And Rock Begot Metal

Everybody has heard a musical medley. The overtures of classical operas and Broadway shows ARE medleys. You might play one of the melodies for twenty seconds, another melody for fifty seconds, another for thirty seconds, and so on. But only recently has modern media technology allowed a refinement of medleys. Now, you can weave two different songs very closely together, and this is called mashup. here are some examples of mashups.

 
Copperfox said:
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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Hitting the mark, Copperfox, just like I remember in the good old days. It's all about expressing emotion, and emotion is not joyfull all the time. Some times, emotions are aweful. Thank you brother for explaining.
 
There is a meme-picture which has been in circulation for several years on social media. It shows a group of nuns holding rifles. On all occasions when I've seen this photo, it was never being used to suggest that nuns were bad people. Rather, it was mostly used in humorous-yet-serious posts, to suggest a readiness to FIGHT AGAINST evil. I say all this, because the band linked here features a T-shirt bearing the nun picture. Wood Nymph and I never heard of this band before today, but she describes their sound as melodious metal.

And I did not hear any naughty words.

 
As a reminder that metal music is not confined to the English-speaking world: early this December, there will be a BIG metal festival in the capital city of Mexico.
 
Not only Mexico. A Youtube content creator calling himself Crazy Flako Metal compiled a video of the ten best metal bands in Argentina. I can't post it here, because a naughty word appeared in one picture.
 
The famous metal artist known as Dio decorated one of his album covers with a picture of a priest being thrown into the sea to drown. But this was not intended to express an overall hostility to Christianity on his part. Rather, there had been ONE particular priest in his past who did him harm. And persons who have met him say Dio is a friendly, likeable fellow.

For a bit of trivia, Dio has worked with Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple.

 
Since the really big rock and metal bands are NOT home-based in the flyover state of Colorado, plenty of TRIBUTE bands flourish here. We may have previously mentioned one such "cover" band: Cryptic Writings, which pays homage to Megadeth. We have become personal friends with the members of Cryptic Writings, and saw them again last night at a club called Herman's Hideaway. Group Leader Phoenix Rose used to work as a train driver for a railroad!

Sharing the evening with our pals were Motahead, which covers M-O-T-O-R-head; and Damage Incorporated, which covers Metallica. It's a small club, but the sixty or so patrons were enthusiastic for all three bands. Expect Wood Nymph to relate more about the event.
 
Returning to the subject of metal bands ELSEWHERE than Britain and the United States:

I decided to search for bands in Argentina. (Dancing Lawn has formerly had at least one member living in that country.) YouTube gave me a stack of music videos. All but one of these were SPECIFICALLY LABELED as metal music. The one which was not so labeled caught my attention. Surely the YouTube staff knows the types of music?

Wood Nymph now tells me that this band "The Warning" is properly rock, not metal-- but that it's CLOSE TO being metal. And as far as I can make out, it uses no naughty words. Therefore......

 
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