DOOM METAL
Let me tell you a story. Back in 2014, when I was at the 1st Grade of High School I got really hooked on Metal music. Actually I was the only girl in my class to listen to that genre. Of course, I loved world music, especially Irish folk, but Metal was my teenage "boom". Every month I used to buy the Metal Hammer magazine and ran straight to school, where I'd meet a good friend of mine, whose great love was Black Metal. Well, although I like some Black Metal bands, I hate the fact that the majority of those keep a Nazi ideology. I used to sit at the back of the class with this friend of mine and we'd read through the magazine and talk about music all day.
And the whole story I'm going to talk about started THIS summer: August 2014. I was spending summer holiday with my family in Cefalonia and it was those days that my parents had travelled to Ithaca, as my father was part of a conference. So, I stayed back with my brother, Socrates. I remembered I was sitting downstairs listening to Nightwish's album, Dark Passion Play, when it dawned on me that I had to go upstairs to his room to see what he was doing. I found him listening to Metal music and was overexcited about it. In fact, he was listening to Doom Metal. I was really sceptical towards this at first, because I'd associated that with Black Metal stuff. But it was not.
I went to my computer and checked a few bands of them. I'll name just two. Bathory and Agalloch. Sadly, both of those are inactive, as Quorthon from Bathory is dead since 2004 and Agalloch disbanded in 2016. (I was tearing my hair when I missed the chance I had to see them live!). I just put headphones on and started listening to those two bands at top volume. Thank goodness I didn't harm my ears. But it was a feeling I'm sure I'll never have again. It's a feeling that only a 16-year-old child can have. I was there listening to Doom Metal and I was feeling again that I was in my dreamland. I was where I wanted to be. It was a vast thing that kept going and those lyrics...those lyrics about nature and beautiful landscape made me feel like YEAH!!! I want to go to Scandinavia. I want to go trekking somewhere in Norway or Finland. Somewhere in Lapland and stay forever.
I downloaded the whole discography of Agalloch and Bathory and for 5 days until my parents came back, I was doing nothing else than listening to that. I was really hooked with Agalloch's "The Mantle" album and Bathory's "Hammerheart" and "Twillight of the Gods" and of course I was listening a lot to "The Lake" too. Looking back to it, though, I realise that the fact that enjoyed it so much was weird, because this is a really dark music. But you see, I was a really dark person too, so the connection is obvious. It was like I subconsciously felt a sympathy towards those artists and it was like I said "Yeah, that's what I feel too. Just take me to a forest and leave me there with the birds".
When summer ended, I went back home and it was then when I wrote my first real song, which of course haven't shown it to anybody. It was called "The Cold Death" and its title was inspired by an Agalloch song called "...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth". I have actually played its piano beginning in my previous band, but nothing more. "The Cold Death" is completely recorded on my synthesizer and saved on my computer files, since then. And yeah! It sounds like an acoustic ambient song actually but if you add electric guitar and drums to it, you can see its doom metal infliences. And funnily enough, there are 2-3 songs that I wrote afterwards but the music is COMPLETELY different. Those songs are actually Celtic folk and soundtrack music.
Well, I might introduce "The Cold Death" in Fantasy Choir someday...
So, if you like to get a taste of what I mean, I encourage you to press the following links.
This is an acoustic song, with which "The Mantle" opens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuMh2GXTZuo
and it is followed by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yo9zPfmVEc
This is the song, which inspired me to write "The Cold Death"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLLYt-2SaZ8
My 4 favourite Bathory songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0pwnkocCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFHHnCbqpoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCUx5WKIZ1E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y06RD2Md0Y
Sadly nowadays, I rarely listen to those songs and when I do I have completely different feelings about them. But of course, I still love them.
And the whole story I'm going to talk about started THIS summer: August 2014. I was spending summer holiday with my family in Cefalonia and it was those days that my parents had travelled to Ithaca, as my father was part of a conference. So, I stayed back with my brother, Socrates. I remembered I was sitting downstairs listening to Nightwish's album, Dark Passion Play, when it dawned on me that I had to go upstairs to his room to see what he was doing. I found him listening to Metal music and was overexcited about it. In fact, he was listening to Doom Metal. I was really sceptical towards this at first, because I'd associated that with Black Metal stuff. But it was not.
I went to my computer and checked a few bands of them. I'll name just two. Bathory and Agalloch. Sadly, both of those are inactive, as Quorthon from Bathory is dead since 2004 and Agalloch disbanded in 2016. (I was tearing my hair when I missed the chance I had to see them live!). I just put headphones on and started listening to those two bands at top volume. Thank goodness I didn't harm my ears. But it was a feeling I'm sure I'll never have again. It's a feeling that only a 16-year-old child can have. I was there listening to Doom Metal and I was feeling again that I was in my dreamland. I was where I wanted to be. It was a vast thing that kept going and those lyrics...those lyrics about nature and beautiful landscape made me feel like YEAH!!! I want to go to Scandinavia. I want to go trekking somewhere in Norway or Finland. Somewhere in Lapland and stay forever.
I downloaded the whole discography of Agalloch and Bathory and for 5 days until my parents came back, I was doing nothing else than listening to that. I was really hooked with Agalloch's "The Mantle" album and Bathory's "Hammerheart" and "Twillight of the Gods" and of course I was listening a lot to "The Lake" too. Looking back to it, though, I realise that the fact that enjoyed it so much was weird, because this is a really dark music. But you see, I was a really dark person too, so the connection is obvious. It was like I subconsciously felt a sympathy towards those artists and it was like I said "Yeah, that's what I feel too. Just take me to a forest and leave me there with the birds".
When summer ended, I went back home and it was then when I wrote my first real song, which of course haven't shown it to anybody. It was called "The Cold Death" and its title was inspired by an Agalloch song called "...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth". I have actually played its piano beginning in my previous band, but nothing more. "The Cold Death" is completely recorded on my synthesizer and saved on my computer files, since then. And yeah! It sounds like an acoustic ambient song actually but if you add electric guitar and drums to it, you can see its doom metal infliences. And funnily enough, there are 2-3 songs that I wrote afterwards but the music is COMPLETELY different. Those songs are actually Celtic folk and soundtrack music.
Well, I might introduce "The Cold Death" in Fantasy Choir someday...
So, if you like to get a taste of what I mean, I encourage you to press the following links.
This is an acoustic song, with which "The Mantle" opens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuMh2GXTZuo
and it is followed by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yo9zPfmVEc
This is the song, which inspired me to write "The Cold Death"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLLYt-2SaZ8
My 4 favourite Bathory songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0pwnkocCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFHHnCbqpoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCUx5WKIZ1E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y06RD2Md0Y
Sadly nowadays, I rarely listen to those songs and when I do I have completely different feelings about them. But of course, I still love them.
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