You know, I'm still feeling pretty down, but my new Fury In The Slaughterhouse finally arrived from whatever retailer imported it here to the states and then sold it to me through Amazon, and it is everything I hoped it would be thusfar. So far all the songs make me feel better and ditch the more AOR rock feel for the more of cynic/bleak rock they've always done so well. I'm only about 4 songs into the 16 track CD (I got the special edition with the 1 extra song) but thusfar it's exactly what I wanted in a new album from them. So while the world is not okay, it's a little bit better.

Thanks guys. Glad you're still kicking ass over in Germany. Maybe one day I'll see you live.