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Points: 9669 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2006 at 17:06
Originally posted by Dan Bobrowski Dan Bobrowski wrote:

Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

Ermm Probably latter-day Crimson approaches my "heaviness" limit.
 
(I have to be in the mood for that, too.)
 
Other than that, Jeff Beck's last two, & some Steve Morse are pretty heavy, for my collection.
 
I think we're the lightweights 'round here, Petey. I always found Danny and Keith Partridge to be on the heavy side.
 
Seriously, if it's done with taste and melody even metal can be rewarding. I don't waste time pushing the "skip" button when the cookie monster raises his ugly head, er, voice. Across the board it's a genre that I find too few diamonds to bother mining the field.
 
Hmmmm... parts of the Mamas & the Papas, and Mountain were pretty darned HEAVY too, come to think of it....
 
 
 Sorry -- that was too obvious, wasn't it? LOL
 
Now post a pic of you in that red Power Ranger suit, Dan! Wink
 
 
 


Edited by Peter Rideout - December 05 2006 at 17:09
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ShockedGet yer W-I-D-E screen monitors (at least two) ready, progholes....

Edited by Peter Rideout - December 05 2006 at 17:12
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peter those pics crashed my computer, damn you!
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Cryptopsy. (Extreme Technical Death Metal)

Tremendously brutal!! Actually I can't understand A WORD of what the singer shouts.
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Originally posted by Barla Barla wrote:

Cryptopsy. (Extreme Technical Death Metal)

Tremendously brutal!! Actually I can't understand A WORD of what the singer shouts.
Perhaps it's not in Spanish, then....Wink
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I love bands like Messhugah, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Mutant, Theory in Practice, Death, Opeth, etc, etc...
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Slayer is the heaviest band I can stand. I know, there are some bands that make their music sound as lullabies, but I don't find anything good on them.
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Anything void of melody  is  way past my limit.
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Anything heavier than hardcore and death metal is past my limit.
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Well I guess the heaviest I can go is complete drone... like sunn 0)))

As said before heavy can be the best form of music is performed right...

Some of my favorite examples:

Anekdoten - Nucleus

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Phthisis & Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion

Meshuggah - Nothing as a whole

Opeth - Wreath, Demon of the Fall, April Ethereal, etc.

Guapo - Five Suns

Alamaailman Vasarat - Kivitetty Saatana, jaa hyva mieli, Asuntovelka, Tankkaustunti

King Crimson - Red, Starless, Larks Tongues in Aspic Pt. II, Level Five

Akercocke - Verdelet

Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad - Storm, Life is All Dynamics, Dedhead, Love?

Slayer - Postmortem, Raining Blood, Angel of Death

Decapitated - Day 69, The Fury, Three Dimensional Defect, Post ()Organic

Sigur Ros - Untitled 08 off of ( )


There are many many more... but then i'd drag in a slew of metal and other stuff
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Fantomas - Suspended Animation
 
Melvins - Stoner Witch
 
Dead Meadow - Debut
 
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
 
The Mars Volta - Deloused in Chromatorium
 
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
 
King Crimson - Power to Believe
 
All are very heavy albums that I like.
 
 


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Sleepytime gorilla museum, I think. It's not about how heavy, but about how creative it is. That's why opeth is so boring to me. Trash, Thrash, Death, Black, Heavy, Happy, Crappy, Slappy, Gothic, Neurothic and the else just sounds funny in my ears, unless the goals of the compositions are placed beneath the label.
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I don't really have limits, but I dislike it when I get the feeling the heaviness is an attitude. heaviness must make sense from an artistic point of view; a band that is heavy just for being heavy usually bores me. unfortunately I have this feeling with most heavy bands. a really heavy band I like are Skyclad; their sound is highly original because of the use of a violin. I would welcome Skyclad into the archives even. another band I like are Ice Age.
some artists which are filed under "prog metal" here I would kick out though, because I can't discover anything proggy about them (must I say Devin Townsend?)


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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

I don't really have limits, but I dislike it when I get the feeling the heaviness is an attitude. heaviness must make sense from an artistic point of view; a band that is heavy just for being heavy usually bores me. unfortunately I have this feeling with most heavy bands. a really heavy band I like are Skyclad; their sound is highly original because of the use of a violin. I would welcome Skyclad into the archives even. another band I like are Ice Age.some artists which are filed under "prog metal" here I would kick out though, because I can't discover anything proggy about them (must I say Devin Townsend?)


I second that.
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Mine is very low. Probably the heaviest I tolerate is Dream Theater - Awake
I'm not exactly a metal fan
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Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

Originally posted by Barla Barla wrote:

Cryptopsy. (Extreme Technical Death Metal)

Tremendously brutal!! Actually I can't understand A WORD of what the singer shouts.
Perhaps it's not in Spanish, then....Wink


You've to hear that band, and then tell me if you understand anything Lord Worm shouts (yeah, damn cool name!). LOL
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Originally posted by Krator Krator wrote:

Today I was listening to MESHUGGAH's Chaosphere again, and during 'Elastic' ("The song with the minutes of just noise") I thought, "This is the heaviest music I could possibly like."

So, I'm curious, where is your limit? I know from experience that it's different from person to person - I know many who think Opeth is 'just noise with screaming.'



heavy... bah... what do you know about 'heavy 'LOL



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probably as heavy as Opeth, Rhapsody, Dragonforce
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I think many albums that are called "heavy" are not heavy at all. What I miss about them is a bit of dirt. They are loud and fast, ok, but the harmonies they use are so simple and banal that I don't regard them as "heavy". To be heavy you have to be dirty too.
"Heavy" has in my opinion absolutely nothing to do with speed, by the way. One of the heaviest albums of all time (in my opinion) is the live album "Vital" by Van der Graaf Generator. There are lots of albums by prog metal bands which are faster, but none kicks me in the guts as much as "Vital" does.


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

I think many albums that are called "heavy" are not heavy at all. What I miss about them is a bit of dirt. They are loud and fast, ok, but the harmonies they use are so simple and banal that I don't regard them as "heavy". To be heavy you have to be dirty too.
"Heavy" has in my opinion absolutely nothing to do with speed, by the way. One of the heaviest albums of all time (in my opinion) is the live album "Vital" by Van der Graaf Generator. There are lots of albums by prog metal bands which are faster, but none kicks me in the guts as much as "Vital" does.


you need to post more often LOL  Couldn't agree more. Though YS is the king of heavy..  plenty of 'dirt' in that.  Here...Have a couple of clappies...

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Great album by the way.. have a couple more..

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