Heaviest band on earth?

[Elvis_Christ]

I've got a Locust CD lying around that I've never got round to listening too I'll have to give it a spin sometime

[UngodlyWarlock]

Originally Posted by scouse mac

If its the guitar riffs you're into, try out some Dragonforce

Quick fingers for sure, but I would never call Dragonforce "heavy".
I was fascinated with them at first, but I just see them more as a novelty than anything now....and I actually really enjoy other power metal bands.

[lucifreek]

The most heaviest bands I heard so far are:
Waking the Cadaver
Suicide Silence
Behemoth

[j0equ1nn]

The question you are asking is not one with an easy answer but more of the beginning of a long journey with no end. There is no single "heaviest" band: there are a lot of different styles, and things that are abrasive for different reasons, and there's just so much of it out there, so many people trying to out-do each other, you will more likely end up forgetting about what is the heaviest and at least figuring out what you like.

So now after going on about how there's no answer, I'm going to give you an answer because I consider myself a connoisseur of sorts when it comes to heavy music (I am a nerd). At the least I have some tips that will put what has been mentioned so far to shame. I think if you just want loud and fast and aggressive you're best off looking around in the grindcore genre, even more so than death metal. While death metal is more focused on just being dark and heavy, grindcore is more focused on being as fast as possible. It would be a sin if I didn't mention Napalm Death when talking about grindcore, but their more recent stuff isn't as fast. So as far as that goes I suggest Pig Destroyer's "38 Counts of Battery," Flesh Parade's "Kill Whitey," or if you're feeling particularly antisocial there's Anal Cunt's "I Like It When You Die." Other good grindcore bands include Narcosis and Excruciating Terror, but after a while like everything else it all starts to sound the same.

Also the deathgrind region may suit your purpose here, which is by definition a combo between death metal and grindcore, and there I'd recommend Mortician's "Chainsaw Dismemberment," and Cattle Decapitation's "Ten Torments of the Damned."

That's not to say this is the heaviest stuff there is, but that's what I like when it comes to ridiculously heavy music. Lately I've gotten more into looking for weird avant-garde metal stuff that's more interesting and not so predictable but I still like it to be sufficiently heavy.. If that sort of thing interests you check out The Secret Chiefs, Ulver, and Therion (earlier stuff is better with them).

I also like me a good melodic death metal band and as far as that goes my favorite ones are Amon Amarth, and At The Gates. And don't forget about good ol satanic black metal, there you got my favorites Ancient, and Martyrium (the one from Malta, there is also a German one). Bathory is also badass.

Okay enough is enough already. Happy head-banging.

[Tinsnip]

Cannibal Corpse is one of the heaviest horror bands I listen too, they're pretty incendiary.

[friday13thfan]

Ill go with my taste here
State Of East London
Whitechapel
Disfigured Elegance
Dead Silence Hides My Cries
Emmure (kinda)
Cannibal Corpse
Hester Prynne
Beheading of a King
Belie My Burial
Chelsea Grin

Then again most people prob wont share my taste but I find all these bands brutal and heavy.

[Elvis_Christ]

Cannabis Corpse are better.