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So, you have a band. They have a tendency to need to be Careful with That Axe. Their songs tend to be loud, aggressive, hardcore. Whether they lean toward Three Chords and the Truth or Epic Rocking, they are The New Rock & Roll. Moral Guardians hate them. They go crazy with the guitars, they go wild on the drums, the music is always played at top volume... Wait, what? A slow, quiet, gentle piece? Beautiful and soft, it may be heartwarming or heartbreaking, but the defining characteristic is that it is far less aggressive a piece than you would ever expect from this band. This very often appears as the last song on an album, in an example of Album Closure. May be a Black Sheep Hit, but differs from that trope in that it's not necessarily a hit, and only applies to normally aggressive bands. Many Power Ballads also prove to be examples of this trope. Compare Playing Against Type, Rated G for Gangsta (for rap musicians specifically), Kinder and Cleaner, and Scary Musician, Harmless Music. |
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Dream Theater's "Vacant" is the Surprisingly Gentle Song off of Train of Thought, since it's slow and melancholy, and just piano, cello, and vocals. | |
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Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" and "The Unforgiven". Before this "Fade to Black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", and "One', which are what's usually called "semi-ballads": songs that start as traditional ballads, but around the middle of the song they become a lot heavier. Following this was 'Mama Said", "The Day that Never Comes" and "Low Man's Lyric". |
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"Serenade", "Love will be born again" and "Episode" by Versailles. | |
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Christian metal band Underoath have a good number of these spread across their discography. Most notably, "Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape" and "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear". These were sung almost entirely by former drummer and clean vocalist Aaron Gillespie, with occasional peppering in by screamer Spencer Chamberlain. | |
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Five Finger Death Punch has a few, especially with "Remember Everything". "Walk Away" and "Far From Home" are a couple more. | |
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Elvis Presley doing "Love Me Tender" has to be the Ur-Example, since when it was released he was still viewed as the hip-shaking leader of The New Rock & Roll menace. It really wasn't much of an aberration at the time (he auditioned for Sun Records with ballads and recorded an ethereal version of "Blue Moon" while he was there), and in the context of his whole career it isn't that odd, but it would have been perceived that way in 1956. | |
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Modest Mouse, whose songs typically consist of shrieking existential crises in the form of really elaborate metaphors, also produced "Little Motel," a sober reflection after the loneliness "earned" after destroying a relationship. Much of The Moon and Antarctica is surprisingly gentle, to the point where ending it with "What People Are Made Of", and, more specifically, a scream, comes as a surprise. "The World at Large" and to an extent "Ocean Breathes Salty" as well. |
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Though Hüsker Dü gradually got a bit Lighter and Softer musically, "Never Talking to You Again" could be considered one at the time of it's release: an acoustic, folk-influenced (though still bitter-sounding) ballad in the middle of what was mainly a noisy Hardcore Punk album. The album in question, Zen Arcade, also featured a couple of melancholy piano instrumentals, "One Step at a Time" and "Monday Will Never Be the Same". They would continue to include at least one example of this trope on each album from then on, amongst which are "Don't Know Yet", "No Reservations", "Perfect Example", "Too Far Down", "Hardly Getting Over It", and "No Promise Have I Made". | |
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Early on, gentle Faith No More songs were pretty rare. The early acoustic instrumental "Jim" seemed to have been included for the sake of this trope. Ditto "Edge of the World", a piano ballad written from the point of view of a paedophile. Later on they got pretty eclectic and juxtaposed heavy rock numbers such as "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" and "Cuckoo for Caca" with gentle numbers such as "Take This Bottle" and "Just a Man". The band also loved to mess with their audience's expectations of what style of music they were supposed to perform, and they regularly played completely straight-forward covers of pop ballads at their concerts. Among their favorites were The Commodores' "Easy", The Bee Gees' "I Started a Joke" and Herb Albert's "This Guy's in Love with You", and they even released the first two as singles. | |
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Motörhead, a band commonly known for being one of the rowdiest, loudest, crudest bands, released a song titled "1916", a slow, mournful song about a young man being killed in battle in World War 1. They actually have a fair few of these; among others, there's "Love Me Forever", "I Ain't No Nice Guy", "Whorehouse Blues" and "God Was Never On Your Side". |
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The Hives are mostly known for high speed garage rock, but their album Veni Vedi Vicious throws in "Find Another Girl", a pretty faithful cover of a 60's R&B ballad by Jerry Butler. It sticks out quite a bit in the middle of the album. | |
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The Ocean has a soft ballad about Galileo right in the middle of their progressive metal album. | |
