Well, it has been about a month since Carolina Rebellion has been over. And what a weekend it was. I saw tons of bands and got some great shots. But since I got home a disaster happen. My new hard drive crash. I usually back up first thing once I get home. And I didn’t. And I lost everything. But at least I was able to recover the last day. So this article is on the last day of the three-day festival.
Carolina Rebellion is the beginning of the Metal Festivals in the United States. Starting with Carolina Rebellion and ending with Rock Allegiance. With festivals dealing with pure Metal Music. I am not talking about just Top 40 metal.
One nice thing is these group of festivals focus on metal music from around the world, which gives fans a chance to hear other types of metal music and maybe discover a new band they can follow. So I have to break down the types of metal music out there with help of the web and Wikipedia.
Heavy Metal
This is the straightforward, classic heavy metal, which most people know. The music you hear on the Q101 type of stations.
Bands: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Blue Cheer, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin
Power Metal
Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in contrast with the heaviness and dissonance prevalent for example in extreme metal. Power metal bands usually have anthem-like songs with fantasy-based subject matter and strong choruses, thus creating a theatrical, dramatic and emotionally “powerful” sound
Bands: Dio, Iron Maiden, Stratovarius, Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody (of Fire), Kamelot
Thrash Metal
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. The lyrics often deal with social issues and criticism of The Establishment, using direct and denunciatory language, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk.
Bands: Metallica (early), Megadeth, Testament, Anthrax, Slayer, Overkill
Glam/Hair Metal
The Struts (credit: Daniel Locke)
Glam metal (also known as pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal, which features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, and borrows from the fashion of 1970s glam rock. Most people trace Glam metal back to music acts like Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Kiss, The New York Dolls, and Van Halen. It rose in the late 1970s and early 1980s particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene, pioneered by bands such as Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Dokken, Quiet Riot, Van Halen and Stryper. It grew in popular throughout the 1980s (particularly between 1986 and 1989) and the beginning of 1990s. You usually think of Glam Metal with a band who associates themselves with flashy clothing and makeup.
Bands: Whitesnake, Cinderella, Poison, Europe, Motley Crue, The Struts
Progressive Metal
Progressive metal (sometimes known as prog metal or technical metal) is a fusion genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock which combines the loud “aggression” and amplified guitar-driven sound of the former with the more experimental, cerebral or “pseudo-classical” compositions of the latter. Many of these bands had commercial success. Bands like Dream Theater, Tool, Symphony X, and Queensryche. Metallica ever tried it for a short time,.
Bands: Dream Theater, Queensryche, Scale the Summit, Animals as Leaders, The Contortionist, Symphony X
Death Metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion (sometimes Satanism), occultism, Lovecraftian horror, nature, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, science fiction, and politics, and they may describe extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.
Sister genres: Melodic death metal, progressive death metal
Bands: Death, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Vader, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity
Black Metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.
Bands: Darkthrone, Emperor, Borknagar, Burzum, Mayhem, Immortal, Behemoth, Gorgoroth
Doom Metal
Doom metal is an extreme style of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much “thicker” or “heavier” sound than other metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath, who formed a prototype for doom metal with songs such as “Black Sabbath”, “Children of the Grave”, “Electric Funeral” and “Into the Void”. During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands from England (Pagan Altar, Witchfinder General), the United States (Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Trouble) and Sweden (Candlemass, Count Raven) defined doom metal as a distinct genre.
Bands: Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Cathedral, Candlemass
Post Metal
Post-metal is a style of music that is rooted in heavy metal but explores approaches beyond the genre’s conventions. It emerged in the 1990s through the work of bands such as Neurosis and Godflesh who transformed metal texture through experimental composition. Associated with and inspired by post-rock and post-hardcore, the genre employs the darkness and intensity of extreme metal but emphasizes atmosphere, emotion, and even “revelation”, drawing on a wide range of sources including ambient, noise, psychedelic, progressive, and classical music to develop an expansive but introspective sound. Post-metal songs are typically long, with loose and layered structures that discard the verse-chorus form in favor of crescendos and repeating themes. The sound centers on guitars and drums; any vocals are usually screamed or growled and resemble an additional instrument.
Sister genre: Shoegaze
Bands: Katatonia, Alcest, Neurosis, Cult of Luna, Deafheaven
Metalcore
The Fever 333 (credit: Daniel Locke)
Metalcore is a fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The word is a portmanteau of the two genres. Among other styles blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore, metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, which are slow, intense passages conducive to moshing. Pioneering metalcore bands—such as Integrity, Earth Crisis and Converge,all of which had formed by 1990—are described as leaning more toward hardcore, with their style sometimes being called metallic hardcore, whereas later bands—such as Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Bullet for My Valentine, and Parkway Drive—are described as leaning more towards metal. Pantera and Sepultura (who influenced Trivium, Atreyu, Bleeding Through and Unearth) have been particularly influential to the development of metalcore in the 2000s, which saw many bands in the genre achieve commercial success.
Sister genres: Hardcore, deathcore, nu metal
Bands: Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, August Burns Red, All That Remains, Trivium
Day 3 Band Photo Galleries
Quicksand
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Jelly Roll
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Greta Van Fleet
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Code Orange
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The Struts
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Bily Idol
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Cane Hill
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The Fever 333
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