Death metal

Death metal adalah sebuah sub-genre dari musik heavy metal yang berkembang dari thrash metal pada awal 1980-an. Beberapa ciri khasnya adalah lirik lagu yang bertemakan kekerasan atau kematian, ritme gitar rendah (downtuned rhythm guitars), perkusi yang cepat, dan intensitas dinamis. Vokal biasanya dinyanyikan dengan gerutuan (death grunt) atau geraman maut (death growl). Teknik menyanyi seperti ini juga sering disebut "Cookie Monster vocals".

Beberapa pelopor genre ini adalah Venom dengan albumnya Welcome to Hell (1981) dan Death dengan albumnya Scream Bloody Gore (1987). Death metal kemudian dikembangkan lebih lanjut oleh band-band seperti Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Entombed, God Macabre, Carnage, dan Grave.

Kemudian era 2000'an, Death Metal berkembang sangat pesat. Banyak band-band jebolan aliran death metal menjadi pembaharu dalam musik metal. Band-band tersebut antara lain Inhuman Dissiliency, , Disavowed, Viraemia, Hiroshima Will Burn, Amon Amarth, Inveracity, The Berzeker, Dying Fetus, Condemned, dan masih banyak lagi.

Di Indonesia, genre ini diawali pergerakan dan perkembangan-nya di tahun 1990-an dengan band thrash metal Rotor di Jakarta. Pergerakkan utama Death Metal Indonesia berasal dari munculnya inisiatif oleh band Grindcore asal Malang, Rotten Corpse, yang menggarap untuk pertama kalinya (yang diketahui) musik Death Metal. Kemunculan dan permainan Rotten Corpse akan Death Metal merupakan pertanda dari lahirnya sebuah individu musik baru, bernama Death Metal. Beberapa band pioneer Death Metal lainnya di daerah lain, seperti Trauma dari Jakarta , Insanity dan Hallucination dari Bandung, Death Vomit dari Jogjakarta , Slow Death dari Surabaya, kemudian berkembang dengan band-band yang dianggap sebagai senior karena pengalamannya masing-masing seperti: Disinfected, Ancur, Plasmoptysis, dan Jasad dari Bandung, Siksa Kubur , Funeral Inception dari Jakarta dan Cranial Incisored Yogjakarta dan Semarang Grind Buto. Abysal ,PALASIK BUKITTINGGI (SUMATRA BARAT) Total Rusak dari BUKITTINGGI (Sumatera Barat). Blast Torment dari Padang,Praying For Suicide Tragedy dari BUKITTINGGI (Sumatera Barat),HATESTROKE dari Kediri, tentunya masih banyak lagi dan terus berkembang.,,,,,

Perkembangan musik Death Metal di Indonesia mengalami perkembangan yang sangat baik. Diantaranya terusulkannya suatu forum pusat dari pecinta Death Metal Indonesia, yang bernama forum Death Metal Indonesia, yang bernama Indonesian Death Metal atau disingkat IDDM. Kemudian juga muncul Indogrind.net, GUBUG RIOT, staynocase, dan lainnya. Saat ini, band-band baru Death Metal akan menyuarakan 'suara-suara maut' dalam event metal. Band-band Death Metal di Indonesia sekarang antara lain Asphyxiate, Bleeding Corpse, Death Vomit, Kill Harmonic, Grind Buto, Infected Voice, Brain Ass, Hate Stroke, Sickmath dan sebagainya.

