Thursday, December 29, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
You've probably already thought about this throughout at least once throughout your life, or maybe you haven't. For those that haven't I need for your to listen up for just a bit.
Would you ever go to a restaurant, wine, dine, and enjoy your time then towards the end of your visit you get the check and do nothing but walk out? Would you tell a sculptor to sculpt you a beautiful monument and not pay them? These answer to these questions is 'no'. You should opt to pay for your meal and tip your server and you should pay the sculptor for the beautiful art work. The same applies to musicians. If you listen to an album and really enjoy it it's your duty to PAY your respects. And I emphesize on 'pay' because you should support it as much as you can. If you say "metal is your life" live up to it. Go to shows, buy shirts, cd's, pins, lp's, splits, 7", and donate to the, not so fortunate, touring bands when you can. If a shirt is $7 because they just really need the money to make it to the next couple of towns throw down two 5's. Down loading music has ruined touring for a lot of bands. Not only that but bands are starting to tour souly with shirts. I saw Mayhem this year and I was looking for a cd or vinyl, something, for my boyfriend. NOTHING. I was shocked. They headline festivals and play really big shows. But why would they tour with out music? I wanted to ask their touring guy but didn't want to bother him because I figured he just wanted people around that would buy stuff. They were serious about it too. Not touring with music merch is pretty big now, I learned. And to me that is very unfortunate.
Earlier this month I overheard a conversation on the plane between two friends, A&B. Friend A was saying Friend B is too much of a nerd and dismissing all of what Friend B was interested in. Because Friend A is in a semi-successful metal band he therefore "lives for metal", in a sense he dedicated more of his life and time to it. Friend B knows a lot about musicians, plays music as well, and listens to a lot of different music. Friend A thinks he is more metal than Friend B. Frankly I don't give a shit but I just wanted to show that Friend B loves it just as much, just because you play music doesn't make you superior. Fuck off for a while, eh? I know for a fact Friend B buys more cd's and see's more shows than Friend A. You sound stupid when you say you dedicate your life to it anyway. And I digress; I was just trying to prove a point.
FOAD forever. I wrote this so long ago I don't know where I was going with it. Fuu
Would you ever go to a restaurant, wine, dine, and enjoy your time then towards the end of your visit you get the check and do nothing but walk out? Would you tell a sculptor to sculpt you a beautiful monument and not pay them? These answer to these questions is 'no'. You should opt to pay for your meal and tip your server and you should pay the sculptor for the beautiful art work. The same applies to musicians. If you listen to an album and really enjoy it it's your duty to PAY your respects. And I emphesize on 'pay' because you should support it as much as you can. If you say "metal is your life" live up to it. Go to shows, buy shirts, cd's, pins, lp's, splits, 7", and donate to the, not so fortunate, touring bands when you can. If a shirt is $7 because they just really need the money to make it to the next couple of towns throw down two 5's. Down loading music has ruined touring for a lot of bands. Not only that but bands are starting to tour souly with shirts. I saw Mayhem this year and I was looking for a cd or vinyl, something, for my boyfriend. NOTHING. I was shocked. They headline festivals and play really big shows. But why would they tour with out music? I wanted to ask their touring guy but didn't want to bother him because I figured he just wanted people around that would buy stuff. They were serious about it too. Not touring with music merch is pretty big now, I learned. And to me that is very unfortunate.
Earlier this month I overheard a conversation on the plane between two friends, A&B. Friend A was saying Friend B is too much of a nerd and dismissing all of what Friend B was interested in. Because Friend A is in a semi-successful metal band he therefore "lives for metal", in a sense he dedicated more of his life and time to it. Friend B knows a lot about musicians, plays music as well, and listens to a lot of different music. Friend A thinks he is more metal than Friend B. Frankly I don't give a shit but I just wanted to show that Friend B loves it just as much, just because you play music doesn't make you superior. Fuck off for a while, eh? I know for a fact Friend B buys more cd's and see's more shows than Friend A. You sound stupid when you say you dedicate your life to it anyway. And I digress; I was just trying to prove a point.
FOAD forever. I wrote this so long ago I don't know where I was going with it. Fuu
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Things to be said about 2011
2010 couldn't have left soon enough and 2011 showed me just the right stuff. I met, my current boyfriend, Matt this year, I got some new jobs, I faced new fears, and pissed off a few snobs. I jammed good tunes, I saw good shows, I made new friends, and I got new foes. I didn't burn any bridges yet, still a few days left, but I did build credit and I dug some new debt. Going back to school you say? Come what may; this girls got bills to pay. Try as I might (and I do put up a good fight) to find my place in the world, I guess I'll give in and do what's right.
