Kut-Pile
Kut-Pile are from a place where metal is simply metal. They will be the first to affirm metal goes against the trends most genres experience in the wayward industry. Kut-Pile has changed in the last four years from when they first formed out of a shared passion for music. Their skill level has improved by performing well written songs live. The band has nurtured a healthy work ethic which continues to make them a better band each year that they are together. By knowing one another for over twenty years and growing-up in the same town their love for music has grown with them. They were brought together by music back in 2006 and their career motivation is what will keep them on the straight and narrow path to success.
Metal emphasizes each song and also provides emotional reliability for each of the members on a personal level. “Our message is just that we’re stepping away from the trendy metal that everybody is doing these days,” Jesse the drummer says. Stepping away from marketable mainstream music is the key to their success. “Getting back to the groove that gets your head banging and your face smashing,” Wes the guitarist states. They are willing to be patient and not make music to make money, but make music that will also make money down the line. Richard the lead singer says, “Metal is not dead. When it’s about the money all the originality goes out the window. We’re here to bring back the heart, soul, and originality to American metal.”
Lyrics are screamed with clarity allowing discernible words to be understood by the listener unlike many growlers who sound like demons from hell. Richard works his hard screaming skills which translate to the crowd being able to sing along with the group. By involving the cr...
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...nsemble is given courage to keep on trekking when the band has a bad series of events to contend with because they realize they know their music will prevail over any situation. When a concertgoer leaves a Kut-Pile concert they will realize they are seeing a revolutionary set of musicians. The band’s divergent sound induces the concertgoers to tell their friends and acquaintances about the band. Word of mouth is essential in starting a business and those who remember the band are the ones who instantly connect to the lyrics and the arrangements. If you walk into a room never hearing the group or know their name you will not leave the set without finding out the group’s name because they are a rarity in music without conforming to a genre. The keys being cut for Kut-Pile are going to open many days to their future long lasting career in the entertainment industry.
Keeping each other and themselves alive the band learns to survive by finding shelter, finding food and finding collaboration. They are also people who learn how to overcome hardships and gain more ability from their experience. Knowing people who are the smartest are not always the ones that survive, but instead are those who learn to adapt and manage change.
Occasionally a strobe awakes from its narcoleptic slumber to wink at the nocturnal nation cavort across fog flooded floors. I sit in the shadows. I am an island ( not in the geographical formation sense, but rather in the Simon and Garfunkle sense). Music seems so tainted; its freshness extracted by the incestuous industry. Get an acclaimed producer, and make a video to show how pretty your band is. Become a whiney lesbian folk singer professing cynical prophesies with an acoustic ax, a violent criminal that uses his vehemence as an art form, a diva whose love songs are darker than her exposed panties, or perhaps a greasy haired bar-chord master with a chip on his shoulder and a heroin needle in his arm proclaiming how hard life is in suburbia. There must be something new in rock's tepid arena, and not just another "underground" sound that is this week’s salt-lick style. There must be a band out there in the very nucleus of pop music that will not take its precious history and throw it away. That will endure to "stand on its shoulders," understand it and explore its depths to form new music (Percy 49). There must be a band that has a lead singer who wrote a poem about Neil Young vomiting, and then had the audacity to name the band after it (Park). There is. This is Soul Coughing.
Two years in the making, countless hours of songwriting, guitar tracking, recording, then multiple lawsuits by record companies and the end result is the masterpiece that is A Day To Remember’s Common Courtesy album. To most people, the entire genre of metal, hardcore, or punk music is all just one big idea of devil worshipping and ignorance, these misconceptions are so false it’s almost unfair. The detail and progression of the music in these genres is so advanced that it is devastating to musicians that most people don’t consider it music. A Day To Remember is the pinnacle of what melodic hardcore, or “pop-mosh” music is, they are the best musicians and make the biggest impact on the scene and the world. In a world that only focuses on what Miley Cyrus is doing and in a genre that is mainly only heard by angry heartbroken teenagers, ADTR has been able to solidify themselves into the musical world and that is what makes their new album “Common Courtesy” an iconic part of hardcore music.
Out of all the metalling kids populated in this world, one of them catches a break and becomes a big rock star
Cursed by controversy since it's inception, heavy metal music has often been thought of as offencive and bombastic in it's approach to music. Even now, the controversy brought about at the top of heavy metal's popularity in the 80's still seems to linger over the genre. Controversy could easily be seen as a part of heavy metal culture as a whole, the committee hearings in 1985 putting the musical genre in the public's eye as offensive and dangerous due to it's lyrical content (Hjelm, Kahn-Harris, LeVine, 2011 p.8). To many, these out of context looks into a larger culture seem to paint a picture of violence and delenquency, but seeing the genre from within offers a new view. Research suggests that heavy metal music can have beneficial psychological
The lyrics of metal music are often misunderstood to be a call to action, advocating violence to listeners. In reality the lyrics are meant to comfort the listeners and help them deal with the negative emotions they feel from this situation. Especially amongst teens who most frequently feel the negative effects of being different. The most musically "heavy" kind of metal there is is called death metal. Originally, the name was coined because of the lyrics of this subgenre of metal. The lyrics dealt with death caused by, murder, war, and any other kind of unnatural death imaginable. Now, the name is used to refer to a kind of metal with especially driving rhythms, energetic instrumentation and vocals (usually of the screaming and grunting sort), and incredibly low end and heavy sounds. Death metal is basically as far as you can go into the genre of metal. Even in this subgenre, the lyrics often spread positive messages.
