Plug'd In Magazine Issue #39

The Hard-Rock'n Bi-Weekly Magazine The kickass Local Edition October 01, 2011 Meet The Artist: Oz Bloodcurse Of Neldoreth

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Meet The Artist: Oz Bloodcurse of Neldoreth Interview by Justin Ernst This is my short interview with Oz Bloodcurse of the death metal band Neldoreth (the o has two dots over it). Don't want to give away too much information so people read the interview. Just know, Neldoreth is definitely a band for any metal head to check out…J.E. PI: How long have you been into the PA metal scene?

OB: Well, I started performing in bands back in 1999. My first performance was in 2003 with a local band called Reaver. I just did a few songs with them. In 2002 I formed Penetralia. We didn't play any shows or release any material but it was my first attempt at playing with a full band. Then in 2004 I formed Neldöreth. Our first live show was in 2006 at this little shithole in Kingston, PA. PI: What bands and/or musicians influenced you?

OB: I'm mostly influenced by classic underground bands. Vital Remains, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Bathory, Sarcófago, Possessed, Deceased, Massacre, Blasphemy, Impiety. Just to name a few.

PI: What was your favorite concert you performed?

OB: Probably either the first time we played in Milwaukee or when we opened for Mortician in Northampton, PA. PI: How do you describe your band?

OB: A two-man Satanic death metal machine! haha.

PI: What plans do you have for your band?

OB: We are currently working on our third full length album, The Saints of Blasphemy. In September we're doing a mini tour in the Midwest (MO, KS, and OK). Then next Summer we're doing 25 dates all over the US. We also working on plans to go overseas for a few gigs also. Very busy times for us!!

PI: Do you have any other bands you play in?

OB: Not currently....no time!! But I'd like to start a side project in the near future.

PI: Where can readers and any interested find some of your music?

OB: www.reverbnation.com/neld%C3%B6reth PI: When not performing in the band what do you do for free time?

OB: Work, write, DJ, etc....I'm always busy doing something! haha PI: And just curious: Ozzy Sabbath or Dio Sabbath?

OB: Tony Martin and Ian Gillan!!

PI: Anything you'd like to add about you and/or the band?

OB: Just keep an eye open for The Saints of Blasphemy early next year and hope to see many of the readers on the road!! www.facebook.com/oyolacan www.brutalexistenceradio.com

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From The Grave Abby was born and raised in the coal regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The oldest of eight, she constantly had her younger brothers and sisters asking her questions about everything from how things work to why that boy threw dirt on her. She’d try to steer them straight with her advice, though sometimes she could be a bit sarcastic.

Abby also had an uncanny ability to see the truth in people, despite what they tried to portray with their lies. Unfortunately, this led the locals to believe that she was with surrounded with dark forces. The summer before her final year of school, Abby was sentenced to death by hanging, without a proper trial, simply stating that she was a witch. Abby can’t recognize the faces of her family through death, but she answers questions, thinking it might be one of her siblings needing her guidance.

Q. My Ex-girlfriend is a lying, cheating whore. I think she deserves to be taught some kind of lesson. What do you think? S.L. A. Karma. What goes around comes around. You get what you give. Threefold. Etc.... It is not your place to teach anyone a lesson, neither is it anyone else's place to teach you one.

She could catch an STD and get knocked up, then deliver a premature baby with birth defects and have to take medication for her disease the rest of her life. Or she could be in a horrific accident and be horribly disfigured the rest of her life. I firmly believe people will get what they deserve, one way or another, but you don't need to do anything about it. The morals and decency or people in the modern generations is slowly fading away. Look what's on tv, the lyrics to songs, movies, and what is generally accepted by people. Some don't know any better, some don't care. Besides, she's your ex. Leave it be.

Q. This girl @ work complains about everything. It drives me up a wall. How do I nicely ask her to shut the fuck up?

D.W. A. Don't listen to her. Or tell her it could always be worse. People don't realize how incredibly lucky they are sometimes. Look at what just happened to Japan, and look at Libya. Look at the poverty stricken and the sick. You can easily point out why she shouldn't be complaining in a nice way. If that doesn't work, just flat out tell her that her constant complaining really annoys you and makes her seem like an ungrateful little wretch, and no one will be there to listen when she really has something worth complaining about.

Q What is your favorite television show and why? H.B. A. What part of "I'm dead" don't people seem to understand? I don't watch TV, I don't keep up with the latest fashion, I don't care who the greatest singer is, etc....

Q. Why is the TV show Jersey Shore so popular?

K.L. A. See above answer. I DON'T CARE! Most likely though it's because people like to see smuts that make them feel better about themselves. By watching someone else's train wreck of a life, they don't feel so bad about their own.

