Artists use instrumentation, vocal technique, and production technology to create precise tone colours, and connotations through timbre.
Movements
The moral panic that heavy metal has been subjected to is not only constitutive, at least in part, of metal scenes, but is encoded in metal’s transgression itself.
Phil Anselmo is back. Barely five months ago, he re-re-re-confirmed what a lot of people already knew, which is that he is a cretinous jackass. Last January, Phil Anselmo appeared on stage at the perhaps fittingly named Dimebash and closed out the...
Preceding and throughout the first half of the 1980s, certain frequently British-based compositions and photographs of the paramount post-punk atmosphere became crystallized into an identifiable tendency. While various factors stayed involved, it is...