heavy shoegaze

I'm calling O.S.I.'s album Office of Strategic Influence the definitive beginning of HEAVY SHOEGAZE music, elements were present already in bands like Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Alan Parsons Project, Radiohead, Moody Blues, Tool, Chroma Key, Pink Floyd, Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, King Crimson, the Fates Warning's album Disconnected, Grateful Dead songs like Touch of Grey, with the earliest beginning I suggest as early as the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue though SHOEGAZE is more of a hybrid of mellow blues jazz and mellow rock combined with more modern digitization, possibly successfully started with Radiohead's OK Computer album given music contributions in electronics by artists like Aphex Twin, but also with origins as far back as Miles Davis, but the reason OK Computer in 1997 isn't the definitive beginning is that in 2,000CE O.S.I. combined this style with the laid-back heavy edge of Tool, and Porcupine Tree that made it HEAVY SHOEGAZE. Shoegaze refers to how it's musicians are often gazing at the stomp boxes while playing the music.

Heavy shoegaze music is a long time in the making, but it sure was well worth the wait.

heavy shoegaze by Craig pronounced Keraig May 5, 2026