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idea but always failed coz of many, many
handicraft- and also copyright problems.
Meanwhile I progressed with my techniques
and therefore decided to step away from the
original idea and better open my own company
called "Body-Drop" which is specialized
on creating those special artworks for a wider
crowd as well. Like in music, I don’t wanna
limit my art to only some special scenes,
everybody who wants em, can buy em of
course. If you folks should be interested,
please contact me under
"info@stahlmantel.com".
In 1994 you've called your debut album
"Dark Metal". Now many years later a
whole scene has developed around this
term. It's even mentioned in online encyclopaedias
like Wikipedia as a special
subgenre of metal. What do you think
about that? Can "Dark metal" be seen as
an own metal genre? How would you
define?
Bethlehem = Dark Metal. Ever was, ever will
be. Of course it can be seen as an own genre
now, coz it is. Although in my opinion, some
bands did not get the original meaning behind
and just called it like that although playing
just e.g. usual black metal.
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On the other hand bands like The Shining,
Silencer, Forgotten Tomb, Abyssic Hate and
many, many more somehow understood the
intension behind and since they call it "Suicidal
Dark Metal" which basically is the same
term, they all interpreted it in a very special,
unique and grateful manner. Which of course
honours us a damn lot, specially coz we are
the original creators of some new sub-genre,
followed by so many people these days?
So basically, beside some old German bands
like e.g. "Can" or "Kraftwerk", also "Bethlehem"
created something not known before
and therefore helped to progress a worldwide
musical genre. This is more than we ever
expected. Amen.