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guardian.co.uk – Jan 11, 2007
uk Thursday 11 January 2007 23. 56 GMT Florida may be the Sunshine State but it is forever shrouded in darkness as home to the world’s leading proponents of satanic death metal. Deicide means “the killing of deities” – controversy follows the band around. Singer Glen Benton caused outrage by branding his forehead with an upside-down cross. They are banned in Chile after fans desecrated a church and Deicide’s audiences have been known to lose control of their bowels. Alas or to the joy of local church-goers Benton has been detained by an American court which is presumably an occupational hazard.
Folk music with a twist
Free Lance-Star – The Free Lance-Star – Jan 11, 2007
Värttinä’s folk lyrics make American death-metal music lyrics sound namby-pamby. Take the English translation of the song “Riena-Anthema” from the band’s new album “Miero. ” I throw off sparksI tear from my tongue words as twisted as tree roots. I poke the fire of hatred with my wordsI hurl hate back at you. My mood blackensblacker than the mind of any mortal.
From Liszt to Led: New music course plugs in
McGill Reporter – McGill Reporter – Jan 11, 2007
And the academic in question is Distinguished Visiting Scholar Sandy Pearlman or as he introduces himself to the inaugural class “I’m Christopher Walken or rather Christopher Walken is me. A few blank stares greet the reference to the classic Saturday Night Live skit in which Walken spoofs Pearlman as producer of the Blue Öyster Cult but no matter. After a rocky start as Don McLean Dean of the Schulich School of Music and the course’s co-teacher fiddles with the audio system in the classroom equivalent of the last-minute sound check class is in session and it’s time to rock and uh. First off McLean hands out surveys asking if the students are ? like himself ? a little more Bruckner or ? like Pearlman ? a little more heavy metal or perhaps even “that rare bird who likes both… As it turns out at least one of the students is that rare bird. Eric Smialek a 24-year-old musicology student told the Reporter “Whether I’m at home listening to a Mahler symphony or to Cannibal Corpse I get the same kind of bodily reaction walking around the house with my arms in the air. ” Smialek’s master’s thesis is on heavy metal but he has performed both in death metal bands and in choirs. “I’ve always made parallels (between the two forms of music)” he said. “I’m more comfortable on the metal side but I also have a huge interest in 19th-century orchestral music so this is pretty ideal for me. ” His advisor Professor David Brackett chair of the Department of Music Theory suggested he sign up for McLean and Pearlman’s new class.
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