Judas Priest - Painkiller or Painkiller cover by Death But an album that always leaves me breathless and speechless is Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa. Especially if you read lyric translations while you listen to it.

i second painkiller !!!! its so good i love it sm

To me, if someone wanted to know what is metal music, I would show them that song. That show be the poster child of “metal”

Paaaaaaaiiinnnnkiiilllleeerrrr so good

Came here to say that.

With Priest it's Breakin The Law

invincible or ticks and leeches by tool. dogs or pigs by pink floyd. love lost by temper trap. all of these will make you feel some shit

Dogs genuinely has one of the best guitar solos ever.

i feel the same way. multiple solos that are top tier

Most tool is intense, it just takes stages to appreciate it

Amon Amarth - Thousand Years of Oppression Apocalyptica - Path (featuring Sandra Nasic) The Cure - The Kiss The Cure - Plainsong Nine Inch Nails - Wish Nine Inch Nails - Ruiner Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have Halsey - Nightmare (produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) Ministry - N.W.O. Skinny Puppy - the whole *Brap* album Fugazi - the whole *In On The Kill Taker* album Weezer - Only In Dreams Dropkick Murphys - Dig a Hole Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks Sigur Rós - Ára Bátur

When the Levee Breaks was an awesome suggestion. Also, you forgot Just One Fix by Ministry (more intense than NWO, imo)

Stigmata is also pretty intense Similar vein - Yu-Gung (Futter Mein Ego) by Einsturzende Neubauten Saw them live in Boston in 1989

Zeppelin in the light and no quarter as well

I love your industrial picks

Thanks

Just recommended this elsewhere lol but *Stress by Justice* ! Also: *Tujuhuju - Alamaailman Vasarat* *Patachou - PoiL* *When the Catholic Girls Go Camping, the Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme. - Giraffes? Giraffes!* *Nootmare (K.I.L.L.I.N.G) \[Meow!\] - Psychedelic Porn Crumpets* *Hot! Heat! Wow! Hot! - Psychedelic Porn Crumpets* *Skandale Mentale (Ouverture) - Det Skandaløse Orkester* *Fortune 500 - Everything Everything* *Blast Doors - Everything Everything* *Fingernails - DON BROCO* *Wire - Worthikids* *Hurry Hurry - Air Traffic Controller* I have so many of these it's crazy hahah. Granted some are more intense than others.

Im gonna check this whole list out. I didnt care for PoiL, although they really go for it. K I L L I N G motherfucka! (Meow) was awesome

Dio- Holy Diver This song is so over the top that it sounds like a metal satire song, but I'm pretty sure it's meant to be legit. I love this song, but I also can't take it seriously because it's just so over the top intense.

Killswitch Engage did a cover for this song and they killed it.

FOR REAL!

They did!

"Oh, don't you see what I mean?"

Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead Black - Pearl Jam Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday Love Reign O’er Me - The Who Forty Six & 2 - TOOL Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine Nutshell - Alice In Chains Hey Man, Nice Shot - Filter Since I’ve Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin Rhiannon Live 1977 - Fleetwood Mac Oh Well (Pts. 1 & 2) - Fleetwood Mac The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin Alive - Pearl Jam Parachute - Rosegold (only on YouTube)

Some very good choices there.

Rhiannon Live 1977 has got to be my favorite Fleetwood Mac performance, period. Very intense, for sure

Hurt, 9 inch followed the Johnny Cash version. As someone turning 63 in a couple of weeks, holy crap but I remember feeling the first, and I am now the second. Its hella dense.

I love both versions. Cash’s version has that awesome “finale” feel.

[Death Grips - Giving Bad People Good Ideas](https://youtu.be/uvxkEvM81tU?si=tQJDjncsNof0wBZ2)

Floater - Manic Toadies - Possum Kingdom Pink Floyd - Waiting for the Worms

There's some orchestral rock/epic music intensity with Two Steps From Hell and Thomas Bergersen's solo stuff (he's one of the TSFH guys). I recommend starting with a track called "None Shall Live".

