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In music (especially in Rock and Roll music) the image artists put forth is almost as important as their songs. Almost. Musicians are expected to be larger than life, so it's no surprise at all that hardcore rockers might want to look... well... hardcore, if only to meet the expectations of their fans. Every once in a while, though, you come across a musician who looks as hardcore as they come. His music? Not so much. This trope is all about when the tattoo-encrusted badass-wannabe puts out songs about love and puppies. Someone who's only familiar with the image might find all of their songs to be Surprisingly Gentle Songs. Note that there's absolutely nothing wrong with having a hardcore appearance and doing soft music. Different strokes for different folks. This trope is about the dichotomy of the image, not whether or not the music fits any individual's tastes. Also, note that the extremes change over time: what was shockingly hardcore back in the day is tame now, and what's hardcore at present might be on par with Frank Sinatra once your great-grandchildren start forming their own garage rock bands. Oddly, the inverse is equally or even more common — many of the bands that play the heaviest and blackest of metal are laid-back, fun loving guys. Related to Stereotype Flip, Rated G for Gangsta, Mean Character, Nice Actor and Dark Is Not Evil. See also Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind, Rule-Abiding Rebel, and Hidden Depths. Contrast Rotten Rock & Roll, where the musician (or the character with rock Leitmotif) is scary-looking and evil. |
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Rob Dougan. Sports impossibly handsome Mr. Fanservice looks with music mixing electronics and live orchestra with cinematic flair. Those who are only aware of the instrumentals so frequently used as a Standard Snippet for trailers and television are usually surprised that he sings like a grizzled old bluesman, and the lyrics of his songs revolve around death, abuse, loss, and obsession. | |
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Marmozets all look like normal people, with a cute frontwoman. Their music, more often then not, sounds like this. | |
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The Bones episode "Mayhem on a Cross" featured a so-called "black metal" group. The musicians in question mimed slitting their own throats onstage, hired people to shoot at them, and so on to show how tr00 they were to the music. The music itself, aside from the screaming, sounded like Devil Driver-esque groove metal, rather than actual black metal. | |
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Parodied in Mad TV with a skit about a pianist who looks like he came straight out of a noir movie who plays cheery (and vaguely gay) show tunes. | |
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In his time, Elvis Presley scared the daylights out of the United States' more conservative elements. Today, his music is found quaint, and even in his day, his songs included old gospel and soul numbers. | |
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Howlin' Wolf was a tall and imposing man, with a low and raspy voice that could scare people out of their wits. Yet in reality, he was a nice and friendly person. | |
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Excision looks like a fairly run-of-the-mill DJ, but he plays what is regarded as the most extreme dubstep around, with heavy influences from brutal and slam death metal, Industrial and Harsh Noise. Just listen to "Deviance (with Datsik)". | |
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Ozzy Osbourne has been calling himself the "Prince of Darkness" for decades, and his stage show is full of scary Halloween imagery. His music is vanilla heavy metal. Well-done vanilla, but vanilla nonetheless, because he's the Trope Maker, naturally (with Black Sabbath, which used to describe their work as "horror films turned into music"). | |
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The guys from Carcass look about as far from scary as it gets◊. This is what they originally sounded like. | |
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The Hives are five fairly clean-cut and normal looking guys who dress in various matching black and white outfits that have included full tuxedos with top hats and tails, but they play almost exclusively loud, raw Garage Rock with album titles that include Veni Vidi Vicious and Tyranosaurus Hives. | |
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The Black Dahlia Murder plays what is regarded in some circles the most brutalizing Melodic Death Metal around, but the band members are polite and fun-lovers. This is even seen in their music videos. | |
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On the reverse of Ozzy, his bandmates plus replacement at Black Sabbath formed Heaven & Hell. They don't give much importance to looking scary as Ozzy does, but the music is intimidating. Even when Sabbath itself reformed with Ozzy and they recorded 13, the songs sound much spookier than what most metal bands in 2013 were making. | |
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Canadian outsider musician Tonetta dresses like a serial killer of the Buffalo Bill variety (usually wearing a skimpy outfit and a creepy mask), but his music is typically upbeat and about homoerotic sexual fantasies that aren't exactly his (the real Tonetta prefers women). One of his songs is about him rooting for (and even flirting with) the Toronto Maple Leafs. | |
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Jem and the Holograms looked like they were supposed to be glam rockers who sang songs that sounded like (and in essence were) toy jingles, but their supposedly punk rivals the Misfits looked tougher and didn't sound it. | |
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The members of Avenged Sevenfold appear to be this, based off of their two live documentaries. They might be wild and little crazy, but they're actually pretty nice (although the polite tends to swing back and forth). | |
