Wouldn't you like to know?
 

Guess we all have to go through this ritual. :)

1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)

Love cars (mainly classic), love music, goth dancing, cooking, indoor rock wall climbing, concerts, almost anything where im active, and if you want more feel free to pick my brain.

2. Where are you from?

Central Valley (30min north of Fresno)

3. Who is your favorite author?

Dan Brown

4. What are your favorite films?

Iron Man, Terminator 2, and a few more that are escaping me right now.

5. What music do you want played at your wedding?

Nightwish

6. At your funeral?

Within Temptation

7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?

With a smile on my face after angry, biting, vigorous tantric sex.

8. What kind of casket would you want?

Just throw me into a 2x4 framed casket covered with plywood and painted black with red

9. What's your FAVORITE outfit?

My pants that I just finished "altering" that I still need to upload pics to my blog. Would love to create a classic goth outfit

10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?

nothing. would rather go back and delete alot of things.

11. What's your favorite band?

Green Day (so?)

12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?

Currently 4th year in school, majoring in Graphic Design. Extra 1/2 year left.

13. Why did you join?

Just curious about you people, learn a few things, and share a few things.

14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?

I think it's really obvious!

Green Day? How utterly gothic.
Welcome to the boards. Any other favorite bands? Any goth bands perhaps???

HA! Thanks for the greeting. Yes, I may be somewhat normal, but you have to pick my brain for the real juicy stuff (which you have done). I love Combichrist, Psychlon 9, System Syn, Covenant, and anything else with a good beat that I can dance to. What can I say, I'm a well rounded individual with a delicious dark side. Te he.

I have never heard of any of those bands. What genre are they? You a metalhead or what?

I was worried there for a second.

I'm guessing you're a guy...am I right? It's hard to tell. Not that gender matters to me, I don't care what gender people think I am, personally.

Anyway, you seem to have already gotten into the swing of things.

Aren't they E.B.M. bands?

So, like, industrial EBM stuff? I like that kind of thing. I'm a big industrial fan.

My standard question to new members: Do you like Skinny Puppy? Because if you do, then I like you.

Forget Green Day.
Dan Brown? Seriously?

Skinny puppy is good. I just threw Dan brown out there. The book was my roommates. Yes they are industrial bands, but I am mainly into dark electro.

Classic cars? May I ask if you have a particular favorite? Mine is a 1971 dodge challenger R/T Also Welcome =)

Well, I love just about all pre-73 and don't have a favorite, but my top consist of a 69' Camaro, 65' GTO, 72' Cuda, 70' Boss 302, 55' T-Bird, 32' Coupe, and the 71 Challenger. I actually own a 70' mustang coupe, but its not running at the moment, long story.

Eww Nightwish/Within Temptation.

Niccce....
My mom had a '69 mustang coupe, she used to street race with it.

Green Day blows. Now that I got that out of the picture:

I also like muscle cars, I own one actually my daily driver is a 1973 Chevy Monte Carlo, 350 small block, Rochester 2GV double barrel, Turbo 350 3 speed and just over 100,000 miles. I'll have it restored 90% within the month, so at least we have another car dude around.

It always bother me for some reason when people list popular music and then other people say they've never heard of it. Specifically on a forum such as this.
I don't know why that bothers me, but it does. Maybe I'm cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

Oh, shut up.

Hello!!!!!! xD
Welcome to the forums.

No, I don't want to know. Go away.

"3. Who is your favorite author?

Dan Brown"

While I read his books.... really favorite?

Even if you did just throw down an author you can always fall back on Edgar Allan Poe... or Shakespeare, or someone who could actually write as well as the credit they're given... Even if it's cliche it's better than Dan Brown....

Haha, has anyone heard Green Day's new single from their new album!?!?!? XDDD..

THE LEAD SINGER SCREAMS!!!! It made me lulz... almost to the point of blowing orange soda out of my nostrils.

Some of Nightwish's older stuff was good. Though I do like their new female singer as opposed to the old one.

I didn't mean to be rude when I asked if he was a metalhead. I was just curious. Just putting that out there.

That was my reaction, too.

Oh well. Welcome, new person.

Rozz, how can you think he's a metalhead, then say you like industrial/EBM and not know the bands he listed? I am not familiar with System Syn, but the others he listed should be well-known to someone who listens to industrial, unless for you it's simply "oh, I dabbled in it a bit and like some stuff, but I don't really listen to it."

Sorry, I used to be heavily into industrial/EBM, so I get a bit defensive.

Draven: What do you mean it's your roommate's book and you just threw it in there? You make it sound as if you didn't read it at all, but that you picked up a book at random (fuck you guys, I am going to use "random") and thought "I'll just list this one."

The bands listed were EBM. Rozz said he's an industrial fan, and if he's into 'real' industrial that wouldn't include the likes of Combichrist and Covenant.

Yeah, I'm into the classic stuff like KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and the somewhat goth/industrial band Alien Sex Fiend.

I'm not really into the newer industrial stuff, so maybe that's why I didn't recognize the bands.

LOOL.
I don't want to be an asshole about it, but you can't be picky about genres when you don't know the difference between EBM and industrial.

