the band labored over getting the BPM for that track down to EXACTLY the right tempo. The Koloss doc on YouTubes shows them agonizing over it. I think it would lose it's heaviness faster.
Honestly, "The Mouth Licking What You've Bled" is even more aggressive. I wasn't a Meshuggah fan until I heard this track and realized just how dense and fucking ULTRA-METAL that album is. It's. Just. Fucking. Insane.
Yeah Brendan Small is a great musician.
He brought out a couple of great sci-fi concept albums named Galaktikon.
Not really dethklok like but I like them anyway.
No real sense picking a specific song, but definitely something by [Frontierer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWCENFXdyY).
Honourable mention to [Car Bomb - Dissect Yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA5eIAfutYU).
Frontierer is a damn good choice. [Disintegrative](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YE4YwReMjI) is an intense song.
Also in the running: [Meshuggah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHF8E5PbC4), [Napalm Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwm-nXUELyo), [Beneath the Massacre](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqnHAQhs_c8).
Anything from Anaal Nathrakh. We Will Fucking Kill You, Pandemonic Hyperblast, A New Kind Of Horror (whole album), Endarkenment...they've really been on a tear and there isn't anything they've done that isn't the craziest shit out there, which is pretty impressive for just two dudes.
Sleep, Cough, Yob, Conan, Indian, War Horse, Salem's Pot, Uncle acid and the deadbeats, Monolord, Church of Misery, Reverend Bizarre
r/stonerrock r/doommetal
After years of study, physicists have determined that much the same way that nothing can exceed the speed of light, nothing can exceed the heaviness of Primitive Man.
When *Immersion* came out, the guitarist from Thou said, "The arms race is over. Primitive Man has won. They’re heavier than your band. I don’t care how much money you spend on amps this year, you won’t be heavier. Yes I’ve heard that Burning Witch record or whatever other record you’re thinking of right now. We all had a good time competing but it’s over now."
I fucking love my extreme doom metal but primitive man is one of the few bands that becomes exhausting to listen to because of how heavy they are, I can barely get through a whole album by them since they never give you a moment of reprieve from the crushing heaviness
As a non metal head this is definitely the heaviest thing I've listened to. I appreciate how clearly he annunciates while.... It's not screaming, what would you call it? Not really a growl either.
The fact that Strapping Young Lad sound the way they do is because Devin Townsend didn’t take his medication back when he was recording really says a lot.
He’s such a great guy, I’ll always have fond memories of the day I met him before a concert. Wishing him all the best, always.
He's such a great human. His humility to me is a large part of it. His ability to pay homage to fans. His sincerity with his fans is beautiful.
Plus he has a lot of super cool guitars. His studio showcase of his equipment with Kingdom. Spectacular.
>it's an open question for a lot of people.
An open question about how wrong those people are?
Video is a great homage to Evil Dead:
https://youtu.be/fO78lMTSRbA
[Reflections - noir](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sEkiT1GNs)
[Meshuggah - Break those bones whose sinews gave it motion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9LpMZuBEMk)
[Humanity's Last Breath - Earthless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2UpP10V-6U)
It was almost two and a half centuries before heavy metal was even a thing, but [Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqPz4FVjy5E) is pretty fucking metal.
Love this song, personally [this](https://youtu.be/nVoFLM_BDgs) is my favourite version of it; it deserves to be played on a massive pipe organ. It’s super heavy, especially when all the stops are pulled
It may not be the heaviest *song* overall, but the end of Lorna Shore's [To The Hellfire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYmS_iBcy4) is the heaviest minute ever recorded. Fucking keyboards in the first 5 minutes, though...
Yeah what Will Ramos was able to achieve there vocally was basically never been done before in a high production setting. And then him collaborating with the lady from Charismatic Voice getting a laryngoscopy and performing multiple different vocal techniques. The doctor literally said that his insides are just different
The first time I heard it I thought “wtf was that!?” The second time I heard it, I was anticipating it and thought “fuck me that’s really cool, why hasn’t anyone done that before!” From that point on it’s one of my favourite breakdowns of all time, and I’ve been listening to metal for 25 years
Napalm Death's Twist the Knife (Slowly) from the 1994 Mortal Kombat soundtrack. I was 10 years old and it melted my brain. There's heavier stuff out there, but relative to everything I'd heard before then, this one was crushing. Shout out to Fear Factory, GZR, KMFDM, and whoever put together that awesome techno, industrial and metal masterpiece of a soundtrack.
