Last Dance

Through the dark river Styx

I swim To lay thee to rest.

My thoughts confined well

within my minds walls

through your mind’s eye

I see that which will

befall thee

A single moonlight dance

of the spirits would change

everything that was once

to happen.

A dead land lay to waste

make use my twisted reflected self

the life the spirits gave me.

From river Styx the ghouls of death seal your fate

Breath, save me a fate of doom

Creek these memories of old

for tonight they dance just once.

The last dance of fate

from river Styx the ghouls of death seal thy life

devouring thy strength till none is left.

There's a secret path to the spirits

but only I know the way, still they met

their fate of doom, that which comes from me

I see your fate of doom

I know your last dance of fate.

by Myvanwy

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The Emo Genre

There’s a genre of Rock music that’s Very Expressive, and has lyrical themes on topics like depression, sadness, self-harm, violence, anger, love, often confessional, has an obscure lifestyle that is highly criticized, and surrounded with controversy, you will immediately think it’s Heavy metal or any of its sub-genre that we are talking about given the aforementioned lyrical themes with no regard to article’s topic, a detour you will think, But NOO. We are talking “Emo”.

Now Emo can be thought of as a slang for “emotion”, yeah it’s a slang term for ‘emotional, but we aren’t talking emotions now. The ‘Emo we are going to talk about is a rock music Subculture known as ‘Emotive/emotional Hard-core’ , and yes there’s lots of emotion about this genre.

Emo can be said to have gotten its roots from Punk rock, but with resent developments in the genre there seem to be a stylistic change that has seen indie/pop punk incorporated into it. Emo originated in the mid-1980s in Washington, D.C, as part of a hard-core punk movement at that time, but  it wasn’t until 2000s that it became more popular and gained mainstream attention. Emo is a genre that seems to be fading gradually. It is not as popular as it used to be and it’s loosing followership, although there are still people who are still loyal to the genre. This sudden decrease in popularity is as a result of some emo bands disbanding and others moving on from the Emo culture/roots.  Popular Bands like My Chemical Romance, Paramore and Fall Out Boy also moved away from their Emo roots which also affected the genre, as these bands where once seen as flagship bands to the genre. So in a bid to help save the genre and style, a movement started in 2010s called “Emo Revival”, which saw new bands reinvent the same sound and style of Emo bands of early 90s.

Any talk about Emo rock is never really complete without talking about its fashion culture popular amongst teenagers and young adults. A fashion sense that shares similarities with the ‘Goth rock subculture. Emo fashion is recognized for its hairstyle which is always darkened with one side covering one eye, jeans wearing, t-shirts with Emo band names on it, wristbands, and hair colouring is highly noticeable amongst Emo fans as well.  Generally it’s a punk look with a gothic reflection.

Emo as a genre is very expressive and emotional, but at times when these emotions and expressions are pushed beyond certain boundaries it gives birth to chaos and controversy, which has thus lead to Emo bands and followers being stigmatized. Due to the social stigma that surrounds the genre, most bands have been lead to reject being labelled an Emo band, which has not helped the genre in terms of popularity, And Because of the expressiveness of these bands and their lyrical themes, their music has been accused of aiding self-harm,  amongst  teens, which is seen as an Emo thing. It’s been reported that there are emo-cults online, and on some Emo-websites one can find disturbing images of self-harm and suicide as a well preached agenda.  Emo has also not had a good time with gender relations as it’s been observed as being Gender Bias, although it has female fans, but there’s very little Female acceptance in the Emo scene. The Emo scene portrays women as powerless victims, which also has not helped. It’s these controversies that has lead to a Land slide in the genre. Countless times the Emo communities has written to agencies and media outlets in a bid to defend the genre and to dispel the stereotype and social stigma associated to the genre. Truth is there is not a genre of rock that has not had its fair share of stigma and controversy, but Emo seems to be in the light of things a lot more than others

List Of Artists

30 seconds to mass

A day to remember

Falling up

All time low

The fray

Pillar

Anberlin

Fire flight

Fly leaf

Gray matter

Gwen stacy

Hawk nelson

Boys like girls

The red jumpsuit apparatus

Simple plan

Dash board confessionals

Death cab for cutie

The dismemberment plan

Lost prophets

Metro station

Tokio hotel

Nirvana

If properly understood and interpreted, Emo songs are quite interesting.

