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they all say they need drugs and alcohol till they're f'n wasted to get totally crazy. me, i was different. i didn't need all that. i didn't have to have a can of beer to start acting like a maniac. i didn't have to nosedive on a few grams of coke to start a night of screamin' fun. the gods of rock n metal gave me a gift. and it works f'n awesome. boys n gals, it's not the beer or pot that makes you f'n high IT'S ALL IN THE FREAKIN' MIND! you just need that sweet rush of adrenaline to the head and it comes when you've got your best friends to hang out with. yeaa we're totally zonked out kids over here. but it's all in our blood. no drugs, no alcohol. all spontaneous.

i was born in cardiff, wales, britain but by age 7 we moved to dhaka, bangladesh. and i've been living here ever since. but hopefully by november i'll be moving to sydney to get into college. not that studying is my thing. drumming surely is. i've been drumming since i was 12 during that summer i visited cardiff and my old mate (who played guitar) there inspired me to form a garage band duo (for just those 3 nights i stayed at his place, lol). at first i never gave becoming a musician much of a thought but then i turned 14 and i had heard so much music to be freakin' inspired i thought why not? u only got one life, make it out of the ordinary. in dhaka, there's barely enough kids of my age back then who take their music seriously. and there are even less kids who'd wanna form a rock/metal band. so i taught myself drums (somehow) and eventually i learned double pedalling too.

i listen to almost all kinds of rock and metal. except poser acts like the jo bros (may they die and the devil eat their souls). the bands that inspire me the most are the doors, pink floyd, the who, iron maiden, metallica, megadeth and bullet for my valentine. especially iron maiden and metallica, the 2 bands that stuck with me as a 12 year old till now. my favorite song ever is paranoid by black sabbath. my favorite album is iron maiden's seventh son of a seventh son. and my favorite live performance is pink floyd's PULSE.

so hey rockers, stay true to the heavy stuff. and don't do drugs.

• Iron Maiden, 
• Trivium, 
• Guns n Roses, 
• Pantera, 
• The Doors, 
• The Who, 
• DragonForce, 
• Coheed & Cambria, 
• Dave Mustaine 

• the doors, 
• black sabbath, 
• iron maiden, 
• judas priest, 
• metallica, 
• megadeth, 
• bullet for my valentine, 
• avenged sevenfold, 
• trivium, 
• guns n' roses, 
• ac/dc, 
• def leppard, 
• van halen, 
• aerosmith, 
• dream theater, 
• aerosmith, 
• spinal tap, 
• KISS, 
• freak kitchen, 
• tool, 
• anthrax, 
• iron butterfly, 
• lynyrd skynyrd, 
• whitesnake, 
• slayer, 
• alice cooper, 
• ozzy osbourne, 
• dio, 
• bruce dickenson, 
• david lee roth, 
• led zeppelin, 
• jimi hendrix, 
• iggy pop, 
• sex pistols, 
• the who, 
• pink floyd, 
• deep purple, 
• queen, 
• chuck berry, 
• stevie ray vaughn, 
• clash, 
• the eagles, 
• red hot chili peppers, 
• blink-182, 
• sum-41, 
• green day, 
• bowling for soup, 
• good charlotte, 
• all-american rejects, 
• hoobastank, 
• simple plan, 
• jimmy eat world, 
• paramore, 
• jane's addiction, 
• busted, 
• sonic youth, 
• the vines, 
• the cure, 
• the strokes, 
• the used, 
• 311, 
• +44, 
• blur, 
• ash, 
• lit, 
• SR-71, 
• arctic monkeys, 
• the offspring, 
• bad religion, 
• third eye blind, 
• the cranberries, 
• AFI, 
• yellowcard, 
• sugarcult, 
• panic! at the disco, 
• fall out boy, 
• the racontours, 
• the white stripes, 
• story of the year, 
• placebo, 
• NOFX, 
• MxPx, 
• rancid, 
• sublime, 
• social distortion, 
• weezer, 
• dropkick murphys, 
• boxcar racer, 
• angels and airwaves, 
• death cab for cutie, 
• 30 seconds to mars, 
• 10 years, 
• 12 stones, 
• feeder, 
• seether, 
• powerman 5000, 
• 3 days grace, 
• incubus, 
• cold, 
• staind, 
• disturbed, 
• red, 
• HIM, 
• stone temple pilots, 
• meatloaf, 
• goldfinger, 
• slipknot, 
• type o negative, 
• as i lay dying, 
• skillet, 
• lacuna coil, 
• within temptation, 
• nightwish, 
• nemesea, 
• finger eleven, 
• linkin park, 
• limp bizkit, 
• POD, 
• bryan adams, 
• foo fighters, 
• matchbox twenty, 
• queens of the stone age, 
• john mayor, 
• daughtry, 
• rooster, 
• keane, 
• evanescence, 
• nickelback, 
• papa roach, 
• creed, 
• korn, 
• fuel, 
• bush, 
• trapt, 
• live, 
• switchfoot, 
• pete yorn, 
• the hives, 
• saliva, 
• deftones, 
• the flys, 
• lostprophets, 
• nine inch nails, 
• kidneythieves, 
• orgy, 
• blind melon, 
• phantom planet, 
• shinedown, 
• soul asylum, 
• breaking benjamin, 
• wolfmother, 
• hinder, 
• gavin degraw, 
• coheed & cambria, 
• the verve, 
• tantric, 
• tonic, 
• beck, 
• athlete, 
• our lady peace, 
• cake, 
• the calling, 
• lifehouse, 
• oasis, 
• radiohead, 
• coldplay, 
• poets of the fall, 
• REM, 
• travis, 
• powderfinger, 
• u2, 
• the mars volta, 
• splender, 
• crash test dummies, 
• marcy playground, 
• the fray, 
• bon jovi, 
• europe, 
• neil young, 
• monster magnet, 
• dire straits, 
• police, 
• sparta, 
• crossfade, 
• marilyn manson, 
• rob zombie, 
• velvet revolver, 
• slash's snakepit, 
• manowar, 
• flyleaf, 
• static x, 
• in flames, 
• faith no more, 
• twisted sister, 
• dokken, 
• mr. big, 
• dragonforce, 
• symphony x, 
• killswitch engage, 
• drowning pool, 
• iced earth, 
• rob halford, 
• sentenced, 
• superior, 
• extreme, 
• the devil wears prada

• scarface, 
• scent of a woman, 
• terminator 2: judgement day, 
• cheats, 
• eurotrip, 
• good morning vietnam, 
• people under the stairs, 
• forrest gump, 
• american pie 2, 
• transformers

to kill a mockingbird by harper lee