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While the bulk of Passenger of Shit's plays around with this trope a lot, mostly via subversion or aversion, but sometimes he plays it for laughs. A bit of warning; the links are all NSFW. | |
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Burzum's Varg Vikernes does a better job averting (later inverting, depending on his look) this trope. | |
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While Doja Cat's album Scarlet was acclaimed, she caught flack on social media for combining gory, occult visuals, a drastically changed image with huge horror-themed tattoos and shaved eyebrows and hair, and the unveiling of a Kayfabe Music blood-covered alter-ego ready to take on her critics, with the safe and radio friendly nature of her production and lyrics. | |
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Revo of Sound Horizon by all accounts appears to be an unfailingly polite pretty boy klutz with a penchant for cosplay and writing pretty or epic songs about such lovely subjects as death, incest, murder, decapitation, death, miscarriage, yanderes, Sanity Slippage, death, rape, war, the apocalypse, revenge, constantly repeating tragedy, and, of course, death. | |
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Unlocking the Truth: Three kids not even out of their teens who perform loud Heavy Metal. | |
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Issues is a weird example of both an inversion and subversion. They look like a bunch of scene kids who wear skinny jeans, yet they play heavy metalcore. At the same time, their whole shtick is that they combine metal with Top 40 music. You have one vocalist, who is fairly masculine and does Harsh Vocals and Metal Screams while the other is a poppy R&B singer who seems a bit out of place in a metal band. In real life, they're all Nice Guys. | |
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Noisia are pretty normal looking, which contrasts with their very harsh and intense style. | |
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Band-Maid, upon first glance, most would assume they're a Japanese pop idol group due to being an all girl band who dress as cute maids. Then they hear the dual-shredding guitars and fast paced metal music, and wonder what goes on in Japan. | |
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One that doesn't directly involve music, but look at any picture of Keith Moon and you wouldn't really think of him as someone who could put Keith Richards under the table twice without breaking a sweat. Not to mention a Trope Codifier of All Drummers Are Animals. | |
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Anaal Nathrakh. You'd hardly expect your average co-workers Dave and Mick◊ to make music sounding like the shredder with your co-workers halfway in them. | |
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X Japan since dropping their original heavy metal VK appearance is somewhat of a subversion of this. They performed some of their darkest lyrical material and one of their most overtly sexual performances (the BDSM-themed White Poem) while in more "average rockstar dress," and the Murder Ballad Week End (which is actually this very trope played straight since it is an argument for why murder and suicide are hopeless) became one of their biggest hits. Yoshiki Hayashi is, according to those close to him, this trope both subverted and doubly subverted. While feared for his nigh-legendary temper and control-freak tendencies and hated for allegedly being a male Rich Bitch and ditz, most people who have actually gotten close to him say that he is very intelligent, as well as an incredibly kind and loving person. His music, on the other hand, is all over the map from heavy and dark themes of sexuality and violence to deconstructions of violence and suicide to angsty Love Ballads. |
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The Plasmatics: As violent and sexually suggestive as their shows were, their lead singer Wendy O. Williams was actually a very sweet and nice person. Compare her stage shows to her interviews afterwards: it's quite a contrast. | |
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You'd probably expect a band named 10,000 Maniacs to be a death metal band (unless you're actually familiar with death metal), but the band played gentle, socially-conscious folk rock instead. | |
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AC/DC is an act made up of hirsute (and very loud) Australians not afraid to use satanic imagery on occasion. Their songs are straight rock and roll mainly about life on the road, the awesomeness of rock, and getting lucky with the ladies, with an earnest and endearing blue-collar approach. | |
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Karl Sanders of Nile write what is recognized as some of the heaviest death metal out there right now, with lyrics relating to people being ripped apart by being essentially raped to death by statues (which actually happened in antiquity), but in his interviews, he's fairly soft spoken, polite, and during concert tours, offers guitar lessons. | |
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Slipknot could be considered a downplayed example. They wear scary costumes, and due to Public Medium Ignorance are often thought of as the poster boys for extremity outside the heavy metal community. Their music, while relatively heavy and explicit by mainstream standards, is definitely not extreme, being an accessible type of metal that can safely be played on mainstream rock radio; though they do have extreme metal influences, and admit it or not, are one of the ways for listeners to get into extreme metal. This is also probably the reason the band's original drummer, Joey Jordison, is regarded as one of the all-time greatest drummers, even though there are many extreme metal drummers who match or exceed his skill. | |
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In Danny Phantom, Ember McLain looks pretty "hardcore". Her music is very, very smooth. | |
