I'm looking forward to getting my boogie on.
(For those few who don't know:
Myrkur appeared a few years ago, releasing an
EP of Black Metal songs on respected extreme metal label Relapse. The identity of the creator was not revealed, but the promo blurb described the project emerging as from the Scandinavian darkness, and waffled on about isolation, savagery, etc, etc. It was good enough (for an obscure Black Metal EP) to get some buzz about it, and there was much rejoicing in the bits of the internet and music press which concern themselves with Black Metal.
Then it turned out that it was actually all done by a GIRL! A pretty girl! A pretty Danish girl! Who lived in New York! A pretty Danish girl who lived in New York and sang in an
achingly twee indie/dream-pop band, but who liked to listen to a bit of black metal in her spare time and decided to have a go at it, and roped some Black Metal chums in to help out.
There
was no Scandinavian darkness! It was FALSE METAL!
Somewhat predictably, there were howls of outrage and anguish in the bits of the internet and music press which concern themselves with that kind of thing. Turns out that (some) Black Metal nerds can be just as entitled, misguided, misogynistic and generally arseholey as (some of) the other nerds who get outraged about stuff, and the usual
Twitterwhumph ensued.
It doesn't seem to have done her any harm - since then, she's played at a number of suitably metal festivals, released two well-received
studio albums and an acoustic live album recorded in a
mausoleum in Oslo which is very lovely, and released a load of videos of her wearing
Scandinavian jumpers, standing in Scandinavian
woodland, singing Scandinavian
folk songs on Scandinavian
folk instruments. Just a pretty Danish girl, in the woods with her
nyckelharpa.
Singing songs. Looking pretty.
It was on seeing one of these videos that Gaynor decided she'd join me at the gig.)
EDITED: 12 Jan 2018 18:55 by WINGNUTKJ