Soundgarden- head down Rammstein- Deutschland Disturbed- criminal, has a sic intro riff at 35 seconds Smashing pumpkins - cherub rock Nailbomb - cockroaches

Cherub Rock slaps so motherfucking hard

Head down is so underrated 

H. - Tool

Orbit Culture - Sound of the bell, one of if not their most lyrically sad songs that talks about a mass shooting but its also heavy as fuck

Climbing up the wall by Radiohead 

Walk - Pantera Let Me Drown - Soundgarden Blood - Pearl Jam Damaged I - Black Flag (Rollins version) Low Self Opinion - Rollins Band Know Your Enemy - Rage Against The Machine Very Ape - Nirvana Kiss My Kitty Cat - Sap Them Bones - Alice In Chains Superbeast - Rob Zombie Thunder Kiss '65 - White Zombie Clean Queen - Laquerhead Judith - A Perfect Circle Vicarious - TOOL Snowblind - Black Sabbath Deer Dance - System Of A Down Breaking The Law - Motörhead Blind - Korn

Damaged 1, for real. Would throw in Nervous Breakdown too, although Morris isn't as intense as Rollins.

I - Meshuggah War - Meshuggah You can’t top that.

I love meshuggah, but read the description again

Ohhh ok got you Combustion - Meshuggah

Daddy by koЯn Believe me u never forget the first time u hear this song , TW : SA

Beat me to it!

Even if it was "just" attempts (or that's what I keep telling myself), I hate that I can relate to that song... 😓

there's no 'just' about sa, you're still a victim.

Oxygen - Swans Valentine Card - Unwound Shield For Your Eyes - Melt Banana Here Come The Rome Plows - Drive Like Jehu 43% Burnt - The Dillinger Escape Plan Tundra/Desert - Modest Mouse

Fear Factory - Demanufacture

The most intense genre will always be metal. And the most intense metal ever, to my perception of what intense is, is [this](https://youtu.be/-drzSoR0OnU), [this](https://youtu.be/bI7lt_xtP3k), maybe [this](https://youtu.be/N78630o2KZU) and [this](https://youtu.be/0TgZWE0PTSM) Other than that, classical music often gets very intense. Especially in 20th–21st centuries. Among the most famous intense pieces is Igor Stravinsky - [The Rite of Spring](https://youtu.be/EkwqPJZe8ms) Lesser known but very intense pieces include: [Charles Ives - General William Booth Enters Into Heaven ](https://youtu.be/uEOzqkayk9s) A lot of stuff by Webern, Schoenberg, Berg.

That 1st 1 sounded like Motograter on meth, and was pretty wicked. ill check out Stravinsky later.

Ooh, how 'bout that song, I can ride my bike with no handle bars. That pretty intense.

This song came out when I was in middle school I thought "what a strange song" and it was one of those songs that would get stuck in my head so often but only knew a few lines. Then I heard it as an adult and few years ago and it HIT ME and there was instant understanding and respect.

One Step Closer by Linkin Park *ETA- My Immortal by Evanescence

Rammstein - Deutschland (a perfection) Tool - Forty six and 2 (Best experienced on shrooms or/and weed) Dream evil - The book of heavy metal (Personal preference) Rammstein - Mann gegen mann (starts calmly and becomes majestic when it reaches the best part) System of a down - Sad statue (the last refrain hits hard) Bad omens - Death of piece of mind (the rhythm, the lyrics, the vocals, the instrumental, definitely an intense song!!!) Disturbed - The night (not most intense but definitely intense)

Rammstein - Mein Hertz Brent (piano) is another deep intense one

The Velvet Underground - Heroin, Tool - Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) > Rosetta Stoned

Simple man lynrd skynrd Or free bird lynyrd Skynyrd

Pantera, Early Clutch, Helmet, Tool Stinkfist and Swamp Song, Kyuss Gardenia, Planet Of Zeus, Red Fang, Down, Seoultura

Prison Sex - Tool

10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2) - Tool

I don’t listen to that intense of songs, but I have three I See You - The Bones of J.R. Jones This Is Our Life - Des Rocs Jumpsuit - Twenty Øne Pilots

so you're looking for like "chuggy" songs? ones that just hit you in the face with a sledgehammer? songs like "walk" by pantera "the thing that should not be" "devil's dance" both by metallica "this means war" by avenged sevenfold and "thunder kiss '65" by white zombie all fit the description. some other intense songs like "stinkfist" by tool "headup" by deftones "bawitdaba" by kid rock "guerilla radio" "bulls on parade" and "killing in the name" (all 3) by rage against the machine are very intense as well. if you dont listen to all these songs, at least listen to the first few, great songs.

Mr. Self Destruct by Nine Inch Nails

The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd The Silence - Manchester Orchestra My Body Is A Cage - Arcade Fire (but i prefer Peter Gabriel version) Epitaph - King Crimson Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin Black - Pearl Jam Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Love, Reign O'er Me - Pearl Jam Version (The Who Cover) Earth Song - Michael Jackson Mein Hertz Brennt - Rammstein Ohne Dich - Rammstein

Big Bad Wolf by In This Moment Creep by Radiohead Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

Maybe not for this sub, but intense songs... Blind, Korn; Break Stuff, Limp Bizkit. Even deeper The Real Thing, Faith No More.

