What podcasts say about Nik Nocturnal
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What Nik Nocturnal has said on podcasts
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TikTok’s short clips make modern metal immediately intriguing to new listeners.
“TikTok, I think, really enforces that, where people will be scrolling and they'll just hear like this crazy noise or breakdown or some dude screaming and doing goblin noises, and it'll be like, oh, I want more of this.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:34
TikTok has helped expand metal music into a more normalized audience.
“And I think that has really helped play push metal into a bigger kind of, more just normalized audience.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:52
Knocked Loose naturally fits short-form media because its intense music is well paced.
“because their music is so intense and so. Well, moment, like. What's the right word? It's. It's paced so well. They. They naturally work in that way.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 4:35
Songs built around viral moments often lack replayability and lasting appeal.
“you won't get replayability. You won't get that timelessness of a song.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 5:21
Loathe’s songs had lasting qualities that helped explain their delayed growth.
“they had a bit more of that timeless effort where they.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 12:05
Bring Me the Horizon has an unusually broad trajectory from deathcore through pop and back.
“I don't see another band that says, hey, we started Deathcore, made a pop record, and now we're making deathcore music again.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 32:24
Every musical sequence of notes has already been used.
“I think in terms of music, every single one has ever been done is done.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 37:10
Sleep Token’s breakthrough resulted from a strong catalog, a great song, and Internet momentum.
“It was just. It was the perfect storm.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 57:08
Internet promotion and breakout momentum can be engineered to some extent.
“The other stuff I think you can engineer to a point, especially in modern day with the Internet”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 57:34
Labels may use Reddit accounts and clip farming to manufacture attention for new bands.
“I'm not surprised if people post Reddit posts of their brand new band and it's like the label actually getting a new account or something where they're posting a bunch or clip farming with that”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 58:28
Metal fans are more personally invested in bands than typical pop or rap listeners.
“I think a lot of metal fans are more, are more invested in like the actual band and it means a lot more to them than just like, oh, another like you know, pop record or rap record.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:05:52
The creator lifestyle is highly isolating.
“It is a very isolating thing.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:31:18
Content creators and musicians should diversify beyond a single platform or income source.
“I would always advise this to, like, other content people and as well as even musicians of just like, please, God, do not just trust this one thing.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:39:17
Artists’ low streaming income also reflects contracts and recoupment obligations, not only Spotify’s rates.
“Spotify should pay more, but there's other stuff involved.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:42:01
A typical five-record deal can commit a band to roughly ten years of releases.
“If we do the two year cycle of most majority of bands of release schedule, you signed away 10 years of your life.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:46:33
Musicians lacking business guidance are likely to be exploited by the music industry.
“they're going to get taken advantage of because that's how the industry works”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:47:48
Alternative music is becoming less genre-bound, potentially producing more good songs.
“I think the scene is becoming more and more genreless, which I get excited about, because then the focus is not, hey, can we make a deathcore or a metalcore or a pop, you know, popcorn, whatever the fuck banger is. Can we just make a good song? You know, like. And, you know, I love that because then there's going to be a higher quantity of good music.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:56:35
Metal’s growing popularity is increasing commercialization and gamification.
“metal is the good and the bad. Metal's becoming more popular than ever. But now it's also almost like cool to like it. So it's being more gamified.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:57:17
Metal’s rising popularity is producing both more creative and more formulaic bands.
“heavy music's getting more popular. Great. And that's getting injected in a way where bands are becoming more creative with it, but then also bands are becoming more sterile with it.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 1:59:34
Cross-genre experimentation is creating unusually distinctive extreme metal.
“So there's bands that do that. I've been doing that for a while. And then there's a band like the small band Marauder, which they took that and they're like, oh, dubstep sick. Oh, I love like Beethoven. And so they infuse, you know what I mean? So they infuse that with these sounds and it's like a whole nother world of like music.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:02:12
Current metal subgenres are broadly classified as modern metal.
“it's all modern metal, basically”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:12:31
Mirar creates the featured sound using a guitar.
“He's making that noise with a fricking guitar.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:13:34
Mirar’s musical moment ranks among Nik’s coolest experiences of the past decade.
“It's one of those. Where it is one of the coolest moments I've heard in music in the past, like 10 years”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:14:12
Boundaries combines 2000s nostalgia with a modern, heavy sound.
“they're a mix of kind of like that 2000 nostalgic stuff with a very Modern, heavy edge.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:15:15
Boundaries uses clean singing from its drummer and screaming from its vocalist.
“the drummer is clean singing and then the vocalist is screaming.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:15:58
Nik’s project will write complete songs daily on livestream with music-controlled rave lighting.
“We're gonna be writing songs every day on stream from start to finish with crazy rave lights controlled with the actual songs.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:16:54
Nik will release songs when audience demand is sufficiently strong.
“you're gonna release them if people want them enough.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:17:13
Song releases will be determined entirely by audience demand.
“So it's gonna be based fully on demand.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:17:16
Strongly demanded songs will receive full campaigns including music videos.
“I'll do the music video in the room or like in. You know, in the swamp in Florida.”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:17:30
Nik Nocturnal’s wife will produce and create her own music during the project.
“she's gonna be producing and doing her own stuff”
Open the episode · Nik Nocturnal - How TikTok Hijacked the Future of Music - #1095Listen at 2:18:00
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