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The Triumphant How To Of: D and D metal
We here at superfashionchic are trying to give YOU the reader the best and most up to date advice in fashion and
music. Now you may be saying to yourself Mr. 666, why exactly should I care about D and D metal and what the hell is it? We
here at the superfashion institute are concerned with forward thinking and are always on the forefront of fashion, style,
and music. Like the stock market fashion, style, and music for the forward thinker can be a speculative market. I am here
at this moment to guide you through a musical trend that might have a high yield result for you, D and D metal.
Take my hand, isn't that good? I am here to reassure you and make sure that every step on your journey into D and
D metal is a safe and reassured one. If you follow this through you may be sitting on a literal scene point gold mine. Where's
the proof you ask? in the superfashion teams knowledge of possible cutting edge scene activities. Well lets just put it this
way nofashionLou took out stock in Lemmy (oh, you dont know who he is?) four years ago. After cashing in his scene cred in
just that he had enough points to buy a mansion out in the hills, with a 4 girls that look JUST like Betty page feeding him
grapes while he lounges by his pool listening to the new AWK ½ a year before it gets released.
A JOURNEY NOT AS PAINFUL AS THE PREMISE
(Gary Gigex is yo boy)
Your first mission on this journey is to read ALL of the dungeons and dragons series. NO, not just the latest
edition but all of them. Everything must be read from the original 1975 Dungeons and Dragons edition pamphlet up to the
Advanced Dungeons and Dragon 3.5. Read it until the point where you can distinguish page 25 of the original up to the
latest edition. Oh, and focus special attention to dragons and wizards after all every band does need lyrics.
After all this reading make sure that you can have enough ideas out of this to make your own fantasy world. If
you've only spent two years on this world obviously you do not have what it takes to be a true musician. In short think of
this world as your wardrobe, it all has to match and it all has to look good together. Here's a tip for starters, an Orc horde
should be placed in the plains and there should be at least one 5,000-year-old dragon. Also remember this, there is NEVER
enough dragons, like seeing hip bands BEFORE they had an EP, there is never enough dragons that can be put into place and
as in these songs as in real life name dropping scenarios throw these dragons out into usage whenever possible, just as you
would throw in random bands that you have met in real life (or for that matter not met). Remember just as in the real world
this place you are making is something to make you feel better then other people and to make sure of that every moment in
life or in song.
After this you MUST get yourself a good medieval weapons collection. Remember everything is
all about fashion and weaponry to D and D metal is to what bad glasses is to emo. Remember all that you need in your record
collection is TRUE METAL and nothing else or in other words every Man-O-War album and bootleg you can get your hands on. With
all the money youll be saving by not buying every 7-inch and vinyl of all those old bands that you will now not like, itll
be easy to save up money for swords and maces. Hint #1 in weaponry buying, do not go for realism. What you should be going
for is something more like, "I really could kill a 15th level Red Dragon
with this sword". Think Victorian architecture...
but in sword form. A good hint for beginners is to watch the knife shows on QVC. That'll clue you in to exactly what you are
looking for in a sword.
So you think youre going to get off easy and just own the weapons do you? Well you'd be wrong and could never have a
good band just doing that. What's needed is years of intensive practice in the arts of swords, maces, pole arms, and if you
REALLY want to have a decent band Falconry. Seriously think about this. How can you possibly trust a band as serious
musicians if they are using stunt doubles to do sword play against a poorly done CGI dragon in one of their videos? Many a
band has lost serious cred and levels off of their mIRC thief/rangers just for such an affront to the name of TRUE METAL.
Now that you have your weaponry and all a comprehensive knowledge of the Dungeons and Dragons
universe next comes fashion. In the several years it took for you to read up on D and D and acquire a collection of swords
to rival a 14th century Duke you should have been growing your hair out. As has been duly noted since the early 1980s you
CANNOT be metal without long hair. After this a pair of tights pants is required, like a moustache in Western NY, a pair of
tight pants (preferably leather) are a need to get into this special club. What type of shirt shall I wear? you may ask me
now. Well if you were listening to me before you would have realized that this is all about the fantasy world that you are
trying to recreate and what does every man wear in medieval fantasy shirts? Thats right, a billowy shirt. How are any of your
fans of this band going to take you as a serious musician without a billowy shirt? My suggestion would be to go for the rapscallion
look. Go for the paladin/ranger look, by the time you have read all those damn books you will find this funny, trust me. Just
like your self created fantasy world make sure that your dressing style is epic and everything should turn out fine for you.
So now that you have your own world after having read ALL the D and D books, have the
long hair, have an arsenal of swords and maces, learning how to properly use them and have the fashion now comes the tough
parthaving the band. The first and foremost thing to remember that your band MUST be carried into the world with the grandiosity
of a Papal visit or the ramblings of an insane web page. Actually what I should say is make your bands grandiosity make those
pale in comparison to you.
Naming the band, this is the hard part. As just mentioned the bands name must be what
presents to the world the revelation of genuisity that you and coterie are. If you are at a loss for a name here is a hint.
Look through all the fantasy books that you and your band members have (the how to find D and D metal band members will be
covered in a later how to article). With the $20,000-$30,000 in books this should be an easy task. At $10 to $40 a book this
will be an easy task for four to six people to do. While looking through these books pull out phrases words or names that
you think captures the essence of the grand scope of you are about to share with the world. Remember obscurity is key, as
this will show how smart you are.
My final tip in this section is on the actual songs and song structure. Remember you are not
writing songs, songs are for those of a lower class then you, after all you know what true metal is while others do not and
therefore you are writing things on a higher level that in no way could ever be considered something as lowly as a "song".
What you are writing should be referred to as an epic, a tale, or something else in that way of thinking, maybe even in a
ballad not so much in the 1980s love song way as much as in the 1580's way complete with loots and harpsichords. Keeping with
this theme nothing you write can be less then six minutes. Think this to yourself now, This is an epic and what I am doing
should be done heroically and should therefore be lush but in a six to ten minutes type of way.
Don't be afraid to leave your epics with cliffhangers in them, after all what you are
writing is a saga, not an album. Let the truth ring through the entire saga and dont just write unrelated epics that might
leave things unanswered. Is six minutes enough to tell the tale of an elven princess on her way to find the Staff of the Windcrasher?
Well no it is not and this is exactly why you need an entire saga to tell it.
Well this ends this segment of the how to be D and D metal. Dont worry kiddies in the next installment
I'll teach you how to play your guitar and other tantalizing bits in this fascinating growth market genre. If theres any questions,
comments about this send them to me at elgoososixsixsix@hotmail.com.
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