Brazilian music is famous worldwide — from bossa nova, to choro, to samba.
Bossa is cool, choro is amazing, but my favorite things about samba is that despite being “pop music” it still has complex rhythms and harmonies.
My top favorite thing is the prevalence of the 7 stringed guitar and their use of counterpoints (i.e., parallel melodies).
I love how what (I think) started as guitarists just playing harmonies, turned into them improvising bass lines and counterpoints every once in a while, which eventually became them doing MOSTLY counterpoints and bass lines and barely playing the harmony lmao.
These bass lines and counterpoints, from what I understand, are often times arpeggiations of the chords and so forth, but they add such an amazing effect to the music.
Examples:
- This guy solo playing over a recording.
- This solo guitar + singer.
- Most music by Cartola which features the absolute timeless 7 stringed legend Dino. This one is a classic.
They def won’t be too extreme for you (I mean lmk if any are I guess), and some you’ll likely know already probably, but you’ll probably like some of them just judging from your challenge (mixed subgenres):
Insect Warfare Skinless Nunslaughter Toxic Holocaust Devourment Whitechapel Cattle Decapitation Eyehategod Nails Wormrot Anal Cunt His Hero Is Gone Carcass Dropdead Infest Cryptopsy Necrophagist Magrudergrind Sete Star Sept Suppression ACxDC Lovgun (bisou, 2012)Some of those are more yelly than growly, but check 'em out! Since you didn’t call out a specific genre like goregrind or something I got a little carried away haha.
Thank you!