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Your Band Sucks: by Dr David Thorpe I found this old article and thought it was pretty awesome. I think it would be cool if we all got together and sent this dickhead some mail. Read the article and I’ll throw in the website and email at the end…M.D. "Hey," a lot of people have said to me, "you never make fun of metal. Does that mean you like metal?" No, it means I can't fucking stand to listen to metal long enough to make fun of it.

A really horrible person in the process of making bad music for idiots.

I tend to scoff at those unfortunate philistines who utter things like “rap isn’t real music,” or “R&B is pure crap.” I tend to scoff at a lot of things, but those guys get deep scoffs, from the diaphragm. Genres are far too broad and diverse to be encompassed by such generalizations, right? I want to believe that no genre is inherently bad; most of them are quickly ruined by musicians, but the genres themselves contain some spark of an ideal that can’t be corrupted. I try to make myself believe that, but one thing always gets in my way: heavy metal.

I’ve never found the metal counterexample. If there’s one metal track out there that disproves the notion that all metal is complete fucking crap, I’d absolutely love to hear it. I would rest easy for the remainder of my days, comforted by the knowledge that my jolly, populist theories about music were confirmed. I’ve been searching for a nonhorrible metal song like the Holy Grail, but whenever I find a cup to drink from, my face melts off like the Nazi in The Last Crusade.

And no, metalheads, I’m not referring to the awesome power of Dragonforce’s face-melting riffs. You’re an idiot.

(Let me define my terms here: bluesy hard-rock protometal like Zeppelin or Aerosmith is not what I’m talking about; that sucks for overlapping but nonidentical reasons. Nu-metal and rap metal are arguably even worse than vanilla metal, but they’re not the subjects of this article. Particularly, I’m referring to anything from Iron Maiden onward: 80s British shit, thrash, death metal, black metal, power metal, et cetera ad nauseum. Maybe not hair metal; in retrospect, it had its moments.)

What metal looks like to me.

But in my futile longing to grasp that modest chalice, I’ve suffered quite a bit of metal. I used to think it was my fault that I found it so unfathomable. I wondered if some mental defect kept be from enjoying this vast cornucopia of music, from the troll-worshipingest death metal to the sword-swingingest glory metal, and everything between. I couldn’t understand Pantera, I didn’t get Iron Maiden, and I couldn’t fucking stand Metallica. As I grew older and more confident in the fact that most people other than me are idiots, it became clear that the defect wasn’t mine.

In all these years, I haven’t seen a single satisfactory shred of evidence that heavy metal doesn’t suck completely and utterly. I haven’t heard any metal band isn’t composed of stunted adolescence, half-assed rebellion, tongue-incheek stupidity, masturbatory pap, tuneless dirge, juvenile morbidity, retarded sexuality, or some nauseating combination of those elements. I haven’t heard a single defense of its artistry that made a shred of sense. I haven’t heard a “serious” metal song that didn’t sound comical. I haven’t heard a fantasy metal song with anything fucking interesting to say about dragons. I haven’t heard anything, seen anything, read anything or met anyone who could convince me that metal, as a whole, is not artistically bankrupt, direly uncool, and irredeemably fucking dumb. Not most of it.

All of it.

It’s based on a kind of stupidity that I find impossible to comprehend. It looks and sounds so fundamentally opposite to art that my brain reels when I even try to consider the idea of enjoying it. It’s so incomprehensible to me that I sometimes get the feeling that it’s all a huge joke that everyone else is in on but me.

Yes, I’m talking about an extremely vast, overarching genre encompassing countless subgenres and thousands of bands that I’ve never even heard or heard of. Yes, I’m talking about something I don’t understand. Yes, I’m painting the dumbest fantasy metal and the most intricate symphonic metal in the same broad stroke.

Maybe you listen to British metal from the early 80s, or you only listen to thrash, or you only listen to glory metal “ironically.” I don’t care. I’m saying it’s all stupid as hell. I’m saying you’re stupid as hell if you like it. I’m saying you’re stupid as hell even if, maybe especially if, you like it even though you know it’s stupid as hell.

Oh no, you've offended me.

It may seem like I’m shooting fish in a barrel here. Metal is, with a few exceptions, critically ignored and popularly derided. Aside from holdover metal stars like Metallica, the above-ground music press couldn’t give a single shit about metal; it’s music for misfit nerds, sociopaths, big-haired whores and mulleted heshers. Cool wouldn’t touch metal with a ten foot pole, and metalheads are so hopelessly uncool that they’ve developed their own laughable little chic around leather and headbanging. Despite all this, people continue to defend metal as an art and a lifestyle. Even people who “don’t take metal seriously” often take it really fucking seriously.

