I've been playing bass for Malta's veteran doom band Forsaken since 1991. These past seventeen years with the band have been a roller coster ride to say to least...full of ups and down...tears and joys...however all in all I have to say that the highs in the band have by far outweighed the lows and Forsaken is indeed very special to me and close to heart. I've also got on new band up and running now with all those great bros from Frenzy Mono called Nomad Son, bring together the beauty of 70s heavy rock with classic doom metal to the masses...expect some great news from this band soon... I've got loads of other interests aside from the band, including sociology, cultural studies and social philosophy, politics, theology, sci-fi and horror, soccer and so forth but Forsaken and Nomad Son ,doom and heavy metal are my passion! I tend to be open-minded and tolerant in any discussion but when it comes to music I am very highly opinionated! This doesn't mean that I don't enjoy other music apart from doom and metal...I'm also into 70s prog and classic rock such as Jethro Tull, Hawkwind, Camel, ELP, Purple and the like...I'm also an ardent vinyl collector and love to hunt down the jewels of yore when music was music and not a ponce jumping around a turn-table! Vinyl Rules...experience the real!

Doom and heavy metal, 70's classic rock and prog, vinyl, classic and contemporary sociology (e.g Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Veblen, Gramsci, Lukasc, Merton, Becker, Foucault, Giddens, Ritzer, Beck), youth subculture theory, Maltese and European political history, theology, animal rights & welfare, classic horror (Lovecraft, Shelley, Poe, Stoker, Conan Doyle etc) some sci-fi, British comedy...English Soccer (namely the legendary Liverpool FC) and my favourite local side - Floriana FC!!! (Come on you boys in Green!!)

Black Sabbath, Judas Priest,Pentagram, Witchfinder General, Angel Witch, Pagan Altar, Place of Skulls, Trouble, St Vitus, Iron Man,Revelation, Count Raven, Candlemass, Krux, Solitude Aeturnus, Thunderstorm, Doom Sword, Reverend Bizarre, Solstice, Pale Divine, Cirith Ungol, Witchfynde, Manilla Road, Dark Quarterer, Dio, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Emerson Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Saxon, Krokus, Raven, Venom, Destruction, Celtic Frost, Possessed, Mercyful Fate/King Daimond, Onslaught,Saint, Axe Witch, Axe Hammer, Battle Axe, Manowar, Sortilege, Ostrogoth (Belgium, NWOBHM), Elixir, Lord Liege, Grim Reaper, Savage, Satan, Tobruk, Tokyo Blade, Avenger, Pariah,Excalibur and all those who have forged metal from true steel!!!

Loads but I'll restrict myself to my two favourite genres:

Classic WWI/WWII movies e.g. A Bridge too Far, The Eagle Has Landed, Where Eagles Dare, Das Boot, Cross of Iron (with James Coburn...great Sven Hassel novel adaptation!), Aces High, Paths of Glory, Midway, Patton, Brige on the River Kwai, Tora, tora, tora!, The Blue Max, The Red Baron, Battle of Britain, Guns of Navaronne, The Great Escape, The Green Berets, The Longest Day, All Quiet on the Western Front and more recent (classic films IMO) like Enemy at the Gates, Saving Private Ryan, Downfall, Schindler's List, The Pianist and Nuremberg. Also love some cool cold war movies like The Crimson Tide, The Whistle Blower,The Hunt for Red October and Red Dawn...

Classic hammer horror movies (e.g. Taste the Blood of Dracula, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing rule!!) and definitely most of the stuff by Dario Argento (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Profondo Rosso [deep red], Tenebre,Two Evil Eyes, Inferno, Opera Phenomena, Non Ho Sonno [Sleepless] etc..by far the master of horror!!!

Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Monty Python, Dad's Army, French and Saunders, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, One foot in the Grave, Bottom, Black Adder, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, Porridge, Fry and Laurie, The Young Ones, The Two Ronnies, The Office, South Park ..the Soap of to end all Soaps... yes...Eastenders!!!, The Persuaders, Colditz, The Professionals, Star Trek...that's about it really...not too chuffed with what passes for TV entertainment these days!!!

Sociology/Political Theory:

Outsiders - H.S. Becker
Prison Notebooks - A. Gramsci
Capital - K.Marx
Economy and Society - M.Weber
Suicide - E.Durkheim
Asylums, Stigma - E. Goffman
Discipline and Punish - M.Foucault
Distinction - P.Bourdieu
Social theory and Social Structure - R.K.Merton
Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang - A.K.Cohen
Delinquency and Drift - David Matza
The Sociological Imagination - C.Wright Mills
Resistance through Ritual - T.Jefferson et al
Subculture - D.Hebdige
McDonaldisation thesis - G.Ritzer
Culture and Imperialism - E.Said
The New Criminology - J.Young
The Exclusive Society - J.Young


Fiction /Classics:

The Hound of Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - E.A Poe
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
At the Mountains of Madness and other novels - HP Lovecraft
1984, Animal Farm - George Orwell
My Family and other Animals - Gerald Durell
The Old Man and the Sea - E. Hemingway
The Power and the Glory - Graham Green
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Foucalt's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco


Popular Fiction:

James Herbert - Fluke, Shrine
Sven Hassel - March Battalion, The Commissar, Court Martial
Clive Barker - Books of Blood series
Stephen King - Night Shift, The Stand, Misery
Dan Simmons - Carrion Comfort


Poetry ; Wilfred Owen, Poe, Lovecraft, Milton etc..