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Post by Thomas Eversole on Jan 24, 2015 16:39:22 GMT -6
Country.
I'm serious. HAHA!!!
I had the idea because, well... I'm deep in black metal, and my girlfriend is a country girl through and through. I thought mixing the two would be... challenging. ...and I don't mean like in a goofy parody kind of way. I mean a legitimate marriage of the genres.
Here's my thoughts.
Drums - I'd have the "fast and slow" types - like Marduk and newer Dark Funeral have done. (like slower songs and faster songs) The slower songs I could make more reminiscent of country beats, and of course - blast beats to bring in the black.
Guitars - I was thinking of having mostly tremolo, but cutting out the distortion. Like black metal structure and melody, but country/acoustic in sound.
Synth - a single violin soundfont fits in both genres if you ask me
Vocals - here's the biggest change, at least for me. Clean vocals and even with a southern twang. (I pulled it off on a joke song I did for my brother, and I think I could make it work in this genre) I don't think I'd have harsh vocals at all.
Lyrics - Nature oriented seems to fit in both realms. Would be extremely easy to make it a Christian project as well. Definitely not beer, trucks, girls in t-shirts - *hurls* ...or "grim" in nature, like a lot of second wave.
LOL - thoughts?
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Post by Wolf on Jan 27, 2015 0:42:12 GMT -6
I can see it working. Like people say, there's only two types of music, good and bad. I could also picture a "back and forth" blending between the two styles as interesting if done tastefully.
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Post by Kerrick on Jan 27, 2015 11:37:35 GMT -6
I think that could actually be quite cool! I loath [modern pop] country, but some of the older, darker, more morose stuff I think could be paired really well. Are you familiar with gothic americana Thomas? Not exactly what you're talking about, but some of these might be of inspiration.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Jan 27, 2015 22:58:00 GMT -6
Hmmm.... The atmosphere from those videos is intriguing. I like it. Strumming annoys me with guitars - which is why I don't do it ever.
Finger picking and tremolo would be it.
Granted, the music I'd make would sound more... black metal-ish though.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 12, 2015 6:57:53 GMT -6
Well, I gave the country black metal a shot. The song I made was actually mostly country because I used it (and the lyrics) to propose to my girlfriend.
She loved it, of course - and said yes. Which is awesome... ...but I didn't really like the song because of the vocals.
The drumming and acoustic guitar were fine, and I could pull off a black atmosphere. ...but the country vocals completely backwatered the song and entirely changed the music's atmosphere.
Like putting cilantro in salsa. That one little ingredient completely changes the taste of salsa.
Dunno if I'll do any more of this except for songs for her. Different vocals would just make it sound like acoustic metal.
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Post by Kerrick on Feb 12, 2015 10:52:02 GMT -6
First, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Dude, that is so awesome! I wish you two the very best in your marriage. Hmm... I think you should post a video of the song here!
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 13, 2015 0:23:52 GMT -6
I'd be way too embarrassed! LOL ...and thank you!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 1:18:41 GMT -6
Gratz Tom!!
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 13, 2015 11:31:37 GMT -6
Thanks guys. She's definitely a keeper and not bat shiz crazy like the one I divorced. (Some of you know I tried everything to save that marriage regardless) Not many girls like this left. She knits, sows, cooks, cleans. (Well, doesn't clean as much as I do.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 11:35:18 GMT -6
Congratulations! I wish you all the best
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Post by Kerrick on Feb 13, 2015 11:40:07 GMT -6
Wahoo! Aww you two look great together. She sounds like quite the catch indeed. She have any quality friends in the Santa Cruz area?
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 13, 2015 22:08:14 GMT -6
HAHA!! Sorry, we're just simple folk stuck in the frigid mid west. I met her on OkCupid. A lot of people stereotype that all you're going to meet are freaks and thieves with online dating...
I disagree. I met a lot of people I enjoyed dating and spending time with. I only had one bad experience and a few awkward ones ...and this was all after I got divorced and wanted to date someone that wasn't from work.
Actually went a little crazy with the dates post marriage. I think I was trying to compensate for her absence? : /
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 9:37:51 GMT -6
wow tom, you look way different than the time me, you, keith and jim all hung out at cornerstone and went to steak n shake like lol felt like it was 100 miles away tho lol good times. i guess 15 yrs will do that lol
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 14, 2015 13:36:24 GMT -6
I don't remember the Steak and Shake, but I do remember Keith thinking the rental car was a piece of junk because it wouldn't go over 40mph on the interstate. (And then he figured out the parking break was on) HAHA!
Abingdon!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 18:26:50 GMT -6
roflmao Abingdon!!!! I think that should be the name of the next Ankou Awaits cd "Abingdon"
roflmao
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 15, 2015 2:17:27 GMT -6
HAHAHAHA!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 12:53:15 GMT -6
I realize that I forgot to reply on this black metal country thing a long time ago... It got me thinking of this song by Taake (Not a Christian band at all, rather the opposite) I find it to be quite hilarious when the banjo kicks in at about 3:25... Here´s "Myr":
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Feb 3, 2016 13:14:39 GMT -6
I had the idea of mixing country and black metal a few years ago, but never went anywhere with it. It's something to consider for the future. At least for an EP or something. It has potential, but you'd have to be pretty careful with how it was written. It'd be pretty easy to end up in parody territory. This isn't really what we're talking about in this thread, but you might find it interesting: Dustt - Testigos del dolor
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Post by xianmetaldoc on Mar 10, 2016 13:07:10 GMT -6
I could definitely see some black metal covers of Johnny Cash or outlaw country songs, even some of the really old stuff where they were basically singing folk ballads. Some of those folk ballads are really dark.
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