Heaviest Metal Subgenres

Black is close but death just swerves in front!

Brutal death metal is Death metal!

Brutal death metal!

heaviest!

Black metal ist Krieg

The darkest and heaviest metal subgenre. - Userguy44

Swedish black metal is more violent than brutal death metal.
Bestial black metal is the brutal death metal of black metal

Black metal is "heavier" than death metal.
Really, I can't find brutal death metal songs as heavy as marduk, anaal nathrakh, archgoat, mayhem, beherit etc...
Cannibal corpse is not even the heaviest brutal death metal band

It's like death metal with blast beats and pig squeals. HEAVY

Deathcore Should Be number 1

Deathcore fuses the traditional death metal styke with growls and metalcore screams along with typical "core" genre sounds and breakdowns and pig squeels which makes is the heaviest genre relying to music,if we talk about what the song talks about the heaviest out there is black-blackened death metal, but as to the music...DEATHCORE

There is a point after which it is funny instead of heavy - Alkadikce

Grincore isn't metal. - Userguy44

Napalm Death
Carcass
Aborted
Pig Destroyer
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Extreme Noise Terror
Repulsion
Terrorizer
Nasum
Brutal Truth - ryanrimmel

Heavier than thrash

Stupidly heavy for a kind of music

Big fan of speed metal but this is too heavy for me

Really heavy - GreenDayFan21

Technical Death Metal's heavy but I can listen to it more comfortably than death metal. Maybe because its technical. - zxm

Go Listen To Gojira there the best Technical D Metal band out there

Cryptopsy, Gorguts, Nile. - Metal_Treasure

Technical Death Metal has 2 sub-groups:
1) Brutal Technical Death Metal: this is really heavy (Cryptopsy, Gorguts, Nile). Technical Death Metal is on this list mostly for this sub-group and should be higher. It's much heavier than death metal and thrash.
2) ordinary Technical Death Metal: it's less heavy than the 1st group and is more melodic (Necrophagist, Obscura, Quo Vadis) - Metal_Treasure

Cannibal corpse!

Blackened death metal fuses the death style with satan and anti-christ speaking text. This top is really crazy because thrash metal is too light compared to this or other metal subgenres which contain screams,growls and pig squeels with fast rhythm and heavier guitars,people only know metallica and other famous bands and they do not know what they are voting for

There's nothing heavier than the sound of eternal darkness and suffering that feels like a cold wind blasting on your face during the cold blizzard of the nuclear winter. You could as well eat raw flesh and sacrifice your own eyes to the Satan and scream in agony while blood drips all over your face from your eye sockets while listening to Drone Metal.

Heaviest genre, no question. Just not for every metal fan oout there.

Slam Metal dosen't exist. It’s actually called Brutal Death Metal. It just tricks you Into thinking It’s called Slam Metal - MegadethFan07

My fave bands are Nile and Cryptopsy - Metal_Treasure

Come on whats more heavier than this genre, look at the title, it even sounds heavy, the songs tend to have insanely fast tempos, very heavy sounding riffs, lots of double bass drum, and the vocals are so damn brutal that you can't even understand them.

Extreme Metal is an umbrella term that covers thrash, Death, black, grind, and doom Metal. So this list doesn't make sense - ryanrimmel

Extreme metal means heavy genres of metal. It isn't a sub-genre. - zxm

Extreme metal is heaviest metal!

Extreme Metal is not a genre. - GREYBOYY

Prog metal never seemed heavy to me. - zxm

No such subgenre (another example of people making a genre name based on lyrical themes and not on music) - Metal_Treasure

What is horror metal?

Is horror Metal a thing? - ryanrimmel

Yes, speed metal is quite heavy. - zxm

As much as I love Nu Metal, this genre has to be the least heaviest subgenre. - wrests

Not that heavy but needs to be higher. It got Slipknot, Soulfly and (referring to old school now) Linkin Park.

Ha ha! Is this a joke?

Really? - SirSkeletorThe3rd

Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails... - leonzillaleon

Listen to SYL's City and come back here.

Goregrind has the heaviest vocals

Maybe not as heavy as grindcore, but I think it sounds better

Symphonic metal isn't heavy. It usually consists of opera vocals with power metal (type of) riffs. - zxm

Dosen't exist. It’s called Shock Rock. - MegadethFan07