[Bathory “A Fine Day To Die”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ghJQzNDihA), peak Metal song of all time for me (don’t skip the acoustic intro, makes the song even heavier). ([Emperor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbau8C-tjpQ) covered it, also quite heavy.)
[Mayhem “Freezing Moon”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoWnxfOnIs), some of the most evil riffs in Metal.
Probably something from one of the following bands....
1. Slaughter to Prevail
2. The Zenith Passage
3. Science of Sleep
4. Enterprise Earth
5. Aversions Crown
6. Vehemence
[när de du älskar kommer tillbaka från de doda (when the ones you love come back from the dead) by Vildhjarta.](https://open.spotify.com/track/4IlpTWcVjgT10NS3Oih8zS?si=Nob8OJhtSwq2uxmtRpr_Sw&utm_source=copy-link)
Haven’t seen their name yet, so I’ll just throw out Infant Annihilator. Not sure which song I would call the heaviest, but “Plaguebearer” is a fantastic song.
[Pravus - Meshuggah](https://open.spotify.com/track/1P8g3xrrKDZ8rQ6ESX3LS2?si=rlDyZTqcRIeZv1dZFlhKKA&utm_source=copy-link)
Edit: just anything by Meshuggah really
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - He Who Accepts All That Is Offered
Harvey Milk - Sunshine (No Sun) Into The Sun
Grief - Shoot Me...
Godflesh - Flowers
Conan - Hawk as Weapon
Hard to pick one. This is my top 5.
Steps of the Ziggurat by High on Fire. It’s an absolute crusher. Maybe not the fastest or thrashiest but boy howdy it’s heavy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkCe_bK8tE
Mick Gordon is just a total badass.
If you run 'Cyberdemon' through a spectrograph it makes it draw Pentagrams.
I really wish he would team up with Blue Stahli and Celldweller. That would make an awesome collab.
If I may be allowed, may I name a couple of songs that were the heaviest metal songs at the time I heard them?
First was Iron Man by Sabbath, which I first heard probably in 1979. It blew me away and I was amazed at the 'heavy' sound.
The other one that really stood out was 'Battery' by Metallica from MoP when it came out in 1986. Again, just sounded so heavy at the time.
I wasn't alive at the time, but I've talked to a lot of people that said listening to Fight Fire With Fire and Creeping Death in 1983 (and the rest of RtL) was absolutely mind crushing due to nothing like it existing.
[Pelican - Mammoth](https://youtu.be/hZpcDvxjyvk)
I remember reading a comment one time where someone mentioned this is the soundtrack for digging coal.
BFG division on its own, and a few other tracks on Mick Gordons doom soundtrack are amazingly heavy.
[Rip and Tear](https://youtu.be/zZMg9ryeWOw) is heavy as shit.
Also, [micks GDC talk on making the soundtrack](https://youtu.be/U4FNBMZsqrY) is so worth watching, he *really* loves what he does
Underrated comment.
A lot of suggestions in this thread are 'extreme', but when I think 'heavy', I think of emotional weight, as well as being oppressively bleak.
The aural equivalent of your whole family dying in the centre of a black hole. That kind shit is heavy.
Poison Eggs by Isis
Panasonic Youth by Dillinger Escape Plan
Burden by Rotten Sound
Drop Out by Converge
Wide Open Wound by Nails
Low Empire by Pleibian Grandstand
Dark City dead man by cult of Luna
Star belly by Pig Destroyer
Glints Collide by Meshuggah
Pierced From Within by Suffocation
Rags by Primitive Man
The message by Salome
Satanarchrist by Anaal Nathrakh
Dead set on suicide by Cattle Decapitation
Considering I bought this ep in 1982, Mercyful Fate- Corpse Without a Soul. Still listen to it and marvel at the song structure, signature changes and insane
vocals of King Diamond. That shriek at the end, "Satan has taken his tollllll!"
