Hello! I am a writer and reader who is a huge fan of HDnG's Lore I am here to find like minded people to can geek out to good lore and stories and music together! Love gaming and films and anime - and if you do look up HID&GEM or HDnG Lore, let me know your favorite character out of the 4 because I can go on for hours about it!! - Prysma
This would be HDnG the K-Pop band:- https://kprofiles.com/hidgem-members-profile/ Not HDNG the stock symbol:- https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/HDNG/ I'm interested in the dialect differences - this seems like distinctively Korean English rather than Korean being translated into US English. HID&GEM is parsed as Hid 'n' Gem (=Hidden Gem) and not as "Hid and Gem". Or some who are stuck for character names at the moment might be jealous of how a dialect difference opens more options:- Roars - The Ramoth Tribal Airson - The Unseen Spirit Goldenage - The Found Son X - The Riddle Parable The last one is a hendiadys and a homophone - on top of being a noun adjunct. It sets my teeth on edge, but that's good because it's taking the language outside a limit. I'd struggle to come up with other examples: The Epic Poetic? The Noble Novel?
Hey yes exactly, it's a music group with the deepest Lore I've seen not just from Korea - but any country. Does anyone know of other music groups that focus on lore? Roars - SHONE Airson - EA GoldenAge - NYEVE X - HEALON Which character do you think matches their titles the most? ps. signature line is interesting, love it
Music isn't my field (as I'm about to show!) but this has such a long history - it must always have been an aspect of performance art. There were actors and stage performers in the silent era whose personas overtook the artist - e.g. Harpo Marx (performing 1910-1962) HDnG seem to be on industrial/electronica lines so I'd suggest to leave to one side the important storytelling genres of opera and stage musicals. I'd expect we could come up with parallels for this type of story-telling in role in every musical genre in every period. I'd suggest we can draw a continuum between most bands having some lore or persona, many bands doing a one-off narrative concept album with some lore to it (e.g. Queen II, Tommy), and very few bands that are primarily storytelling vehicles and where the artists persist as the characters in the story and each album picks up the narrative from the album before. A good starting point might be the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)... which was multimedia and wasn't quite a one-off. The rock opera format emerges over the course of the 70s but due to my young age I'd struggle to say which bands made rock operas with sequels. David Bowie has Ziggy Stardust and Captain Tom (that's twice he's come up this week). And with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the other major ones - my perception is the concept albums were mostly standalone but there might well be bits of sequential narrative carrying across albums. Alan Parsons Project did a concept album based on Edgar Allan Poe in 1976 with a sequel in 2003 but that's a heck of a time lag (and they probably weren't in role!). The sadly departed Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell (1977) had two sequels (1993, 2006) and he's in a role - so I feel I've been able to clutch one example from that period. I feel sure there was a prog rock group where it was all a series of high fantasy concept albums - but it's not coming to me. Camel? I've had a look through this page for likely sequels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concept_albums Gary Numan (1979) worked under a persona and his material isn't sequential concept albums but it might be analogous to short sci-fi stories. In the 80s Mercyful Fate's albums kept adding on to a continuous fantasy-horror story. 90s: Daft Punk maybe (1993)? Gorillaz (1998). I'd suggest the portentious-and-or-woolly occult imagery of Fields of the Nephilim (1984) is similar to what HDnG are going for. Occult-y industrial or EBM bands where there's a continuous storyworld and everyone works under an alias I think are quite common - the tricky part is finding examples of artists who sustained it for more than one album. Cradle of Filth did vampire personas in 1991, or the Screaming Dead did them in 1980. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_band This page had an earlier one than Sgt Pepper: Alvin and the Chipmunks (1958). I forgot about Dethklok. Most black metal bands focus on the lore (because if it wasn't for the lore people might notice the music!) If I can come up with a dozen reference points, anyone can...
This took me a long time to look over, dense and really interesting information from the 60's! I envision the lore of HDnG to be more like a universe thing similar to MCU etc. Are there any writers on the forum who have interest in writing for other media like film etc?
