The New England Compendium Maleficarum (Planned New England Black Metal Compiliation). A Letter of Intent.[views:131065][posts:376]___________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 4:33pm - GRAVESIDESERVICE ""] Arktourus, thanks for checking it out. I am glad someone enjoyed something we did, haha. Hope to work on this. Enjoy brother... |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 4:33pm - arktouros ""] BOBDEAD said:I vote HAXEN... without question. |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 4:36pm - slag in car ""] nice job takin over this comp guys! i think i pretty well understand that black metal isn't about recording quality and more abt atmosphere feeling etc. im just not super interested in putting a fuckin song recorded with 1-mic in a basement on here. the deathgod stuff sounds great and so doesnt horn of valere. I am offering you a chance for a free recording.. so if you think you can do better than what you already have, the option is there. and as far as bands are concerned, i could care less what anyone says on rttp about you. if you are from NE, have a good bm song, as far as i am concerned, you can be included. Nobody needs to get preachy or butthurt about this comp. Im not doing it if it turns into a popularity contest. if you want in, send me a emaail |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 4:42pm - arktouros ""] ^^^ absolutely...and you know full well - that i'm aware this is your project, and also that i know you and every detail you're looking for. NO HOMO... |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 4:45pm - Paul CNV ""] slag%20in%20car said:nice job takin over this comp guys! i think i pretty well understand that black metal isn't about recording quality and more abt atmosphere feeling etc. im just not super interested in putting a fuckin song recorded with 1-mic in a basement on here. the deathgod stuff sounds great and so doesnt horn of valere. I am offering you a chance for a free recording.. so if you think you can do better than what you already have, the option is there. and as far as bands are concerned, i could care less what anyone says on rttp about you. if you are from NE, have a good bm song, as far as i am concerned, you can be included. Nobody needs to get preachy or butthurt about this comp. Im not doing it if it turns into a popularity contest. if you want in, send me a emaail I would like to try recording a track at your studio |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 4:56pm - DYA / NLI ""] slag%20in%20car said:nice job takin over this comp guys! i think i pretty well understand that black metal isn't about recording quality and more abt atmosphere feeling etc. im just not super interested in putting a fuckin song recorded with 1-mic in a basement on here. the deathgod stuff sounds great and so doesnt horn of valere. I am offering you a chance for a free recording.. so if you think you can do better than what you already have, the option is there. and as far as bands are concerned, i could care less what anyone says on rttp about you. if you are from NE, have a good bm song, as far as i am concerned, you can be included. Nobody needs to get preachy or butthurt about this comp. Im not doing it if it turns into a popularity contest. if you want in, send me a emaail Eh - I'm just psyched for the idea, and (like probably most of the bands) want it to be something I can support and be involved in. If it was just a big demo sampler of whatever bands, it'd be ok; if it's a snapshot of the best of what NE has to offer, it could be amazing. |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 4:57pm - slag in car ""] for the record, i like the graveside service songs and they will have a song on this comp if they email me. |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 5:02pm - DYA / NLI ""] well yeah |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 5:36pm - arilliusbm ""] Yea, I mean it's a great idea. It's been being talked about for a few years; it's good to see it finally come to reality. |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 5:46pm - arilliusbm ""] alright emailed you. I'm going to see of abaroth interested, too. i also have an infernecron track that was never put on anything but I don't wanna submit more than one project. good luck with this.. Lemme know if there's anything I can do to help |
| ______________________________ [Feb 28,2010 5:54pm - Slag ""] arktouros said:^^^ absolutely...and you know full well - that i'm aware this is your project, and also that i know you and every detail you're looking for. NO HOMO... NO HOMO NO TAKEBACKS. I hope you guys expect nothing but the best BM comp. It is going to be nothing but. I won't release it otherwise, lol. |
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| ____________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 6:09pm - arilliusbm ""] Alright just called xammael chris and he said abaroth would be down. Also, here's a good project from a dude that lives near me. I've never met him or anything- not sure if any of you guys know him http://www.myspace.com/summonbuer |
