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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2005 at 22:53

Deliverance is also a heavier Opeth album

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2005 at 23:19

Opeth "Blackwater Park" although "Still Life" is very heavy too.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2005 at 23:29

yeah, i think it's all about how you define heavy

like Iron Maiden (not calling them prog) is a heavy band, but the guitar riffs aren't bone crunching

 

i dont know, maybe something like watchtower

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 05:49

Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix Dragon Phoenix wrote:

Dream Theatre Live at Budokan.

It consists of three CD's, so it must be the heaviest.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 05:50
I'd say Dream Theater's "Train Of Thought".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 05:58

I think DT isnt much heavy as symphony x, for example

The Odyssey could be the heaviest album...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 06:41

The world would be a boring place if we all had the same opinions.

The Odyssey is an amazing album, but I just think ToT is heavier.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 06:57
maybe ToT, but it's all depends how we define heavy..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 08:02
Originally posted by jonaev jonaev wrote:

maybe ToT, but it's all depends how we define heavy..


That's a good point. I guess we're talking about 'sonic' heaviness rather than emotional heaviness but I could be wrong.

For me nothing is as heavy prog than Crimson's THRaKaTTaK but I guess Tool outdoes them for sheer sonic assault.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 13:31
Everyone here looking for heavy but well-written owe it to themselves to get Cynic - Focus.

It is, to this day, one of the best albums I've ever heard. A prog album at heart, but with some metal intentions.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 13:54

Originally posted by Abbath Abbath wrote:

Everyone here looking for heavy but well-written owe it to themselves to get Cynic - Focus.

It is, to this day, one of the best albums I've ever heard. A prog album at heart, but with some metal intentions.

the albums here aren't about just making loud music.. I agree on you that focus is one of the best albums ever.. and it took about 5 years to make it.. and you can hear this..

and there are a lot of bad written not heavy albums on this archives too!!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 17:24
Originally posted by jonaev jonaev wrote:

I think DT isnt much heavy as symphony x, for example


The Odyssey could be the heaviest album...



I love Symphony X, but I just have a hard time calling it "heavy" because sometimes those synths really smooth the sharp edges of a song.

I do agree they're heavier than DT (though ToT gives them a run for their money), but Opeth is heavier than either.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 18:42
The heaviest I have heard is Tools "Lateraus".  Heavy in sound and intensity and in a few spots rage, especially the song "Ticks and Leaches" the final minute or so is the heaviest moment in prog.  I never considered Dream Theaters Met pt2 heavy I just got their new album but haven't heard it yet but that is heavy from everything I have heard.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2005 at 21:29
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

The later albums are both softer and more boring...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2005 at 06:01
If all you can come up with in the heavy category is opeth, tool or dream theatre, you guys are seriously missing out on the real heavy sh*t. I suggest you listen to Emperor - IX Equilibrium and Prometheus: The discipline of fire and demise. Emperor was Progressive black metal that will raise those little hairs on your neck. IX and Prometheus are their price albums. Enjoy!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2005 at 06:48

Originally posted by Elephant Elephant wrote:

If all you can come up with in the heavy category is opeth, tool or dream theatre, you guys are seriously missing out on the real heavy sh*t. I suggest you listen to Emperor - IX Equilibrium and Prometheus: The discipline of fire and demise. Emperor was Progressive black metal that will raise those little hairs on your neck. IX and Prometheus are their price albums. Enjoy!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2005 at 19:57
Originally posted by Elephant Elephant wrote:

If all you can come up with in the heavy category is opeth, tool or dream theatre, you guys are seriously missing out on the real heavy sh*t. I suggest you listen to Emperor - IX Equilibrium and Prometheus: The discipline of fire and demise. Emperor was Progressive black metal that will raise those little hairs on your neck. IX and Prometheus are their price albums. Enjoy!


Those two albums pale in compairison to their first two. The later are definately more progressive, but they seemed forced. Their early material truly had soul IMO.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2005 at 20:02
Originally posted by madgo2 madgo2 wrote:

Originally posted by Elephant Elephant wrote:

If all you can come up with in the heavy category is opeth, tool or dream theatre, you guys are seriously missing out on the real heavy sh*t. I suggest you listen to Emperor - IX Equilibrium and Prometheus: The discipline of fire and demise. Emperor was Progressive black metal that will raise those little hairs on your neck. IX and Prometheus are their price albums. Enjoy!

Yeah but can they carry a tune? 

This is exactly my problem with some metal.  If I were in it purely for getting my ass kicked by noise, I'd just sit around listening to Cannibal Corpse all day.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2005 at 18:57
Theres are many bands better than cannibal corpse that could do that for you better
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2005 at 19:31

This album i think is the progmetal early heavy album.very famos in my country (greenland)

I think you should like it very much if you can here it. they play melotroms and some heavy gutitar.Big smile

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