Ha who said that vintage will go out of style?
No way. Everything starting from the Victorian Gothic to 80th glam is becoming cool for the huge masses of underground music lovers. This article is about a new-old band that is truly Blessed by a Broken Heart.
And now some metal… even death metal. But don’t be afraid it has nothing to do with real life death.
Heaven Shall Burn are a contemporary death metal band from Germany. Fro those of you who don’t know, death metal is one of the extreme metal subgenres and deals with the themes of death (not surprising), suffering, torture and all the other groovy stuff invented by normal people. In the mid 90th death metal spawned melodic death metal, more melodic variation of the cookie monster vocal madness. HSB are a new step, they take melodic death metal (in the vein of acts like At The Gates and In Flames) and mix in with modern metal and hardcore. The mix is pretty nice actually and as all the good bands from this scene they are very energetic live.
I was on their show on Wacken open air 2007 and they literally had total madness on the festival ground. Giant circle pits and walls of death (if you don’t know what it is, check out Youtube) and tons of energy.
In addition to this I can say that Heaven Shall Burn is one of the bands that really care. They are political activists, animal rights protectors and vegetarians. Mixed with good Swedish influenced music it makes them one of the best bands to start with in modern metal scene.
Whoa their new release – Conqueror, totally blew me away last week.
They play in the subgenre, or better to say genre of traditional doom metal. If you remember Black Sabbath, they were the inventors of traditional doom metal. It is slow and bit epic music focused on some occult and fantasy themes. And it really slays!
A lot of people discuss trends and mainstream and also the metal underground. This band proves that metal underground is not dead. It is not just alive and breathing it can even prove that they are much better than the standard cloned mtv bands. This release is based on the famous Conan series and is musically similar to this good old-school battle fantasy.
Not like new doom, traditional doom metal is a bit faster, not so depressive and as for me more interesting due to homage to real good bands like Black Sabbath and Pentagram. Yeah it will take you a while to get used to the sound, but when you’ll get used to it you will see that this is a great music for both work and relaxation. It really breathes with the spirit of old rock combining it with the good old gloomy vintage fantasy.
How you’ll react if I ask: “Have you ever heard about The Red Hot Chili Peppers?” May be you will say something like: “Hey, you…. blah-blah…” And you’ll be right, ’cause this American alternative rock band, that was formed in Los Angeles in 1983 is still extremely popular among people of all ages. I am not going to tell you once again bio and facts of this group, something like: Red Hot Chilli Peppers Lyrics strike a chord with me. I just would like to make a small post about this incredible people and to mention 2 facts I like the most about the group:
Actually this band reminds me of some sad events. On December 8th 2004 Dimebag Darrell, axeman of the famous metal legends Pantera was shot on stage. This recording was released by his brother Vinnie Paul, after Dime’s death. This album is his tribute, a redneck-whiskey-outlaw tribute!
The music was recorded by three members of Pantera (Dimebag Darrell, his brother Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown) and famous country outlaw singer David Alan Coe. Actually it is an unmixable mix of country and metal united by one thing – outlaw! The songs were composed and recorded in the late 90th and don’t expect them to be educating or good for kids. One of the main slogans of the album is “A man with nothing ain’t got nothing to loose”, it’s about gambling, about drinking, one night stands, Indians, highways and chix. Musically it mixes simple Dimebag-style groovy metal riffs with country elements and of course traditional country singing style. The album gives you a feeling of a Deep South cowboy saloon. So keep your confederate money.
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