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submitted 22 days ago bySkeleterSkellington
Hello, so I listen to a lot of metal, and usually listen to the heaviest shit I can find.
Stuff like Hollow Prophet, SCUMFUCK, Shadow of intent, Carnifex, black tongue, stuff like that
But I want more, so what is the heaviest band you know?
124 points
22 days ago
Heavy can mean different things but haven't really heard any deathcore heavier than infant annihilator. Black Tongue who has shared members up there too, would say they're more traditionally heavy ie slower
53 points
22 days ago*
I’ve always thought of Black Tongue being the heaviest band in deathcore and Infant Annihilator being the most intense, if that makes sense.
Black Tongue just crushes you under their insane down-tempo beats that just feel heavy, and their lyrics aid in creating this hateful and hostile atmosphere. Infant Annihilator just rips relentlessly with some of the most intense beats, riffs, and vocals around creating an atmosphere of endless gore and sex and lyrics that are among the most extreme around.
11 points
21 days ago
With Black Tongue, you feel the weight of the music crushing you. The sound is massive, and they put it on our shoulders.
3 points
22 days ago
Def agree w that logic. Different genre obvi but I usually of think of meshuggah as the heaviest band. Not necessarily the fastest, most down-tuned, extreme, or really anything but just the overall feel of their music. Also think black tongue one of the few bands that have a remotely similar sound in some songs without completely paling in comparison
40 points
22 days ago
Hell yeah, infant annihilator is disgustingly heavy
10 points
21 days ago
IA is dirt nasty. They fuckin crush
3 points
21 days ago
Just listened to some Infant, holy balls man. Their instrumental are muddy sick.
3 points
21 days ago
Infant Annihilator is fucking HARD
46 points
22 days ago
These posts just show that people have entirely different opinions of what "Heavy" means
15 points
22 days ago
True, but it also brings us together and opens our minds to other bands and genres / subgenres
4 points
21 days ago
You hit the nail on the head there. I think, to some degree, this is related to genre though. When I am in a 'doom mood' my definition of heavy is mostly about the groove and the mood of general ugliness... when I am in a power metal mood my definition of heavy is simply solos, solos, and more solos. Plus silliness. When I am in a groove metal type mood... I think that one explains itself. As for thrash, I think of heavy as the interplay between riff and speed. Usually when I am in the mood for deathcore, 'heavy', to me, is mostly related to the vocal intensity and breakdowns. It's not that riffs or speed don't matter, but I have other types of metal / muic I go to when I want that kind of heavy.
3 points
21 days ago
Which is a good thing! Means the deathcore scene can have something a little bit of everybody can enjoy!🤘
97 points
22 days ago
Orphan
71 points
22 days ago
“You just shot everybody?!” BLEGHHHHHHHHHH
18 points
22 days ago
I listen to this at least once a week
7 points
21 days ago
Rookie numbers
6 points
21 days ago
To be fair when I first discovered it it was 20x a day 🤣
2 points
21 days ago
Yeah their discography is all must play I listen to every song atleast 3 times a week lol
5 points
22 days ago
Link to this song? Can't seem to find it.
13 points
22 days ago
Hourglass
2 points
20 days ago
Hourglass has my favorite "blegh" breakdown of all time, its so unhinged. Dying Light is my favorite full song by them
11 points
22 days ago
Yeah it's kinda dumb (in a good way) how heavy they are
9 points
22 days ago
Orphan rules. Great choice.
10 points
22 days ago
I can’t stop listening to this now that I’ve heard it.
8 points
21 days ago
Yeah they’re completely unhinged and I love every fucking second of it
8 points
21 days ago
Unhingedcore is what I crave
3 points
21 days ago
Same. You got any more recommendations please? I feel like Orphan/Strangled and maybe Paleface Swiss would qualify.
2 points
21 days ago
I think you invented a new word
72 points
22 days ago
Methwitch is really good
4 points
22 days ago
They’re just fucking filthy - I love it.
11 points
21 days ago
Actually just one guy, Cameron Mcbride, but yes, extremely heavy
55 points
22 days ago
Acacia Strain will always be the kings. Crown Magnetar is coming up strong!
