Why does Hussalonia call itself a cult?
It is a matter of semantics. People often use the term “band,” or simply “group” to refer to a conglomerate of musicians who write music together. But in the traditional sense, Hussalonia is neither a band nor a group; Hussalonia is mostly the work of one person – the founder. In the early 2000s as the music industry struggled to compete with illegal downloading, the founder became somewhat disillusioned with the increasingly crass commercialism of music. Bands, desperate to market themselves without the aid of record labels, began using social-networking websites to promote themselves. This created a culture of desperation as thousands of bands struggled to get noticed in an increasingly vast sea of unknown musicians. The founder’s decision to begin using the word “cult” was made in an effort to distance himself from this somewhat sad and pathetic culture of music marketing. This coincided with the founder’s decision to cease active promotion of his music and to begin releasing all of
