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What makes heavy metal 'heavy'?
- throw0101a 3y agoAlso a recent video from the 12tone channel: > As a metalhead, I've been calling things "heavy" for most of my life, but I never really stopped to think about what I meant. It's such an intuitive label to me, with such a clear meaning that neatly translates to the music I'm describing. But these days, stopping to think about what I mean when I talk about music is pretty much my entire job, so I think it's finally time to ask that question: When a metalhead calls a piece of music heavy, what are they actually saying? * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mo17wLB4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mo17wLB4Q
- ksaj 3y agoI just watched this a couple of days ago. His final thoughts about the future of heavy are easily proven by looking at your own past. I remember when War Pigs seemed impossibly heavy. But even my own band 30 years ago was far heavier. And there's a lot of music far heavier than that was. I don't think music has gotten heavier since the 90's though. The heaviest stuff I know is, for example Swedish or Finnish heavy metal. Seriously brutal stuff. Even with modern distortion, today's heaviest bands are not heavier than that. But eventually something will come up, and heavy will go up another notch.
- runeofdoom 3y agoUmlauts.
- cratermoon 3y agoFonts with sharply angled forms and hints of medieval blackletter.
- ksaj 3y agoThe more it looks like insane scribbling, the heavier you can expect the music to be.
- cratermoon 3y agoInsane Scrïbbling could be a metal band name.