Roll Call

Welcome!

Ford, San Diego is a great city! I go there for vacation sometimes.

I'm not new, I just decided I should finally post in this thread.

Name: Rob Brouillette

Age: 26

Status: Single, with all the glorious benefits that provides.

Location: Somewhere near Chicago, Illinois, USA

Occupation: Academic Engineer

Interests/hobbies: music (specifically metal), the wonders of the internet, various videogames, and fencing! (the sport, I don't greatly enjoy putting fences in people's backyards)

Favorite metal genre: I can't choose, but Power (Iron Savior, etc.) and Classic (Dio, Black Sabbath, etc.) are what I listen to most.

Favorite Bands: Dio, Iron Savior, Black Sabbath, Rhapsody of Fire, Rainbow, Stone Temple Pilots, Kreator, Death, Carcass, Behemoth, Ride the Sky, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, While Heaven Wept, and many, many more.

Famous last words:

Name: prefer to remain nameless

Age: 34

Status: Married

Location: in a home office

Occupation: lyricist, writer, artist

Interest/hobbies: writing, digital photography, getting lost in awesome music, the ins and outs of the horror culture

Website: not yet completed

Favorite Genres: Doom, Gothic and Industrial

Favorite Bands: Ministry, NIN, Lacuna Coil, Rammstein, Boris

Famous Last Words: "Hello, Oblivion! How's the wife and kids?"

Name: Nickolaus A. Pacione Aka N.A. Pacione
(UncleFossil, LAKE FOSSIL, GOTHICPREACHER)

Aka: The Administer Of Agitation

Occupation: FULL TIME AUTHOR, PART TIME EDITOR, Interviewer, Columnist (upcoming gig) PUBLISHER & Part-time PROMOTER (FOSSILWORX PRODUCTIONS) Owner Lake Fossil Press & Broken Mindframe Books, Freelance Photographer

DOB: 3 Aug 1976

Books Written: Collectives In A Forsaken Landscape (get the $14.99 version,) The Writings Collected: Vol 2, House of Spiders 3 (with Barbara Marjanovic -- Naked Snake Press,) and An Eye In Shadows (memoir of five years -- the teenage years.)

Anthologies as Editor: The TABLOID PURPOSES SERIES (Five Books published, one out of print -- 6 and 7 GLS are done GEMINI. Book 6 will be the Christian Dystopia and Book 7 will be The Athiest Apocalypse.)

Mentors in the business: Bob Gunner (Cyber-Pulp Books) and Mick Mercer (The Mick)

Website: Writings From The Grave (16 May 1997 launch date,) Lake Fossil Press, Deviantart.com and MySpace.com (Private -- 2190 Friends)

F**ker-in-Chief: The Ethereal Gazette Magazine.

Genres the magazine runs: Horror (Think Lovecraft, Stephen King, Charles Beaumont, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert W. Chambers, or Richard Matheson,) Modern Science Fiction (think Outer Limits,) Gothic Literary Fiction, Dark True Stories (True Paranormal Accounts and F**KED UP TRUE STORIES.)

Years Been A Magazine Editor: 5 years
Years been a publisher: 6 Years
Years been a writer: 20 years
Years Been An Illustrator: Since Age 8
Years Been A Photographer: Since 1993

Favorite Genres: Speed/Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, and Industrial Metal.

Bands: METALLICA, Iron Maiden, VOIVOD (met the Negatron Era,) Tourniquet, ULTIMATUM, Iced Earth, Fashion Bomb, Bloodstream Parade, Empyrean Sky, Earthen Grave, Trouble, DAATH, TOOL, Howling Syn, Withering Soul, SLAYER, DAGON, My Silent Wake, Novembers Doom, Grigori 3, and Circle of Dust/Celldweller

Bands that first got me into metal: King Diamond -- Charon (Age 10.)

Years involved with the metal scene -- 16 years. Product of the Chicago Metal scene and the Iowa Metal Scene.

Author that ushered me into being a published writer: Brigit "Wraith" Knox (Online) Terry Vinson and Nicholas Grabowsky (print)

anthology print published Debut:
Reality Check: An Anthology Of Horror.

