What else is going on in the music composition so that your themes melodies, motifs, riffs and sometimes in your baseline will have the main focus. Now we can accomplish these in several ways, the first being dynamic levels so you do not increased them too high but actually make them...
The Devil Wears Prada helped build up metalcore’s scene identity, only to summarily burn it all down withDead Throne.From its Dan Seagrave illustrated cover to its dark production,Dead Throneshows how serious the band was about their songwriting and their desire to write one of the darkest a...
(ZEV1) drum module with acoustic drum shells, the ALCHEM-E system delivers the look, feel and response of the best acoustic kits with the virtually limitless possibilities of electronic drums. The metal E-FAMILY cymbals are three-zone (bell, bow and edge) and feature 360° triggering, along...
Perry is the sole songwriter/producer of "Beautiful," which is not only one of Aguilera's biggest hits to date, but one of the biggest self-acceptance anthems of her generation. And though Aguilera didn't write the song, she knew it fit perfectly within t...
The grim and frostbitten kings took a relentless approach to their evolving black metal style on ‘Pure Holocaust,’ assaulting the genre with “The Sun No Longer Rises” and the indomitable riffs found in “Unsilent Storms in the North Abyss” and “As the Eternity Opens.” Frontman Abbath...
The patchwork songwriting approach that Metallica took on ‘St. Anger’ was never going to result in a classic album, but it was the band’s inability to effectively self-edit that really did the damage. “Invisible Kid” has some cool riffs and a decent hook or two, but at eight minute...
“Except during the writing process, we noticed that the riffs weren’t amping up into metallic sections—and everyone was okay with it,” he says. “It wouldn’t have made sense to make a different record, or it would have been very ham-fisted.” After a conversation among members ...
The company’s current high-profile effort in that arena is the xServe, a sleek metal computer meant to handle the file-sharing needs of a small or medium business. While beautifully designed in the way that all of Apple’s products are, the xServe screams to the world of business that ...
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more heartbreaking Christmas story than thisTom Waits' masterpiece from 1978'sBlue Valentine. "Charlie, I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street," begins the Christmas card narrative in which a woman writes to an old flame, reporting how much better things ...
Bypassing the urge to write new material on their rocking Christmas album, 2006'sA Twisted Christmas, Twister Sister instead took the most recognizable holiday classics in the book and made them faster, louder and more aggressive. The result — which, to date, equate to the group's seventh ...