...orgettable. Research shows that “There’s this unifying force that comes from the music and we don’t get that from other things.”(Landau) Bruce Springsteen is a great storyteller and has captured some of the experiences of the American working class. Even when the lyrics are dark or the subject matter is depressing, he manages to provide hope, too. For as long as I can remember, my mother has been playing Springsteen’s music. When I hear a song of his now, it reminds me of driving down the road with the windows down belting out a song with my mom. As Dave Marsh from Creem Magazine prophetically wrote in 1975, “Springsteen’s music is often strange because is has an almost traditional sense of beauty, an inkling of the awe you can feel when, say, first falling in love or finally discovering that the magic in the music is also in you.” (Bruce Springsteen Biography 2)
...le genres of music have been accused of selling out during the 80's Heavy Metal and Glam Rock were fused by bands such as Motley Crue and Poison to make Glam Metal which hardcore metal fans hated as it was not deemed authentic due to its over the top and feminine feel.
As the nineteen seventies came to a close so did many of the musical styles of that decade. While some faced what seemed to be extinction others went through a sort of evolutionary process. The bands that were at the top of the heavy metal ladder during this time were such acts as Motorhead, Iron Maiden, and Tygers of Pan Tang. These groups would be just some of what the new crop of heavy metal bands would consider inspirational. This style, which is typically referred to as "The New Wave of British Heavy Metal," would fuel and empower many acts to stardom. (Marshall 3)
The vocals are difficult or sometimes impossible to understand for people unaccustomed to them. Recording quality on black metal albums is intentionally low, usually done on a four track or even cassette tapes, to create an underground aesthetic. Black metal instrumentation is harsh. The guitars are high and distorted, the drums hit hard and sloppy, the bass simple or nonexistent, and the songwriting disturbing. Black metal is not meant to be accessible, with Gorgoroth’s vocalist even stating, “Black metal was never meant to reach an audience, it was purely for our own satisfaction.” (Chris Campion).
Punk rock often attains to individuals who are against the order and corruption of society and especially the music industry. As ticket prices for arena shows skyrocketed, the popularity of small underground venues with low entry prices increased. These venues are very willing to let local punk rock bands play if they can draw in a large crowd. This intimate experience sparks the thrill of playing on stage. As more of these club venues open, more up and coming musicians get a taste of the spotlight drug. When the audience of a punk rock show pick up on the performer’s adrenaline rush, they also receive a taste of it.
Music censorship of the lyrics begins in the early age, and it is usually used to regulate the lyrics in Rock music because the furor characteristics of this music genre. Thus ac...
In rock music its target audience is the youth. And by youth I am not referring to teenagers, but instead to the mentality of youth, the adults and teens still in the sociological stage between being a ‘kid’ and accepting the responsibilities of ‘adulthood’ [Weinstein pg6] These youth negotiate the genre and change it to their liking. For example both males and females have different subgenres of rock targeted specifically at them. Males are seen from a young age as being naughty and rowdy, not very responsible and thus given more freedom. While girls are seen as quiet and polite, with very low aggression. These traits have reflected in the genres that are targeted at the two genders. Males were targeted with Heavy Metal as it expressed the qualities the very qualities they will have to give up in order to become adults and how they will lose their freedom. While for females rock music is soft and romantic, females will typically grow up faster than males and leave youth behind in order to take up responsibilities. An example of how the music was negotiated to fit the two genders is seem in the 1960s when performers such as Carole king and James Taylor transformed themes of protest into sentimental commentaries, romance and illusions of youth. [Weinstein pg 12-13] While heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath sung about politicians and how disgusting they are for exploiting young people in the name of greed which is shown in the song Wicked World. This very characteristic of rock being created by the youth for the youth is still alive today, for example during the 2004 presidential election Green Day released American Idiot. The song was about how the media and political are brainwashing Americans to remove their individuality. The singer wanted to warn America of this and prevent them from turning into ‘idiots’ and
...e accepted for their music, which should sound aggressive, fast-paced, brutal, and contain heavily amplified and distorted electric guitars and drums. Such music might not be considered pleasurable to one’s ears, and hence why metal music generally is not very popular in most places around the world. As a result, it is not mainstream music, and the metal community puts emphasis on this idea as well. Metallica started off this way, but whatever their real motivations were (whether what they said was true or not), Metallica had become less authentic and illegitimate as a metal band. Although Metallica had not committed any illegal acts by changing themselves overall in terms of musical style, lyrics and their role in the music industry, they have appeared to violate social norms in the metal community, and it earned them a negative reputation amongst metal enthusiasts.