Print Magazine Debuts:
The Writers Post Journal (essay)
Tales of the Talisman 2.1 (true ghost story sale)

Second Sale: HorrorMasters.com

Notable stories: House of Spiders 3, House of Spiders, and Spectral Exile, Flying Cigars, The Typewriter, Bite of the Spider

Evening folks...

Name: Mike Brendan

Age: 36

Location: Pittsburgh, PA -- the Steel City!

Occupation: Computer Geek

Hobbies: Reading, writing (I'm cursed with literacy), gaming (D&D, WH40k, etc.), getting in shape.

Website: Just a blog. I'll put it in my sig/profile later...

Bands: Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Queensryche, Killswitch Engage, King's X, Mudvayne, and I just found out about Communic on this board as a lurker.

WELCOME!!!

MikeBrendan wrote:

Evening folks...

Name: Mike Brendan

Age: 36

Location: Pittsburgh, PA -- the Steel City!

Occupation: Computer Geek

Hobbies: Reading, writing (I'm cursed with literacy), gaming (D&D, WH40k, etc.), getting in shape.

Website: Just a blog. I'll put it in my sig/profile later...

Bands: Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Queensryche, Killswitch Engage, King's X, Mudvayne, and I just found out about Communic on this board as a lurker.

Welcome!!!!!! Nice list!!! You going to see Maiden in Pittsburgh this summer?

Name: Jason

Age: 35

Status: Married, 2 kids

Location: Wisconsin

Occupation: CT Technologist

Interests/hobbies: Music, Guitar, Family, Theology, Politics, RC Cars, Martial Arts, Running

Website: http://annoyedelephants.wordpress.com/ We've been a little slow with posts, summer and family, but look for more soon....

Favorite metal genre: Thrash!!!!!!

Favorite Bands: Tourniquet, Testament, Megadeth, Believer, Powermad, Anthrax, Forbidden, Deliverance, Voivod, Soul Embraced, Sabaton, Lazarus A.D., Hexen, Eradicator, Warpath, Guillotine, Sum 41, The Beach Boys, Carcass, Scared to Death, hmm, I'm sure I'm forgetting some of my Favorites.....

Famous last words: Catch ya on the flip side......

Hello everyone, glad to be here.....Stender and JesusandMetal23 made me do it. Just kidding.....Cool place....

Welcome aboard, and anyone who lists both the Beach Boys and Carcass on the same list of favorite bands is ok with me

welcome bro! glad to see you here.

Welcome jason!

Welcome to the funny farm. You'll really like the jacket...but the sleeves are much too long.

Hey, I recognize that screen name from over at CMR. Your the one with the weird dancing avatar. Welcome!

Thanks for the welcome everyone!!

Welcome!!!!

Welcome to HoM sir.

Name: Jim or Jen (no, I'm not a cross dresser )

Age: 17

Status: Single

Location: Éire

Occupation: Student

Interests/Hobbies: Metal, drawing, painting, stuff like that

Favourite Metal Genres: Black Metal, but anything not suffixed with 'core' is good

Favourite Metal Artists: Hmmm... Bathory, Celtic Frost, Primordial, Abaddon Incarnate, Megadeth, Dissection

Famous Last Words: What's the worst that could happe-

Howdy, noobs!

Who invited Coram.................I mean, welcome to the nut house. You'll fit right in.

TheNazgul wrote:

Who invited Coram.................I mean, welcome to the nut house. You'll fit right in.

I wish I could take the blame.....Would have been rude to not accept....

Name: Ritchie

Age: 35

Status: Married

Location: CA

Occupation: Pretzel Chef

Interests/Hobbies: Hard Rock, Chewing Bubblegum

Favorite Metal Genres: Power Metal

Favourite Metal Artists: Ozzy Osbourne, Anything Tobias Sammet



Hallo my friends!

Inspector Fate wrote:

Name: Ritchie

Age: 35

Status: Married

Location: CA

Occupation: Pretzel Chef

Interests/Hobbies: Hard Rock, Chewing Bubblegum

Favorite Metal Genres: Power Metal

Favourite Metal Artists: Ozzy Osbourne, Anything Tobias Sammet



Hallo my friends!

Welcome back Brian! Er... welcome Ritchie!

who dat is

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

who dat is

I think it's Spec.