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be sure to join us on www.killersbytrade.com The rift had grown between the rest of the local scene and the villains known as Finsternis. We were a not-so-local band that did most of our shows out of town. Eine Finster Nachtmusik was known more in Denmark than in Texas, thanks to the recent Internet explosion. As the group’s de facto propaganda minister, I usually handled that area. Even foreign dignitaries were unsafe from our villainy. More on that later. After Rockstock, there became in the minds of some local bands the need to proclaim themselves as “Extreme Metal”. The one actual rock radio station in Waco had shirked the Baptist authority enough to play modern rock, so the Denizens were now forced to realize that Black Sabbath was old news and that there were new musical ideas out there. Most latched onto the so-called nu-metal and began to emulate the personas of those bands. I guess that was “Extreme” to them. I thought it was gay. The rift was completely dug in 2001. I...