Cryptopsy (although the new cd sucks), Pyrexia, Mindrot, or Iniquity? Discuss.

Black Sabbath. For the 70s, they were much heavier than any of those bands you just listed are today.

True. Except them.

Any Halo and old Anathema are really the only times I've ever been overwhelmed with the heaviness of the recordings. Any heavy band in this day and age owes everything to Sabbath though.

All Hail Sabbath

it also all depends on your definition of heavy...

zeppelin had a lot of heavy parts back in their day as well

heaviest band ever?
it would be a band like Merzbow or Disciples of Annihilation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciples_of_Annihilation

http://www.mp3search.ru/album.html?id=13362&ref=6849
"I fucked ya motha"

Define "heavy". The loudest? Fastest? Most distorted?

To me, "heavy" is more on the listeners part, a feeling inspired by the music. For some, Zeppelin might be the heaviest thing they ever heard. For others, Slayer. etc...

immolation/old cryptopsy.

bay city rollers

Id go with either Cannibal Corpse,SLayer or Napalm Death.I cant choose just one

devildriver

Buzzov-en on "Sore".

MANOWAR.

I would have to say one of the heaviest bands I have ever heard is definately Mythic, For '93 when the EP came out...Nothing could compare in my opinion

HAND CHOKE NECK

Those fat fucks in XXL

digested flesh...hands down

Old Carcass

Electric Wizard. There is that Black Sabbath again.

I've never heard an album heavier than Dopethrone. It simply hasn't happened.

vesgore said:

How is Digested Flesh any heavier than the 313,000 other brutal gore/death metal bands who more or less sound exactly the same? None of that shit is heavier than Symphonies of Sickness.

carnivore "retaliation"

I made an electronic song and whenever I played it in my car above 5, the fuses would blow.

CORRUPTED

the_reverend said:

The Reverend is the heaviest band ever.

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

Did Electric Wizard get their name from the Sabbath songs Electric Funeral and The Wizard?

Incidentally, I gotta go with Sabbath too, for reasons already stated by others.

Reverend was a cheesey 80's band.

I'm betting that fu manchu is pretty heavey live. also, almost no one is heavier than providence's the body. one of their sets and my colon is completely cleaned out.

meshuggah and crowbar.... end of discussion.

oh and clitorture.

I always catch alot of shit for saying this, especially from extreme Death/Black Metal fans, but for me, it's Pantera. Just the attitude those guys had when they played was unbeatable. And for me, nothing beats the ending breakdown in "domination".....I still get goosebumps everytime i hear that.

the fat boys were probably the heaviest band ever...before one died and the other became a fitness guru

What a dumb thread

die said:

thread smart

you dumb

Napalm Death (scum) and Martyrvore

fucking Cock and Ball Torture.

dreadkill said:

dripping !

Godflesh - Pure

Mammoth
they were so heavy, they had 7 bass drums

merzbow isn't heavy. more like snoresbow.

SeedBassist said:



PANTERRIBLE!!!

Merlin - Brutal Constructor

the_reverend said:

That was Reverend though, not The Reverend!

retzam said:

Basically, they are the crushing, despair-filled update to Black Sabbath. Even from the same country.

the rooster said:

As much as I dig them, they are not the heaviest bands ever.

SacreligionNLI said:

i was joking

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

have you herd their disc?

nick said:

a very good contender

the rooster said:

this band made it a point to be heavy. in many different musical ways aswell.

oh yea, but i forgot.....FULL BLOWN CHAOS....SHOW ME A BAND THAT WEIGHS MORE!!!!!!!!!!

vesgore said:

Yes. And it is not heavier than many other albums I own in the same genre. There is not an original idea on the whole disc, how could it be heavier than its forebears who created the form of music it is aping?

I guess we just have different descriptions of heavy, is all.

Humm...Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Sleep, Sepultura, Slayer...I can't pick just one here.

dream theater.... wait...

INIQUITY are very underrated.

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

haha....yea its a good album to buy for all those riffs you easily forget about, which other bands have already played. its great. like a b-discog of slam riffs.

one life crew........do you know of these guys??

vesgore said:

mammoth

crowbar

my_pretentious_erection said:

let's see you put in his work when he wasn't old and turn it up to 8. you will have a toothache in like 3 minutes.

vesgore said:

100 demons out weights FBC

they actually compared once.
100 demons won

tyrant trooper WERE MOSTLY OBESE.

dreadkill said:

so was i

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

I should check them out.

vesgore said:

Supercoven crushes Dopethrone imo...Come My Fanatics somewhere between...

My personal standard for extreme heaviness in metal starts with the Usurper-Threshold of the Usurper ep. Then, I dunno, maybe Doro.

