Heaviest album Ever?

I listen to a lot of music, as you might guess, some of that happens to be some pretty crazy stuff like Doom metal, Sludge metal, and a combination of the two, being post metal. These genres are considered two of the heaviest out there, and I think I found the heaviest album out there...

Edited by Dim - September 29 2008 at 00:07

hmmm sometimes the issue of 'heavy' has also got to w the modern production and mastering process.  I mean, Sabbath sounds positively light n' trippy to most current doom/stoner/sludge, likewise early thrash & death metal................

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i listened exclusively to all kinds of metal before i got into prog and thought you couldnt be heavy without being metal. then i got into prog, and eventually discovered King Crimson. I got Red and thought that sh*t was heavy, then LTIA, and thought that was even heavier. then i got The Power to Believe

so my answer for heaviest song is Level One by KC

Heaviest Album goes to either Red (KC) or Volume 4 by Black Sabbath. I was going to choose an Opeth album, but all their albums post-MAYH besides Damnation are so f*cking heavy i couldnt choose

but there are many different types of 'heaviness'. i find certain jazz-rock songs very heavy, even some jazz. Coltrane was very heavy in the latter days

Deep Purple in Rock .That's heavy in my ears.

Edited by gr8dane - September 30 2008 at 21:46

topofsm wrote: darkshade wrote: i listened exclusively to all kinds of metal before i got into prog and thought you couldnt be heavy without being metal. then i got into prog, and eventually discovered King Crimson. I got Red and thought that sh*t was heavy, then LTIA, and thought that was even heavier. then i got The Power to Believe so my answer for heaviest song is Level One by KC Heaviest Album goes to either Red (KC) or Volume 4 by Black Sabbath. I was going to choose an Opeth album, but all their albums post-MAYH besides Damnation are so f*cking heavy i couldnt choose but there are many different types of 'heaviness'. i find certain jazz-rock songs very heavy, even some jazz. Coltrane was very heavy in the latter days Of course there are different types of heaviness! Good observation! I am always reading forums where people ask for the very first heavy metal song and there's always a couple of chaps who name something along the lines of "Mars, The Bringer of War" or "The Rite of Spring", which are of course classical pieces with no electric instrumentation in the least. I like your idea behind whats heavy and brutal, and while I dont find Mars, Bringer of war heavy, it's some of the most brutal stuff I've ever heard.   I guess there's just something about different music that makes things heavy. There's metal that I wouldn't know is heavy or not.   For my friends, bands like Decapitated and Nile are very heavy. I would call that type of music brutal, but not heavy. Likewise, Meshuggah, who tends to be brutal and thrashy can also be very, very heavy. "I" is one of the perfect examples. Ironically enough, "I" is one of the few Meshuggah songs I know semi well. But I neither find that song heavy or brutal. Not heavy cause of the lack of discernable melody, the guitars are more for rythmic or percussive reasons rather than drop B face smashing. Not brutal cause it's too experimental, and instead of putting the focus on killing you, it's more musical than anything else.   I might just have to get some Cult of Luna stuff just so I can get a taste of what you're talking about. I tend to not like slow music though, so it'll be a risky buy, but I have rarely regretted trying new stuff. Cult of Luna is not very fast, but what they lack in speed anf technicallity, they make up for in beauty and power. Start with their 2006 album Somewhere along the highway, if thats too mellow, get the Beyond, but dont say I didnt warn you!

Decapitated was quite brutal. Especially the first album.

early In Flames was heavy. Testament's Low is real heavy.

Another genre that's very heavy is funk. James Brown is probably the heaviest. But then you have some of the jazz-funk too.

faceofdoomness wrote: Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient is pretty darn heavy...

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No JK. Nile - Annihilate the Wicked is really heavy. There's a part in one song, I forget the name where the drummer's still doing his triple bass drum hits but the tempo is very slow and the guitar too... SOOO HEAVY.  I was going to say Chaosphere as well though. HEAAVVVYYY. Honestly I think that slow and sludge is heavier than fast and thrashy.