Random metal related thoughts

[hellfire]

How do bands with day jobs organise extensive tours?

[The Great Cull]

Thread for all those single reply things that clog up the site all the time. Not particular bands being promoted etc but when there's a random thought that doesn't deserve a thread.

I'll start,

It's equally brilliant and absolutely fucking mock when the vocalist does the in between song banter in character.

Eg some of my favourite ever metal moments involve this very thing but when I get down to thinking of it, it's fairly shit in terms of authenticity.

Anyway, over to the rest of ye lads

I agree, the likes of Cannibal Corpse is both cringe and entertaining at the same time. I wouldn't change a thing ha ha ha

There is a nice space somewhere between being in character like this or being someone like Tim Sult from Clutch who generally performs looking at his feet while trying to remember if he left the immersion on or not.

[ochoill]

How do bands with day jobs organise extensive tours?

With either lenient jobs or great difficulty.  I assume in most cases they are taking unpaid leave or all their holidays in one run.  Assuming they keep the same job for a long time that is.

Sort of related but I remember seeing the Isis DVD years ago and one section had the lads talking about doing all these decent tours and festivals in the EU etc, but nobody realises they still go home afterwards and work stacking shelves in a shop.  I was about 19 seeing this and it shocked me that they weren't sustaining themselves off the band.

[hellfire]

Yeah, I feel a bit sorry for mid level bands at the moment. The money isn't what it used to be. A band the size of Primordial would have earned enough to keep themselves if it was 1995.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Mille Petrozza screeching between songs isn't as much craic as it used to be.

Just once, I'd love to see a Kreator show, where a song ends, and then they just launch into Flag of Hate, instead of Mille taking ten minutes to screech nothing but "It's time to raise the flag of... louder" over and over.

[Necro Red]

Is the metal scene/fans here in Ireland ageing? Just an observation from the shows I've been to the last few years.

[astfgyl]

Is the metal scene/fans here in Ireland ageing? Just an observation from the shows I've been to the last few years.

Yes, definitely. Many reasons why but a major one is that I wouldn't be found at the gigs the young lads go to, as much as they won't be found at the likes of Emperor or Swans or Godflesh. I was talking to a lad who went to Atreyu last week and they're not even that new but he's a decade younger than me and it just wouldn't be on my radar at all

[jpm4]

Depends on the gig.Lot of young people at the Eyehategod gig in Dublin which surprised me.

[Trev]

Don't get to many gigs these days, but Municipal Waste was the last one and there was a fairly sizeable young crowd at it, was great to see while I stood at the back with a pint and aching joints

[astfgyl]

Depends on the gig.Lot of young people at the Eyehategod gig in Dublin which surprised me.

That is surprising tbh. Where did they even hear of them considering they've been fairly underground forever?

[Mower Liberation Front]

We're in late November, and I think Gene Hoglan has actually managed to avoid saying "We're looking to release the new Dark Angel album next year" at all this year. 

[jpm4]

Depends on the gig.Lot of young people at the Eyehategod gig in Dublin which surprised me.

That is surprising tbh. Where did they even hear of them considering they've been fairly underground forever?
surprised me.

Dunno, maybe the support bands brought them out.

[hellfire]

Depends on the gig.Lot of young people at the Eyehategod gig in Dublin which surprised me.

That is surprising tbh. Where did they even hear of them considering they've been fairly underground forever?

One theory might be that Anselmo was wearing their shirts in an awful lot of Pantera photos.

[Eoin McLove]

That was back in the 90s so more influential on our generation, no?

[Paul keohane]

Certainly with DM gigs here ,the crowd seem to be mostly 30s/40s.

But in general,(in Cork anyway) the number of younger metal heads strolling around seems be be less and less.

Now,I do think lots of people are into metal,but dont look/dress like out and out metal heads.