What just happened? (Music video)

[UsandThem]

We all know concerts have been pretty much cancelled over the last 15 months or so, and today I think I received my first email from Live Nation in well over a year announcing a concert in my region this September.

I never heard of the band before at all, but based on the look of their promotional picture, I figured it had to be just another of some kind of emo Scandinavian dark metal band singing about dragons and Norse mythology. So I Googled their name, and came across a video that had a lot of views, so I figured that was a good choice to see what they're about.

While I began watching it, I thought to myself "Is this the American Idol version of "dark metal" now?", because it's not heavy at all. And then 70 seconds into the song something really changed:

 

[Spacehead]

1st 70 seconds wasn't too bad but i could only listen to about 10-15 seconds of what came after. I just cannot stand vocals like that.

 

[pcgeek11]

WTF did I just watch...

 

[WelshBloke]

This sounds familiar....

Oh yeah.

"Hi honey, I'm just nipping to the loo. YAAAAARRRHHHH! DID yOU LeAvE tHE loo SeaT uP AgaIn? YoU shall DiE!
Oh, can you pop the kettle on?"

 

[deadlyapp]

I'm a little out of my death metal phase, but I greatly enjoy some melodic vocals with some screaming interspersed. They get a thumbs up from me.

 

[VashHT]

This isn't that off the wall really, melodic death metal seems pretty popular (Opeth is a good example). She has a good screaming voice, I'll give her props for that.

 

[Captante]

SO .... Howard Stern's deep-voice of Satan? (either that or its a freaking TRAP!)

What a joke.

I just cannot stand vocals like that

IE: fake. Completely agreed. Heavy Metal Milli-Vanilli lol

Also that crap sounds about as musical as a stepping on a cat + fingernails down a blackboard.

 

[IronWing]

I guess I can expand my concerns with German metal bands to a pan-European thing.

Just about every German metal band. The instruments explode into a wall of awesome sound, literally forcing your hand to turn up the volume knob, then some dink starts croaking like he's deep throating a cheese grater, ruining everything.

 

[brianmanahan]

 

[nakedfrog]

It's not bad, but I'd probably listen one of these over Jinjer.

Lullacry

Or iwrestledabearonce (I love the sheer ridiculousness of this video, song doesn't start until 2:19)

 

[Torn Mind]

I see nothing particularly out of the ordinary musically.

I can handle this far better than Billie Eilish. Nothing triggers a perfectly revolting response out of me than her.

 

[brianmanahan]

I see nothing particularly out of the ordinary musically.

that's probably because this does not qualify as music

 

[VashHT]

It's not bad, but I'd probably listen one of these over Jinjer.

Lullacry

Or iwrestledabearonce (I love the sheer ridiculousness of this video, song doesn't start until 2:19)

- YouTube

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Opeth is one of the more popular death metal bands out there but I'll post it anyway.

 

[dank69]

Hard pass

 

[nakedfrog]

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

youtu.be

Opeth is one of the more popular death metal bands out there but I'll post it anyway.

Saw them live (post-growl era), Red Fang opened, then In Flames. Great show.

 

[bbhaag]

Not really my style but I didn't find anything particularly wrong with it either. It sounded fine to me if that type of music is what you're into.

 

[VashHT]

Saw them live (post-growl era), Red Fang opened, then In Flames. Great show.

That sounds amazing I'm a big fan of In Flames as well, I'll have to check out red fang not sure I've ever heard of them.

 

[Torn Mind]

that's probably because this does not qualify as music

Grating timbre alone(and it's not even that grating) does not disqualify it from being music, especially when the singer can switch modes.

I wouldn't repeat this ad naseum like what is in my "shrine", such as Amy Grant, JoJo, Mozart, Beethoven, but I find somewhat interesting at least.

 

[brianmanahan]

I wouldn't repeat this ad naseum like what is in my "shrine", such as Amy Grant

oh man that takes me back haha

 

[bbhaag]

This thread kinda reminds me of an article I read in Readers Digest. It's about why listening to new music is hard for our brains to essentially do. Anyway, it was an interesting read so I'll link to it with a little excerpt.

Listening to new music is hard. Not hard compared to going to space or war, but hard compared to listening to music we already know. Especially those of us who have settled into the groove of adult life often don’t listen to new music because it’s easy to forgo the act of discovery when work, rent, children, and life come into play. Eventually, we bow our heads and cross a threshold where most music becomes something to remember rather than something to experience.

Here’s Why Our Brains Prefer Music from Our Youth

Why are we resistant to new music, preferring familiar tunes from our youth? Call it cerebral comfort food.

www.rd.com

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yeah I sense some Milli Vannilli action going on.
Not much of a death metal guy except Dethklock and I like some the cover songs GWAR does

 

[UsandThem]

Yeah I sense some Milli Vannilli action going on.

I thought so at first as well, but I watched several other of their videos (including live concert), and I don't think it's fake.

Milli Vanilli were caught pretty quickly doing it (before social media and everyone having cell phones), so I don't think this group could have done it this long and not gotten caught.

 

[nakedfrog]

This thread kinda reminds me of an article I read in Readers Digest. It's about why listening to new music is hard for our brains to essentially do. Anyway, it was an interesting read so I'll link to it with a little excerpt.

Here’s Why Our Brains Prefer Music from Our Youth

Why are we resistant to new music, preferring familiar tunes from our youth? Call it cerebral comfort food.

www.rd.com

It's interesting, because I've never stopped seeking out music that I've never heard before.

Yeah I sense some Milli Vannilli action going on.
Not much of a death metal guy except Dethklock and I like some the cover songs GWAR does

Girls can't do metal growling, is that the implication here? I saw The Agonist live too, seemed pretty convincing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't think there's any reason to believe it's fakery.

 

[Torn Mind]

This thread kinda reminds me of an article I read in Readers Digest. It's about why listening to new music is hard for our brains to essentially do. Anyway, it was an interesting read so I'll link to it with a little excerpt.

Here’s Why Our Brains Prefer Music from Our Youth

Why are we resistant to new music, preferring familiar tunes from our youth? Call it cerebral comfort food.

www.rd.com

Beethoven's Eroica broke rules. A "misplaced horn entrance" did not escape notice and was "corrected" well into the nineteenth century.

Beethoven's Eroica

Beethoven has a wicked trick for the horn; a few bars before the theme comes in again complete, Beethoven lets the horn indicate the theme where the two violins still play the chord of the second. For someone who is not familiar with the score this always gives the impression that the horn player has counted wrong and come in at the wrong place. During the first rehearsal of this symphony, which went appallingly, the horn player, however, came in correctly. I was standing next to Beethoven and, thinking it was wrong, I said, 'That damned horn player! Can't he count properly? It sounds infamously wrong!' I think I nearly had my ears boxed - Beethoven did not forgive me for a long time." Biographische Notizen über Beethoven, F. Wegeler and F. Ries, 1838

 

[Scarpozzi]

That stuff was big in the 90s when it was 'new'....but not exactly the kind of music that has staying power..... Kind of like those extra-small cock rings she had installed in her ear lobes, her listeners will quickly grow out of following her music.