The Ballet of the Brushes

Bjorks an odd one, some albums are dodgy but others are amazing. Very interesting artist though.

Forgot to mention Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows. Their cover of Holding out for a Hero is... Different, in a good way.
 
Slave to Darkness said:
Watain were fun when I saw them at Bloodstock, being covered in pigs blood for the next 2 days wasn't as fun.

We need an oldhammer metal ban
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I'll always make time to attend a Watain show whenever they're near my neck of the woods. Being covered in blood afterwards is a nice extra.
As to an official Oldhammer band, perhaps 'Castle Rat' could fit the bill? Nice retro vibe, solid Fantasy setting, kinda like an oldhammery metal version of 'Hellas' which are great fun too.
It must be years and years ago that somebody on this very forum mentioned the "Dark Brittanica" sampler as an ideal painting soundtrack. All four volumes are still being used for this purpose today.
I've found that most of black metal makes a poor painting soundtrack for me, so I've branched out into a variant of it kids today call 'Dungeon Synth'. Turns out, a lot of recluses everywhere like early Mortiis or Varg's jailhouse synth albums even more than I do, have picked up those torches and run with them.
Taliesin Kincaid said:
Stronghold by Summoning
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Solid choice! That's what i'm talking about. Silenius's side gig 'Mirkwood' is great too. Other favorite painting bands include 'Elffor', 'Thangorodrim' and of course 'Emyn Muil'.
These days, I like to browse around the dungeon synth archive channel and give some of the very recent uploads a try.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDungeonSynthArchives
 
Ti Pouchon said:
I'll always make time to attend a Watain show whenever they're near my neck of the woods. Being covered in blood afterwards is a nice extra.
As to an official Oldhammer band, perhaps 'Castle Rat' could fit the bill? Nice retro vibe, solid Fantasy setting, kinda like an oldhammery metal version of 'Hellas' which are great fun too.
It must be years and years ago that somebody on this very forum mentioned the "Dark Brittanica" sampler as an ideal painting soundtrack. All four volumes are still being used for this purpose today.
I've found that most of black metal makes a poor painting soundtrack for me, so I've branched out into a variant of it kids today call 'Dungeon Synth'. Turns out, a lot of recluses everywhere like early Mortiis or Varg's jailhouse synth albums even more than I do, have picked up those torches and run with them.

Solid choice! That's what i'm talking about. Silenius's side gig 'Mirkwood' is great too. Other favorite painting bands include 'Elffor', 'Thangorodrim' and of course 'Emyn Muil'.
These days, I like to browse around the dungeon synth archive channel and give some of the very recent uploads a try.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDungeonSynthArchives
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I think Vargs dungeon synth era a bit iffy, but going straight from Filosofem to Casio keyboard music confused younger me, didn't know at the time he wasn't allowed guitars in jail.

Mortiis though, love the guy, his guitarist on the Grudge tour was one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Just wish I didn't meet him in the toilets, not the best place to talk about distortion pedals and guitar string brands.
 
Oh I just remembered, back in the days before GW released the HH black books Laurie Goulding of Black Library fame had a 40k inspired musical project called the Kommissar, kinda industrial metal ish. I think some of his stuff is still buried on YouTube.
 
I don't know the first thing about distortion pedals or gitar string brands and have never met any real musicians except for some 'underground' black metal guys - oh and Tom Constanten.
What's your take on Wongraven?
Also, 'Elffor' and 'Galdur' both probably like Mortiis more than the two of us combined do.
 
I've met Anathema, I know Jeff from Carcass, my old drummer is now in a few bands signed to small labels (Ethereal and Diamanthian), met Marduk and threw a pint at the Guitarist from Dimmu Borgir (guy was a total door knob, I regret nothing). Oh and I email Varg a lot, guys lost it now, just a crazy old man who used to be famous.

Never meet your heroes, they never live up to expectations lol.

I've not heard of Wongraven, shall check em out now.
 
Slave to Darkness said:
Never meet your heroes, they never live up to expectations lol.
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Oh that's easy.. cause a person I would class as a hero of mine (it's complex) died in 1431 AD.. hard to meet ^_^ Though I guess I've kinda met 'lesser' heroes who are mostly just great people (though one I kinda... had had the odd political dis-agreement with) but still fine with them.
 
Slave to Darkness said:
Never meet your heroes, they never live up to expectations lol.
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I'd still like to go to BOYL one day to meet Mr Adams; not exactly a 'hero' of mine but still quite, quite admirable. Reading that, there's now an inkling less of regret.

