Ba PORTANT S ATA VE TRG TALON SPN LD BT te FE OES LAR SSeS aes Has music reached limi “IS THERE a new direction _ -Inusic can turn to in terms of - approach and originality, or have we come to a dead end? * Tt seems that music these days is not really offering anything new. : The trend in guitar-based, hard-rock music had been for the past decade .the challenge to see who can get the heaviest and most evil sounding. _. Now that we have achieved that sound with the likes of death metal --."” painds such as Cannibal Corpse, » Napalm Death and Morbid Angel, we are lefi with the conclusion that ‘. this is the heaviest it gets. -. Upand coming bunds are having Sa really hard time coming up with an a ‘original sound. ‘With the huge classification of guitar-based music — jazz, blues, rock, alternative, hard rock, heavy metal, industrial,.thrash, speed, punk, fusion metal and death metal — it seems apparent that there is " nowhere else to turn. The only hope i is that there will be someone in the near future who will make us'look at our guitars in a” whole new way. People tike Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie: Van: Halen. B.B:.King, Eric Clapton and: Steve’ Vai all made people rethink: the poiential of the eleciric guitar. : Guitas-based music started off with blues and'jazz. The blues influ- enced the rock’ and roll of the °50s. From then on, roc! rock and roll became der and more complex. Rock and roll became really pop- ular when the British invasion hit “America i in the *60s with bands such - as the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, and the As tock progres... d into the late *60s, bands like Jimi, Hendrix, Led - Zeppelin, ¢ Creedence Clearwater “~ "Revival and Cream hetped push “rock into new directions. “> Into the ’70s came-a harder gen- ; eration of rock superstars such as “Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Aerosmith, - KISS and Ted Nugent.‘ Then’ came’ “the punk scene with the Sex Pistols leading the pack, The Ramones and New York Dolls followed. ‘Anew. wave of British heavy “metal nit the scene with: ” » Diamondhead, Blitzk tieg, :Motorhead and Judas, Priest. This influenced the beginning thrash bands in tke early ’80s such as *sMetallica, Anthrax, Exodus, Slayer, and Megadeth: These bands helped influence the even heavier scene of death metal. Now there is nowhere left to go but back to the basics. As the focus - shifted to the Seattle scene, it * spa arked the altemnative:movement. New bands such as Ministry and * Nine Inch Nails turned to computers for added effects and now it seems “CORRECTION NOTICE In our flyer running Nov, 10-15 the follawing atrar occurred: The NEC P60M at $2949.99 should not have includéd the 16. Bit Sound Blaster card. The Future Shop sincerely regrets .any inconve- nience this may have caused our valued customers. ineneronrmrcnatnn Ways vot al. a ye | Pekan Tar eR a eS that this is the new direction of music. Technology appears to be an escape from the predictable music scene. My feeling on this is that music has not, and will probably never. reach its limits. There will always be ts rh anew talented young kid with a new idea, stepping up from the sidetines. hoping to direct the future of music. 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