Volume 2 439 Album Consensus

Hugo and Hieran went around the corridor on the fourth floor at least twice, and before their heads were about to go around completely, Hieran finally found the location of the recording studio, and he looked at Hugo with sparkling eyes, "Well, I told you, I can find it." "It took five minutes to 'spend'......

Hugo couldn't help but wipe his sweat, "Shouldn't there be some arrows here?" The corridors are all over the place, and it is not easy to find an accurate bearing. ”

"I've built a company before, but they say it's not necessary, the road here is clear......" Before Sheeran could finish his words, Hugo raised his voice with wide eyes and questioned, "Clear?" Sheeran immediately nodded vigorously, "That's complete nonsense, right!"

As he spoke, Sheeran pushed open the big 'door' of the recording studio, and everyone in the room except Henry turned their eyes to the 'door', and Neil was the first to ask, "Why did it take so long?" Hugo went to the bathroom for at least ten minutes, which is not normal.

Hugo pointed to the corridor outside and complained, "The road here is like a spider's web, and there is no way to find its way!"

Neil didn't give Hugo any response, turned his head and raised his right hand and spread it flat, and then Forkin, Pedro and Alfonso took out a dollar and put it in Neil's palm, while the three people looked at Hugo with a look of resentment and were silent.

Hugo's words directly stuck in his throat, with a depressed face, and then gritted his teeth and introduced, "This is our album producer zuò person Hilan Raikunin......"

Hieran looked at the actions of the band members, but he didn't know why, but when he heard Hugo's introduction, he put the matter aside for the time being, and said with a smile, "Hello everyone, just call me Hieran." After everyone had introduced themselves to each other - including Henry, who was drowsy, Sheeran looked around the studio and then sat down in the boss's chair in front of the sound console, "So, I've heard that you have a plan for the album, what are your plans?"

The members of the band all found their places in the studio and sat down, and then Hugo began to talk about their ideas for the new album, and then discussed their positioning of the band's style.

"Yes, yes, I know the style of music you mentioned," Sheeran thought for a moment, groaned, and then said hesitantly, "a band from Bakersfield, California, called LAPD, right?" Their music contains a lot of guitar strumming and distortion 'color' absorbed from heavy metal music, but the overall style is very violent, with a face-tearing vent, which is a very different contrast to traditional heavy metal music, with a vague dance rhythm of jumping. ”

"yes, yes, but the band is now called Korn, and I've heard they've signed on and are working on a new album." Hugo nodded repeatedly, he didn't expect Sheeran to know about Cohen's band. In the history of the development of new metal music, the period around 1992 was the embryonic stage of this music genre, and the Cohen Band is one of the most representative 'sexual' bands.

In fact, the Cohen band was called alternative rock in the first half of the 90s, because there was no trend of new metal rock during this time, and people used "alternative rock" to refer to it. Cohen's musical style has the destructive 'nature' of underground metal and dark metal, and the combination of guitar and lead is simple and clear but can impress people, which can be said to be the typical representative of the new metal band.

"They're signed up too? Sure enough, I knew that there are too many people who have copied Nirvana in the market now, and it sounds like there are no bright spots at all, and it can even be said to be terrible. After Nirvana brought grunge rock into the mainstream, it seemed that people lacked their own ideas about rock, which was really boring, and sooner or later people would have to break this shackle. Hearing Sheeran's words, Hugo laughed loudly.

In fact, although Nirvana released their first single in 1988, they really set off a frenzy of 'tide' when they released the album "Don't Mind" in September 1991, which officially ascended to the position of rock classics, turning a non-mainstream music genre like grunge into a part that the entire mainstream music market could not ignore.

It can be said that it has been less than two years since Nirvana had an impact on the entire music industry, and it was only in these two years that the development of rock was pushed to a peak by Nirvana, which caused the worries that Sheeran just said, and it also became a hotbed for breeding new metal rock. It's no wonder that Sheeran was sent by EMI Records to co-produce the band's debut album for Honor to Death, because they were all the way.

