Heavy metal fashion

Your groove: perhaps how music makes you feel, how it stimulates your body with the beat of a drum or the riff of a guitar. My groove: on the same level as your groove, only it goes just a bit further than just the feel. A machinist’s groove: the point at which a tool does work. We all see groove differently, figuratively and technically. We’ll be focusing on grooves that match up, your’s and mine, and how we’ll see that groove is more than just feelings. We’ll be exploring groove’s historically…

Motley Crue is a heavy metal band, with carefree lifestyle, that they shared with the world through their music. The members of the band were not only memorable on stage, but off stage as well. They lived a lifestyle that most people would not approve of, or deem socially correct. Yet, this lifestyle, similar to the style established by Led Zeppelin, benefited their career. Selling over 100 million albums worldwide, Motley Crue spread the heavy metal brand of music around the world. All of…

Contemporary rock band Imagine Dragons sang the line “It’s a revolution, I suppose…” in their Grammy Award-winning song “Radioactive”. Surprisingly, Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson, the main character in the book The Titan’s Curse, can relate to this line, as well as the rest of the song. Although The Titan’s Curse is a fiction book based on Ancient Greek Mythology, it shares the same theme with Radioactive, a popular rock song. Both pieces of literature show the reader that you can you can…

The song “Faithfully” from 1983, performed by the band Journey on their album Frontiers is thought to be one of many iconic rock songs from the 1980s that has left a legacy for decades and generations. It mixes many different instrumental parts with the concept of the 1980s rock song, having sounds similar to the well known power ballads and the genre of arena rock. “Faithfully”, tells a story as any other song does, using lyrics and the general progression of the music throughout the song to…

The song “Paradise” is originally an English pop song by Coldplay, a British rock band. It was released on 12th September 2011 while the cover version of this song, “Peponi” was released 3 years later on 9th January 2012 by a crossover band - The Piano Guys. The Piano Guys had included some African folk-like elements into the original version of “Paradise” by adding some African traditional instruments, costumes and the language. I observed that The Piano Guys and Alex Boye have utilized their…

Norman Greenbaum Norman Greenbaum is best known for his song, “Spirit in the Sky” the song was written and released in 1969 and reached number three on the top 100 rock songs in the year of 1970. Norman Greenbaum wrote many songs but “Spirit in the Sky” was the most popular off all, being his first and only hit throughout the decades. Norman Greenbaum’s album is also named spirit in the sky, it was released after the hit single “Spirit in the Sky”. The album included songs such as “Canned Ham”…

On October 25th, 2016, a venue named 506 Local on Franklin St, Chapel Hill, held a show featuring three punk rock artist. The opening act, Chastity, is a hardcore punk band created in 2015, hailing from Canada. The next set was performed by an all-female punk band formed in 2014, Cayetana, which is rather unique for the genre. Lastly, the headline band performed: a band named PUP, created in 2013 and also from Canada. The entirety of the show emitted a sense of community, openness, diversity,…

activities I was doing. For example I chose to listen to classical music when I was reading so I could focus on my novel. I also listened to classical music before going to sleep so that it helps me relax and fall asleep, and I listen to rock and metal music in the morning during my shower for the opposite…

“Rock music, also known as "rock and roll," is a type of music that developed from rock ‘n’ roll and uses a heavy regular beat, electric guitars, singing, and a tune that is easy to remember, which became popular in the 1950s in America and Europe” (Macmillan dictionary) Nowadays, rock & roll is one of the most popular genres of music all over the world, but the majority of listeners of this type of music do not know how it affects their psychology. There is a lot of debate about the fact…

The Black Parade (2006) and Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010) are two albums made by New-Jersey rock band My Chemical Romance. My Chemical Romance has gone through many different phases in music and style. Each album created and curated a new era in their career. Each era to this day has cult followings with definitive styles and interests. “The Black Parade” and “Danger Days” are arguably the two most well-known My Chemical Romance Records, and they both have a large…