During the height of the musical revolution of the 60`s some of the greatest musical innovators of the time created music that used complex harmonies and arrangements to provoke emotional outlets in the audience. Two of the most important releases that was part of this trend was "The Beatles - Rubber Soul" (1965) and "Beach Boys - Pet Sounds" (1966). This was part of much of both the mainstream and underground music for the rest of the decade, until members of the group King Crimson brought it to true life with the releases "In the Court of the Crimson King" (1969) and "McDonald and Giles" (1971) and progressive rock was born.
The bands that followed this trend were the ones to take the rock music to new levels of artistic credibility and passion through the first half of the decade to come. By the mid-'70s, a backlash was beginning to set in; prog-rock sometimes mistook bombast for majesty, and its far-reaching ambition and concern with artistic legitimacy could make for overblown, pretentious music. Its heyday soon came to an end with the advent of punk, which explicitly repudiated prog's excesses and aimed to return rock & roll to its immediate.
Not much truly innovative music of any kind was made during the 80`s. The alternative rock evolving into more and more extreme metal, and the commercial pop degenerating into simpler and simpler music, until passion and creativity was almost lost, and replaced with lust for money, simplicity and sex-appeal.
Death Metal grew out of the thrash metal in the late '80s. Taking the gritty lyrics and morbid obsessions of thrash to extremes, death metal was — as its name suggests — solely about death, pain, and suffering. These relentlessly bleak lyrics were set to loud, heavy riffs that owed as much to the lumbering metal of Black Sabbath as it did to Metallica. By this time the metal had been taken too such extremes that even most of the underground musicians saw that there was little point in hitting their instruments any faster, and set to work making metal more melodic and complex. Opeth was one of these bands.
In 1999 Opeth released their 4th observation, called "Still Life", a formidable splicing of harsh, often jagged guitar riffs with graceful melodies that was equally a product of their death metal roots and the progressive rock of the early- and mid -70`s. With this release they introduced to the world a formidable mixture of the sheer intensity of death metal and the passion of the early prog-rock, that was bound to cause an incredible flow of emotions in anyone able to sit down and truly listen to the music. The unique Opeth - sound was born, and they have been striving ever since to take this sound closer to perfection. With the release of Deliverance\Damnation in 2002\2003 they created a gateway for the fans of death metal to the the world of prog-rock and vice versa, thus helping many people on the way to experience the true passion of their unique sound. Opeth is without a doubt the one truly innovative metal act of the new millenium.
In 2003 Farmakon released their debut "A Warm Glimpse", and they were the first band to absorb the opeth-sound and make it their own. They planted groove, funk, jazz and weird noises in their music, thus creating something that would be embraced and loved by the fans that sought the flow of emotions that Opeth gave them, and at the same time loathed by the "mainstream" metal community for the strangeness of the music.
Other bands are bound to show up and rock the metal scene in the the time to come, introducing us to an era of innovation not seen since the early 70`s
A Musical Revolution is at hand
It began in 1999
The bands that followed this trend were the ones to take the rock music to new levels of artistic credibility and passion through the first half of the decade to come. By the mid-'70s, a backlash was beginning to set in; prog-rock sometimes mistook bombast for majesty, and its far-reaching ambition and concern with artistic legitimacy could make for overblown, pretentious music. Its heyday soon came to an end with the advent of punk, which explicitly repudiated prog's excesses and aimed to return rock & roll to its immediate.
Not much truly innovative music of any kind was made during the 80`s. The alternative rock evolving into more and more extreme metal, and the commercial pop degenerating into simpler and simpler music, until passion and creativity was almost lost, and replaced with lust for money, simplicity and sex-appeal.
Death Metal grew out of the thrash metal in the late '80s. Taking the gritty lyrics and morbid obsessions of thrash to extremes, death metal was — as its name suggests — solely about death, pain, and suffering. These relentlessly bleak lyrics were set to loud, heavy riffs that owed as much to the lumbering metal of Black Sabbath as it did to Metallica. By this time the metal had been taken too such extremes that even most of the underground musicians saw that there was little point in hitting their instruments any faster, and set to work making metal more melodic and complex. Opeth was one of these bands.
In 1999 Opeth released their 4th observation, called "Still Life", a formidable splicing of harsh, often jagged guitar riffs with graceful melodies that was equally a product of their death metal roots and the progressive rock of the early- and mid -70`s. With this release they introduced to the world a formidable mixture of the sheer intensity of death metal and the passion of the early prog-rock, that was bound to cause an incredible flow of emotions in anyone able to sit down and truly listen to the music. The unique Opeth - sound was born, and they have been striving ever since to take this sound closer to perfection. With the release of Deliverance\Damnation in 2002\2003 they created a gateway for the fans of death metal to the the world of prog-rock and vice versa, thus helping many people on the way to experience the true passion of their unique sound. Opeth is without a doubt the one truly innovative metal act of the new millenium.
In 2003 Farmakon released their debut "A Warm Glimpse", and they were the first band to absorb the opeth-sound and make it their own. They planted groove, funk, jazz and weird noises in their music, thus creating something that would be embraced and loved by the fans that sought the flow of emotions that Opeth gave them, and at the same time loathed by the "mainstream" metal community for the strangeness of the music.
Other bands are bound to show up and rock the metal scene in the the time to come, introducing us to an era of innovation not seen since the early 70`s
A Musical Revolution is at hand
It began in 1999
it will be quite the "revolution"
