Gorguts - Dormant Misery (intro, violin)

Intro to Gorguts' Dormant Misery off the album The Erosion of Sanity

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Music

Tags:

• gorguts
• death
• metal
• technical
• violin
• fusion

[xxMorrissey]

I think it's very interesting what you're doing; covering metal peices on a classical intrument. Is it intentional to show metal's inherent classical roots and virtuoso level of composition / playing?

Anyways, I have the same Windir shirt. :-B

[theOfactor39]

well, just because something can be played on a violin doesn't necessarily mean it has 'classical roots', though for some of these songs it may be the case. For the most part I do these covers because it's the only instrument I can play well...

[neuraxianfusion]

Malmsteen and Jason Becker resemble Van Halen at a much faster tempo, if at best. High-speed arpeggios and and scales are in fact not a throwback to Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romanticist music but instead are merely the same love of showmanship that permeates all modern entertainment forms. Groups like Gorguts display inspiration from traditional art in their structure, which is the proper way of doing so as opposed to the aesthetic method of solo guitarists.

[neuraxianfusion]

That depends on whether art is of a spiritual or physical importance to you. If aesthetics overcome structure and content than sure, songs that are good in your perception outweigh anything else. However, if more than a merely good song is desired, such as the absolute transcendence of Beethoven's 9th, than you need to look a little farther than tempo, instrumentation, and technique. In the end it is all your choice.

[VapidButchery]

Good job on a great intro!

[VapidButchery]

@neuraxianfusion You hit the nail on the head man! STRUCTURE!!!! Good songwriting beats showing how technical you can be all day! Write what sounds good and makes sense in some way! I cannot tell you how sick I am of all the "sweep pickers" I am hearing in metal now... Ooooh an arpeggio!!!! I would rather hear a Gorguts solo anyday... We have a million TECHNICALLY good guitarists now who cannot write an original catchy riff to save their damn life!

[mehtabb1]

Well done.

[TrashMetal25]

@scottydscottd and just to be clear i am referring to the more recent years of music, ( 1990 - present ) most of which rap and pop are becoming more and more primitive and manufactured, to the point where musicians do not even create it anymore, that is just slander, and a strike to the face of music like that of classical, it disgusts me to see an art so degraded as to sound as its first footprint on earth, only now simulated by machines

[TrashMetal25]

@scottydscottd then explain to me how the simulated beat of 4/4 time in rap and pop have anything to do whatsoever with the pride and magnitude of classical music,

because it simply contains more then one note? ( in some cases, only one note ) i know what you are saying, and i do trust your judgment, but i do not hear a tie whatsoever between a music so near perfect, vs that of something which was once played on a slab of wood 40 000 years ago, only to be popularized and overkilled,

[scottydscottd]

@TrashMetal25 ALL western music has roots in classical. the I IV V I progression you hear in almost ALL music is classical in origin. The chords in "I will survive" are just a circle of fifths progression. You're talking a to a classical musician of 14 years :P. I will respect a lot of things, but I don't respect someone trying to sound pseudo-intellectual about a subject i have a lot of knowledge about. however - you like gorguts, so do i, so you're forgiven by default

[TrashMetal25]

@scottydscottd no, pop and rap actually have no classical roots, it has roots that lie in the most primitive stages of mankind, and the reason its so popular is because it stimulates the ancient instinct first discovered by the walking man of 4/4 time, simple beat, catchy to the ear and the instinct, but dont be fooled, this is very primitive, true music as we see here, as well as elsewhere regarding classical roots and influences, that, is advanced, and stimulates and promotes musical growth,

[LucHeart]

epic fucking shirt

[MircoAbysS]

Great work man!

[scottydscottd]

@xxMorrissey all western music has classical roots.... even pop....