Thanks to TMTYTF and FuriousGrace we know that our band will be called Victor Rossi & His Big Fat Posse, but now thanks to ChildofAlma we also know what kind of music they’ll be playing!

So what’s the genre?  Shock-and-Awe Sensory Assault Blackened Deathgrind

What is that you’re saying?  Well, here’s how ChildofAlma describes it:

This genre focuses on using high levels of production to deliver traumatizing, punishing heavy metal. The music is a mixture of black metal, incorporating shrieks, tremolo-picked riffs, and eerie ambience with the subgenre of death metal called Deathgrind; aspects of which are blast beats, slam riffing, and gutturally growled, unintelligible vocals.

Both of these genres are usually purposefully poorly produced. However, in Shock-and-awe sensory assault blackened deathgrind, studio production is embraced to amplify the fury. Songs are mixed as loud as possible, with the vocals, snare drum, and bass drums at the front of the mix, and the guitars two solid walls of noise that hold it all in. The bass guitar is more felt than heard, resonating through the mix, and disturbing ambience is layered throughout, barely audible.

Well, I think that about covers it.  So Victor Rossi & His Big Fat Posse are a Shock-and-Awe Sensory Assault Blackened Deathgrind band.

Thanks for all of your hard work on creating a genre for the band ChildofAlma! Now let’s turn things over to thehoseman to come up with a tagline.  Hopefully he’ll have us something back by no later than the end of the month!

Well, we tasked TMTYTF and FuriousGrace with coming up with a name for our band and they have returned with a moniker sure to conjure up all kinds of goodness – Victor Rossi & His Big Fat Posse.  We’ll leave it to them to describe the how and why in the comments below, but in the meantime, ChildofAlma, you’re on the clock!  I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to see what genre he decides on.  Check back on Feb. 21st or so to find out!

First of all, thanks to everyone who has volunteered to help us build a band.  We’re excited about seeing the results and we’re glad to hear you are too.  We’ve taken a look at what everyone volunteered to do and we’ve decided to assign the various tasks to the following players:

1.  Band Name – TMTYF and FuriousGrace

2.  Band Genre w/ explanation of the genre – ChildofAlma

3.  Band Tagline – theHoseman

4.  Band Image/Logo – frizbee and formerwageslave

5.  Band Members/Equipment – Tyman

6.  Band Bio – algoreyou

Okay, I hope everyone is happy w/ their assignments.  Since everything builds on itself, we though it would be wise to build the band step by step, so we’ll ask that each participant not start their task until the previous task has been completed.  We’ll start with TMTYTF and FuriousGrace coming up with the band’s name.  When they have completed that task we’ll post it here on the blog and the next player(s) participating will be on the clock.  Each task has a week and a half to complete their task, so TMTYTF and FuriousGrace have until February 9th to get us the name, but you can send it in before that if you get it done sooner.  Please send everything related to your task (the actual assigment, any explanation, etc) to us at customerservice at figment.cc If you need more time to finish your assignment you can also just let us know.  As each of you complete your assignment you’ll receive 500 pieces of Lucre for participating.

We can’t wait to see this band slowly come together.  It’s going to be a fun exercise, and we look forward to seeing each step of the process unfold.  Let us know if you have any questions.

Figment is all about creating fake bands, and nobody can build a fake band better than our players!  So we thought it would be fun to see if we could try a little crowdsourcing experiment.  We want to build a band with you!

So how is this going to work?  Well, let’s start by assigning tasks.  We need the following:

1.  A Band Name

2.  Band Genre

3.  Band Tagline

4.  Band Image

5.  Band Members

6.  Band Bio

Let us know what you are interested in working on as a comment below and we’ll divvy up the assignments to everyone.  If we have multiple people interested in doing a specific task then you’ll need to be willing to share your email address with the other players who will be participating.  Don’t worry, we’ll contact you before sharing it to make sure you are still interested, and it will only be shared with those players who are participating.

Once we’ve got an idea of what everyone wants to work on then we can move forward with the actual creation of the band.  We’ll give those players selected a week to create each step of the process (maybe 2 weeks for the bio?) and post a blog post with info regarding the completed task.

What do you think?  We hope you’ll embrace the idea, because we think it’s a fun exercise.  Oh and did I mention that we’ll reward everyone involved with lucre rewards for participating?  Better yet, when it’s all said and done we will have created a band.  Then we can get started on their first album!