Music, Northern pagan mysticism, reading, writing, painting, fine-lining, music promotion, puzzle solving, religious studies, fitness, radio, audio production, history (in general), motorcycles, classic cars (rebuilding), biology, neurology, movies, strange Japanese toys, welding, my dog, poster design, psychology, sociology, teaching, martial arts, physics, genealogy, music, music, and finally, most importantly, music.
Oh, yeah, and music.
Music
METAL!!!! (black, doom, grind core, death - anything but cheese and hair), sludge, blues, psychobilly (traditional hillbilly rockabilly, gothabilly, punkabilly - it's in my blood - I love it all), goth, classical, hell - really anything but contemporary country and, generally, THE HARDER, THE BETTER. There's no such thing as too thick and too dirty, in my book.
I could never begin to name bands I like and have anything representative of everything I love - the best I can do is tell you what I've had in the player recently: Possessed, King Travolta, Secrets She Kept, Amon Amarth, Celtic Frost, Dissection, Lust of Decay, Wehrwolfe, Order of the Fractured Spirit, Internal Suffering, Atrocious Abnormality, Cobalt, Ouroboros, Saprogenic, Jungle Rot, Gods Iron Tooth, Husky, Lividity, Despise, Aborted, Satarial, Estuary, Behemoth, Loss, Guttural Secrete, Satanic Warmaster, Monstrosity, Aeon, Coroner, Infinited Hate, Godless Rising, Pyrexia, Spawn, Nile, Dreamscapes of the Perverse, Vesperian Sorrow, Catamenia, Teradactyl, Exulcerate, Anal Blast, Domination Through Impurity, Lecherous Nocturne, Zuckuss, Mucky Pup, Agent Orange, ANTiSEEN, Confessor, LOTS of Entombed, Sourvein, Drunk and Stoned, Dying Fetus, Emperor, Daylight Dies, Pest, Gorelord, Disincarnate, Roanoke, Grey, Kult ov Azazel, Dawn, Omnicient, The Reticent, Noothgrush, Rotting Christ, Ulver, Burning Witch, Sepultura, Eletric Wizard, Lunch, 1349, Vital Remains, DarkMoon, GWAR, Agalloch, Grave, Obituary, Carcass, Beaten Back to Pure, Akercocke, Death, Apotheosys, Unholy Crusade, Weedeater, Pungent Stench, Cannibal Corpse, Hellhammer, Big Black, Neurosis, EyeHateGod, Pillcrusher, Deicide, Fecal Corpse, My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Belphegor, Godflesh, Vader, Pig, Overkill, Bongzilla, Skinny Puppy, Foetus, Balatonizer, Cathedral, Brujeria, Melvins, Dixie Witch, Kylesa, Johnny Cash, DarkThrone, and Slayer. I just re-read this list and it doesn't come close to telling you what all I live for - oh well - guess you'll have to die without knowing. *alas*
Dr. Strangelove, Metropolis, Eraserhead, Raising Arizona, Blue Velvet, Fast Times..., too many to name - all genres. Especially horror and cheezy martial arts - not so much the western.
Television
I really don't care for television. Every time I sit down to watch it, I feel guilty afterward. I know I've missed something I needed to do.
I do watch the news. I will occasionally watch Discovery, Discovery Health, Science, and History. I just don't have enough time to sit for hours, staring at a box. <--that's dripping with sarcasm, as I'm staring at a computer screen for 10+ hours a day.
I'll also watch UFC, Family Guy, and The Simpsons.
Books
E=MC2, The Plague, and Eats Shoots, and leaves.
Heroes
Anyone who has the balls to get on stage and play whatever the fuck he or she wants to. Who gives a fuck it someone else likes it, or not? If you like it, PLAY IT.
North Carolina State University At Raleigh
Raleigh, NORTH CAROLINA
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Education
Clubs: Kappa Delta Pi - Education Honors Society
I work in music promotion. I have years of experience. Just send me a message and I'll review your band and let you know if I am able to work with you.
Tours, individual dates, nationals and locals, signed and unsigned
Elizabeth NYDM/NCDM President's Companies
Forge Foundry, LLC Raleigh, North Carolina US Owner Booking and Promotion
Current
Elizabeth NYDM/NCDM President Back at home. The memorial show was sad, sweet and fun - all at once. I'm glad I got to be there. Hope everyone is doing well. Posted 16 hours ago view more
I use this page for finding music and for work contacts. If you're looking for a new friend to chat with please don't try to add this page. However, if you want to hire me for band artwork or photography, WELCOME! Come right on in! I have years of experience and a large catalog to show for it. Please, browse through my PhotoBucket account to see some of my live band photography, along with some completely silly pictures from shows and everyday life. http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i181/ecstephenson3/
I love my Grim Russell Terrier, Jackson, and my close family and friends very much.
I'm completely obsessed with music and I primarily listen to metal. I play several instruments with vastly varying skill: bass, guitar, piano, and multiple woodwind, brass, and percussive instruments. Ahh - this one's important - I have a deep and passionate revulsion for metal with hardcore breakdowns. (With all of the metal core bands who have been adding me, I don't think you're reading this part.)
Wednesday night (from 10pm - 2am) - Metal Overdose - a balls out metal night, supporting: black, death, grind, thrash, doom, sludge, traditional - pretty much, you name it - metal!!!
I used to work for, but still love: Volume 11 Tavern, a 500 capacity TOTALLY METAL FRIENDLY venue, located at 658 Maywood Avenue in Raleigh, NC 27603. (For locals, we're only a block away from the Farmer's Market, at Lake Wheeler and Maywood/Centennial.)
For booking, write Keith at: keith@volume11tavern.com or call the bar directly, at: 919.839.0079.
Volume 11 Tavern is currently accepting demo packages and press kits. Please mail all packages to:
If your band is interested in booking a show, be sure to include your band’s website address, your MySpace address, links to your music, any articles/reviews of your band, and some detailed info from your last 6 shows (where/when/$/lineup/total paid attendees/etc).
For a PA breakdown, please, visit the website, directly.
I am a PROUD member of NYDM: NCDM - strong, loyal, hardworking, and true to our family. If you are curious about us, please, learn what we're all about at the NYDM main page! If you have questions, feel free to ask.
Growing up playing the music that I was FORCED to learn makes me appreciate this video, completely. One one hand, I love that I had no choice but to be a musician... on the other - FUCK RITUAL DRIVEN, OVERPLAYED, UN-ORIGINAL "POPULAR" MUSIC!! Dude - understand that if you want to sell something, make it popular with the people - on the other, how about *trying* to come up with something that's only been written 5,000 times (versus 5,000,000)!! However - look at the success of the bands who've been stealing the same riffs for 300 years... I must be wrong...
my sweet brutal!Hope everything is fine!Take good care of you and stay covered and healthy as well!your friend,Lemmy the one and only true real brutal deathgrinding NRWDM BaRminiSteR!Cheeeeeeeeeeerz and all the best to you!!
Welcome in our gloomy crypts... May the light die in your eyes! Unheil to you and Raleigh! ----------------------------------------------------- The Debut-Album "Das Relikt Des Triumphes" is now available as Double-Gatefold-LP:
Wanted to let you know theres 4 NEW Goretastic Tracks now up, with 1 NEW FREE Track Download on the Official BiB Website. If you get a chance, let me know what you think. Keep it Brutal!