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| totziens |
 Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject: Booklet with Music Genre Explanation |
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In the midst of all the wrong accusation of being "black metal", I think the entire underground music scene is affected in a negative way from the perception of the general public. To save ourselves, I think there's something to be done to educate the public. The government is not going to help, our education system doesn't help, the media is screwing things up rather than help. I guess it's up to us to educate the public.
A friend, Ashraf, called me up telling me that he has an idea to create a booklet to educate the public about different genre of music. I always hate the genre related topic because music is music to me....modern music is largely overlapping in terms of genre. Anyway, I think this idea may help in educating the public. We can post this in multiple websites/forums/distribute by hands/etc after that.
Let's get together the resources we have to create a booklet. You don't have to mention genre you're unfamiliar with to avoid further misunderstanding. You can post it here and I'll collect it.
Genre could be:
Punk
Ska
Reggae
Indie
Power pop
Noise pop
Experimental
Psychedelic
Progressive
Thrash metal
Death metal
Grind Death
Black metal
Goth
Ambient
Techno
Electro-pop
Dream pop
Blues
Rap metal
Jazz
Emo
Oi
New Wave
No Wave
Folk
Country
New Age
Funk
................or anything that I have missed |
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| GryMlock |
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Great idea! I got some reference meterial about metal that i'd like to share.
| Quote: | Metal music are created with a compositional science behind their assembly to convey abstract ideas which the reason why metal defferentiates itself from "normal" folk/pop/rock music. These reviews assess black metal and other forms of exteme underground metal as art and explore the spiritual nature of abstract death metal, black metal, thrash, speed metal and grindcore movements.
Heavy Metal
Elemental heavy jazz-influenced rock in gut wretching conflict over the mechanical absorption of human existence is heavy metal music. Historical heavy metal emerged from the blues to became a mainstream event, but this genre never stops innovating, with heavy metal bands ranging from the original Black Sabbath to newer "doom metal" progenitors, Winter.
Death Metal
Death metal is a science of taking the nihilistic and frustrated anger of modern life and making it into a violent, dissonant, destructive reality that leaves no question about the huhman spiritual death that comes of this age. This music is to "heavy metal" what a blowtorch is to a cigarette lighter. Concentration of power that is so unbelievably rigorous, focused, vicious and dark that it could only be what we call death metal.
Black Metal
Black metal is death to hope. Black metal destroys false iconistic hope by total immersion in nihilism and spiritual darkness. Black metal hates political correctness and all of humanity in general. Black metal shows you the dark core of humanity to blast through denial and reduce spiritual posturing.
Doom Metal
Doom metal is a genre of underground metal where the music is usually slow, sad, melodic, atmospheric and often depressive. Through history, doom metal didn't sound as it sounds today; today's doom metal can be roughly described as slow atmospheric death metal. Doom metal played by those bands is not aggrasive and not very heavy.
Speed metal
Speed metal is the fast, percussive, muffled-strum, hardedge slam of music of the early eighties as a society died in its own lack of hope. Based on older metal both vocally and harmonically, speed metal nevertheless evolved to a structual understanding similiar to 1970s progressive rock bands. Often called "thrash metal", speed metal music is defined by its percussive heavy metal roar. |
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The encyclopedia of the music ministry..
paste all flyers
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why not ask the ppl at ROTTW?
diorang punye knowledge pun cun jugak
White Metal x nak masuk ka?
Industrial
Hardcore
HipHop Hardcore
Rap Rock
Metalcore
Trip Hop
Nu Metal
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| adzakael wrote: | why not ask the ppl at ROTTW?
diorang punye knowledge pun cun jugak
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Yes, if you have any contact with ROTTW. Pls feel free to ask them for assistance. I don't have any contact ROTTW.
If anyone knows the people working for Malay Mail's Wednesday article "Under the Radar", pls ask them for help too. They have written similar articles months ago.