All the Electric Wizard stuff is pretty great, I like Dopethrone better than Supercoven but hey, as long as there are people listening to them I'm not going to argue

Sunn O))) Black 1. I'll be there tomorrow to see if it's true. I always thought Nasum had a crushing guitar sound and very loud drum recordings which made them heavy to my ear. Obviously Sabbath innovated the concept of heavy.

early crowbar if your weigh all the band members on a scale there the heavyest band

I think It Will End In Pure Horror is the heaviest band right now. Me and Rich are about 600 pounds combined. We really need to fatten up our drummer and bass player though.

horror_tang said:

your no crowbar, there the fattest!

We're trying though. We really are. Our waistlines are expanding by the minute.

explosions in the sky !

TYRANT TROOPER were fatter than CROWBAR.

old celtic frost???

the_reverend said:

HA, except i listen to noise on a daily basis. listening to merzbow is like listening to boiled carrots. i've fallen asleep at harsh noise shows.

uhhhh for heavy i vote for passenger of shit?
http://robot-dreams.com/localmp3/fkdogterd.mp3

rigor penis said:

I think Poison Idea's got you all beat. With Pig Champion in the band, you could have four Richard Simmons clones backing him up, and they'd still tip scales.

Ninkaszi187 said:

Good call.

brokenclown nli said:

This is me, laughing at you, wicked hard.

cock and ball torture

this is very tough; i'm sure as soon as i post this, i'll think of 10 other bands that are equally heavy or heavier for that matter.

i will definitely say black sabbath; they've been my favorite band since i was 10 or 11. listening to their first 3 albums at that age was mindnumbing. it's still an experience to listen to it now. if they had the access to some of the greatest, heaviest production that we have these days when they went in the studio, i don't think any stereo systems could handle the awesomeness.

watchmaker is one of the loudest bands i've ever seen live, though that's not exactly in the category of "heavy."

neurosis, on "locust star" to be precise, is one of the heaviest songs ever, in the sense that arrowhead discussed earlier. when the world ends, i expect to hear that song playing throughout the entire globe.

easily behemoth

mark fucking richards said:

Did you ever know that you’re my hero?
You’re everything I wish I could be.
I could fly higher than an eagle,
For you are the wind beneath my wings.

sean, did you flush your testosterone again?

Nick Barker weighs like 80,000 ibs so whatever band hes in at the moment.

Or this guy.

after last night, per my definition of heavy, sunn0))).

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

ARE YOU KIDDING ME...carcass HEAVIER then DIGESTED FLESH...HAHAHAHAHA...NO!!! digested flesh has BY FAR the heaviest tone and atmospere i've ever heard... so what if they are deathgrind and there are other deathgrind bands... so actually i guess neanderthals 5,000 years ago dropping boulders and banging sticks IS the heaviest....so its settled.END.OF.DISCUSSION

I just checked out,Digested Flesh...Man they suck,That song should have been titled "The answer to how many bands we can rip off in 3 1/2 minutes"

two of the heaviest songs ever: Bathory-"Enter the Eternal Fire," Samhain-"Halloween II"

I second dripping.

Christraper said:

is that a new member of crowbar?

pantera and devourment end of story

loser.com said:

haha, you're gay...End of story

Cephalic or Mindrot

exhorder!

mammoth, godammit

Otep and Strapping Young Lad

frozen corpse stuffed with dope

anonymous said:

Heaviest band....NOT GAYEST

Sabbath.

there is something wrong with the earths gravitational pull

Khanate
END OF FUCKING DISCUSSION
or Sunn O)))
All hail Stephen O'Malley

BlackoutRick said:

I think the word "heavy" doesn't acurately describe those kinds of bands. I think "brutal" would be more descriptive. Heavy is what you'd say about a band like Sabbath or Blue Cheer. Having an an old fart father from the 60s-70s hard rock/metal era I hear him say heavy quite a bit. Heavy isn't Brutal.

I do however, think Mindrot does have more heavy qualities to it.

bla bla bla

anonymous said:

everything he does is heavy

Troll said:

Thats kinda the point of this thread?

i have to go with bon jovie, he was sick!


no seriously i would say warhorse

menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:



Devourment is the heaviest fucking band ever, hands fucking down!

Shit that honestly makes me want to fucking punch babies!

TIME TO EAT THEIR CUNTS!!!

devourment, dripping, DYSENTERY

Morbid Angel, Death, Slayer, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse, Dimmu, Deicide, Six Feet Under, Kalmah

All pioneers in going to the heaviest extreme but in different ways.

