I'm sick of those keyboards that sound like children's toys, why don't bands use more piano? It sounds great and adds a lot of depth to the music, listen to Evergrey or Savatage.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
Metal bands don't use piano often enough
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jonnykungfu
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I was actually thinking that it would be interesting if some brutal death bands experimented with more instruments, such as piano, saxophone, trumpet, flute, etc. But used in a dissonant way. I have some grind songs that I wrote that incorporate piano, but I think it would be interesting to hear a wide array of instruments in some brutal music. Maybe I'm wrong.
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what does a piano have to do with metal? some bands can get away with that i guess. true metal was designed to get away from ancient instruments. lets bang our head to a flute! mabye fags or jethro tull. save the planet, kill yourself.
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as a norweigian man who likes cheese, i would rather agree with that. norweigian cheese is rather good.
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Yes, a lot of bands do use different instruments as a gimmick, which is shitty.
But imagine a really kick ass free jazz solo over some brutal death (think John Zorn). Wouldn't that kick ass? I'm sure it's been done before (you could argue about Painkiller I guess), but it hasn't been really explored very deeply in a non-gimmicky way.
But imagine a really kick ass free jazz solo over some brutal death (think John Zorn). Wouldn't that kick ass? I'm sure it's been done before (you could argue about Painkiller I guess), but it hasn't been really explored very deeply in a non-gimmicky way.
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I agree with ya, I thought the same thing. There is a weird band called Mental Horror and I like it quite a lot. Extremely fast brutal death metal drumming with the occassional acoustic guitar section. Great atmosphere. Do you know a band called Virulence? They play brutal death/grind and they use some jazz influences and piano too I think. Also, the acoustic parts in certain Cryptopsy's tracks are sheer beauty, I want more of that please.jonnykungfu said:
And the last thing, I once heard a track from a band called Aggressor, you might like it. "Medieval" brutal death.
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You should check out The painter's palette by Ephel Duath. It mixes death metal elements with jazz structures/solos, in fact I think two of the band members are fully trained jazz musicians.
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If bands integrate them effectively into good compositions, rather than using them to hide their lack of quality or make themselves seem 'original' on the surface, I'm all ears.
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for some great non gimicky piano passages check out "helping the world to see" by vehemence, takes a couple of listens, but man this album rips!
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Yeah Bjorn did some 2 fingered shit, jk, yeah Jason had a whole keyboard part for that song as you may have heard it live but yeah it got x'ed and we went simple with it.
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