Is there a typical Black Metal musician? (and other musings)
OK, I admit, I’m a bit at a loose end until I have to meet up with some associates for some cover band business. (I told you I was a musician). I’m sitting here listening to some good organ jazz and while I was killing a little time, I felt like typing a little.
By now you’re already probably asking yourself, “What the fuck kind of black metal musician is this guy?” I can’t answer that - probably neither can you. And what the hell is a typical black metal musician anyway? Some dude living alone in a house with a bunch of instruments and albums, making music on a four-track machine and writing lyrics about how life sucks until he’s downstairs (preferably by his own hand) hanging out with the horned one? I can’t speak for any of those kinds of people (and don’t want to), but I’ll never take away from them their ability to make intense music.
I am not a “depressed” person. I have anxiety issues but I don’t consider that to be “depression”. My doctor’s printout had “anxiety with depression” marked on the sheet, so I’m not sure if that was an error on the cleric’s part or if technically, anxiety is a form of depression. I don’t give a shit. If the depression part is a misdiagnosis or not, I’m going to make fun of that diagnosis with my music.
I have never dressed in corpsepaint or wore typical black metal clothes, but for fun, as part of this project and to conceal my real-life identity and separate it from who Sigfried Eponymous is (especially since I do other kinds of music part-time under my everyday identity and have a full-time day job as well), I will most likely don corpsepaint and black clothes for the first promo picture. I am grateful that I have an excellent camera with an auto-timer for when that time comes.
I will discuss my spiritual beliefs in some detail in a separate post sometime later, those are not fully relevant to this post anyway. (Also, for a reason I’ll get into in a moment, I can’t say for sure right now how relevant my own spiritual beliefs would affect the lyrics of From Out Of The Skies.) But I am not some theistic Satanist in the supposed tradition of some of Norway’s early pioneers. Don’t expect anything like the WWE-like rantings of Øystein “Euronymous” Aarseth or Kristian “Varg” Vikernes (or whatever the hell his name is this week) gave Kerrang! magazine back in the day from me. (I do like pro wrestling and always have, but that’s another story entirely.)
The form the first From Out Of The Skies release is going to take is still up in the air. I start recording tomorrow. The basics of the first song are already composed. Lyrics may not come right away, as I tend to record instrumental versions first, keep the rough mix of those on my iPod and on a demo CDR, and write lyrics at home. (This is why I said in the previous paragraph that I don’t know how my spiritual beliefs would or will affect the lyrical content.)
I must warn you, my friends, that as multi-instrumental as I am, there won’t be live drums on these first recordings. I was much better at drumming when I was able to sneak behind the drummer’s kit on a regular basis and play, and none of the drummers I ever worked with used a double-kick setup. Therefore, the drums are going to be digitally-based and I can say most likely that the KVLT Drums plug-in will be coming into play. (I will say with my initial experiments with the software that I wish things were programmable right in the program itself; I will have to, therefore, do that in the DAW itself.)
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