Here's one - what is the absolute HEAVIEST BAND of all time? Obviously, one's idea of "heavy" could be radically different from someone else's. Is the heaviest the "noisiest?" Or the most profiscient, fastest playing band? "Deepest?" I've heard Napalm Death nominated. Slayer? Meshuggah? Discuss!

Deep Crevice Musk, obviously.

BlackToothGrin

Slayer

Electric Wizard http://www.myspace.com/electricwizarddorsetdoom

or Graves at Sea http://www.myspace.com/fuckinggrannysatsea

Sleep

The heaviest I've ever seen live goes to Sunn 0))) hands down. Unbelievable frequencies up in that shit.

Heaviest on an album is a little tougher...Dead Meadow would probably make my short list, as would Boris. The Who's Live at Leeds album might also creep up there. Then again, from a certain standpoint, I'd say the first Wu Tang record is pretty fucking heavy too.

Tough question, but a good one.

The loudest band I've ever seen was Melt Banana but surely not the heaviest band ever. Perhaps Mayhem. But then alot of people don't think they're that heavy. They're not really that good either. But they can burn churches like nobodys business. That could be a nominating factor.

I have to second BTG. They're heavy like an oversized pair of lead testicles.

There's also this song by a band called Mushmouth that was pretty rockin'.

These are both in the vein of hardcore-cum-metal type stuff. But I like that kind of heavy. It's got the mix of the fast wth just ungodly throat-tearing vocals. And a good band like that also knows how to groove.

Man for man, the Minutemen were the heaviest of all time hands down...D. Boon was enormous, and Mike Watt was no rail either. Can you think of a heavier band man for man?

the Bellmont?

When it comes to heaviest all time in the speed/death metal category, I would have to give it to Dead Horse. I have never heard anything like them. whenever i was drinking and smoking out of the bong all night, then "Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers" was thrown on the stereo, I would always puke. . . now thats fuckin rock and roll!

Depends on the time period.

that band is still in my head...

1st place is the band Survival Research Laboratories:
Remember that scene in Terminator when the robots are fighting a war against each other? SRL shows look/sound like that. One instrument that is played is the Shockwave Cannon - a device which fires a shockwave of air, shattering glass remotely with the force, constructed similarly to the shockwave-based Wunderwaffen anti-bomber device or the so-called hail cannon.

Here's footage of a typical gig.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L5JhQCJBYdQ

"But NO, I was talking only about bands that have guitars/drums, singer, etc...", then I guess 2nd place goes to Hanatarashi (eventually became the Boredoms).
Here is a silent slideshow of the event that 'killed' the band.
http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~gin/rock/japan/hanatarasi/h...i2/hanatarashi2.html

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Originally posted by sssk:
1st place is the band Survival Research Laboratories:

Here's footage of a typical gig.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L5JhQCJBYdQ

Wow, that was freakin' cool.

Not a band, but I've always thought that the live version of this song is pretty heavy:
My My Hey Hey

Clearly, it's DISASTER AREA (from the Hitchiker's Guide... series).

"Disaster Area is a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones. They are generally regarded as being the loudest noise of any kind at all. The optimum sound balance at one of their gigs is usually found 37 miles from the stage in a large concrete bunker.

Disaster Area are fronted by ajuitarist Hotblack Desiato."

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Originally posted by sssk: 1st place is the band Survival Research Laboratories

I have a videotape of one show with a remote controlled air-raid siren attached to rails on this low ceiling. As it moves around the room you can see people throw their hands up over the ears and eyes (it's so strong you can see the wind blowing their face- the very skin) one tough guy doesn't put up his hands, so they just park it by his face and leave it there. His eyelids are flapping.
In the same show (I believe) they had a bit with this timed alarm bell, like a school bell, and everytime it went off a pump would fire blood onto a lightbulb, until the heat from the bulb started to cook it and it made the entire room reek of blood!
Also they trained a hamster with cocaine to drive a robot, the lead guy has blown off 3, 4 fingers? everything is made from stolen parts- I just can't say enough good things about these folks. We did like half a semester on these guys in art school...in...in a painting class? I knew art school was fucked, but I just now realized how fucked.

The Bellmont is the heaviest band in ABQ.
For a time, we averaged 280 lbs.
Adding those skinny dudes Brian and Jarvis really screwed our average up.
And now Billy has gone and lost a lot of weight. Damnit. There goes our crown.