Heaviest Moments in Metal
 

You've heard them. Those parts where everything slows down, the void yawns beneath you and you're crushed into star dust by the sheer gravitational might.

We're talking the volcanic sludge, earthen strength imbued with rage, dragging you down the mountain. We're talking mammoths in tar-pits, Moai facing the hurricane, and the ponderous grinding of tectonic plates.

Post your top :20-40 second sections of pure ****ing heavy.

Between the Buried and Me - "What We Have Become" 3:19- 3:49


Defeated Sanity - "Hideously Disembodied" 3:03 - 3:41


Anaal Nathrakh - "When Humanity is Cancer" 3:08 - 3:29

Listen to old school.

I'm sure Blue Hawk knows about some cut-rate speed metal band from 1982 with ****ty production that are somehow heavier than Electric Wizard.

Maybe not the heaviest thing ever, but when I was a teenager the guitar solo in Stained Class made me wanna go out and kick someone's ass.

Old school death/thrash.

I still maintain that Conan's Blood Eagle was the heaviest metal album ever released. Literal speaker magma. All of the above are good examples, but none of them have the production that Skyhammer Studios blessed Conan with, you can drop the meanest and most gut grinding chug chug anybody has ever heard but unless you've got an engineer behind you that can effectively deliver those frequencies straight into the prostate of the listener, you ain't got ****, that's how Conan won and may never be topped.

0:00 - 69:05

https://spacebong.bandcamp.com/album...eath-of-utopia

EPOCH6 is closest to what I was hoping for this thread. Conan is great. I considered the intro of 'Hawk As Weapon' for my list, but it was too long.

I'm trying to highlight specific parts of songs that make your eyes bulge and have you scrambling to mark where in the song you heard it. Not 70 minutes of stoner death/doom or lo-fi 80's thrash. Heaviest 'moments' - not records. (Spacebong is interesting and I've always liked Incantation and Autopsy - not really what I was going for with this thread though).

I have a list of late-90's/early 00's death metal I haven't heard yet. Next couple of weeks will be plowing through what I can find on YouTube to make some more contributions.

Two moments that immediately come to mind aren't necessarily the absolute heaviest, but they definitely feel way ****ing heavy and have great impact as savage culminations of their respective tracks. Both came out in the same year too, in the groove metal/post-thrash realm, so maybe one ripped off the other, but either way they both make me want curb stomp a mutha.

3:43-5:58


3:19-4:43