=P Love you Pyre! <3

Yeah, I'm totally out of it. What is the difference between EBM and industrial? I'm aware of industrial, but what are some classic examples of EBM?

I know it has something vaguely to do with industrial. Maybe I'm confused.
And yeah, when I said I was a big industrial fan, I was referring to classic industrial.

Dude.
Just google it like you did with goth.

Okay, so I don't know EBM. No need to be rude like that.

I'm not being rude about you not knowing about EBM. Hell, I don't know much about it myself.

But I also wasn't trying to put up a bullshit front about it.

And for the record, I never googled goth. Google is for porn ONLY. ;)

Google, Wiki, whatever.

System Syn is a local band over here in LA/Burbank. Well, they are signed by Metropolis last I checked I think. They usually play 21+ places so I haven't gone to see them yet.

EDIT-(whoah, I missed this part of the discussion by quite a bit, just replied when I saw someone mention they didn't recognize System Syn >.>)

In my experience, most people who listen to one listen to the other. They're very similar, with the exception that EBM is more upbeat. Aside from that the sound is generally the same. A fan of industrial should be familiar with EBM bands. And, as you see, these bands that you supposedly call EBM do not refer to themselves as such, even if they would technically be such. There's a lot of cross-over from industrial to EBM because they're so similar. In fact, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who actually listens to them to make a clear distinction between the two, or lists specifically of one or the other.

Psh, most EBM bands make up a name for their genre. I'm gonna make an EBM band and call the genre "SteriPop," and if anyone questions me, I'll just berate them and say they have a shallow soul.

haha

Yeah, I think EBM is just barely more danceable...it's like a subgenre of industrial... sort of like psychedelic trance is a subgenre of trance, or Heavy Metal being a subgenre of metal. Subgenre's while similar, do still have some distinct differences that set them apart.

Most industrial fans I know aren't really into EBM. They consider it bleepy shit.

And fuck, I've never understood how people can dance to it anyway. The most danceable music I've ever listened to is deathrock =]

To the EBM crowd, dancing means pretending to stomp on/punch midgets to the beat.


The funny part is that I'm not joking. That's EXACTLY what it looks like

o.0 I hope I don't look like that when I dance

That involve moshing? If so I don't really consider that dancing... and, not referring to you at all, but hardcore dancing is probably the dumbest shit in the world.

Ewwwwww, no.

I don't really know how to describe it, but it isn't much different to dancing to Siouxsie or Bauhaus. In fact it's pretty much the same.

There's a local EBM/darkwave band here, and the first time I saw them live I got really into the music and looked as if I was having convulsions. >_>

I don't know many industrial fans myself, but the ones I do know like EBM as well, and I personally listened to both for a few years. I have heard people call techno bleepy shit, but not EBM. I don't know many "bleepy" EBM bands, in fact. They're all pretty heavily industrial like, at least the extent of the ones I listened to. But, I guess that depends on one's definition of "bleepy."

Yea, EBM and Industrial are different genres just so you naw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_5pK7pwsE

RozzVanian, I find it hard to believe you've never heard of Combichrist for example. Or in fact EBM at all. Most clubs, around here at least, who have flyers saying "Goth and Industrial night", will actually play EBM instead.

Combichrist, VNV Nation, Angelspit, Suicide Commando, Psyclon Nine etc.

I like some EBM and industrial bands. Skinny Puppy are awesome live. And Combichrist are pretty fun.

And Draven, welcome.

You guys are getting your genres mixed up. EBM, while I guess it can be called 'bleepy', is an older genre on which the generic 00ntz shit that seems to be so popular these days is based. Think Front 242, Klinik, (early) Nitzer Ebb.

Suicide Commando started out EBM so I guess that warrants the classification, but I'm pretty sure Combichrist, Angelspit and Psyclon 9 are what's considered (electro-)industrial nowadays, and VNV nation is clearly synthpop.

I consider myself an electro-industrial fan and I do listen to a lot of EBM.

EDIT: I noticed later I skimmed through a lot of the posts and people have already brought this up.

They generally get referred to as EBM though and whatever genre they are, those are the sort of bands that would get played alongside each other in a club.

And some new EBM bands do sound like the old ones. Sort of. Like my link in the last post.

I know what you mean though.

Hmm, maybe that should be I generally refer to them as EBM.

I know what you mean, I employ my own genre classifications as well, to avoid a long genre list on my iPod, and because the invention of subgenres just tends to get a little ridiculous.

I use electro as a blanket term for everything from classic EBM, synthpop, to things like Hocico, Covenant, Velvet Acid Christ and Front Line Assembly.

Yeah, I blanket those all as EBM.

Most of that kind of music I hear about from my housemate really, he's Ebbhead on here. I don't know that much about it.

Also, if you like those bands and can get to Germany, they have a festival called Amphi.

Last year they had bands like Klinik, Combichrist, Die Krupps, Psyclon Nine, Cinema Strange, Clan of Xymox, And One etc.

This year includes KMFDM, Front 242, Fields of the Nephilim, Panzer AG and Laibach.