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[–] [S] 80 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Jazz, Rock, Disco, and Rap, at minimum.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Dubstep has strong roots to Jamacian Dub. https://youtu.be/NUOeHoLCisw. Except for the dub guys, are actual wizards making all of their effects with analog technology.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Also reggea and dancehall come from Jamaica as well, incredible such a small country having so much influence.

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    Ska punk is my absolute favourite genre of music. Streetlight Manifesto, Less Than Jake, Faintest Idea, Mad Caddies, and the Suicide Machines are all bands I love, to name a few.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    what's your most recent favorite album?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right now, it's Ska Dream by Jeff Rosenstock, and by extension its sister album No Dream. I'm also really looking forward to Streetlight's next album The Place Behind The Stars, as the few songs they've let us hear from it are already incredible despite not being entirely finished.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    It's assumed here that rock is derived from blues

    EDIT : Blues is blues, which is obviously black.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Blues is the plural of blue which is a different color from black according to modern color theory

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Rock had a whooole lot of influences including white ones.

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    How much time do you have, ha?

    This is one of the most well researched pieces of work I've ever come across. Like somebody's PhD dissertation. A ten year project for the author. I can't recommend it enough.

    So just to throw some names out there of white people who significantly influenced rock music: Johnny Otis, Bob Wills, Cosimo Matassa.

    Seriously, check out this podcast you're interested in this stuff. I think it's on other platforms if you don't have Spotify.

    https://open.spotify.com/show/7KGhTDsEpOgBAT24WfpTkk

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    eeeeeeeh.

    I think death/tech death is where the blues influence starts being more vestigial, and it starts borrowing more from classical. Even Polka (what is a blastbeat but a fast polka beat?) Are the diminished scales really from blues? Do the blues musicians play straight 32nd notes the way classical musicians do?

    From an evolutionary standpoint, it definately does, since blues to rock to sabbath to metal, but death metal onwards really feels distinct. Especially symphonic.

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    IDK, Deathspell are more famous for being prog or avant garde or something. I'm pretty sure (but not 100% certain) that Luc is not a nazi, he does a lot of stuff about middle eastern and asian history

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I'm not really a metal head and I'd never heard of Possessed / Seven Churches so I found it and gave it a listen.

    My honest opinion is...meh. Musically it's an interesting track, arguably better than some Iron Maiden songs, but the vocals are the same muddy mess that ruins so many other metal bands.

    If you listen to Seven Churches and then immediately play "Aces High" or "Run to the Hills" you will hear exactly what I'm talking about. It boils down to this; Jeff Becerra seems to love being buried in the music so he can growl out undecipherable lyrics while Bruce Dickinson is conveying at least as much vocal power while standing out from the music and being clear enough that you can hear the message.

    It's just my opinion of course and honestly this is the same problem I've had with nearly every American Death Metal band. I don't know why most of them even bother having a vocalist as they are functionally useless.

    Rock out to whatever moves ya' but I definitely wouldn't rank Possessed ahead of Iron Maiden.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Click the link first.

    spoilerI haven't actually listened to possessed, so I can't comment. I just liked that guy's statement of "I like stuff heavier than maiden" and it made me think of the Luc Lemay interview.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    Ahh folk metal, that can be a fun genre of music! The one you linked isn't too bad but if you like it a bit...eastern...you may want to check out "The HU".

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Techno came from black kids on Detroit listening to Kraftwerk and then exporting that sound back to Germany

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