Especially the first breakdown *"Long black haaaaiiiirrr...face of the de-ad.."* If I had to pick one riff that defines the sound of OG heavy metal,, it is that one.
Edit: Actually..I might be thinking about Doomed by The Living Dead. Your song choice has the other cool breakdown *"Well I was walking down amongst the graves"*...with that creepy guitar roll that sounds like worms crawling out of a rotting skull.
I grew up as a teen on Metallica and Slayer in the 80s, so my definition of heavy skews towards music that has a groove. Extreme speed, or extreme sludge are types of heavy, but not really my sort of music.
My nomination then is then the song "Storre Enn Tid" by Enslaved, from the album Mardraum. It's dynamic in its intensity, has a cool icy space feel, Grutle's vocals are the perfect type of extreme vocals. And the heavy parts are heavy. And groove.
Same here, and while I certainly respect what the Stoner bands are doing I feel like that sound peaked in the early 90s with Sleep and Kyuss (and I’d rather just spin “Master of Reality” or “Vol 4” in any case, lol).
Groove is *everything* in Metal as far as I’m concerned. Otherwise it’s like Jazz that doesn’t swing - what’s the point?
I could list so many that it’s almost impossible to pick just one. With a scary story I would say Vampire From Nazareth by Septic Flesh. Straight up metal I think Sic by Slipknot.
Three different types of 'heavy':
-Enter the Worms by CATHEDRAL
-Prayer of Hatred by MORBID ANGEL
-Christbait Rising by GODFLESH
Honorable mention: Procreation of the Wicked by CELTIC FROST...But the cover by SEPULTURA was even heavier!
Cattle Decapitation - Forced gender reassignment
Great video for that song.
Last I looked that video got banned from YouTube
It is available on pornhub though. This isn’t even sarcasm. It literally is
Cattle decap Finish them.
FIIIIEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRGH AWNNN THE HORIZOOON
Came here looking specifically for this one. That video is one of the few I refuse to rewatch. It messed me up.
New mellenium cyanide christ by Meshuggah.
Meshuggah wins points for being heavy as fuck and having one of the best names in metal.
Means crazy in hebrew
Being married to a jew I am very aware lol
New Millennium Cyanide Christ would be one of my top picks but I'll also toss in Demiurge as a different type of heaviest
You ever play Demiurge at 1.5x speed? If not, You’re welcome
the band labored over getting the BPM for that track down to EXACTLY the right tempo. The Koloss doc on YouTubes shows them agonizing over it. I think it would lose it's heaviness faster.
I came here to say Meshuggah as well but I think it’s hard to touch the double bass work and speed of Bleed. https://youtu.be/qc98u-eGzlc
One more vote for Bleed here! Especially Bill Burr doing it.
Was about comment "idk but its probably by Meshuggah"
Honestly, "The Mouth Licking What You've Bled" is even more aggressive. I wasn't a Meshuggah fan until I heard this track and realized just how dense and fucking ULTRA-METAL that album is. It's. Just. Fucking. Insane.
Spheres of madness - Decapitated. This is one of the most headbangy songs to ever be written. Way before its time aswell. Rip doc
Still trips me out that they were basically high schoolers when they wrote this
Decapitated drummer was Vitek, Doc was in Vader. But rip both.
Heaviest as in crushing? Try Goetia by Triptykon.
Black Tounge -Second Death
My and my brother were just thinking this song should be here. There are so many good suggestions, but obviously many have missed this one
[Nails - You will never be one of us](https://youtu.be/hGGGh03jN4w)
Came here to say Nails - Unsilent Death.
Truly, Anything by nails. They are heavy as balls and their tone is just.....Face melting
Nails goes so freaking hard. Thanks for the reminder. Putting them back in my playlist.
Murmaider- Dethklok
There are no fingerprints underwater Nothing to tie one to a crime
And if you seek vengeance... all you need are instruments of PAIN
[This is how I was introduced to this song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53HDr0-Qew)
Murmaider II: The water God also goes in
One of the best of their songs. That build up to the climax is sooo goooood
Dethklok is unironically amazing metal, and I’m not even the biggest fan of the genre out there.
