I've got a new website HERE It's an extreme metal community with a forum, and it is open to anyone who is into any kind of metal, not exclusive to black metal, or death metal. Please, if you have the time go by and check it out, and maybe join up if you wish. I know I'd appreciate it!
Last night was horrible. Bune never showed up to play, the monitors were all messed up. The crowd was NOT a black metal crowd at all... If i never have to play another show like that again, I'll be quite happy... But i guess that's all part of being in a band, hah.
My band, Mysteriarch, will be playing our last show with guitarist, Bune, at Tremont Music Hall this Sunday. We will miss playing with Bune and there are no hard feelings. Anyway... other than that, I'm back online now, so I can post more often. Thats some good news right?
So last night was the third annual Metal Massacre festival in Raleigh, North Carolina. The fest featured a nice selection of local talent, including Daylight Dies, who are currently signed to Candlelight Records. My band, Mysteriarch was among the bands on the bill.
The first band of the night, in my humble opinion, was not a metal band at all, but a 60s and 70s rock cover band by the name of Praetorius, they didn't generate a good turn out at all, there were about 5 people there to see
The White EP is the latest effort from Oregon's premiere neofolk/pagan metal band, Agalloch. In my opinion it is one of their best works to date, second only to The Mantle.
This EP is mostly instrumental, with one spoken word part on the song "Birch White
I have just put a new wiki page up at Really Long Link I have not added any bands to it yet, but will do so as soon as i get the chance. Until then, feel free to join and add some bands or info if you would like, it is, after all, a wiki page.
So now that I've gotten my first post out of the way, and everyone knows what this blog is and isn't about.... I thought it might be a good idea to see where you all stand on the matter of corpsepaint.
Corpsepaint is a timeless tradition in black metal, and is one of the defining characteristics of the genre in general. In many cases, bands are called black metal simply because they wear corpsepaint. But is it still needed in Black Metal? Has it outlived its usefulness in the genre? Or was it always ridiculous and partly responsible for many people not liking black metal?
I just wanted to make it very clear that this is not an mp3 blog. If you've stumbled across this blog in hopes of finding rare black metal mp3s, you've come to the wrong place. The intent and purpose of this blog is to post news and updates about black metal bands. I will never link to any mp3's that are not hosted directly on a band or label permitted site. So if all you are interested in is finding black metal albums for free download, you won't find what you're looking for within this blog.