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"Heavy rock" as a term has been around since the mid-'60s and was once used interchangeably with "heavy metal" and "hard rock", especially when people wanted to distance themselves from the 'heavy metal' label. However, as its own term, it never really went anywhere until just very recently with the massive surge in popularity of stoner rock/metal. See that thread. In recent days, I've been seeing more and more attaching themselves to the "heavy rock" label to differentiate themselves from these other genres. I'm not the biggest fan of labels, but I'm not so pretentious as to think they don't serve a purpose or that humans are magically capable of not labeling themselves/others. Sonically, "heavy rock" can be easily confused with hard rock, heavy metal, stoner rock, grunge rock, and a few other styles precisely because there's so much overlap. However, there's one band that acts as a maypole for the whole style:  Perhaps you're starting to see why stoner rock fans in particular started calling themselves heavy rockers. But the thing about heavy rock is that it's not obsessed solely with Master of Reality or the slower, doomy aspects of the early Sabbath sound. It's really more or less hard rock with a larger focus on riffs and a quasi-metallic sound. For example: Soundgarden and Wolfmother can easily be considered heavy rock, but Three Days Grace and Chevelle have nothing to do with the style. They're a completely different subgenre of hard rock. It's yet to really 'catch on', but there's even a visual style coupled with it. Going as far back as the late '70s, heavy rockers were identified by shaggy hair and denim and occasionally leather. Heavy metal (especially glam metal) ran with that, and thrash metal tried staying true to the roots. Grunge rock started as a throwback to late '60s/early '70s garage rock filtered through punk rock. They said "gently caress spandex and hairspray, we're wearing cheap denim and shagging our hair." So the "look" revived with them until the alt-rock style started really taking off. Plenty of the early '90s alt-rock bands were very much heavy rock, however. Even the likes of Rage Against The Machine for their debut. I'm guessing that the reason why heavy rockers love long, shaggy hair and a lot of denim is because it invokes the days before hard rock and heavy metal sold big. When you're just a few kids playing in bars and your garage, you slap on whatever's in your closet. And rock music was known for long hair back in the '60s and '70s (for reasons I still don't fully understand), so it can also be a throwback to when rock music was at its "purest" form. No one's really using the style either, so heavy rockers are going with it. Here's what I mean by "heavy rock". You can definitely see the overlap, and a lot of bands have played with the style. Brats - B-Brains Soundgarden - Superunknown Orange Goblin - Alcofuel Alice in Chains - Died Black Sabbath - Paranoid Orchid - Mountains of Steel Wolfmother - 10000 Feet Iron Claw - Skullcrusher Buffalo - Sunrise (Coming My Way) Nebula - So It Goes Iron Man - I Have Returned Pentagram - Much Too Young To Know Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera Judas Priest - Dissident Aggressor Queen - Dead On Time Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy Thin Lizzy - Holy War The Machine - Pyro Heavy Eyes - Iron Giants Radio Moscow - Summer of 1942 Deep Jimi & The Zep Creams - Whales and Snow I know Graveyard and Radio Moscow are keeping it up, and I've got a lot of love for Royal Blood. But I'm still scouting out for more.
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More examples: Soundgarden - Rusty Cage Blue Cheer - I'm Gonna Get You Sweet Savage - Killing Time Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla Soundgarden - Gun Iron Claw - Claustrophobia Yuli Ban fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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Jun 3, 2017 20:06
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this is all just hard rock or early heavy metal
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Jun 4, 2017 01:43
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A human heart posted:this is all just hard rock or early heavy metal I pointed that out already, though. It's hard rock, but the term "hard rock" goes fast and loose these days and can describe a wide variety of styles. This is hard rock. So is this. As is this.. But only the third can be considered "heavy rock" if we're going by the modern usage of the word.
