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View Poll Results: What do you define as heavy in music? | |
Blast beats and grinding awesome
|    | 18 | 40.91% | |
Moderate tempos and pulsing rythms
|    | 22 | 50.00% | |
If I can't breathe to it it's too fast for my heavy fix.
|    | 4 | 9.09% |
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07-10-2009, 11:26 PM
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It really annoys me when the old-school crowd kicks in and says nothing after Sabbath or NWOBHM is heavy.
No, Cannibal Corpse isn't heavy. Neither is Nile. or Hate Eternal, or Goatwhore or Emperor.
Yes, music was recorded after 1985! |
07-11-2009, 12:31 AM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | does anybody else find the Berzerker's snare drum to be REALLY freakin' annoying? |
07-11-2009, 12:34 AM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | and THIS is definitely the heaviest thing ever. Not because of the music alone, but because of who's playing it. |
07-11-2009, 12:41 AM
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07-11-2009, 08:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Aylesford NS Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by IconBasser  does anybody else find the Berzerker's snare drum to be REALLY freakin' annoying? | i thikn you're talking about their bass drum tone. its a sample of some techno bass drum sound. i love it wiht the berzerker. it just makes them that more *heavy* and chaotic sounding.
personally i think of heavy as bone crunching volume and not necessarily slow riffs. but riffs where you can definatly tell where the accented beat is.
this goes the same for hip hop/rap music. they can be really heavy imo too
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07-11-2009, 09:37 AM
| | | | Man, "heavy" can be Sabbath, Rush, Metallica, Cannibal Corpse, Sunn O))), Led Zep, etc, etc. You got all the ridiculous sub-genres of it--thrash, doom, death, classic, new wave of british heavy metal, crossover, punk, hardcore, etc, until you have a headache. I think if you are gonna define it, then distorted guitar is the beginning along with powerful vocals. If you ain't got those two components, it ain't gonna be heavy to me. |
07-11-2009, 09:50 AM
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07-11-2009, 11:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Socorro, NM | | After listening to some of my music, I'd define heavy as Rammstein and anything in that flavor. It's not fast or growly, but is definitely heavy imho.
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07-11-2009, 11:46 AM
| | | This thread fails.   EPIC fail.
This is (again) one of those questions u can't answer because some people think that Beatles is heavy and some people think that those "I'll rip ur head off and eat it and then **** it on ur dead mothers head and eat her too" bands aren't heavy enough. It's just matter of opinion. Some people like spagetti but others hate it. Some people think that this band is heavy and others don't.
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07-11-2009, 01:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Where am I?!?!? | | | RestInPieces, I think finding other people's opinions is the start of the discussion rather than the end of it! That's like saying, different people like different amps, EPIC FAIL. This is just a poll to see what other people think.
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07-13-2009, 12:51 AM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | IMO, there are a few contributing factors.
the first one is the intensity of the music: I can't really define intensity concretely, but to me the more "intense" a song is, the heavier it is to me. For example: Pantera. They convey a high-energy rocking awesomeness even though they aren't the fastest band around. Aeon: easily the most intense (and therefore heavy) band I've encountered, because there are insane levels of energy and aggression present in every band member's contribution.
the next aspect I always notice is that actual tone of the vocals and instruments. IMO Meshugga [which most people in the other heavy thread agree is the heaviest band around] doesn't sound heavy to me at all. Reason? Their guitars sound weak, thin, and lifeless. |
07-13-2009, 03:11 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Anything can be heavy. One guy with an acoustic guitar can be heavy, as long as it has weight. |
07-13-2009, 03:23 PM
|  | MORE AMPS - MORE CABS - MORE DOOM | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Sterling, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Anesthesia Black Sabbath.
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this thread ended here. |
07-14-2009, 01:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | The best thing about this thread is the poll at the beginning. I'm surprised its a perfect 50/50 split  |
10-08-2009, 11:50 AM
| | | | Floor. Their crazy tunings helped out with their heaviness. |
10-11-2009, 03:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Glasgow, Scotland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Lesser Heavy =/= speed.
To me, heavy is entirely about tone. A lot of thick instrument tones make for heavy muisc, imo. Obviously some genres are more disposed to 'heaviness' than others, but that's how I see it. You can have heavy blues, heavy classical, heavy jazz, whatever. | Spot on. Go and have a listen to Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring and you'll hear some bone-crushingly heavy music without a distorted guitar in sight.
I think this is one of these "If you have to ask, you'll never know" questions... 
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