Re: Your Influences and Playing Style
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:00 am
Allright. blabber time. Here goes.
I play guitar in two bands. One straightforwardinyourfacehardcorepunk and one experimental/ambient/alternative/idontlikementioningaspecificgenrewhentryingtodescribethisband-band.
For the hardcore/punk band I'm quite heavily influenced by cheap american pop/skate-punk. I've always had a soft spot for bands like green day (their latest record really sucked. I've really tried to like it bu I can't!), new found glory, nofx, goldfinger etc. Also, within my own genre I'm influenced by hardcore bands like champion, bones brigade and comeback kid. Everytime I try to write a riff for this band I'm think bout playing summer, guys wearing shorts caps and skate-shoes, playing tony hawks proskater (those games always had nice soundtracks!). I search for a "skatepunk-feel" (which is for me just a complete feel of ontheverge of uncontrollable joy and late teen years love/energy/feel) in my heart and never settle before I find it. It's like when atheletes are said to think of that winning moment. I have that too, and it's "skatepunk" in my head. All though it doesn't actually have to be related to any off the above mentioned bands. Also, I should mention I don't write happy-sounding stuff the raw energy from the "happy-feel" helps deliver the riffs I need. S
As for the other band it's completely different. I try to think of really (to me) intricate music like dillinger escape plan, oceansize, the ocean, misery signals, radiohead (and perhaps thrice too) for some parts and really moody (in a simple but depressed kinda way) stuff like cult of luna, sonjagon, thrice, radiohead, anna ternheim. I then combine it with purebrutalangerbreakdowns and dissonance and ultimately go back to and put all the stuff in a "the-world-is-gonna-end mentality"-mood which is more I've given up than just sad. "D is for Dystopia" is a title/something I always think fitted my vision of the band. But this far I haven't used it, other than in my head.
Sound pretentious/overambitious enough? Honest to god, this IS how it works.
And yeah, I'm not done quite yet. I do vocals for both bands. Lead singing screaming for the second mentioned project and back-up inyaface-style chants for the hardcore band. For the backup stuff I just roar as tight and loud as I can. You know like chanting rhymes and stuff at sports events.
For the second project I want to do it all but guess I do a lot off Cult Of Luna-styled vocals for our and some more mellow stuff for most verses. I can do low screams pretty well, my singing needs technically improving and I'd like to be able to do the 36crazyfists high pitch barks as well as those reaaally low guttural (is that a word?) death metal growls..
there. done. too much OT?
I play guitar in two bands. One straightforwardinyourfacehardcorepunk and one experimental/ambient/alternative/idontlikementioningaspecificgenrewhentryingtodescribethisband-band.
For the hardcore/punk band I'm quite heavily influenced by cheap american pop/skate-punk. I've always had a soft spot for bands like green day (their latest record really sucked. I've really tried to like it bu I can't!), new found glory, nofx, goldfinger etc. Also, within my own genre I'm influenced by hardcore bands like champion, bones brigade and comeback kid. Everytime I try to write a riff for this band I'm think bout playing summer, guys wearing shorts caps and skate-shoes, playing tony hawks proskater (those games always had nice soundtracks!). I search for a "skatepunk-feel" (which is for me just a complete feel of ontheverge of uncontrollable joy and late teen years love/energy/feel) in my heart and never settle before I find it. It's like when atheletes are said to think of that winning moment. I have that too, and it's "skatepunk" in my head. All though it doesn't actually have to be related to any off the above mentioned bands. Also, I should mention I don't write happy-sounding stuff the raw energy from the "happy-feel" helps deliver the riffs I need. S
As for the other band it's completely different. I try to think of really (to me) intricate music like dillinger escape plan, oceansize, the ocean, misery signals, radiohead (and perhaps thrice too) for some parts and really moody (in a simple but depressed kinda way) stuff like cult of luna, sonjagon, thrice, radiohead, anna ternheim. I then combine it with purebrutalangerbreakdowns and dissonance and ultimately go back to and put all the stuff in a "the-world-is-gonna-end mentality"-mood which is more I've given up than just sad. "D is for Dystopia" is a title/something I always think fitted my vision of the band. But this far I haven't used it, other than in my head.
Sound pretentious/overambitious enough? Honest to god, this IS how it works.
And yeah, I'm not done quite yet. I do vocals for both bands. Lead singing screaming for the second mentioned project and back-up inyaface-style chants for the hardcore band. For the backup stuff I just roar as tight and loud as I can. You know like chanting rhymes and stuff at sports events.
For the second project I want to do it all but guess I do a lot off Cult Of Luna-styled vocals for our and some more mellow stuff for most verses. I can do low screams pretty well, my singing needs technically improving and I'd like to be able to do the 36crazyfists high pitch barks as well as those reaaally low guttural (is that a word?) death metal growls..
there. done. too much OT?
