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Points: 151 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 21 2006 at 23:08
well im going to go along with you guys and say that Meshuggah is probably the heaviest i have...but it's just so heavy that it looses that effect, it all sort of molds together and becomes rather dull...a common complaint, or so i hear.
i'd say that Dillinger Escape Plan hold a step up above them, although i've only listened to "Miss Machine"
ditto on Fantomas
to add something not yet mentioned: try out Acid Mother's Temple's "Electric Heavyland"...it's not your average AMT...
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I can get tolerate a fair amount of "heaviness" as long as it's balanced by other elements. When it becomes too unrelenting it puts me off. I like bits of DT, and Fate's Warning but cannot sit through a whole CD. Heavy is just one element and to focus too much on it robs the listener of so much else that music can do. It's like eating nothing but habenero peppers. Sure, a person can build up the tolerance for it, but you miss out on all the rest of the great food in the world.

I've spent bunches of $ on this stuff, I have all the Dt, and Fates, Evergrey, Some symphony X and PoS and more, but can't really say I like it. It gets to be too much. I've given it a fair try and several hundred dollars and now I move on.
    

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Originally posted by superprog superprog wrote:

 on the hardcore/metal side u gotta go for Revenge's Triumph Genocide Antichrist...its more than heavy its positively insane violence!!!!!


Sort of a shame that every Blasphemy/Conqueror/Revenge song is pretty much an indistinguishable wall of blastbeats and vocals with almost entirely inaudible guitar.  Conqueror were actually situated here during their lifetime, it sort of troubles me that they're the only metal band from Victoria ever to gain any kind of recognition... Wink
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I can listen to anything in terms of heaviness. The band "Anal C unt" is entertaining to me :)

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I like a lot of metal, and like a lot of you guys the heaviest band to date that I've heard is Meshuggah.
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I guess Opeth, which is my favorite metal band also.
I mean, Im sure I can take more heavy than that...but when it comes to the Meshuggahs and such...then its pretty much over for me
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Bryan wrote:

Sort of a shame that every Blasphemy/Conqueror/Revenge song is pretty much an indistinguishable wall of blastbeats and vocals with almost entirely inaudible guitar.  Conqueror were actually situated here during their lifetime, it sort of troubles me that they're the only metal band from Victoria ever to gain any kind of recognition... Wink
 
 
hehehe thats part of the appeal for me....i like it when the guitars are so downtuned and lost in the mix it becomes this retarded oppressive noise drone!!!!  I love Conqueror too (they were the predecessor to Revenge) and my, were they KVLT!!!  thats why we outside Canada probably heard of them heheheh
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Want heavy? Try:
Early Napalm Death
Godflesh
Earth
Sunn 0)))
Entombed
A. C.
Part Chimp
 


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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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http://www.uniqueleader.com/MP_3/severed.mp3

come on now... meshuggah is far from the heaviest band out there.
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I've found the beauty of Meshuggah's Music Approve
It took me months to understand it, thought Unhappy
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Blind Guardian is the heaviest I can go... and positively NO growling!!
 
(not even Opeth, I'm afraid.... I'm a sensitive soul...Embarrassed)
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Are we talking about heavy or about, for want of a better word, brutal? If it's the latter, then I have no limits, although I rarely listen to death metal or grindcore nowadays.
 
If it's the former, well, I like Sunn 0))), Burning Witch, Thergothon etc. And is anyone here familiar with Brian 'Lustmord' Williams? Here's what I found out about him:
 
Lustmord's sound investigations are exquisitely crafted manifestations of horror that balance sublime sound references with the body's natural queasiness about ultra-low frequencies (infrasound -- frequencies below 20 hz -- has been known to cause vomiting, permanent hearing loss, and even death).
 
Now that must be heavy. Does anyone here know how often he goes for infrasound on his albums? 
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Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Now that must be heavy. Does anyone here know how often he goes for infrasound on his albums? 


I wouldn't want to take the risk to try one anyways, if infrasound is lethal... Shocked
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Originally posted by Philéas Philéas wrote:

Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Now that must be heavy. Does anyone here know how often he goes for infrasound on his albums? 


I wouldn't want to take the risk to try one anyways, if infrasound is lethal... Shocked
 
Well, I listened to a 30-second sample from http://www.soleilmoon.com , and if I died in the process, then my Internet connection in the afterlife is as fickle as always. Anyway, while I definitely felt some physical discomfort, the infrasounds he used bore a certain beauty. I'll try to check out more of the stuff. I'm fairly confident only prolonged exposure to such frequencies can cause damage (after all, Brian Williams IS alive), but I'll be careful.
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Originally posted by toolis toolis wrote:


i'm a huge metal fan, so probably Carcass is the heaviest band that i enjoy...
nice, even I don't venture that heavy, though for my money it doesn't get heavier than Pantera \m/
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Iron Maiden or Black Sabbath (whichever is heavier) I don't like Thrash or Death metal...it's terrable!
It's got to be slow
Taking love the only way
It's got to just flow
Making love and taking time to let it grow
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^Black Sabbath is much heavier than Iron Maiden. The latter is harder though.
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Points: 29452 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2006 at 02:54
I gather there's a difference between 'hard rock' and 'heavy rock' so Iron Maiden and Motorhead fall into the former category presumably?! If so then I would say Rainbow 'Stagazer' is about the heaviest thing I like.
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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.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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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.
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