Metal Yes but Not All Heavy; Music That Goes Aargh! in the Night

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- Metal Yes but Not All Heavy; Music That Goes Aargh! in the Night
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Metal Yes but Not All Heavy; Music That Goes Aargh! in the Night
New York Times – Mar 17, 1999
bands have an old-fashioned thrashing and rolling bar-band rhythm. The young new-metal bands play a fast whomping unfunky version of funk with barbed-wire guitar tone and no solos. The music by black-metal bands has a slow sloppy feeling like walking through a pond of eyeliner. Death-metal the fastest sprints by with double-timed bass drums making your heart palpitate; the preponderance of the little boomlets you feel in your chest makes the music sound arrhythmic.

Metal File: Satyricon Trivium & More – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jun 2, 2006
Six weeks ago Now Diabolical was released in Europe and is one of the fastest-selling records in their homeland. But Europe isn’t America and according to Satyr “Americans have a different understanding of extreme-metal music. “It’s kind of weird” he continued “because death metal is a part of what I call extreme-metal music and death metal has more to do with America than Europe that’s for sure. It seems like there is a lot of confusion as to who’s where it concerns black metal and death metal. Europeans pinpointed a long time ago who’s black metal and what bands are important. The American kids don’t seem to have the slightest clue about that so you find yourself in a situation where a band that is not popular in Europe at all.

How Corrosive Is Heavy Metal?
BusinessWeek – Sep 26, 2000
Black-metal bands however are really into satanism. There have been reports of them killing people burning churches and that sort of thing. Death metal started in the late ’80s and the roots also go back to Venom. But they keep the music extreme and live normal law-abiding lives outside their music. Very extreme style also characterized by fast guitar and drum work and singing ranging from screaming to low guttural noises. Q: And grind metal?A: Grindcore is an oddity. Pure noise in some ways very extreme form of death metal characterized by guttural growling and high-pitched screaming from singers.