Preferred air instrument

[Ayeka]

Martin (looking at me air guitaring with a smirk)
me: I don't really know how to play.
Martin: Yeah, that's obvious!

Oh, you can always tell which people at a rock night at the clubs play guitar and which don't! The ones who don't tend to have their 'guitars' down at their knees, and play everything from the 15th fret up. Even the really low end stuff

Air guitar all the way here but I dabble in the others...

 

[JayKeeley]

Yeah, I know someone (who shall remain nameless, unless he owns up) that widdles his fingers high up on the air guitar fretboard like Malmsteen even when listening to some sludgy slow doom.

 

[Ayeka]

Maybe he's just...enthusiastic?

 

[Hell Mike]

I think I play "air 57 year old drunk metal head" more often than any air instrument. You know, both hands thrust in the air showing goats, headbanging completely out of time with the music, screaming, puking, falling, and dying.

"YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! wooow shiiiii...........*BLAAAARG*"

That's a fucking good one, but it's not that practical if you aren't at a concert... Air drums, of course, is no live thing really (Except for sometimes )

 

[Hell Mike]

... and if you knew what/who Bröderna Hårdrock is, you'd understand why drumming on knees+headbanging wins.

 

[Lutz]

... and if you knew what/who Bröderna Hårdrock is, you'd understand why drumming on knees+headbanging wins.

So true

 

[JayKeeley]

So who is it then?

 

[Erik]

Bröderna Hårdrock is basically the creative core of Nifelheim. They really like Iron Maiden. They really really like Iron Maiden. They absolutely rule. There is a documentary film in Swedish about them, also an insurance company used them in ads. Check out these TV spots:

http://www.ringen.net/~acl/bh/download/resa2.mpeg
http://www.ringen.net/~acl/bh/download/skivor2.mpeg
http://www.ringen.net/~acl/bh/download/tshirt2.mpeg

Even if you don't know Swedish they cannot be missed. I am not making fun of them or anything, they truly do rule.

 

[JayKeeley]

OK so I watched the first one, with clips from 2 Minutes to Midnight and Aces High, but, er, what's the advertisement all about?

 

[Erik]

Get the second one, it's better and features knee drumming.

The ad is for home insurance. The message at the end says "be careful with the things that you love" so the idea is that they are really really attached to their 'Maiden records and shirts and wouldn't want to lose them. So people like them should get home insurance.

EDIT: BTW, what they're doing in the first one is packing their bags for an Iron Maiden concert. ("Spare spikes, maybe?")

 

[Lutz]

See the full video, its awesome:
http://necrogods.dyndns.org/~lutz/tmp/Br%F6derna_H%E5rdrock_%5BDivX%5D.avi

Don't leech too much =)))999

 

[NAD]

Those guys kick ass.

I think someone should have gotten Megadeth to do a commercial about 15 years ago: "Can you put a price on insurance?" OMGOMLOLZOLZOLZOL!!!!111111 (or not)

 

[Hell Mike]

You should understand how outrageously fucking funny they sound when they talk

 

[Ayeka]

Bröderna Hårdrock is basically the creative core of Nifelheim.

You mean, basically, all of Nifelheim except John Zweltzoot who plays all the solos because Nifelheim can't play them

In all seriousness, Nifelheim fucking rock...if I remember rightly they appeared in an Iron Maiden FC mag or something like that about two - three years back...just a photo of them which some guy on the forum pointed out was Nifelheim. Yeah, they fucking love their Maiden alright! And they to put out another fucking album!!!!

 

[Demonspell]

Yeah, I know someone (who shall remain nameless, unless he owns up) that widdles his fingers high up on the air guitar fretboard like Malmsteen even when listening to some sludgy slow doom.

LOL...the other sure sign that air instruments have become problematic is when you catch yourself doing it to non-metal songs, especially ones completely lacking in heaviness.

 

[NAD]

LOL...the other sure sign that air instruments have become problematic is when you catch yourself doing it to non-metal songs, especially ones completely lacking in heaviness.

I do the Beavis and Butt-head style sing-a-riff-a-long to nearly all non-metal songs. You know, like Rain Drops Keep Fallin' on my Window turns into "Duhn daah da dada duhn duh DAH duhhhhh...."

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Yeah, I know someone (who shall remain nameless, unless he owns up) that widdles his fingers high up on the air guitar fretboard like Malmsteen even when listening to some sludgy slow doom.

I KNOW you're not talking about me. I'm spot on.

 

[Hell Mike]

You mean, basically, all of Nifelheim except John Zweltzoot who plays all the solos because Nifelheim can't play them

I think Jon Nödtveit also played session guitar in Nifelheim. Besides Bröderna there's always been Demon.
Latest line-up I know of (1999-onwards, found on their website)

TYRANT - RYTHM / LEAD and BASS GUITAR <--one of Bröderna Hårdrock
HELLBUTCHER - VOCALS <-- The other one
DEVASTATOR - DRUMS
(DEMON - RYTHM GUITAR)

 

[Ayeka]

Aye, that's true, actually. Guitars on Devil's Force are by Tyrant, Jon Nodveidt, Demon and John Zwetsloot, and JZ did the lot of the s/t. That's that clear ^_^

 

[Hell Mike]

I don't have Servants of Darkness, I have to get it.