Contemporary Metal Music (CMM) features, usually down tuned, harmonically distorted timbres, and from a performance perspective regularly contains fast and frequently complex subdivisions, as well as highly synchronized instrumentation. The combination of these elements results in a significant concentration of dense musical sound usually referred to as "heaviness". From a performance, sounds, practices and production aesthetics perspective, this article proposes the broad musical parameters for CMM's heaviness, and from this viewpoint likewise seeks to distinguish CMM from traditional heavy metal music.
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