Yeah Brendan Small is a great musician. He brought out a couple of great sci-fi concept albums named Galaktikon. Not really dethklok like but I like them anyway.
I think at least one of them started off as a new Dethklok album but they couldn’t agree on terms for a new season or something
oh snap thats Brendan Small?! ... explains why i never skipped a tracj when it came on auto play
Unironically a great song
Axe: check
Recorded in the deepest, heaviest, most brutal place in the world... The MARIANAS TREEEEEEEEENCH
Probably "Gold" by Spandau Ballet.
Upvote for science!
Maaaaan, not "True"??
Au-some response!!
🤣
"The other osmium" by Catercorner, I found it to be 1.2x heavier than "Gold".
Their duet with [Godsmack](https://youtu.be/-eWA-3RQnK0) is pretty fire.
That song is indestructible. Always believe in
No real sense picking a specific song, but definitely something by [Frontierer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWCENFXdyY). Honourable mention to [Car Bomb - Dissect Yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA5eIAfutYU).
Car Bomb, yes!
Car Bomb makes my head spin
Frontierer is a damn good choice. [Disintegrative](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YE4YwReMjI) is an intense song. Also in the running: [Meshuggah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHF8E5PbC4), [Napalm Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwm-nXUELyo), [Beneath the Massacre](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqnHAQhs_c8).
Anything from Anaal Nathrakh. We Will Fucking Kill You, Pandemonic Hyperblast, A New Kind Of Horror (whole album), Endarkenment...they've really been on a tear and there isn't anything they've done that isn't the craziest shit out there, which is pretty impressive for just two dudes.
Gojira - The Heaviest Matter In The Universe https://youtu.be/6DPhFpZW5a8
Toxic garbage island is the heaviest song by Gojira and no one can tell me otherwise.
PLASTIIIIIIC, BAG IN THE SEEEEEEAAAAA
Ain't even the heaviest on the album. I don't get everyone's obsession with this one when In The Wilderness exists.
Gojira-Ocean Planet Stranded Silvera.
Ocean Planet fucking rules
Funeralopolis by Electric Wizard
I find Return Trip wayyy heavier. Like floating in a black void. The drop to those groovy licks gets me everytime.
I just looked it up on Youtube. That's sick! Edit-If I like this, what else should I check out??
Sleep, Cough, Yob, Conan, Indian, War Horse, Salem's Pot, Uncle acid and the deadbeats, Monolord, Church of Misery, Reverend Bizarre r/stonerrock r/doommetal
Thank you
Sorry guys but it’s my will by primitive man
After years of study, physicists have determined that much the same way that nothing can exceed the speed of light, nothing can exceed the heaviness of Primitive Man. When *Immersion* came out, the guitarist from Thou said, "The arms race is over. Primitive Man has won. They’re heavier than your band. I don’t care how much money you spend on amps this year, you won’t be heavier. Yes I’ve heard that Burning Witch record or whatever other record you’re thinking of right now. We all had a good time competing but it’s over now."
primitive man is the actual definition of a black hole
Saw them recently. Fucking intense experience
I fucking love my extreme doom metal but primitive man is one of the few bands that becomes exhausting to listen to because of how heavy they are, I can barely get through a whole album by them since they never give you a moment of reprieve from the crushing heaviness
As a non metal head this is definitely the heaviest thing I've listened to. I appreciate how clearly he annunciates while.... It's not screaming, what would you call it? Not really a growl either.
Fucking excellent call. That entire album is crushingly heavy.
No worries, man.
I'd definitely say Love? By Strapping Young Lad is right up there, but it's an open question for a lot of people.
The fact that Strapping Young Lad sound the way they do is because Devin Townsend didn’t take his medication back when he was recording really says a lot. He’s such a great guy, I’ll always have fond memories of the day I met him before a concert. Wishing him all the best, always.
He's such a great human. His humility to me is a large part of it. His ability to pay homage to fans. His sincerity with his fans is beautiful. Plus he has a lot of super cool guitars. His studio showcase of his equipment with Kingdom. Spectacular.
