A Doom Festival in the US? (Jasonic, that's for you!)
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Jasonic
Doom On!
Cool, I know none of those bands aside from Solitude, actually.
There is another doom fest in Kenosha Wisconsin this summer as well.
It's definitely getting on the rise here in the states.
There is another doom fest in Kenosha Wisconsin this summer as well.
It's definitely getting on the rise here in the states.
nomisofsiman
Member
I think there was a doom fest in Vegas last year too, if not before then as well. I would totally go for this if I wasn't trying to save all my marbles for Progpower this year as I really would love to see Solitude.
Jasonic
Doom On!
modernwizardry
I want stout!
I dig Stone Axe. They're not really doom though...more classic Thin Lizzy/Deep Purple inspired rock.
J. Golden
Heaven and Hell Records
"On the rise"? No just need to know where to find it. Doom fest actually have popped up all over the U.S. but they suffer from what every fest does and that is lack of promoting, seems no one ever knows they are going down.
Diabolik
Member
exactly. There are all sorts of pockets of genres in all the big cities....it is just knowing where to look. Chicagoland and some cities around us hava a great retro / NWOBHM scene growing. Often the normal show goers who would love it dont even know it exist.
dcowboys311
Member
Hooded Menace is really good. They're doing MDF and Chaos in Tejas this year, too. Very solid band!
dcowboys311
Member
And doom is definitely on the rise. It's seeing a new resurgence of bands with everyone eating up stuff like Ghost, Blood Ceremony, etc. Not true doom but they have doomish parts and it's getting kids into the real doom stuff.
It may very well have been there for a long time, but Doom *is* a little on the rise in my opinion. There are more and more fans, bands are getting more popular...
Palabra de Dios
Heavy Metal Weatherman
Festivals like these (Doom in June and Days of the Doomed) remind me of just how many fucking bands are out there and how little time there is to listen to them all. From both fests I know a handful of bands (more from DotD than DiJ), but certainly not more than about half. I know most are from the U.S. and are local bands from wherever they're from but goddamn. I bet some of them are just fucking killer and I just have so little time to listen to new bands...
Diabolik
Member
very true....also on the otherside of the coin....there are tons of crap bands who just get added to fill up the roster and bring in freinds. You can have a great band name / logo / look, but if you cant write good songs...dont bother. This whole rise of doom reminds me of how folk metal exploded a few years back. many years it was very small and then it broke. I see the same pattern here. It seems people are just looking for the next thing.
J. Golden
Heaven and Hell Records
I guess it could be argued that it is getting more notice I suppose; Hour of 13 getting a bigger deal, WHW on Nuclear Blast and obviously now on the radar of people in this forum, as well as Graveyard signing with Nuclear Blast. Still the stuff has always been around and the fests are there. I guess it just depends on where you look. I meet and talk to people all the time that do not know about any of the metal "fest" in the U.S. not even Progpower.
The year Helloween and Gammaray played I did a record show in Atlanta and met a guy there who was really into Helloween. I told him I saw them a few nights earlier in Atlanta and he looked at me like I was crazy. Point is not everyone knows this stuff is going on because they either don't look for it or don't know were to look for it.
And then there are those who think something is new or getting bigger just because it has finally came onto their radar.HAHA Thanks Earache and Metal Hammer you were certainly ahead of the class on that NWOTHM thing.
But hey as long as good stuff gets out there and these bands and genres start to get the notice they rightfully deserves I guess all is good.
And speaking of doom; Noctum - The Seance on Stormspell kicks ass. This sounds a bit like Witchcraft.
The year Helloween and Gammaray played I did a record show in Atlanta and met a guy there who was really into Helloween. I told him I saw them a few nights earlier in Atlanta and he looked at me like I was crazy. Point is not everyone knows this stuff is going on because they either don't look for it or don't know were to look for it.
And then there are those who think something is new or getting bigger just because it has finally came onto their radar.HAHA Thanks Earache and Metal Hammer you were certainly ahead of the class on that NWOTHM thing.
But hey as long as good stuff gets out there and these bands and genres start to get the notice they rightfully deserves I guess all is good.
And speaking of doom; Noctum - The Seance on Stormspell kicks ass. This sounds a bit like Witchcraft.
dcowboys311
Member
I don't understand how people who live in Atlanta can not know what's going on. Do they not read Blabbermouth? Creative Loafing? Atlanta Metal? Band's websites? Venue websites? WREKage event listing? It's near impossible to be a metal fan and not know of shows going on...blows my mind every time, haha.
nomisofsiman
Member
Unfortunately, a lot of metal fans just don't go searching like people on this forum do. I can't say I'm surprised people don't know about this stuff.
J. Golden
Heaven and Hell Records
It's true. The community of metal listeners and fans worldwide is extremely, so large that not everyone knows everything that is going on. Case in point just read this forum. But this does not mean that whoever is not a fan or whatever just that they are ignorant to certain things. I know people that have never shopped online and still buy things through print catalogs. I know people who have never owned a CD still to this day yet they still buy metal. I know people who listen to power metal and don't know who the f$#k Evergrey are nor probably would not care. And I have meet some people that hangout in such deep underground corners of the metal world that they would not be able to tell you if Maiden were still around or not. It seems so far fetched but it is true and oddly freaky when you come across these cats cause it makes you scratch you head and you are thinking "how do you not know"? Kind of the same way I think of things when a lot of the forum are clueless to this or that, but when one steps back and buts it in perspective it is easy to understand.
A perfect and even Atlanta exasample was four Mexican guys who came to the Pathfinder Fest (first one); this guys found at about the show at the last minutute by chance, I think it was a few bands in when they showed up. From what I remember these guys had no idea of this stuff in Atlanta and they did not know of Progpower either. The following Progpower they were there and I'm thankful they were, they bought a lot of CDs.
Oh there is a guy too who comes in the NC CD and Records shows that buys a lot of 80s metal, cult stuff and I really has no idea of "current" bands. And though he buys a lot from me there he doesn't shop online.
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