Metal Presentation

[Hell Awaits Us All]

I'm speaking about mainstream music and the stuff on MTV. Like pop, rap and emo. There is stuff I like other then metal but popular music today is horrible expect a couple of bands.

I would still take out that whole paragraph

you don't want to offend people while doing a speech like this that is aimed to inform

overall the speech is not bad, but you might also want to better organize/structure your sentences so they flow better. Seems like some of your thoughts are all over the place. I would suggest better explaining death and extreme metal in general. why death metal bands grunt and growl (that it's a extension of thrash which has very harsh "clean vocals", and those very harsh clean vocals eventually evolved into the death metal vox that we see today). Also talk about the phenomenal musicianship of bands like suffocation, necrophagist, and atheist, which play very complex music at blazing speeds often times. Also make sure to include insight into the actual bands, and that they are hardworking, very reasonable, and pretty "normal" guys who are very passionate about the music (and it is just entertainment anyways<<< talking about death metal, I dunno about black metal)

edit: going along with byrne's idea, I would suggest getting a song by opeth so that you can destroy their misconceptions of what metal is about

 

[Hatebreeder]

If it were me, I would play music from EVERY subgenre just so the people could get to see the "ugly" side of metal, too, so they don't listen to it on their own and automatically disregard it because they don't see anything musical in it.

 

[Antechrist]

For school we have to do a presentation on the something that means alot to us. We have to present it orally but can use props. I chose metal and finished my speech part but I can't decide what to use as a prop, visual aid, model etc. Any suggestions?

A Marshall full-stack, and a Gibson SG, along with full-sized figurines of Black Sabbath.

Just kidding.

Powerpoint would be your best bet. I know it's overused and everything, but for good reason. Best way to make a presentation that's not too flashy and is easy to do.

 

[hibernal_dream]

Pick a single song, or part thereof, and play it several times, intersecting with pauses to explain certain aspects of the music. Ask the audience what they think too, and develop your point Socratic style. They're what, 15 years old? No problem.

 

[CttN]

I bet that everyone on this board ever made an oral presentation about something related to metal...

I did one in my german class about die apokalyptischen reiter (the band had to have some german lyrics).

I did an impromptu speech on power metal the other day =/

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I'm actually hugely surprised that people are being nice to this guy...usually with threads like thus, you guys get all angry or post silly things! I can't tell if this is a good or a bad thing, though.

 

[skeptik]

If you could play the music, that would be the best option obviously.

This got me thinking back to highschool. It seemed like every year I would do a presentation on Metal or Metal-related. In my senior year, we had to do a group project, and I think our category was alienation and violence in media or something like that, so one person took film, one person took literature, and of course I took music. As I walked up to the podium to give my speech, I had the intro to Angel of Death playing. Araya screams, the song fades into the background: "Violence. Death. Loss. Despair. Acts and emotions inherently intertwined within the..."

 

[cookiecutter]

I'm actually hugely surprised that people are being nice to this guy...usually with threads like thus, you guys get all angry or post silly things! I can't tell if this is a good or a bad thing, though.

We're going soft.

This got me thinking back to highschool. It seemed like every year I would do a presentation on Metal or Metal-related. In my senior year, we had to do a group project, and I think our category was alienation and violence in media or something like that, so one person took film, one person took literature, and of course I took music. As I walked up to the podium to give my speech, I had the intro to Angel of Death playing. Araya screams, the song fades into the background: "Violence. Death. Loss. Despair. Acts and emotions inherently intertwined within the..."

. I presented a soundtrack I did for a book earlier this year and played some Bolt Thrower, Naglfar, and Kataklysm.

 

[CF87]

For school we have to do a presentation on the something that means alot to us. We have to present it orally but can use props. I chose metal and finished my speech part but I can't decide what to use as a prop, visual aid, model etc. Any suggestions?

Make a hand out of clay with the middle finger standing up, this is what metal is about!

THE BIRD

FUCK YOU!

 

[jimmybob123]

Ok thanks. I think I'll go with playing some metal for them.
I'll probably play 1 black, death, thrash, power and doom metal song then an Opeth song to show them that even one band or song can be so varied within metal.

 

[jimmybob123]

After reading over my speech I did realize that it was kind of scattered and sticking in random points. I added some things and took out some things. I also reorganized it as best I could. So heres the new edited version; tell me what you think.