Perkembangan Death Metal Indonesia setelah terciptanya IDDM, merupakan sebagai indikasi dan peresmian kelompok-kelompok Death Metal di seluruh wilayah Indonesia untuk go on public atau menunjukkan diri mereka masing-masing pada publik. Seperti pada saat ini, banyak sekali kelompok/komunitas Death Metal Indonesia di wilayah mereka masing-masing yang sudah menunjukkan diri mereka di Internet. Komunitas-komunitas tersebut masih merupakan bagian dari Indonesian Death Metal/IDDM. IDDM merupakan salah satu web penghubung yang menjadi tempat bertukar pikiran maupun aspirasi hingga media untuk iklan / promosi album maupun merchandise. Komunitas-komunitas tersebut diantaranya adalah Bandung Death Metal, Bekasi HORDE! Death Metal, Jogjakarta Corpse Grinder, Magelang Death Metal Militia, Sukoharjo Death Metal, Semarang Death Metal, Bali Death Metal sampai Samarinda Death Metal dan masih banyak lagi komunitas di seluruh Indonesia.

Beberapa subgenre death metal:

* Technical death metal - Death Metal yang dikembangkan dengan nada-nada diatonis, merupakan perkembangan dari musik Death Metal ke yang lebih kompleks.
* Melodic death metal - heavy metal dicampur dengan beberapa unsur Death Metal, misalnya death growl dan blastbeat
* Progressive death metal - gabungan antara death metal dan progressive metal
* Brutal death metal - Brutal Death Metal merupakan perkembangan dari Death Metal itu sendiri. Brutal Death Metal merupakan salah satu perkembangan yang berhasil menghasilkan perkembangan lagi di genre Death Metal. Brutal Death Metal menghasilkan Slamming-Gore Brutal Death Metal, Slamming-Groove Technical Brutal Death Metal, Slamming Goregrind, dan lainnya.
* Deathcore - gabungan antara metalcore/groove metal dengan death metal, merupakan genre Death Metal yang lebih menjurus kepada musik Post Hardcore.
* Death/Doom - gabungan antara doom metal dan death metal
* Blackened death metal - Blackened Death Metal merupakan usul-usul yang dilakukan oleh band-band Death Metal yang ingin menggabungkan kembali unsur Black Metal pada Death Metal seperti yang terjadi pada Era Pertama Death Metal, di mana Death Metal masih tercium bau-bau Black Metal.

Lamb Of God Biography

The roots of Lamb of God were planted in 1990 when Mark Morton, Chris Adler and John Campbell were floor mates at Virginia Commonwealth University. The trio began playing at Adler's house in Richmond weathering chilly conditions. "There was no heat at the house," recalls Campbell. "We would freeze our asses off, get really drunk and hang around the kerosene heaters trying to write metal songs. Kerosene fumes and Black Label beer were definitely what fueled our early days."

After graduation, Morton moved to Chicago to pursue a master's degree, but the band continued. A new guitarist, Abe Spear, replaced Morton as the band retired its instrumental sound and added Blythe on vocals.

The quartet, known then as Burn the Priest, became a fixture in the tightly-knit Richmond music scene. To compete with the high-level of musicianship displayed by their contemporaries, the band adopted a rigid practice schedule. "To this day, we practice five days a week out of necessity," says Campbell. "The bands in Richmond can flat outplay you and if you don't practice, they will blow you off the stage. Bands like Breadwinner and Sliang Laos - two local math-metal bands - could play insanely complicated music note perfect. They inspired us to raise the bar musically and taught us the work ethic we needed to be a success."

The band was playing around Virginia when Morton moved back from Chicago and re-joined the group. Soon after, Burn the Priest released a self-titled full length album on Legion Records. Abe left soon after, which opened a spot for guitarist, and brother to Chris - Willie Adler.

A year after the second Adler joined, Burn the Priest changed its name to Lamb of God and signed a record deal with Prosthetic Records. The band's independent-debut, New American Gospel, was released in 2000. "This album was all about creating a rhythmic and pummeling musical landscape with riff after riff," explains Morton. Drummer Adler notes: ÒThis is a classic record. We had all the elements come together to make one of the heaviest, yet contagious records of our career. It was difficult to contain us - we didn't even understand at the time what we had created."

