For those of you who are interested, an easter egg on the new VNV Nation “Pastperfect” DVD shows a 2002 live collaboration between VNV and Assemblage 23, performing (A23’s) “Naked” in Chicago. Most importantly, though, you can easily see me in the crowd 
Oh, and the VNV dvd kicks some serious ass!
They’ve finished PastPerfect? I’ll have to get it. I saw the unfinished video when VNV DJed here in Toronto, and it looked great.
So I’ll know which guy to look at longingly and all, what do you look like?
Look for the back of this head 
Overall, the VNV dvd is really cool - a lot of good backstage stuff, well-produced live footage, all that. I’m a little disappointed that a couple of songs aren’t on there (Carbon, Legion) and the live sound at times could be cooler (I’ve always thought the coolest thing about seeing songs like “Kingdom” and “Honour” is the sound of hundreds of voices singing along - you can’t hear the crowd at all on the dvd), though. And they don’t have the Chicago “Darkangel” soundcheck that was in the preview when Ronan DJ’d last fall, which I enjoyed (“It’s so PRETTY!”).
Definitely worth picking up, though!
thanks to everyone for the great suggestions… a lot of the bands I think I’ve heard before, on Slaghuis.net or something similar.
Just out of curiosity, where does a band like “Type O Negative” fit in this bunch? I’m a huge fan (not just October Rust… pretty much everything I’ve found so far…) and some friends of mine insist they’re not goth, or industrial.
Of course, they don’t like them, so who knows?
thanks again!
Type O Negative is a goth metal band. If you like them, you might want to check out Beseech and Moonspell. There’s another flavor of goth metal exemplified by bands like Sirenia and Theatre of Tragedy. And there’s a newer flavor of goth metal played by bands like Evanescence and Lacuna Coil.
And there’s doom metal…
Type O Negative is the Gothest band in the world, they clearly have a sense of the absurd, don’t particularly care if everyone thinks they’re cool and are up for anything musically (see cover of Seals & Crofts’ Summer Breeze, amongst many others). Long ago, this was the only attitude that mattered in the Goth scene.
Listen to a lot of music and think for yourself, any other opinion, including mine, is utter crap. In 1989 when the “This Is Electronic Body Music” compilations started coming out I was sure that starting to codify and define it was the death knell for EBM. Who knew? ;D
