Niels [ drums ]
Member since: 2003

Full name: Niels Jordaan
Day of Birth: September 19, 1980

Equipment:
Pearl Export drums
Zildjian, Paiste and Wuhan cymbals
Vic Firth sticks

Personal biography: ...

Most influential bands: Anathema, The Gathering, My Dying Bride, Opeth, a Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, Tool, The Cure and more...
Most influential musicians: Devin Townsend, Mikael Äkerfelt, Neal Morse, Roger Waters, Duncan Patterson, Robert Smith, Maynard James Keenan, David Gilmour, Nick d’Virgillio, Virgil Donati, Danny Carey, Anneke van Giersbergen, Mike Portnoy, Terry Bozzio, Martin Lopez, Neil Peart.

Current playlist (20-01-05):
Opeth - Deliverance
The Cure - The Cure
The Cure - Bloodflowers
The Gathering - If-then-else
A Perfect Circle - Thirteen
My Dying Bride - Turn loose the swans
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

First bought record:
I’m not sure but probably some album by Europe or Def Leppard.

Favorite Movies: American History X, Requiem for a Dream, Fucking Amal, Festen, American Beauty,
Dancer in the Dark, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, The Game, Trainspotting, The Passion of the Christ, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Birdy, The Green Mile, The World according to Garp, One lew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Shadow of the Vampire and many more...
Favorite Actors: Robert de Niro, Jack Nickolson, Kevin Spacey, Juliette Lewis, Billy Bob Thornton and more...

Favorite books:
'When Nietzsche Wept' by I.D. Yalom
'Essays of Love' by Alain de Botton
'The Screwtape Letters' by C.S. Lewis
'Narcissus and Goldmund' and 'Demian' by Hermann Hesse
'Letters From a Skeptic' by Dr. Gegory A. Boyd & Edward K. Boyd
'Sophie's World' by Jostein Gaarder

Favorite IAAS song:
That would probably be RS.
Least favorite IAAS song:
Abstracted or Nocturnal Whisperings.

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