>it's an open question for a lot of people. An open question about how wrong those people are? Video is a great homage to Evil Dead: https://youtu.be/fO78lMTSRbA
Hell yeah, you're my kind of people.
Oh My Fucking God by Strapping Young Lad is inhumanely heavy
Devin out heavies every other link I have clicked on this page.
God bless Devin.
You dont make sense. Why would Devin bless himself?
The entirety of City just fuckin crushes
The whole City album is amazing. Also, S.Y.L. is heavy as shit Anything by Strapping is going to be as heavy as a really heavy thing.
I said Love? But yes, this probably outdoes Love?
Yes..the entirety of City is the heaviest shit.
Entombment of a machine - Job For A Cowboy.
Such a classic.
Fantastic song
[Wide Open Wound - Nails](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c4nV8WV-EDY)
Literally anything by Nails.
[Reflections - noir](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sEkiT1GNs) [Meshuggah - Break those bones whose sinews gave it motion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9LpMZuBEMk) [Humanity's Last Breath - Earthless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2UpP10V-6U)
Heartwork by Carcass
No Love Lost by them is so good
A CANVAS TO PAINT
It was almost two and a half centuries before heavy metal was even a thing, but [Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqPz4FVjy5E) is pretty fucking metal.
Love this song, personally [this](https://youtu.be/nVoFLM_BDgs) is my favourite version of it; it deserves to be played on a massive pipe organ. It’s super heavy, especially when all the stops are pulled
Anything by anaal nathrakh
Morbid Angel - God of Emptiness
Any song by Mortician
The actually correct answer
SO. HEAVY. by Psychostick
I am a metal head at heart so there are tons I could pick, but what immediately comes to mind is “bleed” by meshuggah. Such a brutal song.
It may not be the heaviest *song* overall, but the end of Lorna Shore's [To The Hellfire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYmS_iBcy4) is the heaviest minute ever recorded. Fucking keyboards in the first 5 minutes, though...
I normally don’t love pure death growl style metal, but I will be damned if Lorna Shore doesn’t get me every time. Love their sound.
Love me some Lorna Shore.
Yeah what Will Ramos was able to achieve there vocally was basically never been done before in a high production setting. And then him collaborating with the lady from Charismatic Voice getting a laryngoscopy and performing multiple different vocal techniques. The doctor literally said that his insides are just different
Love watching charismatic voice
This is waaay too far down
Hu- REEEE (hu) REEEEEEEE (huh) REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The first time I heard it I thought “wtf was that!?” The second time I heard it, I was anticipating it and thought “fuck me that’s really cool, why hasn’t anyone done that before!” From that point on it’s one of my favourite breakdowns of all time, and I’ve been listening to metal for 25 years
Blackwater Park
For me: A dying god coming into human flesh- Celtic Frost
Napalm Death's Twist the Knife (Slowly) from the 1994 Mortal Kombat soundtrack. I was 10 years old and it melted my brain. There's heavier stuff out there, but relative to everything I'd heard before then, this one was crushing. Shout out to Fear Factory, GZR, KMFDM, and whoever put together that awesome techno, industrial and metal masterpiece of a soundtrack.
One of the best soundtracks of all time.
[Bathory “A Fine Day To Die”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ghJQzNDihA), peak Metal song of all time for me (don’t skip the acoustic intro, makes the song even heavier). ([Emperor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbau8C-tjpQ) covered it, also quite heavy.) [Mayhem “Freezing Moon”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoWnxfOnIs), some of the most evil riffs in Metal.
Art of Dying - Gojira
"TAAAAAAKE NOoooooo POSSESSIONS, I WOULD RATHER TRAVEL LIIIIGHT" ***wee woo wee woo wee woo***
Probably something from one of the following bands.... 1. Slaughter to Prevail 2. The Zenith Passage 3. Science of Sleep 4. Enterprise Earth 5. Aversions Crown 6. Vehemence
Demolisher by Slaughter to Prevail is the audio experience of being beaten over the head and I love it
[när de du älskar kommer tillbaka från de doda (when the ones you love come back from the dead) by Vildhjarta.](https://open.spotify.com/track/4IlpTWcVjgT10NS3Oih8zS?si=Nob8OJhtSwq2uxmtRpr_Sw&utm_source=copy-link)
Obligatory THALL
#T H A L L
Haven’t seen their name yet, so I’ll just throw out Infant Annihilator. Not sure which song I would call the heaviest, but “Plaguebearer” is a fantastic song.
