Metal Steampunk Fire Music
From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rozk's post today on More thoughts about Georgiana, the best Duchess ever:
Georgiana has this odd proto-steampunk thing going for her in that she sponsors public displays of hot-air balloons as well as the careers of rising divas (not rising in the sense of going up in balloons you understand.)
Given the tendency of early hot-air balloons to be tethered entirely during the early experiments, the passage above provoked a vision to me of a steampunk Dethklok using a giant dirigible to lift the band stage, say, 20 feet above the ground. The huge visible jets of fire common to the metal milieu then become functional, serving to stabilize the stage [1].
Don't mind me, I'm going back to finish my notes on the Dethklok line of fragrances for Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, watching reruns of Metalocalypse and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer to get into character.
[1] Damn. There goes my Moorcockian homage [2] Eternal ChampionBand where Dethklok is thrown through the Multiverse into an alternate history steampunk French Revolutionesque universe and returns to their proper place only through joining powers with their steampunk counterparts in a giant concert battle versus the Robespierre-Marat concert composer duo who use arrays of ranked guillotines as percussive musical instruments [3]. The Cartoon Network might have actually bought that script.
[2] I had a Guide for the "as you know, Bob" infodump who uses a black rune-carved tambourine to control the riffs of the Multiversal Melody as an allusion to Michael Moorcock's work as lyricist and on-stage tambourine playing with the spacerock band Hawkwind [4].
[3] If you have not seen any of this parodic homage to metal music cartoon series, let me assure you that the concept of guillotines as music is not actually too extreme for the show.
[4] My memory is dredging up tambourine in Moorcock's hands on stage during Hawkwind concerts I have seen on video, but may be faulty.
Current Music: Secret Oyster, _Straight To The Krankenhaus_
Tags: bpal, dethklok, steampunk
| 