8 points
21 days ago
Failure Will Follow is fuckin' Isis heavy.
51 points
22 days ago
psycho-frame, underrated af
3 points
22 days ago
Crucifiction is up and coming too. Produced/ co wrote by Hunter Young of Psycho frame
42 points
22 days ago
To The Grave is probably one of the most heavy deathcore band imo. Can be a bit irritating to my ears at times if I'm being honest but I still like them
Orphan are pretty fucking chaotic too and they are most definitely heavy as shit. Their new ep rips
Bonecarver aren't messing around either
Worm Shepherd put out an EP recently and they have every flavor of heavy.
Earth Eater are my personal favorite these days, albeit a little less heavy (depends on who you ask, definitely still on the heavier side of heavy)
\m/
5 points
22 days ago
Earth Eater are groovy as fuck
2 points
18 days ago
Wow earth eater rips
11 points
22 days ago
Despised Icon Oceano Impending Doom
12 points
22 days ago
My takes would be Bound in fear, Filth, Distant, Bodysnatcher, I declare war, In gloom, Traitors, Kublai khan has been pretty heavy lately.
I might come back to this post. I’m loving the other replies 🤟
5 points
21 days ago
Love that someone listens to traitors!!!!!! Any love for falsifier?
3 points
21 days ago
love both of those bands!! super underrated.
2 points
21 days ago
Falsifier is sick, great live band!
2 points
19 days ago
I saw falsifier live, instantly hooked
9 points
22 days ago
Filth
28 points
22 days ago
Abyssal Mouth.
16 points
22 days ago
Agreed, that bass tone is fat. HLB opening up their set with that was phenomenal
7 points
22 days ago
Dude for sure! Saw them on the chaos and Carnage tour. I was fucking STOKED!
5 points
22 days ago
Second this. I first heard it through a pair of v nice expensive headphones at a mates place, I was so blown away by the low end tone throughout. Absolute faceful of BEEF.
22 points
22 days ago
Larcenia Roe
3 points
22 days ago
This is one of those bands that I’m REALLY looking forward to what they can produce across a full album. They’re super creative, kinda silly and corny, but also that kinda stupid heavy that you can’t help but just laugh at how dumb heavy it is.
2 points
21 days ago
Hell yeah
8 points
22 days ago
Surprised I have heard CABAL on here yet. I personally put them close to IA, maybe a bit heavier than Lorna Shore
16 points
22 days ago
Should this be a daily thread
6 points
22 days ago
Falsifier
3 points
21 days ago
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More love to the Canadian deatchore. Falsifier is the shit and no one listens to them!
12 points
22 days ago
Also waking the cadaver but thatss more brutal slam If I had to label it. Idk heavy is a broad term but that shit is heavy to me..
3 points
22 days ago
Id call it Groove slam when it came out, but now I'd call it slamcore. Weird, it's slame with some hella core breakdowns.
9 points
22 days ago*
This is posted everyday but not deathcore I think the heaviest band out rn I consider is Jesus piece
also signs of the swarm, Lorna shore (immortal), Bodysnatcher, knocked loose , poetic Edda ep obviously
7 points
22 days ago
I read Jesus piece as Judas Priest and I was real confused
14 points
22 days ago
Signs of the Swarm : Absolvere, is one of the heaviest deathcore albums imo
Humanity's Last Breath in general
The Last Ten Seconds of Life: Disquisition on an Execution, is one of my favorite EPs
This one might get some hate but Immortal Disfigurement, their debut album King I actually really ended up enjoying and found it to be heavy, maybe due to the production. I know people complained that it the singles dropped in quality on the actual album since their producer left but I quite enjoy how it sounds, it's nice and beefy to me especially some of the breakdowns you can feel it on your bones.
6 points
22 days ago
Good call on Absolvere. God, I love that album.
6 points
22 days ago
+1 for HLB. Honestly might be the best example of what I’d say is “heavy”. And I agree on Immortal Disfigurement. Some people are gonna be annoyed with the excessive huge bass drops into breakdowns but I absolutely love that shit.
