Fronted by a tattooed clothing designer and influenced by death metal, grindcore, and emo, Bring Me The Horizon
aren't the average deathcore band. The group was formed in 2004 from
the ashes of several Sheffield-based outfits, with the 2003 Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean serving as the inspiration for the band's name. Singer Oliver Sykes(who has a clothes brando called Drop Dead, guitarists Lee Malania and Curtis Ward, bassist Matt Kean, and drummer Matt Nicholls initially established their own label, Thirty Days of Night, to release their debut EP, 2005's This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For. BMTH's full-length debut, Count Your Blessings, appeared in October 2006, with an American release following one year later courtesy of Epitaph Records.
With their second album, Suicide Season, BMTH
moved in a more accessible direction and wound up cracking the U.K.
album charts. Not everyone approved of the new sound, though, and Ward left the band in early 2009. His temporary replacement was Jona Weinhofen, formerly a member of I Killed The Prom Queen. Weinhofen ended up staying with the band as a permanent member, and the group returned to the studio with producer Fredric Monstond in March 2010 to begin work on a third album. The resulting Ther is a hell, believe me I've seen it, There Is A Heaven, Let's Keep In Secret was released during the latter half of 2010, several months after the
band wrapped up its engagement with the Warped Tour. A fourth album, the
more atmospheric Sempiternal, arrived on Epitaph in 2013.
martes, 25 de noviembre de 2014
NIRVANA
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Noveselist in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grolh,
who joined the band in 1990. Despite releasing only three full-length
studio albums in their seven-year career, Nirvana has come to be
regarded as one of the most influential and important rock bands of the
modern era. In the late 1980s Nirvana established itself as part of the Seattle grunge scene, releasing its first album Bleach for the independent record label Sub Pop
in 1989. The band eventually came to develop a sound that relied on
dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses.
After signing to major label DGC Records, Nirvana found unexpected success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the first single from the band's second album Nevermind (1991). Nirvana's sudden success widely popularized alternative rock
as a whole, and the band's frontman Cobain found himself referred to in
the media as the "spokesman of a generation", with Nirvana being
considered the "flagship band" of Generation X. In response, Nirvana's third studio album, In Utero
(1993), featured an abrasive, less-mainstream sound and challenged the
group's audience. The album did not match the sales figures of Nevermind but was still a commercial success and critically acclaimed.
Nirvana's brief run ended following the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994, but various posthumous releases have been issued since, overseen by Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobain's widow Courtney Love.
Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the
United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide, making them
one of the best-selling bands of all time Nirvana was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2014, its first year of eligibility.
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lunes, 24 de noviembre de 2014
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
New Jersey's poppy emocore outfit My Chemical Romance, fronted by
vocalist Gerard Way, debuted with
I Brought You My Bullets (2002), whose sonic palette was rather
monotonous but was highlighted by introspective stories a` la Smiths.
The music rose up to match the standard of the lyrics on
Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004), that contained the catchy hit I'm Not OK and The Ghost of You.
My Chemical Romance's project sounded like a harder version of the old
punk-pop of bands such as Cheap Treat.
The band reached its lyrical peak with
the concept The Black Parade (2006), a sequence of songs that indirectly
paid tribute to heavy-metal and classic rock, and generally displayed a more
mature and confident posture
(Dead, The End).
Desolation Row (2009) sounds a lot like vintage Sex Pistols with a hard-rock guitar.
The rock opera
Danger Days - The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010)
has too much fluff to stand on its own musical merits,
although the hysterical rap-voodoobilly Vampire Money and the
satanic disco romp Planetary Go rank among their best revisionist ideas.
The demented power-pop single Na Na Na,
the catchy arena singalong Bulletproof Heart
and the furious metal attack Destroya are, instead, misguided attempts at
delivering the knock-out hit.