Yeah! I am going to describe what is math rock! So, as what it's called, it is very "math" as a kind of music. It constantly change it's tempo and speed to create a new feeling. Sounds weird? Yes, it's really hard to accept this kind of music when you first listen to these songs, so am I hahaha. But if you pay more attention to listen to it, you will find they have their reason to do this strange things, because they still want people to appreciate their songs!
It's hard to tell you that how to appreciate this kind of songs, so let's try some "weird" songs!!!
Before we start to listen, in Asia, there are lots of amazing math rock band deserve you listen to it!
Today I am going to tell you an amazing music style called Electronicore(電扣). Trough its name, we can clearly know that it's the combination of metal core and electronic music. Sounds very distinctive right? It's features are also very easy to tell. It has metal core's features : break down and screamed voice, and also clean voice. The difference between electronicore and metal core is that it use that of electronic elements in it's songs. It use synthesizer(合成器) to create lots of distinguish sound that traditional instrument can't make it, making songs become more interesting and grooving. With these two straightforward features, it's not surprise to know that eletronicore is very popular in the rock music. Let me introduce a fantastic eletronicore band to you: Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas
So, this week I am going to talk about Grunge Rock(油漬搖滾). It's called grunge because in this kind of songs, their songs usually have "dirty" guitar sound. Yes, very dirty in contrast to the clean tone. The adjective dirty means that guitarists use lots of gain to make it sounds like "沙沙沙", and we describe this sound as dirty sound.
The features of grunge rock can be concluded to the following points. First, it often in slow temple, despite that they originally came from punk rock, which is a fast speed music. Second, in it's lyric, there are lots of negative words, related to writers' anger, sadness, or something antiestablishment.
When you listen to grunge rock music, you can feel their strong emotions. That is why grunge rock is so charming, it's easy for me to fall into their story and cry as I listen their songs.
Nickelback is my favorite grunge rock band, I recommend the to you.
This kind of music is a genre of extreme metal and hardcore punk, and it put more emphasis on break down, which means a slow and intense passages in a song.
It's characteristic can be described in different aspects. First, in vocals, it's usually use screamed vocals,or use it with clean voice, usually in the bridge of a song, and screamed vocal in the main song and break down, creating different feelings and grooving. Second, in instrumental aspects, drummers often use double bass(雙踏) to create a heavy groove and powerful feelings. Other bands may also add lots of melody in their songs, also called melodic metal core (旋律金屬核). This kind of bands include "As I Lay Dying", "Dead By April", "Bullet For My Valentines". In ideology, because there are lots of christian metal core bands, the lyric often related to their religion, such as "the Devil Wears Prada".
Japanese metal core band - Cold rain
In this songs, it's clear that you can hear their vocalist use scream voice and clean voice in turn in different patterns.
