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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you consider there be to be a difference between "hard" and "heavy" music?
I definitely say there is a difference. "Heavy" music is much slower and not really abrasive, just loud. So lots of metal and sludgy music is "heavy" but not "hard", yet tons of -core music is hard without being heavy.
Good example of a song that is heavy but not hard:
Hard but not heavy:
To give another comparison, bands playing "heavy" music can probably play for hours, while the "hard" band above both times I've seen them only could play for about 15 minutes because of physical endurance, and if they played any longer the vocalist might've started spitting blood.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Deep Purple was/is a hard-rock band; Black Sabbath is a heavy-metal band. At least IMO.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I'd say "hard" is the more general term, and "heavy" is maybe a way of indicating that the sound is more heavily biased by guitar. I use them both interchangably. As far as music I like, "hard" bands are "heavy", and heavy bands are hard. All the other terms are further genre subdividers: speed, thrash etc.
Take a band like 'Iron Maiden'. They would be described as heavy metal by pretty everybody that's ever heard them. But in an interview of the band, they said they don't consider themselves a heavy metal band or even a hard rock band, but just a "rock band".
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)jp11
(2,104 posts)Just because the one you label hard is typical of music labeled 'heavy metal' where the 'singer' screams and they all sound the same to me, literally just screaming that is horrid and meaningless in the few minutes I've ever heard in my life.
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)They're an offshoot of hardcore punk called "screamo", a term which is commonly misused today.
jp11
(2,104 posts)I just know what I like and someone screaming like an animal into a mike ain't it.
To me some of the best music is someone really singing well, not the diva BS with the stupid hand flutter pimping octaves/range but just good soulful singing.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)rppper
(2,952 posts)And metal.....hair rock(cinderalla, poison),gothic(type o Negative),industrial(ministry), death metal, grindcore, rockabilly, psycho billy, punk, etc etc.....personally I like it all except the Norwegian and Swedish death metal stuff....I like to hear the lyrics and understand them.....
Three of my favorite heavy bands of all time....Helmet, the butthole surfers and ministry...all hard rock of one genre or another...enjoy!
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