Heavy with no guitars

[Kronos]

Apocalyptica-all cellos.

And, anything by Wagner. The originator of heavy.

[TheJimster]

Apocalyptica - all cellos and drums

[Sneckumhaw]

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

[DaveBeny]

Acoustic Ladyland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6qjkVF6hU

[The Owl]

Van Der Graaf Generator

Island

Methadrone. I believe they've added an acoustic guitar as of late, but something tells me that the heaviness wouldn't quite come from the acoustic guitar.


FWIW also, I've shifted the concept of my own project recently, from guitar driven blackened death metal, to a doom metal sound based on my five string fretless (in standard tuning, mind you). I don't know when I'll have any songs recorded in entirety, but I'm working on it. Fuzzy slides are monolithically heavy, that's all I can say.

[peekster]

Since the original poster mentioned ELP [best old-school example to me of non-guitar heaviness], some similar required listening would be 2nd and 3rd releases by prog-rock supergroup UK: "Danger Money" and "Night after Night". Mostly powered by B3, Yamaha electric grand [back when they still had strings!], electric violin, and the legendary Yamaha CS80 synth, on top of the monster bass sound of John Wetton and virtuosity-on-steroids drums of Terry Bozzio [just before he started Missing Persons, as I recall].

One of my happiest days of recent years was finding these re-released on CD.

[Against Will]

Someone posts a thread like this every 3 weeks or so, and I get tired of posting the same old things, but people should really hear these bands:


White Mice (weird, not for everyone, but definately no guitar.)

Olneyville Sound System (We're all in it Together is better IMO)

Noxagt (Their first two albums;"Iron Point" and "Turning it Down..." only, after that they lost the viola)

And I don't know about heavy, but Wizardzz is definately pretty epic in a classic 16-bit sort of way.

And DFA1979 really isn't that heavy; loud, maybe but not heavy.

[Matt Till]

Iron Point is Viola? That's crazy. I have that, and the one with their logo on a girl's underwear... the one with the girls underwear is guitar bass and drums right?

Cool band regardless of how they are making noises.

[Against Will]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

Iron Point is Viola? That's crazy. I have that, and the one with their logo on a girl's underwear... the one with the girls underwear is guitar bass and drums right?

Cool band regardless of how they are making noises.

Yeah, the s/t is "spring-loaded" guitar (don't know exactly what that is). It's the guy from Ultralyd (who also have a release on Load, and a few others that I haven't been able to find).