User:Inkington/Impaled Northern Moonforest

Impaled Northern Moonforest is an acoustic black metal band formed by Anal Cunt veterans Seth Putnam and Josh Martin in 1997.

History of the band
According to the band's website, the band was formed "out of boredom around 3 am one morning in early 1997". The two decided to start a joke black metal band, but because of the proximity of sleeping people an acoustic (rather than electric) guitar was used and percussion was provided by Putnam furiously slapping his knees and mattress. They did not intend to take the band any further.

Some time later, the organiser of a "three day hardcore festival" in Rhode Island informed Putnam that a number of bands had pulled out of the event and asked him if he knew of any which could fill in. After initially refusing, he and Martin decided to reform as Impaled Northern Moonforest for the festival. Putnam's brother acted as keyboard player (his only appearance for the band) and driver.

The band played further shows in 1997, selling a demo at one of them. This was later released as part of Impaled Northern Moonforest's self-titled 7" vinyl release, which later became a cult classic; however, the song titles on the 7" are different from those on the demo, as Putnam lost his copy of the demo. Following a few other shows, the band split up.

Following the creation of the Impaled Northern Moonforest fansite, Seth announced the recording of a new Impaled Northern Moonforest release, to be titled "Return of the Necrowizard". While enough guitars for the entire album have allegedly been recorded, only one song has been finished so far.

Discography
Impaled Northern Moonforest's sole release - the self titled 7" - was released by Menace to Sobriety Records. Although the band is still technically defunct, there are plans for a new 7" entitled Return of the Necrowizard. So far a single song, with that title, has been released.

Song titles
The creative process involved in conceiving song titles consisted of "thinking of dumb sounding names [Putnam and Martin] thought would fit into that whole black metal thing", the recurring phrase "Grim and frostbitten" alluding to Immortal's 1995 song "Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms", on the Battles in the North album. Here is a list of the titles that appeared on the 7" release:

Side 1:
 * 1) "Grim And Frostbitten Moongoats Of The North"
 * 2) "Forlorned Invocations Of Blasphemous Congregations Of Lusting Goat Sodomizing Sathanis"
 * 3) "Gazing At The Blasphemous Moon While Perched Atop A Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Forsaken Crest Of The Northern Mountain"
 * 4) "Bloodlustfully Praising Satan's Unholy Almightiness In The Woods At Midnight"
 * 5) "Nocturnal Cauldrons Aflame Amidst The Northern Hellwitch's Perpetual Blasphemy"
 * 6) "Transfixing The Forbidden Blasphemous Incantation Of The Conjuring Wintergoat"

Side 2:
 * 1) "Masturbating On The Unholy Inverted Tracks Of The Grim & Frostbitten Necrobobsledders"
 * 2) "Awaiting The Blasphemous Abomination Of The Necroyeti While Sailing On The Northernmost Fjord Of Xzfgiiizmtsath"
 * 3) "Lustfully Worshipping The Inverted Moongoat While Skiing Down The Inverted Necromountain Of Necrodeathmortum"
 * 4) "Awaiting The Frozen Blasphemy Of The Necroyeti's Lusting Necrobation Upon The Altar Of Voxrfszzzisnzf"
 * 5) "Summoning The Unholy Frozen Winterdemons To The Grimmest And Most Frostbitten Inverted Forest Of Abazagorath"
 * 6) "Entranced By The Northern Impaled Necrowizard's Blasphemous Incantation Amidst The Agonizing Abomination Of The Lusting Necrocorpse"
 * 7) "Grim And Frostbitten Gay Bar"

Acoustic Black Metal community
In April 2003, the first Impaled Northern Moonforest fansite was launched. In October of that year, a phpBB web forum was added to the site, and a community of fans soon formed. Plans were made to release a tribute album and, with the exception of some pre-existing acoustic noise bands present on the forum, numerous one-man bands were spawned to contribute; the album remains unreleased, awaiting the recording by Anal Cunt of a cover of "Return of the Necrowizard". The scene comprises mostly teenage males (alongside the occasional twenty or thirty-something) with acoustic guitars and Internet-connected computers, producing EPs dedicated to the Necrowizard, Norway, grimness, frostbite, Satan, Hitler, snow, coldness and other grim, frostbitten, and blasphemous topics. The forum users have even created their own record label, Grim Records, to release the tribute album and their own music. Some ABM bands include Acoustic Mayhem, Necrochildanus, Averno Fogata 666, Necro Goatlord, Glacier of Hellfjord, ÖRGH, Necro Satanic Kvlt Lord, Inverted Blasphemous Moongoats of Norway, Inverted Necrogoat, Goat Reich, The Blasphemous Arctic Fjord of Frost, Northern Frostbitten Moontyrant, Demonic Nosehairs, Saftyricon, Nocturnal Frost Fjord, Ronald McFrostbitten, Sjeverna Mistika, Fjord of Fury, Aaron Burrr, Upside Down Church, Inverted Blasphemous Necroyeti and Frostbitten Yeti Cock. Due to the presence of another label bearing the name of Grim Records, the ABM label was forced to change its name to Battlefrost Records.

INM Song Title Generator
On the Impaled Northern Moonforest fansite there is an "Impaled Northern Moonforest Song Title Generator" available for download. This is a program that randomly generates INM-style song titles. The program gets its words from a number of data files in TXT format that are easily editable, making it possible to customize the song title generator and create one's own style of random, nonsensical titles.