The punks and the metal dudes would fall back into that place, because, hey, you can dance to that shit!” In Portland there used to be a place called Lovecraft Bar it was a goth, metal place – but more goth than metal – and it was always packed. The only really goth band I really liked at the time was The Sisters Of Mercy, but I fucking loved them.
I was never dead set on any specific sound, I was just willing to work with people as long as they were willing to work with me.
I tried to keep our music grounded in heavy metal, because that’s eternal, but then goth has been around for a long fucking time. As Gabriel puts it, “I did notice the shift to gothiness in the scene after the Beastmilk album. The then-Idle Hands, formed in 2017, didn’t start off with a specific mission statement. With Silver Talon, I thought, ‘I’m still not doing this the way I want to, so I’ve got to leave this and start my own thing.’ So I definitely had a chip on my shoulder for 10 years in defiance of everything around me.” “The traditional and black metal fanbase here is really cool, but it seemed like a lot of people wanted to start throwback bands and pigeonhole themselves.
“The local scene at the time was definitely something I was reacting against, especially as I got into my mid-to-late 20s,” says Gabriel. Gabriel had cut his teeth in a black metal band in his teens and then more traditional speed/ power metal bands, Spellcaster and Silver Talon, before frustration forced his hand to break out and start something different Bands as instantly celebrated as Unto Others don’t tend to arrive out of nowhere.
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