Back to metal.
Found a devocalized version of Metropolis LOL!!! Told you Dream Theater would work much better without any vocals
Pure instrumental composition and it’s like the best song on the fucking album. Just drop the fucking singer already. Get some session guy if you wanna do something like Space Dye Vest:
Or just do a Steve Vai and make the singer do a “solo” in the middle of the song.
Erik Satie was also fucking metal. Too few people have heard of him. Someone should cover his shit.
The closest to any “heavy” cover was in the Violent Cop(Japanese movei) soundtrack:
SWANS … Ear splitting heaviness
I started learning / teaching myself piano about 3 years ago - I’m starting to have the confidence to learn intermediate/upper intermediate stuff
Eventually I’ll start playing the 3rd movement, Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 (shit anything Liszt), Chopin’s nocturnes, etc etc
That’s a feat though man, Moonlight 3rd movement is fucking intense. I was getting a massage last weekend and my masseuse had a cd of classical piano pieces and the 1st & 2nd movement came on and I was getting all stoked for the 3rd. The cd pussed out and switch to another “soothing” piece. Probably for the best, but I went on to explain to my masseuse how intense and aggressive that 3rd movement is. People get all gushy over the 1st movement, but the 3rd movement is where it’s at…
BUT I do prefer Pathetique over Moonlight as a complete Sonata
I gotta tell ya. Moonlight 3rd movement vs anything by Liszt(with a couple of exceptions that most probably have never heard of) is like noob vs advanced when it comes to technical skill. I can pull off some shitty version of Fantasie Impromtu to impress laymen and noobs but Liszt is a different animal altogether.
My band used to cover this song, never played it live but shit got crazy when someone hit those first notes. The practice room would erupt.
Edit: the dying fetus version. Drums are way cooler.
Baest - a promising young death metal band from Denmark:
Used to wear a Dying Fetus hoodie to college. And a Goatwhore shirt. College people aren’t very open minded.
Popped up on my youtube suggestions:
Made me start listening to Jason Becker again. You wanna pick up sweep picking, this is the best song to learn:
If you can make it past 1:50, embrace the awesomeness that Jason Becker could pull off at 17:
TBH, I’m not a real fan of the “shred” genre, but this song… OMFG… copied and pasted url at the exact timing when shred music’s greatest moment, and one of the greatest metal music compositions(IMHO) begins:
Jason Becker’s songs aren’t the most technically challenging songs out there, but he had his own, distinct, unmistakable style of playing.
And to be clear, I’m not a fan of shredding fast or making shit complex just for the sake of it. Which is why I fucking hated Speed Metal Symphony and most of the songs on Cacophony.
I don’t care how technically accomplished a guitarist is as long as he’s a good composer, has his own “voice” and/or plays with emotional depth. And if you think being a highly technically accomplished guitarist somehow makes one unable to play with emotion when one chooses to, you’re a noob.
Yes, you’re gonna find some guys like John Petrucci trying to pull off a Pink Floyd solo and failing miserably. So what? If you’re touring and performing every fucking day playing the same shit for weeks to months on end, you don’t suddenly change your playing style out of the blue.
And you want to whine who’s got better technique and shit, no one can even come close to the late Shawn Lane so there’s no point in arguing about this topic.
Ha, it’s hilarious because the majority of people that criticize the imagery are the same people that are cool with naked people in music videos, or guns, or any other thing that gets overlooked in pop music.
Ha… Exactly. Their music is low brow garbage much like modern “country.” Appeals to simpletons.
The worst I’ve pulled off in an educational setting was an obituary shirt (slowly we rot). Had a few complaints so I didn’t wear it again.
Shouldn’t have been a big deal, it was school camp and I wore it as pyjamas.
That’s tame by certain comparison. Butchered at Birth by Cannibal Corpse, say
Agreed, but I’d never wear a cannibal corpse shirt in public IF I was trying to make friends. At that point I’d be setting a bad vibe “hey guys/gals… don’t talk to me. Look at the extremely graphic, antisocial imagery on my shirt”.
If you want to be left alone, go for it. Otherwise you’ll be scaring off potential contenders for friendship aside from the most hardcore of metalheads.
I approach people when I see them wearing cannibal corpse/extreme metal t-shirts as it is indicative we have similar music tastes. However people such as myself, particularly within the youth demographic are like one in a thousand. I’d rather conform and expose myself to the masses as opposed to shrinking my opportunities of interaction to that of a select minority.
That being said I am wearing a mayhem shirt today. There’s no graphic imagery on the clothing, the general public wouldn’t think twice. Those who know mayhem will think “yeet, cool… mayhem!”
Which logo ? I still have an old ass Transylvanian Hunger T. Used to have the original Goatwhore Jaeger goat t. Coolest design ever
That goatwhore shirt isn’t so bad. I thought you were referring to the really extreme shirts wherein there is gore/body parts and graphically violent sexual imagery strewn all over the place
This is the logo my mayhem t-shirt has. I’ve also got a burzum shirt. My orbiturary shirt looks like this
I don’t wear it in public, just casually around my house if no one else is over.
Burzum has cool logos but Varg is a dope. Mayhem has great logos. Check out Peste Noir.
They actually weren’t dopes, the lords of chaos film purportedly got that wrong. Varg/some of the initial founders of black metal were teetotallers. They didn’t believe in desecrating the body with intoxicants, licit or illicit in nature. For guys so hardcore/criminal I’m actually surprised they weren’t into drugs.
Black metal was formed as a method of rebellion against the conservative, heavily catholic based society present at the time in Norway. You’d think drug use would play a pivotal part in idiotic teenage antics.
Varg is a white supremacist, anti-semitic (anti religious but with a particular disdain towards jews), one could argue he is and was a far right extremist etc. He’s probably a sociopath and/or psychopath given his cavalier attitude towards what went down. He’s a fuckwit and arguably a horrible person, but def not a doper. If he was he’d be a hypocrite given the views he preaches.
