Sat. April 9, 2005 2:50 PM
FROM: MrLouRawls@aol.com
TO: saiihtam (e-mail address removed)
SUBJECT: Re: Witch Taint Rising

dear saiihtam,

sorry once again for the slow reply. i have spent the last week cut off from the outside world- no computers, no newspapers, no telephone, no nothing. it was just me in my basement writing the most extreme black metal of all time while occasionally taking breaks to watch television, go to the bathroom, or order a pizza or something. i am very excited (yet also worried because this music may indeed drive you to hurt yourself) for you to hear the results. i have been recording the guitars with two microphones which not so coincidentally have been arranged to form an inverted cross. the sound is deadly. i can barely even make it through an entire song without having to take break because it is almost even too intense for me, the king of black metal. when i do take breaks however, i leave the mics on in order to pick up the sound of me sitting on the couch brooding and contemplating blackness. i plan to layer my tracks with these atmospheric sounds of doom. i will send you more tracks shortly. please make sure your family is away before you listen to it however. i do not wish to harm them.

as for mysticum, i am not interested in having them play live. this is no good for anyone. i only want them to appear with me as my backing band. for all intents and purposes, they will be members of witch taint. they will help load the equipment, guard me from fans, play music with me, and generally have the most amazing black metal experience of their lives. i imagine some of them will not be able to handle it, but i will take what i can get. i did notice that hellhammer from mayhem also played with mysticum at one point. if possible, i would like to get hellhammer to play with witch taint instead of the drummer from mysticum. if you could do so, please let the drummer from mysticum know that he will not be part of the tour as far as being a drummer goes. he is welcome however to be a roadie or assist me in matters of blackness along the way. in fact, perhaps he could be of some assistance in booking shows. i understand that you do not wish to be involved in this. you will be too busy planning the release of the witch taint album i am sure. as for our first show, i wish to play inside of a church in oslo. i cannot wait to watch the walls fall down around as the the church collapses from the unholy sound of the might taint. can you recommend any churches i might consider for this? please let me know.

also, do you have the e-mail addresses for fenriz from darkthrone or varg vikernes? i want to let them know that witch taint will be coming shortly.

how is your family?

blackest of the black,
lance, the king of black metal now and forever

April 14, 2005 5:45 AM
FROM: saiihtam (e-mail address removed)
TO: MrLouRawls@aol.com
SUBJECT: Re: Witch Taint Rising?

see below in red:

MrLouRawls@aol.com wrote:
dear saiihtam,

sorry once again for the slow reply. i have spent the last week cut off from the outside world- no computers, no newspapers, no telephone, no nothing. it was just me in my basement writing the most extreme black metal of all time while occasionally taking breaks to watch television, go to the bathroom, or order a pizza or something. i am very excited (yet also worried because this music may indeed drive you to hurt yourself) for you to hear the results. i have been recording the guitars with two microphones which not so coincidentally have been arranged to form an inverted cross. the sound is deadly. i can barely even make it through an entire song without having to take break because it is almost even too intense for me, the king of black metal. when i do take breaks however, i leave the mics on in order to pick up the sound of me sitting on the couch brooding and contemplating blackness. i plan to layer my tracks with these atmospheric sounds of doom. i will send you more tracks shortly. please make sure your family is away before you listen to it however. i do not wish to harm them.

as for mysticum, i am not interested in having them play live. this is no good for anyone. i only want them to appear with me as my backing band. for all intents and purposes, they will be members of witch taint. No they will not. they will help load the equipment, guard me from fans, play music with me, and generally have the most amazing black metal experience of their lives. No. i imagine some of them will not be able to handle it, but i will take what i can get. i did notice that hellhammer from mayhem also played with mysticum at one point. if possible, i would like to get hellhammer to play with witch taint instead of the drummer from mysticum. I doubt hellhammer will do this. Mysticum has no human drummer but uses drum machines. if you could do so, please let the drummer from mysticum know that he will not be part of the tour as far as being a drummer goes. he is welcome however to be a roadie or assist me in matters of blackness along the way. in fact, perhaps he could be of some assistance in booking shows. i understand that you do not wish to be involved in this. you will be too busy planning the release of the witch taint album i am sure. Heh, i must see if your music is great first, i am not so easy to convince. as for our first show, i wish to play inside of a church in oslo. i cannot wait to watch the walls fall down around as the the church collapses from the unholy sound of the might taint. can you recommend any churches i might consider for this? please let me know. BM in a church, i dont think that will be allowed.

also, do you have the e-mail addresses for fenriz from darkthrone or varg vikernes? i want to let them know that witch taint will be coming shortly. NO!

how is your family? Fine!

whitest of the white
lance, the king of illusions now and forever

Sat. April 23, 2005 12:48 PM
FROM: MrLouRawls@aol.com
TO: saiihtam (e-mail address removed)
SUBJECT: Re: Witch Taint Rising


dear saiihtam,

first, of all i want to thank you for continuing to test me. were i a lesser man or not as completely black as i am, i might have taken your comments as suggesting that you don't believe in the mighty power and extreme blackness of witch taint. since you have heard our music however, i know you are fully aware that we are indeed the future of black metal and that your comments are only intended to anger and sadden me so that i might have even more fuel to become the most powerful and influential figure ever to be a part of the black metal community. and that is precisely why i am glad that you will be working for us. i am thinking a fall release, just as the leaves are changing and the earthly death that is winter cackles in the distance. i would like to have two record release "parties", one in oslo and one in my hometown of gary, indiana, where i am the king of black metal. both "parties" will involve a single goat, tethered to a tree with the letters "WT" painted on its side in pig's blood. these letters, of course, will stand for witch taint, the greatest and blackest band in all of black metal. we will string up loudspeakers in the trees near the goat. at precisely midnight, the infernal sounds of our crushing debut will begin to play at a volume never before acheived by modern man. and that is when i and the members of mysticum will appear on the horizon on horseback. we will approach the goat, coming just close enough that our faces become dappled with the reflection of dancing flames (oh yeah, we should have a fire near the goat. i forgot to mention this). we will sit motionless on the horses (we will have one for each of us) until the final track of our legendary debut is finished. then we will turn and ride off into the distance, leaving the tethered goat shivering in the night. someone is going to have to come and get the goat eventually because it will probably be a rental. maybe we could have the drummer from mysticum do this since he won't be on horseback with us. he should totally come to the party though. just because he can't be a member of witch taint, doeesn't mean he shouldn't be able to witness the majesty. i don't want to be a total dick to the guy or anything.

please give my regards to your family. i imagine they are pretty excited that you are about to be a part of black metal history by working with the mighty taint.

blacker than even the blackest of the black,
lance

still funny, but it aint real.

That's some funny shit. "Witch Taint" -- awesome band name, someone's going to have to use that.

Kind of reminds me of that bit on Conan where they have the hacker whose face is obscured.