You're written this twice. What on earth does 'slow' mean except as regards tempo?
If by "written this twice" you include 'questioned my observation in the second post' then sure.
A while back I took that trip down memory lane that we do sometimes. I was actually comparing to GNR with a couple of friends for whom the latter is formative. I'm older so GNR's ascent took place during my child-raising years—too busy listening to The Wiggles and Aqua—I literally couldn't recall a single song by them. Didn't help, my friends' taste isn't mine. They didn't like classic metal or modern post-hardcore much either. Also, level of drunkenness.
Despite the memory haze, I remained surprised by Sabbath openers—
Sweet Leaf from
Master of Reality and
Wheels of Confusion from
Vol.4—sounding so ... slo-mo. Compared to front-of-mind ~core from BMTH say. Anyway, following those posts here I did some revision/homework. Because you do. In tempo terms (so BPM for modern music)
The Comedown is only 103 BPM
per a common calculator. Surprise. What created my impression it was faster, or fast at all? The main riffage (chord progression) is faster than the aforenamed Sabbath tracks by my reckoning. But I think it's the sustained pace of the drumming. I assume there's terminology for whatever subdivision of beat is going on, so If there's a drummer or informed muso who can explain how this works, I'm all ears.
Sadly, no studio footage of that track by the band that I can see, but here's a competent/faithful reconstruction—watch the drummer's legs move—for reference:
Edit: Sweet Leaf in the studio.
148 BPM per calculator. It picks up the pace about three minutes in, and holds it for a minute:
Yeah, Ozzy
may have done too many drugs. Oli was well on the way there, but took a breather. Anyway tell me what faster means to you?