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Why evil themes are prevailing in heavy metal?
Your question can't be answered within few sentences. And it can't be answered by single persons alone. But I dare to write my share here, because I was and still am into several flavours of Metal ...
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Can a band (i.e. Linkin Park) survive the loss of a core member?
This is going to be a bit of a "list question" which isn't great for the SE format, but just for starters [& with no refs, just straight off the top of my head]...
Deaths...
The Beatles survived ...
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What metal song is used in this trailer for the animated movie *The Secret Life of Pets*?
As user1556814 mentioned, this is a Song from System of A down, but on another album.
It is Track Number 7 of the Album 'Toxicity', called Bounce.
Could not find a studio version on youtube, but you ...
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What genre are groups like Chevelle, Helmet, Tool
These are different genres of music. Tool and A Perfect Circle are progressive metal/rock, sum 41 are punk etc. If I had to chose one common root/genre for all of them I would say rock/metal.
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Is there “philosophical” metal?
Check out this link, you can try then to exclude certain metal styles and/or search more specific lyrical themes:
https://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=philosophy&type=band_themes
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What metal song is used in this trailer for the animated movie *The Secret Life of Pets*?
I don't have time to verify, but I think the band is 'System of a Down'. Look at their main titles to check it out, especially in album 'Mezmerize' if my guess is correct:
System Of A Down - ...
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Why do [usually] musicians have long hair?
Hair length on men is generational and cyclical. In 40's and 50's America, short hair was culturally enforced. Hair length increased to a peak in the 70's, then reduced in the 80's, 90's and 2000's.
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Why do [usually] musicians have long hair?
As both answers have noted, the long hair tends to go against social norms. Musicians have something to say, and one way to get noticed is to keep your hair long. Also, let's face it; chicks dig it. ...
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Steve Vai logo meaning
Literally, it reads "V. A. Eye". Steve has been somewhat elusive on the whole meaning, but he did submit this answer to a question asked on his website:
“If you research metaphysics you will find ...
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Band(s) in the vein of Dream Theater?
No Exit is really a terrible album to hear first as it doesn't sound much like old or new Fates. They didn't really hit on the more modern, more progressive sound until right after that album. You ...
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Symphonic metal bands with very technical guitar
When it comes to technical guitars one should definitely mention Rhapsody(now renamed to Rhapsody of Fire). Give Gargoyles, Angels Of Darkness a try. In their older albums Luca Turilli was playing the ...
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Steve Vai logo meaning
Easy... it's Alchemy. His birthday is June 6, 1960. That makes him a Gemini sun and Scorpio moon. Scorpio is a water sign, and the "V" in the logo is the glyph for water. Gemini is an ...
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What is the third note in the Devil's Tritone?
The weird thing about a tritone is that it isn't comprised of three notes, it's technically just an an interval of
three whole tones
...hence the tri tone
in other words, 6 semitones, an ...
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Is there “philosophical” metal?
I would suggest:
Iron Maiden. They always had pretty thought provoking lyrics. The ones that come to mind immediately are the songs The Evil That Men Do and Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Queensryche ...
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Albums for classical songs played by electric guitar?
Uli Jon Roth is your man.
In his album Metamorphosis of Vivaldi's Four Seasons
he plays his version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Also there is his album Prologue to the symphonic legends
in which he ...
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Have any artists incorporated physical pain with composition and performance?
The closest example I can think of is the use of the "casket vocal track" in Black One by Sunn O))).
Scott "Malefic" Conner of Xasthur is claustrophobic so they decided his vocal ...
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Why evil themes are prevailing in heavy metal?
Try a counterexample and see for yourself!
There is research indicating that the music makes listeners inspired and calmer.
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Why evil themes are prevailing in heavy metal?
Alex there are many different genres of music and within each genre there are various popular themes that the lyrics revolve around.
I personally have my own preferences for certain genres and ...
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Songs similar to 'Atheist Runt' and 'Omnipresent knife in your back'
Have you checked Swans? At the time of these recordings, they talked about being heavily influenced by them. Haven't listened much to Swans, but they do have some pretty heavy recordings...
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Symphonic metal bands with very technical guitar
I think you should check the one-man-band (from Behold the Arctopus) project Direwolf:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Direwolf/91376
Fist in Fetus are also technical and symphonic.
Therion, ...
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Band(s) in the vein of Dream Theater?
First, check what you like in Dream Theater
Dream Theater mixes the Progressive aspect from (mainly) Rush, Deep Purple and similar bands into the Heavy Metal aspect from bands like Metallica, Black ...
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Why do [usually] musicians have long hair?
I think it all started with bands like the beatles that, as you said were against the social norms (at least in terms of appearance). Generally rock music scene always wanted to be against the norms ...
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Is there a term for Gojira's style?
So, after quite some time, yes, Gojira is progressive death metal.
Source: youtube comments on their videos.
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Heavy Metal music:What does it mean when someone says that something 'sounds heavy'?
I personally don't think it has to do with distortion, down-tuning, or mixing.
There is a reason classical music sounds like a range of different moods and emotions, and that same idea is often ...
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Is there “philosophical” metal?
If you are into themes of war then there are a lot of classic heavy metal bands like iron maiden and sabbath that talk about those. If you're into philosophies about life and stuff then you should ...
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Looking for Prog Metal bands with big band instruments
If you are happy going back in time you might like Jethro Tull. They had their prog rock period in the 1970's. Then they went more mainstream. So albums like Aqualung [1971] or Thick as a Brick [1972] ...
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Looking for Prog Metal bands with big band instruments
Give Gentle Giant a listen. They use brass, and they're about as Proggy as Prog and Prog.
Early Chicago is considered Prog, and they had a full horn section.
Weather Report might work for you as ...
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Why is Heilung so related to metal?
Genres are not enough to describe music completely. That's why we need sub-genres going deeper and deeper depending on many different characteristics the sound has. Sub-genres define more specific ...
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Who invented circle pits?
Mosh pits and circle pits are the same thing, with the only real distinction being the particular motion of the people within them at any given point in time. It's quite common for a pit to switch ...
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