone's own journey. It is an anthem about coming to terms with the fact that beliefs can be fluid, multiple or, frankly, different. The song is about allowing people to pursue their own destiny."

WITHIN TEMPTATION has been busy in the studio writing and recording brand new songs for its upcoming album, which they expect to release next year. The remainder of 2022 will be filled up with a European summer festival season, a USA tour with IRON MAIDEN and a much-anticipated and long-delayed co-headlining European tour with EVANESCENCE.

WITHIN TEMPTATION's last album, "Resist", was released in February 2019 through Spinefarm Records, the specialist hard rock label of Universal Music Group.

"Resist" features guest appearances by PAPA ROACH's Jacoby Shaddix, IN FLAMES' Anders Fridén and ARID's Jasper Steverlinck.

Prior to "Resist"'s arrival, Den Adel said that the LP was inspired by "modern music" but with "a very dark" twist. She explained: "Sometimes, it feels that today's pop music lacks a rebellious edge. Our main goal was to collect pieces from sounds we did like and roughen it up as much as we could, resulting in a surprisingly new musical world that is heavier, dirtier and more futuristic than we've ever created before. 'Resist' is our take on metal in a new way: to give modern music its rebellious edge."

#within temptation #Don't Pray For Me #new music #new song #2022 news

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voice-of-anarchy · 2 years

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#arch enemy #Deceivers #Sunset Over The Empire #2022 news

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justanothergeek77 · 1 year

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1. NASA successfully tests DART asteroid redirection system.

2. US joins Kigali amendment, agreeing to phase out HFCs, which are extreme greenhouse gasses, by 2050.

3. Over 50 nearly-extinct species are making a comeback in Europe

4. A new, highly effective malaria vaccine is now in testing

5. A new Lyme disease vaccine is in clinical trials, and will soon hit the market.

6. US mens’ and womens’ soccer teams agree to split all earnings, creating a new strategy to combat gender inequality in sports.

7. Six US states continue free meal programs for students, with at least 5 more soon to follow.

8. New EU charging cable standardization forces Apple to switch to USB-C for all portable devices.

9. US electric vehicle market has surpassed the tipping point for widespread adoption, making EVs absolutely commercially viable.

10. $4.7 billion allocated to locating and capping abandoned oil wells in the US, creating jobs and reducing carbon emissions.

11. Canada adopts program to give free access to national parks as treatment for depression and other mental health issues.

12. New awareness and mental health education program reduces active military suicide rates by 21% since 2021

13. HIV vaccine in testing, utilizing mRNA technology.

14. Museums now allowed to sell art in order to remain open, as an alternative measure to forced closing.

15. Taiwanese battery company Gogoro sees massive success with swappable-battery system in motorized bikes, proving technology that will vastly reduce pollution from vehicles.

16. Ethereum blockchain switches to proof of stake model, reducing energy consumption by 99.95%

17. MLB adopts new standards of authentication for baseball memorabilia, reducing the success of forged items drastically.

18. 4 dams demolished on the Klamath river, allowing local salmon to return to their native breeding grounds and restore the river’s ecosystem. This is the largest river restoration project in US history.

19. Intel develops software to detect deepfakes, reducing the spreading of misinformation and fake news.

20. PFAs, carcinogenic chemicals found in teflon and other materials, can now be broken down at relatively low heat with new chemical processes.

21. Four states constitutionally ban slavery in prisons

22. Nuclear fusion reaction sustained with net energy gain for the first time

#good news #2022 #2022 good news #2022 news #wendover #remember the good things in life #it's not all doom and gloom all the time #my follower count is in the single digits so i doubt this will go anywhere #but i hope it does. we need the reminder.

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nicostiel · 1 year

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