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Metal developed between 1968 and 1974, it&#8217;s main influences are rock, blues, punk and classical. Bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple influenced and started the genre with their hard rock sounds consisting of distorted and fast guitar riffs, heavy drums, unique bass and screaming vocals. Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Metallica advanced the genre and made it more popular in the 80s. Although it has never been considered a mainstream or popular genre; metal has millions of fans worldwide usually referred to as &#8220;headbangers&#8221; or &#8220;metalheads.&#8221; The origin of the term heavy metal is unknown. Some believe it began as hippie slang then became the official term for the new genre. It&#8217;s believed to have started sometime in the early 1970s and possibly the late 1960s. North America and Europe are the main contributors to metal. Particularly Britain and Scandinavia of Europe.


The common line-up for a metal band is a lead singer, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bassist and drummer. Sometimes a keyboard player or even another guitarist is added to the roster. Heavy metal is usually dominated by a strong guitar and drum sound. Lyrical themes often include death, religion, fiction, poetry, fantasy, drugs, and mythology. There are many sub-genres of metal, some popular some underground. But all with distinct sounds and styles.


Many stereotype metal fans as dumb drug addicts who are always angry. But they don&#8217;t know metal or even listen to it. People will hear one metal song and figure every other one is like that. But that&#8217;s completely wrong, out of all the genres I know and listen to metal is definitely the most varied and unique. Yes there are brutal songs with growls and very heavy instruments. But there is also metal with clean vocals and melodic guitar riffs. Metal is very diverse and people shouldn&#8217;t judge it before they know it. Most assume that metal is just noise and lacks talent, but the music itself is usually very complicated and skillful. For the vocals, many think that screaming or growling isn&#8217;t real music, when it actually takes much talent and practice. Besides, many of the vocalists who do scream or growl, can sing quite well. Every band and genre have distinct sounds and explore different elements of music. Metal can reflect different lifestyles and different people. For example, many metal bands love classical and use it in their music, yet the social status and image that classical and metal fans portray are completely opposite.


Black Sabbath basically created the genre in 1969 with their heavy, doom sound. But many hard rock bands influenced the movement like AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix and Van Halen. Bands such as Megadeth and Motorhead brought metal out of the underground and furthered the development of the genre. Throughout the 70&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s metal flourished and many bands started dedicating themselves to playing the music. At this time, metal was really just like hard rock but a bit heavier and with varying lyrical themes.
In the 1990&#8217;s metal became very underground and loads of sub-genres came to be. Black, Death, Doom, Folk, Glam, Gothic, Groove, Power, Progressive, Speed and Thrash just to name a few of them. This is when metal became more extreme and unique. Many bands and genres gained underground, cult statuses and remained unpopular. They were more about the music than the money. Many metal bands like Suffocation, Necrophagist and Atheist have fantastic musicianship as well as very technical music. In reality many of the musicians are hardworking, dedicated, reasonable and very passionate about the music.



The 5 main sub-genres of metal are Death, Black, Thrash, Doom and Power. Each with a very distinct sound and style. Death metal formed in the early 1990&#8217;s with bands like Morbid Angel and Death. It usually consists of growling and grunts for vocals discussing about dark or violent subjects, fast, heavy and distorted guitars, brutal drum beats and a down tuned bass. Some bands of the genre such as Opeth explore other genres like jazz and acoustic. Death metal is a diverse genre in itself and can be melodic, technical or simple. Black metal is an extreme style of metal that began in Scandinavia in the late 1980s. Black metal is an underground, cult genre with themes usually speaking of death and religion. Bathory and Mercyful Fate were some of the first to play it. It usually has a high pitched, raspy, shriek singing style meant to resemble torture. The instruments are played very fast and sometimes sloppy. Black metal is so hostile to the mainstream that many bands refuse to play concerts or even release albums for the sake of staying true to their genre. Black metal is usually very dark and violent, sometimes referred to as &#8220;hate music.&#8221; Thrash metal takes influence from hardcore punk and has a more aggressive, heavy and loud sound. Prominent bands of the genre include Slayer and Anthrax. It started in the 1980s and has moderately broken into the mainstream. Doom metal began in the 80s with bands such as Saint Vitus and The Obsessed. The main characteristic of doom metal that separates it from the other sub-genres is the fact that it rejects speed, slowing it to a crawl. Doom metal is dark, slow and extremely heavy. During the 1990s Power Metal began, becoming the opposite to the harsh sound of Death and Black metal. It became a European phenomenon and is closely related to progressive metal. Power metal has a clean vocal style instead of growling or screaming. Bands like Blind Guardian and Symphony X are popular bands of the genre. They mainly focus on fantasy, fiction and epic themes and contain synthesizers in their music. Those are the 5 basic sub-genres of metal but there are so many more like Viking, Hardcore, Alternative, Nu, Industrial, Grindcore, Christian, Extreme, Stoner, Symphonic, and Neo-classical.

