Grunge

Modern Post-Grunge is very different from the previous, heavier sounding Grunge despite sharing many common characteristics. The differences really started to come from a select few of major artists, who in turn made it blow up into a great genre of music. The one who is my personal favorite would have to be Breaking Benjamin. They were quick to become successful due to their impressive sound. Breaking Benjamin is known for being dynamically loud, having a low pitch, a dark and heavy tone, and focusing on the lyrics and vocals. The Post-Grunge style they use is heavy, but not so heavy that it is Grunge Rock which gives it the ideal Post-Grunge rock approach people look for. Breaking Benjamin generally keeps a fast paced rhythm along with loud…

Who is Nirvana? Why are they important? In a society that demands conformity why did a group of high school dropouts draw the attention of the entire nation with this new form of musical expression that seemed to thrive on negative emotions and controversial ideas? These questions always seem to follow particularly rock musicians because of the topics and the visual impressions they use to express their views of the world. Their impact on the music industry has completely changed how some labels…

Cora Satterfield April White 2nd period 14 Apr. 2017 The King of Grunge Kurt Cobain was a great artist and considered “The King of Grunge.” Kurt started music at a young age, he was given a guitar from his Uncle Chuck and entertained the kids and teachers at school with his artistic talents. As a teen, Cobain began attending all of “The Melvins” rehearsals, where he met his best friend Krist Novoselic, whom he later teamed up with to form Nirvana. In 1988, Nirvana released their first single…

Kurt Donald Cobain was many things: an artist, a loving father, a good friend, and an inspiration to many across the globe. Did he really commit suicide or was his death a coverup for a tragic murder? Cobain was an American musician who was best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. The band was formed with Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1985 and established it as part of the Seattle music scene in grunge genre. After signing with the…

"We have this conflict between good and evil and man and woman because there are people doing evil things to other people for no reason, and I just want to beat the shit out of them. That's the bottom line. All I can do is scream into a microphone instead” (Cobain). September 24, 1991, grunge band, Nirvana released Nevermind. The band recorded an abundant amount of demos in 1988 and they made a deal with Sub Pop, a Seattle record label. Nirvana released their first album, Bleach and only sold…

garage bands that would go to the closest coffee shops and deliberately disturb the peace with muddy vocals and distorted guitars. a far cry from the established rock acts of that era, grunge artist decided to throw away the hair spray and throw on a flannel and some ripped chucks. Bands such as the Melvin’s, Sound Garden and Hole managed to find mainstream success at a time when 2pac, Biggie, Madonna and even Michael Jackson dominated the sound waves, However one band ventured the farthest from…

Nirvana’s bassist, Krist Novoselic, recalls playing “in a worn down, old house. We’d play in front of five people.” The band did not care about how popular they were, instead they cared about the music they were producing. As the Seattle music scene began to mold around this punk-rock music, people quickly renamed it grunge. Nirvana and their music would eventually explode into the mainstream and lead, what many called a revolution, with their most famous song, “Smells like Teen Spirit.”…

Nirvana Nirvana was an alternative rock/ grunge trio formed by frontman/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in 1987 in Aberdeen, a small town near Seattle, Washington. Their first studio album “Bleach” was recorded by Jack Endino, a local producer associated with the independent record label Sub Pop. The record sold 35,000 copies in the United States, a considerable success for the band. Soon after the release of their first album Nirvana began their first, one month national…

Layne Thomas Staley was born August 22, 2967 in Kirkland Washington USA. he was born to Phil Staley and Nancy Staley, at age 7 his parents divorced and his worst nightmares came to. The divorce of his parents later in life lead to part of his issues with depression and drug dependency. Heroin and Crack were Staleys drugs of choice, when found dead in his Seattle apartment paraphernalia such as pipes and needles were around his decaying body. Layne died at the age of 34 on April 5th, 2002 same…

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