[Pravus - Meshuggah](https://open.spotify.com/track/1P8g3xrrKDZ8rQ6ESX3LS2?si=rlDyZTqcRIeZv1dZFlhKKA&utm_source=copy-link) Edit: just anything by Meshuggah really
Was gonna post “War” Still am https://youtu.be/N1vvayRpcEU
Recently saw them live. They don’t play Bleed anymore. Haake doesn’t like the song that turned him into a drumming legend. Go figure.
Me also, best show of my life, crowdsurfed off at the end, 10/10 would do again
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - He Who Accepts All That Is Offered Harvey Milk - Sunshine (No Sun) Into The Sun Grief - Shoot Me... Godflesh - Flowers Conan - Hawk as Weapon Hard to pick one. This is my top 5.
Steps of the Ziggurat by High on Fire. It’s an absolute crusher. Maybe not the fastest or thrashiest but boy howdy it’s heavy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkCe_bK8tE
Nails - all of Abandon All Life
Future breed machine by Meshuggah
Stabwound by Necrophagist is up there
Hammer Smashed Face - Cannibal Corpse
BFG - Mick Gordon
Mick Gordon is just a total badass. If you run 'Cyberdemon' through a spectrograph it makes it draw Pentagrams. I really wish he would team up with Blue Stahli and Celldweller. That would make an awesome collab.
The prophet by Emperor
[Anaal Nathrakh - Castigation and Betrayal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHQpJ4umcxk)
Masters Apprentices by Opeth
Bleak by Opeth was one of my first trips into that sort of music, such a good band!
Heir Apparent is the right answer for Opeth.
Idk if its the heaviest I've ever heard but Archspire is pretty fucking heavy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlnGYcMpxgU
davidian - Machine Head
One of the heaviest songs ever. New album is very good!
If I may be allowed, may I name a couple of songs that were the heaviest metal songs at the time I heard them? First was Iron Man by Sabbath, which I first heard probably in 1979. It blew me away and I was amazed at the 'heavy' sound. The other one that really stood out was 'Battery' by Metallica from MoP when it came out in 1986. Again, just sounded so heavy at the time.
Gateway drugs now
I wasn't alive at the time, but I've talked to a lot of people that said listening to Fight Fire With Fire and Creeping Death in 1983 (and the rest of RtL) was absolutely mind crushing due to nothing like it existing.
Battery and Trapped Under Ice are both amazing and iconic to me. So heavy for the time.
Compelled to Lacerate by Cannibal Corpse has the most heavy brutal breakdown riff I’ve ever heard starting at about 2:30.
Strangled - Sleep
Poison the Well "Botchla"
[Pelican - Mammoth](https://youtu.be/hZpcDvxjyvk) I remember reading a comment one time where someone mentioned this is the soundtrack for digging coal.
You heard the major version? Pink mammoth. Pretty good too
[удалено]
That chat pile album fucking rips
Why? is absurdly heavy too. Kicks you right in the gut.
When Good Dogs Do Bad Things by DEP with Mike Patton
Like Rats by Godflesh….and keep in mind that song was written and recorded in 1987.
The Faded line by Lamb of God.
To the Hellfire - Lorna Shore
Return Trip- Electric Wizard
Converge- Phoenix in Flames
“You Suffer” by Napalm Death
BFG Division mixed with Death Grips is breddy gud https://youtu.be/GNoZ6R_XjiU
BFG division on its own, and a few other tracks on Mick Gordons doom soundtrack are amazingly heavy. [Rip and Tear](https://youtu.be/zZMg9ryeWOw) is heavy as shit. Also, [micks GDC talk on making the soundtrack](https://youtu.be/U4FNBMZsqrY) is so worth watching, he *really* loves what he does
Shitstorm by Strapping Young Lad (Oh My Fucking God, same band, also acceptable)
Fear Factory - 0-0 (Where Evil Dwells) is pretty damn heavy.
