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11-03-2005, 05:22 PM
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Ok, Im looking for bands that are heavy, immense, intense , epic , a punch in the balls , and don't use any guitars(excluding bass)
Example - Emerson Lake and Palmer- in my opinion heaviest band of the 70s and early 80s simply because of the sheer intensity and hugeness.
- Benevento Russo - can get pretty epic and intense as well
I need more of these bands! Please include a link if you can. Thanks
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11-03-2005, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by page Ok, Im looking for bands that are heavy, immense, intense , epic , a punch in the balls , and don't use any guitars(excluding bass)
Example - Emerson Lake and Palmer- in my opinion heaviest band of the 70s and early 80s simply because of the sheer intensity and hugeness.
- Benevento Russo - can get pretty epic and intense as well
I need more of these bands! Please include a link if you can. Thanks |
Oh My God has a killer sound for a pop band with no guitars. Trust me on this one. http://www.ohmygodmusic.com/omg.html
Om. Al Cisneros' band after Sleep.
Big Business. Bass and Drums. Like a much heavier DFA1979 minus the falsetto vocals and cheese drumming. If I was still in Jacktown I'd let you borrow my vinyl of "Head for the Shallow." |
11-03-2005, 08:34 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | ELP used plenty of guitars.
Triumvirat from Germany was a good band in the ELP vein. |
11-03-2005, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM Triumvirat from Germany was a good band in the ELP vein. | Wow... I thought that I was the only person in Florida who had ever heard of Triumvirat. They were (are?) awesome.  |
11-03-2005, 10:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Gotta give it up for Clatter. The rig switching is too cool. She can sound like bass and guitar and keys at the same time.
Thrones: Ex Melvins/Current High on Fire bassist's Joe Preston's solo insanity. Some of the weirdest music I've ever heard is his album "Sperm Whale." Really cool tunes. I love it when he sings through a ring mod too. Takes advantage of fake drums and makes them sound really cool.
Lightning Bolt: I have no idea how to describe this band. Really weird. Not overly my cup of tea. Pretty good sometimes.
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11-04-2005, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till Lightning Bolt: I have no idea how to describe this band. Really weird. Not overly my cup of tea. Pretty good sometimes. | Lightning Bolt definately, they can get agressively heavy. |
11-04-2005, 01:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bel Air Maryland | | | There is a black metal band called Summoning that released an album a while ago with no guitars on it. Its just drums and synth but it still has all the energy and heaviness you'd expect of a black metal band. Really cool, unfortuneatly I've forgotten which of their albums this is.
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11-04-2005, 01:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Annapolis, Maryland - USA | | | well, my group Naked Jungle gets into some pretty heavy odd stuff sometimes without any guitars......but its not always heavy.
(sorry for the self promotion but....) |
11-04-2005, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by page Ok, Im looking for bands that are heavy, immense, intense , epic , a punch in the balls , and don't use any guitars(excluding bass)
Example - Emerson Lake and Palmer- in my opinion heaviest band of the 70s and early 80s simply because of the sheer intensity and hugeness.
- Benevento Russo - can get pretty epic and intense as well
I need more of these bands! Please include a link if you can. Thanks | thunderbolt will blow your mind
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11-04-2005, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: richmond, va | | | i meant to say lightning bolt.
and i was beaten to it.
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purple mexican jazz with dimarzio vintages, traynor yba200, genz benz liveseries 410
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11-04-2005, 02:22 PM
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two bass players a two drummers and keys/synth. |
11-04-2005, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM ELP used plenty of guitars.
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Yeah, but live and on Karn Evil 9 , the guitars are rare, mostly Emerson rock his ass off.
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11-05-2005, 11:09 AM
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11-05-2005, 01:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Watt's latest album is awesome. Secondman's Middle Stand... crazy good.
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11-05-2005, 06:40 PM
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11-08-2005, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till Gotta give it up for Clatter. The rig switching is too cool. She can sound like bass and guitar and keys at the same time.
| She is UNBELIEVABLE!!!.....  She also sings while playing stuff in bizarre time sigs too.....
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11-08-2005, 01:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Glasgow, Scotland | | i'm pretty sure there's a band called Pale Horse who had two bass players and no geetars. i think they go for the absolutely crushingly heavy doom groove thing 
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11-10-2005, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by velvetkevorkian i'm pretty sure there's a band called Pale Horse who had two bass players and no geetars. i think they go for the absolutely crushingly heavy doom groove thing | I was just about to mention Pale Horse actually, they're heavy as hell. |
11-16-2005, 12:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Reading, England | | | cant believe that no on mentioned "death from above 1979" |
09-24-2006, 12:16 PM
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+1 for Lightining Bolt!!
+1 for Om!!!
I actually saw Om 2 nights ago at a Music Festival here in Toronto, and they were nuts. Here's what gear Al had on stage:
Jack 1 -> MXR Distortion -> Ampeg Head (I think it was a 450!)
Jack 2 -> Boss Chromatic Tuner -> Morley A/B Switch; (Both A and B were ON!!)
A: -> Marshall JCM 2000 head!!!
B: -> Boss Distortion DS-1 -> Marshall JCM 2000 head!!!!
I didn't see how he had the heads hooked up, but he had THREE Marshall 4 x 12 Half Stacks and TWO Ampeg SVT 810s on STAGE!!!!!
...and the venue was a chapel, about 8 yards x 12 yards!!!!!!
MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING!!!!!!!
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