Archive for the 'Dark Metal' Category
Silent Hill music video
December 2nd, 2008
Silent Hill music video
By: God Dethroned
Song: Swallow the spikes
Duration : 3 min 56 sec
DARK MOOR INTERVIEW 22.06.2007
December 2nd, 2008
DARK MOOR INTERVIEW 22.06.2007
Duration : 20 min 57 sec
Xtreme Soundscapes V Trailer
December 2nd, 2008
Go to www.xtremesoundscapes.com to see the full video for free on Google and Veoh. All kinds of underground Metal, Industrial, Punk, and much more…
Duration : 2 min 16 sec
DARK MOOR - WHEEL OF FORTUNE
December 2nd, 2008
DARK MOOR - WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Duration : 3 min 55 sec
Black Sabbath - My Opinions
December 2nd, 2008
My Opinion
It is my pleasure to voice my comments about the mighty Black Sabbath. I count black Sabbath among the most influential musical acts in the rock genre and particularly hard rock.At the time when Sabbath was developing their act leading up to 1970 album Black Sabbath, there was nothing in that time frame that could be characterized as really heavy music. Led zeppelin at that period was heavier than most. Sabbath was tackling some of the same occult subjects that were loosely covered in some of Zeppelin’s earlier stuff. Sabbath was also adding a musical heaviness to match the dark subject matter they were writing about. When is comes to the members of the band, I don’t think anyone would say Ozzy was the best singer when Sabbath was first on the scene, but Tony Iommi’s down-tuned Gibson SG riffs were innovative in their heaviness. When you compare Ironman, one of sabbath’s premiere tunes, with any other song from that year there is no denying it was the heavier than anything. It was the beginning of heavy metal.
If you like Sabbath
If you like Sabbath and are trying to find similar bands, you can see Sabbath’s inspiration in any heavy band in the last 30 years. More recently High on Fire and their album Blessed Black Wings. If you are really into Sabbath and haven’t heard anything by Motorhead you need do not go another day without listening to them. There’s no denying if you are really into Black Sabbath then you will like Motorhead.
Cream of the Crop
Some of my personal favorite Black Sabbath songs are War Pigs and a lesser known song of Sabbath which I think everyone should check out is Supernaut off Black Sabbath Vol. 4. Other classics are Iron Man and Paranoid.
The members of Black Sabbath include Tony Iommi (guitar), John “Ozzy” Osbourne (vocals), Terry “Geezer” Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums). They were originally known as Earth, but changed their name to Black Sabbath in 1969. Their albums include Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Black Sabbath Vol. 4 Victor, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage Castle, Technical Ecstasy, and Never Say Die! .
Fall Collection | Fall Dresses | Fall 2006 | Fall 2006 Collection
December 2nd, 2008
Sharp Feminine Silhouettes and Drapes for formals
The first influence of this season is the highlighted bodice; designers this season are placing more emphasis on fitted shapes with striking color and embroidery or ornaments. Plunging neckline is crisply molded and matched to the extravagant inlays of the skirt with deep neckline and decorative mosaic designs are ruling the fashion modes. With the globalization of fashion trends, simplifying and highlighting the bodice in formalwear designs broadens the designer’s reach across cultural expectations.
The second influence is the bold feminine shape. Pinpointing the key looks, there is a distinct departure from the soft, pretty femininity of the past few seasons for autumn, as designers cut a cleaner silhouette and toyed with the concept of shape. The possibilities of texture and layering are cleverly explored and designers are using sheath, trumpet, princess, mermaid, and a-line styling to create curvy dresses, many with corseted or structured undergarments, reasserting the womanly look in this season’s formal line. Gone are the demure straight silhouettes and the tailored work wear looks of the previous century. The post-9/11 woman sees her public as a proud yet traditionally sensual individual.