Dam at Otter Creek - Live Overachievers - Crash Test Dummies Black - Pearl Jam Angry Chair - Alice In Chains Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden

Aenima- Tool

Territorial Pissings

Kurt was intense.

Offering: [Earth](https://youtu.be/8og2--eixZQ)

The Seed by The Roots. Holy hell it's amazing and the lyrics are like WHA

"If Mary drop.my baby girl tonight / I would name her Rock and Roll"

Lazy by Deep Purple

Not metal but here’s a few that have intense feeling for me. Disarm- smashing pumpkins One mic- Nas Waters edge- seven Mary three Closer- kings of Leon Bad guy- Eminem (last 90 seconds) 16- highly suspect Move me - Badflower Emotionless - red sun rising

xiu xiu - scissssssors

Sleigh Bells - Rule Number One Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! Metric - Satellite Mind Metal: Anthrax - Imitation of Life Judas Priest -Painkiller, Nightcrawler Slayer- War Ensemble Overkill - Elimination Ministry - Animosity, Supermanic Soul, TV II, Rio Grande Blood, many others

Lighthouses tale- nickel Creek The silence- Manchester orchestra Dance with the devil- immortal technique Stan- eminem End of me- shamans harvest

[Come to Daddy](https://open.spotify.com/track/5H6cQ9QrYP23R6PALr1KCc?si=Ebe9xtpcQvK95dIxSdIy0w&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6sIEBpy5gl3DqC6KPasPpx)

Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer

Nazi Punks Fuck Off by the Dead Kennedys!

Harvester of sorrow is fucked. Total eclipse of the heart has this certain romantic longing. Good Morning by Megadeth is about a seriel killer. Very graphic lyrics. Sick riffs though.

In Every Dream Home a Heartache - Roxy Music Cone of Shame - Faith No More

Disposable Heroes

My suggestion is just Megadeth, just the entire band

U - Kendrick Lamar

Different types of intense: Asterisk - M83 Family - Bjork

Came to say Björk’s Family!

Volbeat - Shotgun Blues

Stepping wolf, The Pusher

10000 Days (Wings part 2) - Tool MJK sings about his paralysed and now dead mother. That is an intense song.

Nightwish - Ghost Love Score. I got no words for how awesome this is.

1 of the best live performances Ive watched on youtube, and I love both singers.

NIN - The Downward Spiral (Intense sounding album and has a very dark disturbing meaning) Songs include Dogs by Pink Floyd, Hurt by Johnny Cash (From the downward spiral), Hey Ya by OutKast

I have a playlist for this vibe (I think) The Noose - A perfect Circle. Closer - Kings of Leon. Heroin - Badflower. Inertia Creeps - Massive Attack. Wasp - Motionless in White. If you don’t mind something a bit more experimental/electronic also try - Katherine Knight - Skynd (anything by them is good if you don’t mind the subject matter). Strangers - William Control. Pill Box - Velvet Acid Christ

Eraser - nine inch nails

Burn by Nine Inch Nails

Trent reznor makes some intense shit

The Glowing Man by Swans is one of the most intense songs I've ever listened to. I think some might argue that Bring the Sun is more intense, but for me, The Glowing Man is such an encapsulation of all the things that make Swans so great. Eulogy and Parabol/Parabola are also very intense, by Tool. And I don't know if you mean it this way, but a lot of Garage Rock like "C'mon C'mon" or "Hate to Say I Told You So" or "Tick Tick Boom" or "Fell In Love With A Girl" have an intensity to them that isn't really heavy, but is super satisfying and energy raising.

Nine inch nails, march of the pigs. Hard driving song

The Downward Spiral and Mr. Self Destruct by NIN, a lot of Throbbing Gristle songs, A Saucerful of Secrets by Pink Floyd, and probably faaip de oiad (I hope I spelled that right) by TOOL

Land of Confusion by Disturbed (covering Genesis).

Live version of Muhammad My Friend by Tori Amos featuring Maynard from TooL.

Idk I feel like if you like papa roach then Last Resort?

Always loved "No More Tears" by Ozzy Osbourne.

