Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Your Double Kicks on Route 666
- Part I Metal, Technology and Practice
- 3 Mapping the Origins of Heaviness between 1970 and 1995
- 4 Technical Ecstasy
- 5 Not from the Mind But the Heart
- 6 Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production
- Part II Metal and History
- Part III Metal and Identity
- Part IV Metal Activities
- Part V Modern Metal Genres
- Part VI Global Metal
- Select Academic Bibliography
- Select Journalistic Bibliography
- Index
4 - Technical Ecstasy
Phenomenological Perspectives of Metal Music Production
from Part I - Metal, Technology and Practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Your Double Kicks on Route 666
- Part I Metal, Technology and Practice
- 3 Mapping the Origins of Heaviness between 1970 and 1995
- 4 Technical Ecstasy
- 5 Not from the Mind But the Heart
- 6 Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production
- Part II Metal and History
- Part III Metal and Identity
- Part IV Metal Activities
- Part V Modern Metal Genres
- Part VI Global Metal
- Select Academic Bibliography
- Select Journalistic Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the direct experiences of renowned record producers, working with metal music, to construct an in-depth understanding of the genesis, and development, of recorded metal music. Technological democracy has changed the experience of making metal records, affording creative flexibility and control that would historically have been out of reach, technologically and financially. Multitrack technologies and fragmented production processes are also examined. Framed by the experiences of producers that have shaped the recording careers of artists such as Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, this chapter links the direct experiences of record-making to musical, sociocultural and technological development.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music , pp. 43 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023