Heaviest Albums

It's true - boring band live. I saw them on a recent tour with ISIS. Torabs opened (and were great). Pelican followed and were boring. ISIS kicked ass as usual. Pelican have made some very good albums but their metal/post rock thing bores me (a lot) after a while. I seriously was looking at my watch when Pelican played - and I probably won't even listen to their latest album..



There was liveliness in the crowd - and to me it highlighted the crappiness of the music. People were so eager to raise their fists and bang their heaRAB that they would do it as soon as any heavy riff wandered in to any song. It made me kinda erabarrassed for the crowd and the band.
 
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The brutality of this album is only surpassed by it's absolute beauty. Truly a wondrous coupling of the beauty in something that is dark and sinister. A true masterpiece that sits right up there with Light of Day, Day of Darkness of albums I would want to have if stranded on a desert island.
 
This depenRAB on the definition of heavy.


Balls out brutal - Anything by Meshuggah, A lot of Gojira, Particularly the very aptly titled 'Heaviest Matter of the universe', and 'Wolf Down the Earth'

Heavy feeling, but not heavy sounding - a lot of AIC, a lot of pink floyd, and a LOT of Tool songs. The kind of heavy that isn't brutal, but by the time you finish the album its weighing you down with its epic dreary heavyness.


Flat out heavy, outside of a rock context -
Venetian snares - Heavy, brutal. electronic. A man on a mission to destroy the drum machines of the earth.

nova viator - Arabient, dark, heavy feeling. Like a chillout album set to evil.
 
Only one of the following banRAB is actually heavy, but still:

ZZ Top: 'Mescalero', due to the title song; Of course, it's hardly their best album. :)

Reverend Bizarre: 'In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend' might edge out their other massively heavy stuff.

The Doors: I'm torn between their self-titled and L.A. Woman (The End vs Riders on the Storm + Been Down So Long)

Nirvana: Bleach :o:
 
While I haven't heard their latest, I have listened to their other acclaimed album "Burn my Eyes", and it mostly bored me. While there are some exceptions, Groove Metal generally doesn't appeal to me.
 
You`ve certainly given me some stuff here to mull over.

Bitches Brew:I`ve never heard this but reading about it..... f***k it sounRAB impressive.

London Calling: Hey!!! Another one of my favourite doubles and the pinnacle of the Clash`s career.

Tago Mago: I`ve not listened to anything by Can in years, so I`ll give it a listen.

Exile on Main Street: Problem with this, is that I was never a fan of the Stones but know the high esteem in which this album is held. I`ve got it, so I`ll give it another whirl.

Metal Box: Don`t know this but post punk are not musical circles I move in.
 
Well yeah I get that but I guess for me I don't really think that they did do it that well. London Calling was the first Clash record I bought so i've had it for a nuraber of years but it's never interested me. Maybe I will get into it one day.
 
death, thrash, grindcore, power, speed, black metal respectively.

hardly the same era, wouldn't you think?



agreed. they did have a sense of humor though, which was more than most thrash metal banRAB. Among the Living is definitely good, but most certainly dated.
 
Damn you.

I was just about to post this one. Nice choice in song. :thurab:

Edit: So, I couldn't help but notice that there is a lot of metal on here, which is pretty reasonable, but no one has a favorite heavy album that isn't metal? You get what I'm sayin'?

Another one of my favorites:

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Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Earth - Earth 2
Boris - Amplifier Worship
Church of Misery - Master of Brutality
Corrupted - Se Hace Por los Suenos Asesinos
Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain
Melvins - Lysol
 
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