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Certif1ed · 09-07-2009, 03:02 AM

I will check them out - never heard of them before.

I agree that metal music is almost never "rooted" in classical music - rather it is almost invariably rooted in metal.

To take Malmsteen as an example, while the licks and a few techinques (such as cycle of fifths) are taken from (mostly) Baroque music, the music is usually in a hugely simplified song format.

The concept of development is all but lost - and that was a key part of "Classical" music (to use the generic umbrella term!).

Avant-garde rarely truly exists - I'd like to hear some that isn't based on improvisations that use an "old" mode.

Covering Vivaldi isn't new - Dutch band Ekseption were doing that in the early 1970s.

But this is an interesting topic - I tend not to take Classically influenced metal too seriously, as it tends to be metal that sounds a bit Classical rather than truly Classical that sounds metal - but if there is any that really does root itself more in Classical than metal, I'd be interested to hear it.

09-07-2009, 03:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
Certif1ed Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 194	I will check them out - never heard of them before. I agree that metal music is almost never "rooted" in classical music - rather it is almost invariably rooted in metal. To take Malmsteen as an example, while the licks and a few techinques (such as cycle of fifths) are taken from (mostly) Baroque music, the music is usually in a hugely simplified song format. The concept of development is all but lost - and that was a key part of "Classical" music (to use the generic umbrella term!). Avant-garde rarely truly exists - I'd like to hear some that isn't based on improvisations that use an "old" mode. Covering Vivaldi isn't new - Dutch band Ekseption were doing that in the early 1970s. But this is an interesting topic - I tend not to take Classically influenced metal too seriously, as it tends to be metal that sounds a bit Classical rather than truly Classical that sounds metal - but if there is any that really does root itself more in Classical than metal, I'd be interested to hear it.