I remember hearing porphyria's 2000 demo for the first time and shitting my pants thinking it was the heaviest thing I had ever heard.

Hand Choke Neck....no contest.

Buried at sea is the heaviest.

early type blow negative.I cant move.

the Swans during their "Cop/Raping a Slave"period...

in terms of heaviness, Warhorse all the way.

ShadowSD said:

lmao.

The first time I heard those guys I noticed a difference between them and the death metal I had heard in the past, a style involving a certain seperation in the mix between the vocals and the music that many subsequent bands emulated. Not my favorite style by a long shot, but a notable mention for this discussion.

It's kind of impossible, as others have pointed out, to name the heaviest definitive bands in the world, because there are countless ridiculously heavy bands out there (some of which we probably haven't heard yet). So instead I took the approach of picking bands that were considered watermarks for different takes on metal that pushed the envelope in terms of heavy distortion and brutality.

BlackoutRick said:

how is cryptopsy heavier than every other death metal band?

Crowbar too

2 WORDS....WRETCHED ASYLUM nuff said

Cryptopsy has devastating riffs.. yay

wicked wisdom is the heaviest band alive period.

Devourment is not the heaviest band that ever lived, they are a 6th generation death metal band that does the same thing 21,000 other death metal bands do, and they're not even faster or more brutal than many others in their field (assuming that is yoru criteria for considering them the heaviest).

Even though they might sound slower and not appeal to the ADD of the death metal newb of today, Slowly We Rot and Realm of Chaos were a lot fucking heavier death metal albums. A lot.

Sabbath is still the heaviest band ever, for when they first came out. Nowadays, Electric Wizard. Maybe some of the Boris records.

all hail sabbath.

AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED SUBLIME CADAVERIC DECOMPOSTION SEXCREMENT

Hehehe, Sublime was pretty brutal.

not going with superlatives here, but Jesu is pretty goddamn heavy.

i'm gonna go with either 100 Demons or Full Blown Chaos...those dudes are HUUUUUUGE

your right they are HUGE

Eternal Suffering

the big boys. R.I.P.biscuit

Buried at sea

Meshuggah

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

I don't think Devourment is the heaviest. I also don't think they do the same thing that 21,000 other death metal bands do.

I'd say my personal criteria for heaviness would have to be crushing brutal breakdowns maybe with some disgusting guttural vocals. It's all about the groove nigga'. The hell with speed.

Fair enough.

I guess when I think of heavy I just think of music that is both disturbing and depressing. The first time I heard Electric Wizard or Saint Vitus I wanted to hang myself it was that oppressive and depressing. The first time I heard Devourment I thought "oh, it's another guttural death metal band". Yeah, they mix it a little different than other bands but musically they are doing the same thing. It's not that I think they are bad, I just don't think they are heavy considering what's out there already.

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

Pig Champion was over 400 lbs, Jerry was over 300 lbs, TSH was over 300 lbs, I say the crown DEFINITELY goes to Poison Idea.

Disembowelment is depraved like that. they make my flesh want to decay.

I saw g.g.

oh yea goratory, mucopus, pantera, slayers diabolous cd, cephalic carnages exploiting cd it had some shit that made me want to stomp on baby heads in front of their parents, dying fetus had some stuf that made me feel stupid because it was so heavy

buried at sea/boris

Pyrexia and Death

Euronymoustache said:

Eye agree, great band!!!

Elvis

Wasn't that band Mammoth heavier than Crowbar, literally?

Poison Idea beats them all. Homeboy wasn't called Pig Champion for nothing.

wasteform

MESHUGGAH
CROWBAR
COMMIT SUICIDE
WORMED
MALIGNANCY

sunn 0)) sucks

No they don't. But they're not the heaviest band.

napalm death

napalm death

Is this a matter of combined wieght? Cuz I think Don Decker alone takes the cake. Literally.

a possible song title up fer grabs..............."my girlfriend outweighs crowbar".

meat loaf.i saw him faint on stage.an amulance took him away.

suicide commando devourment and gorgoroth its a 3 way tie

Anaal Nathrakh is crushingly heavy. first time i heard "Pandemonic Hyperblast" i was scared. Everything they put out is heavy as fuck. Molesting the Decapitated was crushing too. i Think Effigy of the Forgotten is one of the heaviest albums ever. its wicked brutal now and back when it first came out, there was nothing pretty much like it. it must have been TOO brutal to listen to then.

no no wumpscut (circa bunkertor 7/embryodead)

Sorry.I just remembered,I went to take a leak right after Meat Loaf went on.The bathroom was next to the stage. When I finished peeing he was lying flat on his back on stage.I was probably high on weed.