It absolutely depends on the band.

In the DIY world, band members may not have elaborate matching costumes, but typically their individual haircuts and muted colored wardrobes look pretty interchangeable with one another (black t-shirts or button-ups, tight to semi-tight jeans, leather boots or Converse when feeling more casual, etc.).

When one person (usually the drummer) isn't having it and looks out of the step with the rest of the group, that's always NC.

zircona1 wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:09 pm Not Crap, I like how the guys in Ghost (Ghost BC now?) have kept up the whole visual presentation.

That's how they distinguish themselves from Abba.

Literally everything about ABBA is better than Ghost

penningtron wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:13 pm Can be achieved with gear as well. An example that comes to mind is Young Widows with their speaker cabinets and symmetrical lights.

Or say Shellac for instance.

penningtron wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:13 pm Can be achieved with gear as well. An example that comes to mind is Young Widows with their speaker cabinets and symmetrical lights.

Austerity Program

They made homie get changed before getting back into the song.

Not crap, with waffles. It might make me like a good band a bit better but hate a bad band a bit more.

Good bands: The Ramones, Rocket from the Crypt

Bad bands: Urge Overkill

I think there’s creating a unified visual aesthetic (The Locust also did this well), and then there’s paying attention to how you as a band come across visually. Like, to use a couple of PRF-friendly and related examples, Dead Rider and US Maple don’t exactly have a unified visual aesthetic, but there’s a lot of attention to the visual presence and presentation of the performance that I really like about both bands. So many of my favorite loud and noisy bands fall into this category — I like the wall they put up between themselves and the audience, and it adds to the sense of menace and unpredictability that I gravitate to in so much of the (loud and noisy) music I like. I feel like that’s an important part of aesthetics that a lot of bands don’t pay attention to.

I've seen more than enough bands where it looks like they all met via musician wanted flyers. Half the band dressed to kill and the other half dressed to grocery shop. Typically the noise coming from the stage sounds that way too.

I told our guest sax player "don't wear shorts on stage".

It definitely depends on the band. I think Slipknot is kind of dumb but Daikaiju is really cool.