Annonymal is a six-piece heavy metal band whose members are completely anonymous. No names, no faces, no location. By day they are Bitcoin journalists. By night they are the band giving Bitcoin its metal soundtrack, and they made a deliberate choice: they say heavy metal is the only genre built for what Bitcoin is.
This episode gets into how a journalist asks "how can I be scarce?" and ends up writing songs that open with the Genesis block. Annonymal and Heather talk about why metal is the correct soundtrack for a money that is anti-establishment by design, how MTV deliberately dropped rock and metal to defang a generation of critical thinkers, and why Bitcoin fixed something in them that journalism, protest, and social work could not.
They also get into the attention economy, what it takes for original music to survive the AI era, why they put their first album only on Wavlake, and what killswitch.gov.exe means.
Find Annonymal on Wavlake and Fountain. Follow them on Nostr and search the hashtag #HornsUpforSatoshi.
Annonymal's first full album is on Wavlake. Their second album, killswitch.gov.exe, is in production. A live show recording of approximately 40 minutes is coming soon. Their Geyser Fund campaign to raise $7,000 for the second album did not reach its goal. They are recording it anyway.
Their songs include As Government Dies, War Strategy, The Arrow of Time, and The Soul Behind the Mask, which is written in first person as Satoshi. They recently released a cover of Megadeth's In My Darkest Hour.
Before Bitcoin, they were afraid of losing their income and being poor. They describe themselves as still poor but no longer afraid. They reference the scene in V for Vendetta where Evey walks out into the rain with nothing left to fear. That is where Bitcoin took them. Not to wealth. To clarity.
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