DROWNING DEEPER: "I ran into a friend and I asked him how he likes being in a Death Metal band. He said he left because the band dont want to make money. Well that's because they know there is no money in Death Metal there is no money in Black Metal there's really no money in Metal. "

Oregon, U.S.A. based one man, ambient-depressive black metal project DROWNING DEEPER has posted a reflection of the underground metal/music industry.










DROWNING DEEPER unleashed "JUST ONE MORE SUICIDE ATTEMPT AND I'LL STOP", 8/1/2019 via DEPRESSIVE ILLUSIONS RECORDS. 









FROM DROWNING DEEPER:
I ran into a friend and I asked him how he likes being in a Death Metal band. He said he left because the band dont want to make money. Well that's because they know there is no money in Death Metal there is no money in Black Metal there's really no money in Metal. In the 17 years I've been doing it not once has it paid my bills because I never made it to be that way. Sure if I toured hard and made it a job I can see it feeding me better but that's a huge risk and a fantasy land. The man pays your bills! Some of the biggest names in metal still have jobs when they get home and in order to tour or even go be weekend warriors you got to work. I co owned a booking business for five years that revolved around heavy music and both of us has two jobs to support it. One job for us and one job for shows. If we didn't work jobs outside of the heavy tours we were supporting then there would of never been tours at all. We set up all over Oregon and had to work to keep gas in our vehicles to pay venue to pay sound to pay tours because you can't rely on fans all the time. With passion comes work and even five years into your passion you are still working. I'm basing this all off Death Metal/Hardcore/Metal core or whatever you play and prefer metal is metal and you have to work jobs to tour. When you are home you are working. When you are on the road you are working it's all work every single percent of it. You can't rely on venues and promoters to take care of you you have to work and save for tour or even one show. I've been asked if I get paid since I've been on a label with this project. No I do not get paid! The label does not and never has paid me and I am good with that! If they make 70 copies and send me two copies I'm content with that. Most of it goes through trades and back into printing more copies not even the label lives off their label because again there is NO MONEY in underground. If I want shirts and patches I got to do what I got to do to make money to get those shirts and patches printed myself I've established my project good enough where I do make back what I put in but it's not all the time. It's my passion I think of making zero money when I go get stuff pressed I do it because I enjoy it. When I say there's no money in it I mean it's not paying my rent or my power. Sure I get money but it's going back into my music and maybe some smoke! There is sometimes money in being a merch guy or a booking agent but being a booking agent is a lot of work. A old partner of mine has a job in metal and it's rare but he does but he sends 20+ bands on tour and gets a percentage but the catch is that he lives on the road to do it. Want to live in metal? Live on the road 365 days a year like he does. Tour full time because when u get back home there's no metal paying your bills it's back to whatever you do back home for work. People think money when they start a metal band. I think fun and I'm with my friends escaping life back home. So if your hopes are to make those dollar signs in metal then you have a long ruff road of sleeping parking lots pissing in bottles not showering for days van breaking down sometimes shows getting canceled whole tours getting canceled and eating not that good at all. If you are not ready for any of that then trying to tour in a metal band just isn't for you.


 Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-