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Actual goth music sounds nothing like most people assume. The best example is The Cure, whose songs, though sometimes are sad or gloomy, are just as often poppy, bouncy or dreamy love-songs. Even darker bands like The Sisters of Mercy are often really catchy and danceable. And Bauhaus, while downright creepy and sometimes impossible to listen to, isn't the screaming, satanic heavy metal that "goth" is assumed to be (that would be Black Metal). In fact, they sometimes recorded dub reggae songs. Despite Morrissey's abrasive and aggravatingly melodramatic persona, much of the catalog of The Smiths includes fluffy, jangly pop songs, as though the band was rolling their eyes and continuing despite their frontman. |
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Bring Me the Horizon. Well, at least their earlier deathcore/metalcore stuff...That's The Spirit brings them straight. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has an In-Universe example in Ibuki Mioda, the cheerful, Fun Personified, Genki Girl Ultimate Musician... whose genre of choice happens to be Death Metal. | |
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Seth Putnam lead bands with names like Anal Cunt, Shit Scum, Impaled Northern Moonforest and Adolf Satan who's songs featured lyrics about death, racism, murder, and other "edgy" topics. But according to several fans and a couple people who knew him, he was a warm, intelligent, sensitive man. | |
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Twisted Sister. A makeup encrusted Dee Snider might well be one of the scariest things on the planet, but he's still singing standard hair-metal tunes. (Although some of their songs, such as Captain Howdy sound just as terrifying as Dee Snider looks.) Dimmu Borgir, full-blown Satanist wannabes whose most extreme song was about torturing and humiliating Christians, actually covered "Burn in Hell" (albeit in TS's traditional campy style). |
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The Finnish band Lordi dress in monstrous costumes, but the music is very straightforward and accessible Hard Rock. And despite their Satanic look, much of their music actually says that Being Evil Sucks and The Devil Is a Loser, including a song by that very name. | |
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Sunn O)))'s music is the aural equivalent of a Brown Note, but the musicians themselves are shy, reserved, and actually afraid of their fans. | |
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Iron Maiden are a bunch of dudes who just seem like fun guys to drink with. Their music is ominous and their concerts have a zombie walking on stage. | |
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Dying Fetus is easily one of the heaviest big names in death metal (even in spite of their name), but they're all notoriously friendly and personable, though there is a bit of a difference between Trey's energetic and engaging personality and John's notoriously laid-back, soft-spoken demeanor. | |
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Kayo Dot has been through a lot of members, but their lineups generally look something like this or this. Their music varies widely in sound, but at its heaviest, it sounds like this. | |
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Spiritbox are a bunch of very non-threatening looking individuals with a pretty and feminine frontwoman who make some very screamy and often quite unsettling sounding music. | |
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Ghost has built their fame on being anonymous Satan worshipers who sing about death and destruction. There are probably Jimi Hendrix songs that sound heavier than them. Granted, it's well-made rock, no doubt. However, it's the kind you can safely play at a family Halloween party. One famous post on 4chan's /mu/ board even describes Ghost as "goofy Scooby Doo chase music". | |
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Arthur Brown is particularly well-known for his weird, often nonsensical songs that often has him screaming and laughing throughout the track, and if performing it live, will do so in a white robe with a flaming metal hula hoop on his head. Outside of his stage persona however, Brown is incredibly polite and friendly with those he speaks to. | |
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Disco Inferno are a zigzagged case of this - they look completely normal◊, and occasionally did more accessible stuff (e.g The Last Dance and Technicolour), but their most-acclaimed work (D.I. Go Pop and their EPs from Summer's Last Sound to It's A Kid's World) is politically-charged and full of dark, surreal, sometimes-abrasive soundscapes and freaky electronic paranoia. | |
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Eclectic and ridiculously prolific breakcore artist Venetian Snares normally makes music just as aggressive and unfriendly as he looks, but a few of his tracks (looking at you, I'm Sorry I Failed You) are soft and melodic, often the ones built out of orchestra samples. | |
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Yoshiki Hayashi is, according to those close to him, this trope both subverted and doubly subverted. While feared for his nigh-legendary temper and control-freak tendencies and hated for allegedly being a male Rich Bitch and ditz, most people who have actually gotten close to him say that he is very intelligent, as well as an incredibly kind and loving person. His music, on the other hand, is all over the map from heavy and dark themes of sexuality and violence to deconstructions of violence and suicide to angsty Love Ballads. | |
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Rammstein is a group of six German men who write songs about every sexual perversion you can imagine, from cannibalism to incest to rape, and they have no qualms about using disturbing real life events as inspiration for their songs. They dress up in nightmarish costumes (the lead singer once had a piercing put in the back of his cheek so he could feed a wire through it for a light in his mouth), their lead singer has a deep, resonating, and intimidating voice, their live shows feature more pyrotechnics than New Year's Eve, and they've constantly had to fight off (false) accusations that they are Nazis, because of the whole "angry-sounding Germans" thing. Offstage? They're mostly pretty soft-spoken and regarded as being overall nice guys to be around. | |
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