"I don't quite understand, though, what is the style of your band?" After Sheeran muttered, he still pulled the focus back, any rock band has its own distinct 'color', even a band like Radiohead, which mainly focuses on alternative rock, their music is very prominent in the 'color' of electronic rock, experimental rock, and British rock. "What you just said, in addition to being similar to lapd, oh, is a style like Cohen's band, you also mentioned rap, hip-hop parts. You have to know that hip-hop has been adding metal rock for a few years now, but it's a very different style. I don't know if you know of a band called deftones......"

Facing Sheeran's questioning gaze, Hugo nodded, "I know, they're a heavy metal band, with furious electric guitars and overwhelming drumbeats, and lead singer Moreno's heart-rending roar, like no other." ”

"That's right! They are somewhat similar to Cohen's band, but Cohen is more somber and has a different taste of metal; And they have been embracing hip-hop since 1990, with a rap part added to the lyrics, but the electronic elements are not too heavy, more on the basis of heavy metal fusion hip-hop and rap, the rhythm is strong, and the guitar arrangement is straight. You mentioned this style of the blind music group as well. Sheeran looked at Hugo earnestly, his eyes full of curiosity and inquiry.

Hugo nodded vigorously, in fact, heavy metal rock is developed on the basis of blind music teams in a narrow sense, and rock and roll fusion hip-hop is also the core 'color' in the new metal style, and many new metal rock bands are based on this basis for self-understanding, self-reading and their own 'color' in the itinerary. But that's just some of the new metal rocks, but not all.

"The style of our band is actually the characteristics of the Cohen band and the blind music band, first, the guitar arrangement is more concise, straightforward and powerful; Second, the medium to convey the mind and soul of the band is more abundant, hardcore, rap, industrial metal, and grunge can all be elements of the song. In fact, it is to incorporate more musical elements to make the music more colorful, and it is not limited to a specific style. Hugo explained that this is also the style that has gradually precipitated after more than four months of running-in in Glory to Death, which is the band's definition of the first album.

"So, what you mean is that no style is your style." Sheeran concluded, which made Hugo laugh dumbly.

"I wouldn't say it in this way, I'd rather say that we open our arms to accommodate more elements and fill rock with more 'color'." Hugo summed it up with a smile.

"Hardcore, rap, industrial metal, grunge...... So, punk, pop, jazz are no exception?" Sheeran quickly had an idea, and after getting Hugo's affirmative answer, Sheeran couldn't help but sigh, "Wow, this is a huge subversion of the current metal rock, do you know a band called Dream Theater?"

As soon as this sentence came out, all the band members laughed, especially Alfonso, Sheeran was confused, but he still looked at Alfonso, "Dream Theater Band is actually avant-garde metal, their arrangements are still very complicated, and the guitar is still dominated by the band, which retains the 'color' of metal, but they also added keyboardists, and changed many people's perception of keyboardists." What you have to do now is to break the existing stereotype and use your understanding of music to open up a new style of music, right?"

"Sheeran, if you say that, we'll feel a lot of pressure on our shoulders." Hugo laughed and opened up a whole new genre of music, just like Elvis Presley was called the "King of Rock and Roll", which was definitely not an easy task. And the important thing is that many times history is inadvertently created, no one will deliberately say "I want to create history" and then work towards this goal, more often than not, after the goal is achieved, they realize that they have created a new history.

Hieran looked at Hugo intently, obviously he was full of interest in Hugo's blueprint, Hugo shrugged, "However, we do want to create an album according to our own style, as for what will happen in the future, it will not be us who will judge, but the listeners, and there is time." ”

Hearing this, Sheeran immediately geared up, looking a little impatient, "It's an honor to be a part of the process of creating this new style. Luckily, Sheeran and Glory to Death had a great conversation when they met for the first time, and the two sides actually reached a consensus, which also opened a new beginning for their future cooperation, "So, do you have any positioning for your music style?" It can't be called colorful rock, can it?"

Hugo smiled and looked at his teammates, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him, Hugo pouted, "I'd like to call it New Metal Rock (Etal)." ”

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