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Let me give you a small history lesson of one of the most controversial sub genres in metal, and perhaps of all music. The prevailing schema of its image is that of a dark one, and rightly so. The early 1990's was hell wreaked onto the quiet and unaware Scandinavian lands effervescent of murder scandals and church burnings, all that had connection to the genre which is known rightfully as black metal. Allow me to digress as this isn't about the history of black metal, but rather the revival of it a decade later in our very own country of Olympia, Washington, USA. The US is not well known to have a slew of black metal bands that have any connection to the actual music other than sharing its fans, and many elitists would want to keep it that way. Hitherto, Wolves In The Throne Room has been a perceived threat from both enthusiasts and dissenters, labeled as 'pretentious liberal posers' and other frivolous slander that people need to speak in order to protect themselves from something that is vaguely familiar yet obtrusive with a modern edge. And we all know that we fear what we don't know much about. Let ignorance shed its skin, and become enlightened. Wolves In The Throne Room has a progressive advantage while keeping to its roots: minimalist chord progressions, ambience created with a wall of sound, shrieking vocals, and militant drumming. Yet they also add a different influence to their noise, with shamanistic, mesmerizing rhythm (occasionally accompanied by female vocals as well, which I will show an example of), and reverberation that sounds like it was recorded in a cave with incoherent vocals reminiscent of 'shoegaze' (look it up). As well has having lyrical content veering to the very left, an opposing stance of traditional conservative black metal values, and its roots not European, it isn't a wonder why they've garnered much criticism. And much praise. As for my own stance, I wouldn't be surprised if they make it into metal history for their retro-revolutionary style. All the artists live a neo-eco friendly life style in a farmhouse, decrepit from wear of age, growing their own food, away from corruption of industrial life while not relinquishing modern age technology to a total Luddism. They have moved away from aggressive satanic imagery to a more down to earth environmentalist and benevolent spiritual one. If anything, they are true romanticists in the sense that nature is everything to their music. Whether their music actually embodies this assertion is up to the listener to challenge.
The United Kingdom--the epitome of a country with a rich history and culture, full of the saccharine wine of amalgamations into every breadth of subjects that it has conquered: philosophy, literature, military logistics and warfare, science, and music. Speaking of the latter, it is the birthplace of many doom metal acts (along with the evolution of the metal genre starting there and its progenitor, Black Sabbath); doom bands like Anathema, Electric Wizard, Cathedral, Serotonal, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Sacrilege, and the ever dolorous Warning.
Warning formed in 1994 with vocalist/guitarist Patrick Walker, bassist Marcus Hatfield, and drummer Stuart Springthorpe. They've released only two full-length albums.
And there's no warning given for the sonic assail of Patrick Walker's woeful lamentations that are unabashedly splayed open like a wound, stinging and festering with sorrow. Basically this guy belts it all out, with words that aren't the immature whining of a teenage emo kid that just got dumped and complains about how bad their life is when it really isn't. Yes Walker's lyrical themes revolve around depression, loss, relationships and society, but with a more cynical, profoundness and maturity that anyone of any age can relate to.
Considering the singing, Walker has an excellent range, brazen with melancholy. At first the vocals are a bit off putting, especially in a metal genre with heavy, slow, soul-crushing, mind-exhausting guitars, but stick with them through a whole song and it will grow on you. Speaking of the guitars, they are honestly the most tragic, heart-breaking riffs in the world, the melody alone makes me want to cry. And I will honestly say that they have made me cry; not a lot of things have that effect on me. Which tells you that it must be pretty damn sad and pretty damn good.
Like most doom metal songs, Warning songs are lengthy, cyclic, with simplistic composition, but not boring. And with this sub genre it is pretty hard to try to not be monotonous and repetitive, but somehow they instead achieve atmosphere. The drums have great reverb and aren't too over powering but not unnoticed (and I commend anyone that can play them longer than six minutes without losing feeling). The bass usually goes unnoticed and unfortunately you can't really hear much of them in their songs, but they add the extra doom-stricken effect.
Alas, this epic band had split-up sometime around 2007-2009, Walker going on to form 40 Watt Sun along with the drummer. Whether they will ever get back together is uncertain; only the shattered remains of raw and personal emotions lay at hand waiting to affect others whom are willing to pick up these pieces and reflect.
Here is the monolith of a song, Watching From A Distance:
Now I have a problem with most deathcore music (or anything core for that matter). Generic "chugging" on the guitar with lack of imaginitive riffs, overdone and unoriginal breakdowns, silly, inane lyrics, excessively hipster or whetto ghettos all so "BR00TALZ" (see Emmure here:)http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/img_gal/3671_Emmure.jpg
but that all changed with the full-length release of The Contortionist's Exoplanet. I guess you could call it adroit prog-deathcore with a hankering for some beautiful melodies in each song. Jazzy and technical, whatever you call it, no words can compare to the feeling of a climax in musical sense; competent vocals, extremely skilled guitarists, and strong, precise drumming that is surprisingly moving. Their earlier lyrical themes, while were excellent in diction still made me gloss them over and bored me, what with subject matter being typical gloomy with a slight 'emo' tinge... nonetheless, they were average. But now their lyrics are now geared toward a more science-oriented theme, dealing with space, cosmology, astronomy and the like. And who doesn't like stuff about space? :P
With lyrical concept matter dealing with the human race selfishly taking over other worlds, ever since the greedy trashing and raping our own, and through our own ignorance and miscalculations, fail in creating another haven for humanity, thus the human race fails to exist ever more in the universe we so take for granted...alas, we reap what we sow. As misanthropic and melancholic as it is, I will not take for granted the vision The Contorionist had in mind.
Many have stated the future of metal is going somewhere between BTBAM and alternative metal.... I disagree, the future of metal is going somewhere between The Contortionist and progressive metal.
Ihsahn is a solo musician originally from the black metal band Emperor. Here I present to you "Frozen Lakes on Mars" from the latest album After. I own it, and I have to say, he is at least one of the better guitarists and songwriters of his time and genre. He expertly blends bluntforce brutality with technical precision, but is not afraid to put a melodic spin in his music. Much more progressive than the predecessor albums, the mixture of black metal with jazz and blues style fusions offers a whole different way of playing metal.
Orden Ogan is a German power metal band with progressive and folk metal elements.[citation needed] They are the organisers of the German metal festival WinterNachtsTraum