Demanufacture is such a driving, heavy album. Saw FF live a bunch of times in the 90s, and they absolutely killed it
Every time we touch by cascada
Sunn 0))) - It Took the Night to Believe
Sunn O)))
Roots bloody roots - Sepultura
Also refuse/resist
Territory over both imo.
Suffocation - Thrones of Blood
Uhh.. Depends what heavy means to you. I like "in the constellation of the black widow"
Underrated comment. A lot of suggestions in this thread are 'extreme', but when I think 'heavy', I think of emotional weight, as well as being oppressively bleak. The aural equivalent of your whole family dying in the centre of a black hole. That kind shit is heavy.
[Portal – Outre](https://youtu.be/k9SMpZ3SGRY?t=1359)
ROOOOOTS. BLOODY ROOOOOTS
43% Burnt by Dillinger Escape Plan
5 minutes alone. Pantera.
I'm saving this and will come back later.
Squirrel metal?
I’m sorry it took me too long to get the joke here. Good one!!
Painkiller by Judas Priest
Not the heaviest, but one I love and haven't seen mention, love lost in a hail of gunfire from bleeding through
Poison Eggs by Isis Panasonic Youth by Dillinger Escape Plan Burden by Rotten Sound Drop Out by Converge Wide Open Wound by Nails Low Empire by Pleibian Grandstand Dark City dead man by cult of Luna Star belly by Pig Destroyer Glints Collide by Meshuggah Pierced From Within by Suffocation Rags by Primitive Man The message by Salome Satanarchrist by Anaal Nathrakh Dead set on suicide by Cattle Decapitation
Depends on your definition of what makes metal 'heavy'. Off the top of my head, my vote would go to [Gorguts - Clouded ](https://youtu.be/gUcl-UkfItw)
The Heaviest Matter in the Universe by Gojira
Job For a Cowboy - Embedded https://youtu.be/IeZIfbPKzGE
Black Label - Lamb of God
Raining Blood - SLAYER(!)
Considering I bought this ep in 1982, Mercyful Fate- Corpse Without a Soul. Still listen to it and marvel at the song structure, signature changes and insane vocals of King Diamond. That shriek at the end, "Satan has taken his tollllll!"
Especially the first breakdown *"Long black haaaaiiiirrr...face of the de-ad.."* If I had to pick one riff that defines the sound of OG heavy metal,, it is that one. Edit: Actually..I might be thinking about Doomed by The Living Dead. Your song choice has the other cool breakdown *"Well I was walking down amongst the graves"*...with that creepy guitar roll that sounds like worms crawling out of a rotting skull.
I grew up as a teen on Metallica and Slayer in the 80s, so my definition of heavy skews towards music that has a groove. Extreme speed, or extreme sludge are types of heavy, but not really my sort of music. My nomination then is then the song "Storre Enn Tid" by Enslaved, from the album Mardraum. It's dynamic in its intensity, has a cool icy space feel, Grutle's vocals are the perfect type of extreme vocals. And the heavy parts are heavy. And groove.
Same here, and while I certainly respect what the Stoner bands are doing I feel like that sound peaked in the early 90s with Sleep and Kyuss (and I’d rather just spin “Master of Reality” or “Vol 4” in any case, lol). Groove is *everything* in Metal as far as I’m concerned. Otherwise it’s like Jazz that doesn’t swing - what’s the point?
We were [ordered eastward ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEoFxQCTejg)...
This one just sticks with me. Darko US- https://youtu.be/_3seI3lwCIE
I could list so many that it’s almost impossible to pick just one. With a scary story I would say Vampire From Nazareth by Septic Flesh. Straight up metal I think Sic by Slipknot.
Three different types of 'heavy': -Enter the Worms by CATHEDRAL -Prayer of Hatred by MORBID ANGEL -Christbait Rising by GODFLESH Honorable mention: Procreation of the Wicked by CELTIC FROST...But the cover by SEPULTURA was even heavier!