I honestly just want to have enough money to do what I want; travel, go to shows, eat food, and keep challenging my self. Some people have been a great inspiration to me recently, people that I've known for a long time but it seems that now their greatness is really reflecting on to me. I am very much enjoy it. I'm not stressed and Matt is helping me out a great deal. I vowed to pay him back for all his help. Because when I can, if ever need be, I would like to be the one who helps him out. Alright enough gushiness. On with the music shit.
I've been jamming the same couple bands and have been doing so for the past 5-6 weeks. I can't shake em either. So I guess it's not a bad thing. Disma, Aosoth, Blut Aus Nord, Black Witchery, and Impetuous Ritual. It's no surprise, some of those bands, seeing that I went to RODIII earlier this month.
Before I left to Hawaii I didn't charge my ipod so I was stuck with out music, which wasn't that bad because I just came back from said fest. But the Hawaiian Christmas music was extremely overwhelming. I must have heard the Hawaiian rendition of every Christmas song EVER. That was so wonderful let me tell you what. >:[
The things that draw me to Disma and Impetuous Ritual is the hard driving heavyness. I don't know any better way to put it. I could say it in 20 different ways like a repetitive music reviewer, but I won't because I'm not. Disma to me has a very modern way of incorporating the old death metal sound. I love the Incantation sound that Bill brings and I'll have to add I love the bit of inspiration the rest of the band takes from other old school dm bands. I love listening to their album 'Towards the Megalith' to start my work day or after work. It has the pummeling force to help me over come any anxiety I may get from working such a tedious job.
Impetuous Ritual have been up there with Portal for me ever since I heard them late last year. Being able to see them, and such a new fan of their music was a wonderful experience. Not only did I head bang the heaviest I could during 'Ritual of the Grave' but they were pretty much the only band I head banged for. (Is that correct grammer? Head banged?) I talked with a couple of IR dudes and I got quite an impression from them. They like to party. I did forget to bring my rain coat with me but thankfully I was out of the way of the spit firing range.
Of course Aosoth is up there and has been for a couple months. I can't get enough. The release of III as a instrumental was exciting to find out, but I haven't got around to buying it just yet, unfortunately. It took a while for me to get into 'Ashes of Angels' because the programmed drums were just a bit harsh on my ears, but the rest of the music over powered and it became a very compelling album for me.
Blut Aus Nord, yet another French Black Metal band, I was informally introduced to them in 2005 with the album Work Which Transforms God. It was an odd album out to my taste of music at the time which centered around technical death metal and symphonic black metal. (hehehehe! I was 17. GIVE ME A BREAK)It being the oddity that it was made it stand out more though. I forgot about them for a couple years but then this year they resurfaced and came with a vengeance! Odinist and WWTG are the favorites and I love the idea and the music Vindsval has created, thus far, for his 777 tri-album release. Matt and I have pondered and quarrelled about it for a bit and concluded that they aren't black metal albums, they are more dark industrial post black metal albums. Something like that. But definitely not black metal. Anyone could see that. :P
Last but not least Black Witchery. Now this is a band I've known about since I got my first metal catalog at the age of 15. I don't remember how I got it but it was heaven to me. I studied that thing and tried to get as much music off of it that my pocket could pay. Which wasn't much. You see I was into Slayer and Metallica at that age, and started getting into Death, Emperor, Burzum, and Kreator. I gave Black Witchery a listen and I wasn't too thrilled on them. The years passes and I start talking to a sweet man who lives in Washington. We like a lot of the same music and we hit it off. One of his favorite bands is Black Witchery, you'd think after all the years of being acquainted with the music I'm into I would have at least given them another try? Nope. So I did when they were announced to play MDF in 2012 as to be familiar with their sound. Turns out I love them and I love Blasphemy too!! When they were announced as a replacer for a band on ROD I was thrilled! They were probably the only band that could play a full set after Midnight and Still have people going crazy for them. Glad I was there to witness it.
