The most psychologically/philosophically heavy song I know is probably the downright comically morose Kummer by Trio
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Baby Shark makes every parent/ teacher/ care taker’s heart sink to the depths death metal could only dream of
It's also been weaponized, which as far as I'm aware isn't something that death metal has ever been used for.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/us/baby-shark-florida-homeless-prevention-park-trnd/index.html
Yikes. West palm beach douchiness is next level
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A bit of a tangent, but I just saw Meshuggah this week and they are by far the heaviest band I’ve seen live (so far) in terms of sound. And Cannibal Corpse was with them on tour mind you. No other metal band (of the ones I’ve seen live) compares, and I had the stankest of stank face the entire show. I think the second heaviest live that I experienced was Tesseract.
Broooo pretty with you there. When I saw them they played Dancers to a Discordant System and the walls frickn shook... And so thusly was I.
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Celtic Frost - A dying god coming into human flesh
I've listened to some Celtic Frost before, but that song was new to me. Killer track though. Not sonically the most crushingly heavy thing I've listened to, but the lyrics and vocal delivery impart a real sense of profundity that really heighten the heaviness. This was a really cool pick, thanks for sharing it
I guess I'm not very original, but Meshuggah just beats everything else for me lately, Future Breed Machine or pretty much the entirety of ObZen (though Bleed is overrated and possibly the worst song on the album apart from Pravus), I think it's something about how the vocals interact with the riffing, though I'm not sure this is exactly the kind of heaviness you mean...
Otherwise maybe check out Flood by Boris, that has some massive riffs (Flood III is where the shit goes down if you don't feel like listening to the whole thing)
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Tiptoe through the tulips by Tiny Tim.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA
Not because the song hit heavy or hard per se, but his massive balls to perform this in public create a gravity well that pulls asteroids towards earth.
You know, it isn't where I was expecting this to go, but you aren't wrong.
I'm partial to Black Sabbath's Into The Void.
Classic.
Can't go wrong with Cannibal Corpse, although I'm more a Barnes guy overall I think (I just saw Six Feet Under live a few months ago and honestly Barnes sounded awesome, better than he has in awhile)
Such a tough question because I want to shout out songs across multiple subgenres. Death Grips - No Love, Primus - Frizzle Fry (especially the ending), Quo Vadis - Silence Calls the Storms, Rage Against the Machine - Settle for Nothing, Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose, Denzel Curry - Ultra (feat Yung Kane , Nell , Slikk , Rell), Vivaldi's Summer 3rd Movement and half of the Acid Bath or Ulcerate catalog. If I have to settle for one song though I think I would go for :
Ahab - Old Thunder
However, if I can choose a particular snipet of a song that I think is the heaviest thing I have ever heard period, I would go for Akercocke - Leviathan, between the marks of 3:30 and 4:00. I was legit scared first time I heard that. You gotta listen to it from the beggining though because that build up is insane.
Abab - Old Thunder; what a mood they created. Crushing. Drums are well tuned and that guitar tone is sooo distorted. Super Duper Heavy.
Akercocke are an interesting choice. I look fwd to listening to more of their efforts.
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Blacklist by Exodus. Specifically their live at Hellfest 2008 version
That was fun, I like when it's clear the band is having a good time too
Picking an hour+ long song feels like cheating. I gotta admit, I've never had the fortitude to sit down and listen to the thing.
Helps to have a few drinks in ya
Listened to Seven Sorcerers. Yep, that's heavy, great pick.
Love that little band. Just had to spread it.
First thing that comes to mind..
Such a great song. Love Bloodbath. This one often has my mirrors vibrating in my car.
This one's new to me, but I just listened to it and it fucks hard. Cool as hell song, gonna listen to the rest of the album now.
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Check out this 12tone video which tries to analyze what makes something "heavy". tl;dr: sonic transgression https://youtu.be/b0mo17wLB4Q
That was a great video. I don't know that I 100% agree with the simplified conclusion, especially as I don't think heavy is always inherently at odds with "pop," (just look at bands like Limp Bizkit; they certainly aren't the heaviest band around I'd argue they're almost equally as heavy as they are pop), but it was a tremendous exploration regardless and I think I probably still agree like 90% anyway. I'd watched a few 12tone videos before, but one specific songs (Sympathy for the Devil, The Middle, Free Fallin'), but this was a better video than those were, imo.
Intensive Battery Brooding by Carcass
I don't know if they are the heaviest but there are two songs I keep coming back to. The first is Thrust! by White Zombie for its groove and the other is Hail Mary by Testament for pulling off heavy at a time when metal was still largely played on 9 gauged six strings tuned to e standard and no concept of bass in the mix.
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I hoped so much that was going to be what that link sent me to. A true metal legend, making fuck for 30+ years now
I like bass and listen to a lot of metal so. It’s all pretty heavy lol
But I’m gonna throw in the pipe organ. The biggest, loudest, most badass instrument that fills entire cathedrals and sub bass that shakes your house. Your sound system needs to be able to produce that though.
I have and do still occasionally listen to much heavier music but... Nirvana - You Know You're Right, maybe with SlipKnot - Left Behind as an honorable mention
Both are EMOTIONALLY heavy for me. I don't know about heavy musically, but defo soul-crushing songs.
Sewerslvt (aka Cynthoni)'s "final" album was made so she could cope with her girlfriend's suicide. There's a music video for the last song
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