Corpsepaint

Corpsepaint has a big role in black metal. I'm a very visual person and I personal enjoy it a lot if some black metal bands still use corpse paint and haven't dropped it like so many did. Bands like 1349, Abbath, Carach Angren, Behemoth, Gorgoroth etc. have very distinct corpsepaint styles and it's somehow unthinkable that they would stop doing it.

Of course I had to try it, too, haha :D My first tries at corpsepaint were a Crow-style paint for carnival in my hometown, later in Finland I would get a Misfits-corpsepaint for a Misfits cover band. That was fantastic, by the way.

Now recently I of course turned more towards black metal. I tried a few styles, the first got inspiration from Carach Angren, the second is rather dirty corpsepaint in the style of Deadspace, the third reminds me a bit of corpsepaint some members of Gorgoroth have been previously wearing.

Corpsepaint gets you into the right mood, into the right feeling. It's like dressing up for the morbidity in black metal. Once you wear corpse paint and go into public it feels like you have bonded with the satanic spirit and you are untouchable. It's definitely something you are not doing every day. It's something that should be celebrated. 

And every night I am the flame

and every night there is a fire

- Daedin

Tuska

Now let's talk about Tuska festival in Finland, the biggest metal festival of Scandinavia. As far as I remember I have been there the years 2003, 2005 and 2006 for sure, I remember the shows very clearly. I might have been 2004 as well, but looking at the acts I'm not 100% sure and to be honest those were alcohol filled years and I just cannot tell anymore, haha. I would have to check my notes on this, if I made any somewhere, as well as photographic evidence I might have in photo albums.

But for now this is not so important. In 2003, 2005 and 2006 there were some bands I went to see and was very excited for. In 2003 this was Type O Negative. I also of course saw Sentenced, Amorphis, Trio Niskalaukaus. I somehow remember the 69 eyes and Lordi, too. There was also Finntroll, Barathrum, Moonsorrow, Horna.. I cannot say anymore if I saw something of them, haha. At that point I was not keen on seeing black metal. Too bad, dammit! :P

In 2005 I was most excited about Lake of Tears. I also remember Sentenced and Apocalyptica. I guess we also checked Dimmu Borgir a little, but I have no recollection. xD

Now in 2006 the big acts I was going for were Anathema, Sisters of Mercy, Opeth, Amorphis, Swallow the Sun. I see now that I might have seen Venom or Impaled Nazarene. But once again I lack recollection if I did, haha. Would have loved to see all those bands now, actively, remembering it :P

Anyway, why am I telling all of this? Because there is one band that I did see in 2006 and that made a big impression on me and that was Celtic Frost. I remember staying far from the stage, but watching the show, and then this one awesome, doomy song comes on and I'm absolutely hooked. There are a few songs that could be it, but I'm not sure. But yea, that was remarkable and even though I was impressed, I did not check Celtic Frost more, I did not get into black metal. It was not the right time back then, I understand that now. But still, I sometimes want to bite my ass for it, hahaha :D

I am a dying god, coming into human flesh.

- Daedin

Mortiis

ok ok, I know. Mortiis is not really black metal anymore. Actually not at all xD But I need to go back now, time travelling to the year 2004.

That was the year he came to Jyväskylä and I went with some friends of mine to see him. Black metal fans surely know who he is, he was a member of Emperor, their main lyricist and bassist. He wrote all lyrics for their first EP. He departed from the band before they would go on their first small tour around Britain (and before shit hit the fan with Samoth and Faust). He started his own project, dark dungeon music.

I still think that he actually has bigger balls than many people in the scene, just because he gave no single shit about trends and did his own thing. Respect! After many albums in synth dominated dungeon music he turned towards industrial music and nowadays is again active.

So yea, I was at a friends place and she was playing Mortiis and I asked who that is and she told me to check out Mortiis albums The Grudge and Smell of Rain. I was totally in love. I regret that I didn't listen to his older stuff back then! But alas, I didn't.

She also told me about the upcoming concert and I went there and it was one of the best shows I've been to :D I remember being in front and having a really great time.

Those pics are actually from that show, I took them with an old crappy camera :D Good times at Lutakko! Finally now in 2016 I got the Mortiis tattoo I always wanted. Mortiis will forever be my most beloved Norwegian musician and nothing can change that.

Everyone leaves. In the end. Everything dies. In the end.
- Daedin