Whats the heaviest band in the world

Predhead

Defo the Magic Numbers. Or the Mamas and the Papas!

Jay P

Deathlok fo shizzle.

christophicus

LordChessington wrote: »

but IMO some people will find some types of music heavier than others, so there really isn't a single correct answer

QFT I really find these kind threads really quite annoying ( no offence to the OP ) For instance i am listening to Philip Glass's Kundun Lord chaimberlin and I would consider it heavier then frantic by metallica ( just using them as an example to make my point that something that is Heavy does not need to have distortion etc ) .

mp3guy

If you define heavy a decent answer could be given.

GLaDOS

Busted

Esm

mmm.. the heaviest band in the world, well the short answer to this is that is that its an ever ending search. .
Personally I feel that you cant just put it in terms of "who is the heaviest" , its what entirely up to what genre your into, Death, Thrash, goregrind, black metal, doom, power metal etc..wiki is the place to start delving into the specifics if your a nubee.

Im into my music for the best part of 25yrs and i have evolved my listening with the unending styles that have developed. My first album which i still have is a very rare Def lepard "On through the night", totally cheesey now but thats what i marched off to school with playing it in my ultra cool brick of a walkman which i needed two hands to hold, moved on to Iron Maiden and then heard a rhythm in the darkness when i was about 11, Obituary.. blew me away when i heard it first time, Slowly we rot , sheer rawness and very deep and totally way ahead of its time, music today is barrelled along because bands are trying to compete in the sense that they can be faster, get more out of their equipment and instruments and lead you into a different and darker world than anyone else has before.

The internet is the best thing that has happened to the music industry in regards that with no money you can get your stuff among the masses and be heard, thus finding the heaviest band out there.
If you asked your gran the same question she would say something like Metallica or whatever but if you asked a hardend death metal veteran you would be here a while.. there are too many. Its totally what ever your into, music and the heaviest kind of is too vague a request.

Lyrically you could call upon Cannibal corpse, sick.. fantastic and ultimatly the only band you could call on to make your little sister cry vocally, to scare her you could try Cryptopsy purley for the incessant ramblings on drums from without a doubt the greatest drummer in the world Flo Mornier, For a feel good buzz you could try Gojira.. always puts me in a good mood. If your in the mood for some black metal have a listen to Dimmu Borgir.. Puritanical.. is their best work and i think the best black metal album ever written , its just a huge sound. I have been to two funerals where tracks from this particular album were used, Amazing . Cradle of filth have sold out in their later years and have mostly tapped into the Emo market but their early work like "The principal of evil made flesh" is well worth a place in the back catalogue.
For getting pissed and F**ked up with the lads have a listen to Cephalic Carnage or Despised Icon, Alot of goregrind can seem at the same pace but these two bands I feel are the pick of the genre, Circle of Dead Children would fall in here too for the pig squeals, brilliant. Slayer and Pantera definatly fall into this altar of madness too..

Nile is a band you must start listening to from the beginning, Amongst the catacombs and build it up from there.. massive sound and takes you into a very dark underworld when you listen to them from scratch, Karl Sanders writes all their lyrical material which is completly based on the darker side of an egyptian theme. Amazing stuff both live and on record (vynil) where i feel thier vibe is best capured.
Cynic is a band every every metal head has a soft spot for in respect that they touched on a part of the brain that no band has ever even come close to. A mixture of Death, Jazz and defintaly classical influences all combined into the one.. Sean Reinheart (drums) was best mates with Chuck in the early days and formed a band called simply Death, which is the ephinany , the beginning and the end of any death metallers journey.
Cynic only ever released one album in 1993 "focus" but still affected the underground in such a way that people still feel to this day that they were the greatest band that ever formed.. But again as with everthing else with music its individual.


So.. i hope this has helped you, mostly i was selfish in the fact that i took a meander down my own dark path to where i am now with my tunes.
Sorry for rambling on people..

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Chaosangel

to name a few and im aware some were already mentioned

death
gojira
satyricon
old mastodon
sunn o)))/earth
crowbar

they would all be considered heavy metal as such,I think this is a stupid thread though to be honest!! too many heavy bands

Spinal Tap I mean c'mon their amps went to 11,check it!

cournioni

Crowbar back in the day... Definately a fat bunch of ****ers!

christophicus

I now bring forth the Heaviest Matter in the Universe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I couldn't help it , I tried not to but then someone had to go and mention Gojira :D:D.

SouperComputer

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

Crowbar back in the day... Definately a fat bunch of ****ers!

QFT!!!

If by heavy you mean low, slow and weighty, both sonically and physically, Crowbar meet the mark.

If theres anyone here who hasn't heard Crowbar yet, I highly suggest the Broken Glass" album.

JIZZLORD

1349!

greatgoal

heavy to me is our own rory gallagher,ill say no more...

djScarey

Gojira a good shout. Also Kronos (France) and Soilwork (Sweden).

Morf

Origin are heavy, fast, extremely technical and great!

