Heaviest Bands around?

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  • fall by the wayside
    fall by the wayside Jericho, VT Posts: 759
    intodeep wrote:
    I love those guys. Fate of Norns is such and awesome album.

    Opeth is pretty awesome too if the OP likes prog metal.

    Blackwater Park & Still Life are my favs \m/

    Fate of Norns is awesome, my fave is Vs. The World. Opeth rocks pretty hard too \m/
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    jammerfall wrote:
    I've never heard the music of Goblin Cock, but that is a freakin' hysterical name for a band!

    They may be old school, but I'll add Slayer to the list.

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  • mightyquinn98
    mightyquinn98 Posts: 7
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Not ragging on your favourite bands but they aren't even the heaviest of their kind of bands. Not even close to the heaviest around.

    Try this for an entry into some really heavy music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVifUqwui7A :)

    hey,no prob....wasn't throwing it out there that these bands were the"heaviest" out there, just going by what our friend the threadstarter had given us as his idea of what he thought "heavy" was, i simply offered up some bands i thought he might like. I know there are many other bands out there that occupy the same genres as the Funeral For A Friends, etc. that crush them as far as " heaviness" goes, but judging by what he listed, and as my post stated, the shit i threw out there was what i thought would be a good "starting point" nothing more, nothing less. Trying to help a guy find new music was what i posted for, not for The Gods Of Heavy to shit on my taste in music....
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    mightyquinn98 wrote:
    hey,no prob....wasn't throwing it out there that these bands were the"heaviest" out there, just going by what our friend the threadstarter had given us as his idea of what he thought "heavy" was, i simply offered up some bands i thought he might like. I know there are many other bands out there that occupy the same genres as the Funeral For A Friends, etc. that crush them as far as " heaviness" goes, but judging by what he listed, and as my post stated, the shit i threw out there was what i thought would be a good "starting point" nothing more, nothing less. Trying to help a guy find new music was what i posted for, not for The Gods Of Heavy to shit on my taste in music....
    whoa there, I wasn't shitting on your taste in music at all :) I thought I made that clear. It's just that the point of the thread was kind of specific and some people were deviating from it a wee bit. I have no claims to know who the BEST metal bands are, it's not really my genre but I know who some of the heaviest are. No shitting on your tastes intended, honest :)
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  • reznors edge
    reznors edge Posts: 136
    I strongly recommend Meshuggah. Unlike a lot of the other "heavy" bands, you won't feel like your IQ is dropping as much with these guys. A lot of cool themes in their music... but the vocals are very hard to get into at first. Vocals are annoyingly similar to many death metal acts, unfortunately.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    reznor's edge wrote:
    I strongly recommend Mesguggah. Unlike a lot of the other "heavy" bands, you won't feel like your IQ is dropping as much with these guys. A lot of cool themes in their music... but the vocals are very hard to get into at first. Vocals are annoyingly similar to many death metal acts, unfortunately.
    I think Meshuggah's vocals are easier to appreciate than typical death growls. They tend to be more comprehensible and actually add to the music. The sole reason that I prefer black metal like Burzum and Emperor to death metal is that death growls tend to border on the unlistenable in some instances.
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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    intodeep wrote:
    I love those guys. Fate of Norns is such and awesome album.

    Opeth is pretty awesome too if the OP likes prog metal.

    Blackwater Park & Still Life are my favs \m/

    Opeth is one of my favorite bands. Good call. Great prog metal. Mikael does some great singing as well as growling, and the musicianship is amazing.
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  • CanadianEH
    CanadianEH Posts: 134
    Haven't been around for a few days and I come back to this? Awesome! Thanks. Keep it coming!
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  • illfated
    illfated Posts: 65
    To this day I still think Ministry is so hard and heavy. Man I'm gonna miss this band.

    Thanks Uncle Al for all these years.
  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
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  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    the heaviest bands i listen to and enjoy are

    mastodon
    soulfly
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  • redsdisease
    redsdisease Posts: 147
    Municipal Waste and Lamb of God are two of my favorite current metal bands. They aren't the heaviest, but they are excellent at thrashing. Napalm Death are pretty fun to listen to as well, they're more on the hardcore side of things.

    In terms of "heaviness," I would try some good old Melvins, they're still heavy as fuck. Any other doom metal band should just about do it for heaviness.

    Also, I'm gonna' be a pretentious asshole and ask you to stop listening to Disturbed. It's for your own good.
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  • Azwethinkweiz
    Azwethinkweiz Posts: 547
    Neurosis
  • ScotInAmsterdam
    ScotInAmsterdam Posts: 1,004
    It depends what you mean by heavy. Most of the bands that are being given as answers are "metal type heavy" which I think was the answer that threadstarter was looking for, but I always think that heavy is also to do with how non linear the music is. Metal heavy tends to be heavy accross the board, very little surprises, so quite "easy" to listen to, becuase there's a fairly established beat to it.

    I always felt that Mars Volta were a band I would consider heavy becuase they can be pretty hard or challenging to the brain. I think heavy can also be a lot to do with the environment that the music creates, so I would consider Joy Division to be pretty heavy music, as it's heavy on the heart.

    So the questions would be heavy on the heart, heavy on the ears or heavy on the brain. I see heavy on the ears as the least challenging musically.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Heaveist?

    easy...

    Cannibal Corpse, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed

    good stuff :cool:
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    Heaveist?

    easy...

    Cannibal Corpse, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed

    good stuff :cool:
    Cannibal Corpse aren't even that heavy, they're just shite :D

    Pig Destroyer on the other hand...
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  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    The Fat Boys!!
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  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,185
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4135380.stm :cool:
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  • Ricsard
    Ricsard Posts: 1,943
    The Hives :D I love them
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  • Jennytree
    Jennytree Posts: 5,340
    another +1 for Amon Amarth! I loooove them! You should also give Dethklok a listen ;)
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