The third influence of the season is the new emphasis on soft, feminine expression through silk and chiffon overlays, lace bordering, and beaded or rhinestone hems, lines, and straps. While the partygoer is simply elegant with brilliant structural accents, the bride dons a flowing gown overlayed with embroidered or appliquéd sheath. Soft satin silk is the fabric of choice, with form-enhancing embellishments to match the wearer’s personality.
Color in bold and beautiful
The palette for the season, though predominantly dark, is occasionally electrified with brilliant flashes of color. The traditional shades of black and grey are represented beautifully, supported by bursts of bolds and touches of shine. With a season draped in darkness, refreshing shots of sapphire blue and pops of marvelous magenta or coalesce colors in divine dresses perch up the entire season. Have fun and let bright colors and bold prints accessorize you this fall!
Color in Red
Punctuating the collections like a brilliant exclamation mark, red shows up intermittently, glinting through a mainly muted palette. Sophisticated and classic for the look that says you’re on top of the world.
Black and White
Classic black & white fashions are a hit again in prom 2006 as trend-savvy consumers desire the classic and elegant look. From clean lines to bold stripes and optical waves, monochrome combinations are the seductively simple route to smart dressing. Winter white is an important focus of the season, and it works great for the calendar events like winter or fall formals and cocktails.
Black is Back
Black is the number one staple for the season and will remain so well into 2006. Bright black looks showcase the blustery raven theme in tailored suits, asymmetric tops, and frothy evening gowns.
Gorgeous Grays
Grey is the designers’ shade of choice, and no wonder: restrained, chic, edgy - its subtleties allow for eclectic interpretation, whether sharp as steel in silk or soft in jersey knits. Pin tucks and pleats complement grey’s cool sophistication. Mix shades and textures for a more directional look. Choose hosiery carefully - sheer styles are a flattering option. Soften up with shades of heather gray this season. It is the only color that encompass coziness and comfort while remaining glamorous. Not to mention it looks great on everyone
Chocolate treat
The beginnings of fall bring decadent shades of our favorite indulgence to another level of luxury. Go ahead and indulge in fall’s color palette. The hue drapes beautifully in jersey, sequin or shimmering satin without adding a pound! From rich and dark to creamy and light, chocolate makes everyone feel and look just fabulous!
Eighties Vibes N Trends
Romantic, off the shoulder neckline dress with empire waist in dramatic chiffon drape seem to revive the popular culture for that regal yet fresh and modern look embraced by generation X. Strapless is getting a lot of exposure these days, and the stylists use gems, beads, sheer, and train to add sparkle to the conservative evening. Recapturing the sexiness of the era, the Eighties silhouette is back. Try it in black or jolts of electric colors.
Shimmers and Shines
The warm shine continues into the cooler months. No need for a full metallic blast, instead designers subtly weaved sparkle throughout garments to create a soft yet sexy sheen. For the girls who still want their bling, sequins combined with satin and sheer georgette get you ready for that fabulous evening.
Mini dress Boom
The mini dress or mini skirt for the spring will still reign come the winter, but don’t panic: Stores are ordering them longer. Revolutionary mini dress has resurfaced on the runway with its traditional tunic-like and bodice-less smocks in delicate lace and flowing fabrics. Details of woven necklines, perfectly pretty collars and oh-so-fun pockets will take you back to the mod Swinging London times! Thigh-grazing A-line flirty micro dresses will imbue a girlish charm for the season. There are endless waysâdark opaque hose; leggings; long, long bootsâto make the mini work for snow days. Opaque tights and leggings will give these short skirts and tunics a cool stylish and contemporary feel as well.
Formal Opulence
Rewind to the baroque luxury of imperial princess and Seventies glam rockers - gilding, rich fabrics and lavish embroidery with confident insouciance Opulence is the theme for the fall 2006, so drape in this opulence with dress down hair and make-up. Tracking down the allure of historical Helen of Troy and Hollywood Jean Harlow-esque with bias cutting and deep décolleté, designers make them the season’s next big-night numbers.