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Doll Skin is normally a punk rock/pop punk band with fast, energetic songs about topics ranging from misogyny to fascism. "Sweet Pea", by contrast, is a slower song about missing a loved one while on the road. "This is just a song about how I love you..." | |
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The Melvins are largely associated with grunge and sludge metal, but have a few gentle songs in their repertoire: "Black Bock" is lightly psychedelic folk-rock (albeit with some serious Lyrical Dissonance). The Crybaby includes a pair of straight country covers featuring Hank Williams III (Hank Williams' "Ramblin' Man" and Merle Haggard's "Okie From Miskogee"). And "PG x 3" is an eerie, mostly a capella version of the folk song "Peggy Gordon", inspired by its use in The Proposition. | |
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Synthpunk/proto-industrial band Suicide of "Frankie Teardrop" fame produced the Synth-Pop ballad "Surrender" in 1988. In a similar vein is "Dream Baby Dream", a soft and surprisingly optimistic number from a band known for their very dark music. |
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Annihilator's very first track "Crystal Ann" is a classical instrumental. | |
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A very minor example as the band incorporates a lot of folk passages in most of their songs, but Cormorant's album Metazoa ends on "Voices of the Mountain"; a breath-taking guitar duet with a soft crackle of fire. | |
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The Christian Hard Rock Band Red tends to have at least two per album, beginning with 'Pieces', and 'Already Over (part 2)' in "End of Silence," 'Take it all away' and 'Nothing and Everything' (Which is an alternate version of the opening song 'Fight Inside') on Innocence and Instinct, "Not Alone" and "Hymn for the Missing" on Until We Have Faces, "Hold Me Now" and "As You Go" on Release the Panic, "Of These Chains" and "Part That's Holding On" on Of Beauty and Rage, and "Coming Apart" and "Still Alive (Looking for a Reason)" on Gone. While they aren't as intensely loud or grating as bands such as Devil Wears Prada, RED is loud enough to warrant these songs being Surprsingly Gentle. | |
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Portrayed in This is Spın̈al Tap with "Lick My Love Pump," Nigel's unfortunately named classical piano piece. | |
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System of a Down's "Lonely Day" is considerably softer than their usual style. "Roulette" is even softer. "Soldier Side", "Hypnotize", and "Lost in Hollywood" also qualify. |
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While most of 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik is sex-punk-funk, "I Could Have Lied," "Breaking the Girl," and "Under the Bridge" are all soft, mellow precursors to their newer work. The latter is a special case as it is one of their most famous songs. | |
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Pretty much all of The Misfits songs from Jem are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an Anti-Love Song about how Pizzazz is acting completely off because she's head over heels for Riot. | |
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Avenged Sevenfold has a few of them, particularly "Seize the Day" and "So Far Away". An early example of this is "I Won't See You Tonight Part 2" from Waking The Fallen, when they were still a metalcore band. Also, we can't talk about them without mentioning Dear God, which is a straight up country ballad. From Hail to the King, we've got the blues-ballad "Acid Rain". But the most jarring example is probably "Warmness on the Soul" on their debut album: a sweet love ballad in the middle of a hardcore punk album where all the other songs are screamed. | |
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"Darkness" by Disturbed, a soft, acoustic dirge with a cellist section of all things. This from the band who an album earlier provided the world with "No, Mommy! Don't do it again!". Even though it's much heavier, "Overburdened" would count as well. Their cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" grows somewhat heavier with each stanza, but retains every bit of the melancholy tone the song calls for. From the same album, "The Light" is, while not a ballad, a very hopeful song of encouragement. Again, harkening back to their earliest hit, it's hard to picture the same guy screaming "Open up your hate and let it flow into me" being the same guy singing "When you think all is forsaken, listen to me now, you need never feel broken again..." |
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"The Garden of the Goddess" by Galneryus | |
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Similarly, Sabaton has a number of softer pieces, most notably the outro of the Primo Victoria Re-Armed Edition, "Dead Soldier's Waltz", and "Purple Heart", track 8 on the same album. | |
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Danzig's Sistinas. While it's technically credited to Glenn Danzig & The Power Fury Orchestra, there's also "You And Me", from the soundtrack to Less Than Zero. Both are Roy Orbison-influenced ballads that show off Glenn Danzig's crooning vocal style, rather than the dark metal he's commonly associated with. | |
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Crystal Castles has "Tell Me What to Swallow" and "Celestica". | |
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"As Tears Go By," "Lady Jane," "Dandelion," "She's a Rainbow" and "Angie" by The Rolling Stones. | |
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"Wake Up Honey" and "Thanx Givin Day" by Miyavi | |
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"Ares's Lament/"So Lonely," "The Love Of My Life," and "Never Change Your Mind" by Loudness | |