Metal continues to grow in the modern world and persists to pump out great music time after time. I have been listening to metal for years and it&#8217;s unlike anything I&#8217;ve ever heard. It&#8217;s the most incredible thing ever invented by humanity in my opinion. I own hundreds of albums and am an outspoken devotee. I wish people would not assume the genre is all the same though because it&#8217;s so versatile, and there&#8217;s something for everyone with metal. There&#8217;s light, heavy, dark, positive, brutal, epic, and whatever else you want to say. I think metal is amazing because it has stayed real for all these years and is still a dominant genre.

 

[Scarifier]

Awesome man, look forward to hearing the reaction of the audience, and the "don't laugh at my music u pathetic excuse for a human being" death toll.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

The thing I like about this speech is that it doesn't seem like your trying to force it on people. It isn't like "metal is the best so fucking listen to it right now", but is just dispelling the misconceptions. Overall, very nice.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

it seems like you just mindlessly inserted the bit about bands like suffocation into the paper and it just reads sort of akward

I would suggest explaining to people what "technical" means (IE playing very complex rhythms at often times blazing speeds) and that is a big part of metal is the tremendous musicianship that many bands in the genre have (especially progressive and death metal). On top of that, make sure to tell people that the lyrical themes of "gore" death metal bands are like comic books, they are never to be taken seriously. I would also suggest to dispell the notion that metal "is emo" or what not, metal is highly uplifting, very energizing, and empowering to the listener. Make sure to convey the point that one feels empowered, not depressed, when listening to the music

overall pretty good though, enjoy the presentation

edit: I would add the part about suffo, atheist, and necrophagist right where you said

but the music itself is usually very complicated and skillful

. Right after that, expand more on that and use those 3 bands as examples

also the bit about classical was really good. I would also suggest to tell people that "screaming" or "growling" vocals are only one part of metal, make sure to tell them that genres thrash, power, heavy, and progressive metal tend to be very melodic and have very good singing. I would talk a bit more about prog metal, that it is strongly influenced by prog rock.

overall very good speech

 

[Seditious]

I can't decide what to use as a prop, visual aid, model etc. Any suggestions?

powerpoint Emperor's suicide photo cover, and other milestone art in metal.

and show that symmetrical art design of BM logos too, which look often more like wicked tattoos than words.

 

[Scarifier]

umm are you talking about Mayhems - Dawn of th blackhearts cover?

 

[Seditious]

a few stylistic niggles, "might be better as...."

Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Metallica advanced the genre and made it more popular. It took until the 1980s for this to happen.

"Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Metallica in the 1980s popularized the genre"

Although it has never been considered a mainstream or popular genre; metal has millions of fans worldwide usually referred to as &#8220;headbangers&#8221; or &#8220;metalheads.&#8221;

"While metal hasn't been a mainstream genre it is one growing in popularity, having millions of fans worldwide, typically called...

North America and Europe are the main contributors to metal. Particularly Britain and Scandinavia of Europe. There are many sub-genres of metal, some popular some underground. But all with distinct sounds and styles.

vague and not tied in with anything else. you might want to bring up western europe and north america right at the start, suggesting "metal is a genre which flourished mainly in...."

Heavy metal is usually dominated by a strong guitar and drum sound. The common line-up for a metal band is a lead singer, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bassist and drummer. Sometimes a keyboard player or even another guitarist is added to the roster.

Comparison would be helpful here. strong meaning what? loud? dominant? bold? is it different to rock somehow, or is that something it shares in common?

also, do you mean 'heavy metal' as the subgenre of 'metal' music itself?---black metal has a weak mid-EQ range'less guitar sound to be more dark and haunting, not what I would consider 'strong' a la Hammerfall and general heavy/power metal guitar sounds.

The common line-up for a metal band is a lead singer, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bassist and drummer. Sometimes a keyboard player or even another guitarist is added to the roster.

would be better stated beforehand---that which constitutes a typical metal band, then what that sound is like.

