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I made this video a while ago but Sam Or I's thread reminded me of it. In this I played guitar, did backup vocals, managed sound, shot most of the video/stils and cut/edited the video. My man Jon D was the main singer, shot some of the video, stars in all the parts of the video he didn't shoot and is generally a crazy motherfucker. Thoughts/Suggestions?

Uh, I feel bad saying this, because I am musically incompetent and I have nothing but respect for those who put it all out there and perform. That being said, I *really* didn't like this. The vocals were so heavily distorted it was practically impossible to understand the words; but even worse, the distortion rendered the song REALLY difficult to listen to. Like, ear-damagingly painful to hear. It just sounded ugly; I think the direction you chose to go simply didn't work. I've got nothing to say about the guitar parts, if for no other reason than they were practically drowned by the scratchy, distorted white noise of the singing.

I have to say that the allure of 'troll metal' has escaped me as well. Distant groaning drowning out some light noodling on guitar isn't exactly a crowd pleaser. It reminded me of the music in the 10th rate film Monster a Go-Go as much as anything, which cant be good. My own experience with vocal styles that clearly aren't singing is usually that they're invented because the inventor could not sing properly under any circumstances. Giving such a genre a name doesn't disguise the fact that it isn't singing.

I cant comment much on the video since much of it was too dark to see well, although the ideas used for some of the moving picture and picture-in-picture looked sound. It's just too low light and detail to comment on very well. Sorry.

^Don't listen to those guys. \m/ This is proper conceptual art, man. I'm not really sure I understand the concept though

I'm glad someone appreciates my genius.

Hey, it's art, so there's no wrong or right.

Then again, I'd urge you to move more into video than audio as your ouevre. Your video has some interesting ideas, but your music would make a goat puke. You got anything else on Youtube?

Funny you should ask...
Here's my youtube page : http://www.youtube.com/user/fohkukohgeki
A short biographical piece about myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Zs3fva1Gk
And here's my band's last.fm with pretty much everything we ever did on it: http://www.last.fm/music/Polar+Mongooses

Pretty dreadful if you want my opinion.

There's no aesthetic at all, no soul to it beyond "I am taking the piss poorly", and even in noise genres I can't accept that. I'd also associate "troll metal" with melodic folkish black metal like finntroll rather than that.

I hate to say it but I have to agree with Rye, that's some dreadful work right there. Filming yourselves reading bad poems while strumming chords amateurishly on a guitar is not a recognised genre of music (maybe folk?). I think your bands pretension and self belief have not merely outrun its talent, but kicked it to death before even setting off.

It's a common problem amongst students over here who want to get into the whole 'band' vibe, they often bypass the actual 'learn an instrument' portion of the process and go straight to calling themselves a band. I have seen guys who could not tune their instruments getting gigs because they looked the part and talked a good game, but 3 notes into the first song it's all blown wide open. If you guys really can play and sing you might think about doing something which involves that because the current stuff is doing you no favours.