Perfect Element
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Even though you lost all respect you possibly could have gained by admitting to owning a Linkin Park album, I think you have some pretty good points here.ariande said:[Speaking in generalisations here]
May I point out to all the metal fans on here, that metal is derived from classical Baroque music. Listen to a metal riff, take out the distortion and compare it to a Baroque song. I think you will be pleasantly [or unpleasantly - depending on whether you're trying to infuriate your parents or not *rolls eyes*] surprised.
The actual metal genre, coming from bands like Metallica, was supposed to be music that was harder, angrier, and yet accepted by people. That's why there was an emphasis on Baroque themes in the style of music.
I'm going to just assume that I will have people flaming me for comparing metal to classical... Might I point out that I too, listen to metal.
But, not entirely correct.
I suppose you could compare the riffs of some of the metal that's founded in neoclassical roots to Baroque - the likes of power metal most obviously, but also metallica-esque type stuff. Also I guess the guitar polyphonies of bands like Opeth and some others could be considered similar to Baroque polyphony.
I tend to find the more 'artistic' (at risk of being called an elitest fucktard, fucking morons.) metal has more similarities to Romantic period music, 20th century serialism and to Jazz.
The use of the powerchord and the octaves mean that it is much more thematically centered rather than chord progression based (as you'll see in Baroque music, with the exception of fugal type pieces).
Depends what genre of metal you mean I guess, I can listen to Weakling's "Dead as Dreams" (best black/extreme metal song EVER by the way) and hear some definate baroque influence, likewise with Emperor's "Empty", but for the most part I hear Romantic, Serialist and Jazz more than I hear Baroque/classical.
Addendum: If anyone dares point out that I first stated you were incorrect and then was only able to provide examples that further your statement I will be most displeased.
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