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HR~HM muzic has always appeared to be relegated to post-game soccer fans or just pissed-off punkers looking for a street fight that ought not to be lost....*L* Be that as it may be....3 that make me want to train the dog Not to attack our cats... ...if only to save him a lesson 'bout cat defensive abilities.... 3 samples: Nice linearity test @ 3:04 >....again, lease break loud....;)\ There...all set for something subtle.... ..a sort of SOTA complaint.... *hit resume^ |
I can see what you're saying... Here's a breakdown of "the drapery falls" by a classical guy (that you may appreciate). Personally, i myself am a violin player...who went plugged in for a few years because a couple of my buddies back in the days had a metal band. It is harder to insert oneself as a violin player into that scene, but, i tried for a few years. In my head though, i have a similar thought process to the gentleman in this video when i am breaking down tracks i run into. Track breakdown https://youtu.be/Iujfijfnej4?si=YFDkhkXWAEisLNrj Track Opeth - The Drapery Falls https://youtu.be/YeTNkPXRrVY?si=QJeQPGIQ1kDs8ptH
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I am a pretty big fan of certain subgenres of metal. But I don't like them specifically because they are metal bands, but because they appeal to the attributes that I love in the music I listen to. Those attributes I love in music are (no particular order): very high levels of musicianship, complexity, deep and broad range of emotional and/or content conveyed, (usually) long form song structure, no need to have "catchy" melodies, no need for verse>chorus>bridge song structure. For me, the above attributes supersede any specific genre. Once the above attributes are met, I am almost genre "agnostic". The metal bands I like have most or all of the above attributes. Progressive metal - Haken, Pain of Salvation, Riverside, Wolverine, Opeth, Caligula's Horse, Lemur Voice, Suncaged, and others. Technical metal - Cynic, Spastic Ink, Tesseract, The Contortionist, Zero Hour, Anomaly, Atheist, Spiral Architect, Counter-World Experience, Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, and others. |
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I grew up playing drums to heavy metal/acid rock or whatever you wanted to call it. We played deep purple, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix and others hard rock material. Today, I mostly listen to jazz/blues/hard rock and progressive rock. The group I listen to 99% of the time if I’m paying heavier stuff, is Dream Theater. If you want to listen to them, look at their Images and Words album from the 80’s and then listen to their latest song Night Terror. Awesome! Lots of YouTube videos on them too. The best songs from them are when Mike Portnoy was the drummer(voted best drummer many times) 80’s thru 2011 and he just came back this year and they released Night Terror |
Knebworth, in England, in 1985 included UFO, Meatloaf, Scorpions with headliner, Deep Purple. All hard rock bands, with exception of Meatloaf. Deep Purple had 2 sets of tower speakers (array) off stage - in the crowd- and during certain songs moved the music to and fro in a quadrophonic type of setup. Never heard or saw such an arrangement before or since. Perfect Strangers. |
@baconboy I would classify deep purple as mostly hard rock... I think it is a combination of 70's Sabbath/Iommi style of riffs and Ian Gillan's vocal style (Example Track: Child In time) that paved the way for a lot of modern metal. I wouldn't classify Ozzy Osbourne as too much of a metal vocalist. In fact, here's an example of a track from Sabbath's 'Born Again" album, where Gillan was the vocalist....call it Purple Sabbath maybe....
Black Sabbath - Disturbing The Priest (Don't be the soundguy that played this on the church PA and disturbed the congregation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OXLRuu8YQY
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@kingbr - I've always loved the wordless singalong part of that song; they used to get the roadies up there to sing on that part, too.... |
So many tracks from the 1st 5 Black Sabbath albums. I’ll pick a few. War Pigs - from their 2nd album Paranoid. Fairies Wear Boots - from their 1st album Black Sabbath. Children of the Grave - from Master of Reality. Snowblind - from Volume 4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - from their 5th album with the same name. |
@yyzsantabarbara I remember driving around in a 86 Pontiac Sunbird (barely legal to drive once upon a time) with "Die Young" from that album turned all the way up as much as the crappy stereo in that car would let me. Imo, Dio's vocals just gelled better with Iommi and Ozzy was better off with his solo works. I listen to many genres, but, my playtime with this genre has gotten more as the rigs/rooms got better. |
Wow, where to start! I could make this a very long post based on my love of heavy rock and metal, but here are a few that are nostalgic to my adolescence. Black Sabbath - Symptom of the universe, Into the void, Supernaut Judas Priest - Beyond the realms of death, Desert Plains Thin Lizzy - Miss Misery Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross, Clean my wounds Honestly , I could go on forever. I grew up in the 70’s and my uncles were all rock and heavy metal fans so I experienced a lot of early rock. While I enjoy all genres of music, my soul always goes to hard rock. 🤘 |
I listen to more Heavy Metal music these days than when I was younger, when the music was newly released. For example, Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell is in heavy rotation, especially with my RAAL CA-1a phone and the VM-1a tube headphone amp. My uber rock and roll setup. I never paid too much attention to it back in the day though it got a lot of radio play. I remember playing some Ramstein when I lived in a rental apartment in Virgina 20 years ago. My upstairs neighbor got so scared, not so much by the volume, but by the vocalist.
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Track#3 Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMkQYt3u2ac (RIP Paul Di'Anno, 17 May 1958 – 21 October 2024) |
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