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What Makes Heavy Metal Heavy? (youtu.be)

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YouTube channel 12Tone asks what makes heavy, heavy? And answers it well (in my opinion)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[drinks wine], "Satan".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Losing the tips of your fingers in a machine so you can't play the guitar the same as before

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

TL;DW: tritones and reverb (and other stuff too)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And shock lyrics, typically

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

True, although I was literally quoting the video

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

tl;dw 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

lmfao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But does it djent?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I love it when I learn a word to describe something I intimately know.

From Wiktionary:

Onomatopoeia for a high-gain, distorted palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound; coined by guitarist Fredrik Thordendal.