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Yeah man, this is really cool so far. I hear a good bit of old Opeth in the vocals - clean and growled. I'm only one song in, but I dig it. Gotta say, "Hirsute" is a funny band name... maybe BAN should join you for a guest spot? :D
I have been offered guest vocal spots for kiwi bands before, too bad they fell through... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Cheers for the welcomes folks - sounds like I am earning big points by being a Kiwi haha :) Thanks for listening.'Hirsute' is definitely a strange one - it was a working title and it just sort of stuck. I thought it was cool in a really dark and sinister kind of way, 'covered with thick bristly hairs', but the type of clips you find on YouTube suggest otherwise :)

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my doom/death band Nevertanezra has a thread on here as well should you desire to check out our music while you're here.
Awesome man - will check it out for sure when I get the chance. I'm on holiday in the UK at the moment (counting down to Hellfest!), relying on 3G and my phone charger has just broken so it may be a while! Will do my best :)
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Awesome man - will check it out for sure when I get the chance. I'm on holiday in the UK at the moment (counting down to Hellfest!)' date=' relying on 3G and my phone charger has just broken so it may be a while! Will do my best :)[/quote'] Have fun. I just got back from Maryland Deathfest, which was incredible. I'll have to check the Hellfest lineup to see who is playing. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Have fun. I just got back from Maryland Deathfest' date=' which was incredible. I'll have to check the Hellfest lineup to see who is playing.Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2[/quote']Holy cow, what a lineup! I'm not surprised it was incredible haha. Awesome man - that would have ticked a good few bands off my bucket list. Must have been awesome to see Ulver. I saw Candlemass and Bolzer at Roadburn festival in the Netherlands earlier this year and absolutely loved it. I tend to get a bit excited at these events too, as back home in New Zealand the only real international metal we get is Megadeth playing a show every two to three weeks ;) haha. Hellfest is going to be absolutely brilliant - Black Sabbbath, Iron Maiden, Gorgoroth, Emperor, just to name a few. I can hardly believe the lineup. There are some really great festivals happening this year!
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Holy cow' date=' what a lineup! I'm not surprised it was incredible haha. Awesome man - that would have ticked a good few bands off my bucket list. Must have been awesome to see Ulver. I saw Candlemass and Bolzer at Roadburn festival in the Netherlands earlier this year and absolutely loved it. I tend to get a bit excited at these events too, as back home in New Zealand the only real international metal we get is Megadeth playing a show every two to three weeks ;) haha. Hellfest is going to be absolutely brilliant - Black Sabbbath, Iron Maiden, Gorgoroth, Emperor, just to name a few. I can hardly believe the lineup. There are some really great festivals happening this year![/quote'] Yes, the lineup was insane, and very few of the bands gave me anything at all to complain about. Bolzer was incredible, in my top 3 for the fest, and with that lineup, that's saying something. Candlemass wasn't quite as good as when I last saw them 7 years ago, but still put on a great show. Ulver was replaced by Agalloch, who sounded a bit underwhelming, but not bad, Nocturnus' sound was fucked up by the engineer running the board, and Enthroned was lame. Otherwise, it sucked to miss out on Aeternus, Mitochondrion, and Triptykon, all of whom had to cancel at the last minute, but I was absolutely floored by almost all of the performances that I did see. Big names on that Hellfest lineup, would love to check that out. Have a blast! Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Howdy, Never made any hard copies of the EP I'm afraid - I just released that one as a freebie to try and build a fanbase in preparation for Still Waiting. Will have to pass on the trade too I'm afraid sorry man - I'm travelling all over the show this year and won't be home again 'til early next year. That said, I'm just jamming some Nevertanezra on YouTube now and bloody loving it - sounds like some sort of blend of November's Doom and Mournful Congregation. Very nice work :) Be sure to stop in Wellingtonon your NZ tour :)

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Howdy, Never made any hard copies of the EP I'm afraid - I just released that one as a freebie to try and build a fanbase in preparation for Still Waiting. Will have to pass on the trade too I'm afraid sorry man - I'm travelling all over the show this year and won't be home again 'til early next year. That said, I'm just jamming some Nevertanezra on YouTube now and bloody loving it - sounds like some sort of blend of November's Doom and Mournful Congregation. Very nice work :) Be sure to stop in Wellingtonon your NZ tour :)
Well, I will just have to buy the download for now then. I only do that if there is no physical copy, downloading has never been my thing, but as long as I can jam it I'm good. Thanks for the kind words about Nevertanezra. Mike's guitar playing is definitely influenced by early November's Doom, but while we are big fans of the band, we've never heard the Mournful Congregation comparison before. Our new stuff is a bit more along those lines, but also with more death metal, kind of hard to describe really. Thanks in advance for spreading the word in the Southern hemisphere, we made friends with Lycanthia and traded with Damon Good, but I don't think too many others know of us down that way. I'll be sure to pass on the word about Hirsute, I know a few people that will definitely get into your stuff. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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