2PacksAday wrote:Setanta wrote:2PacksAday wrote: . . . besides doing Metallica covers, they also do a pretty heavy version of Grieg's...In the Hall of the Mountain King. . .
I've known a lot of metal heads who are fond of that portion of the
Peer Gynt suite. I don't get it. What's the attraction?
I am far from being considered a metal head, but I would guess it has something to do with the very simple chord structure of the main "riff" of Mountain King...that, and it just has a dire sound to it.
That may well be the case. However, it's rather naive. If you listen to the entire suite, from the "Morning Mood" opening to the end, you will hear the melody and harmony lines repeated in every portion of it. "Anitra's Dance" is a portion of the suite in which Peer Gynt imagines an Arab dancing girl. If you saw the movie
Ice Age, the music which is playing when the characters go through the ice cave is "Anitra's Dance." I think it is easiest to see the repetition of the main themes of the suite by comparing "Anitra's Dance" and "The Hall of the Mountain King."
Personally, i suspect the "dire sound," and the thumping kettle drums and roaring tubas in "The Hall of the Mountain King" have the most to do with it.
