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Šlágry
''Šlágry'' ( English title: '' Schlager'') is the third studio album by Czech black metal band Master's Hammer, released in 1995 by a now-defunct subsidiary of Osmose Productions, Kron-H, specialized in more experimental outputs than Osmose itself. Greatly contrasting with the sonority of the band's previous releases, ''Šlágry'' sees them "virtually abandon ngthe operatic black metal of previous releases in favor of modernist electronic music", and "shar ngpublishing credits with Carl Czerny, Otto Katz and Giuseppe Verdi, mixing bits of metal, folk and ''musique concrète'' into a style based on the classical avant-garde", as they put it in the album's liner notes. In fact, "Hlava modernistova" is the only black metal-oriented track of the entire album. Other Master's Hammer members Necrocock, Monster, Mirek Valenta and Silenthell are noticeably absent from the album; only vocalist Franta Štorm and keyboardist Vlasta Voral took part in its recording. On the album's liner no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master's Hammer
Master's Hammer was a Czech black metal band formed in Prague in 1983. They were active, with several lineup changes, until 1995, and again from 2009 until 2020. They have released eight studio albums, five demos, one EP, two split albums, two live albums, and several compilations. History Master's Hammer was founded in 1983 and produced five demos, before releasing their debut album, ''Ritual. (Master's Hammer album), Ritual.'', in 1991. The Polish extreme metal band Behemoth (band), Behemoth covered the song "Jáma pekel" on their 2008 EP, ''Ezkaton''. A year later, Master's Hammer issued their sophomore record, ''Jilemnický okultista''. Their third album, ''Šlágry'', which came out in 1995, was a shift away from their previous work and incorporated a variety of styles outside the metal genre. At the time, the band announced that ''Šlágry II'' and a forthcoming CD-ROM would rely more on professional opera singers and orchestra musicians, although neither materialized, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantras (Master's Hammer Album)
''Mantras'' is the fourth studio album by Czech black metal band Master's Hammer, independently-released on 3 December 2009. It is the band's first album of new material since ''Šlágry'' on 1995, and sees them returning to the black metal style of their first two albums, but blending it with the experimental sound demonstrated on ''Šlágry''. It was released both in CD and vinyl format; the vinyl version contains less tracks. The track "Vrana" is a tribute to painter Martin Vrana, a long-time friend of Master's Hammer's vocalist Franta Štorm. Vrana illustrated the album's cover art. "Jáma pekel" was originally featured on the band's debut album, '' Ritual.''. Track listing Note Tracks 9 to 12 are absent of the vinyl release. Personnel * František "Franta" Štorm – vocals, guitar, drums, production * Tomáš "Necrocock" Kohout – guitars * Tomáš "Monster" Vendl – bass * Honza "Silenthell" Přibyl – timpani Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Štorm
František "Franta" Štorm (born 3 July 1966) is a Czech musician, photographer, typographer, writer, teacher, artist, illustrator and record producer, famous for being the vocalist and a founding member of the black metal band Master's Hammer. Biography Štorm was born in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia, on 3 July 1966; he is the son of painter Dana Puchnarová, and grandson of architect and heraldist Břetislav Štorm. From 1981 to 1985 he studied at the Secondary School of Arts in Prague, and later went to the AAAD, where he graduated in 1991 under the guidance of Milan Hegar and Jan Solpera. After serving as Solpera's assistant for some years, from 2003 to 2008 Štorm was the headmaster of the AAAD's Department of Typography. In 1993 Štorm founded his own type foundry, which has, so far, produced more than sixty font families. In 2005 Štorm won the Revolver Revue prize, and in 2009 he published his first book, ''Eseje o typografii'' (''Essays on Typography'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabre Dance
"Sabre Dance" is a movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's ballet '' Gayane'' (1942), where the dancers display their skill with sabres. It is Khachaturian's best known and most recognizable work worldwide. In the composer’s own words, the “Dance of the Kurds”, which subsequently became the “Sabre Dance”, originated with the insistence of the Director of the Kirov Theatre already after the rehearsal process had commenced. Although Khachaturian considered the score to be complete, he reluctantly agreed to add another dance in the last act. "Sabre Dance" is considered one of the signature pieces of 20th-century popular music. It was popularized by covers by pop artists, first in the U.S. in 1948 and later elsewhere. Its use in a wide range in films and television over the decades have significantly contributed to its renown. "Sabre Dance" has also been used by a number of figure skaters from at least five countries in their performances. Composition It is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jilemnický Okultista
''Jilemnický okultista'' (English: "the Jilemnice occultist") is the second studio album by Czech black metal band Master's Hammer, self-released in December 1992 and distributed by Osmose Productions in the following year. Described by the band as "the world's first black metal operetta" and largely inspired by King Diamond (band), King Diamond's rock operas, it is their first of two concept albums, the second being ''Vagus Vetus'', released in 2014. On several early Osmose pressings, ''Jilemnice'' is misspelled as "Filemnice", which was corrected on later pressings. Despite the track listing being in English, all the lyrics are in Czech; the original release contained Czech titles. On this album, Vlastimil Voral joined Master's Hammer as a full-time member (he had already played on the band's previous album, ''Ritual. (Master's Hammer album), Ritual.'', but was credited as a guest musician only). ''Jilemnický okultista'' was re-issued in 2017 by František Štorm, Franta Što ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavonic Chronicles
