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Stigmata (Sri Lankan Band)
Stigmata is a Sri Lankan Heavy metal music, heavy metal band based in Colombo, formed in 1998. Biography Early years Suresh De Silva, Andrew Obeysekara and Tennyson Napoleon formed the band in 1998 at S. Thomas' College, Mt Lavinia, where they were schoolmates. They chose the name "Stigmata" from the 1998 album Stigmata (Arch Enemy album), ''Stigmata'' by melodic death metal band Arch Enemy (band), Arch Enemy. The band's style is a unique style called "Pure Sri Lankan Metal" a mix of Sri Lankan origin fused rhythms and Eastern arrangements mixed cohesively into a framework of pProgressive metal, rogressive metal and Rock music, rock, thrash metal, speed metal, power metal along with Technical death metal, tech death, death metal and hard rock influence, laced with a global sound incorporating multiple genres like jazz, Latin rhythms, classical, fusion, middle-eastern and Baila (genre), Baila. They played their first ever concert at S.Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia in Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo metropolitan area has a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 in the Municipality. It is the financial centre of the island and a tourist destination. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to the Greater Colombo area which includes Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, and Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia. Colombo is often referred to as the capital since Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is itself within the urban/suburban area of Colombo. It is also the administrative capital of the Western Province and the district capital of Colombo District. Colombo is a busy and vibrant city with a mixture of modern life, colonial buildings and monuments. Due to its large harbour and its strategic position along th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollow Dreams
''Hollow Dreams'' is the debut studio album by Sri Lanka–based heavy metal band, Stigmata Stigmata ( grc, στίγματα, plural of , 'mark, spot, brand'), in Roman Catholicism, are bodily wounds, scars and pain which appear in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ: the hands, wrists, and feet. Stigm .... The album was released in 2003. Another noteworthy factor is that this was the first heavy metal album released by a Sri Lankan band. Track listing # "Thicker than Blood" – 04:08 # "Hollow Dreams" – 04:30 # "Andura" – 06:31 # "Stigmatized" – 11:19 # "Voices" – 06:03 # "Harvest of Sin" – 04:21 # "The Dying Winter Sleeps" – 07:18 # "Dezra" – 04:11 # "Inspired" – 04:10 # "Falling Away" – 05:19 # "Extinction" – 03:56< ...
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Live Concert With Stigmata (band)
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Sri Lankans
This is a demography of the population of Sri Lanka including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean, also called Ceylon and many other names. It is about the size of Ireland. It is about 28 kilometres (18 mi.) off the south-eastern coast of India with a population of about 20 million. Density is highest in the south west where Colombo, the country's main port and industrial center, is located. The net population growth is about 0.7%. Sri Lanka is ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. Overview According to the 2012 census the population of Sri Lanka was 20,359,439, giving a population density of 325/km2. The population had grown by 5,512,689 (37.1%) since the 1981 census (the last full census), equivalent to an annual growth rate of 1.1%. 3,704,470 (18.2%) lived in urban sectors - areas governed by munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cradle Of Filth
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Judas Priest
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Iced Earth
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Iron Maiden
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Led Zeppelin
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Metallica
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Deep Purple
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