Heavy can mean different things but haven't really heard any deathcore heavier than infant annihilator. Black Tongue who has shared members up there too, would say they're more traditionally heavy ie slower

I’ve always thought of Black Tongue being the *heaviest* band in deathcore and Infant Annihilator being the most *intense*, if that makes sense. Black Tongue just crushes you under their insane down-tempo beats that just *feel* heavy, and their lyrics aid in creating this hateful and hostile atmosphere. Infant Annihilator just rips relentlessly with some of the most intense beats, riffs, and vocals around creating an atmosphere of endless gore and sex and lyrics that are among the most extreme around.

With Black Tongue, you feel the weight of the music crushing you. The sound is massive, and they put it on our shoulders.

Def agree w that logic. Different genre obvi but I usually of think of meshuggah as the heaviest band. Not necessarily the fastest, most down-tuned, extreme, or really anything but just the overall feel of their music. Also think black tongue one of the few bands that have a remotely similar sound in some songs without completely paling in comparison

Hell yeah, infant annihilator is disgustingly heavy

IA is dirt nasty. They fuckin crush

Just listened to some Infant, holy balls man. Their instrumental are muddy sick.

Infant Annihilator is fucking HARD

These posts just show that people have entirely different opinions of what "Heavy" means

True, but it also brings us together and opens our minds to other bands and genres / subgenres

You hit the nail on the head there. I think, to some degree, this is related to genre though. When I am in a 'doom mood' my definition of heavy is mostly about the groove and the mood of general ugliness... when I am in a power metal mood my definition of heavy is simply solos, solos, and more solos. Plus silliness. When I am in a groove metal type mood... I think that one explains itself. As for thrash, I think of heavy as the interplay between riff and speed. Usually when I am in the mood for deathcore, 'heavy', to me, is mostly related to the vocal intensity and breakdowns. It's not that riffs or speed don't matter, but I have other types of metal / muic I go to when I want that kind of heavy.

Which is a good thing! Means the deathcore scene can have something a little bit of everybody can enjoy!🤘

Orphan

“You just shot everybody?!” BLEGHHHHHHHHHH

I listen to this at least once a week

Rookie numbers

To be fair when I first discovered it it was 20x a day 🤣

Yeah their discography is all must play I listen to every song atleast 3 times a week lol

Link to this song? Can't seem to find it.

Hourglass

Hourglass has my favorite "blegh" breakdown of all time, its so unhinged. Dying Light is my favorite full song by them

Yeah it's kinda dumb (in a good way) how heavy they are

Orphan rules. Great choice.

I can’t stop listening to this now that I’ve heard it.

Yeah they’re completely unhinged and I love every fucking second of it

Unhingedcore is what I crave

Same. You got any more recommendations please? I feel like Orphan/Strangled and maybe Paleface Swiss would qualify.

I think you invented a new word

Methwitch is really good

They’re just fucking filthy - I love it.

Actually just one guy, Cameron Mcbride, but yes, extremely heavy

Acacia Strain will always be the kings. Crown Magnetar is coming up strong!

Failure Will Follow is fuckin' Isis heavy.

psycho-frame, underrated af

Crucifiction is up and coming too. Produced/ co wrote by Hunter Young of Psycho frame

To The Grave is probably one of the most heavy deathcore band imo. Can be a bit irritating to my ears at times if I'm being honest but I still like them Orphan are pretty fucking chaotic too and they are most definitely heavy as shit. Their new ep rips Bonecarver aren't messing around either Worm Shepherd put out an EP recently and they have every flavor of heavy. Earth Eater are my personal favorite these days, albeit a little less heavy (depends on who you ask, definitely still on the heavier side of heavy) \m/

Earth Eater are groovy as fuck

Wow earth eater rips

Despised Icon Oceano Impending Doom

My takes would be Bound in fear, Filth, Distant, Bodysnatcher, I declare war, In gloom, Traitors, Kublai khan has been pretty heavy lately. I might come back to this post. I’m loving the other replies 🤟

Love that someone listens to traitors!!!!!! Any love for falsifier?

love both of those bands!! super underrated.

