"Ha-Ha!! Isnt obvious YOU are the SHITTY band? A bunch of DORKS I heard it was your SHITTY review on WORMWOOD that alerted the REAL BAND and the REAL KILLENSTEIN. He found it, and I got the FUNNIEST FLAME IN THE WORLD: ![]() I posted about this in a local Wisconsin metal forum that I frequent, forgetting that Mr. I didn't hear from the manager for a week. Who knew? I've never heard of them before. YouTube "Von killenstein" - all THEIR videos pop up, none of ours! So if you misspell MY stage name, you get THEIR videos.Īpparently this band has been around for 10 years, and one of their tracks is in Brutal Legend. About 6 of our videos pop up, some by fans. All their videos pop up, and NONE of ours. And this particular search result was to an article where a reporter mistakenly wrote "Mr. I ran a google search for "Killenstein", and it took me 27 PAGES to find anything about my band. THIS is about the time I started to call bullshit. He said he would check with his people, and we hung up. I was on the phone, and flabbergasted by this at the time, so I offered to change the e to an a and add a silent e at the end (i.e. He asserted we were stealing google hits from them. What was causing this whole ruckus? Apparently the lead singer has a google text alert set up so that when anything with the name "killenstein" is indexed in google, he gets an alert. If I still didn't change it, they'd sue for damages. (Check it out, they do! ) He said that unless I changed my stage name, his lawyers would be sending me cease and desist letters. (I play in a Madison, WI-based band called " Lords of the Trident", and my stage character's name is "Fang VonKillenstein")Īpparently, they have a trademark on the name "Killenstein" for band purposes. Apparently the lead singer's stage name is "Killenstein", and they were none too happy that my stage name is Fang VonKillenstein. ![]() The Full Story: Two months back I got a call from a manager of a band in New York.
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