Prance in Prom wear, Home coming dresses and Eveningwear
Beaded and bangled, sparkling and luster fabrics factor big this prom 2006 season. For prom dress fabrics, it’s smooth satin, silky chiffon, slinky jersey, and lace. Jewel tones in emerald, ruby, sapphire, silver, and gold are important, as well as dress combinations in black and pretty shades of pink. Of course, the geek theme continues strong into this year, paying attention to the details - interesting necklines, pretty fabrics, sparkly touches - to make your prom dress to dazzle. A new trend is a high front slit accompanied by cascading ruffles. Sparkle and shine on the dance floor in shimmering fabrics like organza, glitter ice lace, and lustrous satin. Unique beads and ribbon detailing enhance the figure: rhinestone along the bodice, lace-up ribbon corsetry, criss-cross open backs, or swirls of lace with glitter topping.
New prom silhouettes this 2006 season are in empire waists, princess shapes and A-line separates and modified Mermaid design with a slim bust, waist, and hips that flares out below the knee, the vintage-inspired Empire design with a ruched bodice and flowing, and the lingerie-influenced Corset design with ribbon lacing along the front, side, or back. Rich reds, burgundies, and deep romantic purples and blues pretty coral pinks and turquoise capture the essence of the American Classic look. Winter white and classic black is still strong for early prom events, particularly in strapless dresses.
Fall on Cocktail Numbers
How to achieve fall’s most intoxicating evening look? Mix up equal parts satin, silk, and lace; add an elegant neckline, a defined waist, and a flared, flirty skirt. Serve in a sexy-but-sophisticated knee-length dress. Lace in all forms takes center stage, kept simple and modern in white, ivory, and blush.
Bridal and Ball gowns
Fresh from the runway, designers are showing off the softer side of their style. Big voluminous dresses and hair, delicate beading in unique patterns, gorgeous, floral-worthy embellishments, bodices with unique touches, and vintage-inspired details that are far from old-fashioned.
Whether you want a little or a lot of sparkleâdesigners worked it in this season from subtle glimmers to bold, beautiful bling. Beading gets worked into the lace on this tank gown with a trumpet skirt for an allover sparkly, shimmery effect. Beside this geometric, concentric, circular pearl design ornaments the bodice of sleek, silk crepe gowns. Strands of crystals form the delicate straps on the silk crepe dropped-waist gown. Flowers on wedding dresses are nothing new. Modern, streamlined back detailing recalls a patterned Art Deco look for these gowns. But this season, designers took a bold twist on the romantic front using color, subtle crystals, and crepeâaccents worthy of a modern garden wedding. Embellishments of all kinds graced the bodices of this season’s gowns, from bold color and pretty pleats to refined ruffles. This season, designers took cues from eras gone by and worked retro accents into distinctly modern gownsâwith show stopping results.
So now, accessorize yourself in exotic leathers, metal details and new shapes to give fresh interest to accessories when it comes to dressing up this season’s pared-down looks. Carry clutch bags, put on platforms, wedges with elbow-length gloves for that demure, and style to welcome the fashion swing this fall.
How To Decorate Dining Room.
December 2nd, 2008
Dining room is one of the important rooms that require good design and decoration in order to build good atmosphere during the meal. We can see the important of design and decoration by notice from many good restaurant use design and decoration to attract people to come in, apart from quality and taste of the food they offer.
Now we will start to improve dining room atmosphere by using colours. You should you light tone colour with your dining room or colour that has more brightness to make your dining room looks wider, clear and clean. The colour that you should use is white, light yellow, light orange, light brown. For small dining room, you can also use mirror to decorate to make the room looks wider and clear.
Let’s move to the floor, ca we change anything to the floor to make the room more attractive? Firstly, you should consider that which style that you want the room to look like as well as furniture that you are going to use. If you plan to use wooden furniture, so you should use parquet for floor covering or if you wish to decorate the room in European style, you should use ceramic tiles or mosaic for floor covering instead.