| ___________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 6:17pm - slar you morbid? ""] slag, witchtomb is an essential addition to this, if you like deathgod messiah thatd be pretty cool too, (we have new songs in the works just sayin) also, i have a solo project i am starting to record right now, if you're down i might take you up on the offer to record a track at your place check out the myspace www.myspace.com/pestiferous |
| ___________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 6:19pm - slar you morbid? ""] those are way old songs btw, the new stuff is a bit more experimental |
| ______________________________ [Feb 28,2010 6:48pm - Slag ""] arilliusbm said:Alright just called xammael chris and he said abaroth would be down. Also, here's a good project from a dude that lives near me. I've never met him or anything- not sure if any of you guys know him http://www.myspace.com/summonbuer Really like "the delicate sound of torture". |
| _________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 6:49pm - Conservationist ""] Ask Night Conquers Day. They're NE, right? |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 7:05pm - Paul CNV ""] Nope...they are from New York |
| ______________________________ [Feb 28,2010 7:08pm - Slag ""] Please send me your dirtiest songs. |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 7:15pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Feelings Hurter should contribute a track. LOL |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 7:19pm - AndrewBastard ""] hahah Between Marcus, Mike and I, I think we already have 4-5 bands on this comp hahah |
| __________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 7:39pm - goatcatalystnli ""] arktouros said: goatcatalyst said:can my nsbm side project be on this? why the hell not sikk!!! 1488 brothers!!! |
| ______________________________ [Feb 28,2010 8:39pm - Slag ""] goatcatalystnli said: arktouros said: goatcatalyst said:can my nsbm side project be on this? why the hell not sikk!!! 1488 brothers!!! Ryan, what is your side project and is it any good? |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 8:40pm - AndrewBastard ""] DeathcampNazi 88 ...its pretty good. |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 8:43pm - blessed offal ""] me and jays greek bm worship band Naked Zeus should be on this |
| __________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 8:43pm - Archaeon ""] Can my pop-punk band be on it? |
| ______________________________ [Feb 28,2010 8:56pm - Slag ""] I think with the amount of responses I am getting for this, only the best songs are going to be chosen. I think it is going to be a 2 cd maximum, or 144 minutes. A panel of people will choose what songs will and will not make it. As mentioned, this should be the best of what New England has to offer. It's not a popularity contest, but not every New England BM band is going to make it on this comp. Most will, but not all. |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 28,2010 8:57pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Archaeon said:Can my pop-punk band be on it? Only if the pink strat goes on the cover. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 6:17am - josh_hates_you ""] slag%20in%20car said:nice job takin over this comp guys! hahaha. you are gonna see why there is no NEIWP vol. II this is one reason. also forget about the 2 disc thing for now. concentrate on one quality disc. if you get enough material then think double disc or volumes one and 2. this sort of thing will be better figured out after you figure out your finances. I assume you are doing this for promotion (of bands,your studio, nebm in general) not for profit. after you price out copies and packaging, shipping, set up fees of one disc vs. 2. Number of bands on your cd (black metal songs tend to be longer) etc. you'll know what to charge bands if you go that route. if you pay for it yourself you can make your money back and profit but then you get into copyright bs especially if any bands are on labels. promotion vs profit. another reason i say forget the double disc idea is that a lot of folks wont follow thru. NEIWP vol 1 had almost 50 bands express interest. about 35 actually signed up and said they would definitely get material to me. 22 bands did. Granted you have a little more time to work with so that might pan out in your favor. as for the recording quality i think that was a major downfall of the last comp. granted the thing was mastered in sound forge and ozone but the volumes of all the tracks i got where all over the map as were the amounts of compression. pro mastering will fix this to a degree but with levels and compressing that far apart it would have been a nightmare for any mastering engineer to work with. its best if you