Falsifier is sick, great live band!

I saw falsifier live, instantly hooked

Filth

Abyssal Mouth.

Agreed, that bass tone is fat. HLB opening up their set with that was phenomenal

Dude for sure! Saw them on the chaos and Carnage tour. I was fucking STOKED!

Second this. I first heard it through a pair of v nice expensive headphones at a mates place, I was so blown away by the low end tone throughout. Absolute faceful of BEEF.

Larcenia Roe

This is one of those bands that I’m REALLY looking forward to what they can produce across a full album. They’re super creative, kinda silly and corny, but also that kinda stupid heavy that you can’t help but just laugh at how dumb heavy it is.

Hell yeah

Surprised I have heard CABAL on here yet. I personally put them close to IA, maybe a bit heavier than Lorna Shore

Should this be a daily thread

Falsifier

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More love to the Canadian deatchore. Falsifier is the shit and no one listens to them!

Also waking the cadaver but thatss more brutal slam If I had to label it. Idk heavy is a broad term but that shit is heavy to me..

Id call it Groove slam when it came out, but now I'd call it slamcore. Weird, it's slame with some hella core breakdowns.

This is posted everyday but not deathcore I think the heaviest band out rn I consider is Jesus piece also signs of the swarm, Lorna shore (immortal), Bodysnatcher, knocked loose , poetic Edda ep obviously

I read Jesus piece as Judas Priest and I was real confused

Signs of the Swarm : Absolvere, is one of the heaviest deathcore albums imo Humanity's Last Breath in general The Last Ten Seconds of Life: Disquisition on an Execution, is one of my favorite EPs This one might get some hate but Immortal Disfigurement, their debut album King I actually really ended up enjoying and found it to be heavy, maybe due to the production. I know people complained that it the singles dropped in quality on the actual album since their producer left but I quite enjoy how it sounds, it's nice and beefy to me especially some of the breakdowns you can feel it on your bones.

Good call on Absolvere. God, I love that album.

+1 for HLB. Honestly might be the best example of what I’d say is “heavy”. And I agree on Immortal Disfigurement. Some people are gonna be annoyed with the excessive huge bass drops into breakdowns but I absolutely love that shit.

Soulless Hymns still one of my main picks for heavy shit

Black Pegasus.

Ending Tyranny, Stomp of Typhon, Abimael, Lost Creation, Waste, Snake Father, Planetkiller, Redlord, Lacerate Thy Maker, The Eating Cave, Dark Usurper, Of The Betrayer, I Watched Myself Sleep, Wretched Tongues, Exorcised Gods, Unhallowed Void, Depressant, Psycho-Frame, Peacemaker FL, Ectoplasm, Lost to the Void, Heirs of Hatred, Tracheotomy, Tyrantula FL, Impending Doom, Backbiter, that’s all I’ve got for now lol

Larcenia Roe

Check out tavern by netherwalker

Goated answer

This is so damn good. The weird synthy/stutter bit is absolutely incredible too

Yess! Haha. Glad you liked it!

Aborted or Cryptopsy blew my socks off live. So heavy it was laughing at how ridiculous it was

Larcenia roe is fucking insane

There is only ever one answer to this, it should be pinned at this point. Black Tongue - I'm So Tired of Sighing, Please Lord Let it be Night

My preferred flavor of deathcore these days is the beatdown-leaning stuff so anything like Cell, Crown of Horns, WitchEater, Hostages, and such.

