Lamentations of the Flame Princess

[#128]

[Note: Good or bad, it was free...]

[Note: An array of promotional cassettes and flyers from the band over the years.]

[Note: Shit-Sex-Satan. Huh?]

[Above: Cover of the EP 'Tormenting Pale Flesh of the Syphilic Holy Whore' from 2005]

[Above: Anima Damnata hails from Poland.]

[Note: Mikael wrote an amazing keyboard track for our film.
What's most amazing is that he had never really played the keyboard, since he's a guitarist. It turned out to be one of my faves on the film.]

[Note: This was a huge compilation put out by Full Moon Productions. Over 30 bands, two CDs.]

[Note: This was a pretty cool short film. The top left picture is a frame used in the film. A different one came with each video.]

[Note: Setherial is a Swedish black metal band formed in 1993. Vlad Tepes was a French black metal band also formed in 1993. Years ago there was drama between Jon of Full Moon Productions and the band, resulting in both saying they would kill each other. I'm not sure of the details, but apparently it was over the printing of the band's address in Jon's masterful Petrified 'zine.]

[Note: An assortment of Maiden pins from over the years...]

[Note: 'Blood of Bastard' was this bands four song 1997 demo.]

[Below: Blood of Bastard demo cassette cover]

[Note: Tolkien inspired more metal bands than anything in history!
You wouldn't guess that by looking at this though! Bilbo looks a bit under the weather, wouldn't you say? Ha!]

[Below: In the same time period of the above were these two charming cartoons, which I enjoyed a lot. Here is the CED release of The Hobbit (1977 but released on CED in 1982) and The Return of the King (1980 and released around the same time as the other on CED). CEDs were a very strange and largely unknown technology. They actually used a stylus and a record-like disc to play movies.]

[Below: Even cooler and far rarer -- a VHD copy of The Lord of the Rings. Front.]

[Below: The Lord of the Rings. Back.]

[Below: Close-up.]

[Note: This is from Lincoln, Nebraska, advertising Gerhard Lauck's organization. The 'Wherewolf Front' seemed to have usurped this flyer. And since when is 'werewolf' spelled 'wherewolf'?!]

[Note: Some very strange names for stuff these days. This band is from France and was formed in 1998. Gangrene is a type of tissue death. 'It can be classified as dry gangrene, wet gangrene, gas gangrene, internal gangrene, and necrotizing fasciitis.' Ha! Shows how much this dictionary knows, they didn't even include VORACIOUS GANGRENE!!]

[Above: Voracious Gangrene, the band]

[Above: Voracious Gangrene, the tissue death variety]

[Note: Looks like this fine black metal fellow has been smoking a bit too much.]

[Note: Another side-project from one of the Abruptum guys. The debut of this project had guest lead-vocals from Jon of Dissection...]

[Below: CD cover]

[Below: A later release]