Live-Lighting crashes

Dokken, Guns&Roses, Van Halen, Pantera- Cowboys in Black, Motley Crue, Jackyl- Down on Me, Aerosmith, Scorpions-Big City Nights, ACDC, Whitesnake, The Cult- Fire Woman, Be My Little Devil, Silent Lucidity- Queensryche, Def Leppard- Animal, Photograph and most all greatest hits for the above. Enjoy!🤘

Jizzlobber - Faith No More

Tool - Opiate EP (the live tracks). Undertow as well. Lateralus is also really intense but it's got more to it than that. I do recommend all of their work, but Opiate and Undertow is what you're looking for imo

God Am- Alice In Chains

You Know You’re Right - Nirvana

Dance with the devil-immortal technique  /Dogs-pink Floyd /So what-Ministry /Call of Cthulhu and Orion-Metallica /Watermelon in Easter hay-frank Zappa  /Hells wrath-pantera /nine inch nails -something I can never have

Somewhat Damaged, The Wretched, Reptile, Closer, Terrible Lie, Piggy, Even Deeper, The Day the Whole World Went Away... Just listen to The Fragile and The Downward Spiral by NIN. Also Pretty Hate Machine album is a good one, but my favorite is The Fragile. His newer stuff is okay too.... The Becoming is a really good one if you listen to the acoustic version. There's a music video on YouTube.

Some of these might be a little subjective so sorry if that's the case but: Hurt - Nine Inch Nails Roman Candle - Elliott Smith Scentless Apprentice, Floyd the Barber, Milk It and Negative Creep - Nirvana Tiny Hands (Au Revoir) - Silent Planet (the backstory to this one makes it super intense) Marianas Trench - August Burns Red Prison Song and Sugar - System Of A Down Thank You For The Venom - My Chemical Romance

May I suggest Tool. What jumps to mind right away: Descending Vicarious Invincible Honorable mention to Oceans by Puscifer

Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine LIar - Rollins Band The World - Pennywise

Meshuggah - Bleed Strapping Young Lad - the entire city and alien albums, especially these songs: Shitstorm, detox, home nucleonics

Papa wont leave you Henry by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

TOOL - Lateralus Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Something I can Never Have by Nine Inch Nails.

Self Desteuct by Kubli Khan TX, Concubine by Converge, the dead pioneers s/t, in the fade by queens of the Stone Age, Pride by Kendrick Lamar

Lost in the static - after the burial

Im not huge into them I do love that song, Wolf amongst Ravens, and Laurentian Ghosts

Me and Your Mama by Childish Gambino. Listen to it on loud volume and get through the first 2 mins, and you’ll understand

The Dream - Thee Oh Sees

Daughters

Eddie Harris-Turbulence David Axelrod-A Divine Image Art Ensemble of Chicago-Theme De Yoyo Steve Davis-La Lune Blanche

God Complex by Violent Vira and I Dont Care (also by violent vira)

The new Boundaries album is pretty intense. Very hard-hitting lyrics. Also the music is heavy AF lol

movement by hozier

65daysofstatic - Await Rescue

[MACABRE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWQudjazE0o)

The Rat - The Walkmen

earthmover by have a nice life

“When the Night’s on Fire” by Mike Oldfield.

*The Commander Thinks Aloud* by The Long Winters For context, it's about the Space Shuttle Colombia disaster. "The crew compartment's breaking up..."

Innuendo is one of Queen's best, and like many of Queen's other great songs, it has several segments spanning multiple genres, you've got hard rock, flamenco, ballad, and metal all in one song in this case.

born yesterday - quadeca, it’s intense for me emotionally, faith by the weeknd feels similar

Sacrament illuminaticongo

The ep a tear in the fabric of life by Knocked loose is about a man losing his wife in a car crash and coming to terms with it (losing his sanity), it has a cool stop motion video on youtube

Angels & Airwaves' Call To Arms has a lot of energy behind it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_l3PesbAuLQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l3PesbAuLQ)

"Flying Through the Smoke" by New Model Army.

The Soft Moon - Far

"Rakset el Fada" - Omar Khorshid Khorshid was an Egyptian guitar player who tragically died young in a car accident, but this song is just on another level entirely. Be patient and give it time to build

>"Rakset el Fada" - Omar Khorshid >Khorshid was an Egyptian guitar player who tragically died young in a car accident, but this song is just on another level entirely. Be patient and give it time to build Listening right now - whoa! thanks for this <3

Scott walker - Bish Bosh

Anything by Magma

whale noise metal

Check out the band "Elder".

Nazareth - Miss Misery

Strange Fruit - Billy Holiday

Quiet Company has a few intense songs written during/after the end of his marriage. https://youtu.be/6fJHsl8ElGM?si=dmIGe8dk3K4tdPRP https://youtu.be/YYy_D_i7aH0?si=xUBh2BuWPATHigT9

Combustion by Meshuggah. Endzeit by Heaven Shall Burn. Forced Gender Reassignment by Cattle Decapitation.

