Alternative metal (See also)
grunge,
heavy metal,
hardcore,
nu metal,
Alternative Metal is an offshoot of Heavy Metal which is characterized by a
combination of hip hop, hardcore punk, and
heavy metal
combined with other genres. Alternative metal's early bands were Jane's
Addiction,
Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, and Living Colour among others and incorporated blues, jazz, funk,
and hardcore in varying degrees. Faith No More,
the Sonic Youth, Fishbone, and Seattle's
pre grunge bands Melvins, Mudhoney, Tad and Mother Love
Bone were early pioneers in the genre.
Incubus heavily relied on funk and hardcore elements in their music.
Soundgarden
incorporated elements of the blues into their brand of alternative rock wooing
fans and critics alike. Alice in Chains combined layered heavy riff driven songs
combined with haunting melodies and dark lyrics. Nine
Inch Nails combined the industrial movement with heavy metal guitars to forge a
very popular direction in alternative metal. Jane's Addiction favored
progressive metal flavoring their riffs with punk infusions of jangling
infectious guitars.
Korn's debut album took alternative metal in a new direction spawning the
nu metal movement. Combining droning seven string guitar
riffs and Rap beats and
vocals with heavily sampled angst ridden tunes. Other artists like Papa Roach, Linkin Park,
Slipknot and Limp Bizkit revolutionized the nu metal
movement enveloping most of the alternative metal movement in the process.
Thank you for your interest in
Silver Dragon Records. Below is some information on our record label and
website catering to rock musicians.
Silver Dragon Records
presents recording artist
Lazarus X and solo album
Weapon of Love.
Lazarus X's
determined honest rock combined with haunting and soulful melodies struck a
chord with many rock music fans. Some fans received a preview of the
publicity
photos
and
album at a
rooftop listening party
a day before it is released and the response was amazing. Lazarus X has a long
and
interesting history
in the local Houston scene. His interview was well received by fans and is
available here.
Part 1 -
Part 2 - The
strong vocal harmonies and dark ominous guitars layered with very powerful and
accessible melodies and energetic bursts of Laz's 7 string make for a wild and
interesting ride. The
lyrics
are very moving, at times dark and at others very inspiring and insightful.
Check out
Lazarus X
merchandise like
tour and
WOL
T-shirts or preview one
of Laz's songs by
downloading a free mp3. Also stay tuned for
more cool content.
Silver Dragon Records is now signing
Alternative Metal bands. Check out what we have to offer.
Thank
you for your interest in
Houston Rock Record Label Silver Dragon Records.
Below is some information on our
record label and website catering to rock fans and musicians.
Houston Rock Record Label Silver Dragon Records
presents
rock band Lazarus X
and the their latest independent CD release
Weapon of Love.
Lazarus X's combines determined hard hitting rock with haunting and soulful
melodies which struck a chord with many
underground
rock music fans. Some fans received a preview of the
publicity photos
and
underground
rock CD WOL at a
rooftop listening
party a day before it was released
and the response was amazing. Check out
Rock Band Lazarus X
merchandise like
The Weapon of Love Tour T-Shirt and
the
Weapon of Love CD
or preview one of their songs by
downloading a
free rock mp3.
Silver Dragon Records is a
Houston
rock record label
producing and promoting experimental, hard rock and alternative metal albums. We
provide 24 bit digital recording in a
quiet
private studio
free of distractions. If you think we are the label for you
submit a
demo to our record label and let us tell you how we can help your
band with
artist promotion,
publicity, marketing, recording, mastering, help in marketing a demo or shopping
for a major label deal. We are happy to offer musicians our online resources
like our
musicians
toolkit for recording audio, our
museum of rock
music history and our
Houston rock music resource.
Thank you for checking out
music history or rock genres and subgenres and enjoy the above links.
SDR Home
-
Free Mp3s -
Lazarus X
-
CDs - Concert
T-shirts - Rock T-Shirts -
SDR T-Shirts -
Prints
- More Products
- Next Feature
Copyright 2003 Lazarus X - Silver Dragon
Records - All rights reserved.
