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Today's entry (and tomorrow's, really) goes towards a more traditional metal style. This is a band I just found about a month ago and their latest album, Black Lotus is killer from beginning to end.
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This is a newer band that I came across last year when I picked up their second release, Herons on a whim and I loved it. Metal-archives describes them as gothic/folk metal. It seems like having a female lead singer gets that gothic tag automatically stuck on, even though this sounds more like a traditional metal style with folk elements (mostly in the vocal work). But anyway, that doesn't even really matter as long as the music is good.
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Today's video takes a decidedly different direction. Arch Enemy is a long standing, pioneering death metal band. In 2000, they brought in Angela Gossow to do vocals and it worked, with the band becoming as popular as ever over the past 14 years.
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There was lot of crap that happened in 2014 related to domestic violence/harassment of women. When I sent in my letter for the end of the year Friday Music Day, I realized I had purchased a lot of music from female-fronted bands. Heavy metal has always been, and will probably always be, heavily skewing towards males, but it is starting to get much more diverse, gender-wise, these days. So, with all of the crap that happened last year, I thought I'd spend a week celebrating what that type of diversity can bring to music like this.
Up first is Nightwish, who basically made symphonic metal with a classically trained vocalist a thing.
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I know that this may seem like an easy out for the video of the day, but I'd never really listened to this speech. On the day that most* of us take off from work to celebrate the birth of MLK, I think it's only right to listen to his words, and to examine our relationship to injustice and prejudice. Today is a day to reflect, and a day to challenge long held beliefs, in an effort to effect positive change in our world through nonviolent intervention.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
If only we could all find a way to channel our feelings of injustice, of inequity, into such a positive, non-violent action for change.
*I work for an institution that believes MLK day isn't actually a holiday. I'm afforded two days off for Mardi Gras. Draw your own conclusions.
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1966
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1972
(2 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... These kids are long overdue their spot on the .org's front page.
Hmm, that venue looks familiar...
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I don't know how long it's been since we played some T. Rex, but it's that kind of day. Yeah, baby.
(4 votes, average: 9.25 out of 10)Loading... Album sales must not be great. I mean, just look at the condition of the drummer's cymbal.
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2011
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