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Music post: Haggard
Apr. 1st, 2010 10:37 am
For those who enjoy classical music, I promise to get back to that soon! But I keep finding new music in my searches for various things and get intrigued. Yesterday I was on a search for another recording of Herr Mannelig, the Swedish folk song I based a story I wrote around and came up with a recording by a group called Haggard.Not knowing anything about this group, I went and downloaded the album. They're described as being "German Symphonic metal." Now, I'm not a metal fan by any means. I know a lot of people enjoy it, but it's never been something that struck a chord with me. Except in one specific instance: when it is combined with classical music, especially operatic singing. I have no idea why, but something about the pulsing rhythmic and darkness of the metal plus symphonic or operatic music is just really awesome to me. I don't often think that classical music combines that well with other genres (for instance, Classical versions of Irish traditional tunes simply sound trite), but with metal and other harder rock, it somehow just WORKS.
So anyway, back to Haggard. I'm listening to the album now and enjoying it. It's an interesting combination of opera, symphonic, and metal music.
A few things to listen to:
Herr Mannelig
The Observer -- This may be my favourite one so far, especially for the beginning because there's almost NOTHING better than Baroque metal. Seriously. I know Bach would probably roll over in his grave but I think it's seriously awesome.
I'm admittedly still not all that thrilled with the "death metal voices" but it's part of the style and I can deal with it.
Ok and if that's a little too hard for you, I'll write some more on a favourite classical composer or piece later on.