Lyrical themes often include death, religion, fiction, poetry, fantasy, drugs, and mythology.

rather passive. often metal is pro mysticism/paganism/etc but ANTI-"religious" particularly. and not only 'death' but rather than emo shit about dying and suicide it's often misanthropic (evil?) and pro-death, and about 'murders' and other 'sinister' and agressive acts.

be more descriptive here to show how the genre addresses these topics.

Many stereotype metal fans as dumb drug addicts who are always angry.

"'Metalheads' are typically caricatured as unintelligent, quiet, psychotic, disordered drug users dressing in an almost gothic manner. This is far from the reality"

But they don&#8217;t know metal or even listen to it. People will hear one metal song and think every other one is like that. But that&#8217;s completely wrong, out of all the genres I know and listen to metal is definitely the most varied and unique.

out of place. Include the idea that "metal's subgenres are equally as unique as varied as those of dance music (it's proponents able to distinguish 'trance' from 'psytrance' while it's all psychotic 300bpm repetativeness to the rest of us ignorant of it's finer points) or classical, or even rock (with pop, punk, grunge, whatever...)" where you earlier speak about the line-up and general composition style, and production atmosphere

Yes there are brutal songs with growls and very heavy instruments.

heavy instruments, like a Tuba?

Yes there are brutal songs with growls and very heavy instruments. But there is also metal with clean vocals and melodic guitar riffs.

this stuff should be all up with the basic rundown of the various styles/subgenres produced from that basic metal band quintet setup. (also, tell them 'clean vocals' means typical "singing" lol, it is a jargon term after all)

Black Sabbath basically created the genre in 1969 with their heavy, doom sound. But many hard rock bands influenced the movement like AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix and Van Halen. Bands such as Megadeth and Motorhead brought metal out of the underground and furthered the development of the genre.

not sure this shit is necessary. all that name dropping furthers things nothing more than your succinct 'iron maiden etc' bit at the stard did. but if you use this, it should be included at the start

Many bands and genres gained underground, cult statuses and remained unpopular.

status*

This is one of the many things I love about metal. Music these days is so fake and lacks talent. But metal is very skilled and they aren&#8217;t in it for the money..

evidenced by what? what music these days is 'fake' and why? is that about the images of musicians, or about who creates their music for them, or what (Because things have been that fake since Elvis) so what makes 'these days' even unique in that?

You lip-synch a song written by a 50 year old man and you&#8217;re automatically a millionaire.

sync*

and lip-syncing is mouthing while a recording is played. you might 'cover' an existing famous song (as all the greats in pop music do) but you might 'lip-sync' your own recordings at a concert.

The 5 main sub-genres of metal are Death, Black, Thrash, Doom and Power. Each with a very distinct sound and style.

nice and concise, but should be mentioned up where you speak about the setup n everything.

Metal continues to grow in the modern world.

"in the modern world" is superfluous

and persists to pump out great music time after time.

continues to be original? according to who? compared to what? is it improving/evolving, diversifying? is this any different to any genre?

I have been listening to metal for years and it&#8217;s unlike anything I&#8217;ve ever heard. It&#8217;s the most incredible thing ever invented by man in my opinion.

it's good to leave yourself out of the topic (or fuck at least validate why it is better than man's other great inventions like soap, philosophy, the internet, the engine, medicine, heart-transplants, condoms, abortion, etc.)

I wish people would not assume the genre is all the same though because its so versatile, and there&#8217;s something for everyone with metal. There&#8217;s light, heavy, dark, positive, brutal, epic, and whatever else you want to say. I think metal is amazing because it has stayed real for all these years and is still a dominant genre.

maybe mention that before you detail the constituent aspects of the 5 main sub-genres so that it provides as example for this statement

 

[Seditious]

umm are you talking about Mayhems - Dawn of th blackhearts cover?

lmao yea, Mayhem, sorry, I wasn't thinking.

 

[PiratesRule]

I remember we had to do a presentation on Scotland for World Cultures freshman year in H.S. So I looked online for a Scottish metal band and played some Regorge for them....

 

[RedinTheSky]

I bet that everyone on this board ever made an oral presentation about something related to metal...

I did one in my german class about die apokalyptischen reiter (the band had to have some german lyrics).

I used "The Four Horsemen" in my Religion class. Yeah. Religion class.