SVBWAY TO SALLY
For starters: The V is roman for U ;-)
Subway to Sally is a german
metal-band who make
music of a
genre called "Middle-Ages Metal". It's got
smashing metal-
feeling in the
background whilst the
foreground is
dominated by
flutes and vocals. The melodies are quite
oldfashioned and at first you might find it VERY
strange, but after a while you will
love it so much you just can't get
enough!
I think it's the
perfect mixture of heavy
stuff and
folk/
ethnic/acoustic. This is the reason why the
people who visit their
concerts are eiher metal- or
middle-ages-freaks. The least are "
normal" people. And then there are persons like me, who say it's the
artistic value that makes SVBWAY so
interesting for them.
I've been to a concert in June 2001 and it was the best
decision I've ever made. So many different people and all of them
jumping around and having fun. And at least half of them knew all the song
lyrics by heart.
Their first
album was
pure metal and the lyrics were english (now they're all german), and it was of a
minor quality. But since then (1994) they've brought four other albums
whereof the first two were more middle-ages than metal. The newest one, "Herzblut" (meaning "heartblood") is VERY different. It's neither metal nor folk nor ethnic ... it's hard to
describe ... it's
somelike a mixture of rock, metal, folk/ethnic and
electronic music. So it's very artistic, and it's the
best of them all. So if you like either metal or the middle-ages and should ever have the chance to
listen to one of their albums, YOU REALLY SHOULD, or I must say that you have TERRIBLY MISSED something! ;-)