''Slavonic Chronicles'' is an EP released by Ukrainian black metal band Drudkh on September 20, 2010 (see 2010 in music), on the French label Season of Mist. It was released in two formats: as a 10" LP and as a mini CD. The last one is available only as a part of a deluxe leather book edition of Drudkh's 2010 full-length album, '' Handful of Stars'', strictly limited to 600 copies. ''Slavonic Chronicles'' consists of two cover versions of tracks by Slavic black metal bands: "Tam gdzie gaśnie dzień..." (originally by the Polish band Sacrilegium, taken from a split with Polish band North, titled ''Jesienne Szepty'') and "Indiánská píseň hrůzy" (originally by Czech band Master's Hammer, taken from the album ''Šlágry''). It was generally well received due to its stylistic similarity with classic Drudkh works like ''Blood in Our Wells'', as opposed to the almost post-rock Post-rock is a subgenre of experimental rock that emphasizes Texture (music), texture, atmosphere, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde Metal
Avant-garde metal (also known as avant-metal, experimental metal, art metal and experimetal) is a subgenre of heavy metal music loosely defined by use of experimentation and innovative, avant-garde music, avant-garde elements, including non-standard and unconventional sounds, instruments, song structures, playing styles, and vocal techniques. Avant-garde metal is influenced by progressive rock and extreme metal, particularly death metal, and is closely related to progressive metal. Some local scenes include Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, and Seattle in the United States, Oslo in Norway, and Japanese metal, Tokyo in Japan. Characteristics "Avant-garde metal" is interchangeable with "experimental metal" and "avant-metal", Avant-garde metal is related to progressive metal, but avant-garde metal often has more experimentation, while progressive metal usually has a tighter focus on traditional metal instrumentation and higher levels of technical complexity. Avant-gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Compositions By Carl Czerny
This is a list of compositions by Carl Czerny. Czerny composed a large number of pieces (up to Op. 861), including piano music (études, nocturnes, 11 sonatas, opera theme arrangements and variations) and also masses and choral music, 6 symphonies, concertos, songs, string quartets and other chamber music. Czerny himself divided his music into four categories: #studies and exercises #easy pieces for students #brilliant pieces for concerts #serious music. By opus number * Op. 1, Variations Concertantes pour Pianoforte et Violon sur un thème de Jean-Baptiste KrumpholzRecorded by Wilfried Kazuki Hednborg (violin) & Bruno Canino (piano), Catalogue CM90096, Label Camerata, release date: 9 November 2009. * Op. 2, Brilliant Rondeau on Cavatine de Carafa à quatre mains * Op. 3, Brilliant Fantasy and Variations on "Romance of Blangini" with Accompanied two Violins, Alto, and Violoncello (Double Bass ad lib.) * Op. 4, Le Souvenir, Variations * Op. 5, Grand Rondeau n° 1, en ut majeur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 15 to 30 minutes. An EP is usually less cohesive than an album and more "non-committal". An extended play (EP) originally referred to a specific type of 45 revolutions per minute, rpm phonograph record other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and 33 rpm LP record, long play (LP), but , also applies to mid-length Compact disc, CDs and Music download, downloads. EPs are considered "less expensive and less time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album, and have long been popular with punk and indie bands. In K-pop and J-pop, they are usually referred to as Mini-LP, mini-albums. Background History EPs were released in various sizes in different eras. The earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were Vertic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drudkh
Drudkh is a Ukrainian black metal band. It currently consists of Roman Saenko (of Hate Forest and formerly of Dark Ages), Thurios (former member of Astrofaes and Hate Forest), Krechet, and Vlad. All four also were members of Blood of Kingu until it was disbanded. Their lyrics and artistic themes embrace Slavic mythology and Ukrainian nationalism. Many of the band's lyrics are derived from the works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Ukrainian poets (Oleksandr Oles, Oleh Olzhych, Maik Yohansen, etc.) and especially Taras Shevchenko. Drudkh have been particularly secretive throughout the course of their career, even for a black metal band, giving no interviews and not releasing the lyrics to several of their albums. From their conception until 2009, Drudkh did not have any official website, but in May 2009, Season of Mist launched an official Myspace, operated by the label rather than the band. The word "drudkh" is derived from the Sanskrit word for "forest" or "tree". Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethlehem
Bethlehem is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem, and the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate. It had a population of people, as of . The city's economy is strongly linked to Tourism in the State of Palestine, tourism, especially during the Christmas period, when Christians embark on a pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, which is revered as the location of the birth of Jesus. A possible first mention of Bethlehem is in the Amarna letters, Amarna correspondence of ancient Egypt, dated to 1350–1330 BCE, although that reading is uncertain. In the Hebrew Bible, the period of the Israelites is described; it identifies Bethlehem as the birthplace of David. In the New Testament, the city is identified as the birthplace of Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth. Under the Roman Empire, the city of Bethlehem was destroyed by Hadrian, but later rebuilt by Constantine the Great, who commissioned the Church of the Nativity in 327 CE. In 529, the Church of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
