Metal for the Masses
August 6, 2015 7:29 AM   Subscribe

Professionally Recorded Live Sets by bands performing at St. Vitus and The Archeron Filmaker Frank Huang records a lot of shows by metal bands passing through NYC. He archives them at his Pit Full of Shit site, and on his YouTube page. posted by dortmunder (12 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
Oh, cool, I've been to a few shows at Vitus and The Acheron.

*searches band names*

...Okay, so he doesn't go to the Post-Punk/ Cold Wave shows... Just the metal ones. Oh well.
posted by SansPoint at 7:39 AM on August 6, 2015


Previously. These are filmed so well, and I completely forgot about checking out more of them. Thanks!
posted by ignignokt at 7:47 AM on August 6, 2015


Previously. These are filmed so well, and I completely forgot about checking out more of them. Thanks!

Oh man, that didn't come up at all when I checked for repeats.
posted by dortmunder at 7:49 AM on August 6, 2015


Holy. Shit.

Oh hey, the wicked good Royal Thunder is in there! Atlanta represent!
posted by Maaik at 7:53 AM on August 6, 2015


Atlanta represent!

WHORES too.
posted by dortmunder at 7:55 AM on August 6, 2015 [1 favorite]


Yep, Frank Huang is a one man metal filming machine.
posted by gwint at 7:55 AM on August 6, 2015


Ah, okay. This is the same guy that filmed the excellent Kylesa set I posted on mlkshk a while back. I'll definitely check out some of his other stuff.
posted by Ufez Jones at 8:03 AM on August 6, 2015


Gosh, I admire the dedication, but it's a shame it's devoted to such a very specific and formal subgenre of music.

How I wish someone like him had done this for everything at other local spaces - everything at Death By Audio (who did a lot of metal shows, too!), Silent Barn - or Bohemian Grove, I've seen such a multiplicity of music there, from metal through electronica through abstract electronic through complex close harmony song writers through acoustic drones...
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 8:40 AM on August 6, 2015


Pedantic, but it is The Acheron, not The Archeron.
posted by thegreatfleecircus at 9:24 AM on August 6, 2015


Pedantic, but it is The Acheron, not The Archeron.

My bad
posted by dortmunder at 9:32 AM on August 6, 2015


Oh yeah, I've wasted way too much time watching these in the past, as evidenced in that previous thread. Also, apparently I've become non-underground over the past year, because I recognize only a few of these names. Going to watch that Royal Thunder set now; their new record is absolutely fantastic.
posted by Existential Dread at 10:10 AM on August 6, 2015


Ooh, my ex-boyfriend's band is on that site! I probably never would have made it to Acheron if it weren't for him. Thanks for this.
posted by Polyhymnia at 4:07 PM on August 6, 2015


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