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Jun 4, 2017 04:30
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ah yeah good ol HEAVY ROCK
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Jun 4, 2017 05:28
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i like my rock like i like my women, heavy and completely divorced from blues-based musical traditions
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Jun 4, 2017 09:00
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Remember early Tool? Tool - Cold and Ugly When I rediscovered Tool seven years ago back in 2010, it was through this track.
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Jun 8, 2017 22:23
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Yuli Ban posted:Remember early Tool? poo poo that makes me feel old: I had this on cassette.
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Jun 9, 2017 01:26
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Heavy Rock(s) owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-tUXR_ekBA
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Jun 13, 2017 09:50
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Speaking of Boris, I just found out they're releasing a new album this year. And by "this year", I mean next month. Funny, I could've sworn they had said they released their last album, but I guess that's sort of like when classic rock bands say they're going on their 13th farewell tour.
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Jun 13, 2017 23:44
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I can't believe I almost forgot about this band The Atomic Bitchwax - No Way Man
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Jun 14, 2017 16:55
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Diamond Head - Streets Of Gold Good riffs on this one.
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Jun 18, 2017 04:20
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Gotta Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCf2ZZLHy-k
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Jun 18, 2017 04:33
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But can you roll?
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Jun 25, 2017 04:01
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Yuli Ban posted:But can you roll? Go, let it go?
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Jun 25, 2017 07:36
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Iron Maiden's tours are always a spectacle. The LA show is in the worst venue ever, the Glen Helen Amphitheater. Maiden is one of the very few bands I would go there to see. Is anyone else going to see them this summer? http://loudwire.com/iron-maiden-legal-dispute-hallowed-be-thy-name-the-nomad/ - this lawsuit seems just a bit late to actually matter Y2J fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jun 28, 2017 |
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Jun 28, 2017 23:55
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I went to watch (Ritchie Blackmore's) Rainbow last night, dude is still pretty good considering he is 72. My wife thought it was too loud. (Sweet were the support, they played the GoTG2 song, it was great).
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Jun 29, 2017 11:01
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there's plenty of stuff these days in the garage scene that's definitely on the sabbath spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOrBXEhOSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDAXBYCS74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeVHftZlJBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZUwtdejBo you can basically pick it out by the album art lol edit: I also agree that this distinction from hard rock or heavy metal or whatever is pretty meaningless
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Jul 4, 2017 20:04
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THIS THREAD USELESS
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Jul 4, 2017 23:35
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Ah man I was all stoked thinking this was the new "stoner rock" thread Time to watch Such Hawks Such Hounds again, I guess.
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Jul 5, 2017 00:23
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I prefer Welter Rock.
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Jul 5, 2017 12:49
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Bored, so here are some riffs with instruments optionally attached. Witchfinder General - Shadowed Images Witchcraft - Hey, Doctor Rush - Finding My Way Budgie - Guts
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Jul 10, 2017 09:01
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Every band you've listed already fits in somewhere. This is just overlaying an extra category onto everything and seems needlessly complicated. But what do I know.
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Jul 10, 2017 19:57
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Spatulater bro! posted:Every band you've listed already fits in somewhere. This is just overlaying an extra category onto everything and seems needlessly complicated. But what do I know. Yeah I'm all for new threads but we already have a stoner thread and this is getting a little too PYF
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Jul 10, 2017 22:02
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I believe the point of contention is that a lot of material here could fit in the stoner rock/metal thread, but a lot of it couldn't. I'm not exactly sure I'd get away with posting Queen, Rush, Buffalo, Thin Lizzy, or Alice in Chains in there, for example, despite these bands possessing several rifftastic, Sabbathy tracks. And I could post them in the Hard Rock thread... but my intention was to have a thread basically dedicated to riff rock. And the term I've seen passed around for this general riff-centric style, ranging from classic hard rock to grunge to stoner rock, is "heavy rock". Whether it's from the mouths of the original grunge artists or '90s stoner rock bands themselves, they tend to prefer calling themselves 'heavy rock'.
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Jul 10, 2017 23:29
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more like heavy cock (it's mine)
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