After you consider about major factors, then you should consider about lighting. Installing one light tube in the middle of the room on the ceiling will make the room brighter so people can see the food clearly and feeling want to eat. On the other hand, using dark light tube probably make people do not want to eat as they can not see the food clearly. However, you should also consider about the reflection of the light that may reflect directly to the face of people who are sitting. You should be careful to not let this happened, which will make people feel uncomfortable during the meal.
You should use dining table that large enough to put all of the food, but not too large which will generate uncomfortable atmosphere and not convenient to walk. Apart form size, you should consider about the material that dining table made from. If you have little children in your family, you should buy wooden dining table in stead of using glass table or metal table, because glass will be very harmful to children when broken and metal surface is more slippery, so it will be very easy to fall or collapse
Table coversheet also important, you should use table cover sheet that made from the material that easy to clean such as polymer, avoid using cotton sheet that difficult to clean. You may interested to add flower vessel or fruit basket on the table to increase freshness during the meal.
Another good way to create good and fresh atmosphere is you should locate dining room near the garden. You can use glass partition to separate your dining room and garden area. In case you do not have garden in your house, you may decorate you dining room by add flower or plant pots into the room.
A Look At Iron Maiden
December 2nd, 2008
Iron Maiden was right at the beginning of heavy metal. There is no denying their influence for every metal band from the 80’s on. They were very influential on Slayer, whose early works sound very similar to Iron Maiden licks. Even Now that metal is coming back bands like Mastodon who are taking the next steps of metal that maiden help start. In their own right there are a second level icon behind bands like Zeppelin and Sabbath who are the godfathers of rock music.
My favorite album of Iron Maiden is Power Slave. It is the heaviest of all the Maiden albums. It features some of their best songs including Power Slave, Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, and 2 Minutes to Midnight. I would also recommend the album Killers which was released before Bruce Dickinson was their singer. The songs Murders in the Rue Morgue and Killers exhibit more of a hard rock feel quite a bit more similar to ACDC in their early work than the later more melodic. They were known for putting out concept albums which the whole collection of their albums follows the story of their giant mascot Eddie.
If you like Iron Maiden I would recommend Slayer’s early albums like Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits particularly the title tracks. I would also recommend Mastodon’s album Leviathan. Definitely check out Iron Maiden and Slayer if you like Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden includes Steve Harris (bass), Bruce Dickinson (singer), Janick Gers (guitar), and Nicko McBrain (drums). Their albums include 1979 Soundhouse Tapes Rockhard, Iron Maiden , Killers , The Number of the Beast , Piece of Mind , Powerslave, Somewhere in Time Sony, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son , Trooper , Stranger in a Strange Land , Running Free Run to the Hills , No Prayer for the Dying , Fear of the Dark, The X Factor , Virtual XI , Brave New World and Dance of Death.
Where can I find the type of dark classical/opera music that influences Norwegian Black Metal?
October 23rd, 2008
I'm searching for sort of a powerful epic battle feel, similar to those that influence Norwegian Black Metal bands like Dimmu Borgir, etc. Probably a pretty far out question for a general "rock" category, but I have no idea where to start.
Start with Wagner and Stravinsky
links here
http://www.songofthesalesman.co.uk/ad.aspx?partist=Wagner
plus Mussorgsy's Night On Bare Mountain
http://www.songofthesalesman.co.uk/ad.aspx?partist=Mussorgsky
best modes/scales for dark sounding metal?
October 23rd, 2008
what would be the recommended scales and/or modes to use if you wanted to get a really dark and evil sound out of your music.Like that of a horror movie or bands like Opeth, Nevermore and Dimmu Borgir? no need to tab any scales out, just tell me the names and i'll look them up
2 days and not 1 answer? you guys suck
I'll give this one a go cuz I used to play in a slayer cover band.
The diminished scale sounds really heavy when used in riffs. The main use would be changing between the root note and the flattened 5th. This creates a dark sound which is very popular in metal.
D diminished scale:
D, E, F, G, G#, A#, B, C#, D
Another really good one is the harmonic minor scale.
A harmonic minor:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G#, A
Hope these help!
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