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Blood Moon Rising
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Blood Moon RisingMetal Myths Dispelled
2005-10-31
Article Written by: Gina Pirozzi
Armed with only my preconceived notions of long hair and loud screams, I entered the Seabreeze Metal Lounge expecting the worst. I don’t pretend to know much about metal music. In fact, the only things I thought I knew about metal I learned from VH1 specials. On Saturday October 22nd at around 10pm I was introduced to real metal music. With Biketoberfest in full swing, the Seabreeze Metal Lounge was showcasing six bands in one night, but I was on a mission to see one band, Blood Moon.
Blood Moon is a metal band based out of Orlando. The group formed over 3 years ago, slowly progressing and adding new members until their lineup was complete. The six members are as eclectic as the music they play, and I’d like to introduce you to each of them. Originally from Daytona, Eric played bass with Severed Existence (a Daytona Beach favorite), but a new band calls for a change of pace, which left Eric jamming on his guitar instead. Clad in black and red, keyboardist Ziah stands out as the only female member of Blood Moon, but her feminine voice lends nicely to her background vocals. The hobbit-like drummer Taz leaves no doubt that what he lacks in height he makes up for in pure percussional power. If ADD had a poster boy, the bass player Fenris would be it. Completely amped for his band and fully supportive of everyone else playing that night Fenris is everyone’s biggest fan. With eyes glowing red, Lukas blasts out his lead vocals with ferocity. D, the second guitarist in Blood Moon, has known Taz and Lukas since high school.
Blood Moon opened their set with the full support of the crowd who I noticed had quickly migrated from the back of the lounge to right in front of the band. Long hair began to fly, heads banged and the mosh pit began. Perched atop a counter I protected myself behind my gallant fiancé who deflected mangled moshers back into their pit. Blood Moon seemed to steal the show with songs like War Drums, Hell Forged, and a cover of Hungry Like the Wolf. I personally enjoyed the large anvil solo during Hell Forged. I was surprised to see that Blood Moon cut their set short so that other bands would be able to play at the venue that night. I was also surprised at how friendly everyone was and how all the bands supported each other. There was no bat decapitating, no devil worshipping, and no blood being spit at the crowd—well, no real blood at least.
Thanks to Blood Moon my metal demons were vanquished and I was left with the warm fuzzy feeling of my new full metal jacket.
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