https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Death_Mexico_06-89.jpgWhat characters are these guys playing? They just looks like humans to me.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:20 (seven months ago) link
ok so how is the Tomb Mold cover more casual than the Ken Mode cover?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:21 (seven months ago) link
was not expecting this to be a multiple-day affair; glad we still have it in us
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:26 (seven months ago) link
Ken Mode have a lot of tattoos and a dude making a fun face
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:43 (seven months ago) link
And the girl has an interesting haircut, and the guy has a colorful shirt
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:46 (seven months ago) link
But did they buy a video game shirt for the photo shoot? No.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:46 (seven months ago) link
one solution is to have a cool background a castle with lighting something like that
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:48 (seven months ago) link
Yeah, that's not the band's job
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:50 (seven months ago) link
Also, they are all in shorts which HAS to be a first for a Decibel cover
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:52 (seven months ago) link
They could sacrifice a goat or something.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:53 (seven months ago) link
Those Decibel covers getting close to boring-ass Magnet mag cover territory.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:55 (seven months ago) link
Just remembered that when I was the editor of Metal Edge we put The Black Dahlia Murder on the cover (which was a whole thing unto itself, because it was still seen as a mag for hair metal holdovers and TBDM was too "underground" to qualify) and took their picture in a library because the original shooting location was unavailable:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vZcAAOSwb65ezejg/s-l1200.jpg
― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:56 (seven months ago) link
you know it smells crazy in there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:57 (seven months ago) link
As far as I can tell from a quick archive scan, the only Decibel covers to feature shorts are Deathklok in 2008 and Arch Enemy in 2005, and one of those is a cartoon
https://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/back-issues/products/february-2008-040
https://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/back-issues/products/august-2005-010?variant=32084108017766
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:57 (seven months ago) link
I actually love the cover, but hate the steampunk other photo
otm
― c u (crüt), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 21:57 (seven months ago) link
lolhttps://loudwire.com/death-metal-band-backlash-over-decibel-magazine-cover-look-issue-response-tomb-mold/
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:03 (seven months ago) link
JFC, metal fans are worse than Star Wars geeks.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:06 (seven months ago) link
godflesh cover is good! not wanting to make assumptions(got it - I was reading that as the “people” and couldn’t parse)
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:29 (seven months ago) link
check out these indie rockers!https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eejq3R9WsAAw5GW.jpg
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:36 (seven months ago) link
Tomb Mold look like they're friends with Oozing Woundhttps://i0.wp.com/chicagoreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Oozing-Wound-by-Evan-Jenkins-1.jpg
the other band look like dorks
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:37 (seven months ago) link
yeah i truly don’t understand why a band needs to show off except via their skills as a band.
Bowie wept.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Bowie was a pop star and he wanted to be one. This metal group...don't want to be that and clearly want to just make music and work hard at their gigs.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:38 (seven months ago) link
So basically this is like indie rock, sonics aside. They just want to be successful within their world.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:39 (seven months ago) link
Anybody remember the Jackie-O Motherfucker Wire cover shot kerfuffle? I just recall there was one, no idea what the details were. Seemed like a big deal at the time though.
Anyway, nice to see Akercocke made good use of the location, needs more Scanlan though:
https://img.seekr.cloud/cover/670/3/g9yx.jpghttps://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/770x0/8fe5fc95a7a0468799b3026f7c3134ae.jpghttps://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/avatar170s/ff6ae2707f39a6567e755ea8d4c32e89
― the arkansas ruggerclub (Matt #2), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:48 (seven months ago) link
"We are literally wearing just t-shirts and shorts in that photo. Why does anyone care. Wait until you see the whole feature." "Why would I want to be something that I'm not," asked Power, who also directly addressed the commenter who questioned their look. "If this is how you feel about Tomb Mold after seeing what we look like, by all means, stop listening to our band," he stated, adding, "That cover photo is a completely authentic portrait of who we are. Why would you want us to be anything but? This is no judgment towards the mighty Akercocke, one of the most interesting and ambitious extreme metal bands of our time. I believe they’re just as sincere as we are."
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:50 (seven months ago) link
Haha hell yeah unperson's random Twitter complaint started a loudwire story, that's what I call posting
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:57 (seven months ago) link
mods!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:02 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9IT3A2eY08
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:10 (seven months ago) link
I like how clusterfuck summaries are now news stories
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:26 (seven months ago) link
so otm. personally trying to work up a real froth about it
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:54 (seven months ago) link
You gonna invoice Tomb Mold for the consulting and viral marketing unperson? Or was this one pro-bono
― H.P, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:55 (seven months ago) link
(This is so great overall)
― H.P, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:56 (seven months ago) link
they shouldve tried to look more moldy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:57 (seven months ago) link
Like I said above, if you wanna be a faceless schmuck, indie rock is right there.
but you are talking about 90s indie rock. indie rock bands now are pretty curatorial about their looks
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 00:01 (seven months ago) link
Akercocke has had, like, fifteen members. I guess things just got too extreme for most of those dudes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 00:03 (seven months ago) link
I prefer Tom Mould’s brother Bob
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 00:03 (seven months ago) link
that’s a crisp clean t-shirt for a classic game. probably would command a hefty price in the vintage market if it’s official merchandise. probably a prized possession only worn for special occasions
otm. if that shirt came with a preorder for a classic PS1 game, it's way more of a flex than people might realize.
also, I dunno, tomb mold play (a now very proggy and extra-nerdy style of) death metal, right? so, aren't there tons of ancient anus.com posts from edgy black metal bands talking about how much they are/were reacting to death metal slobs in sweatpants and wearing corpsepaint and spikey wristbands and stuff to bring romanticism back to _their_ vision of metal? is this really anything new?
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 00:58 (seven months ago) link
Ya’ll better believe my original FFXII official merchandise shirt is getting washed and ironed for my inevitable Wire magazine centrefold
― H.P, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:06 (seven months ago) link
it honestly kills me that I somehow lost my donkey kong country shirt somewhere in a series of moves
https://sabbaticalvintage.com/cdn/shop/products/46_1512x.jpg?v=1605646642https://sabbaticalvintage.com/cdn/shop/products/49_1512x.jpg?v=1605646642
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:13 (seven months ago) link
Repping that hard for video game shit is inherently uncool.
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 02:33 (seven months ago) link
I will concede that the Fido Dido shirt is cool tho
― kirsten gilla band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 02:35 (seven months ago) link
Whatever grandpa
― H.P, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 03:31 (seven months ago) link
correct. if what you want to seem cool for is… this.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 03:57 (seven months ago) link
Real ones know Fido Dido had a video game too.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 08:46 (seven months ago) link
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink
They look like a bunch of 1930s Conservative party club members who like appeasement with fascists. How is this a good look?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 08:54 (seven months ago) link
they look like inception cosplay tbqh
― 龜, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 11:42 (seven months ago) link
They're undercover.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 13:53 (seven months ago) link
Vampire: The Masquerade LARPers.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:09 (seven months ago) link
I remember playing a cool spot game
― nxd, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:46 (seven months ago) link
decemberists heel turn
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:41 (seven months ago) link
Based off their current promo image on Metal Archives, Akercocke has taken a page from the Tomb Mold aesthetic look book and gotten a lot more casual in how they present themselves in press photos. Though I guess they are all at least clad in black and one guy has a bullet belt.https://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/7/0/7/2707_photo.jpg
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:51 (seven months ago) link