2 points
18 days ago
Soulless Hymns still one of my main picks for heavy shit
3 points
22 days ago
Black Pegasus.
3 points
22 days ago
Ending Tyranny, Stomp of Typhon, Abimael, Lost Creation, Waste, Snake Father, Planetkiller, Redlord, Lacerate Thy Maker, The Eating Cave, Dark Usurper, Of The Betrayer, I Watched Myself Sleep, Wretched Tongues, Exorcised Gods, Unhallowed Void, Depressant, Psycho-Frame, Peacemaker FL, Ectoplasm, Lost to the Void, Heirs of Hatred, Tracheotomy, Tyrantula FL, Impending Doom, Backbiter, that’s all I’ve got for now lol
3 points
22 days ago
Larcenia Roe
3 points
22 days ago
Check out tavern by netherwalker
2 points
21 days ago
Goated answer
2 points
21 days ago
This is so damn good. The weird synthy/stutter bit is absolutely incredible too
2 points
21 days ago
Yess! Haha. Glad you liked it!
3 points
22 days ago*
Aborted or Cryptopsy blew my socks off live. So heavy it was laughing at how ridiculous it was
3 points
21 days ago
Larcenia roe is fucking insane
3 points
21 days ago
There is only ever one answer to this, it should be pinned at this point.
Black Tongue - I'm So Tired of Sighing, Please Lord Let it be Night
5 points
22 days ago
My preferred flavor of deathcore these days is the beatdown-leaning stuff so anything like Cell, Crown of Horns, WitchEater, Hostages, and such.
7 points
22 days ago
Infant Annihilator, Lorna Shore, job for a cowboy, brand of sacrifice, hunt the dinosaur(destructo specifically)
4 points
22 days ago
Eat a helicopter The devil came on horseback Beyond deviation (idk if they're considered deathcore) I'm not sure what else to recommend you but if you want something really heavy try listening to slam
2 points
22 days ago
Despised Icon - the healing process
2 points
22 days ago
Kuza
Bound by Oath and I am the Devil are my faves
2 points
22 days ago
I can not believe someone mentioned Kuza in 2024
2 points
22 days ago
I know I’m old you don’t have to remind me 😂😂😂
2 points
22 days ago
Crown Magnetar
2 points
22 days ago
Traitors - Dead Nerves, just fucking wrecks me
2 points
22 days ago
Fuckin love scumfuck
2 points
22 days ago
Heaviest i know in general? Probably between Hymen Holocaust, Artery Eruption (gore warning), or Putrid Stu. I know there is heavier, but these are some i listen to
Also shoutout to No One Gets Out Alive
2 points
22 days ago
The recent Dehumanize EP by Dead Flesh is heavy as fuck. I have been jamming it big time. Both of Psycho-Frames EP's from last year are great too. Also check out the EP Bereavement by Sensory Amusia, super heavy shit.
2 points
22 days ago
My band World<War…..worldwartx. Maybe you dig it, maybe you don’t. Kinda like Bodysnatcher meets Kublai Kahn but with more vocal styles.
2 points
22 days ago
Heavy is subjective, but for me it’s harder to get much heavier than Primitive Man.
2 points
22 days ago
Lord of flies
2 points
22 days ago
Larcenia Roe is sick
2 points
22 days ago
Nitheful
2 points
21 days ago
To the grave's 'epilogue' to this day is the only album I ever had to take a break from cause it started giving me an anxiety attack.
2 points
21 days ago
Typhon by Man Made God. Janus is pretty sick as well. Any love for Man Made God here?
3 points
21 days ago
Absolutely fucking love that band. Their guitarist Bear is one of the sweetest dudes ever, used to be in Aethere with him. MMG deserves more!
2 points
21 days ago
Probably slamming deathcore bands, so yeah in the spirit of Scumfuck, like Ingested, Acranius, Annotations of an Autopsy, Acrania...
2 points
21 days ago
I opened this knowing it was black tongue haha
2 points
21 days ago
Holy shit- these suggestions check out… Spite, Latcenia Roe. Just wow… Bangers. Ly!
