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10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

10. Whitechapel

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

This hardcore/metal fusion band haven't been around long only since 2006, but they sure pack a punch. Tuning as low as Drop A and using hardcore breakdowns.

Their name takes the name from the place where notorious serial killer jack the ripper took place and their lyrics theme around serial killing and prostitute killing.

9. Bloodbath

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

Bloodbath are a more newer band playing brutal death metal in the style and influence of Entombed, they tune to Drop A and are not short of heaviness.

Their anti-christian and occult lyrics add to the heaviness, they have a eerie and scary atmosphere.

8. Nile

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

Nile the kings of tech death, using technical riffs and blastbeat double bass drumming, with the skilled drummer george kollias playing unrelenting technical metal.

Nile tune as low as Drop A and they use a lot of middle eastern scales such as the hungarian minor and harmonic minor scales, their lyrics and theme are based on ancient egyptian mythology and history and their music reflects that.

Also they use exotic chords and utilize time signature changes, with erratic and complex rhythms and tempos.

7. Sunn O

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

Sunn o are a unusual band that play drone metal with dark atmosphere, tuning as low as Drop A and using weird chants, they play some of the most gnarliest, rawest metal and the band dress all in cloaks, keeping their identity anonymous

6. Bolthrower

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Boltthrower are Bolthrower say no more

5. Animals As Leaders

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

AAL play progressive metal with 8 string guitars, they play a mix of jazz fusion with progressive rock/metal.they tune to Drop F#.

4. Meshuggah

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

Meshuggah are the pioneers of technical and progressive metal, they use 8 strings and tune to F# standard. They write really complex and unusual music, utilizing unusual time signatures which is the forefront of their sound.

3. Rings of Saturn

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

Rings of Saturn are a alien inspired piece that play a blend of tech death and deathcore, dubbed aliencore they play complex technical metal on 8 string guitars.

their sound is really weird they use harmonizer and harmonize in unusual intervals.

Their 2014 album lugal ki en, is their heaviest output to date.

2. Mortician

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

Mortician tune to Drop E, do i need to say more....

1. Portal

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time

Portal are the heaviest, scariestand most unique band ever, they used 8 string guitars on their 2013 album "vexovoid" and play a weird, dark blend of atmospheric blackened death metal.

Using weird intervals and jazz chords, tremolo picking and blastbeats, they use weird time signatures and play complex stuff, their sound is eerie, atmospheric and trancey and dissonant.

Their lyrics are to do with the cthulhu mythos and lovecraft, most of which are indecipherable and in latin, they tune as low as F# standard and all wear medieval guillotine cloaks apart from the vocalist who has the weirdest costume, a clock...........yes , the vocalist wears a Victorian grandfather clock on this head.

10 Heaviest Metal Bands of All Time
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