MIT Heavy Metal 101: Concepts, Story Building, and Promoting Your Work with The Beast of Nod
- Shared screen with speaker view

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Boston

16:58
Boston!

17:00
Half Moon Bay

17:08
boston as well

17:12
Hey, Northfield ma

17:13
Cambridgeport

17:17
Woostuh

17:19
some guy on reddit did a dnd campaign based on the rhapsody of fire lore

18:26
excited for you!

18:28
Soak up that Asian food too

19:27
Jack drop that in the chat please!

19:56
what band did an album based on FMA?

19:56
Album is Demiurgus by Equipoise

20:10
ohh

36:59
i feel like concept albums can be instrumental though? (an early example that’s not technically an “album” would be Vivaldi’s Four Seasons)

45:21
Something that likely connects very strongly the concept/story of a band to the fans is also a mascot. For someone like myself that do not pay attention at all to lyrics, Eddie is my only gateway to know what IM are talking about. :-)

50:11
In gaming we call that a loremaster

50:19
Lol

01:15:57
what is exactly "guitar playthrough"? Just a video of the band playing?

01:16:43
why is it only guitars and without singer?

01:19:05
What does the label actually do? Do you really need it?

01:19:11
thanks Paul

01:20:53
do you find there to be big differences in what works for promotion from metal subgenre to subgenre

01:21:17
I don't know if this is directly related, but I've seen interviews from labels of various genres talking about the internet and online releasing of songs totally disrupting their industry.

01:23:56
"All You Need To Know About the Music Business" by Donald Passman is a good book and gives an overview of the different functions of different kinds of services like management, booking agents, labels, etc in case anyone is interested

01:26:16
threatin lol

01:26:55
question on the gradual building of the band and the presence you mentioned: how do people decide to make it a full-time job, i.e. is that also a gradual transition, or artists commit from the very beginning (teenage years?) or how does that work

01:29:26
sorry, I mean the artists. When do they decide to do music full-time

01:29:47
vs have it as side job / hobby (sorry, I didn't introduce the question well)… ah got it

01:29:58
colin marston

01:30:01
got it, thanks

01:30:21
What's your other job, Paul?

01:30:47
everyone i know who’s in a band, even well-known ones, have day jobs

01:39:04
what was “comically bad”?

01:48:43
https://www.thebeastofnod.com/

01:49:22
i love my purple Beast of Nod shirt! it’s so cool that you make non-traditional colors because everyone has black band shirts already

01:49:38
bring back the pink shirt

01:50:21
this was great, very informative and eye-opening for lots of stuff I had no idea about.

01:51:38
no way, i know her from discord!

01:52:46
https://padlet.com/joediaz/mitmetal101

01:53:45
thanks paul and joe!

01:53:55
:)

01:54:17
Ive got to go, but thank you very much.

01:54:23
Thanks for coming!

01:54:30
Join us again if you'd like!

01:54:31
Got to go. Thank you so much for all the great info, Paul!

01:54:36
Later Carrie!

01:54:56
Gotta run but thanks for another great session Paul and Joe!

01:55:01
Adios Liz!

01:57:07
can you please tell us a bit about the foundation and building the concept of The Beast of Nod. How did you guys meet, start creating together, establish the concepts and style etc

01:57:22
Thanks Paul! Good luck in CA!

01:57:33
Later Maria!

02:04:32
What were you doing in Rensselaer?!?!

02:06:05
Sorry to head out everyone. Please keep going as long as you like and see you tomorrow!

02:06:12
cool, thanks for sharing

02:06:16
Thank you gentlemen. This was well presented, informative and comfortable.

02:06:26
Thanks Paul!

02:06:32
thanks Paul, good night

02:07:13
There’s a “File” button in the chat I think