Heady Metal

Songs in the Key of Death

Doom and Gloom

In the 1970s there was a Stevie Wonder album called "Songs in the Key of Life" these days a bit of an evergreen classic. I don't really get off on it much though. Razz had it and I heard it plenty but it was not one that I would choose to play.

Nevertheless, as usual, I digress. These days there is a lot of death metal, doom metal, gloom metal, etc metal ...

These are mostly zombies playing on the old Alice Kooper idea of evil is cool.

It's not all bad news

However, there is some modern metal music that is just music to my ears. Loud, brash, noisy, all the elements that make up metal music BUT it's composed and played, as distinct from just thrown together to sound great to uninitiated kids.

If you haven't already heard

Allow me to introduce the Nightwish project

This is about as good as metal music gets. I am absolutely in love with Tarja Turunen. She is nothing short of magnificent.




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