Tracker Name: Betrayer
First Name: Niclas
Last Name: Brunbäck
Age: Turning 30 in 17 days... (ed: old fart)
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Years Tracking: 13-14 something
Favorite Tracker(s): I don't really have any
Favorite Genre(s): Melodic death metal with stenches of power metal and 80's thrash.
Please explain a little about yourself. I'm one of the really old farts.
Do you play any real instruments? Yes, today I play guitar and throat. I have also played drums, keyboards and flute in the past. I am self-taught in all of the mentioned.
If so, for how long? Guitar for 12-13 years now, although not very frequent. I played drums for some 2 or 3 years, same with the rest of the instruments while trying my preferences out.
P lease explain how you discovered the metalmod scene: Feels like I invented it.. To my knowledge there was no scene when I started tracking. How I found what is Metalscene Central today I don't know. It was probably the mouth-to-mouth method.
What is your opinion on what the metalmod scene has become? A place for whiners and weeps where how much shit you can contribute verbally counts more than what you can perform tracking-wise. With a rare few exceptions the scene is utterly boring today when it comes to audial pleasure.
What are your future plans in regards to metal tracking and the metalmod scene in general? Most likely I will play around more with professional tools instead. I will probably always use tracking in some way to create what I want, but the formats and the "hidden rules" are too limiting to do what I want. I'm a message board addict these days, so I will definitely hang around there, but releasing mods pretty much belongs to the past for me. Unless there are appealing projects like this one coming around, then I may reconsider occasionally.