Some have theorized it emerged from the overwhelming influence of Low German in medieval times, having flattened the originally Nordic melodic accent, but stød is absent in most southern Danish dialects where Low German impact would have been the greatest.

The group's work has had a lasting influence across genres ranging from hip hop and techno to acid house and general melodic music.

Here he evoked the melodic qualities of his film score work, imbued with the influence of 20th century classical composers and spoken word.

However, the album was considerably more melodic than most thrash metal albums, perhaps a lasting influence of the bands punk past.

On his singles for Atlantic, Burke " brought a country influence into R & B, with emotional phrasing and intricately constructed, melodic ballads and midtempo songs ....

They played driving, melodic music, but neither group sported the mod image or overt 1960s influence of The Jam and their followers.

* Finnish: Thanks to pioneering Stratovarius influence, Finnish bands make heavy use of keyboards and make generally very melodic and " softer " music, compared to German or Swedish scene.

Melodic death metal, on the other hand, has had a notable influence on the melodic metalcore sound of the 2000s.

Their third LP, Tales from the Twilight World ( 1990 ), had a much more melodic and " epic " feeling, with usage of choir and classical music influence.

The very first noticeable influence is the substitution of the Latin melodic accent by a Germanic stress and its result was diphthongization, difference between long vowels and short one, the fall of the unaccentuated syllable and of the final vowels, e. g .: Latin decima > F dîme (> E dime.

His latest secular songs show influence from Busnois and Ockeghem, and the rhythmic and melodic differentiation between the voices is less ; as in the work of other composers of the mid-15th century, he was beginning to tend towards the smooth polyphony which was to become the predominant style fifty years later.

Side A (" Peace One " and " Peace Two ") offers a fusion blend of jazz and Indian classical forms while side B features melodic acoustic playing McLaughlin on such standards as " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ", by Charles Mingus whom McLaughlin considered an important influence.

Another thread in his work has been the influence, both rhythmic and melodic, of Native American music, particularly that of the Hopi, Zuni, and other Southwest Pueblo tribes.

While having trained in classical guitar and piano at an early age, Bracegirdle's earliest influences in electronic music came from melodic composers such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, and synthpop pioneer Vince Clarke ; a further influence was the dance hit " Anthem " by the house music group N-Joi.

The melodic influence of the classically-trained Paul Mac lent their music a distinctive sound which eventually led to moderate pop success in Australia.

Los Angeles Times writer Paul Grein wrote a segment titled " The influence of Madonna and Janet Jackson ", reporting Debbie Gibson's manager Doug Breitbart claimed " Madonna has brought back a really strong, melodic component to pop music ", while Teen Beat editor Maggie Murphy remarked " Janet Jackson may have started this more than anyone else.

It was in some ways the band's most strictly black metal release, the album lacked the chaotic death-metal influence of their later works, and was almost entirely a melodic mid-paced affair, in a style similar to Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas or early Gorgoroth.

This era found them playing increasingly melodic music, displaying bi-conditional influence from the third-wave punk sound of the early 1990s that also owed a debt to the band's own previous innovations.

In medieval times, the melodic systems were fused with ideas from Persian music, particularly through the influence of Sufi composers like Amir Khusro, and later in the Moghul courts.

Its influence lead to the diversification of modern metalcore, with melodic metalcore gaining prominence in the 2000s, especially in the United States.

These groups took major influence, cues, and writing styles from Swedish melodic death metal bands, particularly At the Gates, Arch Enemy, In Flames and Soilwork.

In his earliest motets one can hear the influence of Ockeghem ; in his middle period works, the paired imitation style of Josquin Des Prez ; and in his late works the stylistic refinement, well-crafted melodic lines and pervasive imitation recall Gombert.

Once again, the music became more melodic with a significant NWOBHM influence.

Some influence of the Northern Italian progressive movements is evident, though muted, in his work, for instance the use of double choirs ( polychoral works were the norm in Venice ); quick homophonic declamatory textures ; quick melodic passages in the bass line ( which were an influence from monody ).

Despite containing a lot of melodic and so called " Gothenburg metal " riffs, it was praised by fans and critics alike.

He is earning praise for his Gothenburg-based outfit, The Great Deceiver, far removed from his previous work — a product of the Gothenburg melodic death metal scene mixed with influences from artists such as The Cure and Joy Division.

Although Norway is notorious for its quantity of black metal, Gothenburg in Sweden has a large melodic death metal scene, while Stockholm is notorious for its rawer death metal scene.

Their second album, Made Me Do It, released in 2000, was more melodic and resembled the Gothenburg style ( with bands such as At the Gates, etc.

Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg.

They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene, and are one of the most integral pioneers of the melodic death metal genre of music.