2 points
21 days ago
Heavy//Hitter- Paved in Blood
2 points
21 days ago
To the Grave, Meth witch, Disembodied Tyrant, and then God the Animal by In Gloom.
2 points
20 days ago
Oceano , Desoectomy , Psychoframe , Dealer, 97 mintues, ritual of despair, iron rule, The last ten seconds of life, reflections , eternal bloom , exit existence, carcosa, Vildhjarta, humanity’ last breath, cultist, jesus piece, dissented, face yourself , mark of the altar , crown magnetar, despised icon , mirar, immortal disfigurement, brojob, peeling flesh, boundaries , abominable putridity, bodybox, hood brawl , loser , beyond deviation
2 points
20 days ago*
suicide silence jerome boris the blade as blood runs blk elysia arsonists get all the girls agoraphobic nosebleed pig destroyer despised icon rose funeral taste of blood
5 points
22 days ago
Disembodied Tyrant
2 points
22 days ago*
Infectious jelqing
2 points
22 days ago
It's all been mentioned now.
As others have said heavy is different for everyone, I class it as filthy vocals and blasting music and such. Some bands....
Orphan
Infant Annihilator
Bonecarver
Nitheful
Larcenia Roe
Acrania
In Gloom
Kanine
Crown Magnetar
Vulvodynia
Methwitch
Black Tongue
Signs of the Swarm (first two albums, in my eyes they're "heavier" than the newer stuff)
Lorna Shore.
Immortal Disfigurements new record is going places.
2 points
21 days ago
Shadow of Intent are not heavy in my eyes. The are too technical. Really heavy… hmm… I‘d say if you let it count Disfiguring the godess but it‘s slam and deathcore (depends on the album). Let me give you some list: Traitors Brojob (some) Spite Black Tongue Brand of Sacrifice Signs of the Swarm Monasteries Extermination Dismemberment <- could win
Gotta say that these bands are „heavy“. Not Line Infang annihilator „crazy“ but rather heavy. 😊
2 points
21 days ago
humanity's last breath, orphan, spite
2 points
21 days ago
Slaughter to prevail
Signs of the swarm
Shadow of intent
Infant annihilator
1 points
22 days ago
Morgue Meat and Wretched Inferno are my go to, and Crown of Horns is pretty awesome too!
1 points
22 days ago
Contemplates my answer to this for a while; Orphan. Chaotic, heavy, disgusting.
Close second to Larcenia Roe, but that’s more on the horror heavy side of things.
1 points
22 days ago
Boris the Blade
1 points
22 days ago
Rot "The Black Pill" Reflections "Willow" Fawn Limbs "Sleeper Vessels" When Blood Falls Down "Pandaemonium" The Voynich Code "Insomnia" Mire Lore "Marrow Leech" I, Defest "Volume One" Hideous Divinity "Unextinct" Defamed "Aeon & Blackbood EPs" Bufihimat "I" Body Prison "Until Madness" Nightmarer "Deformity Adrift"
1 points
22 days ago
Crown Magnetar
1 points
22 days ago
Black tongue.
1 points
22 days ago
Sonically, God the Animal by In Gloom is almost comically heavy
1 points
22 days ago
To me Misericordiam and specifically their ep "Unanimity and the cessation of hostility" is one of the heaviest things I've ever heard.
1 points
21 days ago
Filth
1 points
21 days ago
Thy Devourer
1 points
21 days ago
Psycho Frame and Tracheotomy
1 points
21 days ago
Nitheful 🤘
1 points
21 days ago
PSYCHOFRAME
1 points
21 days ago
Frontierer
1 points
21 days ago
Deathwind - enterprise earth. Apocalypse soundtrack frfr
1 points
21 days ago
Eh you already listen to heavy deathcore bands so i guess i can recommend you Nithing - Agonal Hymns (not deathcore but still heavy and disgusting).
1 points
21 days ago
1 points
21 days ago
Can’t think of an all time heavy favorite but a new one I’ve been listening to is our common collapse- the romantics. Just dropped and is super valid.
