XIV Dark Centuries... man, not long ago (3 years?) they played in this filthy, tiny, tiny youth club around here. Like you can't possibly get any more underground. Audience consisted of a maximum of 50 people. 40 of them being the regular white trash bonehead or punk that's always there to get wasted for little money and then geting on each other's ass.
Back then I thought: "Wow, this music ain't that bad, but those viking horns, plastic shields and smelly sheepskins make Manowar look serious!" And now, with that whole pagan metal explosion, they became quite a big band. I'm really wondering how long this trend will last and how many of those bands will survive at the surface...