I believe we can all compile everything and release to the public. |
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| synthdude |
| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject: From Wikipedia... |
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<b>Black Metal</b>
Evolving from thrash metal and death metal, black metal has a dark, cold atmosphere replacing the head-on brutality of Death Metal. The bass is usually played in tremolo; with slow, somber keyboards to complement the cold guitar riffs. Vocals are usually shrieked or grunted and the lyrics are often satanist or anti-Christian in nature.
The production quality of the music is often very poor, most likely an established tradition of opposing the mainstream record and music industry back in the subgenre's hayday, from the late 80's to the early 90's.
Black metal came out of Norway and many of the members of the scene were known to have been involved with the church burnings that took place mainly in the 90's in Norway. Black Metal is now found throughout the world, and each region has developed its own unique variation of the Black Metal sound.
<i>Examples:</i> <b>Bathory, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Dissection, Burzum, Immortal, Emperor, Borknagar, Marduk, Dimmu Borgir</b>
Perhaps the furthest evolution of metal music, black metal diverged from the mainstream by taking the hoarse and bassy vocals of death metal and turning them into an inhuman hiss, accompanied by fast music in which elegant, romantic melodies were discernible amidst the chaos.
It also embraced dangerous thoughts explicitly; where previous generations of metal protested society or reminded people that death was more predominant than sociopolitical reality, black metal rejected modernity entirely and espoused a feral, naturalistic spirit. It also got itself in the news for the burning churches, neo-Nazi doctrine, murders and suicides of its musicians.
It is the most popular form of underground metal yet, in part because it is both melodic and aggressively rhythmic without going to the ludicrous extremes found in death metal and grindcore, but in part because it fulfills what hardcore tried to do: it steps entirely outside of the belief system of modern society, and endorses our inner natural selves, with absolutely zero "morality" regulating the emotions and behavior therein.
Some say it is getting in touch with the Id, others claim it is alienation taken to a logical extreme, but to a student of art history or literature, it appears thematically entirely contiguous with the European Romanticists of two centuries ago. One can hear echoes of Emerson, or Wordsworth, in its cosmic yet earthy insistence on the meaning to be found within reality, and there is always F.W. Nietzsche's surly voice in its rejection of populist and utilitarian value systems.
Musically, it took the lawlessness of death metal, and amplified the phrasal constructions therein to create music of a melodic construction, often with rhythm that minimizes its own impact through repetition of linear patterns that do not rely on listener expectation of an offbeat. As such, it is as different from rock'n'roll as most electronic bands are, but even moreso, in that with its indiscernible vocals and percussion, it is almost purely motif-based composition via guitar, much like that of classical music - if it were deliberately simple, feral in its bellicosity, and of course, made by people who act on their dissident beliefs.
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<b>Metal music</b>
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Metal is a genre of music that is closely related to rock and electric blues, with distorted guitars, loud bass, and generally very powerful drums. The focus on musicianship is much more marked than in other forms of rock, and there is a great emphasis on speed and "heaviness".
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* 1 Subgenres
o 1.1 Heavy Metal
o 1.2 Power metal
o 1.3 Speed metal
o 1.4 Thrash metal
o 1.5 Death metal
o 1.6 Black Metal
o 1.7 Doom metal
o 1.8 Progressive metal
o 1.9 Gothic metal
o 1.10 Folk metal
o 1.11 Grindcore
* 2 History
o 2.1 Origins
o 2.2 Evolution
* 3 External links
<b>Subgenres</b>
Metal music is made up of a large number of subgenres, similar to rock music as whole. Even though Metal genres at times are difficult to segregate, they usually show different characteristics in overall structures, instrumental styles (particularly in vocals), and tempo. The main subgenres are classic metal, doom metal, black metal, death metal, thrash metal, melo-death, progressive metal and power metal. Smaller sub-genres include gothic metal, folk metal and industrial metal as well as others like speed metal and Viking metal, whose independent existence is the subject of much debate. Some subgenres that many neophytes, media, and mainstream sources generally group with metal are not considered part of metal by most critics or fans of the genre. Those genres are hair metal and nu-metal, among others. Grindcore is also sometimes considered a metal subgenre, although it is derived primarily from punk and hardcore. It should be noted that while heavy metal is often considered a subgenre of metal, one also sometimes sees the term heavy metal used synonymously with metal in general.
