Solcura – God Now
Similar artists: Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots
Genre: Grunge, Alternative Rock
Hard rock, and heavy metal styles of music, I’ve found, have always lent themselves to broadcasts depicting violent action. This has not been lost on movie directors.
In fact, the places in media where you are most likely to hear this kind of music nowadays are horror and action movies. Screamed vocals, powerful guitar riffs, and thundering drums are a good way to emphasize the energy of these.
Still, not every piece of hard-rock music fits well over any visual. Much of it is designed to feel foreboding and claustrophobic. A lot of it is made to sound outlandish and absurd.
And finally, some heavy music seems designed for directors who prefer filming with a wide lens and letting all the explosions color the background. Solcura’s God Now is hyper-grunge made for large-scale action movies. They take the house that Alice in Chains built and paint it bright red. It’s heavy and, I reckon, that it does its job in getting itself noticed.
Vlimmer – Platzwort
Genre: Gothic / Dark Wave, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
If rock music has often been able to find beauty in the most horrible of circumstances, then out of all the genres that function on this umbrella, goth-rock has done this the most efficiently.
It’s hard to define what goth rock is exactly. This is one of the reasons why so many fashion movements plunder the genre’s most important representatives for ideas.
What we can agree on is that the music centers around darkness as an aesthetic and terror as a feeling. Few countries have witnessed more terror, of have been forced to get over it as quickly as Germany over the last century or so.
Vlimmer’s Platzwort takes gloom and discomfort, unpacks it, and turns it into a dance tune. Just like history itself, the music plays with repetition, gently adding new ideas over familiar patterns. This is dark dance music that reminds us of horrors and about the ways we learn to deal with them.
