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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.
Disaster Area - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_Area_%28fictional_band%29#Hotblack_Desiato
The Who? Pink Floyd? Disaster Area????
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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
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
The planned ceramic sculpture was was only built to 18cm scale instead of the agreed upon 18 meters.
Smash the art smash the art!!!
They did, by cancelling the gig in which they smash the art. By doing so they can deconstruct the event of smashing the purpose-built sculpture.
It's pretty clever stuff.
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.
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
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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Bolt Thrower maybe, but even when death metal was the only thing I listened to Cathedral were fucking ghey, I can't imagine how you'd consider them death metal.
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'.)
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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