This was from December last year, looks like they're finally getting some work done on it:
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?m ... mID=183722

Why did Kataklysm release that crappy sounding live album entitled "Northern Hyperblast Live" (1998) ? It sounds as though it was recorded by a walkman in someone's thick winter coat which had been checked at the entrance.

Oh, thank you... sorry if the quotations gave that kind of vibe, I wasn't doubting about the truth of it all.

Satyr (Satyricon) has dark brown hair, but on "Nemesis Divina" he has blond hair, what the heck ? Did he really dye his hair or what ?

He actually has a rare disease that causes his hair color to wildly vary. You should have seen him on the early demos when it was bright green!

Not only.Satyr but also Varg, Abbath, Samoth and many others dyed their hair to black or darker tones back in the day but they are blonde or light brown haired. Some of them still do it.

I don't want to comment on anyone specific, because that's gossip, but generally when a metal musician is unable to act on an otherwise successful career, drugs are to blame...

If the last comment is toward Sylvain Houde, gosssip for gossip, word had it (before he quit Kataklysm) that he didn't do drugs or even drank alcohol. The brother of an acquaintance of mine had organized a Kataklysm show at his college, and to keep costs low he had provided accomodation for the band (some variant of couch surfing). This acquaintance of mine told me that Sylvain had told people that night that, due to the strain under which performing the Kataklysm songs live put him, he could not afford to do drugs or drink heavily if he wanted to keep performing well. I don't know how true it was.

But mental illness is real and schizophrenia affects ~1% of the population. It starts manifesting between ages 15 to 30. If not treated, it could prevent anyone from pursuing a career in anything. And let's not forget that singing for Kataklysm, back then, didn't exactly pay the bills and it wasn't obvious at the time that Kataklysm were succesfull. There were other bands around.. it didn't seem like they were on top of anything (and they weren't).

Also, according to Kataklysm's first manager, Sylvain quit the band at least twice between the first EP being released and the first album being recorded (a period spanning one year at most).

If you listen to that interview snippet on the Iron Will trailer, at some point he seems to be giving a sudden and impatient look to the ceiling and making a "stop it now" gesture.. I don't know how edited that was, but it looked as if he was trying to communicate with "something". I'll have to watch the whole interview for sure, and even then.

This said, only a doctor can diagnose schizophrenia, and with a live patient.

Ok, just read this, apparently this is all old news:

"We put the interview in as is because it was Sylvain's time. He has mental issues and a lot of people know that. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia back in the day, and I don't know if he's taking his meds or not. I'm just surprised we were able to track him down and get the interview done. I wanted to give Sylvain his moment, and if he's able to start a band and do something we wish him all the best."
http://www.bravewords.com/features/1001217

So you mean Satyr's (and others) natural hair color is blonde and he dyes his hair all the time ? That would be freaking ridiculous. How do you know that ? I'm really curious.

what's so ridiculous about that?
lots of people i know dye their hair all the time

Is it wrong that I find it a little bit wierd when a men dyes his hair ?

Do you also feel the same way about eye shadow? And jewelry? Not to mention Ozzy also dyes his hair.



I don't think it's weird at all. He's not bothering you with it, or is he?

where are you from if you don't mind my asking? i suppose it's quite region dependent how common it is...

You're probably right. It's not really common in my country (Poland) and it's probably the reason I find it wierd.

All examples I named are easily tracked to older days. Guys dyed their hair to black for the same reason they used corpsepaint - in fact, it was to complement the aesthetics. Nocturno Culto also did it - the guy is obviously blonde but see his hair in UAFM era. Look for early Immortal pics or the Call of the Wintermoon video. Samoth now uses his hair natural but his early Emperor pics are all with black hair. Varg is the same. Horgh's case is the same too, besides I met the guy there are promo pics with Hypocrisy where his hair looks brown, not black.

Abbath too?
man, I knew it, there can't be that many dark-haired norsemen

None of us are dark-haired. That is, unless we have a parent or grandparent with foreign ancestry, but most black metal musicians are pure scandinavians.
That said, what's so ridiculous about dying your hair? I don't do it myself and I don't plan to, but if corpse painting and dressing in leather and spikes aren't frowned upon, why should hair-dying be?

Personally I don't find it that weird but for some reason I find it kind of surprising within metal. Of course, thinking about it, it does make sense (hard to imagine a black metal band with corpsepaint and light blonde hair), but, you know... It's hard to explain but I guess you get my idea.

Stupid fashion!

I kinda feel like when once on a forum I often used eating pizza with a spoon as an example of something completely pointless and uncomfortable, and then a guy actually did that and posted a video of it.

On the dying hair/coloring topic..is it just me or was Bruce Dickinson was almost blonde in the NOTB/POM days?

It definitely got darker over time..

