Heading out to go load gear soon, so I'll make this quick.
We're a 2 piece instrumental metal band, I like to call our genre "Cthulhu doomnoise." The guy who does my tattoos put us in touch with a bar owner who was trying to put together a metal show to benefit a friend of his who was in a motorcycle crash. Cool, we're in! Show is in 2 weeks, short notice, but whatever.
No fucking word from the venue owner until 2 nights ago, and now we're the ONLY metal band on the bill. Before us is a folk/jazz group, and then a party rock rent-a-band style group is doing 90 minutes before us. Nobody wants to bring their own gear, so everyone asked us for drums and amps. We got so fed up with waiting on show details from the owner that was said "fuck this." Owner has done 0 promo or anything, I can't even find websites for the other bands playing.
Now we're just gonna show up with 2 guitars, no drums, and play some Sunn style shit. OR, if the vibe is really bad around 1AM (when we're supposed to go on), we'll just plug our pedal boards into the drummer's switch and play Mario Kart on stage and fuck with the noises from that and call it art.
Fun times.
Update: first band is on and they're a Chicago style blues band and I have no idea what we're doing here.
Definitely do. Here's my hometown favorite.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNf6xg7fpxc
Napalm Raid and System Shit are from here and also got decently known. Decontrol from Winnipeg are one of the best dbeat bands ever. They tried to your, made it to Montreal, got hooked on dope there and lived in a van behind the venue for 10 years after. Their album In Trenches rips hard. Inepsy was huge but Im not into the motorcrust thing, but they were pioneers for that. BC has a huge anarchist black metal/blackened crust scene started with Black Kronstadt and Iskra. Leper and Mutiny are sweet bands from that scene as well. The prairies are all about Mincecore. SixBrewBantha and Aragothles are sick. Massgrave are also from Canada.
Ooohh, I've heard several of these bands, just wasn't aware that they're canadian
Also gotta ask which bands? If they're people I know they may be happy to hear they're known overseas
I've def heard Napalm Raid, Inepsy, and Iskra. And somewhat certain I've heard Massgrave.
Massgrave is Disrupt kinda crust and they have a split with Stormcrow. Napalm Raid's first show was opening for my first band. The guitarist and bassist live across the country now, the drummer still lives here and just had a kid.
That's pretty much the case for anything Canadian anyone has heard of.
In my defense though, one of my all time fav bands of any genre is Voivod, and I've always known they're canadian lol
Our entire Strat as a nation is to just kinda get lost in the noise that is America and go unnoticed, so it comes with the literal territory.
Ya, that makes sense
Oh, Blasphemy is from here, so we are responsible for War Metal. I'm deeply sorry about that.
Oh, and here's a cool norwegian band you should check out btw, Summon The Crows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9PHOOEv6k
Oh, I've heard them a long time ago.
Akrasia has some good stuff too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLB9BdvqHg&t=512s
Never heard them, I dig it.
Ya, it's one of the dudes from Summon The Crows and some others.
I mean, I'm from the country that spawned Varg Vikernes, so who am I to judge you
I will say, early Mayhem has some real good riffs.
Oy yeah, De Mysteriis Dom Satanas is a masterpiece. Just an amazing album.
I actually grew up with one of their current guitarists, and played in some bands with him over the years. I think he basically writes all their material at this point. "Teloch" I think he calls himself.
Isn't the drummer the only OG member and also very much a nazi? I'll enjoy never giving them money and sometimes listening to Deathcrush but id never associate with anyone involved with the band.
Drummer and bassist are OG. Drummer has custom cymbals with "white power" printed on them, so yeah.
About ten or so years ago, I was a live session bassist for a band called Nidingr, and the Mayhem drummer played on an EP they released, so I did two or three gigs with him. I got the impression that he was pretty much just an edgelord who never grew the fuck up because of getting famous-ish at such a young age. I don't think he really believes in anything at all, it's all just shock value. He's older than me, but I pretty much saw him as a child.
With custom made 'white power' symbols...I dunno. We let fucking Conflict know they weren't welcome in Canada for having an anti Muslim immigration song from 2003 and other generally dodgy shit. I can't imagine letting something like that fly
Oh yeah, just a totally normal and cool thing to do. The guy got reddit brain before reddit even existed lmao
I just added an edit. That's nuts toe that shit would fly at all. We're PC as all fuck
I was nowhere near as politically aware back then as I am know, but it really didn't sit right with me.
There's no fucking way I'd share a stage with him today.
Didn't mean it as a personal judgement at all, just that he'd even be allowed on a stage without getting a beatdown is weird. Metal is different too
Did not take it as that, no worries
It definitely is, yeah. I love the music, but the older I get the more disillusioned I get about the scene.