Star Wars Inspired Metal Band

If you clicked on this link, then you are remotely interested so here goes:

Bill Pulmonary Embolism is going to be releasing a Star Wars inspired E.P. entitled "A Galaxy Consumed".

The story follows a lone Sith Lord "Nastidious" in his search for along lost holocron.

http://www.facebook.com/billpulmonaryembolism

My name is Pete Clarke (Iron Thrones), and I hope you check out the music.

It's all free and I will posting tons of new content in the next week or two.

Thanks for reading!

Bill Pulmonary Embolism said:

If you clicked on this link, then you are remotely interested

No, I just wanted to know why you posted in the wrong place.

Well, I suppose I could move it to another thread.

Which do you suggest? Thanks for the heads up.

Thank you!

So which one of you is Mr Embolism?

Haha that would be me. I'll go by mr. Embolism or Pete.

Silverwook, I wrote and recorded all the music, so Nastidious could do all the belching. He goes by Nastidious or Nate.

Oh man, long night at work. Didn't even catch that.  Which one is pink?

The one on the right of this album cover I think?

I was wondering when someone would think of doing this. I can't believe it's 2012 and this is the first time I've heard of the notion. Because I mean, if Blind Guardian can make an entire career out of adapting Tolkien, why couldn't someone do something similar with Star Wars?  There really isn't a lot of sci-fi themed metal compared to fantasy, and there really should be.

I'm more of the classic/power/speedy genre fan than the death metal stylings of you guys, but the recording quality is really, really good. Sounds pro!

Thanks man!  I've been tooling around in the Minneapolis metal scene for five years now, and I was able to pull a few favors with some of my studio buddies, One of which may hop on board for shows.

I agree with you though, there should be more Star Wars or Sci-fi based metal.

The idea behind this project -for me- is to just have fun, and when i brought Nate (vocals) on board, he quickly convinced me that Star Warsy content was the way to go.

As far as the classic thrash goes, what are you currently listening to?

Well, when it comes to thrash my listening is a bit limited, if only because I find many bands tend to sound so similar but I like the usual stuff like Overkill and Annihilator, and maybe Helstar but people tend to consider them "speed metal", but the difference between "speed metal" and "thrash metal" is often a bit blurred. My music taste is a bit more European-leaning so I usually enjoy bands more when they incorporate elements of thrash but wouldn't be consider thrash proper. There is a really good band from Canada called 3 Inches of Blood that is a sort of thrash/power-metal/NWOBHM/death-metal blend and they are really good and tend to tour with bands that are probably more up your alley like Overkill and Goat Whore, you might enjoy some of their stuff.

3 Inches of Blood are great. A buddy of mine who went to school in British Columbia turned me on to them a few years back.

I totally dig on speed metal, I just wanted something super heavy out of this project,

Are you familiar with Emporer or Isahn? They totally inspired me while I was writing the music for this E.P.

Also, Nate (vocals in Bill P) is really diggin on the new Municipal Waste record and was wondering if you've had a chance to listen to it.

Sounds like stuff I sing at karaoke.  :)

I see you have a soundcloud page, but make sure to make a bandcamp page when you release your album.  Bandcamp is awesome.

I think sci-fi lends itself to electronic more than anything (Then again, I don't really see what fantasy has in common with metal).  I have a couple of sci-fi electropop songs that I've written.

Heck yeah man! I already have the Bandcamp page set up, but I appreciate the suggestion.

I'm waiting for the artwork to be completed before I make the page available.

You said you are in a few electronic projects. What are they called?  I'd like to listen.  What style?

Well, my intention wasn't to turn this thread into a place for me to spam my music, but since you asked.......

Here's a newer sci-fi song I've done (give it a bit to get going): http://vlantis.bandcamp.com/track/a-thousand-million-miles-from-mars

And here's a sci-fi song that's now a few years old.  Pretty simple in retrospect, but it ended up on a compilation over in Switzerland that was released through a magazine.  :P

http://vlantis.bandcamp.com/track/interstellar-feller-man

Have a look around my bandcamp page if you like (or not;)).  My stuff is mostly electropop but with a bit of punk.  The Urotanki EP is pretty dorky with lots of girly Japanese vocals.

Post the link to your bandcamp page once you get everything set up!  :)

Your music is super fun man!  I'm going to have to take a stroll through your discography.  Is it normally just you, or do you do a lot of collaboration with different musicians?

Metal and Star Wars...I like it.  I like it alot.

Bill Pulmonary Embolism said:

3 Inches of Blood are great. A buddy of mine who went to school in British Columbia turned me on to them a few years back.

Yeah, when I was living in Vancouver in 2004 I saw their very first CD being promoted in a store and I took a gamble because the cover art seemed cool (judging metal solely by cover art: never let me down in almost 20 years!) and I was really impressed. Back on the topic of sci-fi metal, they actually have one or two sci-fi tracks that are really good (Wykydtron, for example). But it's too bad that whenever people think of sci-fi metal they think of stuff like Bal-Sagoth because, while they are okay, I think the genre needs a lot more diversity than the handful of examples I've seen. I guess Iron Maiden can be commended for making an entire sci-fi album in Somewhere in Time, although they did get a lot of criticism when it first came out because of the synths.

In terms of Star Wars, I don't know if anyone knows Blind Guardian, but they totally incorporated the "jedi" theme from Star Wars in the intro to Times Stands Still (At the Iron Hill) from  Nightfall in Middle Earth.

Bill Pulmonary Embolism said:

Your music is super fun man!  I'm going to have to take a stroll through your discography.  Is it normally just you, or do you do a lot of collaboration with different musicians?

 

Cool!  Glad you liked it!  The music is always just me (scratch that, I had somebody play guitar on one of my releases), but I work with different vocalists from time to time.  Lately, the vocals have been just sung by me, though (like in that first song I linked).

Are you just the music part of your band (duo?), or do you do the vocals too?

@Zombie84 - I've never heard that song before. I'm going to pull it up right now. Can't wait to hear that!

As far as incorporation's go, my other band Iron Thrones used part of "Duel of the Fates" as inspiration for an intro to our record "Visions of Light". The track is called "Swell to the Surface".

@eiyosus

Yeah, I wrote all the music for Bill Pulmonary Embolism so that Nate could come in and lay down vocals.  I've been in a band for the last 5 years that was another guy's baby and it took up a lot of my time.  We just called it quits so I'm going to take the lead on my own project for awhile.

I turned my co-worker on to your music btw.  Hopefully he has good things to say come Monday.

I can't wait to put it out Eye Shot!

I'm just super excited to see what people think of it.

I'm thinking that at some point Nate and I will release a short story or outline of the concept behind the E.P.

It's certainly Star Wars based, but we didn't use any Lucas Arts characters or planets.  It's all based off of the Sith Lord Nastidious.

Seriously hyped on putting this out.  We may have just convinced a really sweet guitar player to hop on board for live stuff.  If he does, then be prepared.