Two years of extensive touring to support the album raised Lamb of God's profile before the band released the critically acclaimed, As The Palaces Burn (2003). ATPB won record of the year honors in such notable magazines as Revolver and Metal Hammer while garnering mainstream press in Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly.

The band hit the road again and began headlining tours across the globe. In the fall of 2003 Lamb of God was a co-headliner on the first ever MTV's Headbanger's Ball Tour which elevated Lamb of God beyond the underground. The band then released Terror and Hubris, a DVD featuring early live performances, videos for "Ruin" and "Black Label" and behind-the-scenes footage highlighting the work ethic, humility and sense of humor of one of the most respected and influential bands around today. The DVD proved to be a commercial success as it entered the Billboard Music DVD Charts at #32.

Gradually, Lamb of God's persistence paid off. Their 2003 disc, As The Palaces Burn earned them a new level of respect and admiration, but it was 2004's virulent major label debut (Epic Records) Ashes of the Wake that turned the band into true contenders for the metal throne. By mid 2006, the record had sold over 275,000 copies. Revolver magazine voted it the album of the year, a Guitar World readers poll deemed it best metal album and awarded the band "most valuable players," "best shredders" and "best riffs." The video for "Now You've Got Something to Die For" earned "best video" from both Headbanger's Ball and Revolver. And a DVD chronicling the tour and life on the road with the band, Killadelphia, has gone gold. Lamb of God supported Ashes with more relentless touring, now playing mostly arenas and festivals, starting with a headlining run on Second Stage at Ozzfest 2004, and ending by headlining the North American Sounds of The Undergroud Festival in 2005.

The political angst that fueled the lyrics on As The Palaces Burn continues unabated on Ashes of the Wake. However, Blythe admits that his plans to write songs about personal responsibility quickly changed. "Mark and I write most of the lyrics together, and at the start of this album we agreed that we wanted to concentrate on internal instead of external politics," he explains. "But as we got into it, considering the condition of the world today, we felt obligated as responsible artists to give accurate social commentary, and that meant writing a few indictments against the powers that be."

Mixing a call to arms with a sneering disdain balances Ashes of the Wake. "In the end, I think the album is stronger because we show the relation between internal and external politics instead of just focusing on one or the other," Blythe says. "These songs are a reality check for everyone because they rail against a wrong-headed government and against the apathetic people that ignore the government and allow it to exist."

After Ashes of the Wake, they had been praised as one of the leaders of the new American metal movement, and while they were flattered to be considered part of something so influential, this time they wanted to stand alone. "I believe it's important for us to create a legacy for this band, and I don't want that legacy to be in association with anyone else," Adler says. "In our minds, we're a cut above and we feel like we put out a whole lot more."

Towards the end of 2005, the band stopped all touring and came home to Richmond, VA, to begin writing the next chapter. An intense 8 month writing process followed. "We pretty much killed ourselves working on it five to six days a week for six to eight hours a day," says drummer Chris Adler. "It was important to push ourselves into uncomfortable territory as players. A lot of times one of us would say, 'I'm not sure if I can play that.' The typical response was, 'Well, you've got a year to figure it out.' We pushed ourselves to step it up and threw out a lot of decent material because we were insisting on only the best." One reason Lamb of God pushed so hard is because they wanted to create something that couldn't be classified, categorized or marginalized.

August 22, 2006 brought Sacrament, a stunning example of how diverse, articulate and pummeling metal can be. It's a record that emphasizes just how far the band members have come as players, writers and people and stands as a true testament of triumph over adversity. With Sacrament, Lamb of God has stoked the flames by stripping the flesh to the bone and examining the carnage. The songs are bleak and dark, yet key ingredients of a ride that's as breathless, exhilarating and terrifying as an overdose.

