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Usually I like to listen to heavy metal/death metal when I’m in a certain mood, like after a tough day at work or when I need to canalize frustrations. But what are some heavy songs that are absolute bangers and you never skip, whatever the mood?
For me the first that came to mind are The Smashing Pumpkins « Bodies » and « X.Y.U. ». I also love Meshuggah « I », but I don’t always have the time to listen to it in its entirety (21 minutes).
Curious to hear what are yours!
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Now You've Got Something to Die For - Lamb of God
Anything from Ashes of the Wake, really!
Hourglass!
It's only getting... WOOOOOOORRRRSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE
They’re playing AotW all the way through on the current tour
Nice! Seeing them with Mastodon in July, I wonder if they'll do the same. It would be awesome to see Crack the Skye in full again
It's a Leviathan/Ashes of the Wake joint 20 year anniversary tour.
I'm more of a "As the palaces burn" guy myself.
Give me Black Label. I've been in several wall of deaths so that song still makes my back pain flare up a bit
was gunna comment Blood Of The Scribe
Desolation and walk with me in hell!
Momento Mori always makes me want to tear a hole in the sky and belch fire into the heavens!
Army of Liberation. Gunpoint indoctrination. The fires of sedition. Fulfill the prophecyyyyyyyyyyy
I was gonna say the same thing.
Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
Leviathan is one of the greatest metal albums of all time. Megalodon, iron tusk, I am ahab, blood and thunder obviously... Check these guys out, the bridge of this song reminds me a lot of mastodon.
Sylosis - to build a tomb https://youtu.be/AEoxeuv-Vmw?si=6w9G8OgBvotosniN
Hearts Alive i'd argue is their best song. Love watching some of the live performances on YT
Blood and Thunder is a masterclass in the art of simplicity. The main riff is basic, every other piece is simple and digestible, and it doesn’t overstay its welcome.
Thuuunndddeeeerrrr
Many Nine Inch Nails songs. "Wish" comes to mind.
Great call. Most of the Broken EP fits the criteria.
I love the Broken EP. It came out when I was in a particularly angsty period, and I spent a lot of time listening to it while brooding.
I remember buying it the day it came out. The cd came with a little mini cd with bonus tracks. Luckily my cd player had the mini cod slot too.
Yes! That record is very good and quite heavy.
Last is my favorite
Last has an INCREDIBLE bassline and distortion. The drums are amazing, too. God, I love that song.
I'm a sucker for Somewhat Damaged
Such a great album opener!
Yeah I was gonna say “Perfect Drug”.
Broken goes hard.
March of the Pigs, too.
Broken goes hard.
March of the Pigs, too.
Avatar - King's Harvest
Meshuggah - New Millennium Cyanide Christ
Graystone - Bleed the 5ifth/Musician Mansion
Devin Townsend - Juular, Vampira
Slayer - South of Heaven
Mastodon - Curl of the Burl
Strapping Young Lad - Detox
also: syl - oh my fucking god, almost again
Also: SYL - Love?
About damn time someone mentioned Slayer
Just had to stop and let you know that I love your picks! Saw Avatar last December without knowing any of their songs, and they are incredible.
I agree. I have never heard anyone that's been to an Avatar show say anything other than they are amazing live. Can't wait till they come back to my city!
They opened at a concert I went to a few years ago. I'd never heard of them. I knew they were going to be great within the first seconds of their set, they started off with Hail the Apocalypse.
Meshuggah - Bleed is phenomenal
“Niiiight….follows me when you are gone”
Judith - A Perfect Circle
Oh yeah. Not heavy, but love 3 Libras as well.
3 libras is one of the most simple, yet beautiful songs I've ever heard. I've been singing/ playing that song on the guitar for many years.
It's one of those rare songs where I'm actually a liitle upset that it ends. It's amazing.
I like 3 Libras a lot, but Orestes takes me somewhere else
Yes!
Also, Pet/ Counting Bodies Like Sheep
I was going to say Orestes
Orestes is one of the best orchestrated songs in existence IMO. It just builds and builds and builds and has so many damn feels.
Converge - Concubine / Fault & Fracture
Sick Of it All - Take the Night
Slipknot - People = Shit
Dillinger Escape Plan - Panasonic Youth
The Black Dalia Murder - Statutory Apes
Aphex Twins - Come to Daddy
My never skip black dahlia is "a vulgar picture" but man they're all so good. RIP Trevor.
Yeah, the whole Miasma is still so good! So sad about Trevor, such a good frontman
Devin Townsend / Strapping Young Lad He's got an amazing voice (5-6 octaves) lunges from Disney to death metal via folk, funk , punk and prog-metal. Empath demonstrates him romping through styles with a wall of sound production style. Syl were his early incarnation, aftermath , detox, love, wrong side of the head , skegesis are all heavy as hell Gene 'the atomic clock' Hoglan (Death, Deicide, Testament etc) is behind the skins, but the recent Lockdown gig has Samus66 clobbering the skins. https://youtu.be/E1Gwtep2oXw?si=KV9diyBwKvkg2Bhz "Grace" , I still don't quite understand how something can be soaring AND crushing at the same time.
