explain to me how to start a metal band in 2022
Explain to me how to start a metal band in 2022
Metallica found their members by putting ads in the paper
You need
>cool clothes
>leather jacket
>bullet belt
>cool hair
>connections
>friends who own labels
>friends in other bands
>friends in every major city
>cool backstory
>ex-member drama
>dead parents
>real stories for each song
>cool instruments
>double kick drums
>gibsons
>rickenbackers
>alcohol addiction
>beer + jägermeister 16 hours a day
>cool stage persona
>lights
>props
>pyro
>possibly cool fake names
>"slash"
>"synyster gates"
>"lars ulrich"
>tattoos
>groupies
>huge weiners
That's pretty much it, just take care of that and the rest should pretty much fall into place user.
go to a big city and play in local places that will let you. the rest will happen if you're good enough
Be Scandinavian
This also goes for most adjacent genres like diy punk. Also practice make it a habit and meet with band members alot.
you record some stuff (don't even need a whole band), slap it up on bandcamp and soundcloud and cross your fingers.
>buy 8 string meme guitar
>either do nothing but chug on the open F# or wank your guitar off until your hands fall off
>have same shit production as everyone else
>write nothing memorable
I can figure out everything except the last one. Please help.
there are some pills you can find on the webs for that
ok I'll do this
I also need a wife bro
You gather your friends, buy some instruments like guitars, bass, and drums, and start playing.
Find some other kids with no friends
There hasn't been a metal resurgence since the NWOAHM in the 00's
for me finding a drummer has been very difficult since every young person who is into this shit is too poor to own a home or lives with a bunch of roommates who won't put up with drums
You sure about that, gamer?
the kids having been hooked by MoP as foretold
now we need new music because stuff from the 80s can only go so far
Trash. It's needed.
>double bass like slipknot
>double guitars like maiden
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Barre chords are too physically exhausting for average zoomer, let alone hitting acoustic drumset.
Sorry, this thing belongs to past.
>bandcamp
>soundcloud
Don’t do this. Just hand out cds at your shows.