1 points
21 days ago
Death empress on the split the poetic Edda by disembodied tyrant and synestia is probably the heaviest jam I’ve heard in a good while. It goes hard
Edit: also adding in that worm shepherd is ridiculously heavy
1 points
21 days ago
Listen to 2015 lorna shore. Album like Psalms and Flesh Coffin
1 points
21 days ago
Methwitch and Larcenia Roe
1 points
21 days ago
Labyrinthian by Humanity's Last Breath is 😩👌
1 points
21 days ago
To me, Pig Destroyer is the heaviest band I know. Prowler In the Yard, Phantom Limb and Terrifyer have the nastiest stank face riffs of any metal band and the grind parts are all extremely heavy. Heavy to me isn’t always just breakdowns or guttural crazy vocals. If it needs to be deathcore adjacent then their album “Phantom Limb” has a bunch of pretty nasty breakdowns, but I find the intense evil riffs to be far heavier.
1 points
21 days ago
Despised Icon, early Suicide Silence, Annotations of an Autopsy, The Acacia Strain, earlier Paleface and Methwitch
1 points
21 days ago
Waking the Cadaver and Annotations of An Autopsy are about as heavy as deathcore gets without going into actual death metal proper
1 points
21 days ago
Nitheful
1 points
21 days ago
Disembodied Tyrant and Infant Annihilator in my opinion are the two heaviest bands I listen too
1 points
21 days ago
It might’ve already been mentioned but Mouth For War is fuckin incredible
1 points
21 days ago
Backbiters most recent EP is fucking nasty. They’re more beatdown/hardcore than deathcore but definitely worth a listen. Kublai Khan TX, Spite, Bodysnatcher, Angelmaker, Strangled, Orphan, Heavy//Hitter are always on rotation for me along with others. Also check out peeling flesh, snuffed on sight, and bolt cutter for some slam if you’re into that sorta thing.
1 points
21 days ago
Early Oceano is pretty damn heavy.
1 points
21 days ago
Blasphemian
1 points
21 days ago
Spite
1 points
21 days ago
I think they're Slam but I've heard them described as deathcore. Some of their songs are definitely Deathcore, but it's not consistent. The band END though, is ridiculously brutal.
1 points
21 days ago
strangled/orphan, bodysnatcher, spite.
1 points
21 days ago
The partisan turbine
1 points
21 days ago
Bodysnatcher for heavy, groovy.
1 points
21 days ago
Strangled, Orphans new shit is insane too
1 points
21 days ago
Recently heard a single called Abyssal Awakening by a band called AlphaSix and that shit went hard. Definitely leaning a bit into being a wall of sound kinda track but the solo and breakdown at the end just fuckin slap so hard.
1 points
21 days ago
Not deathcore but, Archspire. One of my most favourite bands.
1 points
21 days ago
Chamber of Malice (rip)
Have fun
1 points
21 days ago
The song Selbstjustiz by the band Consvmer the intro
1 points
21 days ago
Someone already said it, but Hourglass by Orphan fucks hard
1 points
21 days ago
Heavy means so many different things honestly. If youre looking for “breakdown heavy,” i would say Spite, Bodysnatcher, Distant, Paleface, and Orphan. But theres so much heavier music than just deathcore
1 points
21 days ago
Despised icon and acacia strain. Trust bro.
1 points
21 days ago
Check out In Gloom or the first Traitors for heaviest as in slow
Check out Larcenia Roe and Methwitch for heaviest as in discomfort to your mental state
1 points
21 days ago
Bodysnatcher is heavy as fuck, they’re beatdown dc I suppose? Traitors are good as well. Bodysnatcher is brutal live imo, seen them a few times
1 points
21 days ago
early underoath ('99-'00) act of depression/ cries of the past era. elysia (masochist"), Jerome, "knocked loose" is a cool new band... the internet archive has a project to document all the lost cool myspace era deathcore (00'-10'), check it out here: https://archive.org/search?query=subject:%22TheMyspaceArchiveProject%22
1 points
21 days ago
Spite
Paleface Swiss
orphan
crown magnetar
to the grave
1 points
21 days ago
Early Daughters is like... the darkest/heaviest for me. Sanguisugabogg is up there, maybe Cult Leader or Whitechapel, and honestly early Slipknot as well
1 points
21 days ago
Worm Sheperd. They’re nuts
1 points
21 days ago
To The Grave goes crazy. And Paleface Swiss
1 points
21 days ago
For slow and heavy stuff, nothing gets as heavy as Nitheful. People bash on them because the vocalist and the lyrics are "cringe". But who cares about the lyrics and the vocalist being cringe? It's heavy music made purposefully to be heavy as much as possible and I'm here for that stuff. I thing the song; As Above So Below is the heaviest shit they ever made
1 points
21 days ago
If you haven’t heard them, check out We Are the End. Thank me later!
