The heaviest band/album you've ever heard

[zabu of nΩd]

Says the one with the Beksinski sig.

 

[Silent_Scream]

Says the one with the Beksinski sig.

Don't you mean Avatar?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

yea that

I have sigs turned off in my settings, so I actually just assumed you meant "avatar" when you said "sig".

 

[Slayed Necros]

Rottrevore - Iniquitous

I don't know about the absolute heaviest, but this album is certainly the heaviest Death Metal I've ever heard.

 

[Base Delta Zero]

Bolt Thrower's 'Realm of Chaos' is the heaviest album I've ever heard. The songs 'Through the Eye of Terror', 'World Eater' & 'All That Remains' brutally rule like an iron-fisted, Stalinesque, tyrant-emperor!

Neurosis is another good candidate. Their use of dynamics makes them feel a lot heavier to me than a lot of the more convential extreme metal does.

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Songs like 'The Tide', 'No River To Take Me Home', & 'Locust Star' are as heavy as any conventional metal. No other band can seemingly sound so big while doing so little.

 

[Phrozenspite]

seconding, Electric Wizard, Sunn 0))) and Nile
suggesting Brain Drill Anaal Nathrakh, the first Zyklon cd and Axis of Perdition

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

I'm listening to Devourment's "1.3.8." It's pretty captivating when the album starts & the vocals kick in. This is definitely some heavy shit.

 

[entanglement]

wormphlegm

Heavy at more than just the bass sound.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I'm listening to Devourment's "1.3.8." It's pretty captivating when the album starts & the vocals kick in. This is definitely some heavy shit.

Yeah, Devourment are pretty fucking heavy.

 

[Henrik Main]

Incantation - Mortal Throne Of Nazarene and Onward To Golgotha
Disgorge - Consume The Forsaken
Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund

 

[CF87]

Evoken- embrace the emtpiness

 

[Crimson_713]

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

Saw Metallica live, once...they played a bit of that song in a kill/ride medley. Towards the end of their show, they played Creeping Death... There's just something about 35,000 people screaming "DIE" at the same time, pounding their fists into the air...they may not write music the same way anymore, but Metallica's still got it.

 

[The Ozzman]

Seeing Metallica live was one of the greatest experiences in my life. I don't care how much their studio output sucks, they are worth the price live.

When I saw them live, they did Battery and MOP as the first two songs. Greatest thing ever.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I like Wormed, but frog croaks =/= heavy or brutal, just deep, odd, and amusing.

No one ever said that the vocals were the reason they consider Wormed heavy. The grinding, distorted brutality of the guitars combined with the deep bass and fast, upfront drumming makes the album very heavy and oppressive. It also helps that their breakdowns are insanely slammy and well-muted.

 

[ohiogrinder]

Incantation - Mortal Throne Of Nazarene

listening to right now

 

[S<issors]

No one ever said that the vocals were the reason they consider Wormed heavy. The grinding, distorted brutality of the guitars combined with the deep bass and fast, upfront drumming makes the album very heavy and oppressive. It also helps that their breakdowns are insanely slammy and well-muted.

true story. I just thought I remembered the vox being brought up on some other threads as an argument for its "br00talness"

as I mentioned, I tend to think of bass as being the defining factor of how heavy an album is, and I guess I don't see wormed as having stunningly deep bass

good band though, and a great album

 

[black blood]

Saint Vitus' Die Healing .

 

[Death Aflame]

I have always thought that the tone of the distortion in both of Darkspace's full-length albums was absolutely immense, universe devouringly heavy even.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yeah I agree with that. I'd actually be hard pressed to think of a heavier Black Metal album than Dark Space I.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Darkspace certainly has a sound I would call oppressive. I can't think of any BM like it. Unfortunately it rarely suits my mood.