07-21-2009, 01:58 PM
I have also looked at it as transcending duality. That seems to be a good term, as its wierd cause I can listen to the most dark and even depressing music (Suicidal Black Metal or DOOM metal) and it puts me in a good mood.
The UK band My Dying Bride has some gothic/doom songs and it puts me in a wierd mood sometimes....but I really dig most of it, especially that crazy violin hahaha. The song "Cry of Mankind" is very beautiful although it seems very emotional. It doesn't really have that effect on me, but I have seen live performances of this song and the singer is very sad and crying at the same time when they play it. It is probably just a performance act, but it sure works to add something to the show.
A lot of it is quite beautiful, say where you have a band like Opeth, which you mentioned. One of their albums My Arms Your Hearse is a concept album that goes through the 4 seasons where it starts ends in the winter and starts in the spring. From Wikipedia, I finally after 10 years of loving this album got some idea of what it was all about.
"The album concerns a character who dies and becomes a ghost. The narrative on the ghost's existence revolves around the woman he loved. Frustration and suspicion make the character restless as he watches his loved one after his death, his soul in constant turmoil as he does not believe that she genuinely grieved his passing. Though his ghost's actual presence remains undetected, she feels a great sadness, and remains unwilling to accept his death".
Its a beautiful story and the album can fit both moods happiness, and despair.
Highly recommend this album Monica, if you haven't heard it already.
The UK band My Dying Bride has some gothic/doom songs and it puts me in a wierd mood sometimes....but I really dig most of it, especially that crazy violin hahaha. The song "Cry of Mankind" is very beautiful although it seems very emotional. It doesn't really have that effect on me, but I have seen live performances of this song and the singer is very sad and crying at the same time when they play it. It is probably just a performance act, but it sure works to add something to the show.
A lot of it is quite beautiful, say where you have a band like Opeth, which you mentioned. One of their albums My Arms Your Hearse is a concept album that goes through the 4 seasons where it starts ends in the winter and starts in the spring. From Wikipedia, I finally after 10 years of loving this album got some idea of what it was all about.
"The album concerns a character who dies and becomes a ghost. The narrative on the ghost's existence revolves around the woman he loved. Frustration and suspicion make the character restless as he watches his loved one after his death, his soul in constant turmoil as he does not believe that she genuinely grieved his passing. Though his ghost's actual presence remains undetected, she feels a great sadness, and remains unwilling to accept his death".
Its a beautiful story and the album can fit both moods happiness, and despair.
Highly recommend this album Monica, if you haven't heard it already.