Please please please reblog this and put in the tags your music recommendations. I’m not talking about big artists and bands either— what’s a niche group, band, or artist that you can’t get enough of? What song or album do you enjoy the most? Why?
when you’re overwhelmed in public so you put on your headphones and play music that is straight up screaming in your ears to the point where lyrics are barely able to be made out
R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010), Jimmy Bain (1947-2016)
Ronnie James Dio sang with two major acts before striking out on his own, but the success of Holy Diver gave him license to fully unleash his id on The Last in Line. And while the second Dio album was mostly a logical continuation of its predecessor, there was enough randomness generated by the man going all-in on his preoccupations and tics that something like “Breathless”, which began with a simultaneously bluesy and gnarled Vivian Campbell riff before Ronnie barged in with “No No No No No!!!”, stood out in all sorts of ways, not all of them good. The track was a rocker driven by Vinny Appice’s blocky percussion and Jimmy Bain’s bass, with Campbell’s guitar more like window dressing (certainly a point of contention for the increasingly malcontent future Whitesnake and Def Leppard axeman), though of course there was no suppressing the power and passion of Ronnie’s growl, even if one was rarely sure about what he was really going on about. “Breathless” was awesome and ridiculous in equal measure, and nobody would expect anything less from prime Dio.
208. To Mega Therion - Celtic Frost (Thrash/Death/Black Metal, 1985)
Art by Hans Rudolf Giger (1940-2014) : "Satan I"
For his participation in the movie "Alien" he won an Oscar for best visual effects in 1980.
Giger suffered from night terrors and his paintings are all, to some extent, inspired by his experiences with that particular sleep disorder. - he also claims to be only working at night.
One song that really shows that [mystery] is on the second album, a song called “Space Dementia.” I always wanted to make a heavy rock song that could just have a piano without a guitar. I think we got there again on “Butterflies and Hurricanes” on the new album [Absolution]. I was trying to find a classical type of piano style that would be heavy and work with bass and drums. It had that sort of mechanical paradiddle thing all the way through, and then it breaks down into this kind of romantic, flowing weird bit in the middle.
Matt Bellamy on writing heavier, mysterious sounding rock songs on pianos rather than on guitars | "Innocence And Absolution", Keyboard Magazine, June 2005