Coronavirus
I just want to say that I hope all of you and your families are safe and healthy, now and in the coming weeks / months.
Australia is now almost entirely in lockdown, and we really don't know how long it will be before we can leave isolation. Both Daniel and I are locked in our homes with our families, only stepping out for essentials.
If anyone wants to talk about anything related to this fairly catastrophic event, or anything else really, feel free to reach out.
I guess if there's a silver lining, I expect to do quite a bit of work on the site in the coming weeks.
Cheers,
Ben.
My family and I are all fine, thanks Ben. I hope you, Daniel, and your families are safe and healthy as well, along with everyone else in the site and the world. My country is also almost entirely in lockdown. I mean it's more of a "movement restriction order", but with most outside places closed with the essential exceptions of grocery stores, banks, and hospitals, there's no point in leaving home, and it's better to stay at home. I don't even want to leave my house to walk around the safe outside part of my condo because of my anxiety and constant worrying. There are some things I can do when stranded at home, like continuing my Revolution Melodic Metalcore Clan Challenge strategy. In case you didn't notice my last "clan challenge progress" post, last month I've completed The Horde Death Metal Modern Era Clan Challenge! So now I'm doing The Revolution Melodic Metalcore Clan Challenge, and after I finish that, I have a special plan to determine once and for all which clan to lock in as my 4th, The Fallen or The Guardians. My latest post in the "4th Clan Poll" thread (https://metal.academy/forum/23/thread/308) explains what my special plan is and why I don't have The Guardians as my one of my 3 main clans. So yeah, let's hope for this worldwide catastrophe to end soon, and please, stay home, stay safe, stay clean, and stay metal. Good luck all!
Peace,
shadowdoom9/Andi
Advice against the virus:
A coronavirus song parody about the situation in my country and what we should do there:
DragonForce Coronavirus parody - Through the Virus and Plague
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On a warm Asian morning, in the time before the light
A virus of death internally reigns, invisible from sight
When the virus is coming down, then the times are tough all right
The storm of evil sickness falls around the world tonight
Striking hard, infecting many people, the world ain’t safe no more
The scattered souls all over the beach will be wasted on the shores
It’s a blackening plague, for heaven’s sake, don’t stay, we have to go
Before the pain, we’ll find our way back home
So now we’re finally home free
We're safe before the viral storm
Close the doors and windows now, our lives shall carry on
Everyday at sundown, everyday at moonlight
Protecting our hearts and all our souls
So far away we wait for the day
For the virus to be wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a thousand lives lost in a matter of days
Through the virus and the plague we carry on
As a new day is dawning
And you’re back home with a sigh
You should watch your hands, 20 seconds or more
Don’t touch your nose, mouth, ears, or eyes
Running home from the mid-morning light
With the virus in your heart
You’re banished far away from our falling land
To a hospital so far
It’s no darkened dream, can you believe?
We still don’t wanna die
And there’s no way we'll ever be free tonight
And when you think it’s all a dream, you face the dark reality
All alone in isolation, time has come and gone
Stuck inside, the virus won’t find, stuck at home for your life
Day after day this misery will go on
So far away we wait for the day
For the virus to be wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a thousand lives lost in a matter of days
Through the virus and the plague we carry on
[Whoa-oh Choir]
[Solo showdown]
Now here we stand as we’re washing our hands
We cleaned so hard now can we understand?
I wish this sickening curse can just possibly end
For freedom of every man
So far away we wait for the day
For the virus to be wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a thousand lives lost in a matter of days
Through the virus and the plague we carry on
A coronavirus song parody about when the virus started hitting my country and my initial thoughts of anxiety:
Trivium Coronavirus parody - Viral Storm (Brave This Storm)
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Have you heard news of a plague so viral?
It's a catastrophe, a downward spiral
With death it's sinking tiny sickening teeth into
A crashing tide that would eliminate all of you
What would you think if someone spits in your drink?
Wrong choice then nothing would spare you from your brink
You're equally at fault; ignoring the viral assault
Not right, it's so vicious, the villainous storm of all
I know what we're hiding from
I know what we're hiding from
The plague keeps crashing over
They pummel us over and over
I don't think we can make this viral storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think we can make this viral storm
[First Solo]
Slay us away with our lungs in decay
The plague will soon claim us all as his prey
We're pulled away after the virus has been set free
I'm wide awake to see the plague become blackening
Lock us away for our apathy and crimes
We're isolated ones losing our time
The virus will consume everything we once knew
Make it or break it, we're still stuck in our rooms
I know what we're hiding from
I know what we're hiding from
The plague keeps crashing over
They pummel us over and over
I don't think we can make this viral storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think we can make this viral storm
AS DEADLY AS POSSIBLE!
VIRUS!!
WE'RE ALL STUCK IN OUR HOMES!
VIRUS!!
OUR LANDS ARE DEVOURED WHOLE!
