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.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    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.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Oh, Blasphemy is from here, so we are responsible for War Metal. I'm deeply sorry about that.

        • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Oh, and here's a cool norwegian band you should check out btw, Summon The Crows

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9PHOOEv6k

            • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              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.

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                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.

                • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  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.

                  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                    3 years ago

                    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

                    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                      3 years ago

                      Oh yeah, just a totally normal and cool thing to do. The guy got reddit brain before reddit even existed lmao

                      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                        3 years ago

                        I just added an edit. That's nuts toe that shit would fly at all. We're PC as all fuck

                        • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                          3 years ago

                          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.

                          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                            3 years ago

                            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

                            • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                              3 years ago

                              Didn’t mean it as a personal judgement at all

                              Did not take it as that, no worries

                              Metal is different too

                              It definitely is, yeah. I love the music, but the older I get the more disillusioned I get about the scene.