Guitarist and co-lyricist Mark Morton notes the band chose the name Sacrament based on a specific lyrical reference as well as a more general symbolic perspective. "We like it because it employs the idea of the traditional religious Sacrament, which is something you do as ritual to get to a different level of your faith," he says. "Also, I thought it was symbolic in terms of us putting out another record and getting to the next stage of our musical development." "This is definitely a personal record and it's the darkest thing we've ever done," adds Blythe. "It stems from a lot of depression and a fucked up worldview. In the last couple years I've been going through a lot of weird, bad shit."

The biggest difference between Sacrament and Ashes of the Wake is the lyrical content. In the past, Lamb of God has lyrically been motivated by the hypocrisy, greed and turmoil of politics and politicians. This time the band turned within to reveal an even greater source of despair and frustration.

Songs like 'Pathetic' and 'Descending' for instance are about the whirlpool of addiction and alcoholism, 'Walk With Me In Hell' addresses the destruction of codependency and 'Blacken the Cursed Sun' confronts suicidal depression.

"The lyrics were so intense for me, when I was recording, it was like breathing pain instead of breathing air," Blythe says. "So, when it was done, I couldn't listen to the record for another two months. It just took so much out of me to get all this stuff out, I didn't want to touch it right away."

In addition to being unbelievably heavy, Sacrament is a sincere expression of the turmoil that has tumbled through the last few years of the band's existence. In an era of stagnant, contrived metal, Lamb of God is a harrowing rush of honesty, a declaration that no matter what anyone else is playing, Lamb of God will always follow their own hearts.

"This band was started because no one out there was making the music that we wanted to hear," singer Randy Blythe says. "So, we decided to make that music, and from that point it has just been a continuation of that philosophy. We had never changed anything we do to appeal to anyone, appease anyone or seek any sort of approval from anyone other than ourselves."

Source: http://www.lamb-of-god.com/sacrament/info/bio.php

As I Lay Dying Biography

In January of 2001 vocalist Tim Lambesis left Texas-based Societys Finest to return home to San Diego where he and long time friend Evan White began writing music for what would become As I Lay Dying. With a strong vision already in mind they began gathering some of the city's great musicians. Drummer Jordan Mancino had recently left Edge of Mortality, and Brandon Hays, previously of The Frontline, joined later that year. After establishing their new lineup, the bands debut record, "Beneath the Encasing of Ashes", was written in March of 2001 and released on Pluto Records. The album is the top selling Pluto release to date.

Having completed their first tour immediately following their release, these guys have become known for their passionately energetic, neck-snapping performances. Since early 2001 As I Lay Dying has embarked on four major tours and have made a name for themselves across the U.S. They have shared the stage with bands such as:

Poison the Well, In Flames, Hatebreed, Shai-Hulud, Zao, American Nightmare, Bane, From Autumn to Ashes, Sick of it All, Snapcase, Dillinger Escape Plan, Evergreen Terrace, Hopesfall, Nora, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Twelve Tribes, Fall Silent, Curl Up And Die, Stretch Armstrong, Papa Roach, No Innocent Victim, Page 99, Living Sacrifice, The Deadlines, Embodyment, Travail, The Deal, Figure Four, Officer Negative, Norma Jean, Spitfire, Dogwood, Between the Buried and Me, 18 Visions, Bleeding Through, Spoken, Soul Embrace, Point of Recognition, Every Time I Die, Unearth, Andrew W.K., Throwdown, Underoath, Boy Sets Fire and many others.

With a solid and hardworking group of musicians in place, As I Lay Dying was able to write an evolved follow-up to "Beneath the Encasing" released as a split with American Tragedy on June 18, 2002. Since that release, guitarist Jasun Krebs (formerly Edge of Mortality, Wreckingball, Scratchline) joined the band, adding a new dimension to their overall sound and live performance. Through style changes and a dynamic improvement in songwriting, their music continues to develop a heavier, more creative and emotional sound.

