Toward a Systematic Understanding of "Heaviness" in Metal Music Production
Toward a Systematic Understanding of "Heaviness" in Metal Music Production
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系统理解金属音乐制作中的“沉重”
DOI：
10.1080/19401159.2022.2109358
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发表时间：
2022
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Herbst J
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Herbst J
“沉重”一直是金属音乐三十年来的定义特征之一。研究承认它的基本性质，但没有对音乐沉重的全面定义。因此，本文通过对音乐沉重感的产生、演奏和构成要素及其相互关系的分析，来阐述音乐沉重感的初步框架。研究结果表明，虽然结构和表演成分为沉重提供了必要的基础，但金属越来越多地受到其生产的驱动。由于音乐家达到了极限，技术已经成为制作更重金属音乐的主要手段之一，以寻求更大的沉重感。
“Heaviness” has been one of metal music’s defining features in three decades of metal scholarship. Research acknowledged its essential quality, but no comprehensive definition of musical heaviness was developed. This article, therefore, elaborates a preliminary framework of musical heaviness by identifying its constituent production, performance, and compositional components, including their relationships. The findings suggest that while structural and performative components provide the necessary foundation for heaviness, metal has been increasingly driven by its production. Since musicians reach limits, technology has become one of the primary means to produce ever heavier metal music in the genre-defining quest for greater heaviness.