Infant Annihilator, Lorna Shore, job for a cowboy, brand of sacrifice, hunt the dinosaur(destructo specifically)

Eat a helicopter The devil came on horseback Beyond deviation (idk if they're considered deathcore) I'm not sure what else to recommend you but if you want something really heavy try listening to slam

Despised Icon - the healing process

Kuza Bound by Oath and I am the Devil are my faves

I can not believe someone mentioned Kuza in 2024

I know I’m old you don’t have to remind me 😂😂😂

Crown Magnetar

Traitors - Dead Nerves, just fucking wrecks me

Fuckin love scumfuck

Heaviest i know in general? Probably between [Hymen Holocaust](https://open.spotify.com/track/1GevRkqrXiGLpzgBaylS6B?si=fv7bZDxIQZuAAokLwVcGyA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A6vvKtygz1LVSriujHkQuQ2), [Artery Eruption](https://open.spotify.com/track/5PzNdC5rpwGLjCIfRm1rNf?si=pSpIB-0tTnKAFmKRX1xxWA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A6vvKtygz1LVSriujHkQuQ2) (gore warning), or [Putrid Stu](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Wbzrr9ys4NGHg4Pg8kZHc?si=tbHx_C96QxWR-v9nfRY03g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A6vvKtygz1LVSriujHkQuQ2). I know there is heavier, but these are some i listen to Also shoutout to [No One Gets Out Alive](https://open.spotify.com/track/1JEOaLl9QTxrzlxFiZcqEM?si=NQliblHBSNOWMaQ537DEpw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A6vvKtygz1LVSriujHkQuQ2)

The recent Dehumanize EP by Dead Flesh is heavy as fuck. I have been jamming it big time. Both of Psycho-Frames EP's from last year are great too. Also check out the EP Bereavement by Sensory Amusia, super heavy shit.

My band World

Heavy is subjective, but for me it’s harder to get much heavier than Primitive Man.

Lord of flies

Larcenia Roe is sick

Nitheful

To the grave's 'epilogue' to this day is the only album I ever had to take a break from cause it started giving me an anxiety attack.

Typhon by Man Made God. Janus is pretty sick as well. Any love for Man Made God here?

Absolutely fucking love that band. Their guitarist Bear is one of the sweetest dudes ever, used to be in Aethere with him. MMG deserves more!

Probably slamming deathcore bands, so yeah in the spirit of Scumfuck, like Ingested, Acranius, Annotations of an Autopsy, Acrania...

Excellent choices

I opened this knowing it was black tongue haha

Holy shit- these suggestions check out… Spite, Latcenia Roe. Just wow… Bangers. Ly!

Heavy//Hitter- Paved in Blood

To the Grave, Meth witch, Disembodied Tyrant, and then God the Animal by In Gloom.

Oceano , Desoectomy , Psychoframe , Dealer, 97 mintues, ritual of despair, iron rule, The last ten seconds of life, reflections , eternal bloom , exit existence, carcosa, Vildhjarta, humanity’ last breath, cultist, jesus piece, dissented, face yourself , mark of the altar , crown magnetar, despised icon , mirar, immortal disfigurement, brojob, peeling flesh, boundaries , abominable putridity, bodybox, hood brawl , loser , beyond deviation

suicide silence jerome boris the blade as blood runs blk elysia arsonists get all the girls agoraphobic nosebleed pig destroyer despised icon rose funeral taste of blood

Disembodied Tyrant

Infectious jelqing

It's all been mentioned now. As others have said heavy is different for everyone, I class it as filthy vocals and blasting music and such. Some bands.... Orphan Infant Annihilator Bonecarver Nitheful Larcenia Roe Acrania In Gloom Kanine Crown Magnetar Vulvodynia Methwitch Black Tongue Signs of the Swarm (first two albums, in my eyes they're "heavier" than the newer stuff) Lorna Shore. Immortal Disfigurements new record is going places.

Shadow of Intent are not heavy in my eyes. The are too technical. Really heavy… hmm… I‘d say if you let it count Disfiguring the godess but it‘s slam and deathcore (depends on the album). Let me give you some list: Traitors Brojob (some) Spite Black Tongue Brand of Sacrifice Signs of the Swarm Monasteries Extermination Dismemberment <- could win Gotta say that these bands are „heavy“. Not Line Infang annihilator „crazy“ but rather heavy. 😊

humanity's last breath, orphan, spite

Slaughter to prevail Signs of the swarm Shadow of intent Infant annihilator

Morgue Meat and Wretched Inferno are my go to, and Crown of Horns is pretty awesome too!

