Heavy Stuff

LucSulla

LucSulla

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Musically speaking. Any favs? I know there are a couple of fans of the louder side of the fence here. I was listening to Blind the other day and it struck me how heavy that album opens.

That may be the first time I ever heard a Mesa, though I am not 100% sure they had them by then.

 
diablo175 said:
That is a bad, bad, badass intro. Everything I like about a heavy tune. Dark, brooding, reminiscent of early Sabs, even some quirky sounding background guitar.
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From about :25 to :45, I find the harmonies in the feedback to be quite beautiful.

"Seasons" is definitely a fav of mine. That Cathedral tune has some that doom thing going in spades. They do a Sabs cover that I think is just gorgeous.

I've got two tattoos, and one of them has some Orange Goblin lyrics in it (the other is a portrait tattoo of Waylon Jennings).

 
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From the masters of the dark stuff, a song taken from the album which I personally consider the pinnacle of traditional metal guitar tone:

 
I saw Gojira with Mastodon and Kvelertak back in October at Stubbs. Pretty damned good show.

This doesn't fit with the heavy theme exactly, but if you haven't heard this, I guarantee you won't see a chorus this catchy coming.

 
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I mostly like indie and melodic wuss rock, power pop and Skate Punk but do also like some heavy stuff now and then, but it probably falls within the category of "nu-metal".

Tool, Deftones, System of a Down, Helmet, glassjaw, Finger Eleven, early Incubus, Rage. That's about it, really.

ETA Billy Talent. But is it more punk? Loud and heavy guitars. Heavy to me anyway.

 
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I will fight over Helmet or Tool being lumped into Nü-Metal! I like Tool, and Helmet is awesome.

 
Tool was a game changer... metal wouldn't be the same post-Tool (for better or worse).

Tool of course abandoned their ethos by their 3rd album but "Undertow" and "Opiate" changed the game from mile high racks of scooped & processed pre-amped guitar tones to brown and organic non-master volume amps.

Adam used a Super Bass amp, a delay pedal and an EQ pedal... nothing more... no racks, no processing and nothing but TONE FOR DAYS!!!

That wouldn't last and he proceeded to get weak with adding a Diezel amp and all sorts of shit. His tone would ever so slightly shift to sound more and more average over time.

Alas, the organic and artistic ethos of the grunge era would come to a halt and you saw the racks and processing come back into vogue.

The vintage non-Master volume amos would be relegated to the country, blues and rock players... metal guys would now have their own lines of gear made just for them and their shitty music.

 
For those who like Queen, this is how some of their influences also made it into the heavy stuff. The album this song comes from is no less than an European power metal masterpiece, totally different to that Helloween sound, but still on spot:

 
While I like heavy, I can't really take metal, so I prefer my heavy on the stoner side. Clutch, Kyuss, QOTSA, Fu Manchu, Monster Magnet, and so on. Or almost into shoegaze territory, Earth, Fuzz, Om, etc.

 
Musically speaking. Any favs? I know there are a couple of fans of the louder side of the fence here. I was listening to Blind the other day and it struck me how heavy that album opens.

 
Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power".

I'm a big fan of a ton of the stuff in this thread. Cut my teeth on Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Slayer, Testament, etc. on up through Tool, Alice in Chains, and on to Pearl Jam and some of the "rougher" post grunge stuff like QotSA. Lately 70's metal revival bands like Graveyard (kudos to whichever HFCer posted about Hisingen Blues here!) and Wolfmother are in rotation.

All that said, when I was a wee lad, I was scared of Iron Maiden album covers. Like the same way I was of the cover of my parents' copy of the book "Jaws". Once I heard some of the music, I thought it was some sort of inside joke how silly (good-silly) the music was by comparison.

Vulgar Display of Power is the music I was afraid I'd find on the Iron Maiden albums. It was like a bucket of ice water when I first heard it. I thought I knew heavy until I got schooled by my first listen to that record. Having loved Cowboys from Hell, I thought I knew what I was getting into but that band made one hell of a pivot into this sonic space.

I can't wait to dig into some of the recommendations on this thread. Thanks for starting it LucSulla!

 
Thorn - Adam isn't using anything special as far as I know for the feedback. If I remember correctly, around that time he was using the Marshall Super Bass, a Mesa Dual Rec, possibly a Diezel Blue Face, which he began using around the time Aenema was recorded. He also throws some kind of solid state amp into the mix.

Up through Lateralus, he used pretty much the same rig in the studio that he used live, so I think a good bit of what you hear is just knowing your gear very well.

I listened to a lot of Sasquatch while I was writing my dissertation. Good stuff!

 
Hehe...my band opened for them in the late 90's when they were already old /emoticons/default_smile.png

Was our biggest show ever, and we thought for sure we were destined for stardom. We were all pumped to get on the bus and party with these guys...only to get on the bus to see that they were more interested in a quiet evening of reading while rolling to the next town.

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RE: Tool..

My first foray was Undertow. Loved it. Thank my endless obsession with Much Music and the great videos like Sober coming out.

Went backwards to Opiate and of course it's great, but Aenima is what Tool is to me. After that, they went in a direction that's still pretty good, just not what I really dug about Aenima.

Also, no I don't like the term Nu Metal and shudder to think that Tool or Helmet (Groove Metal?) should fall into that category. I instantly think Korn and Limp Bizkit, two bands I can't really stand. (admittedly, I DID like the first and third Korn albums, and I DID listen to 3 Dollar Bill y'all! by Limp Bizkit, but I can't anymore. Ick!).

 
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