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V&A Scraps Napalm Death Gig For Fear Decibel Levels Will Damage Sculptures
An anonymous reader writes "The Victoria and Albert Museum has cancelled an 'experimental' concert by a death metal rock band amid fears that the high decibel levels could destroy some of its most treasured artefacts, including Ming vases and priceless sculptures. The British band planned to play inside a specially-constructed ceramic sculpture with the idea that the piece would explode under the force of hits such as Order of the Leech and Fear, Emptiness, Despair"
I believe this "death metal rock" is known as "grindcore." Maybe they should book Manowar next.
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Maybe they should just play You Suffer (the shortest song ever recorded at 1.316 seconds long) to see if the structure will hold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Suffer
Napalm Death is most certain not grindcore. The death metal appelation is correct.
Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.
Technoli
I believe this "death metal rock" is known as "grindcore."
This is how I know I'm old.
I believe no True Headbanging Scotsman would ever use the ridiculous term, "grindcore".
The planned ceramic sculpture was was only built to 18cm scale instead of the agreed upon 18 meters.
Isn't Napalm Death a band from the t.v. show "Skins"?
I'd pay good money to see that \m/ Grindcore FTW.
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Invite GWAR. They can be the sculpture *and* the band.
In the immortal words of Socrates, who said; 'I drank what?'
If I had any emotions left over after my daily Lexapro doping I would be outraged that the OP has no idea what grindcore is, you uncultured... guy. Whatever.
Fellas,
Grindcore is a term for the hybrid between death metal and extreme punk hardcore. It grew out of the crust scene (Amebix, Discharge) and the thrash scene (Cryptic Slaughter, DRI, COC, MDC) of the early 1980s.
Coming just a few years later, it used punk style tunes with metal riffs and the "Motorhead-influenced" gravel voice noisy vocals.
All members of Napalm Death had previous experience in crust punk bands, and were tight with other crust punkers like Extreme Noise Terror, whose sound is very similar to Napalm Death's.
In their later years, 1991 and on, Napalm Death took on more influences from death metal bands. However, it is a mistake to consider them death metal, because in spirit and outlook, they're very much punk and choose to keep themselves separate from the metal community.
Read the motherfarkin' heavy metal FAQ:
http://www.deathmetal.org/faq
John Cage - 4'33. Should be pretty safe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3
So..., that's another word for "aimed at adolescent males", then?
Why Napalm Death? There are a lot better deathmetal bands out there. There are even a lot louder bands. I've been to thousands of concerts, and I can tell you that... BY FAR... the loudest live band on earth is MotorHead. I've seen them several times and still had ringing in my ears despite earplugs. Metallica would be a distant 2nd, but they suck total ass now so forget them. If I had to pick, I would have went with Vader. They're still touring, still very good... and aren't just some dudes that took over the band name like Napalm Death is.
Maybe they should play their death metal / grindcore at low volume. They could be the quietest metal band on earth.
>death metal rock band
Why do americans put the metal genre under the "rock" tag? IMO metal is so vast that it should be considered a separate genre. Not a subgenre of rock.
OP is a fag
I hereby nominate this post for Slashdot's Most Obfuscated Post Title of the year.
Seriously, the title gives absolutely no clue what the article is about. Not everyone lives in your town, goes to your museum, or listens to your death metal.
Necron69
I saw them in 91, it was my first death metal show. I think I wore that shirt for the whole first week of high school that year. Awesome....
andy
Bolt Thrower or Cathedral. Both are English, both are still active, and both would have performed in sculptures much sturdier than a pile of Birmingham bricks.
I figure two British tanks gutted out on the inside for Bolt Thrower and a Gallows Stage for Cathedral.
Of course if their message was about poverty and the effects of class within society, they could have spent the money they would have spent on this in a donation to soup kitchen or homeless shelter.
Anaal Nathrakh. Formally a two man band that now records and plays live with members of Napalm Death, both are from Birmingham. I am sure a few of their songs could easily destroy a sculpture, as well as anyone and anything in the vicinity.
I always know when I'm listening to the wrong music, cause it has a "scene".....this works with music, cars, and just about anywhere else the word "scene" is used to indicate hip.
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Go back to your lazy-boy grandad, before you break your "scene".
Cathedral's founding vocalist, Lee Dorrian, was one of the original vocalists of Napalm Death and can be heard on Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration.
Most people consider Cathedral to be doom metal.
Futurist Traditionalism
Not all of us do, and in fact, I'm very glad to meet someone else who agrees with me that this is an important distinction.
Metal is its own genre, composed by its own standards. It emerged from rock (specifically, prog rock, soundtracks to horror films, loud hard rock and early punk combined) but it is not rock.
If you're up for some analytical historical data, would you read The Heavy Metal F.A.Q.?
Futurist Traditionalism
It grew out of the crust scene
I'm not sure if it's from a film, but round here whenever someone names a new music genre, we finish our drinks.
("Have you heard of Refrigerated Gore Goblin? They're a new transient math-art glitch dub-rap acidcore psy-d-m jazz group, they played in Dalston last weekend.")
I always know when I'm listening to the wrong music, cause it has a "scene".....this works with music, cars, and just about anywhere else the word "scene" is used to indicate hip.
"Scene" essentially means "fans" or "hobbyists". You may as well apply the term to football, fishing, film or philately. Or anything else more than one person has an interest in.
(Can you give an example of music without a scene? One of my colleagues likes going to see operas, but he obviously has other friends who do the same, and they swap recommendations and go to concerts together. That's a 'scene'.)
We subject our most sensitive sense organs, capable when undaaged of hearing the merest whisper, to clearly illegal and to this reader's mind immoral levels of amplitude, all in the name of something few can explain adequately.
What percentage of most audiences would not prefer the same performance at a more tolerable sound level?
I'm old, but I felt this way when I wasn't. And I'm a trumpeter! (Usually we sit in the back, fortunately for us.)
Sigh.
Fellas,
Grindcore is a term for the hybrid between death metal and extreme punk hardcore.
Yes! But grindcore is easily differentiated from both death metal and hardcore punk in that to play grindcore you neither need to understand more than one tempo, nor know how to play your instruments nor give a fuck. True death metal practitioners practice incessantly to perfect their craft, odd as it may be, and hardcore musicisans, while generally not giving a fuck, do (somewhat ironically) conform to a particular sound and style. Grindcore is, well, more like noise created by non-musicians who think simply holding a guitar, drumsticks, or a microphone automatically makes one a musician. To each his own I say, but grindcore just sucks.
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So if your music really has no scene of its own, it must be one of two things: swing music, since the fad revival it enjoyed briefly 10-15 years ago has mercifully ended and no one listens to it again, or harpsichord music, which has been dead for a long time, thankfully. You must be too underground and cool for anything else. Or perhaps you just don't do music?
Even opera has a definite "scene," though I have never been exposed to it, which is okay.
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(Can you give an example of music without a scene? One of my colleagues likes going to see operas, but he obviously has other friends who do the same, and they swap recommendations and go to concerts together. That's a 'scene'.)
Hmm, maybe hobo music? I suppose there may still be a hobo scene, unless no one rides boxcars anymore due to the litigious nature of contemporary society. Any other type of music has its own scene, if said music currently exists.
Real country doesn't have much of a scene anymore. It has been supplanted by country-pop wannabe cowboys who seem to be contractually obligated to include one song about a tractor on every album, regardless of whether they have ever lived or worked on a farm.
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because no-one's done that yet
Your quest doesn't end here. There are sub-genres of grindcore.
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