scholarly journals Metal Medallo: el estertor como estética de la violencia en Medellín de los años ochenta

Author(s):  
Juan Diego Parra Valencia ◽  
Mónica Alejandra Herrera Coronado ◽  
Juan Francisco Sans Moreira
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Uno de los problemas clásicos de la investigación musical estriba en vincular de algún modo las estructuras sonoras de una época, con su correlato social, económico político y cultural. No obstante, esta correlación se hace más obvia en épocas de crisis, como ocurrió con la eclosión del Metal Medallo, y la guerra entre el narcotráfico y el estado colombiano en la Medellín de la década de los ochenta. En ese contexto surge Alex Oquendo —figura icónica del death metal— que al día de hoy continúa siendo un referente insoslayable del canto gutural o growl. A pesar de la evidente relación entre la agresividad de su voz, y la violencia extrema desatada en el país, hasta ahora no se habían publicado estudios sobre el particular. A partir de ideas como vocalidad y embodiment, trataremos de explicar cómo y por qué la escena del Metal Medallo no es sólo efecto sino premonición de la violencia desatada en esa época, y el estertor —la “voz de la muerte”— su más conspicuo reflejo. Además, haremos un breve ejercicio de comparación de una canción emblemática del heavy metal de esa época —“Todo hombre es una historia”— cantada por Elkin Ramírez líder de la reconocida agrupación Kraken, con la versión que hace Oquendo en voz gutural acompañado por la misma banda.

Popular Music ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-297
Author(s):  
Kieran James ◽  
Rex Walsh

AbstractWe trace the history of Indonesian Islamic metal bands, including Purgatory, Tengkorak and Kodusa, and the One Finger Movement that revolved around these bands (centred mainly on Jakarta). We look at the differences in symbols, heroes, rituals and values between One Finger Movement bands and the Bandung (Indonesia) secular Death Metal scene. We also study Bandung Death Metal band Saffar, which was known for its Islamic lyrics on its debut album but which has been for a few years in something of a limbo owing to the departure of vocalist and lyricist Parjo. We also look at Saffar's positioning of itself as a ‘secular’ band with Islamic and Anti-Zionist lyrical themes rather than as an Islamic bandper se. This dichotomy can be best explained by the phrase ‘a band of Muslims rather than a Muslim band’. The secular Bandung scene context is a significant explanatory factor here.


Author(s):  
Ross Hagen

This chapter explores a particular manifestation of heavy metal medievalism through the echoes of fin’amor and courtly love poetry in the music of doom metal and Gothic metal bands like My Dying Bride and Cradle of Filth. Fin’amor poetry and literature, developed primarily by French troubadours in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, typically involves the objectification of a married aristocratic or royal lady as a quasi-deified figure before which the male troubadour performs a kind of worshipful self-debasement. The fin’amor dynamic is also considered from the opposite side, through female-fronted Gothic metal bands like Within Temptation, Nightwish, and Theatre of Tragedy. Bands of this nature often present the female singer as an ethereal and spiritually powerful force, effectively embodying the deified aristocratic lady of the fin’amor tradition. These singers typically employ a powerful operatic vocal style and are often juxtaposed with male death metal singers in a twin lead vocal pairing referred to as beauty and the beast, a term that not only describes the vocal tones but also hints at the gendered roles these singers enact. These echoes of fin’amor in metal exemplify the genre’s enduring fascination with the Middle Ages and illustrate the genre’s deep connections to other medievalist cultural forms and to its cultural environment more generally.


CLARA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bente Kiilerich

The concepts ‘classical antiquity’ and ‘heavy metal music’ may appear to be worlds apart. Not only are they separated chronologically but each belongs to an entirely different habitus. While the classical is associated with tradition, good taste and harmony, heavy metal is, at least by some, associated with the very opposite: the breaking of tradition, bad taste and disharmony. And yet, as the present book shows, a very large number of heavy metal bands reference antiquity in various ways, including exponents of Thrash Metal, characterised by speed and aggressiveness; Death Metal, characterised by macabre subject matter and growling vocals; Black Metal with related subject matter but less polished style, and other subgenres. Bands from countries ranging from Greece and Italy to Scandinavia incorporate classical quotations in their lyrics or rewrite ancient texts and myths. Some sing in Greek or Latin, others in Italian or English. The titles of songs, such as Hymn to Apollo, Hymn to Zeus, Medusa and so on, further show the classical inspiration.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose M. Garza Jr.