Sub genres

Screamo  - it is defined as the aggressive version of emo, it was influenced by hard-core punk and characterised with brief compositions, chaotic execution and screaming vocals

List Of Artists

Bring Me The Horizon

Black Veil Bride

Funeral For A Friend

Envy

In/Humanity

Kids In The Way

Orchid

Saosin

Emo Pop -  it is also called Emo Pop Punk and as the name it was influenced by the pop genre, this genre became more successful In the mid-1990’s due to rise in Grunge

List Of Artists

Jimmy Eat World

The get up kids

The promise ring

The start line

Paramour

Panic at The Disco!

Fall out boys

New found glory

Gorilla biscuits

My chemical romance

The genre declined  a lot by early 2010s with bands like Panic At The Disco! Abandoning their emo pop style in album like “Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die” and Fall Out Boy’s in “ Save The Rock And Roll”

EmoVoilence

It is genre’s name was coined by PowerViolence band “In/Humanity”, it is a combination of scream and power violence, it can be characterized by its use of amplified feed backs, blast beats and fast tempos

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Review - Godwin (Korede Bello) - Clay

Title: Godwin (Korede Bello Cover)

Artiste: Clay

Duration: 3:43

Release Date: 15 July, 2015

                Before I state my views on this “rock” cover of Godwin by Clay, I’m a huge fan of Clay’s style of music; the way she manages to fuse Igbo language and rock music, originality doesn’t get any better than that. Listening to the track yesterday, I couldn’t help but wonder, I thought nothing could be worse than the original version. I’ve always been under the impression that rock music can take the shittiest song and turn it into something badass. I probably had my hopes up at the sight of the tag “rock cover”. “Guitar cover” or “Jam Session” would have been a more appropriate description.

                The song begins with an acoustic guitar progression along with what sounded to me like bagpipes (Bagpipes!). Most, if not all rock covers I’ve heard were designed to get your adrenaline pumping, and sometimes thrash the original version. (a sharp contrast of her cover of Jailer by Asa) If a rock cover of a song goes this way, then the original version must have been Enya or Enigma kind of mellow.

                She shouldn’t have performed the song as written, that did not give room for much creativity and experimentation. There is almost zero distinction between the cover and the original song, except maybe for the guitar riff hanging somewhere in the song.  And if that was the original plan, then a cover was totally unnecessary.

                A big thank you to Mr. Coldflames for turning the auto-tune down a few notches this time, and we all could hear the magic in her voice as we did in Turn Around with Parking Lot Grass. I guess that was the cue, but wetin be my own? I think Godwin was a poor choice for a cover; she didn’t slay it this time. Popular doesn’t always mean spectacular. Doesn’t sound like so much effort was put into making this cover

Rating: 4.1/10

Link To the Song - clayrocksu.com/download/1626/

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The Doom Metal Genre

   

      A feeling of impending danger, darkness or despair and ill fate, an impending severe occurrence of danger that seems inevitable.
  What are the above definitions for? You must be wondering!. Well the above definitions will serve the purpose of the topic of this article as it directly reflects what the word "Doom" means, cool yeah! We'll be discussing today about a very popular genre of rock music, yeah it's popular because almost every proper rock head knows or has encountered the term "Doom Metal". But what really is Doom Metal??
       Doom metal is a subgenre of Heavy Metal Rock. Doom metal is like the heavyweight's heavyweight, why this?? Well because it tends to employ a heavier sound, and the instruments(guitar) are heavily distorted and down-tuned to have a very deep rooted feel, also most doom metal singers employ operatic style singing and also clean vocals and unclean(growls, screams, shrieks). Doom metal songs are characterized also by slower song tempos which are totally great and it has this dark melodious feel.
         There's no way to talk about a rock subgenre or genre without talking lyrical themes, Yeah if u have an appetite and appreciation for dark gory lyrics , then doom metal has it in stock for. A typical "Doom Metal" song basically contains Dark lyrics, on a wide range of topics, Although most fans just applaud the music itself and pay little or no attention to lyrics, well it's all about choice though. There's been so much controversy surrounding the Doom metal scene, mainly because of imagery and lyrical themes which most bands take to real extremes. Although these days some Christian Bands have now embraced the Genre, and now write materials that reflects their faith , which could be seen as the white side of the Doom metal family. Aside that, there are also other doom metal bands who write songs with positive messages but it's one out of 10.
    You know how a tree has roots and branches, so too does doom metal have its own. But in its case the roots are the subgenre and branches fusion genres. Why is this so ? don't blame me, blame it on experimentation from bands and musicians who are not contempt with the typical sound and they feel the need or desire to improve on what's on ground already, which is totally cool but can be messed up at times, But come on!! I mean it’s rock music so the usual is never enough.
      Now, Doom Metal started in the early 1970s, bands like Pentagram , Count Raven and Black Sabbath (can you even talk metal and not mention black Sabbath) are seen as pioneers of the genre, because their early releases influenced the whole Doom metal scene. But it wasn't until the 1980s that doom Metal really had a full grip in the Metal scene/Rock scene.
You must have a full  appetite already and you probably want me to stop talking and give you some band recommendations and songs to download, cool then , here is a few for you to feed on (song title/Band or Artiste),
High on Infinity / Count Raven
Day of Reckoning / Pentagram
Saint Vitus / Saint Vitus
Master Of reality / Black Sabbath
The above songs and bands cut across some of the mentioned subgenre and fusion genres earlier. But it's basically a feel of traditional Doom, because it's the bedrock.


