Name's Wim, hailing from Flanders, the northern region of Belgium, which is that little spot in between France and The Netherlands, also bordering with Germany and that even smaller spot called Luxemburg.
As for the user name, I was hoping on going with just "verderf" which basically means "ruin" or "doom" in my mother tongue, but a fellow countryman already nicked that one at UM. It probably wouldn't be so unfortunate if he had actually posted some crap, haha.
I got here through the WoY (duh) site, which I think I stumbled upon through Novembers Doom, a Chicago based band I've been getting into quite a bit over the last few months since the band appears to be made up of a bunch of guys who got their act figured out and who know how to make a damn good bit of music. I was pleasantly surprised to see and hear WoY seems to be a similar act in that respect, but luckily just as original in its approach as ND is.
Furthermore, I've been getting back on track with a bit of forum activity after having stayed away from them for a while due to some pretty bad experiences, the same reason why I never enter chatrooms anymore. It's a known fact there are lots of freaks out there.
However (real life) friends got me to visit MySpace and I even made my own little page there after looking around for a bit and quite digging the metal corner, which reminds me of the old snail mail underground days, yet taken to a new and improved level. A faster and more efficient one, to say the least. It will all be a matter of staying focused on the somewhat mature people, weeding out childish Cyberheroes and other freak acts which are around in abundance.
MySpace is first of all a great place for me to get to know more obscure bands, anyway. I'm slightly getting into the more personal side of things here and there only because I've come across a few people displaying actual class and personality. I'd say that's encouraging and I hope to find that in a few forums (again) as well. This one seems to be on track, hence my joining.
I have a few odd things on my mind here, so I'll look around if there are threads I can lay an egg in or possibly open a couple of new ones if necessary.
Feels good to be here. That may not be very "black metal", but screw that.