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Metal Mary

Clinging on to life by the skin of my teeth..

About Me

I sing for a Madison, WI based metal band called "Luna Mortis". We used to be called "The Ottoman Empire".You can check out Luna Mortis on MySpace here: Luna Mortis on MySpace .

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My Interests

Metal/gothic/industrial/classical music. I also enjoy garage/indie rock. MUSIC RECORDING and talking about nerdy things like mic pre's... Taoist philosophy, Anime, Asian Culture especially Japanese, pagan european lore etc... Film Noir, musical theatre...

I'd like to meet:

People who think THIS is AWESOME:

It's the official video for "Anemic World!" Hope you kids dig it! It's about time I posted one of my OWN videos!...leave us a comment on You Tube

CHECK OUT THE SHORT PRE-PRODUCTION VIDEO FOR OUR 2008 DEMO ON YOUTUBE HERE

I'm "MISS APRIL" in the 2008 Girls of Metal Calendar! Check them out and pick up a calendar! ALL PROCEEDS ARE DONATED IN MEMORY OF CHUCK SCHULDINER TO THE AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION!

Current fave music video:
MANOWAR!! Brothers of metal...don't pretend you don't love it.

Music:

I'm Ecclectic:
1349
3 Inches of Blood
Abba
Acid Bath
After Forever
All That Remains
Amaran
Angtoria
Arch Enemy
Arcturus
At The Gates
The Beatles
The Black Dahlia Murder
Blondie
Bloodbath
Body Count
Borknagar
Cake
Candlemass
Carcass
The Cars
Children of Bodom
Concentric
Cradle of Filth
The Cranberries
The Crystal Method
The Cure
Cyndi Lauper
Dark Funeral
The Darkness
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Deftones
Depeche Mode
Devin Townsend
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dimmu Borgir
Dio
Dragonforce
Dream Theater
Duran Duran
Earthen
Echo and the Bunnymen
Eden's Fall
Enslaved
Epicurean
Erasure
Evergrey
Exhumed
Falco
Falconer
Fear Factory
Fear My Thoughts
Flowing Tears
The Gathering
Geddy Lee
God Dethroned
Grave Worm
The Great Kat
Green Day
G n R
Hammers of Misfortune
Half Gorilla
Hate Eternal
The Haunted
Heart
Hypocrisy
Iced Earth
Ihsahn
In Flames
Incubus
Information Society
Interpol
Into Eternity
Inxs
Iron Maiden
Journey
Judas Priest
Kidney Thieves
The Killers
Killswitch Engage
Kittie
KMFDM
Kreator
Lacuna Coil
Lamb of God
Life of Agony
London After Midnight
Lords of Acid
Lost Horizon
Lullacry
Machine Head
Madonna
Madder Mortem
The Mamas and the Papas
Manowar
The Mars Volta
Maureen McGovern
MC5
Megadeth
Mercyful Fate
Meshuggah
Michael Jackson
Mirror Black
Morbid Angel
Morphine
Motley Crue
Neurosis
New Order
Nightwish
Nile
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
November's Doom
Nuclear Powered Satan
OMD
Opeth
Orphonic Orchestra
Our Lady Peace
Pantera
Pet Shop Boys
Pink Floyd
Praga Khan
The Psychadelic Furs
Pussy Tourette
Queen
Queensryche
Radiohead
Realm
Roadrunner United
Rob Zombie
Rush
Scorpions
Septic Flesh
Shadows Fall
Sirenia
Skid Row
Slayer
The Smiths
Soilwork
Solefald
Sonata Arctica
Soundgarden
Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius
Talking Heads
Tarja Turunen
Ted Nugent
Tenacious D
Tiamat
Trivium
Type O Negative
Ulver
Van HAGAR
When in Rome
White Zombie
Within Temptation

And shitloads more...

Movies:

Anime: Wicked City, Ghost In the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Perfect Blue, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Blood The Last Vampire, Death Note, Trinity Blood.....Many many more...
Bladerunner
Dark City
Underworld/Underworld Evolution
The Big Lebowski
Spinal Tap
Lord of the Rings

Television:

Anime series on Television
Dexter
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
STAR TREK
Law and Order
The Office
Big Love
Six Feet Under
Real Time with Bill Maher
Daily Show
Colbert Report
Metalocalypse
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Robot Chicken
Extreme Makeover
The Tudors
ALL STAR TREK SERIES' EXCEPT ENTERPRISE

Books:

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Skipping Toward Gomorrah by Dan Savage
Any HP Lovecraft
365 TAO
Tao Te Ching
2008 Virgo astrological guide

Heroes:

so many.....

My Blog

"The Ottoman Empire" changes name to LUNA MORTIS!

Hi everyone! Just an update on what's going on in our camp...my band, "The Ottoman Empire" has now changed names to "Luna Mortis!" Go to them in my top friends and you can see new photos, listen to so...
Posted by Metal Mary on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:42:00 PST

I can never make up my mind...

    So...I keep changing my fuckin' hair. :)Anyone who's comin out to a show...it's still the same old me on vocals...just black hair now.  And I haven't cut it since we took pics ...
Posted by Metal Mary on Tue, 13 May 2008 06:44:00 PST

Chicago Powerfest was awesome!

Let me just say, that attending this year's Chicago Powerfest was awesome!  I think it broke the record for being the biggest draw in the history of the festival.  I'm not sure what the fina...
Posted by Metal Mary on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:41:00 PST

Chicago Powerfest - TOMORROW - Ill be at the "Girls of Metal" booth!

    Hey everyone!! If you're comin' down to Chicago Powerfest, come stop by the Girls of Metal booth and say hi to me!!  I just dyed my hair back to black and so I look different n...
Posted by Metal Mary on Thu, 01 May 2008 03:20:00 PST

Recording in Florida and what-not!

    Yo, what's up my homies?I just wanted to post a blog and say howdy!  This is the first time I've had to log in since I've been back from Florida, so I will message you back now...
Posted by Metal Mary on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:30:00 PST

Big article about The Ottoman Empire/Madison Metal in this weeks "Isthmus!"

    Well, anyone living in the Madison, WI area has probably already seen it, but I'm very excited to say that The Ottoman Empire had a big write-up in the Madison-area arts paper, "The...
Posted by Metal Mary on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:23:00 PST

Demos/new stuff - upcoming recording - what I’ve been up to!

Well, what's shakin' everyone?Things as usual, are buzzing like crazy in the Ottoman Empire camp.  We've been very busy in preparation for our next recording session!This month we'll be heading d...
Posted by Metal Mary on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:19:00 PST

New pics - 2008 Girls of Metal calendar....

Hi everyone! If you don't already know...I'm in this year's Girls of Metal calendar!  The Girls of Metal are unlike any other group of women in the world because they come together to make a cale...
Posted by Metal Mary on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:43:00 PST

Thanks for a great show @ The Annex & New Year’s in Cleveland!!

Hey everyone!!Thank you all SOOOOOOOOOO much for the amazing show at The Annex in Madison on Friday!  Thanks to Bourbon Breath, Erebus and Mirror Black for rocking the house with us and a HUGE th...
Posted by Metal Mary on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:58:00 PST

Earthen - a project I just did vox on..

Alright, so if you're into viking/folk metal/music you're going to LOVE the project that I was fortunate enought to get to do some vocals on this past week.The band is called "Earthen" and they're out...
Posted by Metal Mary on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:38:00 PST