One of the many things I love about Heavy Metal is its uncanny ability to assimilate bits and pieces from other media. Punk, Opera, Hip-Hop, Folk Music - all woke up one morning to find out that somebody had nicked a bunch of their stuff without noticing.
More recently I've seen several metal bands using dance-music style keyboards in their sound.
And I like this idea. I do believe that metal and dance music have more in common than people think..
Now on to the track that inspired this post. Multinational outfit Beast In Black released their new video on September 30 and both the song and the video - especially the video - suggest the band do seem to have been drinking deeply out of the cup labelled "Synthwave" . Between the Eurodance keys and the vintage-games aesthetics of the vid, you get something that's a refreshing change from a bunch of angry blokes in a warehouse.
I definitely want to see where this band is going. See what you think.
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