Over the past fifteen years, much of the music-theoretical scholarship on heavy metal has addressed metric processes (Lucas 2019, Capuzzo 2018, Hannan 2018, Lucas 2018, Lennard 2016, Smialek 2008, Pieslak 2007) and the use of the voice (Smialek 2017, Young 2018). A significant portion of the literature deals with the band Meshuggah, but the music of countless artists scattered across manifold subgenres remains unexplored. Widening the focus on such a large repertoire not only helps remedy this issue, but serves to inform one recent music-theoretical topic that relies on a broad stylistic understanding: time feels. To date, scholars have mainly limited the discussion of time feels to the kick and snare drums (e.g., de Clercq 2016), and indeed, these instruments ultimately determine a feel. I argue, however, that different uses of guitar, bass, and cymbals can reinforce, clarify, or contradict the feel laid down by the kick and snare. In this article, I describe several categories of guitar and bass riff types and timekeeping cymbals. I then discuss how their associations with certain time-feel contexts inform further analyses. To this end, I draw from post-millennial metal music in various subgenres including black metal, death metal, doom metal, grindcore, metalcore, progressive metal, sludge metal, and thrash metal.


Author(s):  
K. N. Colonna ◽  
G. Oliphant

Harmonious use of Z-contrast imaging and digital image processing as an analytical imaging tool was developed and demonstrated in studying the elemental constitution of human and maturing rabbit spermatozoa. Due to its analog origin (Fig. 1), the Z-contrast image offers information unique to the science of biological imaging. Despite the information and distinct advantages it offers, the potential of Z-contrast imaging is extremely limited without the application of techniques of digital image processing. For the first time in biological imaging, this study demonstrates the tremendous potential involved in the complementary use of Z-contrast imaging and digital image processing.Imaging in the Z-contrast mode is powerful for three distinct reasons, the first of which involves tissue preparation. It affords biologists the opportunity to visualize biological tissue without the use of heavy metal fixatives and stains. For years biologists have used heavy metal components to compensate for the limited electron scattering properties of biological tissue.


Author(s):  
Heinz Gross ◽  
Katarina Krusche ◽  
Peter Tittmann

Freeze-drying followed by heavy metal shadowing is a long established and straight forward approach to routinely study the structure of dehydrated macromolecules. Very thin specimens such as isolated membranes or single macromolecules are directly adsorbed on C-coated grids. After rapid freezing the grids are transferred into a suitable vacuum equipment for freeze-drying and heavy metal shadowing.To improve the resolution power of shadowing films we introduced shadowing at very low specimen temperature (−250°C). To routinely do that without the danger of contamination we developed in collaboration with Balzers an UHV (p≤10-9 mbar) machine (BAF500K, Fig.2). It should be mentioned here that at −250°C the specimen surface acts as effective cryopump for practically all impinging residual gas molecules from the residual gas atmosphere.Common high resolution shadowing films (Pt/C, Ta/W) have to be protected from alterations due to air contact by a relatively thick C-backing layer, when transferred via atmospheric conditions into the TEM. Such an additional C-coat contributes disturbingly to the contrast at high resolution.


2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
WILLIAM G. WILKOFF
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2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Trappe

Zusammenfassung. Musik (M) spielt im Leben eines jeden Menschen nicht nur eine wichtige Rolle, sondern hat auch Effekte auf Herzfrequenz (HF), Herzfrequenzvariabilität (HRV) und auf andere physiologische Parameter. Bei Musikern sind die Beeinflussungen von HF, HRV und autonomen Nervensystem größer als bei Musik-Zuhörern. Obgleich M als subjektives Empfinden zu interpretieren ist, zeigen Studien, dass objektive Parameter unter verschiedenen Umständen eindeutig durch Musik beeinflusst werden. Es wurde nachgewiesen, dass M als Prämedikation zu einer signifikant niedrigen Ängstlichkeitsrate führte als Midazolam (p < 0,001). M wird auch bei anderen Situationen eingesetzt, bei depressiven Menschen, alten Menschen, zur Schmerztherapie und im Rahmen der Intensiv- bzw. Palliativmedizin. M sollte jedoch individuell nach den Wünschen der Pt ausgewählt werden. Nur so lassen sich die gewünschten Effekte erreichen, Ängste vermeiden und führen zu einer Verbesserung der Lebensqualität (QoL). Die besten M-Effekte sind durch klassische oder meditative M zu erreichen, Heavy Metal or Techno-M ist ineffektiv oder gar schädlich und kann zu Stress oder lebensgefährlichen Arrhythmien führen. Es gibt viele Komponisten, deren M zu einer Verbesserung der QoL führt, besonders Bach, Mozart oder italienische Komponisten sind hier zu nennen.


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