Word: metallism
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Some critics describe "Love Hope" as a "direct throwing-down-of-the-gauntlet to the Van Halen, Guns N' Roses mind set," and indeed, the techno-pop/heavy metal connection is very hard to imagine...
...song comes off exactly as described, full metal to the end. It exemplifies the diversity and talent of a band that has been around for 12 years...
...their feet is a giant ring weighted down by about 300 keys to campus buildings. The visitor is separated from the officers by a plexiglass window and metal bars, and is flanked on both sides by doors that cannot be opened from the inside...
...sharply segregated categories as Christian Rap, Acid Jazz and Grunge Rock, and it can be created, almost untouched by human hands, with something called a Musical Instrument Digital Interface. The two major currents of pop today have much to do with attitude and little to do with musicality: heavy metal speaks to priapic barbarism, and rap is so belligerent that for some it verges on antimusic...
These days -- these moments -- it's Seattle. One band after another has sprung from the environs of the city's fast-lane bar scene onto the national charts. The lyrical metal band Queensryche has sold more than 2 million copies of its album Empire. Alice in Chains, which lays down a kind of altered- consciousness heavy metal -- the Doors, slamming -- is approaching platinum-level sales with Facelift. Nevermind, by the Seattle-area trio Nirvana, has sold 3.5 million, and the group's single Smells Like Teen Spirit, with its arch lyric ironies and crusher guitar chords, hit Billboard...