The Darkhours - Episode LXX: The Seeds of all things Dark.
Modern music is funny. It’s had so many transgressions over the decades and yet… in the end, you have to remember the beginnings.Dark music isn’t about just Goth, Metal, Industrial, Darkwave and New Wave. It’s not about Euro metal, Symphonic metal, Epica or any of that stuff. It’s about a feeling. It’s about the music that gave us chills in our spines when we were kids even if they were songs passed down from generations before us. Before there were genres and cliques and subcultures and stuff like that. Back when Rock and Roll was called “The Devils Music”.
I find it odd how to try and scare us, to instill that feeling of fear or darkness or whatever made you feel like you were a night creature, bands today have even turned to classical orchestration, operatic voices and choirs and more and more somber or horrific lyrics. Yet none of this is new. It’s been done time and time again.because it’s part of our inherent nature to chase after what we fear, to seek out the macabre, to stare the unknown in the face and to watch the plights of others as we pass by a simple car accident.
We’re morbid beings by nature. The only difference with the typical Darkhours listener is that we celebrate it. Sometimes we even laugh in the face of it.
Join me tonight for the a sonic seance where we raise our musical awareness about how the darkness in music we all know and love got started. During this, we’ll also inject new sounds along with the old and the familiar. Just expect to come and have a good time.. Can ya do that?
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