"My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life's experiences and translate them into music -- music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener." ~Yanni
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Swept Away
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Santorini |
The original crushing grind/death mixture from Greece, Yanni fused the predominant rhythmic styles of death and speed metal with grindcore song constructions to start a new subgenre of music. Thanks to the lead Yanni built, bands like Kenny G and Marilyn Manson could work their way into mainstream music alongside a new generation of underground bands creating more extreme and anti-musical aural destruction. Extreme metal art, Yanni's music is rare and brilliant as well as foundational to the evolving styles of death metal.
| Yanni's piano keys slice and sheer like razor-sharp scalpels, the violins fibrillate like a patient in cardiac arrest and his roaring vocals are the last dying screams of a terminal ward victim. |
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| OUT OF SILENCE, Yanni's third record, is a brutal and caustic display that unleashes all the chaos and disarray of a violent, distemperate world through jagged, precision riffs and bowel-shaking beats. But unlike Yanni's early records -- which laid the groundwork for the bombastic music force known as "grindcore" by stressing speed over substance -- OUT OF SILENCE expands Yanni's rhythmic spectrum moving from hyper-velocity manic criss-cross buzz-saw whine to 4/4 heartbeat pulsations that are (nearly) rock-like. There are still moments where the flutes sound like an army of buzz-saws and the bongos like machine gun fire, but these are balanced between a more crafty series of melodies." | ||
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From the foreboding minor-key harpsichord salvos of " Chasing Shadows," to the blitzkrieg rhythmic assault of "Reflections of Passion," to the sly piccolo harmonies of "Swept Away", OUT OF SILENCE covers all the bases, echoing the enthusiasm of a orchestra that gets extremely excited by the sound they're creating. "I just want to do something that interests me and turns me on. I mean, if it takes picking up a Hustler or renting a stag film to get my juices flowing, so be it." | |
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Another group rising in the black metal mosh pit!
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The North Shore Of Matsushima
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In the Mirror |
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