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black metal
Black metal took the lawless extremity of death metal and added a
greater use of melody, creating swelling surges of sound that sweep the
listener away with raw emotion and then arrive in a wasteland devoid of
inherent value. Songs fashioned from primitive elements end up telling
complex tales, embarking on a journey where the greatest human fears --
meaninglessness, predation and violence -- end up being salvation from
the frustrating world of entropy-bound stagnation. Thematically black
metal represents an assault on the pillars of modernity, namely
egalitarianism, consumerism and tolerance
death metal
Death metal uses tremolo strummed power chords in phrasal riffs,
creating an internal dialogue of melody to project a narrative which
takes us from a starting point through internal conflict to an ending
radically removed from the start. This often complex music relies
heavily on chromatic scales and solos that resemble sonic sculpture more
than a reliance on scales or harmony, and use "modal stripes" or
repeated interval patterns (such as a half interval followed by a whole)
to maintain a mood. Inherently structuralist, death metal can be
recognized by its "post-human" perspective, seeing the world through
biology, history, warfare and mythology instead of the "I/me/mine"
viewpoint of a modern society.
thrash metal
Thrash combined the short, fast songs of hardcore punk bands with the
more structured, architected and melodic aspects of metal riffing.
Deriving its name from the skaters who listened to it, called
"thrashers," thrash was a true crossover genre in that it was not purely
metal and not purely punk, which both caused it trouble finding an
initial audience and made it almost universally accessible. Its songs,
often under thirty seconds, blasted away at society not so much from
ideological principles but to mock and criticize the end result of
ideology, which was a numb utilitarian society oblivious to the passa
speed metal
After hardcore made music harder and faster, speed metal upgraded heavy
metal by mixing hardcore speed and aggression with the architectural
riffs of NWOBHM, and downgraded the reliance on pentatonic scales in
favor of minor-key complex riffing. The technique that defines speed
metal is the muted strum, where the palm of the strumming hands rests on
the strings, making a short percussive blast of distortion instead of a
ringing chord. As a result, speed metal sounded like the machines of
the 1980s: blasting like factories, rattling like tank treads and
chattering like computers and their printers
heavy metal
Heavy metal started when Black Sabbath merged heavy guitar rock with the
soundtracks from horror films. They did they by exclusively using power
chords, which because they do not contain the notes that mark them as
major or minor chords, lend themselves to moving in streams, like a
melody played in chords. The result is that Black Sabbath structured
their songs around the interplay of these melodies, instead of focusing
on a transition between points of fixed harmony like rock music, and
invented a new style of music that took nearly thirty years to grow into
the musical ideal first suggested back in 1970. Lyrically, Black
Sabbath rejected the flower love delusion of the hippies and replaced it
with hard knowledge: the obliviousness of individuals creates a
mythological form of evil that manipulates and destroys us.
grindcore
A further evolution of the sound hardcore punk created and thrash
developed, grindcore slams together abrasive riffs in order to achieve a
release from intensity at the end of each song. Its name comes from
that grinding, caused by fast alternation between chromatic notes and
the contrast with rigid whole note patterns that lift the listener up
from the directionless thrashing. Where purest, grindcore celebrates
individual life and rejects social mores by reminding us that we are
mortal, frail and the clock is ticking, so we need to cast aside the
pointless and frustrating (grinding) in life and replace it with open
spaces of our own imaginations.
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