Heavy? Hold my pint

[Pentagrimes]

Celtic Frost is the right answer but this also rings true for me

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WPoMA5EGnLc

Good call sir

Absoiutely. Another absolute crusher for me when I heard it first was this:

https://youtu.be/Dg8wi5X26u8?si=PO_I67iy4HWZd09Y

the riff around the 4.14 mark is up there with "Procreation" for me in terms of warpedness


On the Bolt Thrower front, "Through the Eye of Terrror" for me - that was the song I heard first by them on John Peel and I was gobsmacked. "Ream" is such a murderously heay album still.

[Grim Reality]

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EFueDySKfKo&si=7XVeLmBjohOM3XVy

This from Immolation is fantastic millennium era heavy when everything else in music was going to shit

[open face surgery]

I thought of Fall From a High Place when you mentioned Immolation. Right album, different tune.

[astfgyl]

[Thorn]

Skullkrusher by Overkill springs to mind.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Most definitely.

Lots of great shouts in this thread. Will have to agree on the mentions of Thou (super heavy live as well), 4th of July (which Thou also covered, lol) and Slayer's Hell Awaits. I recently revisited Slayer generally after a while of not listening and teenage me was on the ball, they're heavy as fuck.

What's heavy is always a great question because it'll cover so much ground and so many people have a different idea of what it means for them. I'll always lean towards the sludge end of it though because that's really where it hits in my mind, "heavy" and "fast" need a hell of a lot of other things working to bring them perfectly together (see Full of Hell, Slayer, etc). There has to be some "hang back" in the  flow of the riff to really evoke that feeling. It's what drew me into heavy music properly and is to this day, my favourite kind to seek out.

I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned this classic though (maybe too obvious?), because if I had to distill it to one answer to the question it's probably this. Just dripping with hate and claustrophobic in its sound/feel, it's the performance, production, the whole package.

Another big one at the moment for me would be Primitive Man. The word crushing is thrown about fairly liberally, but they really do just that, and it's very overwhelming live. Saw a comment on some video that said "Ethan McCarthy sounds like a dinosaur", and that's really the gist of it

This is in the buildup to the hit and like, it's in the fucking title, lol

ochoill mentioned Inter Arma, and I'd actually pick another track off that album, again with that dragging feel where the snare hangs back ever so slightly from around 3:53 on, then back on it for the chorus, just perfect, and the effect gets more extreme later in the song 

Shout out to our very own Slomatics and Nomadic Rituals as well, who frequently dish out the exact kind of stuff that comes to mind when I think of this

[Carnage]

By coincidence I've had Dopethrone popping up in my head all day, and it brought this thread to mind. Just dripping in grime and filth, truly crushing.

Good shout on Like Rats too. Pummeling.

Related to that, anything from the first few Swans albums could appear in this thread, not to mention their recent live material.

[NINE-T]

Faith no more, jizzlobber

[Jward]

[Pentagrimes]

Was just thinking of that Overkill tune this morning, nice shout Thorns

I have to mention this. Heavy in the way a bout of sleep paralysis is heavy, like being pinned down and suffocated. People talk about "Public Castration" but really all of "Body to Body" is where its at for experiencing the sheer heaviness of early Swans.

https://youtu.be/viTKVusgjqA?is=WNEiGa0y-_IC3M7u

[Bürggermeister]

When the bass kicks in and that riff takes off at 2:46, just bleedin' lovely. I remember coming across this is Virgin in Tallaght, of all places, when it came out, a total surprise as I'd heard they had split up years before. I was working in a field service job at the time and it would shake the living shit out of the caddy van when I drove around listening to it. Jerusalem always sounded fatter and heavier than the subsequent Dopesmoker releases, still my favourite version of it.

https://youtu.be/I3DsjW64F2g?t=158

[Sworntothecans]

Always tend to put the amp up to the last when this is on the turntable/tv/headphone.

[Goosebumples]

Some cool stuff posted in here, particularly the reminder to listen to more primitive man. Saw them a few weeks ago and they are unbelievably heavy, great band.

Here's another one for the thread, main riff in from skin to liquid is so fucking meaty!

https://cannibalcorpse.bandcamp.com/track/from-skin-to-liquid

[Jward]

Always tend to put the amp up to the last when this is on the turntable/tv/headphone.

Immense 

[jpm4]