.....Would you like to see the likes of Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Ozzie Osbourne,.... Slipknot etc etc. Wearing Steampunk on their sleeves, and using the term in interviews? Or do you think that would be the beginning of the end?
I'd like to see some Steampunk metal that is of the same style as those listed above but I'm not sure I'd want those actual bands to switch over to Steampunk. COF, Dimmu Borgir, and Rob Zombie are certainly dark enough for my taste.
Agreed, but I don't think they would switch over. I think they will inevitably do what they've always done if SP becomes as popular with the Goth and Metal set as I suspect it will.
Lets take Cradle as an example. It wasn't so long ago that they took on influences from Cyber Goth. Quite inevitably because it became a big thing in the scene. Inspiring bands like Kovenant,who also used Sarah as a vocalist.
They adopted it more into their image than their music, and admittedly it was the sort of dark cyber Hellraiser type look they went for on stage. They never wrote any songs repetitive enough to be pure dance tunes, but I do remember a techno remix being done of one of their tracks however. And I do remember it being a bit of a bone of contention with one of em, cos all the others were listening to a lot of techno and EBM privately, and he was old school metal and hated techno haha.
Korn would be another classic example, they certainly adopted a more industrial sound and image later on than the Adidas hip hop influenced sound and image they started out with.
I don't see any of them smoking pipes, wearing tweed, writing songs about dirigibles and calling each other old bean any time soon.
But to be honest I don't do that either. But Cthulu, The War of the Worlds, Victorian Gothic? not to mention the fact that some of the modern SP fiction includes things like vampires, werewolves, loads of what we might term goth reference basically it's the victorian era, impossible to avoid. And I don't think they are goimg to have a prob with the concept of dark industrial old school machinery either, especially not Rob Zombie haha.
I don't think it's going to happen yet purely because I know a lot of them are out promoting new albums that haven't touched on SP. But by the time the next albums and vids are being made?
And obviously there are new SP inspired metal bands out their right now, and if they do well, these guys are too business savvy to pass up the chance to raise their profiles a little bit. Don't get me wrong, I think they'll do it because they'll love it, but a little publicity never hurts, especially given how screwed the music bizz is at the moment.
I could quite see Danny in a black Pith helmet actually, well he does like his Carry on Movies
