Forum.RttP{Aril vs THE LEGION }

FROM THE LORD HIMSELF
New England has a disease and its called Core. When I was younger and going to shows we did not have the internet to look up bands or stay in contact with family and friends. My weekends were usually going to shows, seeing new bands, getting new demos on cassette, supporting the underground, getting into the mosh pit, getting in fights, and meeting new people from all over. I love music, and during the 90's black metal came into my life. I was attracted to it. I wanted to learn more about it and I was getting disgusted with all the music that was going on and black metal was something new and fresh to me and I could relate a little to as what they were singing about as well as the music caught the atmosphere of haunted New England.

As I read all I could about the Norwegian Black Metal Scene I liked the whole idea of the black metal circle, even though things did not end well for certain people over there, I was impressed how in the beginning they all had the same vision, they were all musicians, they helped each other bands out, they had similar ideas and beliefs. They captured the spirit of their surroundings. There was more emotion in their music then just chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, break down. Some of them stood for something and as I read on and had contact with some of them via email, I said to myself there is so much great black metal, death metal, doom and thrash in New England that it does not get the recognition that it deserves.

i was tired and frustrated with some of the same bands always playing the same festivals every year, I was angry that there is so much to New England and I was getting tired of bands talking about their lame ass ex girl friend or how their friend stabbed them in the back, or about rights to this and that, or how they dedicated the whole set to Jesus Christ and I did not give a shit.

I started my band Perpetual Winter. I took some legends around New England and wrote songs about them, I was influenced by Robert Frost, and H.P Lovecraft, I could feel the cold New England Spirit run through my veins as I drove through the rolling hills of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut and there would be snow on the ground and I would have Emperor's "In The Night Side Eclipse" on the stereo and how it just captured everything that was around me.

I wanted to make a change in New England. Unleashed from dark haunted New England Skies. I wanted to start up my own festival and I called it " Winter Is Coming Fest" because we all know how winters in New England are sometimes long and when winter arrives it is brutal at times. It makes us tough and bitter haha...

I started The Legion because I wanted a group that had similar views, ideas, and visions. I wanted bands to get paid, not to sale tickets and deal with all that venue bull shit, its time for a new era in New England. Core is dead. Time we take New England and we put it on the map.

Growing up I always said, they know how to do metal the correct way over seas. I want to go to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Denmark etc....

I want the new young kids or people to say now....New England knows how do it and I want kids to say, I want to go to New England, I want to visit or live there...

The Legion, we show you the truth, we show you freedom, we are the wolves of this world, join us, support us, for there is always strength in numbers.....

There are shows happening, and yes they maybe small for now, but the numbers of people attending are slowly growing, support your local music, support the underground, bands, support the shows, hails to The Legion Wolfkult, my brothers, and to all of you.....POWER OVER DEATH.........