ThousandLeaves

Not that they're the heaviest, whatever that means, but in any list of heavy I'd definitely have to put in Swans, especially the earlier stuff. It's the slow kind of heavy and it's not really metal. Heavy and pretty brutal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHES9YAGGkU

djScarey

Thats more like some form of industrial performance art. Got turned down for Faust or something, eh?

Otis Driftwood

Difficult one to pin down.

Strapping Yound Lad circa City are phenomenally heavy.

It just depends on the particular niche of metal the band occupies.
Stuff like Mithras,Nile,Vital Remains etc are heavy as hell but thats because they occupy the realm of what is considered death metal.

Im going to weigh in (arf arf) and say Anaal Nathrakh are the heaviest band currently on the go.

JC 2K3

Swans were No Wave, and they kicked ass.

John

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Swans were No Wave, and they kicked ass.

Swans are heavier than a death in the family.

I remember a quote from a magazine when some journalist tried to describe how Swans sounded:
"Like being hit repeatedly across the head with a pair of bricks" or something. And it's ****ing true. The earlier albums absolutely scoured my head the first time I heard them.

A friend of mine saw them before Children of God came out, apparently people were throwing up from sheer volume of the band (they used to bring their own massively powered PA to use in addition to the house PA). The bassist played so hard his fingers bled profusely, leaving a pool of blood on the stage.

MoominPapa

Here's Bristol's finest stoners the Heads:

They're well heavy

Nightwish

Hatebeak Their sound has been described as "a jackhammer being ground in a compactor". Check them out!

John

MoominPapa wrote: »

Here's Bristol's finest stoners the Heads:

They're well heavy

They were well dull when I saw them.

christophicus

Yeah Swans are deadly, although there newer stuff is quite crap.

Neurosis and Jarboe's album is insanely good. Not as brutal as Swans but heavey aswell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCdzmCDHws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJ52P4-sas

John

christophicus wrote: »

Yeah Swans are deadly, although there newer stuff is quite crap.

I have to disagree, Soundtracks for the Blind and the live album Swans Are Dead are amazing, easily as good as the early stuff, if not better (and the live album is certainly as brutal but in a very different way).

And what Michael Gira is doing know is (solo albums, The Angels of Light), in my opinion, even better than the Swans ever were. I saw him on his own a couple of years ago and with just an acoustic guitar he was about eight times as heavy as the Swans (arbitrary scale).

Neurosis and Jarboe's album is insanely good. Not as brutal as Swans but heavey aswell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCdzmCDHws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJ52P4-sas

I find Jarboe to be patchy but agreed, that album is brilliant. I would have loved to see the live shows they did together.

MoominPapa

John wrote: »

They were well dull when I saw them.

Really? I've never had the chance but always presumed they'd be class. I've only got Everyone knows and Undersided which are great albums I reckon, maybe they're hit and miss live? They are very heavy none the less

christophicus

John wrote: »

And what Michael Gira is doing know is (solo albums, The Angels of Light), in my opinion, even better than the Swans ever were. I saw him on his own a couple of years ago and with just an acoustic guitar he was about eight times as heavy as the Swans (arbitrary scale).

Hmmm I had not seen/heard any of his solo stuff, just quickly looked at a song or two on youtube and the whole style was somewhat similar to Scott Kelly's solo stuff. At the moment I prefer Scott Kelly's stuff, but I am deffo going to listen to a bit more of Michael Gira's solo stuff too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hT-bNUxljo

I find Jarboe to be patchy but agreed, that album is brilliant. I would have loved to see the live shows they did together.

As would I man.

John

Recommended Michael Gira solo albums:
Drainland: Most like Swans. The first track is harrowing (recorded conversation of him and Jarboe when he was in the pits of alcoholism) and it doesn't get much brighter from there.
I am Singing to You from My Room: Completely acoustic, just Gira and an acoustic guitar. Some cracking songs, a couple of them re-recorded from Drainland and bizarrely, three children's songs tagged on at the end.

Recommended Angels of Light albums (Gira's band):
All of them. Weird, alt country, psychedelic, beautiful, heavy and primal.

nacho libre

I'd say it has to be Crowbar - those guys are all ultranourished

D.Q

Grim_Wreeper wrote: »

Perhaps the likes of the old Mastodon stuff.

Mastodon are in my opinion the heaviest band in the world.

I mean heavy within reason... like anyone can drop to a, bash the drums fast and scream like a particularly distressed crow.

As far as sticking to good song writing AND being heavy as piss....

Its Mastodon..... Or strapping young lad...damn.

Parsley

DieselQueen wrote: »

Mastodon are in my opinion the heaviest band in the world.

I mean heavy within reason... like anyone can drop to a, bash the drums fast and scream like a particularly distressed crow.

As far as sticking to good song writing AND being heavy as piss....

Its Mastodon..... Or strapping young lad...damn.

Meshuggah tune to F, bash the fúck out of the drums, scream like a particularly distressed cow, AND stick to good song writing AND being heavy as piss (if not heavier). :pac: