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03-29-2010, 01:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Frederick, Maryland | | | Practice reached a new level of awesome yesterday...
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So, i joined a black metal(ish) band with some good friends a month ago.
So far things are going very well. BUT... our songs are on the more ambient/droney side of things and practice can get a little boring.
Well... yesterday was... different.
Why was it different?
Well, the band leader (who is Norweigen and JUST returned to the states from attending college there)... answered the door in black leather pants, white high tops... and nothing else.
He then said (in an awesome Metalocalypse-esque voice) "today we try somethink new... today we practice our circles."
Circles, apparently, reffers to headbanging in a circle.
He then went on... "but we need the right circling atmosphere"
We proceded to the band room, which was dark... except for about a dozen brutal looking candles.
And so, we went over the droney 8+ min. long songs practicing our 'circles' in brutal ambience. And today my neck is killing me... but man, i had a great time.
No real point to the story, just, crazy how much of a difference altering your surroundings can make practice. 
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03-29-2010, 01:36 PM
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03-29-2010, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Herrlster  Lame. | ouch
sounds righteous. but head banging in a candle lit room strapped with leather playing ambient music sounds incredibly off-base for me....
enjoy your neck injury.
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03-29-2010, 01:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Portland | | | If you look at pictures of some of the older metalheads, you start to see some muscular necks. It's actually quite remarkable. Perhaps OP is hurting today, but if he keeps it up he *may* end up with whiplash insurance.
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03-29-2010, 01:43 PM
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03-29-2010, 01:45 PM
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03-29-2010, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Yerf Dog Pics or no brutal looking candles. | well... half brutal... about 5 of them were flower scented bed-bath-and-beyond candles... fragrant fo sho... but not too bru-bru.
Also, in regards to head-banging... waist length dread locks don't exactly help in bangover pains 
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03-29-2010, 01:52 PM
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03-29-2010, 01:55 PM
| | | | if i ever walked into rehearsal & the singer was wearing only leather pants & white shoes i would turn around & bolt.
where do you even find leather pants?
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03-29-2010, 02:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Montreal, Quebec | | | Haha. Sounds fun. Don't listen to the old farts telling making fun of your neck injury and what not. Old farts : ).
I've found that being in a dance-punk and a black metal band, there is sometimes an awesome environment to play in.
My black metal band was in a large, dark, dark, dark warehouse. My dance-punk band was in an extremely small room, where the other member (drummer) and I could barely fit. Made it exciting.
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03-29-2010, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by jnuts1 if i ever walked into rehearsal & the singer was wearing only leather pants & white shoes i would turn around & bolt.
where do you even find leather pants? | I happen to find leather pants quite stylish 
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03-29-2010, 02:23 PM
| | | | i find it hard to get bored with ambient music, unless it's just repetitive. however i find black/death metal cookie monster crap boring and repetitive as hell... i guess it's all perception
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03-29-2010, 02:39 PM
| | | | well i question your taste in fashion then
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03-29-2010, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by jnuts1 if i ever walked into rehearsal & the singer was wearing only leather pants & white shoes i would turn around & bolt. | I would think it should depend on the singer Quote: |
where do you even find leather pants?
| the leather pants store, duh.
OP: sounds silly, weird, creepy, and fun... which, to my understanding, are the proper elements for any black metal band.
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03-30-2010, 05:38 AM
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I know a couple of guys who formed a black metal band around 1995 or 1996, wrote some songs, made big spiked armbands, rehearsed, and played their first gig. Their arms were killing them after just a few songs because they never practiced with the heavy armbands on. They learned that lesson and wore those things to practice for a few weeks till they got used to them.
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03-30-2010, 05:56 AM
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03-30-2010, 05:57 AM
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03-30-2010, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by jumbosilverette Hey, that's great you had an awesome practice... | Absolutely! But... Quote:
Originally Posted by chokeslam512 Candles plus circles equals bad news.... | Sounds like a good way to light your hair on fire!  Quote:
Originally Posted by jnuts1 where do you even find leather pants? | Norway.
Or Hollywood.
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