Typical Heavy Metal
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ellyssianLike the Nightwish video I posted earlier, here's some more typical heavy metal videos...
First up, from Pain of Salvation's live concept recording Be, we have some more stereotypical headbanging stuff... with bouzouki... and chamber orchestra... and the guitarist playing percussion instead of guitar... because, you know, it's typical...
And just because it is so typical, here's another piece from the same work... it's mostly piano, and would almost have fit in along side the Nik Bartsch jazz works I posted a while back... again, typical of a metal band! This time the guitarist pretty much sits it out, just listening to the music... typical!
Keeping with bands from the same part of the world as Pain of Salvation (roughly) and Nightwish (exactly), we have a group described as folk-metal... so you know it's going to be typical power chords and two guitars... or, maybe, instead, a quartet of female singers backed by acoustic instruments...
And yet another, also considered a Finnish group, although they are Swedish-speaking Finns who play a lot of Swedish ballads. Again with the typical metal instrumentation oftwo guitars, bass, drums, and vocals female vocals, didgeridoo, kalimba, and... if it's not a bodhrán it damn sure looks like one.
And now that I've made a big deal out of two-guitars-bass-drums-vocals, as in poking-fun-at-it, let's see what can be done within that format... how about a love song?
It's perhaps a little more obvious in the next video, but one thing that Fates Warning did that really set them aside from the rest was to take those two guitars, bass and drums and... do something different. Seems simple, but most metal with that 5 piece format had the two guitars playing thirds or fifths, the bass playing an octave, all together now... same thing. With the album Perfect Symmetry, Fates changed things around a bit. They went polyphonic.
And because there's never enough Fates Warning, here's their Monument to the arts:
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If you listen to any of these and like - or dislike - them, let me know...
First up, from Pain of Salvation's live concept recording Be, we have some more stereotypical headbanging stuff... with bouzouki... and chamber orchestra... and the guitarist playing percussion instead of guitar... because, you know, it's typical...
And just because it is so typical, here's another piece from the same work... it's mostly piano, and would almost have fit in along side the Nik Bartsch jazz works I posted a while back... again, typical of a metal band! This time the guitarist pretty much sits it out, just listening to the music... typical!
Keeping with bands from the same part of the world as Pain of Salvation (roughly) and Nightwish (exactly), we have a group described as folk-metal... so you know it's going to be typical power chords and two guitars... or, maybe, instead, a quartet of female singers backed by acoustic instruments...
And yet another, also considered a Finnish group, although they are Swedish-speaking Finns who play a lot of Swedish ballads. Again with the typical metal instrumentation of
And now that I've made a big deal out of two-guitars-bass-drums-vocals, as in poking-fun-at-it, let's see what can be done within that format... how about a love song?
It's perhaps a little more obvious in the next video, but one thing that Fates Warning did that really set them aside from the rest was to take those two guitars, bass and drums and... do something different. Seems simple, but most metal with that 5 piece format had the two guitars playing thirds or fifths, the bass playing an octave, all together now... same thing. With the album Perfect Symmetry, Fates changed things around a bit. They went polyphonic.
And because there's never enough Fates Warning, here's their Monument to the arts:
~ ~ ~
If you listen to any of these and like - or dislike - them, let me know...
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