Thrash Metal

Thrash metal (sometimes shortened to thrash), is an extreme metal subgenre of heavy metal, characterized by having a fast tempo and aggressive. Thrash metal songs typically use low stem tone guitar and percussion that fast.  

The lyrics of thrash metal is often the theme of social problems using offensive language and deep, an approach most similar to the hardcore genre. Band "Big Four" or the "Big Four" thrash metal are Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, and Slayer, who is jointly and popularizing the genre in the early 1980's. Others say no longer "Big Four" but a "Big Five" Megadeth, Slayer, Exodus, Pantera, and Metallica.   

In Europe the style was brought by three bands from Germany, namely Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction. Testament and Exodus from San Francisco, New Jersey and Overkill from Sepultura from Brazil.

The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970's and early 1980's, when some bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, creating a new genre and developing into its own separate movement from punk rock and hardcore .  

The genre is more aggressive than the speed metal. Often mixed metal from one category to the other metal, and there are also some bands that combine musical influences from non-metal genre.


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Indonesian Death metal

Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that evolved from thrash metal in the early 1980s. [1] Some of his trademark song is the theme of violence or death, low rhythm guitar (downtuned rhythm guitars), rapid percussion, and dynamic intensity. Vocals are usually sung by grunt (grunt death) or growling death (death growl). Singing techniques as is also often called "Cookie Monster vocals".

Some of the pioneers of this genre is the album Venom Welcome to Hell (1981) and Death to the album Scream Bloody Gore (1987). Death metal then developed further by bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Entombed, God Macabre, Carnage, and Grave.

Then 2000'an era, Death Metal is growing very rapidly. Many bands dropout death metal flow into the reformer in metal music. Bands include Inhuman Dissiliency, disavowed, Viraemia, Hiroshima Will Burn, Amon Amarth, Inveracity, The Berzeker, Dying Fetus, Condemned, and much more.

In Indonesia, the genre begins its motion and development in the 1990's with the thrash metal band Rotor in Jakarta. Indonesia Death Metal major movement comes from the initiative by Grindcore band from Malang, Rotten Corpse, who worked for the first time (which is unknown) Death Metal music. The appearance and the game would Rotten Corpse Death Metal is a sign of the birth of a new musical individual, called Death Metal. Some other Death Metal bands pioneer in other areas, such as the Trauma of Jakarta, Insanity and Hallucination from Bandung, Death Vomit from Jogjakarta, Slow Death of Surabaya, Murder of Boyolali then developed with bands that are considered as a senior because of their experiences as : Disinfected, suck, Plasmoptysis, body of Bandung, Torture Tomb, Funeral Inception of Jakarta, Cranial Incisored Yogyakarta, Semarang Grind Buto. Abysal.Blast Torment of Padang, Total Damage from Bukittinggi, and Hell Corpse of Batam, DeathSounD from Pontianak, Chain 86 Tegal

Death Metal music development in Indonesia has developed very well. Among terusulkannya a central forum of lovers Indonesia Death Metal, Death Metal forum called Indonesia, the Indonesian called Death Metal or abbreviated IDDM. Then also appeared Indogrind.net, staynocase, and others. Currently, new bands Death Metal will voiced 'sounds death "metal event. Death Metal bands in Indonesia now include Death Sound, Asphyxiate, Bleeding Corpse, Death Vomit, Internal Darkness, Destruction, Kill Harmonic, Grind Buto, Infected Voice, Brain Ass, Hatestroke, Sickmath and so on.

Indonesia Death Metal Developments after the creation of IDDM, is an indication and the inauguration of Death Metal communities throughout Indonesia to go on public or show themselves to the public respectively. As at present, a lot of Death Metal Indonesian community groups in their respective areas are already showing themselves on the Internet. Communities are still part of the Indonesian Death Metal / IDDM. IDDM is one of the web interface as the place to exchange ideas and aspirations to media for advertising / promotional albums and merchandise. These communities include Death Metal Force Malang, Bandung Death Metal, Bekasi horde! Death Metal, Jogjakarta Corpse Grinder, Pontianak MetalForce, Magelang Death Metal Militia, Sukoharjo Death Metal, Death Metal Semarang, Bali to Dublin Death Metal Death Metal and many more communities across Indonesia.

Some death metal subgenre:

• Technical death metal - Death Metal were developed with diatonic tones, is an outgrowth of Death Metal music to the more complex. Often associated as a merger between death metal with progressive rock and jazz fusion.
• Melodic death metal - heavy metal mixed with some elements of death metal, such as death growl and blastbeat
• Progressive death metal - a combination of death metal and progressive metal
• Brutal death metal - Brutal Death Metal is an outgrowth of Death Metal itself. Brutal Death Metal is one of the developments that managed to generate growth again in the Death Metal genre. Brutal Death Metal slamming-Gore produce Brutal Death Metal, slamming-Groove Technical Brutal Death Metal, Goregrind slamming, as PALASIK of bukittinggi.
• Deathcore - a mix of metalcore / groove metal with death metal, death metal is a genre that more lead to Post Hardcore music.
• Death / Doom - a mix between doom metal and death metal
• Blackened death metal - Blackened Death Metal are the proposals made by the Death Metal bands who want to combine elements of black metal back to Death Metal as it did in the First Era of Death Metal, Death Metal where they smelled odors Black Metal.

