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A musical figure or figuration is the shortest idea in music; a short succession of notes, often recurring. It may have melodic pitch, harmonic progression, and rhythmic meter. The 1964 Grove's Dictionary defines the figure as "the exact counterpart of the German 'motiv' and the French 'motif '": it produces a "single complete and distinct ...
Heavy metal songs also use longer rhythmic figures such as whole note- or dotted quarter note-length chords in slow-tempo power ballads. The tempos in early heavy metal music tended to be "slow, even ponderous". [4] By the late 1970s, however, metal bands were employing a wide variety of tempos.
A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with clay , metal, wood, glass, and today plastic or resin the most significant.
A figurine is a small statuette that represents a human, deity or animal. Figurine or Figurines may also refer to: Figurine (band), American electronica band; Figurines (band), Danish indie rock band; The Figurine, a 2009 thriller film produced and directed by Kunle Afolayan
The band members, friends since high school, use the pseudonyms David Figurine (Forster David Rudolph), James Figurine (Jimmy Tamborello) and Meredith Figurine (Meredith Landman). While the band seems to be inactive as of 2006, all three members are also involved in other bands or have released solo work under their respective Figurine monikers.
Rus Martin - lead vocals, guitar - Formerly with Eyelid, Chlora, Leisure, now in Skyscraper Frontier, Beware the Idols and Fake Figures (the last one, a band composed with members of Atreyu and Scars of Tomorrow) Dan Hartman - bass guitar - Formerly in The A.M. Project, The Foundation AD; Chris Strauser - bass guitar - Formerly in Countervail
Domestic metal saw its commercial peak in Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the top acts selling millions of records. Many metal bands from the visual kei scene toured and gained recognition in the West in the 2000s. The 2010s saw a boom of all-female metal bands form and gain mainstream attention.
Avant-garde metal (also known as avant-metal, experimental metal, art metal and experimetal) is a subgenre of heavy metal music loosely defined by use of experimentation and innovative, avant-garde elements, including non-standard and unconventional sounds, instruments, song structures, playing styles, and vocal techniques.