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X Japan has plenty of these. The better known ones are: "Crucify My Love", "Tears" and "Forever Love". | |
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SolidS, the Fire band of Tsukipro's Classical Elements Ensemble, has "Timeless". In one of their stage plays, in an improvised talk scene, they and Quell, the Water group, were asked which of their new songs they like. | |
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The Caretaker has a 6-hour album about dementia called Everywhere at the End of Time, and throughout there are several tracks which act as "temporary bliss states" during which the patient is briefly relaxed from the horrors of the disease. | |
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Slipknot's "Vermillion, Prt. 2" and "Circle". And more recently "Snuff". | |
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The Foo Fighters have many. From their debut, the very first was "Big Me" (which causes some Mood Whiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", the entire second disk of In Your Honor... | |
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Epica has "Delirium", "Solitary Ground", "Tides of Time", "Trois Verges" and "White Waters". | |
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The Black Sabbath version itself also qualifies - While Ozzy was singing, their albums almost always included a token ballad like "Changes" and/or a short, pretty acoustic instrumental like "Orchid". | |
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Kyuss has "Space Cadet" on the Welcome to Sky Valley album, where it comes between the much heavier "100" and "Demon Cleaner", though Demon Cleaner's still a tad lighter than the rest of the album. | |
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Iron Maiden has "Wasting Love" (the closest they got to a ballad), "Journeyman" (their first acoustic track), and "Empire of the Clouds" (an 18-minute long song that for half is driven by pianos). | |
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The Eminem Show is made up entirely from Rap Rock bangers apart from "Hailie's Song", an adorably off-key pop-R&B song about how happy he is to be with his daughter again - although his nasty sense of humour shows through in the rapped verse. | |
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Death metal band Morbid Angel featured the haunting "Desolate Ways" on their Blessed Are The Sick album. | |
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King Charles tends to go with orchestral sounds and lots of production. The song Oh England is just Charles, riding in a hansom cab and playing his acoustic guitar while he sings a love song to his home country. | |
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Converge has "Phoenix In Flight", off the album Jane Doe, which is very, very soft for being a song by them. But right after that, there comes "Phoenix In Flames", which is just your average Converge song, but harder. | |
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Cult of Luna have a few instrumental interludes that aren't crushing metal, but they have a few full-length songs here and there. "Marching to the Heartbeats" on Somewhere Along the Highway sounds like a lighter Jesu track. "And With Her Came the Birds" from the same album sounds almost like a depressing folky blues track. "Passing Through" on Vertikal ends the album on a simple, somber note. | |
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Pantera's cover of "Planet Caravan" by Black Sabbath - enough so that the Far Beyond Driven liner notes include a short message from Phil Anselmo explaining to fans (who might not be familiar with the original) that they're just covering a song they like, not attempting to have a pop hit. The Black Sabbath version itself also qualifies - While Ozzy was singing, their albums almost always included a token ballad like "Changes" and/or a short, pretty acoustic instrumental like "Orchid". Pantera themselves are not immune to writing gentler songs, "Cemetery Gates" is Pantera's attempt at a Power Ballad and Suicide Note Pt. I is extremely subdued and depressing. It is immediately followed by "Suicide Note Pt. II", EASILY Pantera's hardest song. |
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Showbread has "The Missing Wife". "Matthias Replaces Judas" starts off as one of these, but gradually builds up in intensity. | |
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Samba Briza by Atheist is a Latin Jazz track on a Technical Death Metal album. | |
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Angel Beats! anime band, Girls Dead Monster, usually plays loud and hard (as part of their band's 'distraction creating' intent, but many of their songs do have a quieter version on CD. The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song before she disappears with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. My Song | |
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Californication was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), "Road Trippin'", and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling. | |
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Origami Angel: GAMI GANG has a bunch of hardcore rock songs, but then there's "Greenbelt Station". It's about the singer's girlfriend, who grows apart from him, although he knows she's happy where she is. It's much more poignant, quiet, and slow than the rest of the album. | |
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DragonForce has one slow song per album in between all the blazingly fast Power Metal: "Starfire", "Dawn Over a New World", "Trail of Broken Hearts", "A Flame for Freedom", and an acoustic version of "Seasons". | |
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Rammstein often has one toward the end of an album: e.g. "Roter Sand", "Nebel", "Ohne Dich" and "Ein Lied." | |
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