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- The Mosh Pit 02.27.09: The Evolution f Extreme Music
- Listening Party: Matt Young and PanaCea
- Scott Walker musical mystery man
Denver Metal Music Examiner
Examiner.com
It was a time that despite the advances of Death Metal and Grindcore was a sad time for thrash metal fans. Anthrax Megadeth Metallica and Slayer gained commercial fame with horrible albums. It is a scientific fact that if you played thrash in the 80s you sucked in the 90s. Kreator was not an exception to this rule. But let us not dwell on this horrible time for aside from the big three most bands have returned.
The Mosh Pit 02.27.09: The Evolution f Extreme Music
411mania.com
This is tough aggressive music and the vocal is another instrument that has to keep pace or it will get lost in the mix. Although I’ve often joked that everyone realized they couldn’t copy the awesome that is King Diamond so they just ran the opposite direction. So yes death metal is certainly a brutal version of metal and is admittedly not for everyone. But even this kind of music is spread out now amongst the subgenres of folk melodic and brutal (amongst others) so I think it’s likely many people could find something they might enjoy. Melodic is probably the most user friendly form of death and a good place for someone to start getting their feet wet. But for those of us who do it packs the majesty of thrash with mind blowing techniques to cause carnage in ye’ old headphones. Under the animal aggression and sweat is the same things we all love about metal it’s just played to the Nth degree and for those who like it it’s the ultimate extreme sport.
Listening Party: Matt Young and PanaCea
Spartanburg Spark
In the very early 1990s saying “metal” to almost anyone instantly summoned the image of the overblown day-glo-tights-clad terrors of the overtly commercial hair-metal movement. Today people may look upon bands like Poison as legends but to a kid just getting into popular music in the grunge era they were a campy joke. But there were still “real” metal bands to be found and you didn’t even have to look that hard. MTV not yet the station where drunken co-eds were most likely to make out with each other in hot-tubs was still mostly videos.
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Scott Walker musical mystery man
Los Angeles Times
Reclusive artistWalker of course never sold much in the United States and he’s spent much of the last 40 years as a recluse in England studying things like Gregorian chant. He rarely grants interviews and did not break that rule to publicize this film. “Each wave of his career scoops up new fans” said Stephen Kijak the film’s director and producer describing Norwegian death metal bands who love Walker’s sepulchral recent work and Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner whose side band is inspired by Walker. David Sefton an associate producer of the film spent seven years chasing the singer to curate the music festival he ran in London. “It became almost like a running gag” recalls Sefton now director of UCLA Live who sees Walker as the ultimate musician’s musician. Many of the years since the late ’70s — the last time Walker performed live — have been marked by alcoholism and depression. The film skirts this mostly leaving those years an enigmatic silence.
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