Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing is the debut studio album by Canadian extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad. It was released on April 4, 1995. Century...

Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing. By 1997, he had recruited permanent members; this line-up,...

instruments on the debut studio album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, which was released in April 1995. Townsend assembled a permanent lineup of Strapping Young...

releasing the first Strapping Young Lad album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, as a solo album, Townsend recruited a permanent line-up for the second album: Jed...

The album's sound was somewhat of a departure from Strapping Young Lad's previous albums, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing and City. Devin Townsend's vocals...

his 1995 solo album Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, which he released under the pseudonym Strapping Young Lad. He soon assembled a band of the same name...

Without Hats, doing a Canadian tour in 2018 and a 38-date tour in the USA in 2019. Strapping Young Lad – Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing (1995) (Session Drums)...

studio recordings, each a Japanese bonus track for Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing and City respectively. The latter samples a percussion loop from "Happiness...

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which caused much conflict during the making of the album. As Vai explains, there was heavy expectation to make another album in the style of Passion and...

and Jed was a part of SYL until the band's split in 2007. Simon contributed guitars to Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing and also performed as a live member...

& Religion and subsequent tour, Townsend released the album Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing under the pseudonym Strapping Young Lad, in 1995. His debut...

slowed-down sample of a child speaking, earlier used on "S.Y.L." from Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing. Terria was released in August 2001 on Townsend's independent...

chorus of bonus track "Japan" from the first SYL album Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing (also released as a bonus on No Sleep 'till Bedtime). Ocean Machine: Biomech...

is really a very basic blues-type thing. But again, it's very original sort of John-type song. Lennon and Harrison overdubbed multi-tracked heavy guitars...

Fans of heavy metal music, commonly referred to as "Metalheads", have created their own subculture that encompasses more than just appreciation of the...

The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved...

with "You Really Got Me" and "My Generation" respectively, creating primitive versions of heavy metal in the process." Walser 1993, p. 10 "A "second generation...

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...

disappointing thing about this game is that you see lots of parts of the game that really do show care and creativity." He considered Heavy Gear a missed opportunity...

referred to as one of the pioneers of the new wave of British heavy metal movement, and are cited as a formative influence on various heavy metal subgenres...

The Best of Sarah McLachlan, Surfacing Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, Alien, For Those Aboot to Rock: Live at the Commodore Skinny...

Australian heavy metal music has its roots in both the Australian hard rock and pub rock tradition of the 1970s and the American and British heavy metal scenes...

The only thing we did was spend a couple of days at this coffee shop in San Francisco, because a lot of the songs were really dark and heavy lyrically...

Gene Hoglan), except where noted Tracks 1, 2, and 17 are from Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing (1995) Tracks 3 to 6 are from City (1997) Tracks 7 to 9 are...

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s...

Townsend of Strapping Young Lad said his main influences for Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing were Fear Factory and Napalm Death. In an interview on That...

they play? No one knows really. It's a synth band? No. Is it a heavy metal band? No, not really. It's just a really, really good rock band." The band...

"Heavy Horses" is a song written by Ian Anderson and performed by his band Jethro Tull. The song was released on the 1978 album of the same name. Written...

that, it's really not. It's more like speed metal, sort of, but it's not quite as heavy, and I think that's because of the vocals, really. Normally you'd...