I consider myself a public servant, so it always fills my heart with pride when I turn someone away from their shitty taste. Unfortunately, this article can’t do that. Metal fans are simply too entrenched in their own art-killing quagmire to be swayed by any rational argument. Their synapses are too brutalized by bluntness to recognize subtlety ever again; real music may be forever useless to them. I’m not asking them to stop listening to metal. I’m asking them to shut the fuck up about it forever.

Stop tainting our discussions. When the grown-ups are talking about real music, stay the fuck out of it. If we’re talking about our favorite singers, we don’t care about how low your Christ-slaughtering Norwegian boyfriend can croak. If we’re talking about our favorite guitarists, zip up your stupid fucking mouth, because nobody gives a shit how fast your favorite metal guitar-secretary can type gibberish on a fretboard. “Pretend” that metal isn’t music. “Pretend” that metal is something else altogether, and that you have nothing to add to a discussion about music, because we’re talking about something entirely fucking different.

I only say “pretend” because “realize” might be too strong a word for these hopeless dorks.

Anyway: just leave us alone, weirdoes. Don’t even e-mail me to complain about this article. In fact, let me deflect some points you’ll try to make: Millions of people in around the world love metal.

-Billions of people think those millions of people are either insane or stupid. Shall we take a vote?

You just don’t understand the appeal of metal.

-No, I don’t, and I’ve become content with that. I don’t understand the appeal of dressing up like a baby and pooping on oneself, either, but tons of people love it, and I don’t give a Texas shit why they love it, and their explanations will fall on deaf ears. Like metalheads, adult baby dudes are just plain broken in the head, and I don’t need them spreading their creepy pathology.

The metal genre is home to some technically talented musical virtuosos.

-I have to laugh when I hear metalheads complain that some of the best pure musicians of our time are being ignored and neglected by the ivory-tower establishment just because they play in the metal genre. Here, it’s simple: imagine if William Butler Yeats only wrote poems about dogs eating peanut butter, and if he used only the same fifteen or twenty words in every single poem. People who espouse the shredding merits of metal guitarists and the double-bass technique of metal drummers crack me the fuck up. Maybe they also think books are better when they have lots of pages.

Symphonic metal is extremely sophisticated and carries on the tradition of classical music.

-You can’t tell Frank Frazetta from William Blake. Congratulations, you’re stupid.

I enjoy metal because of its dark, creepy, intense aesthetic.

-You have a mental age of thirteen. If your brain doesn’t process metal aesthetics as purely comical, then you’re truly beyond intervention. If you have even the smallest scrap of respect for any aspect of metal music, lyrics, fashion, or album cover art, you are so aesthetically stunted that you might as well be a spotty junior high kid drawing barbarian

dudes with battle axes and huge tits on your trapper keeper. If you love metal for its capacity to shock old people and oversensitive Christians, you’re an immature halfwit who thinks that offending people is the same as making a point.

I just like the way it sounds. You can’t say your taste is better than mine, because it’s subjective.

-Metal is so awful that it goes far beyond questions of taste. Liking metal is a mental illness, although I'm sure you'll wear that accusation with pride (don't). It makes me wonder what the fuck your parents did to you. You’re sick and I can’t cure you, so don’t waste my time.

I don’t take metal seriously, I just think it’s fun.

-Search deep within your soul. Is there any part of you that takes metal seriously, even a little bit? Have you ever purchased a metal album with real money for any reason other than to laugh at it? Is more than 20% of the music you listen to metal? Is there any metal band in this world that you care enough about that you’d be sad if they broke up or died in a fiery car crash? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, please reevaluate your taste before it’s too late.

As a frustrated and troubled youth, the metal community gave me a place to fit in.

-Most of the worst subcultures in the world (gangs, cults, internet forums) thrive on accepting the lowest members of the social food chain. The fact that you were insufferable to anyone but metalheads doesn’t mean that there’s anything good about metal, it just means that dweebs tolerate other dweebs out of necessity.

I like metal, but I’m not a nerd or an idiot.

-In fact, you are the worst kind of nerd or idiot: the kind that doesn’t know he or she is a nerd or idiot.

But here, listen to THIS metal song. It’ll change your mind.

-No, dickhead, it won’t, and I resent the very fact that you think I might enjoy it.

What about Ronnie James fuckin Dio? You can’t deny the ROCK. -No. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourself.

I hope I’ve made myself perfectly clear. Questions or comments regarding metal can be sent straight up your ass. Anything else can be sent to davidthorpe@somethingawful.com.

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This is: Lee McKinney of Born of Osiris Interview by Liana Marie Between all the running around and craziness of the All Stars tour, we somehow managed to meet up with Born Of Osiris.

I ended up speaking with the guitarist, Lee Mckinney. The interview went well! It was my first time meeting the guys and seeing them perform live, So I was pretty stoked about it all! Lee was an extremely chill guy, and very enjoyable to converse with. He gave an interesting and all around great interview. Here’s what was said...

