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ric o'doom

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About Me

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High! i'm ric o'doom, the perma-stoned bassist with the north west metal titans "VON KEMPELIN". This band is so metal we make iron maiden sound like art school fags. We've recently been signed to Heavy Metal Records who released such classic bands as Accept and Amebix (one of my favourite bands of all time!) and our first album should be out before the end of the year. Music is my life and i plan to make it my life's mission to make it pay off cause i hate working for the "man" (anarcho-punk fandom as a teenager ruined my lower middle class work ethic). i plan to become a fully fledged alchoholic by my thirtieth birthday (an age that is becoming scarily close) and will never turn down a drink. i love tattoo's and in the process of having my left arm sleeved by my good friend, ross "tatman" seed at the tat cave. the guy is a freehand genius and hardcore to the max so you gotta love him......................................................... ..........i also play guitar, sing, synths, samples and electronics (usually at the same time) in the experimental noise duo "The Pink Mummies". The band was originally a one off dunken idea that lasted all of ten days from concept to demise and played one utterly heavy gig. Since the sad demise of our last hardcore band "High John The Conqueror" we've decided to resurrect the "...Mummies" and have since changed the name to "higher council of mars". We're a bit silly as the mummies (which will still rear it's ugly head from time to time), wrap ourselves up in bandages and tend not to speak english (usually complete gibberish with hints of german and spanish) while we're in costume but it is all merely a reflection of our disdane for the majority of the music scene and humanity in general we. We kinda sound like a cross between swans, old man gloom, sunnO)) and botch. Plenty of noise freak outs, painfully slow passages and brutal riffs. good clean fun basically. "High John..." may rear it's ugly head again in the future once staff and equipment problems are ironed out and i also have a slightly mellower solo project in the pipeline called "Kamsa". I'm the poorest man i know but like to think this one day might change.............

My Interests

the ROCK!!!, skateboarding, reading, vegetarianism, anarchism, krsna conscienceness, hydroponics, smoking, drinking, being really stupid and pretending to be intellectual...

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I'd like to meet:

other noisy buggers

Music:

napalm death, swans, godlesh, jesu, brutal truth, gasp, buzzov.en, cable, isis, mare, creation is crucifixion, neurosis, agoraphobic nosebleed, pig destroyer, mastadon, iron maiden, weezer, cursed, carcass, bolt thrower, the stupids, the devils, the locust, daughters, army of flying robots, canvas, humanfly, jinn, ebola, oxbow, melvins, converge, botch, cave in, tragedy, his hero is gone, dillinger escape plan, pageninetynine, pupilar, squarepusher, bathtub shitter, melt banana, gore beyond necropsy, nuclear assault, craw, keelhaul, knut, obituary, morbid angel, intense degree, extreme noise terror, sawn off, boxed in, nile, cryptopsy, faith no more, tomahawk, mr bungle, voivod, poison idea, dead kennedys, crass, head of david, the smiths, the cure, autopsy, suffocation, goatsnake, sunn0)), merzbow, wolf eyes, black dice, whitehouse, the beach boys, the who, beatles, some girls, today is the day, cannibal corpse, fugazi, KMP, anthrax, iron monkey, eyehategod, a silver mt. zion, godspeed you! black emperor, mogwai, khanate, blah blah bloody blah...

Movies:

star wars (yes all of them), lord of the rings, pi, audition, tetsuo: the iron man, happiness of the katakuris, evil dead trilogy, living dead trilogy, shaun of the dead, battle royale, requiem for a dream, happy gilmore, billy madison, la haine, man bites dog, funny games, gummo, elephant, henry: portrait of a serial killer, texas chainsaw massacre, braindead, bad taste, zombie flesh eaters, once upon a time in china trilogy, crouching tiger hidden dragon, the good the bad and the ugly, fistful of dollars, for a few dollars more, baise-moi, irreversable, the big labowski, time bandits, brazil, meet the feebles, shogun assasin, zatoichi, fire walk with me, eraserhead, wild at heart, the lost highway, cheech and chong up in smoke, ghostbusters, kingpin, fightclub...

Television:

ren and stimpy, spongebob squarepants, ripping friends, samurai jack, spaced, jam, brasseye, the day today, futurama, bbc news24 and coronation street because it's so real.

Books:

douglas adams, tolkien, mervyn peake, albert camus, michael moore, william burroughs, asimov, patrick tilley, george orwell, aldous huxley, dostoyevsky, james gleick, anthony burgess, robert m. pirsig, richard bach and the bhagavad-gita

Heroes:

krsna, han solo, justin broadrick, bill steer, wino, tony iommi, the mighty mike patton, the canadian kilted yaksmen, albert camus, timothy leary, geoff rowley, jamie thomas, peter jackson, aaron turner, stephen o'malley, john peel, michael gira...

My Blog

ooo... a review of the mill gig!

well, what do you know... someone out there does get it. well mint!"After Lupus In Fabula pulled out earlier in the week, Higher Council Of Mars, formerly The Pink Mummies, (9/10) are drafted into the...
Posted by ric o'doom on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:00:00 PST

last minute gigs...

last night was pretty damn funny!after responding to a posting on the prestone.co.uk site for bands to play at the mill in preston we got the gig and had to organise transport quickly as well as pick ...
Posted by ric o'doom on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:02:00 PST

fast versus slow... i can't decide!!!

been a funny old few days...starting last thursday; i lost my obnoxiously shite job in the morning cos i was late and on my last chance, so in a somewhat blind panic i went straight to the job centre ...
Posted by ric o'doom on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:43:00 PST

crazy assed life

well it's been a while but mainly cause i'm a lazy fucker! been working in the most mundane job in the universe inputting files through a huge computer scanner day in, day out... i don't even have to ...
Posted by ric o'doom on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:04:00 PST

abuse herion... knock it on the head!

ironing sucks badger cock! yep i've been constructive to and cleared out all my old shite that's built up over the years. got loads of clothes for the charty shops and bin bags full of rubbish. it's a...
Posted by ric o'doom on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:39:00 PST

2006 is fucked up!

well it's only the 9th and it's already been more action packed than most of last year. i sadly started the year of single and intend to remain so for a while. we're still great friends but just not g...
Posted by ric o'doom on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:36:00 PST

nowt better to do...

currently penniless, jobless and bored out of my tiny skull! life pretty gay at the moment. thank krsna we've got a gig on tuesday. more random noise played by two guys who never rehearse. should be f...
Posted by ric o'doom on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:47:00 PST

the pink mummies

last night was our second gig and, yet again, was a tremendous success. considering we've only been doing this officially for 25 days i like to think this is quite an achievement. what ...
Posted by ric o'doom on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:45:00 PST

dreams really do come true...

after over eleven years of playing in bands and dreaming about being signed and having the oppotunity of releasing records it finally happens. hooray! VON KEMPELIN are gonna be the new stars of kerran...
Posted by ric o'doom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

cock-hammer vs arse candle...

woke up today slightly hung-over with my lady watching the popes funeral cos she liked the silly hats. i tried to do my best to ignore it, by forcing myself back to sleep, but aria's alway upset my sl...
Posted by ric o'doom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST