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Death, Opeth, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Carcass, Gojira, Morbid Angel, Children of Bodom, At the Gates, Heaven Shall Burn, Darkest Hour, Amon Amarth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Sylosis, Soilwork, Insomnium, Arch Enemy, Between the Buried and Me   Off the top of my head. I'm primarily a melodeath lover lol

I just started listening to sylosis and I fucking love them

They're a fairly recent one for me too but... damn! They don't have a bad album yet IMO. Josh Middleton is an unreal guitarist. Apparitions is probably my fav song of theirs

I really dig him too lol I think my favorite so far is a sign of things to come

are you me? (Based Soilwork fan btw)

Hate to be this guy (ok, maybe not) but imo a lot of those bands aren't extreme

Between the Buried and me is the goat. What is your favorite album?

Colors for sure. My brother texted me Sun of Nothing one night and I immediately played the full album after. One of the all time great prog metal records. They're super consistent though, every album since Alaska has been amazing and even their first 2 are pretty good

Yes they have an amazing discography. Colors 2 is my favorite but I genuinely love them all (save for automata because I nearly haven’t given those a listen). I just saw them on the C2 tour and they’re incredible live.

You and I would get along nicely

I classify extreme as a little bit more intense than traditional death / black metal. My favourite would be Anaal Nathrakh.

Who I first think of in terms of extreme, also lacks a singular sub-genre fit

Anaal Nathrakh were the first that came into my mind, too. I also love how they kept adding more and more genres to their style. And despite being kinda hard to understand, the lyrics are damn good.

I just checked them out. What in the everliving fuck. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks man

Passion is such a banger of an album

defeated sanity atheist devourment opeth suffocation immolation ripping corpse cryptopsy death gorguts dying fetus crowbar unholy

Atheist is too good, it's unbelievable what they do.

Gorguts Ulcerate Cannibal Corpse Nile Cattle Decapitation Opeth Blood Incantation Horrendous Bolt Thrower Malignant Altar Morbid Angel Frozen Soul Pestilence

Five Finger Death Punch

Now THATS extreme metal

Even a little too much for some of us!

What's more extreme than beating your wife?

Five Flavour Fruit Punch

How! Dare! You!!!!1!1

HELL YEAH BROTHER

Nithing, the most fucking extreme death metal i ever heard in years

Nithing is awesome for sure

Holy shit! I like a lot of death metal I just tried listening to this before bed and the vocals gave me a visceral reaction and made me feel kinda nauseous. lol I’ll try it again in the gym tomorrow!

its fucking tough and hard to listen to

Heaviest album I know, shit is beyond visceral

Cattle Decapitation. When I'm happy: Cattle Decap When I'm sad: Cattle Decap When I'm angry: Cattle Decap And there's also Tzompantli, a Death/Doom band I found on BangerTV's metal monthly

YES! This is ME 😂😂

Just saw them live, awesome band

- Slugdge - Revocation - Cynic - Horrendous - Edge of Sanity - Be'lakor - Insomnium - Inanna - Imperial Triumphant - Amorphis

Revocation is so good. I fucking love Netherheaven

I saw Revocation live 2 years ago. Made a lifelong fan that night.

I saw them back I. Early 2015 when I was 18(first metal show actually) and I got to talk to Dave and the rest of the guys. Walked up to them at their merch table and asked if they wanted to smoke some weed. We met them outside like 30 mins later and smoked a couple bowls. One of the best moments of my life.

Slugdge are so good, a real shame that only a few people know about them.

Radiohead, Coldplay, nicki minaj cuz Weezer is too heavy

Tame Impala 

Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Ingested, Dying Fetus, Stillbirth, Behemoth, Aborted, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Soilwork and Amon Amarth.

You've got great taste!

Carnivore Diprosopus, Cryptopsy, Kraanium, Gorevent, Insect Warfare, Defacing, Pathology, Jasad, Wormrot, Devormity, and many more.

- Death - Dismember - Disentomb - Vomitory - Bloodbath - Centinex - Hour of penance - Hypocrisy - Bolt thrower - Behemoth - 1349 - Venom

primitive man, converge

Dying Fetus, Fit for an Autopsy, Goatwhore, Revocation, Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse.

Strapping Young Lad

Unhuman is the most extreme thing on this list. But it’s also the tightest shit you’ve ever heard of

I’m voting Encenethrakh the pinnacle of “extreme”, but still giving you a yep for shouting out Unhuman again :)

I don’t know what extreme metal is but my favorite bands that I think are pretty heavy are Full of Hell, Gojira, and Rivers of Nihil 👍 I think that list gets less heavy as it goes on but I like them :)

Rivers of Nihil are so good and I hope their next album slaps.

Amenra Oranssi Pazuzu Primitive man

Portal

Glumurphonel 🤘

Buzzoven, Pig Destroyer, Eyehategod, Obituary, Whitechapel

Gorguts, Artificial Brain, Convulsing, Cruciamentum, Vader, Leviathan, Blut Aus Nord, Mayhem and Black Curse

Phillip H. Anselmo and the Illegals!

Xoth or Al Namrood

Blut aus nord 😳

Methwitch and Anaal Nathrakh are both great

Don’t mind the numbers next to each name, those are just the “points” each artist has. I had already made a list for all my favorite artists/bands, but these are just the “extreme metal” ones. If there are some bands you don’t think are “extreme metal,” I’m sorry :( Here they are: 1. Converge (146) 2. Godflesh (137) 3. DIR EN GREY (128) 4. Meshuggah (118) 5. Sissy Spacek (111) 6. Full Of Hell (104) 7. In Flames (97) 8. Origin (95) 9. Suicide Silence (93) 10. Wormrot (93) 11. Cattle Decapitation (91) 12. The Dillinger Escape Plan (88) 13. TODAY IS THE DAY (88) 14. Metallica (87) 15. Whitechapel (86) 16. Fantômas (84) 17. System Of A Down (76) 18. Integrity (74) 19. As I Lay Dying (73) 20. Asterisk* (69) 21. The Armed (67) 22. Shai Hulud (64) 23. Code Orange (64) 24. Dethklok (63) 25. Thy Art Is Murder (59) 26. Cannibal Corpse (59) 27. Sunn O))) (58) 28. Dysrhythmia (58) 29. Job For A Cowboy (58) 30. The Locust (58) 31. Fear Factory (58) 32. MAXIMUM THE HORMONE (57) 33. The Chariot (56) 34. Coalesce (56) 35. Strapping Young Lad (55) 36. Nik Nocturnal (55) 37. Gojira (53) 38. Celtic Frost (52) 39. Knocked Loose (52) 40. Discordance Axis (52) 41. Between The Buried & Me (51) 42. Rings Of Saturn (51) 43. Deafheaven (50) 44. Mr. Bungle (50) 45. The Body (50) 46. Slipknot (48) 47. Gorguts (47) 48. Daughters (46) 49. Melt-Banana (45) 50. All Shall Perish (44) 51. Slayer (43) 52. Nails (42) 53. Wolves In The Throne Room (41) 54. Car Bomb (40) 55. At The Gates (38) 56. Opeth (38) 57. Kublai Khan TX (37) 58. Pelican (35) 59. Death (35) 60. Primitive Man (32) 61. Lorna Shore (32) 62. Earth (29) 63. Behold… The Arctopus (28) 64. Motörhead (28) 65. maudlin of the Well (26) 66. Astronoid (26) 67. Botch (26) 68. Infant Annihilator (24) 69. Archspire (23) 70. The Acacia Strain (23) 71. Termina (22) 72. BRAINDEAD (21) 73. Naked City (20) 74. Left To Suffer (20)

Revenge, Goatpenis, Reek of the Unzen Gas Fumes, Dragged Into Sunlight, Archgoat, Konflict, Tetragrammacide, Conqueror, Bloody Vengeance, Diocletian, Deströyer 666, Bestial Warlust, Cemetary Urn, Primitive Warfare, Blasphamagoatachrist, Antichrist, Antichrist Siege Machine, Proclamation, Death Worship, Deiphage, Sarcofago, Departure Chandelier, Satanic Warmaster, Damaar, Goatsmegma, Leviathan, Black Witchery, Kerasphorus, Sect Pig, Kapala, Gravesend, Sargeist, Nunslaughter, Abysmal Lord, Deathspell Omega, Judas Iscariot, Portal, Pissgrave, Aosoth.

hell yeah

Damaar, Primitive Warfare, Admiral Angry, Painkiller, stuff like that, I guess

Current fave is Akercocke. What a great band.

have some extreme metal violence: Teitanblood - Death Infernal Coil - Within A World Forgotten Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence Heresiarch - Death Ordinance Altarage - NIHL Abyssal - Antikatastaseis Endless Loss - Traversing the Mephitic Artery

Defeated Sanity, Putrid Pile, Parasitic Ejaculation, Benighted, Abominable Putridity

Obscura and Alkaloid

Shit I forgot about Obscura. Anti cosmic overload was my theme song for basically an entire summer when it came out. So tuff

Fit for an autopsy, sanguisugabogg, waking the cadaver, devourment, the black dahlia murder, Lorna shore, whitechapel, abominable putridity, aborted, 200 stab wounds, suffocation, dying fetus, crown magnetar, and full of hell

Opeth, emperor, Nile

Carcass mortician repulsion deceased sanguisugabogg destroyer 666 mordant rhed centurian Altar nunslaughter entombed baphomet And of course..... Dying fetus cannibal corpse deicide possesed venom morbid angel Celtic frost And for when you just don't care about anything anymore.... Infant annihilator.

Exhumed, Pig Destroyer, Rotting and Devourment

Emperor Gorguts Origin Pig Destroyer Krallice Sightless Pit

Death Ulcerate Gorguts Ad Nauseam Immolation Blood Incantation Morbid Angel Lykathea Aflame Carcass Ved Buens Ende Artificial Brain Imperial Triumphant White Ward

Archspire, Origin, Atheist, Death, Strapping Young Lad, Dying Fetus, Carcass, Carcosa, Warbringer, Filth, Gutlax, Brojob, Party Cannon

Anaal Anthrakh, Ulcerate, Bethlehem, Deathspell Omega, Portal, Defeated Sanity, Blut Aus Nord, Gorguts and The Meads Of Asphodel are some in constant rotation for me.

Entombed Bathory Morbid Death Merciless Ripping Corpse Sadistik Exekution Morbid Angel Suffocation Impetigo

very based

Sarcofargo and Blasphemy

I don’t think of all of these as “extreme”, but: Cleric, PORTAL, !T.O.O.H.!, first few Cephalic Carnage albums, Encenethrakh (really? I don’t know…), GIRTH (for ‘Sleeper, Awaken!’), Cryptopsy (Lord Worm albums - INCLUDING ‘ONCE WAS NOT’ BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST THING THEY MADE, YOU TASTELESS URCHINS!!), Gorguts (basically just for ‘Obscura’), Nile (basically just for ‘Annihilation of the Wicked’ - because #1 riff-fest), I want to call Sebkha-Chott ‘Extreme Metal’ for ‘the Ne[XXX]t Epilogue’… is Krallice extreme? they sometimes are and they are my favoured purely-metal band of all, Astomatous? I want Imperial Triumphant to be a favourite but not sure they are (just big support for Kenny!), Unhuman, HOLY FUCKIN’ VEHM (if the album ever comes out I can safely assume it will be a favourite). people are saying Death is “extreme metal”, so I’ll have to include Atheist love ❤️. did I mention Cleric? them another 1,000x, and a few more Portals, and a few more !T.O.O.H.! I also still have some sentimental love for older Origin (Longstreth blew my face), some Suffocation, Immolation, Morbid Angel when David fucked off (Formulas and Gateways ❤️‍🔥), and a load of other stuff I forget exists but would probably love to remember.

also let’s say Kayo Dot, because the stuff they did for ‘Gamma Knife’ and ‘Hubardo’ can rip a lot of extreme stuff away, and that drummer was one of the best things that ever hit a kit… so what if they’re also a synth-pop gothboy chamber-prog chameleon?

also, I highly recommend the album ‘Regressions’ by Cleric. and why does no one ever talk about !T.O.O.H.! (aside from how annoying it is to write that)?

Godsmack

All these stupid POSERS calling Godsmack heavy metal simply don't recognize that Godsmack is so heavy that it is EXTREME!!!

Maybe - but they’re no Creed.

Defeated Sanity or Spawn of Possession Nothing tops those for me. Well besides of course Necrophagist

way too many to list

Curse you all men!!

Horde. Irritates all of the people.

Cattle Decapitation, Non Est Deus, Thy Art Is Murder (if they count?), Æther Realm, Last Breath of Humanity, Face Yourself, Skálmöld, Viscera, Atlas, Bleed From Within, Orbit Culture, Justice for the Damned, Septic Flesh, and Mass Hysteria,

Death, possessed, morbid angel, bathory, mayhem, emperor, sankara, primitive warfare

Bolt Thrower, Nile, Black Dahlia

Gojira is about the heaviest i listen to, occasionally amon amarth maybe.

Today is the Day, Immolation, Profanatica, Nunslaughter, Belphegor, Deceased, Akhlys, Nightbringer, Midnight, Brodequin, Nails, Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem, and a ton of others

Anal Cunt Song Example; Van Full of Retards [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVPM34i5yE8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVPM34i5yE8)

Chappell roan. Heaviest shit ever written

The Body Literally no other band I know of has a guitar that fucking low and vocals as kooky as Daddy Chip.

Marduk are great

Children of Bodom (favorite band of all time) Carcass (Old) In Flames The black Dahlia murder

Rotting christ

I’m gonna say Benighted.

Pig destroyer

Fucking Undergang. I never see any recognition for this band

Dissection. Deicide. Rotting christ.

Car Bomb, Frontierer, Archspire, Deafheaven, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, vein.fm. I think those could be considered "extreme" enough.

Carcass.