PI: Start out by telling us a little about yourself, and where you’re from.

LM: My name’s Lee Mckinney and I play guitar in Born of Osiris. I’m from Chicago, Illinois and I’m 22 years old. I have a pretty sweet dog.. (PI) Oh yeah? What’s his name?

(LM) His name’s Sniper, he’s a miniature pincher. He’s like 10 months old and about 15 lbs. (PI) Does he ever go on the road with you? (LM) No, it sucks. He actually stays with my girlfriend. Yeah, so I got to see him yesterday because we got denied in Canada because of our criminal record, so I went home and spend a couple days with him.

PI: I read that your band had actually undergone a few name changes...Can you tell is a little about that and the current name of your band?

LM: The name changes were only local so we don’t consider it as much. But we were called Rosecrance at one point when we got signed. It was the name of a medical drug rehab center that one of us had attended. So, the label made us change it due to it being a copyrighted name.

Our label had brought up the Egyptian god Osiris and some interesting things about him. They gave us a packet of information and we read about it, and decided it sounded cool. A lot of people think we’re more into the mythology of it than we really are, but it’s cool. It’s a cool name.

PI: Tell us a little about the formation...How and when did it come about?

LM: We all were in different local bands throughout high school. When you’re in a local band you have some kids that are just doing it because they want to get wasted and play music in high school or you have kids that really want to make it a career. So, eventually we came together with all the kids in the area that we thought were serious about it. In a good way, we were already friends anyway. Most of us lived about a mile or even less away from each other growing up. That’s while we’re able to tour and live in a house together because we’ve been friends long before we were in a band together. If it we weren’t in a touring band together, we’d still be best friends.

PI: So your third full-length “Discovery” was released back in March...Tell us a little about both the physical and metal or thought process behind the album.

LM: For sure. The first two albums were from when we were in high school still trying to coordinate ideas. Writing music can be hard because of distance and timing. It’s tough to be organized in songwriting. For our last album, “Discovery” we actually ended up moving into a house together for the last couple years. So, we have a home together with a studio. We were all there for the creation of this record which makes it a lot better.

PI: Any major differences between your latest and previous albums?

LM: The latest one is definitely more focused. It had a lot more input from all of us since we were living together during the creation of it. I think it’s heavier because of the seven-string guitars. Yeah, we’re most proud of this one. We produced the record ourselves...So, it’s all us.

I feel like we can be proud of it even more because no one else had anything to do with it. Things with our second album kind of got screwed up. We had problems with the post-production and the mixing...So, we felt like the album kind of got screwed and it was out of our hands.

For this one we decided we were going to do everything; writing it, recording it and producing it ourselves. That way it’s all us and there’s no one to blame. And the fact that it’s doing as good as it is, we are that much more proud of it.

PI: What Born Of Osiris song would you say gets the most crowd response or reaction?

LM: Probably still, “Bow Down” or “Follow The Signs”, off our new album... Or “Recreate”.

PI: Describe a typical day for you on the road.

LM: A typical day on this tour is crazy. We get here at like 9 or 10 in the morning, which sucks. Then we have to load in our gear, then we just sit around and hang out until we play or do whatever activities we want to do before we play. That could be sitting and making music on our computers or drinking...or hanging out. Whatever it may be. Everybody does something different.

PI: How do you spend your time off the road?

LM: I still write. I don’t write music just to get it done for an album, I do it because I enjoy it. We all do. I like to make all kinds of music;

whatever I can. Im just about music, in general...and creating it. Making music, hanging out with my dog. (PI) Any favorite restaurants or coffee shops? (LM) I like Starbucks! That’s a good time. Oh, and Jimmy Jones gourmet subs too. I also really like Chipotle.

PI: Did you attend shows growing up? Who was the first band or performer you’ve seen live?

LM: I did go to shows when I was real young. The first one I ever went to was Carlos Santana.

PI: Are you guys working on anything else currently? I know you said you’re always writing...

LM: Writing metal and electronic music...Our keyboardist and I. We’ve been making quite a few random electronic styles. I’ve got maybe 5 or 6 new metal songs. Just writing music for fun. It’s easy in the van, which is why I brought up the electronic stuff...You don’t need instruments you can just do everything on the keyboard. When I get home is when I write the most.

PI: What can we expect from Born of Osiris in the future?

LM: Just trying to keep getting on bigger tours. Hopefully we’re not going down hill and getting on smaller tours. We’re going to try to do Warped and Mayhem next year as well as put out another album. All that fun stuff. All music, all the time.

PI: Thanks for your time and giving us a chance to get Plug’d In! LM: No problem! Thank you.

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