Moses Bandwidth

Ide awal pembentukan Moses Bandwidth bermula ditahun 2003, ketika itu LaVey yang sedang melanjutkan studi kuliahnya di kota Bandung , tertarik terhadap berbagai jenis musik Progressif yang bernuansa metal. Namun pada akhirnya kakaknya memperkenalkan dia kepada sebuah genre yang bernama Gothic Metal, Sejak saat itulah kemudian LaVey seakan jatuh cinta pada jenis musik ini, dan mencoba untuk mendapatkan berbagai Informasi dan referensi mengenai Gothic Metal

Pada akhir tahun 2004, LaVey mencari orang yang mempunyai visi dan misi yang sama dengan dia, untuk membentuk sebuah band Progressif, namun ia menyadari sepenuhnya bahwa sangatlah sulit untuk mencari orang disekitar yang mempunyai dedikasi tinggi terhadap musik Metal. Setelah lama mencari tanpa hasil, dia kemudian berinisiatif untuk mebuat berbagai materi lagu yang seluruh pengerjaan musiknya dilakukan oleh sendiri dan akibatnya, masalah baru pun timbul ketika Ia harus mendapatkan seseorang untuk mengisi vocal.

Tak lama kemudian ia menghubungi female vocal bernama Riska Elfira serta Chris Bobby (Drummer) yang merupakan teman sekelasnya dibangku kuliah sekaligus merupakan anggota Paduan Suara Mahasiswa (Pasuma) UNISBA mempunyai karakter vocal yang cocok dengan "Moses Bandwidth".Sekitar bulan Maret 2005, "Moses Bandwidth" telah merampungkan sebuah single pertamanya berjudul "Selangkah Menuju Surga" yang proses recordingnya dilakukan secara profesional di MMS Studio, Indramayu.

Akhir 2005 Moses Bandwidth mengontak Steven Jozeph untuk bergabung sebagai Bass player dan segera merilis album pertama "Behind The Darkness" yang diproduseri oleh Budi Santet dari Master Of Disharmony Records. Tour promo album pertama diawali pada kota Purwokerto, Dimmy yang merupakan Gitaris Elmeod langsung mengisi posisi aditional gitar

Pada pertengahan tahun 2006 Band Moses Bandwidth kembali masuk studio untuk merekam materi album kedua yang bertitle "Renaisaance" setelah sekitar lima bulan proses recording, Renaisaance dirilis oleh Inviolable Music yang diproduseri oleh Bob Wendo, Single hits Falling Down segera dipublikasikan ke berbagai media, promo tour album kedua mencakup berbagai kota jawa tengah seperti Semarang, Cilacap, dan sekitarnya,

Ditahun 2007 line up ini menyelesaikan pre production untuk album ke 3 yang bertitle Arabian Dreams With The Final Requiem yang dirilis oleh R-A Production, serta menyiapkan tour promo sepanjang tahun 2007 untuk mendukung penjualan album

Saat itulah merupakan langkah bagi "Moses Bandwidth" untuk mengukir jejaknya di komunitas musik Indonesia, dan hingga kini mereka masih tetap berkarya untuk merampungkan promo CD / demo tape mereka yang terbaru dan tour promo ke berbagai kota Indonesia.

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Dreamer "Bait Suci"

Dipertengahan tahun 2008 kita baru saja menengar lagi band dengan jenis musik Ghotic Metal telah bangkit dari kematiannya yang sudah lama tidak terdengar lagi oleh khalayak umum khususnya pecinta musik Metal. band yang dibentuk pada tahun 1998 ini bernamakan Dreamer baru saja meluncurkan album terbarunya yang berjudul Bait Suci dengan 9 track didalam album tersebut (bonus 1 lagu lama Karbala). dengan album terbarunya ini Dreamer sekarang telah memntabkan personilnya untuk dapat mengembangkan musiknya lebih luas lagi diantaranya Rika - vocal, Yani - gitar, Vicky - gitar, Bowo - kibor, Roni (ex-Tengkorak) - Drum. konsep album ini saya mendengar banyak sesuatu yang bagus namun ada juga hal yang kurang namun dapat menjadi pelajaran bagi band untuk dapat menelaah lagi, terdengar sangat megah ketika saya mendengar track pertama dan kedua tapi ketika saya mendengar lebih jauh lagi track demi track ternyata kualitas ke-megahan itu turun perlahan namun tidak melenceng dari jalur musik mereka yang sudah dibalut dengan rapih dan aransemen yang apik dalam album ini, simak saja bait suci, keabadian, kala dimana lagu tersebut memang layak utk patut didengar sebagai tembang yang manis. namun saya disini menerima keganjalan pada konsep cover album tersebut yang bisa dibilang susah dimengerti apa sih maksudnya dibalik semua itu, mungkin hanya orang tertentu yang dapat mengerti dengan cepat dengan konsep seperti itu. lain kali toh… harus dipertimbangkan lagi dunk mas ga semua orang membeli dengan mendengar lagunya saja tapi dari kemasan harus bisa diperhatikan lagi loh.