<b>Heavy Metal</b>
Heavy Metal is most probably the original type of Metal Music. Heavy Metal started in the mid 70's. The genre is personified by rasping vocals and long guitar solos. Lyrically the genre is mostly centered on the darker side of life, concerning Satanism, death and murder but heavy Metal bands are often are a kind of knowing joke towards these subjects and do not take it seriously.
Examples: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest.
<b>Power metal</b>
Power metal is a more upbeat version of Classic/Heavy Metal with more progression replacing the electro-blues style, more virtuosity in the guitar leads and solos, and stressing, jaunty tempos. Power Metal often emphasizes on high-pitched vocals and melodic lead guitar delivery. The rhythm guitar is defined by straight power chord progressions. Power metal leans towards the positive, happy side of life seeking to empower the listener and inspire joy and courage. The subgenre is sometimes not accepted by true metal enthusiasts because it is often in the commercial realm and not underground music.
Examples: Rhapsody, Dragonforce, Blind Guardian, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Manowar, Sinergy, Kamelot, Hammerfall, Nightwish
<b>Speed metal</b>
Speed metal is the middle ground between thrash and power metal, it doesn't have enough melody to be power metal, but still has enough to prevent it from being thrash.
Ex: Early Helloween, Megadeth, Cacophony
<b>Thrash metal</b>
Thrash metal is essentially Speed Metal with tempos influenced more predominantly by Hardcore Punk Rock. Thrash Metal also made the tritonal chord a staple of Metal and intensity a major key ingredient throughout most of Metal. Thrash Metal songs are usually fairly complex, with contain frequently occurring time and tempo changes. Thrash Metal replaces melody with brutality and speed, with the use of ample distortion. Thrash also started the use of double bass drums in Metal. Vocals are usually yelled, screamed, or snarled, though, at the same time, melodic.
Ex: Exodus, Kreator, Testament, Sodom, Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Overkill
<b>Death metal</b>
Death metal is thrash metal pushed to the most brutal extremes, with strange chord progressions, exotic scales and erratic time changes. Double bass drums are universally implemented, as well as rapid snare drums, blast beats, and chaotic cymbal crashes. Vocals are usually growled, but also can be shrieked, yelled, or screamed. Current death metal bands often dabble in neo-classicism, Jazz-fusion, medieval music, or folk and symphonic endeavors. The lyrical content usually deals with the darker side of human imagination, dealing with blood, death, gore, and satan. However, Death Metal is not limited to just blood, death, and gore. It can also range out to philosophy and even politics.
Ex: Deicide, Morbid Angel, Death, Entombed, Possessed, Bolt Thrower, Obituary
<B>Melodic Death Metal</b>
Often referred to as melodeath, it's generally considered an offshoot of death metal. The subgenre contains more melodic guitar riffs and solos, which are sometimes acoustic, and also occasional 'clean' singing as opposed to traditional death grunt vocals. The song structures are generally more progressive, using diverse themes throughout the song. Some credit In Flames as the band which popularised the sub-genre, but others would argue Carcass's Heartwork as the begining of the genre. Melodic death metal, though from the same geographic area as black metal, rarely speaks of Satanism or the downfall of Christianity, but has more poetic themes, which vary greatly.
For example Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, At The Gates, Beyond The Embrace,Callenish Circle, Carcass, Ceremonial Oath, Dark Tranquillity,Darkane, Dimension Zero, Edge of Sanity, Ensiferum, Entombed, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Hypocrisy, In Flames, Insomnium, Kalmah, Noumena, Opeth, Sentenced, Soilwork, Unanimated, Wintersun
<b>Brutal Death Metal</b>
This is often considered as Death Metal taken to the farthest reaches of extremity, with even faster tempos, more complex song structures, more intense drumming, and vocals which are at often times ferociously growled to the point of being related to unintelligible gurgling.