If you really want to talk about members of Iron Maiden with hair darkening over time, just look at Dave Murray.

Zephyrous: Ted / Nocturno Culto still has some contact with him occasionally, and even commented back in 2006 around when cult is alive came out that he would welcome him to guest on songs again. I guess story is he was suffering from alcoholism and ended up blacking out and getting into a major accident. This on top of a further lack of input into Darkthrone caused him to leave as by the time he left it was mostly Fenriz and Nocturno Culto writing, and i believe even in the mid 90's Fenriz has been said to have more or less done all the recording or writing (can't recall which) at the time himself. This was also when Darkthrone was its most quiet, not doing any interviews or publicity at all until either 1999 with ravishing grimness or 2000's with plaguewielder or hate them.




Its been discussed it seems, but generally technology was there so it was at least possible. There's some bands late 60's who could rival sabbath in heavyness. A pressing of the 1969 jacula album does exist, but chances are being from Italy and likely a private press recording it went unnoticed.

Not a credible source but an ex-girlfriend told me that when listening to darkthrone's a blaze in the northern sky album her father was reminded of a college friend who was from Germany and would often listen to records from bands in Eastern Europe, East Germany, and likely other parts that sounded very similar. The recollection could really mean anything as he couldn't remember what any were called, but it never seemed unlikely that very raw and heavy guitar tone albums did exist in the late 60's and early 70's especially. Black Sabbath was residency in Germany during these years prior to their first album, and if someone had seen them at this time, and definitely when the albums were coming out may have taken their style and influence and took it a step further, thus early 70's rock albums could be very doomy and heavy.

In relation to extreme metal and music and the sound, well evolution does occur with the arts in a way as well, and it might have been a natural progression in general. The techology being there already, but just how to use it. Unconventional types may take a while to get noticed, and probably were even ignored vastly, but eventually when one breaks through, more come to try and top it, and the cycle just keeps going to eventually lead to where we are now. Its always be there, just don't expect the 1971 version of altars of madness to sound the same.

Indeed...

what's with that??!

Hair sometimes changes color over time.

I'm naturally blonde, but in most of my baby pics my hair was straight up jet black.

It looks very kvlt on b&w photos



And as a rule, hair darkens as one gets older, until it starts greying. It's common. It even happens with eyecolor, too.
When I was a little kid I had blondish/light brown hair, nowadays its dark as my soul

Hair also gets darker if you cut it short, or brighter during a sunny Summer. When I was a baby I had blonde hair. But I've been a brown bastard for as long as I can remember. Shit, my beard even goes a bit blonde during summer time (that is if it's big of course).

My hair was as white as this when I was younger:



Since then it has changed to a superb golden blond color

These things don't necessarily change the color just make it looks like so, except the sun, which can "burn" the hair and gets very noticeable on the tips, the longer the it is, but most of the times it's just the lightning making the lighter strands stand out.

I can tell you that during a rainy Winter my hear goes almost black, and by Summer it gets really light brown. It may not physically change the colour but it does account for when you take a picture. I have a few pics from the first time I grew my hair and it has a surprisingly redish brown colour.

My point was that the hair "mutates" its colour according to several external factors.

People get darker with age, yeah, as a little kid I had a deep red copper-ish colour going on, now I have dark-brown hair.

I still have some copper coloured hairs in my beard, tho, mostly in the chin area

John Greely is here in Wisconsin and sings for a groove metal band.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Avoiding_X/107804

Physical problems, as I recall (back or knees, I can't remember which). Also, when he left Danzig (quit or fired, depending on if Glenn or Chuck was telling the story), Glenn made some comments about Chuck being big into drugs (this was around the same time that Chuck's brother, Dimwit from D.O.A, died of a heroin overdose), which was a big no-no with Glenn and may have contributed to his problems.

Just wanted to let you guys know that you're discussing hair color, in case you may have missed that.

Yes, and I'm still unclear as to whether the members of Iron Maiden colour their fucking hair haha

I wanted to start a new topic but first i'll see if i can some feedback here...

I'd love to hear some stories about mysterious band members...
Unknown band members of underground gems...bands whose composers' names are hidden or secret...
weird tales about underground musicians...
I know this is a weird "request" and maybe the genre with this kind of people is black metal, but whatever...
if you recall any mysterious fact about any underground musician share it (the guy from Devil Doll, Mr Doctor its a great example)

I think Glen Benton is addicted to crystal meth these days; his face sure looks like it, and his voice when he talks sounds all harshed out like he's been smoking glass/crack - he's totally fucking trailer trash too so it wouldnt surprise me. Didnt they get caught with meth on their bus at the canadian border?

Damn, John Hand ssssuuuuuuuuuucccckssss... who the fuck does that guy think he's kidding? Ive seen 14 year old kids play Death songs on guitar better than that.