Kuala Lampur, Dec. 14 -- One of the biggest surprises this year was finding myself suddenly being in two bands, and spending most of the year being thoroughly stimulated musically as I dug pretty deep to write, record and release not only my new band Playburst's debut album but also writing, recording and trying to finish my long time band Couple's long delayed fourth studio album.

So that meant listening to quite a lot of albums in order to find inspiration and to learn a trick or two with regards to production and arrangement, which also meant that since my two bands are nowhere near metal, and I just had to spend most of my spare time listening to as many records that are relevant to my two bands, there won't be any metal stuff on my ...