Ex: Suffocation, Immolation, Dying Fetus, Rotting Christ, Cryptopsy, Disgorge
<b>Black Metal</b>
Evolving from thrash metal and death metal, black metal has a dark, cold atmosphere replacing the head-on brutality of Death Metal. The bass is usually played in tremolo; with slow, somber keyboards to compliment the cold guitar riffs. Vocals are usually shrieked or grunted and the lyrics are often satanist or anti-Christian in nature. The production quality of the music is often very poor, most likely an established tradition of opposing the mainstream record and music industry back in the subgenre's hayday, from the late 80's to the early 90's. Black metal came out of Norway and many of the members of the scene were known to have been involved with the church burnings that took place mainly in the 90's in Norway. Black Metal is now found throughout the world, and each region has developed its own unique variation of the Black Metal sound.
Ex: Bathory, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Dissection, Burzum, Immortal, Emperor, Borknagar, Marduk, Dimmu Borgir
<b>Doom metal</b>
While most other metal genres pulverize tempos and technical proficiency, doom metal stresses emotion – usually melancholy, depression, and tragic irony. Doom Metal plays the slower and mid tempos, with down tuned riffs and dark, somber, melodic harmonies. Most Doom Metal makes use of Death and Black Metal vocals, but clean ones are also often used to enhance the sullen atmosphere and dark mood of the music. Classical instruments are often used as well, like the piano or violin.
Ex: My Dying Bride, Candlemass
<b>Progressive metal</b>
Progressive metal focuses on sophistication and complexity through constant time and tempo changes, and solos with heavy emphasis on extended instrumental segments. Vocals are generally melodic, with lyrics often touching on philosophical, spiritual, and/or political themes, and instrument virtuosity is a must. Prog Metal is obviously most closely related to Prog Rock through earlier works of Queensr˙che and Rush.
Ex: Dream Theater, Tool, Pain of Salvation, Symphony X, Spiral Architect, Adagio, Ayreon, Liquid Tension Experiment, Watchtower.
<b>Gothic metal</b>
Metal that is a synthesis of doom metal, black metal and death metal. Features heavy atmospherics, romantic lyrics and dual vocalists as its trademark.
Ex. Keltagr, Penumbra, Tristania, Macbeth, Lacuna Coil, Trail of Tears
<b>Folk metal</b>
Any form of metal that in influenced by folklore or Viking music, usually mixed with Black and/or Power Metal. Closely related to Viking Metal, which is heavier and contains songs of war. Folk metal is common in Finnish metal bands. Sometimes based on traditional songs, poems and stories. The songs are sometimes played with a traditional instument, a kantele.
Ex: Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Vintersorg, Cruachan, Falkenbach, Finntroll
<b>Grindcore</b>
Stemming from thrash metal and brutal underground Punk Rock, grindcore is known as an extreme form of death metal nowadays characterised by a very distorted bass that creates a fuzzy, white-noise ambiance background, blast beats and snare drums, Hardcore grooves, and guitars played on tremolo picked power cords. The riffs are played at a terrifying pace coming close to 200 notes per minute, so the songs are relatively short, usually from about 30 seconds minimum to 2 minutes maximum. Vocals are just that of Death Metal’s, growled, shrieked, or screamed.
Ex: Napalm Death, Carcass, Nasum, Terrorizer, Pig Destroyer, Anal Cunt
<b>History & Origins</b>
The term "heavy metal" was putatively coined by the 60s rock band Steppenwolf in their most popular song, "Born to Be Wild" with the line "heavy metal thunder...". Various accounts have the term first being applied to a style of music in description of Psychedelic Rock acts like Cream or The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The genre's inception, however, did not occur until the release of Black Sabbath's eponymous first album, which combined thundering basslines, irregular song structures, and, most importantly, heavily distorted, power-chord-laden and often down-tuned or palm-muted guitar riffs to form the first true metal album. Black Sabbath's influences can facilely be traced back to the bluesy hard rock of bands like Led Zeppelin and Cream, but modern metal as a whole owes as much to the modal hard rock of Deep Purple (as well as guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's subsequent band, Rainbow) and early Progressive Rock bands like King Crimson and Jethro Tull that laid the musical foundations for future innovators.
