- 01“Deadly Kiss”There’s a line on Kyuss’s first record in 1990, on the song “Deadly Kiss,” where John Garcia yells—with his crackly, pubescent vocal cords—“Look into my face now, stare into my eyes, hellfire in my veins!”from the chapter
- 02“Black Sabbath”Doom metal has been delivering that sweet, sloth-paced sense of impending death and destruction since the very first, terrifying tri-tone at the beginning of “Black Sabbath,” the track that kicked off the eponymous Black Sabbath record in 1970.from the chapter
- 03“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”from Abbey Road(Or, as I often argue—especially after a few beers—since the stormy, sultry, repetitive buildup in the middle of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” by The Beatles when they released Abbey Road the prior year.)from the chapter
- 04Abbey Road(Or, as I often argue—especially after a few beers—since the stormy, sultry, repetitive buildup in the middle of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” by The Beatles when they released Abbey Road the prior year.)from the chapter