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History of the Band

Impaled Northern Moonforest are an Acoustic Black Metal joke band started by Anal Cunt veterans Seth Putnam and Josh Martin in 1997. According to Seth's website, Impaled Northern Moonforest was started "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 Seth furiously slapping his knees and matress. They never intended to take the band any further. Some time later, there was a "three day hardcore festival" at Rhode Island, and the organiser rung Seth and told him that a bunch of bands had pulled out, and asked him if he knew of any bands who could fill in. After initially saying "no", Seth and Josh came up with a plan to "throw a band together, and have Seth's little brother be in it so he could drive there". Impaled Northern Moonforest played their first show, with Seth's brother making his one and only appearance for the band on keyboards. The band played some other shows that year, selling a demo at one of them. The demo was later released as part of the cult classic self titled 7" vinyl, but the song titles on the 7" are different from the song titles on the demo, as Seth managed to lose his copy of the demo. Anyone with a copy of the demo is urged to contact Seth Putnam. Impaled Northern Moonforest played a couple of other shows and broke up.

Discography

Impaled Northern Moonforest have one release - a self titled 7", released by the now defunct Menace to Sobriety Records. See below for a list of song titles. Although the band is still technically broken up, there are plans for a new 7" entitled "Return of the Necrowizard". So far a single song (also called "Return of the Necrowizard") is all these plans have produced.

Song titles

The creative process involved in thinking up song titles (sometimes argued to be even funnier than the song titles of Anal Cunt the band that spawned Impaled Northern Moonforest) involved "thinking of dumb sounding names thought would fit into that whole black metal thing". Here are a list of titles that appeared on the self titled 7":

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

In April 2003, the first (and only) 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 quickly came together to celebrate the hitherto mysterious and elusive band. Plans were made to release a tribute album and with the odd exception of pre-existing acoustic noise bands present on the forum, numerous one-man-bands were spawned to contribute to the tribute. The tribute album remains unreleased awaiting the recording by Anal Cunt of a cover of the Impaled Northern Moonforest song Return of the Necrowizard, but the Acoustic Black Metal scene is stronger than ever. One of the true bastions of the underground, the Acoustic Black Metal scene comprises of mostly teenage boys (and the occasional twenty-something) with acoustic guitars and computers with internet connections belting out EPs dedicated to the Necrowizard, Norway, grimness, frostbitteness, Satan, Hitler, snow, coldness and all manner of unsavoury topics. The forum dwellers even created their own record label, Grim Records, to release the tribute album and their own music.

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