So Dear rock heads download and listen them, you can leave your views and analysis on our comments section.

The sub-genres

Traditipnal Doom – Orodun, Reverend Bizzare

Epic Doom – Candle Mass, Solitude Aetunus, Solistice, Doomsword

Funeral Doom – Evoken, Funeral, Skepticism

The Fusion Genre

Stoner Doom – Acid King, Cathedral, Sleep, Electric Wizard

Sludge Doom – Crowbar, Eyehategod

Drone Doom – Earth, Boris, Sun

Death Doom – Autopsy, Anathema, My Dying Bride, Winter

Black Doom – Kantatonia, Forgotten Tomb

List Of Artists In This Genre

Pentagram

Pagan Altar

Yob

Zaraza

Funeral

Floor

Novembre

Nortt

Evoken

Wretched

Earth

Draconian

Dolorian

Void Of Silence

Disembowelment

Moonspell

Confessor

Corrupted

Iron Monkey

Jesu

Bloody Panda

Alice In Chains

Ghost

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DREAMS OF A PSYCHOPATH

Dead night locks upon her fading heart

He seeks to have her glory,

He’s the terror she lives with,

A living beast, she has to 

confront alone and she

he must have.



Her flesh he seeks till dawn

He cannot tell his dreams 

from reality.

Blinded by thirst, he carves 

for the unknown.

What will become of his

dying soul? Amidst this

crowned hate.



He will stop at nothing,

till he devours her frailty.

All that stands between 

him and her is just but 

his twisted imaginations.



He’s drunk on her innocence,

living in a world of fear, she’s confused 

and lost. He’s in her nightmare,

He’s on every wall, by every

conner she turns.



The terror he brings,

 is so much for her to fathom..

He has never felt love

and he lives, to have it 

from her, even if he has to 

rip it out of her. 



He seeks to satisfy his

thirst by her warmth

and only she,

can stop his madness.


by Myvanwy


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The Psychedelic Rock Genre

This genre made popular in the late 70’s can rightly be called stoners rock. It is one of the favorite genres of hippies alongside Indie, it was made to imitate the influence of some hallucinogens and other drugs. Bands like GRATEFUL DEAD help spread the sound away from the San Francisco area. This genre also sounds like some sort of slowed down and guitared Indian music or Indian classical, the sitar guitar was mostly used in the early days of this genre.

This genre can be characterized electric guitar with feedback, Taba, long delayed looped, extended solo

List Of Psychedelic Rock Artists

Pink-Floyd

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Doors

Jefferson Airplane

Cream

The Beatle

The Beach Boys

Abbey Road

Funkadelic

Lana Del Ray

The mamas and papas (dream a little dream of me)

MGMT

The Moody Bues

Nirvana

Radio Head (how to disappear completely)

Neo-psychedelic rock

This genre was greatly by the genre it was named after so most of the artists above have dived it to this. It adopts the use of distorted and jangly guitar

Acid Rock

Tracks like THE 13^TH ELEVATOR BY AUSTIN helped take the genre to a darker sound eventually categorized as acid rock and tagged a sub-genre of psychedelic rock,

Like it parent genre it’s a sound made for the influence of drug but particularly acid based drugs or acid trips. It is a heavier and darker than is parent genre

Artists also cross platform a lot but bands like quicksilver messenger service, deep purple sty mainly here

Space Rock 

It is a more progressive psychedelic rock, it has more use of electric guitar, Pink Floyd still helped influence his genre without jams like LUCIFER SAM, ASTRONOMY DOMINE AND INSTELLAR OVERDRIVE.

                Unlike the parent genre and most of this sub genre space rock has had 21^st century band dive into it.

List of space rock artist

Radio Head

Muse

Amplifier

Oceansize

Angel & Airwave

Zombie

Thirty Seconds To Mar

The Boxing Lesson

Starset

Raga Rock

This genre has more heavy Indian influence than any other genre; it even has more Asian materials