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BLACK SABBATH In the Recording Studio

Almost a year after announcing their reunion, Black Sabbath are hard at work in the studio working on their first new album with Ozzy in 33+ years at Shangri La Studios in Malibu and we have some exclusive info on the progress.

My buddy (and fellow SiriusXM Liquid Metal DJ) Jose Mangin went down to the studio to record audio snippets for Ozzy's SiriusXM channel, Ozzy's Boneyard, and was accompanied by RockMyWalls.com photographer, Sonny Guillen. Sonny was nice enough to give us a few tidbits of information about the status of the new album.

The band is currently in the studio recording vocals with Rick Rubin. There are 15 songs that have been written, and according to Geezer Butler, 12 of them will make the record, most likely with the additional three serving as bonus tracks for different special editions.

Apparently, guitarist Tony Iommi completed all 15 guitar tracks during the band's sessions in England earlier this year, and judging by the way most bands record, that would mean drums are done as well. Ozzy and Geezer are working to complete the tracks in five song increments, with the first five being worked on currently.

Ozzy is tracking vocals, with bassist Geezer Butler writing all the lyrics. One song title has been confirmed and it's "God Is Dead."

As for guitarist Tony Iommi, Ozzy mentioned that he spoke to Iommi recently and he is in good sprits and recovery is coming along very well from his cancer scare earlier this year.


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Valkyre

Valkyre is a symphonic gothic metal band from Belgium and France. They are still unsigned, with only 2 demos out: "Consolamentum" and "On Both Sides We Pray." Unfortunately, it is hard to find most their music, as there are only three recordings available on their Myspace.

I was really struck by their song, "A Good Day to Die," which combines celtic folk elements with symphonic keyboard patches and violin-guitar harmonies.

The violin parts are very melodic, provide great harmonies and a folky magical feel to their music. Their music is very energetic and enchanting, with a powerful female singer and intriguing synth sounds.

 The violinist is Cid Jimenez, who joined the band in 2007 and worked on "Consolamentum" with them. Before him, the violinist was Joris Derder. They have both used an acoustic live at one point, but Cid also has an electric S-shaped violin (Shar?). They have consistent violins, they are on all three of the songs on their myspace. Give them a listen!
Great sound, and great potential!

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Chthonic

The first time I heard of Chthonic was when I saw them at Ozzfest in 2007. After seeing that they had an erhu (a Chinese 2-string violin), that they were from Taipei, Taiwan, and that they fought for human rights and Taiwanese independence from China, I have never forgotten them. 

They are a driven and impressive group - they were the first asian metal band ever to play at Ozzfest, they have been banned in parts of China for their political views, and they have also met with the Dalai Lama as a part of their human rights endeavors. Even though their music is more brutal than stuff I normally listen to, I am a sucker for bands with political motives, girl musicians, and ethnic instruments. It didn't hurt, too, that I am half-Taiwanese. They have very interesting corpse paint, which they call "ghost paint," (not pictured above) which actually corresponds to symbols and curses in Chinese mythology. They are a band which has a deep concept behind their musics, which is something I really appreciate.
 

They consider themselves an extreme metal band because their lyrics don't really fit into the black metal scene, but musically they have a very black metal sound. They utilize high screams, low grunts, fast tempos, eerie keyboard sounds and sometimes haunting choirs and female vocals. They even incorporate some thrash influences on their newest album, Mirror of Retribution. As far as lyrics go, they sing about oriental mythology of the underworld, ghost stories, tragedies, and the oppression and colonialism of Taiwan. (A word of warning, their lyrics can be very brutal)
 

Now, I don't know much about the erhu except that it's awesome. Chthonic used to have an erhu player named Su-Nung (pictured), but he left in 2009 and now the erhu is played by singer Freddy Lim. In their music, the erhu plays mournful melodies behind the heavy guitars and screaming, and sometimes plays traditional folk tunes.
While this is not a violin, I feel like the erhu melodies could be easily adapted on the violin. It's also a unique style of playing, and a good reference for metal violinists who are looking to add an asian feel to their music.

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Crimfall

Crimfall is folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland. Their music is very epic - can I emphasize that again? Very. Epic. Finland doesn't disappoint when it comes to folk metal, and Crimfall is no exception. 

Their music generally features melodies reminiscent of Finnish folk music and lyrics about vikings, but sometimes their music can even have an ethnic middle-eastern feel to it. Their dense keyboard orchestration and heavy guitars provide for a powerful sound, and the male and female vocalists provide for a nice contrast. Although the male/female singer lineup occurs quite frequently in metal, I feel like their male grunter/female operatic singer offset is exceptionally well done and stands out from the rest.

The official band consists of the two singers, a guitarist/keyboardist, drums and bass, while their session musicians on the album include violin, cello, and accordion. The guitarist also plays "other weird instruments," and I'm not entirely sure what that entails, but I do know it includes the jaw harp!
Crimfall is still a fairly new band - they only have one album out right now, As the Path Unfolds..., which was released in 2009. 


Official Site: www.crimfall.com

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