davidlucasbarnes wrote:i gave it a listen but didn't dig it. i've never heard it before, was it really a hit? joy division was way better.
brenton, i was chatting with one guy on here a little while ago about 80's thrash like slayer, voivod, destruction, etc. i love all kinds of music (the cure is actually one of my favourites!) but metal is definitely my forte. what black/death are you into? i went to the maryland deathfest last year to catch bolt thrower, atheist, pestilence, brutal truth, and napalm death, among others. it was AMAZING!
incidentally, i had a metal band called MOTHER DIED TODAY that i just put an end to a few weeks ago. sort of melodic doom/death, people often said we sounded like opeth or older amorphis. we were active for about the last 3 or 4 years, toured western canada several times, made a few recordings, sold all the shirts/stickers/booty shorts merch. if you dig metal you should give it a listen, here's the myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/motherdiedtoday
David, Wow! You guys are/were VERY good! At first listen, reminds me much of the Nordic traditional infused bands like FinnTroll and TYR (from the Faroe Islands of all places!!) My DM/BM favs are: 1349, Gorgoroth, DeathChain, Hate Eternal, Darkthrone, Marduk (esp. when Legion fronted them) Naglafar and a few more staples. I lean toward the more uncompromising black metal strain (I hate my metal watered down) though serious and everlasting hails to all things Slayer who somehow have done the near impossible: become, stayed and deserve popular appeal (by metal standards) while NEVER watering down their music or sound. Christ Illusion is some of the heaviest thrash ever recorded, and that's only a few years ago. My other end of musical taste lands at celtic, traditonal, folk stuff, esp. songs about Newfoundland and old fishing cultures. Great Big Sea (from St. Johns) is an exellent example. So much good music comes from Canada IMHO (Great Lakes Swimmers, BNL's, Stomping Tom, etc.) I think it's because musicans can survive, and are okay with mere survival, and find a small but supportive crowd up there that somehow gets buried down here in "winner takes all" 10 million sold or your dropped sentiment. CBC does a great job of keeping local talent heard and exposed. I even heard a 1st nations only billboard countdown on the radio last week. I had no idea there were so many musicians that would fall under such a heading. And of course you guys have: Cryptosy, Frozen and Despised Icon to name a few harder bands.
I was a drummer in a band over in Marquette, Mi (da UP) for a good couple years called "Con:Sump:Tion" and we played shows, burned a CD and sold a few T's. I bolted from the band when I moved to Duluth. They're still going with a young punk-style drummer who gets the job down, but isn't "metal" in my opinion (single bass pedal for example) It was a blast creating the music and the few shows we got a large crowd for, but the music scene there was very limited, and metal is rarely supported (unless your big and tour large cities) I suppose it's not the reason to play metal or music in general, but one likes to be appreciated eh

It's also a bummer that so few females like hard music, though it makes perfect sense.
I do still play drums in a porn-grind'ish sort of band a la "Anal Cunt" called "mAss gRape (or Ass Rape depending on who's censoring us)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =105748264
We played a camp show a couple weeks ago, including our hits: "I Bought You a Drink (you owe me sex)" and "Too Drunk to Shoot Cops"

Some vids should be up over there. Oh, and don't mind the "we hate hippies" thing. That's Andy the guitar guy. We're all hippies! (and we do probably hate ourselves often)

If you look closely you'll spot my tercel in the background

We were drunk off our asses by stage time.
Being Canadian, have you ever heard of a metal band called "Devastator" from St. John's NFL? I caught them at a city wide arts fest, matched up with a bunch of other low key and alt-bands. They keyed up and straight up emptied the room, except me and about 20 other die hards. Loud, corpse-painted and awesome!
Okay, well you can see I can go on and on about this eh. I wish you lived closer, I really need to just move to Canada.
Brenton
260K with no end in sight....