Heaviest Metal Subgenres
The Top Ten
I may REALLY hate death metal but I agree its heavy.
There's only 2 bands of this subgenre: opeth and death but I respect anyones opinio
Black is close but death just swerves in front!
Brutal death metal is Death metal!
Brutal death metal!
Some of its really heavy. Immortal, Marduk, gorgoroth, 1349, and emperor are probably the heaviest. Others like mayhem and bathory are about as heavy as a thrash band
Thrash metal is heavy. In one way its heavier than Black metal but ultimately black metal sounds heavier cause it's a lot faster than thrash metal.
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
Thrash Metal is a Heavy Metal subgenre developed during the early 1980s and an early precursor of Extreme Metal. Thrash Metal features a faster and more aggressive guitar work than Traditional Metal with shredding and double-bass drums and can range from melodic singing to loud shouts. ...read more. Thrash is definitely heavier than black metal. Master of Puppets ain’t that thrashy. Try their first two albums and another old school Thrash bands, especially Slayer. Then you will find the answer.
Thrash varies in heaviness. The heaviest thrash bands are probably:
Kreator
Possessed
Slayer
Skeletonwitch
Sepulutura
Sodom
Repugnant
Ghoul
Exodus
Havok
Toxic Holocaust
Iron Reagan
Demolition Hammer and Warbringer are two that are heavier than what would be expected for Thrash.
Metallica,Megadeth And many Anthrax are not too heavy but I don't like thrash I am into hardcore punk
fast, heavy, hard... what's not to love?
Fused with Black Metal (blackened deathcore) this is unstoppable
Shrine of Malice,
Signs of Swarm,
Lorna Shore,
A Night in Texas..
When it comes to music that avtually tries to mentally cut its listener with a razer then thrash, death/thrash and grindcore win. But when it comes to heaviness as in "the music that makes you feel like you're trying to lift something heavy," deathcore, funeral doom and death doom win, no brainer.
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
So many sub categories that are probably the heaviest ei Black Tongue, Slaughter to Prevail, Lorna Shore...
Big fan of speed metal but this is too heavy for me
Stupidly heavy for a kind of music
Heavier than thrash
Slow, heavy, amazing
Userguy44, Grindcore is the combination of Death Metal and Punk. That makes it Metal. It also usually leans more to the Death Metal side. It's rare as hell to see a band that leans more to the punk side.
There is a point after which it is funny instead of heavy
Grindcore isn't metal.
Napalm Death
Carcass
Aborted
Pig Destroyer
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Extreme Noise Terror
Repulsion
Terrorizer
Nasum
Brutal Truth
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
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)
Technical Death Metal's heavy but I can listen to it more comfortably than death metal. Maybe because its technical.
Go Listen To Gojira there the best Technical D Metal band out there
Fast, technical, heavy
Cannibal corpse!
Slower thrash, need I say more?
Sepultura
Lamb of God
Pantera
slow thrash, with more headbanging
Take a listen to Pantera,Machine Head,Gojira and Sepultura
The Contenders
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.
My fave bands are Nile and Cryptopsy
Go listen to Gutted Face.
Slam is a genre. It's a type of BDM that focuses on the heaviness snd atmosphere of weight than BDM, like Cannibal Corpse. Usually, the vocalist is a frog, and the song is mainly slams (similar to djents, but far less syncopated and done by the guitar, bass and drums)
Some slam bands you should check out are: Extermination Dismemberment, Visceral Disgorge, Devourment, Gutteral Slug, Abominable Putridity, Malodorous, and Pathology
Good luck with the whiplash
Heaviest genre, no question. Just not for every metal fan oout there.
heaviest. end of discussion.
Prog metal never seemed heavy to me.
There’s so many different kinds that there’s bound to be something really heavy in there
Extreme Metal is an umbrella term that covers thrash, Death, black, grind, and doom Metal. So this list doesn't make sense
Extreme metal means heavy genres of metal. It isn't a sub-genre.
Extreme metal is heaviest metal!
Extreme Metal is not a genre.
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.
heavy, and goes on forever
Yes, speed metal is quite heavy.
Is horror Metal a thing?
What is horror metal?
No such subgenre (another example of people making a genre name based on lyrical themes and not on music)
Heavy Metal music is a sub-genre of rock music that originated in the late 1960s-70s, featuring more distorted and heavier instrumental work and darker lyrical themes. Heavy Metal broke into mainstream success with bands such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica. ...read more. Just because heavy metal has a name "heavy" doesn't mean it's the heaviest metal genre. Rather I'd choose heavy metal as a soft metal genre. Heavy metal is very soft comparing to Black, Death or Thrash metal.
This genre defined what Heavy is.
And it got Heavy in its name
Not that heavy but needs to be higher. It got Slipknot, Soulfly and (referring to old school now) Linkin Park.
As much as I love Nu Metal, this genre has to be the least heaviest subgenre.
Hated or not, stuff like early Korn is undoubtably heavy.
Ha ha! Is this a joke?