And Rock Begot Metal

(More real life distracting us......)

It was virtually impossible to take photographs of that four-band show, because of the glaring lights all around the stage.
 
A wonderful find! I'm pretty sure I previously mentioned a band called Sabbatar, whose front woman sings like a metal version of Pat Benatar. Not only is this a video of Sabbatar, but it was recorded last year at the SAME club where Wood Nymph and I saw the band this year.

 
Here's a cool digression.

Wood Nymph has remarked to me that, in both metal and rock, the bass guitar often fails to receive respect. But I've come upon a video featuring a really, REALLY high-class bass player named Charles Berthoud. Mister Berthoud invited other excellent performers to do a "Duelling Banjos" kind of thing with him. Most of the "opponents" also play bass guitar here, but other instruments were allowed. Watch the finger-work on the strings!

 
Now that my laptop has been repaired, here's a news report for the metal market. Somebody does a periodic video series about new bands to look for. I can't post here the video I saw, because at least one of the bands used naughty language. But I can tell you that the next wave of metal artists boasts considerable variety. One group called "Native Howl" (I didn't hear any naughty words from them) includes a BANJO player.
 
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This music is labelled as a form of metal music. In any case, I enjoyed it, and I pray that the artist survives the impending conquest of Taiwan. Same goes for the Shen Yun dance troupe.

 
A while back, I told of seeing a collection video introducing numerous new metal bands. I didn't link the video, because it contained some of those icky words; but I mentioned that one band actually had a BANJO player.

This band is called "As The Structure Fails." Finding a video just of them, I played it all through. As far as I can discern, there is not even one icky word in the song; neither is there any suggestion that the hearers of the song should commit any violent actions. And, for part of the song, the drummer beats his drums with ears of corn!

There is a "Do Not Try This At Home." One of the band members donned the kind of un-burnable suit used by movie stuntmen, and set himself on fire. DEFINITELY do not attempt this. { Note: in that earlier post, I said the band was called Native Howl. But that seems rather to have been a song title. }

 
NOTE CONCERNING THE ABOVE: links for unrelated videos, coming up after Wood Nymph's musical-cliches video, appear there by YOUTUBE'S choice, not by any action or intention of Wood Nymph's. She is NOT endorsing any such follow-ons.
 
If you hear or see references to "black" metal, this is not about the skin pigment of the artists. It means "black" like scary, depressing, grim, angry, harsh, pessimistic. I came upon a sampler video of "black" metal bands based in Kenya, but one of the bands was all white guys. Most of the vocals, logically enough, were in African languages.

I am leaving that video unlinked: not because I heard any naughty words in it, but simply because the melodies indeed sounded VERY unhappy and angry. This does not prove all of the musicians to be wicked men. Black metal CAN be guilty of actually favoring evil, but this is not an invariable certainty. One group, in fact, was introduced as a Christian band.

Not all Christian singers are called by God to be nothing but happy-wappy all the time. They can inwardly rejoice in the Lord, yet be called in their public persona to "grieve with those who grieve"-- to empathize with souls who are too deeply wounded to be helped by a forced cheerfulness. Such souls will even be INSULTED by forced cheerfulness, because it refuses to take their pain seriously.
 
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