If you have 30 minutes to spare - https://youtu.be/1oJEBGHCdBQ?si=QexR8eYky747vN3b
Funeral, bastard, death of music will give you a showcase of his talents (with the rest of project, who formed another band immolith who are bloody good too ).
Funeral will be played at mine.
Holy shit dude you might have changed my life with this one
Same. My Gods, how have I never heard of him?
I'm trying to change that !
Enjoy Devy !!
Thank you so much!
Welcome to Devy!
100% agree about Grace. Great to run into someone who enjoys that much as well.
I'd add Trivium's "In Waves" to the list as well.
Innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn wavvveeeeees!!
Holy shit
I did not know what to expect going into that and the first 15 ish seconds of it didn’t help either lol. But that was bad ass! Thank you!
Big statement here, he's one of the very best vocalists in the world, that's before we get into his writing, guitar and front man skills. You have fine taste.
Not a big statement , it's factual
Mariah Carey only has 5, Celine Dion 4.3, Mike Patton 5, Dave lee Roth 4.5, Axl rose 4.8.
Multi instrumentalist, drum programming, mixing, production.
Dude writes entire albums,like Ziltoid, that band members somehow have to play (Ryan Von Podyryan made herculean efforts). It's a sci fi story that bounces around genres.
Then you've moth , ki and others that are ephemeral, acoustic versions that up end the song , example Funeral
His live shows are just hnnnnhggg good, The Retinal Circus is just fantastic, or the red rocks show.
Why? Is a fantastic example of just what Dev is about :- https://youtu.be/Fgrik7HDKQ4?si=X2DvhlLbYCOtpQKR
Go see him live, he's self funded , but his shit, help a Canadian icon out.
I like your detail and passion, a lot. His music got me through all the lockdown bullshit.
I've been a fan for almost 5 years, overlooked him when I was a kid. Why is a masterpiece, I've played it for many people and it blew there minds.
Empath is such a phenomenal album
The singularity riff lives in my head rent free , especially the last 3 minutes of the triple end track.
https://youtu.be/kb935JynuhQ?si=rhW_vpJQok4mZyc6 phenomenal drummer and yup, that's them on the album
Hear me is even better when you watch Samus66 bang it out https://youtu.be/DQaETtF_dzQ?si=8vGKDAVMmpYoBPFv (also behind the kit for the pandemic syl show)
Mike Patton has six.
Tone > Range
That said Devin usually sounds great, even though he loves his 5 million layers of vocals.
Adding the link for his song "kingdom"....I am obsessed. His voice and talent are out of this world.
https://youtu.be/nubJjB95VdY?si=FZWdVByoMaJBu70h
Was waiting for this one, this made the rounds through all the reaction channels and it was cool seeing people cry listening to it for the first time
I’m surprised OP didn’t just post this in the original comment. This video basically covers everything Devy is about in under 6 minutes.
I've not heard a great deal of his material but Bad Devil makes me want to boogie.
In that case ... Vampira ! https://youtu.be/cjjIna3j1Nc?si=9Q29dSxdruB2Vaza (The polka version is even nuttier)
Followed up by the sci fi solo concept album, Ziltoid: The Omniscient
https://youtu.be/YtSnXU8DfCA?si=c-UtAfcWJG0xTYof
And the wonderfully unhinged Planet Smasher (his name is Herman and he hates musicals) https://youtu.be/6KqVcr62skA?si=S8UUESueccgL3wzT
Ziltoid is all devy, every instrument is his playing / programming (drums). Rvp had 'fun' learning them for shows
Love? is just an insane banger. The song I instantly thought of reading this post.
Holy shit! I just walked out of a banquet and read your post. I w been sitting in my car for the last 25 minutes watching this!
Enjoy the Devy rabbit hole !
16 hours later, I’m all in his catalog and have turned 2 of my buddies on to him as well. I owe you.
Nah friend, I'm happy that more people are encountering his catalogue
Rock on!
Love? by SYL is a monster
I'm a huge fan of Heavy Devy. I saw SYL several times live and they quickly became my favorite band for a long time. Every member of the band is uniquely talented and they work together on many of Devin's other projects.
Ziltiod the Omniscient, another side project, is both ridiculous and phenomenal, a literal metal space opera, haha.
Fuck me that's incredible. In fucking credible.
I just spent the last 3 hours listening to his stuff. Holy shit, man.
Welcome to Devy.
Thank you for showing me Devin!😍🤗
Bend it Like Bender! is my recommendation for Devin Townsend Project
Juuular, Kingdom, regulator, life, voices in the fan, death of music, things beyond things,
There are so many DTP songs that are just stormers
https://youtu.be/5Dlmh57kSbY?si=CGgnNnS09A9RPa_v this should be the Canadian anthem imho