The MARAZENE Machine
Virtual MARAZENE
Source: De Los Santos Productions, http://www.youtube.com/user/marazenemachine, http://www.Myspace.com/Marazene
MARAZENE have added a first of its kind SECOND LIFE performance video (commonly known as a machinima) to their Youtube Channel; CHANNEL: SKUMF***ER. The footage was assembled by SUSI SPICOLI from a ‘live virtual performance’ of the band in June of 2007. Watch the video below:
MARAZENE made history last year as the first Nationally touring band from the metal genre that exists in the real-world to make the jump from reality performance to virtual performance.
While most people are more familiar with virtual bands such as the GORILLAZ or even an animated band such as METALOCALYPSE making the jump into live performance and touring, MARAZENE have done the exact opposite, taking their machine metal sound and applying it to todays ever-evolving and edgy online platforms in a unique virtual statement.
Machinima, by definition, are animation movie(s) filmed using real time, interactive 3D environments. To understand the depth and complexity; picture dozens, if not hundreds, of unique virtual avatars each controlled by different users converging in one location much as real-world people gather at a concert. A machinima is collected real-time video footage of a virtual gathering just like a real-world multi-cam video shoot.
Marazene band member avatars were custom designed based off of band member photographs and a custom stage was designed to reflect the look and feel of Marazene in an over-the-top arena type environment. The video, or machinima, features scenes from multiple angles and in some cases, multiple cameras of the entire Marazene performance set to the song “XecuTe“.
“SECOND LIFE is a new and continually developing medium that provides the opportunity for an underground ‘buzz’ band such as Marazene to reach an audience that might not be able to see the band perform in person“, director Susi Spicoli commented. “This medium carrys with it a signature live feel to it that can’t be matched by social networking sites like Myspace or Facebook or even Youtube. There’s also this group vibe being there are so many persons involved and thus a real live concert feel. It’s truly a global experience considering there are people from all over the world participating.”
“We’re proud to be representing the Marazene machine, the metal community, and Chicago, in this new avenue of entertainment,” multi-instrumentalist and Marazene co-founder DieTrich Thrall also commented last year during post-production. “This is the first significant performance of this kind in this medium and the first for the metal genre and it puts us in the position of beating to the punch our peers in the metal community including innovators such as KISS, MARILYN MANSON, IRON MAIDEN, OZZY, ROB ZOMBIE, KORN, NIN, etc. Instead of following someone elses lead, Marazene was here first.”
The Marazene Second Life machinima was co-produced by De Los Santos Productions and Ballenger Media.
Other than a short run of tour dates in July of this year with WEDNESDAY 13 and a headlining performance at the Quad Cities Cream Of The Crops Festival and The Chicago Horror Film Festival, Marazene have focused the better part of 2008 on writing and refining material for a new album which is expected to be released in 2009.
For more infomation:
www.Myspace.com/Marazene
www.youtube.com/user/marazenemachine
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