Can be from any genre. Mine is when an acoustic guitar comes in towards the end of a song and totally changes or reframes the mood/energy (see “Money” by Widowspeak)
Mixing metal with other genres or introducing instruments or elements that you otherwise wouldn’t expect in metal.
By now most of these are considered to be subgenres of metal but for me it blew my mind when I first encountered them.
Bands like Ayreon, Avantasia, Subscribe, Therion, Haggard, Nightwish, Ostura, just to name a few.
Yellowcard with the violin, not metal exactly but 3 guitars and a violin sound good.
Wheel of Time by Blind Guardian is one of my all-time favorites. Looking at the other bands you linked, I’m guessing you’ve already heard it; but for others reading this, clicky the linky!
Symphonic Metal is such a small genre though… I want more! Q_Q
May I suggest Ne Obliviscaris, Épiphanie and if course, BaK music
Not sure if this is a trope per se, but I love when sounds don’t sound “perfect” - the producer kept in a little vocal waver, or the snare isn’t hit with the exact same intensity every time. The little imperfections make it feel/sound like real humans are playing the music!
Check out Since I’ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin. The kick drum pedal squeaks all the way through, and they left it in.
I think that can be said about pretty much any creative work. Those little imperfections are what make it real, and I love it.
Hollywood using old vintage lenses for their design flaws, CG artists deliberately putting scratches and dust spots on their models, and so many more examples.To come back to music, I believe no robot will ever be able to play Clair de Lune with the gentle delicacy and softness that a human who just lets themselves flow with the sound can produce.
That’s what it’s all about.
I love that train track or horse gallop chugging rhythm some songs have.
Gives me feelings of movement forward, travel or progression.
Great car songs!Muse - Knights of Cydonia, Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night is probably a good examples of this.
That is literally called The Gallop!
Oh, cool!
All the Kings Horses - Two Steps from Hell
Siren noises and airhorns and generally post-ironic soundboard noises. Like remember DJs in the early 2000s? When the radio sounded like
(Tires screeching) Husky overly excited voice: you’re listening (Siren blaring) To the one and only (Red tailed hawk screech) (Machine gun noises) 97.4 (Dog barking) (mgm lion roar) KZRL “Krazy” FM (Choir sings hallelujah) Your one-stop-shop for hits from the 70s and 80s (Chorus from “don’t you forget about me” plays) (Guitar solo from Panama)
All those stupid noises are great when they get shoved into mid 2010s dubstep music, and when they are put into SoundCloud mashups.
Teacher: “You can’t hear text”
Random Lemmy Comment:
Back when you downloaded new ringtones via SMS short codes you found on the back of a magazine
Only assholes put sirens in music. Me in my car trying to find where the trouble is.
I love when the track goes completely silent for a single rest after some buildup and then punches back into the full chorus. If that “gap” in noise is part of the melody itself it’s even cooler. It makes the following sound so much more impactful, even if the actual volume hasn’t increased by much.
Have to agree. Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins executes on this so perfectly.
Yeah, that’s one of my favorites too! Got any good examples you like? One of my favs is “Ivory” by Polyphia. It hits right towards the end of the song and always gets me good.
Create by OVERWERK is a good example that uses what I’m talking about multiple times throughout.
I dig it, cool song!
Going back to my skater teen phase, “hands down” by Dashboard Confessional has a good one.
Classic, it’s a good one.
Music that is REALLY stereo. I recently-ish got a pair of open back planar magnetic headphones, which sound bloody brilliant. So wide, so open, so crisp! It’s almost like VR for your ears with certain tracks and albums.
So ye! Songs that really lean hard on having fun with stereo, or just really well engineered music in general. I was FLOORED when I listened to Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral for the first time with those things, so much fine detail and incredible audio engineering in that album. I’d honestly consider it one of the best engineered albums I’ve ever listened to, and I’m saying this as a huge Steely Dan fan.
Another go to for me is Pond’s Man, It Really Feels Like Space Again. Psychedelic music just hits so incredibly well when I use those headphones, and this album in particular just really takes me through a friggen journey when listening to it.
Lucid Dreams by Frans Ferdinand was one song that stood out to me, at least it was the first one that did after I got my first pairs of nice headphones. It’s the 7:55 minute version, and the part starts to build around 4:38
I like it when the vocalist announces what’s coming next, like yelling “GUITAR!” right before a guitar solo or “bring back the horns” right before the brass section kicks in or “sing it, girls” right before the female backups echo the refrain.
GUITAR
I Believe in a Thing Called Love!
Even better when the singer “requests” it from their bandmate by name. (e.g. Honey Don’t by The Beatles)
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo Number Five!
I really like this one for certain genres like Funk or RnB that are generally more energetic and spontaneous when performed live. Helps the recorded material feel a little more alive.
I love when something is sung in a lower, more calm register and towards the end when things get fast the same thing is said but with a higher octave and more energy like it’s so exciting it feels like character development but for music
Breakdowns. Chug chug chug chug chug Random growls and barks
Mmmmmmmmmm. Soothes my soul.
Note bending. Blue notes. Slide guitar. Whammy bar. Probably because I was raised on the blues, soul, and psychedelia
Aeolian/Dorian mode mixture
I think sidewinder by avenged sevenfold does what you’re talking about.
I wish they would do a whole album of Avenged Flamingofold!
I like when there’s a whole change in rhythm that makes the song totally different. Like this one: https://youtu.be/ibmk1RDHaEs?feature=shared
acoustic guitar comes in towards the end of a song and totally changes or reframes the mood/energy
The Stage by Avenged Sevenfold fits the bill. Especially if you watch the video along with the music, that song is just all around fucking great, to include the ending.
I was also reminded of A7X except I thought of their song Sidewinder. The guitar ending is my favorite part.
Any percussive delay with loads of filtered feedback in dub or tech house
Really repetitive samples that evolve like Global Communication - The Way