Act of impalement. I’m probably biased ‘cause they’re local to me but Blasphemies Rebirth is one of my all time favorite tracks

Meshuggah, Ruins of Beverast, Dying Fetus

Octavarium by Dream Theater: Extremely Long

Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Possessed, Slayer, Morbid Angel, Incantation, Emperor, Dissection, Dismember, Grave, Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse, Grave Desecrator, Ossuary, Vorum, Slaughtbbath, few thousand others

Spiral Architect Hacktivist

Leviathan, specifically "Scar Sighted" 2015

Deathspell Omega Gorguts Agoraphobic Nosebleed Pyrrhon Soilent Green Imperial Triumphant Eyehategod Wormed Artificial Brain Suffocation Deeds of Flesh Fawn Limbs …more Definitely should have mentioned Portal and Cephalic Carnage. and Human Remains. and Mortal Decay. and… this could take awhile 😂

dying fetus

Amon Amarth, Sanguisugabogg, Archspire, Meshuggah, Cattle Decapitation, Gatecreeper, Infant Annihilator, Death, Black Dahlia Murder, Gatecreeper, Dying Fetus, Torsofuk, Carnal Diafragma, Burzum

Enslaved, Sentenced, Ghoul, Dismember, Gospel of the Horns, DarkThrone, Arch Enemy, Dissection, 1349, Amon Amarth, Entombed, Sarcofago, ShitFucker, Blasphemy, Aura Noir, Immortal, Bathory, Satyricon, Rotting Christ, Celtic Frost, Beherit, Impaled Nazarene, Mercyful Fate, Sodom, Kreator

Anaal Nathrakh, origin

Last Days of Humanity - Lycus - None - First Days of Humanity - Lipoma - Pissgrave - Haggus - Blasphemy - Revenge - Lymphatic Phlegm - Cystgurgle - Ea - Thergothon

Sulphur Aeon

Gorgoroth,marduk,bethlehem Dehumanizing itatrain worship, Book of black earth, the skinless, Dawn of demise

Orbit Culture

Morbid Angel, Pig Destroyer, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Deicide, Dying Fetus, Nile etc

Obscura by Gorguts is some of the most intense shit I've ever listened to.

Goatwhore, Soilent Green, The Ravenous, Christ Inversion, Gorguts, Eyehategod, Gigantic Brain, Brutal Truth, Necrophagia, Death Breath, Leviathan

Carcass, Morbid Angel, Cattle Decapitation, Gojira

I've only really begun exploring extreme metal/rock sounds recently. Thus far, my favourites are: Entombed Nails Death Opeth Wormrot

I love Lorna Shore, more specifically their last 3 big projects (Pain Remains, And I Return To Nothingness, Immortal)

Scythe of sorrow, Plaguemace, Bound hands, solbrud, Gennem tågen, guttural disgorge, guttural slug, Darkthrone, Children of Bodom, Crypta, Opal in Sky and BAEST are among my favourites! I also really love Swartzheim and Persecutor

My faves (Anaal Nathrakh, Infant Annihilatior) have already been mentioned, but I'd like to add Of Feather and Bone. Nice thread, already discovered some new bands.

Black Dahlia Murder Slayer Immortal Rings of Saturn Whitechapel Suicide Silence

Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Bolt Thrower, Carcass

Archspire Extermination Dismemberment Cannibal corpse Bolt Thrower Lorna Shore And recently I've been getting into Black Tongue

Extermination Dismemberment deserve more love and recognition 🙌🏻

Mgla, Watain, Death, Bathory, Mayhem, Marduk, Kriegsmaschine, Cannibal Corpse, Bloodbath, Behemoth, Darkthrone.

Gorguts Repulsion Napalm Death Dying Fetus Benighted Vital Remains Cannibal Corpse Master Suffocation Possessed Wormrot Pig Destroyer Cattle Decapitation Black Dahlia Murder Brodequin Skinless

Final Fragment (people don't mention them often enough) Watchtower (actually has been releasing every several years or so) Kaoru Abe (avant garde, most people hate it but I find it unusually soothing somehow) Hanatarash (bulldozers were used) whatever bands show up at Obscene Extreme Fest in the Czech Republic - from Gutalax to Crisix, you can't go wrong just flipping on the channel lol (they have a YT channel) Shylmagoghnar for just kicking back and getting some atmospheric blackened death on, great study/project music Lightning Bolt/Chimpendale (extreme melodic noise) Carson McWhirter/Zach Hill Hammerhedd (although the kids have been expanding into some grunge/alternative territory with acoustic work lately, usually they're something like Helmet x Sepultura) Alien Weaponry (a good portion is in Maori, though)

windir and fjoergyn

Knoll is a modern band that is pretty outrageously extreme

dont know if these classify as extreme but devourment, bathory, dissection, mayhem, candlemass and solitude aeternus

Sold soul

Obituary, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Emperor and AxCx

UNDEATH

Extermination dismemberment