AS I LAY DYING is:
Tim Lambesis - vocals, Jordan Mancino - drums, Phil Sqrosso - guitars, Nic

MOSHING TIPS

Moshing…apa itu moshing…bagi mereka yang ga tau apa itu moshing mungkin mengira lagi ada tawuran..hahahaha…moshing identik dengan musik-musik cadas…mereka para penikmat musik cadas atau musik-musik underground mengekfresikan musik tersebut dengan sebuah tarian reflek seperti body slamming, headbanging, dan crowdsurfing yang dilancarkan secara agresif..ya begitulah cara mereka mengekfresikan..mungkin karna musik underground memang musik yang memiliki adrenalin tinggi..masa musiknya underground malah ballet ga mungkin kan jadi ga nyambung dong…ga keliatan deh kesan sangarnya…hahahaha…tapi hati-hati loh saat kita moshing..yang tadinya mau menikmati musik malah cedera dan akhirnya masuk rumah sakit…yang lebih parah lagi…jadi ilang nyawa…ih sereeeeeemmmm!!!! Kalian ga mau kan seperti itu,, saya punya sedikit tips nih biar aman-aman aja…

Nah sebelum kita memasuki Mosh pit (sebutan buat arena moshing) sebelum menjadi bagian dari crowd yang super agresif ini…sebaiknya kita perhatikan dulu cara berpakaian kita deh..yang pastinya pake baju yang nyaman donk..kebayang dong Mosh pit pasti sangat panas dan gerah..namun disarankan pake baju lengan panjang. “hey tambah panas dong!!!”..tar dulu bukan itu maksudnya…maksudnya biar menambah perlindungan, juga bisa menghindarkan diri dari keringat sesama crowd yang pastinya akan sangat banyak melakukan kontak ”up-close-and-personal” dengan kamu..nah kamu pasti bakal banyak ngeluarin keringat kan…makanya bawa air minum yang banyak tapi inget loh bukan miras...hehehe..but don’t drink it in mosh pit area…tar kalo tumpah bisa licin tar ada yang jatoh keinjek-injek gimana ayoo… Kalau terpaksa ingin minum, lakukan di luar mosh pit…

Nah bagian celana sangat penting nih…masa moshing ga pake celana..hahaha..tapi jangan salah banyak juga loh yang melepas celana mereka pada saat moshing entah karna gerah ato hanya pamer aksi ya ga tau jugaapa mau mereka..hindari hal seperti itu…pilih celana panjang yang biasa aja jangan bagus-bagus amat..tar sayang loh kalo rusak trus sobek…yang bagus nya simpan aja dirumah buat kencan sama doi..hehehe.. Pakai combat pants, atau denim yang lebih kuat.

Untuk bagian kaki..hindari pake sandal jepit…pilih sepatu lars, Selain kuat, sepatu lars juga bisa membantu menstabilkan pergelangan kaki. Sepatu lars membuat kaki loe lebih nyaman dan mengurangi resiko cidera. Juga mengurangi resiko luka karena terinjak mosher lain..kebayang kan seandainya kita pake sandal jepit…abis deh tuh kaki di injekin pada saat moshing….

Untuk asesoris hindari pake pin, rantai…kalo sampai merusak baju kamu karna pinnya ketarik mosher lain yang tadinya keren malah brantakan…mana pin nya hasil koleksi..sayang banget kan…kalo pin sama rantai lo yang keren jadi ilang dan merusak pakaian kamu yang tadinya keren..gelang atau kalung, hindari metal-metal yang berbentuk tajam. Bahaya buat mosher lain. Ganti dulu dengan yang berbentuk flat metal, chain, blunt pyramid, atau dome stud. Piercing juga sama. Jangan pakai titanium yang menggantung, soalnya kalau ketarik mosher lain bisa menyobek kulit. Lebih baik lepaskan atau ganti dengan bentuk yang lebih aman seperti stud atau loop.

Saran terakhir dari saya kalo emang pengen bener-bener terhindar dari semua kecelakaan yang terjadi saat moshing…ya jangan ikut-ikutan moshing…hehehehe..VIVA LA METAL!!!!!!!


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