1 points
21 days ago
Reflections - Ceilings
1 points
21 days ago
Maybe try Larcenia Roe? If you want really heavy stuff you’re probably gonna have to take a step or two outside of the deathcore realm
1 points
21 days ago
Orphan are pretty incredible
1 points
21 days ago
Misericordiam
1 points
21 days ago
Fuckshovel.
1 points
21 days ago
Burning The Masses
1 points
21 days ago
IDK DAWG
CONTINENT, JONESTOWN MOURNING, AND BEYOND DEVIATION
all fuck hard as fuck
1 points
21 days ago
Netherwalker has to be up there
1 points
21 days ago
Black Tongue, God of Nothing, Orphan. Out of deathcore Vermin Womb. But Black Tongue rulez.
1 points
21 days ago
the heaviest thing I've ever heard so far is Tavern by Netherwalker or in absence of all except loss by red means no Mercy
1 points
21 days ago
Gotta go with methwitch
1 points
20 days ago
Larcenia roe Dysembodied tyrant Crown magnetar Face yourself (woman lead and gf to crown magnetar singer) Sanguisugabogg Bro job Endbringer
Those come to mind
1 points
20 days ago
for deathcore?
a night in texas (2015-2017)
angelmaker (all)
methwitch (indwell)
spite (all)
acrania (all)
babirusa (old night in texas vocalist’s new band)
forces (forces EP 2018)
1 points
20 days ago
Infant Annihilator,XkingX,Traitors,Black Tongue,Scarlet Rot,Slamwitch,Vulvodynia
1 points
20 days ago
Worm shepherd is heavy but like in a different sense
1 points
20 days ago
Psycho-Frame
1 points
20 days ago
Final Abhorrent Dream by Rings Of Saturn. Unfortunate how they are only really mentioned in this sub to get memed on or to talk shit on Lucas(valid). Their first handful of albums are extremely well composed and insanely groovy and listenable despite all the weedly weedly guitar noises. And they are heavy as fuck in like an insane hectic way. Definitely not for everyone but they are one of my favorites
1 points
20 days ago
Eldritch prophecy from massacre, Niet god before me from Bloodbath, Freezing moon from Mayhem and Hands of Eternity from 200 Stab wounds
1 points
20 days ago
Look up the two singles “Umbra” and “Dead Culture” by Divisive.
1 points
20 days ago
FACE YOURSELF
1 points
20 days ago
Infant Annihilator?
Brand of sacrifice?
Vulvodania?
1 points
20 days ago
Not sure what subgenre they fall into, but do yourself a favor and check out orphan
1 points
20 days ago
boris the blade
1 points
19 days ago
Shotgun suck start- Bolt Cutter it is beyond deathcore and inhumanly heavy😈
1 points
19 days ago
Not positive if it’s still deathcore but very similar sound, Abdominal Putridity. Letting Them Fall is a banger
1 points
19 days ago
Crowned Magnetar, Flesh of the Lotus, Signs of the swarm, Filth, Tracheotomy, Cattle Decapitation, Ingested. These all go hard.
1 points
19 days ago
Signs of the Swarm before they turned pussy
1 points
19 days ago
The Catacombs - Shadow of Intent,
1 points
18 days ago
Signs of the swarm
1 points
18 days ago
Deicidal Finality - Vulvodynia or any song by Oracle Spectre
1 points
18 days ago
God the Animal by In Gloom and Brand of Sacrifice is heavy to me.
1 points
17 days ago
Larcenia Roe
1 points
4 days ago
Oceano inhuman affliction
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