Credit for the popularity of melodic death metal can be attributed to the mid-90s releases of In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity, which laid the foundation for the Gothenburg metal scene.

Due to repeated comparisons with Gothenburg melodic death metal bands, Shadows Fall decided to change its style to find its own sound.

Nightrage is a Greek / Swedish melodic death metal band formed by guitarist Marios Iliopoulos and his close friend Gus G. who later re-located to Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Dimension Zero is a Gothenburg, Sweden-based melodic death metal band formed in 1995 as a side project of In Flames former guitarists Jesper Strömblad and Glenn Ljungström.

Heralded as one of the fathers of Gothenburg melodic death metal, he led At the Gates, an influential and popular death metal band.

Formed in 1999, it drew influences from Swedish Gothenburg metal, death metal, and other genres, and is usually labeled as a melodic death metal band.

At this point, the sound of the band had developed into melodic death metal reminiscent of many Gothenburg area bands.

The art of putting together a set is hard to put into words, but the tunes must flow from one to another in terms of key and melodic structure, without being so similar as to all sound the same.

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

Jones ' basslines have been described as melodic and his keyboard playing added a classical touch to the band's sound.

The objective was to achieve a sound similar to the human voice, through carefully arranged compositions and by emphasizing a relaxed, melodic approach to the improvisations.

By 1983, St. Paul's Hüsker Dü, Willful Neglect, Chicago's Naked Raygun and D. C .' s The Faith were taking the hardcore sound in experimental and ultimately more melodic directions.

Typically using slow-to-mid tempo and featuring low-tuned guitars in a bass-heavy sound, with melodic vocals, and ' retro ' production, it was pioneered by the Californian bands Kyuss and Sleep.

Japanese bands had a more melodic sound that resembled power metal.

The Stranglers ' early sound was driven by Jean-Jacques Burnel's melodic bass, but also gave prominence to Dave Greenfield's keyboards at a time when the instrument was seen as unfashionable.

Later that year the Stranglers then released The Raven, which heralded a transition towards a more melodic and complex sound which appealed more to the album-than the singles market.

" As a reaction, many grunge bands diversified their sound, with Nirvana and Tad in particular creating more melodic songs.

The sound was rock, but crucially it was pop, too: concise, punchy, melodic, shiny without being " plastic ".

He realized that he needed to develop a unique sound, and decided to make the clarinet play a melodic line with a tenor saxophone holding the same note, while three other saxophones harmonized within a single octave.

Queensrÿche had the most melodic sound of the three and achieved, with Operation Mindcrime and Empire the genre's most immediate commercial successes, which peaked with the crossover single " Silent Lucidity " reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

With their early records, Mercury Rev offered experimental, psychedelic rock, which gradually shifted to a melodic, ornate sound.

The groups sound is known to flow back and forth between ambient, experimental, major, positive melodies to aggressive, technical, heavy metal influenced single-note progressions with the vocals holding the same contrast between multi-voice harmonies and soulful falsettos to explosive, powerful, melodic shouting all being led by a distinct and unique, jazz influenced drumming style.

As Parliament began achieving significant mainstream success in the 1975-1978 period, Funkadelic recorded and released its most successful and influential album, One Nation Under a Groove in 1978, adding former Ohio Players keyboardist Walter " Junie " Morrison and reflecting a more melodic dance-based sound.

Metallica's Load ( 1996 ) and ReLoad ( 1997 ) each sold in excess of 4 million copies in the US and saw the band develop a more melodic and blues-rock sound.

Elliott, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids and others brought a more melodic sound to the genre.

Justin Hayward began an artful exploration of guitar tone through the use of numerous effects pedals and fuzz-boxes, and developed for himself a very melodic buzzing guitar-solo sound.

During the mid-1980s Hüsker Dü became SST's star attraction, their strong songwriting and increasingly melodic music becoming the key link between hardcore and the developing sound of college rock.

It showcased the band's mix of jazz, classical music, hard rock, and blues, with arrangements propelled by Duane's and Betts ' dual lead guitars, Oakley's long, melodic " third guitar " bass runs, the rhythm section's pervasively percussive yet dynamically flexible foundation, and Gregg Allman's gritty Ray Charles-like vocals and piano / organ play which all completed the band's wall of sound.

Cipollina's highly melodic, individualistic lead guitar style, combined with Gary Duncan's driving rhythm guitar, feature a clear jazz sound, a notable contrast to the heavily amplified and overdriven sound of contemporaries like Cream and Jimi Hendrix.

His vigorous melodic bass playing, alternately plucking, slapping, and bowing, was an important feature of the early Ellington Orchestra sound in the 1920s and 1930s.

Take Your Shot fanzine credited AFI for " forging that more melodic U. S. hardcore sound " and dubbed The Art of Drowning as " classic ".