I honestly just want to have enough money to do what I want; travel, go to shows, eat food, and keep challenging my self. Some people have been a great inspiration to me recently, people that I've known for a long time but it seems that now their greatness is really reflecting on to me. I am very much enjoy it. I'm not stressed and Matt is helping me out a great deal. I vowed to pay him back for all his help. Because when I can, if ever need be, I would like to be the one who helps him out. Alright enough gushiness. On with the music shit.
I've been jamming the same couple bands and have been doing so for the past 5-6 weeks. I can't shake em either. So I guess it's not a bad thing. Disma, Aosoth, Blut Aus Nord, Black Witchery, and Impetuous Ritual. It's no surprise, some of those bands, seeing that I went to RODIII earlier this month.
Before I left to Hawaii I didn't charge my ipod so I was stuck with out music, which wasn't that bad because I just came back from said fest. But the Hawaiian Christmas music was extremely overwhelming. I must have heard the Hawaiian rendition of every Christmas song EVER. That was so wonderful let me tell you what. >:[
The things that draw me to Disma and Impetuous Ritual is the hard driving heavyness. I don't know any better way to put it. I could say it in 20 different ways like a repetitive music reviewer, but I won't because I'm not. Disma to me has a very modern way of incorporating the old death metal sound. I love the Incantation sound that Bill brings and I'll have to add I love the bit of inspiration the rest of the band takes from other old school dm bands. I love listening to their album 'Towards the Megalith' to start my work day or after work. It has the pummeling force to help me over come any anxiety I may get from working such a tedious job. Impetuous Ritual have been up there with Portal for me ever since I heard them late last year. Being able to see them, and such a new fan of their music was a wonderful experience. Not only did I head bang the heaviest I could during 'Ritual of the Grave' but they were pretty much the only band I head banged for. (Is that correct grammer? Head banged?) I talked with a couple of IR dudes and I got quite an impression from them. They like to party. I did forget to bring my rain coat with me but thankfully I was out of the way of the spit firing range.Of course Aosoth is up there and has been for a couple months. I can't get enough. The release of III as a instrumental was exciting to find out, but I haven't got around to buying it just yet, unfortunately. It took a while for me to get into 'Ashes of Angels' because the programmed drums were just a bit harsh on my ears, but the rest of the music over powered and it became a very compelling album for me.Blut Aus Nord, yet another French Black Metal band, I was informally introduced to them in 2005 with the album Work Which Transforms God. It was an odd album out to my taste of music at the time which centered around technical death metal and symphonic black metal. (hehehehe! I was 17. GIVE ME A BREAK)It being the oddity that it was made it stand out more though. I forgot about them for a couple years but then this year they resurfaced and came with a vengeance! Odinist and WWTG are the favorites and I love the idea and the music Vindsval has created, thus far, for his 777 tri-album release. Matt and I have pondered and quarrelled about it for a bit and concluded that they aren't black metal albums, they are more dark industrial post black metal albums. Something like that. But definitely not black metal. Anyone could see that. :PLast but not least Black Witchery. Now this is a band I've known about since I got my first metal catalog at the age of 15. I don't remember how I got it but it was heaven to me. I studied that thing and tried to get as much music off of it that my pocket could pay. Which wasn't much. You see I was into Slayer and Metallica at that age, and started getting into Death, Emperor, Burzum, and Kreator. I gave Black Witchery a listen and I wasn't too thrilled on them. The years passes and I start talking to a sweet man who lives in Washington. We like a lot of the same music and we hit it off. One of his favorite bands is Black Witchery, you'd think after all the years of being acquainted with the music I'm into I would have at least given them another try? Nope. So I did when they were announced to play MDF in 2012 as to be familiar with their sound. Turns out I love them and I love Blasphemy too!! When they were announced as a replacer for a band on ROD I was thrilled! They were probably the only band that could play a full set after Midnight and Still have people going crazy for them. Glad I was there to witness it.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Put off for FAR TOO LONG
I've had this blog for a couple of years now and I've done nothing with it. I would like to change the name of the url to something better, because I have no idea what 'becabs' is. The problem is I don't know how to, if I can.
Alright on with the blog. I just got back from Rites of Darkness III. It was great! No bands were a let down. I don't want to go on about the fest, just know I had a great time. Here are some pictures.
I know in the next few posts you will see insight from my trip and why I liked which bands.
Alright on with the blog. I just got back from Rites of Darkness III. It was great! No bands were a let down. I don't want to go on about the fest, just know I had a great time. Here are some pictures.
I know in the next few posts you will see insight from my trip and why I liked which bands.
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