<b>Evolution</b>
Black Sabbath were the seminal and first real metal band, belonging to the sub-genre Heavy Metal (which in recent years has increasingly become known as Traditional Metal or Classic Metal, both for accuracy and to avoid confusion), as well as being innovators of the Doom Metal sub-genre with their first three albums. Metal then progressed through Judas Priest and Power Metal progenitors Iron Maiden and Dio on the one hand, while bands such as Motörhead, Paul Di'Anno-era Iron Maiden, and early thrash like Overkill and Metallica infused punk aesthetics and extreme speed into Black Sabbath's template on the other. Beginning with Judas Priest, metal bands quickly began to look beyond Sabbath's almost exclusive use of the blues scale to incorporate diatonic modes into their solos. This has since spread throughout virtually all sub-genres of metal (some Doom, following in Sabbath's footsteps, being the main exception) and along with an overriding sense of musicianship are the main contributions classical and jazz (via progressive rock) have made to the genre.
In the early and mid 1980s the burgeoning sub-genre of thrash began to split further into Death Metal, led by Possessed and Death, and Black Metal (a term coined by Venom, who despite which lacked most integral characteristics of the genre, such as the buzz-saw vocals), in which Bathory (generally considered the first 'true' black metal act) and Mayhem were key players early. Progressive Metal, a fusion of the progressive stylings of bands like Rush and King Crimson and Traditional Metal began in the 80's, too, behind innovators like Fates Warning and later Queensr˙che, who enjoyed substantial mainstream acceptance and success in the hair metal era. Melo-Death, in many ways similar instrumentally to Iron Maiden, but with high-pitched death vocals instead of semi-operatic, arose out of the Gothenburg scene circa 1990, with Dark Tranquillity (and vocalist Anders Friden's later band, In Flames) and At the Gates at the forefront. The modern forms of Doom Metal and Power Metal came into existence around the same time period with Candlemass and Helloween, respectively.
Evolution continued at a rapid pace throughout the nineties, notably the Stoner Metal and Sludge Metal (both sub-sub-genres of Doom) movements, which drew heavily from Stoner Rock band Kyuss, and industrial bands such as Fear Factory that assimilated synthesizers into a more traditional Death Metal sound. Black, Death and derivatives are the predominant styles in most metal scenes today, but it is progressive acts like Dream Theater and Opeth that (aside from metalcore, and aging thrash and classic metal bands) garner the highest record sales.
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Hmm...the information of black metal really sounds scary...
Seriously I don't know what to do with black metal in the booklet. Perhaps I should include it too. So that people can differentiate what are NOT black metal. |
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| Is that so? I don't know anything about the local black metal scene. Need someone from the black metal scene to assist. dead_zink, r u one of them? |
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I can't admit that I'm from the BM scene... cuz i sekali-sekala listen to BM songs... i mostly listen to heavy metals only...
but our local BM fans didn't do the pijak quran... doing sex sacrifice ceremonies... drinking goat blood... the blood is dirty u know... mau cpt mati minum la... even the bible of satan (it exists) said to stay away from these doings... they're only done by idiots...
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Let me keep searching for a black metalist from our local scene to clarify.
I listen to some metal stuff which may fall into black metal occasionally but I don't really care about the lyric of their lifestyle |
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alamak..... i just posted in the other thread, baru je borak ngan ajeep pasal tu. good idea tu siang.....
i think while it's still hot, we can start with a4-size flyers dictating what's "underground" and "indie bands" is all about. and what are the gigs is all about. but this flyer shouldnt relate to the case at all... just a simple "indie bands for dummies" kind a thing la... simple one
then we can actually help out to print and photocopy the flyers and start distributing like the old-ways (when ever we have gigs). either that or emails.
but definitely the booklet is a good thing, in a long term.
in a short term, while the issue is hot, while kedai kopi tengah kecoh about it..... or starbucks.....
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