According to MA, Necramyth has split-up since main man Pedro unexpectedly quit the band... this makes me sad Obviously you're not in South Korea and going to be drumming with them any time soon... but the new album is freaking amazing, seems a damn shame to release something that good and then suddenly throw it all to the wind.
Pedro Chae (Urlok) is NECRAMYTH. He's probably the most macho-metal-madman in all of South Korea, and in terms of metal and the metal lifestyle, he's one of the most passionate people I've ever met.
He now lives in Madrid, Spain with his wife and new baby. He was transfered there for his job not long after I left the country (Note: Pedro is Korean, but was born and raised in Spain. If I understood correctly, he didn't move to Korea and start learning Korean until his twenties. Spanish is his first language, English is his second, Korea is third. Smart guy.). I spoke with him a few weeks ago. He said "Come to SPAIN man! We can jam! ...and drinking!" (quote). He tells me he has a new band started, post-NECRAMYTH, under a new name. Like me, he's the kind of guy who's always writing riffs! I will be making plans to take him up on his offer at some time, at least to visit. It would be an epic reunion! I was joking with him how he is like my "Global Metal Guide" to the world. It's like, I show up in a new country and he'll be there to meet me at the airport and take me around! He was once my guide, teaching me how to live Korea and one day he'll be showing me the good life in Madrid, Spain.
I miss the NECRAMYTH guys, and often long for my bittersweet days in Seoul (...It seems I just keep filling old voids with new voids. Not a bad strategy really. I'm always living something new while missing something and someone from the past). We can never go back of course, as all four of us NECRAMYTH guys are in different places now, but for 12 months, we were together as a band, sweating through 2-3 rehearsals a week, playing shows almost every weekend, writing songs and working towards the recording...being a real, gigging, LIVE band! + Soju, beer, BBQ, pig-spine soup, metal karaoke, and lots of laughs (always loosely translated and probably often lost in translation, but always hilarious).
"Slaughter of the Seoul!!!!!". I worked my tired, shitty, bleeding heart back to life on the drums with the help of those guys and this band. I can't imagine my life without them. Korea and NECRAMYTH were great to me, and I'm really happy to be able to help bring the NECRAMYTH album to a whole new audience as part of the limited edition W4 release, and eventually as its own CD package sometime soon. Maybe if it really catches on, we can hope to reunite on stage at WACKEN or something in 20 years.
Until then, please keep spreading the word! Thanks!!
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