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[rawrXskittles]

"Do as I do, watch the fires fall / When the sky opens up its sores and weeps"

What could you expect from a band calling themselves the Lost Star Unicorns? Following in the foorsteps of Deerhoof, this post-post modern/emocore band hails from Rhode Island, where they live by the beach.

Lead singer Marina Fireyes commented in one interview, "We am teh best. No prisoners. Take all, leave none standing!"

Bassist Taiyle Nairyu, recovering from overdosing on several substances, says "We can't be arsed to have a point. We're just in this for fun."

Their new album, "Star Pony Loves The Wonder" is set to come out sometime in Septvembuly in a paralell universe near you!

[sp2]

So I picked up a Music to Mosh To album yesterday and was really disappointed.  I was really not expecting folky acoustic indie pop.

Fuck irony.  What about Truth in Advertising?

[KharBevNor]

ALT 666.

A Satanic Geek-Rock band (somewhere between They Might Be Giants and Danzig) from California, ALT 666 (which as everyone knows is the code of the incredibly metal 'Ü') are  best known for a stream of minor alt-rock classics in the early and mid nineties, such as "I Sold My Linux Server to Lucifer", "Your Worthless God Believed the Sulfnbk.exe Panic", "Spamming Alt.Christnet in the Name of Beelzebub" and the anthemic "C++ Crackers in the Devils Pay". Like many similiar bands they somewhat faded out of view as their original audience of God-hating teenaged Doom modders and usenet gurus grew up and drifted away. They were put briefly back into the spotlight when the media linked them to a particularly tragic School Phone-Freaking, but then faded from the publics fickle eye again. They're still going strong however. Their latest album "Ave Satana, Ave Linus Torvalds" is as strong as ever*, and I highly recommend catching their infamous and controversial live show, which features antics such as spitting into and burning bibles and windows user manuals on stage, and sacrificing a virgin iMac with a hard drive full of pictures of stained glass windows and mother Teresa. Even if you don't, you should definitely check out some of their merch at their website. Their t-shirts are awesome.

*though regrettably inferior to the classic "ftp://my:[email protected]"

[rawrXskittles]

Oh man, I saw Lost Star Unicorns on their "Court-Mandated State Capital Tour" last week, and they were awesome! The bassist dyed his hair with something that glows in the dark, then there was a power outage! So everyone's just playing their instruments and shouting without amplification, and you just see his head bobbing on the stage. After that, Marina set him on fire!

Haha, yeah! Did you see when Kairie chucked her guitar into Synge's drumkit? Totaly onstage chaos, WOO!!


ALT 666? MOR LIEK ALT SUCKSSUCKSSUCKS LMAO AMIRITE

I heard them played on the radio in a coffee shop!

[Johnny C]

Solar Panda

I thought A.C. Newman's comment about joining was "Yeah, what the hell."

[KharBevNor]

@Rawrxskittles: Ah, that would probably be  something off their really commercial '01 offering 'Satans Wrath Be Upon All Modems'. That one was a minor hit everywhere outside the bible belt. Didn't last though, because their real sell-out front-man committed ritual suicide in 2002 shortly after the release of Star Wars episode 2. They got in Geoff 'd20' McMurdoch (Formerly of Dell Impaler). He promptly got the band dropped from their major label by throwing 5 1/2" floppies full of porn at the pope, and they started getting good again.

But yeah, there were some big singles off that one. If it was being played in a coffee shop, I'd expect it was probably the ballad 'Oh, Dark Mistress Usenet'

[Johnny C]

I picked up that split they did with Doom.Net, WikiMurder. You know, the one where one side is just both bands playing that instrumental track, "Satan's Servers," and the other side had "My DVD Drive's Slot Is Coated In The Blood Of The Innocent" and "Infidels At The IP Port." I liked "Satan's Servers" most, it was cool to hear the bands experimenting. Who knew that the old dial-up modem noises (heard at 11:25, turn your speakers up) could sound so ominous?

[KharBevNor]

Did you know Satans Servers isn't entirely instrumental? If you play it backwards, about halfway through you can hear the bands chanting 'HEIL NAPSTER! HEIL SATAN!'

That's a good example of their newer stuff though. They're really trying to repair their image in the Californian Deathgeek scene by helping to promote upcoming talent, and playing lots of all ages shows locally.

And oh man, did I mention their after-parties? Bring a laptop and bird! Half lanparty, half satanic orgy, all rock and roll.

[rawrXskittles]

Psh,  remember back when Yngwls was in Laptop Dominion. Does he stll have the guitar with the sticker that says "My other guitar is a laptop"? I haven't been to any of the ALT 666 shows, I think they're not really all that. Yngwls is hawt though

[La Creme]

When it comes to geek metal, it's all about Beam Me Up, Suck Me Off, And Thrash Like A Bitch Scotty. The guitar solo on "Spock's Cock Rocks" kicks ass, expecially in the part where it just blends into re-pitched sound affects from Return Of The Jedi and season 2 of Babylon 5.

[KharBevNor]

Yeah, but that stuffs just a total different league. You heard about the violence surrounding that stuff in parts of Portugal? I hear the drummer of 'oy'naQ* in your Orifice got tarred and feathered for daring to suggest he preferred captain Janeway to captain Picard


*look it up.

[rawrXskittles]

Who the hell would prefer Janeway?! Janeway was a pussy! I'd have tarred and feathered him too!

And the first series of Babylon 5 was where it's at, man.

[La Creme]

Heh. An 'oy'naQ is not a nearly intimidating enough name for a "deathstick". It should be called a "OYDEATHKILLFACEDESTROYER".

Anyways, on the other side of geek musics, theres the much unexplored genre of geek-lo-fi-indie-techno. I'm especially digging the work of The +5 Fullplate Of Flaming Scene Cred.

[tetsuotheironboy]

being the ignorant newbie i am, i posted basically the same topic a few minutes ago so i figured i'd add my idea to this one. This post is better than mine due to the edition of a back history so here it goes.

"Jimmy Felched The Headmaster", 4 persecuted upper-middle class south manchester kids *(only british people get the location reference) deal with their childhood experiences of sexual deviance by screaming loudly at a wall of studded-belt wearing raven haired imbeciles