The heaviest songs ever...

[Toby]

Fuck... I'm Dead - Jeffrey Dahmer's Cookbook

 

[Life Sucks]

Kind of off topic, but I think that death metal is generally heavier than black metal, though black metal is often darker and more evil sounding. Darkthrone-style black metal, with its thin, trebly guitar sound, is not all that heavy, whereas most death metal, with its thick, crushing guitar sound, is heavy as hell. I actually think that old school Swedish death metal, in the vein of Entombed's first two CDs, is some of the heaviest music ever. Anyone else here agree?

 

[Crimson Velvet]

I agree that black metal is generally less heavy than death metal, but I don't agree that early swedish death metal is the heaviest music in the world.

 

[PaulRawNerve]

nah, neither do i, i think sludge stuff definitely is a contender for heaviest music style around, but also full on death metal like eternal suffering, suffocation, deicide ('legion' album anyway) etc is... the meaty chugs in those bands are incredible... also Meshuggah i definitely gotta say, since they are my favourite band and heavy as fuck (especially 'destroy erase improve')..
i wouldn't say early entombed is overly heavy though, but it is pretty damn dark and intense at times..
i think, to be honest, a lot to do with heaviness is down to production, and if it is a bad production then the intensity of something is more down to the mood rather than the sound..

 

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

Kind of off topic, but I think that death metal is generally heavier than black metal, though black metal is often darker and more evil sounding. Darkthrone-style black metal, with its thin, trebly guitar sound, is not all that heavy, whereas most death metal, with its thick, crushing guitar sound, is heavy as hell. I actually think that old school Swedish death metal, in the vein of Entombed's first two CDs, is some of the heaviest music ever. Anyone else here agree?

Agreed. Black metal is almost never heavy. A few recent examples of this are Velvet Cacoon's newest and Deathspell Omega's newest. Both very densely-packed albums.

Old Entombed has a VERY heavy guitar tone. So did Carnage. And Suffocation, although they aren't Swedish. And Molested, who're Norwegian. Old-school death metal/atmospheric death metal was the era for bludgeoningly heavy yet spatial death metal.

 

[Sadguru]

Neurosis & Jarboe - Erase
End of the thread.

 

[Profanity]

Black Sabbath - Computer God, any song off LHP are the heaviest i've heard.

 

[My Arms, Your Hearse]

Hemdale - Delicious Gory Fun/anything by them for that matter
Exhumed - Death Mask
Cannibal Corpse - Devoured By Vermin
Cryptopsy - Phobophile

..............thousands and THOUSANDS more............

 

[Slayed Necros]

Kind of off topic, but I think that death metal is generally heavier than black metal, though black metal is often darker and more evil sounding. Darkthrone-style black metal, with its thin, trebly guitar sound, is not all that heavy, whereas most death metal, with its thick, crushing guitar sound, is heavy as hell. I actually think that old school Swedish death metal, in the vein of Entombed's first two CDs, is some of the heaviest music ever. Anyone else here agree?

I agree about old-school Swedish death. In particular Grave - Into the Grave; Seance - Saltrubbed Eyes; Mega Slaughter - Calls From the Beyond.

 

[Living Death]

Meatjack "Consumed"!! that song nearly helped me line my stomach with ulcers.

Meatjack "Lost"
Origin "Larvae of the Lie"
Slayer "Raining Blood"

 

[LimpingForth]

Aborted - The Saw & The Carnage Is Done
Wormed - Tunnel of Ions
anything Infinited Hate
anything Devourment
Sikfuk - Anally Aborted

again, the list goes on