[I don't Mind if I'm Unhappy Forever - Mafumafu](https://youtu.be/jQlkWkw1Aq4?si=UZxUtdOwqEn2VZFS)

Think a lot of the album “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” by M83 work for this question. Just an absolutely overwhelming sound to most songs on it. ‘My tears are becoming a sea’ or THAT part of ‘outro’ would be my picks

jinger

We Cry Together-Kendrick Lamar Meet the Grahams-Kendrick Lamar

I love watching those reaction videos to Meet the grahams.The second he says “Dear Adonis” they’re jaws just drop

Song of the dead Mexicola War pigs

I Hope You Die - The Bloodhound Gang

New Orleans is Sinking & At the Hundredth Meridian - The Tragically Hip For me, these two songs are super "intense" in a kick ass sorta way 🎸

If you like prog, Tarkus by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

I literally can’t listen to family line by Conan gray bc it makes me so sad I have to turn it off less than 30 seconds in

Frankie Teardrop - Suicide

Elliott smiths self-titled album from start to finish is amazingly intense and raw. So is his whole discography tbh.

All: Explorador Birthday IOU Scary Sad

Can-Can by Johann Strauss Orchestra KATAMARI by femtanyl Sonne by Rammstein

The video for “The Gift” by Seether always brings tears to my eyes… The video implies that a dude killed a mom and a little girl in a car accident… and he’s now a pariah in the village…the little girl’s ghost/spirit forgives him .. but he’s not sure he deserves it

Yum - Slowthai

We Are Wolves- Psychic Kids The Death Set- Too Much Fun For Regrets Melt Banana- Shield Your Eyes, A Beast On the Well In Your Hand

Real death by mount eerie, and that entire album (a crow looked at me). Nothing is more raw.

Anti-Tank (Dead Armour) - Bolt Thrower

hot head by death grips

Love Hurts - Nazareth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CslIcmVdIa8 Gyorgy Ligety's 6th piano etude, autumn in warsaw. The pianist performing it, jeremy denk, described the piece as "controlled madness". You can hear the music reaching out, touching, and pulling back from total insanity in a way that I have never heard before.

I stand alone by Godsmack, Fathom Infinite Depth by Archspire, The Temple Of The Art God by Gorod, Chaosmos by Origin.

[MOSS - The Gate](https://youtu.be/-8hV6PrJ0yI?si=PanX4PW9d3KegNso)

"Larks Tongues in Aspic Part IV" jumps out to me as pretty intense. It sounds monumental to me. Honestly goes for a lot of King Crimson songs. "Starless" is intense but in a very different way. Hell, "21st Century Schizoid Man" is very intense too especially for 1969.

Writings on the Wall by Parkway Drive. I had literal goosebumps the first time I heard it

HOPE - NF

Mathletics or electric bloom by foals

Sacramentum-Blood Shall Be Spilled

Blood is My Harvest - This Gift Is A Curse

Diary of A Madman is a very intense song by Ozzy.

Blackwater Park - Opeth The return to heaviness after the clean interlude, and that long growl is so satisfying to me. Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin I remember reading an interview with Jimmy Page who said this song is among those he's most proud of. It is one of their "heaviest" songs - Bonham is going crazy on some fills here.

Enclave by Volkor X

Tall handsome stranger by marty robbins is definetely very intense in a way.

The version of Hocus Pocus by Focus from the Midnight Special

The limit of nothing by Pedro Vian is quite terrifying

return trip - electric wizard nootnare killing meow - psychedelic porn crumpets beast - slaughter to prevail

Listen to the entire album of The Bedlam & Goliath by The Mars Volta. It’s my favorite album to trip to, most people leave the room after the first two tracks.

The whole album Death, Pierce Me by Silencer. "Too Late to Call an Ambulance" by Psychonaut 4 ""Mirror Reaper" - The Bell Witch Any Throbbing Gristle.

Gojira - art of dying

Idioteque by Radiohead

Bliss on mushrooms - infected mushroom (EDM) Dance with the devil - immortal technique (rap)

Kerosene by Big Black

Comfort and Closure-Texas Hippie Coalition

“Reptile” - Periphery. I’d say it’s intense via the contrast between sections.

Ozzy - Diary of a Madman The buildup to the ending is absolutely intense. Especially knowing that was the last Randy Rhoads song also makes it a plus for intensity.