And yeah, Varg has completely lost his marbles a long time ago but the last Hurrah was a hoot and a half. That youtube channel of his - comedy gold. As if the Unabomber and 'Clarkson's Farm' had a yt show together.
 
Well having enjoyed listening to some of "The Warning" earlier today on @chrisgoodone's advice I (nearly) finished up the Ghouls whilst enjoying Halestorm on in the background which is who I was thinking The Warning had some echos of which is probably one reason (other than them being rather good) I enjoyed them. Going to switch over to another newish band of talented ladies - Pacifica who I've been recently enjoying and who have some nice echos of the 90s, anyhow they shall round out the evening whilst I do some basing on the ghouls to put off doing the fiddly detailing!

Fimm McCool said:
Those guys are just lovely. Down to earth people with a passion who happened too be in the right place at the right time. Of course, there are now fewer than there used to be.
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Yep as a serious moment it's always been so wonderful talking to some of my "Warhammer heroes" over the years and in many ways finding out they were just lovely normal (granted very talented) people and them being "normal" did not diminish things in any way.
 
I don't think it will be long until Varg starts sunning his bottom, if he hasn't started already.

And by heroes I mean famous celeb types with more money than sense, one of my non celeb heros was Andy Chambers, met him at games day 96, totally Fanboyd out, I would have been worse if I found John Blanche but he was always on the other side of the building. He must have known lol.

Did get to talk to John on the ammo bunker forum, about earl grey tea of all things, I said I don't like it and he said use honey instead of sugar, still tastes like perfume but I can drink it at least. Would be nice to meet him in person though, he's like the warhammer version of Ozzy to me.

Anyhoo... Music

I did mention in another thread a YouTube channel that does 40k inspired ambient 'soundscapes', sure it was called Prometheus Studios. I'll double check after I walk the doggo.
 
ManicMan said:
a person I would class as a hero of mine (it's complex) died in 1431 AD
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Jean d'Arc?

Fimm McCool said:
Those guys are just lovely. Down to earth people with a passion who happened too be in the right place at the right time. Of course, there are now fewer than there used to be.
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At BOYL 2024 my boyfriend spent half the day nattering with Tony Yates (he's an artist, you see) and the guy was so nice. Just genuinely really passionate and happy to talk about his art to someone who understood. It's also nice that, because we're a bit of a niche hobby within a niche hobby, these guys weren't being harassed like "celebrities", they were just there to have fun and reminisce like the rest of us.

On the subject of Varg, have any of you seen his role-playing game? Deranged, hilarious stuff. Like FATAL, only significantly more racist.
 
I actually like Vargs RPG, wish he would stop updating it though, he's getting worse than GW for new editions. Not had a chance to check out the post apocalypse expansion though.
 
Does anyone here have a particular go to film or TV series for painting? Im a sucker for an episode of Robin of Sherwood, Praid era not Jason Connery though. I do like watching stuff like Kingdom of Heaven, Ironclad, Arn the Knights Templar, Army of Darkness or anything 'medieval' for painting Bretonnians. for Chaos it's stuff like The Thing (and the prequel) The Void, Event Horizon, Hellraiser (even the new Pinhead, she played the part perfectly, way better than the two guys who had to fill Doug Bradleys shoes). I watch a lot of Zombie stuff when painting Undead, comes in handy for Zombie skin tones.

Oh and G1 Transformers for general background noise.
 
Taliesin Kincaid said:
Jean d'Arc?


At BOYL 2024 my boyfriend spent half the day nattering with Tony Yates (he's an artist, you see) and the guy was so nice. Just genuinely really passionate and happy to talk about his art to someone who understood. It's also nice that, because we're a bit of a niche hobby within a niche hobby, these guys weren't being harassed like "celebrities", they were just there to have fun and reminisce like the rest of us.

On the subject of Varg, have any of you seen his role-playing game? Deranged, hilarious stuff. Like FATAL, only significantly more racist.
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What kind of stuff does your partner draw? Any examples he won't mind you sharing?
 
Atleast they got her hair better.. for some reason (not to be insulting to them) but the Catholics love to make her look 'more female' with visible breasts on the armour (she wore mostly the same armour as everyone else), Long hair (okay.. I've got long hair so it's not just female but.. She had short hair in a male style.. you see, a young girl, with a bunch of soldiers.. yeah.. wasn't gonna end well so she was smart enough to basically dress and style herself like any other guy so they wouldn't think of her as a sex mate), and they give he a skirt ¬_¬ yeah..
 
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