Velvet Cacoon Are Taking The Piss Out Of Us!

Tommy Tee · #1 07-06-2005, 05:02 PM

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Well, in the words of Whitney, the dieselharp is really a hype machine. It's one of our many stories we used to toy with the black metal scene because we knew it would work. It's just a big inside joke to us all. Anytime we see a glowing review for Velvet Cacoon we just chalk it up to another string on the dieselharp. The dieselharp is like CNN for black metal, it's the newspaper you get up and read each morning. It's the metaphor for our 365 day voyage from "who is VC?" to "Shut the fuck up about VC". It was a marketing ploy to prove we could fist fuck a dead scene full of idiots. It's not that we hate the people, it's that we find the message of black metal to be worse than Christianity and we wanted to mock every ounce of this community. Of course, this only relates to the interviews and shit we did where we gloated about the ecofascist dieselharp playing nonsense. The mood of "Genevieve" and the drug use, I can assure you, was and is very authentic. In a way we were playing characters of ourselves... some of the authentic parts of ourselves, and other parts were pure fabrications.

http://www.velvetcacoon.com/elskrin_...w_english.html

it does say a lot about the current state of underground black metal fans that everyone was interested in VC because of the 'dieselharp', their ecofascist views and such and they were actually just taking the piss.

in a way, i fully support their tom-foolery because the black metal scene takes itself so seriously with its anti-poser attitude and yet many BM fans are posers themselves with their hoarding of over-priced ebay vinyl that they never even take out the package and such antics.

I think VC's piss-taking will make a lot of these fans realise that BM is not about collecting vinyl that you'll never play, getting hundreds of limited demos and supporting bands because of their 'kvltness'. its about the music. BM was about being anti-capitalist (im sure you all know about darkthrones 'anti-jewish' slogan) but many people were making money from selling over-priced rubbish on ebay. and bands that limited their releases to small amounts were pretty much guarenteed some buzz around them no matter how shite they are.

Long story short. i support VC's 'marketing ploy' because it points out the stupidity of the BM scene.

Before anyone points it out, the quote above was just stole from a thread about this on MA forums.

ForestsNocturnal · #2 07-08-2005, 08:12 AM

It's not difficult to troll black metal, just look at Warhassan's projects. VC only fooled the stupid. If the claims they made weren't suspicious enough, the "quality" of the music should have been enough to deter serious listeners. Avoid!

Tommy Tee · #3 07-08-2005, 04:16 PM

i love the whole diselharp idea and the fact that people BELIEVED IT!! supposedly a guitar powered by gas flames that sends the sound through an aquarium to give it that burbly effect. or maybe they just put it on a computer and screwed with the sound a bit. hmmm. whats more logical?

i think they're a great band though, from what ive heard anyway. genevieve and the latest demo with the long name are excellent and dextronauts not bad either.

Hélder · #4 07-08-2005, 09:15 PM

But is the band heading to any Studios to record the follow-up to their very successful album(as this interview reveal)? cause after reading this topics i could deduce that The new material is said to be even more epic, powerful and plain all-out heavier than before.i can't say what i've as a vindication cause i don't know this band perfectly.Merely,if you give us the line-up or their release,then,it will be so easier to know it.thanks.

Mourn · #5 07-14-2005, 02:05 AM

I heard about this awhile ago, but I still really like the music. It's awesome how they were able to pull the wool over the collective eyes of the BM community.. for the most part.