“That song has so much voodoo in it. It sounded like it was written under a full moon. It gets straight to the darkest parts of one’s psyche”: Kirk Hammett on the Fleetwood Mac classic that defines heavy music

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There are all kinds of things that make a song heavy but it’s never just about high-gain electric guitar, tuning down and turning up. 1 - YouTube Watch OnThe Green Manalishi came together as the original Fleetwood Mac were coming apart. “It took me at least two years to recover from that song,” Green said in Martin Celmins’ 1995 biography. Green Manalishi, Oh Well, Black Magic Woman – all blues-rock that later on contributed to hard rock and heavy metal.” “It just took years and a couple of generations for it to filter into heavy metal as we know it today.