You can say that music is heavy because of the way it sounds but
for me it comes more like from the experience of the people making it
"I'd rather be high or die" yeah that kind of stuff
You can have an acoustic guitar and one vocal
and it can be the heaviest thing in the world
Heavy is about being pissed off and being a warlord
and laying down like, just like someone that was in battle
if they had an axe and chop some dude in the head and it landed
and you have a riff that plays the same way that way, that's heavy
When the Beatles first came to America,
they had these tiny little amplifiers, you couldn't hear anything except girls screaming
that all changed when, like Marshall, Laney and Orange
started making these big, giant, hi-wattage amplifiers
that, all of a sudden shut the entire crowd up
a large part of early hard rock music is just trying to make sens of what you do
with all this distortion and all this volume
There is things you can do with clean, reverb tone
that are so evil, dark, it makes Black Sabbath sound like Peggy Lee
moving away from that idea
it's just being like headbanging whatever devil horn heavy rock we're making weird shit
So how are we going to get this sound