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 Posted 21-09-2007 17:19 by Stoerbaard |
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Post-metal is a music genre, a mixture between the genres of post-rock and heavy metal, with roots in progressive rock and industrial music. It is broadly characterized by distorted guitar, heavy atmospherics, gradual evolution of song structure, and a minimal emphasis on vocals.
Hydrahead Records owner and Isis frontman Aaron Turner originally termed the genre "thinking man's metal", demonstrating the link with art metal and the avant garde, by trying to move away from common metal conventions[1]. "Post-metal" is the favored name for a growing genre, one also referred to as "instro-metal",[2] "postcore", art metal,[1] and a great range of others.
The term "post-metal" was earlier used in the UK to describe another emergent genre of metal, at which time the genre now knows as "post-metal" was referred to by various other names, most commonly "industrial soundscape music" and "soundscape metal". The term largely fell out of use with the rise of what was known as "post-metal" in the US, effectively seconding the term from the British bands.
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Characteristics
Cover art to Isis' post-metal album PanopticonThe simplest way to define post-metal is as a mix of post-rock and metal. This indicates the interplay of light and dark - taking the distorted guitars and guttural vocals of metal and post-hardcore and setting that against the clean instrumentalism of post-rock. Pieces tend to be at a slow- to mid-tempo, focusing on chord changes and barrages of sound rather than lead guitar riffing and shredding, and usually eschewing guitar solos. Post-metal tends not to feature the discordance present in much of modern hardcore; a feature present in music by contemporaries such as Converge and Dillinger Escape Plan.
Van Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-metal
[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Stoerbaard op 21-09-2007 17:22]
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