Karbala merupakan lagu milik mereka yang pernah mengisi kompilasi “Metalik Klinik 6? dibawah naungan Rotorcorps/Musica tahun 2003 silam.

Dengan formasi inilah Dreamer menggarap album penuh pertamanya, ‘Bait Suci’ (2008 – Dreamland Productions). Proses rekaman dilakukan sejak Januari 2008 di tiga studio, yakni C6 Studio, Aksen Studio (untuk dram dan vokal) serta 9db Studio untuk keyboard.

1. Intro
2. Bait Suci
3. Keabadian
   
4. Mimpi Yang Hilang
5. Kala
6. Duka Dunia
7. Dreamer
   
8. Ilusi
9. Karbala

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Heavy metal

Heavy metal music is perceived by many members of the goth subculture as the "crass, crude macho antithesis of everything that their music represents". In contrast to the "softer" and "more feminine" character of gothic music, the heavy metal genre is typically associated with aggression, sexism and masculinity. Despite this difference, "a few bold souls have identified Black Sabbath’s eponymous 1970 debut album as the first ever 'Goth-rock' record". The author Gavin Baddeley notes that the title track of the album "describes a satanic rite, complete with driving-rain and tolling bell sound effects, while the cover focuses on a black-cloaked, spectral-looking girl in a graveyard, shot through a sickly pale ochre filter".Other commentators have described Black Sabbath as the "absolute prototype gothic heavies" and observed that by separating the band's music "from their heavy metallic connotations", one "could cull a killer Goth album from their first five LP's, with every future reference point and requirement intact".

The "vaguely medieval, minor-key sounds" of Rainbow, Dio and Judas Priest has also been described as "gothic" prior to "the emergence of goth rock as a post-punk genre". The bands Blue Öyster Cult and Iron Maiden have featured some gothic lyrics in their music on songs such as "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Phantom of the Opera". The Danish metal band Mercyful Fate had also demonstrated "a Gothic obsession with evil and the occult". Frontman King Diamond continued exploring his interest in gothic storytelling after establishing a solo career under his own moniker, issuing "a series of concept albums which told Gothic horror tales with sound effects and song". During the 1980s, the former Misfits frontman Glenn Danzig also "occupied the no man's land between Goth and heavy metal". With the dissolution of his second band Samhain in 1988 and the creation of his own eponymous act, Danzig went on to combine heavy metal riffs with "a heavily romanticized, brooding, gothic sensibility".

The Swiss group Celtic Frost was another precursor to gothic metal, translating the influence they drew from gothic rock acts Bauhaus and Siouxsie & the Banshees into their own albums.The band's "radical fusion of violent black metal and elements of classical music" was dubbed "avant-garde" and had a huge impact "on the evolution of European heavy metal". Christofer Johnsson of the symphonic metal band Therion cites Celtic Frost's 1987 album Into the Pandemonium in particular for playing a key role in the development of the "gothic and symphonic wave of bands" in the 1990s, noting further that neither his group Therion nor Paradise Lost "would have sounded the way we did without Celtic Frost".

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Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. In some instances it combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy aesthetics of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music. Lyrics are generally melodramatic and mournful with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences.

Pioneers of gothic metal include Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema, all from the north of England. Other pioneers from the first half of the 1990s include Type O Negative from the United States, Tiamat from Sweden, Sepolcrum from Italy, and The Gathering from the Netherlands. Norwegian band Theatre of Tragedy developed the "beauty and the beast" aesthetic of combining aggressive male vocals with clean female vocals, a contrast that has since been adopted by many gothic metal groups. During the mid-1990s, Moonspell, Theatres des Vampires and Cradle of Filth brought the gothic approach to black metal. By the end of the decade, a symphonic metal variant of gothic metal had been developed by Tristania and Within Temptation.

In the 21st century, gothic metal has moved towards the mainstream in Europe, particularly in Finland where groups such as The 69 Eyes, Entwine, HIM, Lullacry, Poisonblack and Sentenced have released hit singles or chart-topping albums. In the US, however, only a few bands such as Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, and Evanescence have found commercial success.

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I Like music

Music is an art form in which the medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.

To people in many cultures, music is inextricably intertwined into their way of life. Greek philosophers and ancient Indians defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound.According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.… By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be,except that it is 'sound through time'.

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