get the raw wav files of the final mix before the mastering but most bands dont have access to that, just the mastered copies, which as we said are all over the place compared to one another. Also, I personally dont like the basement one microphone sounding shitty black metal recordings either. i dont care how trve kvlt a certain band is. if it sounds like tin cans and chanting echoing horribly in a basement amid some squeals that repesent a guitar tone i dont want to fucking hear it. also the voting thing but then saying its not a poulartiy contest is kinda weird. wait till you start collecting material from people before making these statements. im sure only more arguing will ensue as to the true kult status and why one band deserves to be on the comp and another doesn't. but it's not my comp im just sharing my 2 cents through my personal expiriences of putting together a comp like this. let me know if you have any specific questions. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 6:31am - josh_hates_you ""] just re-read your post. It mentions release date but nothing about how its gonna be distributed. Ties in with the # of copies, packaging, price to charge bands, etc. Giving them away? Copies to the bands? Distros? are they selling it or using it for promotion? Sending it to newbury comics? Selling it yourself? (there's that profit vs promotion thing again) just giving you something else to think about. if i randomly think of anything else i'll post. |
| _____________________________ [Mar 1,2010 7:37am - Yeti ""] DestroyYouAlot said: FuckIsMySignature said: josh_hates_you said:e-mail sent. haha. scaphism raping a black metal compilation. we can haz makes black metal musics Not fer nuthin', dude, but it's not like if this were a ska comp or something where you can just do a novelty song that sounds like the genre you're emulating and that's all there is to it. It could sound great but Scaphism is still a rape-and-Star-Wars-themed silly DM band. An excellent one, IMO, but this is BM; the music is like half to a third of the art in question, and you can't really switch-hit or fence-sit. [/ black metal commissar] well perhaps you'd like to actually learn a little bit about what he was talking about before jumping to conclusions. we've been putting together a side project of black metal songs for a while now, considering all of the band members are avid fans. but i suppose if we aren't locally kvlt enough then i guess it's cool to just shoot us out of the sky. kind of fucked up if you ask me. |
| _____________________________ [Mar 1,2010 7:39am - Yeti ""] it's not even under the Scaphism name, he just said we were interested. we take what we do very seriously, it may seem like a joke to everyone else, and it is tongue-in-cheek, but that doesn't take away from our heart. it also doesn't mean we aren't capable of writing what we love on the side, us 4 being long time fans of black metal. this isn't a fucking band wagon jump, it's a chance for us to put out something else we love. that comment was uncalled for and really pissed me off. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 7:48am - Slag NLI ""] Yeti said:it's not even under the Scaphism name, he just said we were interested. we take what we do very seriously, it may seem like a joke to everyone else, and it is tongue-in-cheek, but that doesn't take away from our heart. it also doesn't mean we aren't capable of writing what we love on the side, us 4 being long time fans of black metal. this isn't a fucking band wagon jump, it's a chance for us to put out something else we love. that comment was uncalled for and really pissed me off. Tony, i'm down to hear what you have. Again, what is said on RTTP is not going to affect what goes on this comp. If it sounds good and if I think it will be a good fit for this comp... then we'll talk further. I need to hear it first. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 7:57am - Slag NLI ""] josh_hates_you said:just re-read your post. It mentions release date but nothing about how its gonna be distributed. Ties in with the # of copies, packaging, price to charge bands, etc. Giving them away? Copies to the bands? Distros? are they selling it or using it for promotion? Sending it to newbury comics? Selling it yourself? (there's that profit vs promotion thing again) just giving you something else to think about. if i randomly think of anything else i'll post. As of right now, this compilation will be 100% free online. This is strictly a promotional tool for the bands. I'm trying to gauge the work of having a studio/record label under my control, so in a way, i'm using this as a tool myself. Any band on this comp will NOT have to buy cd's.... HOWEVER, cd's will be available for purchase by bands so the band (not myself) CAN turn a profit. The ratio for how much profit can be made will strictly be influenced by how many bands want to buy cd's. There is sliding discount for cd's made in bulk... so the more we do, the cheaper they are, the more profit and promotion the bands get. I am not looking to make anything off this cd. |