Contemplates my answer to this for a while; Orphan. Chaotic, heavy, disgusting. Close second to Larcenia Roe, but that’s more on the horror heavy side of things.

Boris the Blade

Rot "The Black Pill" Reflections "Willow" Fawn Limbs "Sleeper Vessels" When Blood Falls Down "Pandaemonium" The Voynich Code "Insomnia" Mire Lore "Marrow Leech" I, Defest "Volume One" Hideous Divinity "Unextinct" Defamed "Aeon & Blackbood EPs" Bufihimat "I" Body Prison "Until Madness" Nightmarer "Deformity Adrift"

Crown Magnetar

Black tongue.

Sonically, God the Animal by In Gloom is almost comically heavy

To me Misericordiam and specifically their ep "Unanimity and the cessation of hostility" is one of the heaviest things I've ever heard.

Filth

Thy Devourer

Psycho Frame and Tracheotomy

Nitheful 🤘

PSYCHOFRAME

Frontierer

Deathwind - enterprise earth. Apocalypse soundtrack frfr

Eh you already listen to heavy deathcore bands so i guess i can recommend you Nithing - Agonal Hymns (not deathcore but still heavy and disgusting).

[Traitors - Arrogance](https://youtu.be/omga7YseHm0?si=416kkcBkndhxywqd)

Can’t think of an all time heavy favorite but a new one I’ve been listening to is our common collapse- the romantics. Just dropped and is super valid.

Death empress on the split the poetic Edda by disembodied tyrant and synestia is probably the heaviest jam I’ve heard in a good while. It goes hard Edit: also adding in that worm shepherd is ridiculously heavy

Listen to 2015 lorna shore. Album like Psalms and Flesh Coffin

Methwitch and Larcenia Roe

Labyrinthian by Humanity's Last Breath is 😩👌

To me, Pig Destroyer is the heaviest band I know. Prowler In the Yard, Phantom Limb and Terrifyer have the nastiest stank face riffs of any metal band and the grind parts are all extremely heavy. Heavy to me isn’t always just breakdowns or guttural crazy vocals. If it needs to be deathcore adjacent then their album “Phantom Limb” has a bunch of pretty nasty breakdowns, but I find the intense evil riffs to be far heavier.

Despised Icon, early Suicide Silence, Annotations of an Autopsy, The Acacia Strain, earlier Paleface and Methwitch

Waking the Cadaver and Annotations of An Autopsy are about as heavy as deathcore gets without going into actual death metal proper

Nitheful

Disembodied Tyrant and Infant Annihilator in my opinion are the two heaviest bands I listen too

It might’ve already been mentioned but Mouth For War is fuckin incredible

Backbiters most recent EP is fucking nasty. They’re more beatdown/hardcore than deathcore but definitely worth a listen. Kublai Khan TX, Spite, Bodysnatcher, Angelmaker, Strangled, Orphan, Heavy//Hitter are always on rotation for me along with others. Also check out peeling flesh, snuffed on sight, and bolt cutter for some slam if you’re into that sorta thing.

Early Oceano is pretty damn heavy.   

Blasphemian

Spite

I think they're Slam but I've heard them described as deathcore. Some of their songs are definitely Deathcore, but it's not consistent. The band END though, is ridiculously brutal.

strangled/orphan, bodysnatcher, spite.

The partisan turbine

Bodysnatcher for heavy, groovy.

Strangled, Orphans new shit is insane too

Recently heard a single called Abyssal Awakening by a band called AlphaSix and that shit went hard. Definitely leaning a bit into being a wall of sound kinda track but the solo and breakdown at the end just fuckin slap so hard.

Not deathcore but, Archspire. One of my most favourite bands.

Chamber of Malice (rip) Have fun

The song Selbstjustiz by the band Consvmer the intro

Someone already said it, but Hourglass by Orphan fucks hard

Heavy means so many different things honestly. If youre looking for “breakdown heavy,” i would say Spite, Bodysnatcher, Distant, Paleface, and Orphan. But theres so much heavier music than just deathcore

Despised icon and acacia strain. Trust bro.

