Like Black Sabbath, they saw value in the contrasting dynamics of loud and soft, dark and light. “Fade To Black,” which remains one of James Hetfield’s most moving lyrics, connected with young metalheads worldwide. Whereas other metal songs were more like watching horror or sci-fi movies...
As thrash’s “Stairway to Heaven,” the first Metallica power ballad is also one of metal’s all-time best. With lyrics about suicidal ideation contrasting with the music’s triumphant structure, “Fade to Black” opens with a graceful acoustic figure and gradually builds into two closing min...
Unlike more upbeat tracks like “Go Where You Wanna Go,” which deals with the freedom of making one’s own choices, “Glad To Be Unhappy” dwells on the darker, more introspective side of relationships. This ability to navigate contrasting emotional landscapes through their music is a testamen...
musical rhythm that, contrary to expectation (in view of the primary function of epic songs), is not achieved according to the dynamics of speech. The causes of such non-correspondence could be detected in the archaic links of epic songs with genres possessing characteristic rhythms of movement,...
There's straight ahead verse and chorus sections that features a specific picking pattern that make them uniquely identifiable. There's also a bridge that builds the dynamic with a contrasting time signature and arpeggiated feel. Learn all of this with Here Comes the Sun lyrics so you can ...
Not even a real song, as much as a nightmarish introduction for the ‘God Hates Us All’ album, contrasting chilling narrations against a suppressed maelstrom of thrashing and Araya cries, “Darkness of Christ” nevertheless sets the stage for Slayer’s ninth album with thought-provoking lyrics...
Blasphemy has been an effective attention grabber for centuries, but until 1981, heavy metal had never seen a band go as all-in on Satan as the three lads from Newcastle calling themselves Venom did. Contrasting with the forward-thinking innovation of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (a....
Contrasting the intro – the electronic hum of guitar strings aping lonely radio-waves – the dry beat seems like a barren vision of a lifeless soil. But what’s most alarming in Flegel’s vision is how readily humanity marches into this extinction, how even the last bit of mankind’s do...
ternary form: as song with 3-sections, where the first section returns at the end in exact form and the middle section is different or contrasting; designated as ABA. tessitura: the part of the register in which most of the tones of the melody or voice part lies triple: th...
Silence of the Lambs took the assumed morbidity and escalated it exponentially by contrasting an oblivious singalong with a gruesome fate. It portended doom for an unwitting Hillary Clinton during her failed 2008 campaign. And there’s arguably nothing more sinful than the umpteen covers of this ...