This section is devoted to various funny, amusing as well as weird storied told by the people who're involved in metal underground this way or another... Enough introductions, just read on.

Sebastian Goralik (DAWN OF DREAMS, STABLE STENCH)

" >"God is dead... Nietsche"
My cousin once told me that in Poland under a bridge someone made this graffitti and after a week there was this one -->
"Nietsche is dead... God" ;)

Ah, and a nice story apart from all daily shit:
We sent a nice demo which you'll get too in a bit different version to OSMOSE ...yeah, it was STABLE STENCH with this piece of paper (click here to see it --> the bunny says: "gotta brain like (a) sieve, you gotta write down"; all in baby-language) and received the following answer:

"Hello, Thanks for the material. Anyway we aren't interest to take care of it!!!.. Keep us informed of your future plans. Sincerely yours. Osmose Productions"

Morgueldar Dragonseye (HERESIARH)

"HERESIARH were kicked / thrown out instantly after our warm-up appearance before THERION in their Riga show (1/4/00) because of spitting fire on their "precious" stage. It was actually even disallowed to smoke in the concert hall and, although nothing was burned or ruined, the THERION road manager (or whoever it was) was so hysteric (claiming that I've thrown the smothered torch at him) that we nearly got into a fight (too bad the security was on their side), khehehh... It was one helluva funny event, as we didn't stop laughing for one minute, even when on the street already... :] "

Derek Sivers (CD BABY)
 
"On CD Baby, there is a great musician who made an amazing heavy-progressive-metal record.
When we had a "search keywords" section, asking for three artists he sounds like, he wrote, "britney spears, ricky martin, jennifer lopez, backstreet boys, mp3, sex, free"
What the hell was he thinking? He just wanted to turn up in people's search engines, at any cost. But for what? And who? Did he really want a Britney Spears fan to get "tricked" into finding his dark-progressive-metal record? Would that 13-year-old girl actually spend the 25 minutes to download his 10 minute epic, "Confusing Mysteries of Hell"? If she did, would she buy his CD? I suggested he instead have the confidence to target the REAL fans of his music. He put three semi-obscure progressive artists into the search engine, and guess what? He's selling more CDs than ever! He found his true fans.

Derek Sivers
derek@cdbaby.com"
 
Silvanus (VAE SOLIS crew)

Once upon a time, there lived a Finnish power-metal musician.  His name was Pisala-pukala-kakala.  Of course he liked to drink, so did his friend Timo Tolkki from STRATOVARIUS. This young musician was just about to release a debut album, but it was unfortunately lacking good songs. So once upon the drinking session Pisala-pukala-kakala asked Timo to tell him how to write good songs that sell.  Timo went on to tell him about the guitar theory, but when he (Timo) got absolutely drunk he told Pisala-pukala-kakala a little secret. - You should take a tab of good old metal song, by IRON MAIDEN or something, said Timo and play it back to the front, also addding fast drumming and Ingwie Malmsteen-alike guitar solo. The next day
Pisala-pukala-kakala decided to joke with Timo, and took a tab of a song by STRATOVARIUS, played (what a strange hangover - he could play...) it back to front and it appeared as HELLOWEEN's "I Want Out". (Sorry Timo)