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YELLOW wrote:dont wanna find em now, but in an interview one of the brothers sandison said the main riff in The Devil Is In The Detials is based off of a famous math equation...someone wanna find it for me

Marcus: "If you're in a position where you're making recordings of music that thousands of people are going to listen to repeatedly, it gets you thinking, 'What can we do with this? We could experiment with this...' And so we do try to add elements that are more than just the music. Sometimes we just include voices to see if we can trigger ideas, and sometimes we even design tracks musically to follow rules that you just wouldn't pick up on consciously, but unconsciously, who knows? 'The Devil Is In The Details' has a riff that was designed to imitate a specific well-known equation, but in musical terms. Maybe it won't mean anything to anyone, but it's interesting just to try it. We do things like this sometimes."

Lawrence wrote:I thought it was already known that the devil is in the details usues Tritones; the interval that was banned in the medieval because people thought it invoked the devil. I think the must've been what they were referring to. If not then they were probably just exploiting the power of suggestion by coupling "equations" with religion to make people scared of the song.

Wikipedia wrote:The tritone retains its "Devil in Music" character in popular music, specifically heavy metal. The opening of Black Sabbath's signature song "Black Sabbath" makes heavy use of the tritone. Other metal songs with prominent tritones in their main riffs are Diamond Head's "Am I Evil?", Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "Enter Sandman" and Dream Theater's "As I Am". Though not a metal band, Rush famously used the tritone to create the distinctive opening riff for the song "YYZ". Perhaps the single guitarist to have made the most extensive use of the tritone is Robert Fripp of King Crimson, who used it repeatedly in King Crimson albums like Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red. Other examples are the beginning of Liszt's Dante Sonata, Sibelius's Fourth Symphony and Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze". The tritone is also used throughout Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, as an ironic "point of reference" despite the tone's inherent instability, thereby offering subtle commentary on the nature of war itself. Slayer has traditionally used the tritone extensively, and their 1998 album titled Diabolus in Musica reflects that fact.

Moebius wrote:I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that there's an equation involved here.

plaster wrote:

Moebius wrote:I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that there's an equation involved here.

you should read a bit more of their interviews. especially on fredd-e's website.

thedisavowed wrote:

plaster wrote:

Moebius wrote:I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that there's an equation involved here.

you should read a bit more of their interviews. especially on fredd-e's website.

I've seriously learned a TON about BoC since I started working on Fredd's Wiki pages, especially from mining those interviews. Every BoC fan should take another look.