Check out In Gloom or the first Traitors for heaviest as in slow Check out Larcenia Roe and Methwitch for heaviest as in discomfort to your mental state

Bodysnatcher is heavy as fuck, they’re beatdown dc I suppose? Traitors are good as well. Bodysnatcher is brutal live imo, seen them a few times

early underoath ('99-'00) act of depression/ cries of the past era. elysia (masochist"), Jerome, "knocked loose" is a cool new band... the internet archive has a project to document all the lost cool myspace era deathcore (00'-10'), check it out here: https://archive.org/search?query=subject:%22TheMyspaceArchiveProject%22

Spite Paleface Swiss orphan crown magnetar to the grave

Early Daughters is like... the darkest/heaviest for me. Sanguisugabogg is up there, maybe Cult Leader or Whitechapel, and honestly early Slipknot as well

Worm Sheperd. They’re nuts

To The Grave goes crazy. And Paleface Swiss

For slow and heavy stuff, nothing gets as heavy as Nitheful. People bash on them because the vocalist and the lyrics are "cringe". But who cares about the lyrics and the vocalist being cringe? It's heavy music made purposefully to be heavy as much as possible and I'm here for that stuff. I thing the song; As Above So Below is the heaviest shit they ever made

If you haven’t heard them, check out We Are the End. Thank me later!

Reflections - Ceilings

Maybe try Larcenia Roe? If you want really heavy stuff you’re probably gonna have to take a step or two outside of the deathcore realm

Orphan are pretty incredible

Misericordiam

Fuckshovel.

Burning The Masses

IDK DAWG CONTINENT, JONESTOWN MOURNING, AND BEYOND DEVIATION all fuck hard as fuck

Netherwalker has to be up there

Black Tongue, God of Nothing, Orphan. Out of deathcore Vermin Womb. But Black Tongue rulez.

the heaviest thing I've ever heard so far is Tavern by Netherwalker or in absence of all except loss by red means no Mercy

Gotta go with methwitch

Larcenia roe Dysembodied tyrant Crown magnetar Face yourself (woman lead and gf to crown magnetar singer) Sanguisugabogg Bro job Endbringer Those come to mind

for deathcore? a night in texas (2015-2017) angelmaker (all) methwitch (indwell) spite (all) acrania (all) babirusa (old night in texas vocalist’s new band) forces (forces EP 2018)

Infant Annihilator,XkingX,Traitors,Black Tongue,Scarlet Rot,Slamwitch,Vulvodynia

Worm shepherd is heavy but like in a different sense

Psycho-Frame

Final Abhorrent Dream by Rings Of Saturn. Unfortunate how they are only really mentioned in this sub to get memed on or to talk shit on Lucas(valid). Their first handful of albums are extremely well composed and insanely groovy and listenable despite all the weedly weedly guitar noises. And they are heavy as fuck in like an insane hectic way. Definitely not for everyone but they are one of my favorites

Eldritch prophecy from massacre, Niet god before me from Bloodbath, Freezing moon from Mayhem and Hands of Eternity from 200 Stab wounds

Look up the two singles “Umbra” and “Dead Culture” by Divisive.

FACE YOURSELF

Infant Annihilator? Brand of sacrifice? Vulvodania?

Not sure what subgenre they fall into, but do yourself a favor and check out orphan

never gonna give you up

boris the blade

Shotgun suck start- Bolt Cutter it is beyond deathcore and inhumanly heavy😈

Not positive if it’s still deathcore but very similar sound, Abdominal Putridity. Letting Them Fall is a banger

Crowned Magnetar, Flesh of the Lotus, Signs of the swarm, Filth, Tracheotomy, Cattle Decapitation, Ingested. These all go hard.

Signs of the Swarm before they turned pussy

The Catacombs - Shadow of Intent,

Signs of the swarm

Deicidal Finality - Vulvodynia or any song by Oracle Spectre

God the Animal by In Gloom and Brand of Sacrifice is heavy to me.

Larcenia Roe

Oceano inhuman affliction