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I have and do still occasionally listen to much heavier music but... Nirvana - You Know You're Right, maybe with SlipKnot - Left Behind as an honorable mention
Both are EMOTIONALLY heavy for me. I don't know about heavy musically, but defo soul-crushing songs.
Baby Shark makes every parent/ teacher/ care taker’s heart sink to the depths death metal could only dream of
It's also been weaponized, which as far as I'm aware isn't something that death metal has ever been used for.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/us/baby-shark-florida-homeless-prevention-park-trnd/index.html
The FBI and ATF used pop music, Christmas carols, and some rock blasted into the Branch Davidian compound (David Korech's cult in Waco, TX) back in the 90s.
Metal is frequently used in Guantanomo Bay, to my knowledge.
Yikes. West palm beach douchiness is next level
A bit of a tangent, but I just saw Meshuggah this week and they are by far the heaviest band I’ve seen live (so far) in terms of sound. And Cannibal Corpse was with them on tour mind you. No other metal band (of the ones I’ve seen live) compares, and I had the stankest of stank face the entire show. I think the second heaviest live that I experienced was Tesseract.
Broooo pretty with you there. When I saw them they played Dancers to a Discordant System and the walls frickn shook... And so thusly was I.
I guess I'm not very original, but Meshuggah just beats everything else for me lately, Future Breed Machine or pretty much the entirety of ObZen (though Bleed is overrated and possibly the worst song on the album apart from Pravus), I think it's something about how the vocals interact with the riffing, though I'm not sure this is exactly the kind of heaviness you mean...
Otherwise maybe check out Flood by Boris, that has some massive riffs (Flood III is where the shit goes down if you don't feel like listening to the whole thing)
Tiptoe through the tulips by Tiny Tim.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA
Not because the song hit heavy or hard per se, but his massive balls to perform this in public create a gravity well that pulls asteroids towards earth.
You know, it isn't where I was expecting this to go, but you aren't wrong.
Intensive Battery Brooding by Carcass
Check out this 12tone video which tries to analyze what makes something "heavy". tl;dr: sonic transgression https://youtu.be/b0mo17wLB4Q
That was a great video. I don't know that I 100% agree with the simplified conclusion, especially as I don't think heavy is always inherently at odds with "pop," (just look at bands like Limp Bizkit; they certainly aren't the heaviest band around I'd argue they're almost equally as heavy as they are pop), but it was a tremendous exploration regardless and I think I probably still agree like 90% anyway. I'd watched a few 12tone videos before, but one specific songs (Sympathy for the Devil, The Middle, Free Fallin'), but this was a better video than those were, imo.
I'm partial to Black Sabbath's Into The Void.
Classic.
Can't go wrong with Cannibal Corpse, although I'm more a Barnes guy overall I think (I just saw Six Feet Under live a few months ago and honestly Barnes sounded awesome, better than he has in awhile)
Primitive Man anyone?
Heaviest live show I've ever witnessed
I am absolutely gutted that I missed my one chance to see them live, it wasn't my own doing, but that would've been such a amazing experience
Such a tough question because I want to shout out songs across multiple subgenres. Death Grips - No Love, Primus - Frizzle Fry (especially the ending), Quo Vadis - Silence Calls the Storms, Rage Against the Machine - Settle for Nothing, Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose, Denzel Curry - Ultra (feat Yung Kane , Nell , Slikk , Rell), Vivaldi's Summer 3rd Movement and half of the Acid Bath or Ulcerate catalog. If I have to settle for one song though I think I would go for :
Ahab - Old Thunder
However, if I can choose a particular snipet of a song that I think is the heaviest thing I have ever heard period, I would go for Akercocke - Leviathan, between the marks of 3:30 and 4:00. I was legit scared first time I heard that. You gotta listen to it from the beggining though because that build up is insane.
Abab - Old Thunder; what a mood they created. Crushing. Drums are well tuned and that guitar tone is sooo distorted. Super Duper Heavy.
Akercocke are an interesting choice. I look fwd to listening to more of their efforts.
Akercocke - Leviathan ... because that build up is insane.
Yo, what a fucking banger of a track! You weren't kidding about the build up, insane and super effective, and then like you said borderline scary when those huge uncleans hit. And I love how a section in the guitar reminds me a little bit of like an NES game warning alert sound during that part. Very sick.
Ahab - Old Thunder
Yeah, that's fucking heavy. Great pick.
Glad you liked it ! I think this band is a little bit of a hidden gem. Their albums "The Goat of Mendes", "Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone" and "Antichrist" are really worth checking out.
Blacklist by Exodus. Specifically their live at Hellfest 2008 version
That was fun, I like when it's clear the band is having a good time too
Listened to Seven Sorcerers. Yep, that's heavy, great pick.
Love that little band. Just had to spread it.
I'ma throw my hat into the ring with Undergang. Danish Death. The guitar tones are disgustingly creepy and the feel of the tracks is heavy as. Start with 'Tvangstanker'.
It's hard to pick just one. Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis is absolutely a contender. Here are a few more that stand out for me:
Primitive Man - Victim (NSFW)
Katharsis - Wytchdance (the riff starting at 3:57, relentless and hypnotic. This band always made me think of Destruction but much darker)
Necrophagia - Dead Skin Slave (a little cheesy but the rhythm changes in the second half go hard)
Spawn of Possession - A Presence Inexplicable (the slowdown in the breakdown then gradual tempo increase, chef's kiss)
I hoped so much that was going to be what that link sent me to. A true metal legend, making fuck for 30+ years now
I like bass and listen to a lot of metal so. It’s all pretty heavy lol
But I’m gonna throw in the pipe organ. The biggest, loudest, most badass instrument that fills entire cathedrals and sub bass that shakes your house. Your sound system needs to be able to produce that though.
A candidate that comes to my mind right now: Laibach - Smrt za smrt (Death for death)
However, IMO much of the heaviness is based on the fact that the "singer" is reading a description of some sort of war crimes, in Slovenian D:
I don't know if they are the heaviest but there are two songs I keep coming back to. The first is Thrust! by White Zombie for its groove and the other is Hail Mary by Testament for pulling off heavy at a time when metal was still largely played on 9 gauged six strings tuned to e standard and no concept of bass in the mix.
Torche - Barrier Hammer is a nice contender: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qnQ4uSGgLPw
personally for me, https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=53ulHedroTk
Sewerslvt (aka Cynthoni)'s "final" album was made so she could cope with her girlfriend's suicide. There's a music video for the last song
Damn, might win for heaviest in terms of emotional weight and topic, at least. Long song, but cool listen. Probably not something I'll revisit often, but definitely an experience and you can really feel the loss in the track.