VIRUS!!
IS THERE HOPE FOR OUR WORLD?!
VIRUS!!
[Second Solo]
The plague keeps crashing over
They pummel us over and over
I don't think we can make this viral storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think we can make this viral storm
The plague keeps crashing over
They pummel us over and over
I don't think we can make this viral storm
Should we go quietly?
Accept that all is lost?
I don't think we can make this viral storm
Metal Academy clan map (https://metal.academy/forum/23/thread/271) presents....
The Fallen Rock Virus 1998 (ROVID98) (year based on the worst year, not the first year)
Note: This is absolutely not meant to make fun of anything or offend anyone in any way. I'm just writing a brief history of how gothic rock started taking over gothic metal in the late 90s and beyond, and even though it might seem like HIM is responsible for bringing rock into the gothic metal scene, I don't totally blame them. And I'm using similar terms to the current coronavirus in a way that I hope wouldn't offend a lot, so please understand and enjoy my gothic rock/metal brief history.
Gothic metal bands involved:
HIM - Formed in 1991 in the gothic rock lands beyond the Fallen Sea, broke up in 1993, then in 1995 reformed and sailed to the Metal Academy Graveyard of the Fallen, inspired by Type O Negative. Released their first gothic rock/metal EP 666 Ways to Love: Prologue in 1996, the main cause of the Rock Virus. Released their first gothic rock/metal album Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 in 1997. Shortly after, the virus gained the named ROVID666. In 1998, due to the virus worsening it was renamed ROVID98, and HIM was banished back to the gothic rock lands. Briefly allowed to return to the Metal Academy Graveyard of the Fallen in 2007 to make a gothic metal album Venus Doom, then sailed back to the gothic rock lands. Completely disbanded in 2017.
Type O Negative - Main inspiration for HIM moving to the Metal Academy Graveyard of the Fallen, though Type O Negative did not take full responsibility. Took extensive measure to protect themselves from the rock virus and stay gothic metal throughout their tenure (while briefly visiting The Gateway in 2003's Life is Killing Me) until their disbandment following the death of Peter Steele in 2010.
Tiamat - Both Tiamat and Paradise Lost are the first bands affected by the rock virus in 1997. Tiamat was infected with a more gothic rock sound starting with A Deeper Kind of Slumber. Since then, they brought back some metal while still being infected by the rock virus. Haven't been heard from since after 2012.
Paradise Lost - Both Tiamat and Paradise Lost are the first bands affected by the rock virus in 1997. Paradise Lost was infected with a more gothic rock sound starting with One Second, worsening into synthpop in Host. Since then, they brought back some metal while still being infected by the rock virus. Fully recovered back to gothic/doom metal in 2007 and kept that sound ever since.
The Gathering - Infected with an alt-prog rock sound in 1998, starting with How to Measure a Planet. Kept that sound ever since and never recovered enough to make any return to metal. Went on hiatus in 2014.
Anathema - Infected with an alt-prog rock sound in 1998, starting with Alternative 4, discarding all metal elements in 1999's Judgement. Kept that sound ever since and never recovered enough to make any return to metal.
Katatonia - Last album with their original gothic/doom metal sound was 1998's Discouraged Ones. Infected with a more dark alt-rock sound in 1999 starting with Tonight's Decision. Fully recovered in 2003 but moved to The Gateway and kept that sound ever since.
Theatre of Tragedy - Last album with their original gothic/doom metal sound was 1998's Aegis. Infected with a synthpop sound in 2000 starting with Musique. Fully recovered back to gothic metal in 2006 but disbanded in 2010.
Moonspell - Last band to be even slightly infected by the virus. Started going experimental with 1998's Sin/Pecado and 1999's The Butterfly Effect. Slight gothic rock infection in 2001 with Darkness and Hope. Began their recovery back to gothic metal in 2003, completed it in 2006, and kept that sound ever since.
Within Temptation - Avoiding the virus, moved to a symphonic metal sound in The Guardians with 2000's Mother Earth and kept that sound until visiting The Gateway in 2019's Resist.
Lacuna Coil - Last album with their original gothic metal sound was 2002's Comalies. Avoiding the virus, moved to an alternative metal sound in The Gateway with 2006's Karmacode and kept that sound ever since.
Aftermath: Some of the still active gothic metal bands are still partly infected, some are fully infected and never returned to metal, some are fully recovered back to metal, and some have moved to a different clan. Either way, gothic metal remains a great part in metal history to be enjoyed by Fallen members, along with soon-to-be Fallen member, yours truly!
The end?
Only just seen this thread. Hope everyone and their families are safe. I have just finished a stint working on a project here in the UK to staff field hospitals built specifically to look after COVID patients. Have a feeling COVID is here for a while yet though. Stay safe everyone.
Two-Week Quarantine (All That Remains COVID parody about the risk of quarantine)