Two things.
- That's Sydney, the deadliest city on the planet. Its horizon is lopsided.
- There is sooo much great Australian music. One of my all time favourite Doom-Metal bands (a band called Chalice) is from Adelaide, and I didn't know this fact until many years after I had listened to them lots and lots.
By complete happenstance, a woman I worked with went to school with the lead singer. A small world indeed. Songs take on a different meaning when you know the lyricist and singer wrote about the same night sky and fields that you encounter in your travels.
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Funny I thought all metal was kinda doomy 🤔🤣
Nah, Doom Metal is slower, more melodic, and almost peaceful main bits of sound, overlaid with rapid, violent crescendos and choruses that go back to being a lullaby. Typical metal is just energy all the time. Doom metal is more nuanced and takes you up onto a wave and lets you crash back down, too.
Here's an example.
Oh yay, I found a fellow metal listener 🙂 was starting to feel a bit like I was the only one on Hive hahaha.
As for the horizon being lopsided, it's actually upside down, you're just looking at it the wrong way.
It's always really awesome when you get to have a bit more of an in-person connection with band members, the music seems to be filled with a lot more substance like you say. Having conversations with them about songs sometimes reveal things about their music that nobody else even knows.
I like lots of metal. Aluminium, Steel, Iron... uh Titanium?
My favourites, in a nut shell:
Lol. Good one. You forgot Palladium, Nickel, Beryllium and Lithium which incidentally is actually a band who I personally know a member of.
Look, I'm not a metallurgist. I can barely iron out the kinks of language.
What about The Beards, classic Aussie band...I know the lads although they're sort of retired now. A shame really.
Gonna show my particular interest in Aussie Music now...
I'd like to mention Killing Heidi very keenly as an exemplar of the genre of just being Australian and awesome.
I went to see Shirley Manson and her entourage once upon time, known as "Garbage" - you may have heard of them. There was a local Melbourne band who opened for them called "Private Life", who seem to have rebranded as simply "PL"; and they too were an incredible outfit.
Purchased an EP from them directly, face to face, in person (which is incredible after having seen them on stage), and a t-shirt, which I wore for many, many years until my poor laundry habits saw it devolve to threads.
Excellent. Is Shirley Manson Marilyn Manson's cousin?
Saw them live once, were good.
I don't think so, but I'm sure they'd get along handsomely if they were to meet.