Heaviness (was Re: Day job)

[Sean Costello]

tomg wrote:

> I have always been in a band or playing with somebody. I
> am now in production of quote "The heaviest music ever
> recorded." 

A few benchmarks for you, in the heaviness realm:

1) The song "Holy Mountain" by Sleep.  Black Sabbath on half speed.
2) The album "Eggnog" by the Melvins.  Black Sabbath on eighth speed;
or, Slayer on the edge of a black hole.  Most older Melvins albums
should be considered as well.
3) Godflesh's self-titled first album.
4) Songs about Fucking, by Big Black.  Crisper, but still quite heavy.
5) "Jimi" by the Butthole Surfers
6) Cluster '71, by Cluster.  Heavy like staring into the void.
7) "Ventolin" by Aphex Twin (well, heavy in terms of psychological
destruction, as well as physical destruction to your ears for listening
to it too much)

Not too aware of the black metal bands.  Admittedly heavy stuff, but it
sounds too much like Cookie Monster singing about Satan.  The book
"Lords of Chaos" is a great read, however.

Apologies for the off-topicness of the thread, but I spent far too much
of my life thinking about "heavy" to pass this up.  Will hopefully post
useful FFT-related stuff as soon as I understand it better.

Heaviest circuit ever: Univox Super-Fuzz.  Full-wave rectifier provides
ring-modulation distortion on chords, germanium diodes provide clipping
on that, and a notch filter makes it sound like a thousand amps blowing
up.  If someone has a heavier circuit, please post it.

Sean Costello

P.S.  Heaviness prototypes: "Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer, and pretty
much everything Black Sabbath ever touched, but especially the album
Masters of Reality.