bassbeyondreason
Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
Undistorted but forebodingly heavy bassline:
I guess I'm obligated to respond to thisWrong, the correct parallel to sabbath is more Mainliner. Sleep is quite clean. One thing about the heavy in the sense of hard psych and 70s proto-metal is it actually has to sound dirty, in the sense of chimney ash, smog, fog.
I was going to post this actually, as an example of something that is heavy without meeting some traditional hallmarks of heavinessUndistorted but forebodingly heavy bassline:
in fact the singer says it is about childhood in a live version on one of their other recordsI love that song. Perfect image of a childhood freak out. Screaming into a pillow because mom won't let you ride bikes down to the pier with scooter and the boys
it seems quite difficult to be heavy and intense at the same time - there is usually some kind of tradeoff of one for the other
but heaviness is also a subset of intensity, so they have a complicated relationship which isn't fully clear to me
feedback, great explosions of notes, violent tempo changes, etc - in fact, anything but the single defining quality of heaviness, i.e. weight
and/or you're saying that all of these things constitute weight in their own way, and thus heaviness
i do really like this song, and appreciate the quite dissensus move of putting it into a list like this, but it does seem a bit of a stretch. although now i listen to it, those vocal breathy sounds about 1.20 are quite like noise/black metal vocalsWhat I think is interesting about the heavy is how immediate it is; immediate in the same way the emotional impact of a pop song is but typically left out of pop music. I think the bassline of this kate bush song is traditionally heavy but I cant think of many examples
is this dean blunt
fairly trad black metal noise thing but then he goes a bit dancey on some of them