It seems I’m not alone in digging it though. I recorded some crap at the start of this year with another bloke. The first four songs were for the EP we were meant to release, but he’s done nothing with it, so I decided to chuck it on this myspace so I can at least show it to some people. I’m playing drums, bass and synth on it, while he does guitars and vocals.
The last two songs was crap we recorded when we were 19, about a couple of years ago. I’m not entirely proud of them, but they’re fun to compare to the new ones.
Would love to hear opinions. I somehow don’t think this will be to full-on BM fans tastes, as it gets a bit digressive. anywaaay…
not really… there isn’t much of a black metal ‘scene’ here any way, and very few people are aware black metal even exists anyway. as for the ‘scene’, expect no more than 30-50 people at gigs, who are generally a bunch of drunk yobbos or geeks with long hair. which makes sense, given how expressly anti-social the music potrays itself as.
I used to live in Launceston - Tasmania, most of the “black metal” gigs were the same, 20-40 or so people, but most were long-haired skinny nerds wearing cannibal corpse t-shirts “goin ohhhfff”
I went to a few that got pretty big, 100+ people (in a small bar this is), a few got up into the corpse paint and stuff, others just there because cheap cover and they like pantera thus any metal must be good.
snicker I just remembered - I know it’s not black metal - but I went to an underage Frankenbok - Dreadnaught gig years back in Tassie, it was me, and another dude and his girlfriend - that was it. They still played all through their sets, despite that fact that their awkward audience wouldn’t go near the stage. Members of the other band rocked out for them though.
The 18+ gig that night sold out however and was incredibly packed I hear. (again, tiny venue)
More black metal ‘fans’ turned up to screenings of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy then ever turn up to black metal gigs in Melbourne.
If there even are any black metal gigs in Melbourne, that is.
I guess it’s just way to sunny and laid back here for that shit. And young people are too busy getting loaded and beating each other half to death outside nightclubs to bother with the darker side of metal.
I used to see a few folks in Burzum t-shirts some years back tho’.
I guess it’s just way to sunny and laid back here for that shit. And young people are too busy getting loaded and beating each other half to death outside nightclubs to bother with the darker side of metal.
I used to see a few folks in Burzum t-shirts some years back tho’.
Yeah they are probably in jail now for beating each other half to death outside nightclubs.
More black metal ‘fans’ turned up to screenings of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy then ever turn up to black metal gigs in Melbourne.
If there even are any black metal gigs in Melbourne, that is.
I guess it’s just way to sunny and laid back here for that shit. And young people are too busy getting loaded and beating each other half to death outside nightclubs to bother with the darker side of metal.
I used to see a few folks in Burzum t-shirts some years back tho’.
It’s funny you mention that.
I went to a recent black metal gig at the Arthouse, on Elizabeth St in Melbourne.
That was pretty much one of the most violent nights I’ve even been in attendance of.
Throw this into the mix; there were NSBM folk there to cause trouble on account of a ‘fuck socialism’ axe to grind due to the fact their band had been disallowed from performing there, in large part due to the Arthouse’s leftist affiliations, there were regular troublemakers who just saw the gig as little more than an opportunity to cause trouble, and other folk from interstate who pretty much had the ‘anything goes if you’re away from home’ mentality.
Silly. Stupid.
Did anyone check out my cheerful jolly songs of worship?