| __________________________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 8:11am - you can't handle the truth ""] lol at this being a dick pulling contest by people who know nothing about blackmetal!! bunch of vultures swarming in to get their scraps of kvlt faggot status!! |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 8:42am - DestroyYouAlot ""] Sorry to bum you out, man, but Yeti said:it's not even under the Scaphism name, he just said Scaphism, specifically, by name, was interested. is maybe a bit confusing then? Not sure how I'd gather that this wasn't Scaphism if that's specifically what was offered, but sometimes I'm a bit literal - anybody a bit more neurotypical get a different impression? And beyond that, Tom, you've said on here at least once that you "love black metal [music] but hate black metal attitude", so I'm just a bit confused as to why you'd want to be involved in this in the first place - without the one, the other would seem to lack a bit of substance. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 8:49am - RichHorror ""] haha, yeah. I don't know why anyone would think otherwise. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 8:50am - DestroyYouAlot ""] Maybe a bit more clear where I'm coming from, now? |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 8:52am - RichHorror ""] Rampant Decay are coming over tonight and giving your old lady the high hard one. But not Rampant Decay, Rampant Decay. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 8:53am - DestroyYouAlot ""] This should be an oppressive, crushing monolith of "black metal attitude" or we're selling a good scene short. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:07am - Slag NLI ""] DestroyYouAlot said:This should be an oppressive, crushing monolith of "black metal attitude" or we're selling a good scene short. I also agree with this statement... to a point. This comp is about the music. We as a New England scene and I as a organizer/engineer have to put our names to something and it needs to be the very best, or I do not want to be a part of it. For me, sacrifice the individual for the greater good or something to that effect. If there are a few NEBM bands that don't "fit the bill" or the songs don't belong, they will be passed over for other bands. As much as it stinks for the people not making it, this is the way it is going to be. I want a "sweeping, comprehensive and painful" catalog of bands for this comp. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:11am - arilliusbm ""] DestroyYouAlot said:This should be an oppressive, crushing monolith of "black metal attitude" or we're selling a good scene short. well honestly, not many bands around here actually have members actively practicing the occult and/or black arts so it's already sold short. ;) |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:11am - DestroyYouAlot ""] strictly for people who offend their friends on the internet, by people who offend their friends on the internet LOL |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:13am - DestroyYouAlot ""] arilliusbm said: DestroyYouAlot said:This should be an oppressive, crushing monolith of "black metal attitude" or we're selling a good scene short. well honestly, not many bands around here actually have members actively practicing the occult and/or black arts so it's already sold short. ;) Says you. Not everyone's beliefs and practices are for public consumption. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:16am - arilliusbm ""] Just sayin'. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:19am - arktouros ""] DestroyYouAlot said:Not everyone's beliefs and practices are for public consumption. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:23am - DestroyYouAlot ""] There's a bit more to black metal mysticism then belonging to the right necro book of the month club; personally I hold no spiritual leader in higher esteem than myself. Do I need to lay out a schematic of my spiritual patrons and worldview to be in the club? Or is there something to the idea that setting it in stone and making it public robs it of any power it might have otherwise had? (Several well-known figures have argued it to be so.) [/watching facebook friends drop like flies, lol] |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:29am - arilliusbm ""] As long as it ain't CoS bullshit than I could care less what anyone believes. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:32am - DestroyYouAlot ""] Wait, Church of Satan or Church of Scientology? 'Cause I was totally just talking about my deep personal relationship with Xenu and am now extremely offended by your cruel and heartless remarks. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 1,2010 9:33am - FuckIsMySignature ""] jeez i guess we'll just keep our black metal to ourselves. |