I have precisely one Bathory album...it was OK, but it wasn't good enough to make me a fan.
Speaking of which, how is Hoarfrost faring these days, Ny?
Quite the tale of ups and downs, hahaha. We were signed to a local label, but they were trying to pressure us into the studio before we were ready, and we broke up for a good bit due to that and some other junk. Not a very happy period.
However, all problems have been sorted out, and we have reformed and now have a new/permanent/awesome bassist named Craig in addition to the original line-up. It's smooth sailing and we're much stronger than before.
Right now we are gearing up towards our first local show, with Damascus, one of the more popular bands in town (they're great progressive death metal without being wankers about it like some proggy bands can be). Trevor Birnie from that band is also the new vocalist for Quo Vadis, and he's a cool guy - I've been going to their shows for about 3, maybe 3 1/2 years now.
They're doing a video shoot for this show, so we're expecting some good exposure to new fans in addition to our friends - and probably
a lot of exposure since Damascus hasn't played a show since early October because Trev was on tour with Quo Vadis, plus the whole video shoot bit. Should be good times for us
Currently, we have one track up on our MySpace page ('Under the Bloody Banner'), and tomorrow morning I am going over to Brett's house (one of the guitarists) to do the vocals for 'Spineless', which should be posted later tomorrow. We just re-opened the MySpace the beginning of December and in two weeks have well over 400 plays. We're pretty happy right now, lots of good feedback is coming our way.
MySpace.com - Hoarfrost - looking for shows in 2009! - Winnipeg, CA - Black Metal / Death Metal / Other - www.myspace.com/officialhoarfrost is the MySpace link and I am keeping a blog for any band news / things of interest and so on for us.
Let me know what you think of the music, please and thanks! I always love a good, fair critique
cheers,
--N
