We'd like to extend our warmest regards to the returning viewers of this channel and welcome those new to channel, as well as thank you all for taking the time to check out what was originally half a joke and a means to try my hand at amateur videography to a lesser extent. We never anticipated anyone having any interest in these videos, but here we are 700+ subscribers later, and a few thousand views later. Again, thank you for that. Today we release what's probably our biggest collaborative undertaking to date, with this video being a major team effort between one of heavy music's most talented editors/videographers, two very chill camera operators, our dedicated intern, and the legendary DMV band featured in this concert film.
At the turn of the new millennium, the internet began to make it's way into the lives of billions of people living on this planet, and would entirely change the game for mankind (for better and worse). One of the more positive outcomes was the ever expanding abundance of information one could access to further their education on whatever subject they desired (cooking, programming, etc). That includes numerous young people with a passion for music. Suddenly those kids now had access to most of the world's recorded music, guitar lessons on YouTube, "How To videos", Wikipedia, ultimate guitar tablature, community message boards, and so on.
It was especially effective on kids who already had a strong grasp on the fundamentals of playing music from a young age, thus creating a growing number of incredibly young virtuosos in their own right. This is especially true of the boys who started a Baltimore Death Thrash band known as "Necropsy" in 2008, none of whom were older than 13 years of age when they started out. All of them were raised in households that fostered their interest in music of all types and heavily supported their musical education from early on. So to add the overwhelming power of the internet to that equation, you were bound to get something special.
I first saw Necropsy open for Integrity at an A389 event at the Ottobar in 2012 and my first thoughts were as followed; "Holy shit, did I time travel to 80s California. Look at them Thrashin' ass adidas hi-tops! Why they wearing fuckin' leather jackets in this heat?!". Unfortunately I was pretty prejudicial back in the day, having come from a town full of indignant Thrash Metal kids LARPing as 1980s Megadeth, and playing some of the most generic Thrash the world would never hear beyond South Brooklyn. I couldn't have been more wrong; It was literally as if a more vicious Dark Angel took to the stage but with more Repulsion vibes, and the professionalism of a successful touring band, that does what they do for a living. There were a few takeaways (don't judge a book by it's cover, etc), but I'd say it restored my faith in the concept of a good opening band that didn't pay to play.
Not long after they changed their name to "Noisem" and their career as a band took off in a big way.
They became the kid wonders of extreme music and the talk of the town, with major publications looking for interviews, appearing on the covers of Metal magazines, insane show offers, and thus getting to opening huge shows for the likes of The Black Dahlia Murder, Bolt Thrower at Maryland Deathfest, Carcass, and even sharing the stage with Slayer. It was like a more chill Beatlesmania but fast and heavy. Everyone took notice across the interconnected world of heavy underground music, even gaining fans from corners of that world one wouldn't of expected such interest from (Hardcore "kids", Crust Punks, Grind enthusiasts, Punks, Screamo types, etc). Noisem would play This is Hardcore, DIY basement shows, huge ballrooms, medium sized bars, it didn't matter. They were down as long as you were.
Unfortunately however, with great success came great obstacles as well; hitting a deer full speed on the highway, infighting, further van troubles, a change to the band's line up, and eventually the Covid-19 pandemic. Lesser bands would not and did not survive one of these issues, let alone all of them, but Noisem would endure. Which brings us to this present day, this video, and it's release. This is a success story that I hope inspires the next generation's rag tag bunch of Metal virtuosos.
I'd like to thank and give credit to the band's fans, friends, and family, first and foremost (you know who you are).
A huge thanks to @MaxVolumeSilence who absolutely killed it with the professional level editing on this. So well done it reminds me of "Live Cannibalism" (my favorite concert film).
My friends Alexia Grind and Kevin of @EndlessCemetery , both of whom took great footage from their angles.
and to Noisem. Thanks for everything.
Current and former members of Castle Freak, Exhumed, Gruesome, Necropsy, Cavalera Conspiracy, Pig Destroyer, Ixias, No/Mas, Desolus, etc.
Bandcamp: http://noisem.bandcamp.com
IG: / noisembaltimore
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