You forgot "You realize that "heavy" and "good" aren't synonymous and start listening to whatever the hell you want, from Animals as Leaders to baroque consorts."
@@lightningmonky7674 this is too real. Then you're spending the next hour looking up all the medical terms they use for song titles and learning possibly a little more than you wanted to
Yeah a year ago the heaviest/most brutal thing is listened to was cannibal corpse Now I'm at infant Annihilator after waking up and vulvodynia before going to sleep and i have no idea how that happened
Dude, Shostokovich is fucking metal. Some of his pieces had straight up breakdowns. His String Quartet 8 Second Movement is fucking killer. And his Cello Sonata Second Movement is killer. And don't even get me started on Symphony 5. Man was a genius.
You forgot to mention the BEANCORE phase, where every metalhead listens to the music created when Jesse Leach and Matt Tuck both hit the climax of their midlife crisis and decided to go experimental.
Highway to Hell - AC/DC 0:00 Iron Man - Black Sabbath 0:05 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 0:12 Battery - Metallica 0:20 Walk - Pantera 0:23 Hammer Smashed Face - Cannibal Corpse 0:29 Buried by Time and Dust - Mayhem 0:34 Dopethrone - Electric Wizard 0:41 Cast Down the Heretic - Nile 0:46 To the Hellfire - Lorna Shore 0:52 The Shrine of Mad Laughter - Deathspell Omega 0:59 Giant Steps - John Coltrane 1:04 ??? 1:07 String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110: II Allegro molto - St. Lawrence String Quartet 1:11 ??? 1:12 Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden 1:16
It's crazy how early some kids hear this stuff. Didn't hear Metallica and Maiden until I was 14. That's when I found real metal. Before that it was Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses. I'd say those guys are more hard rock than metal.
I'm also 42. We have a little corner of old farts here 😀 I started with Hendrix and Black Sabbath. Then, unfortunately, came the phase of nu-metal, but fortunately, there was also alternative metal and grunge. Then I became interested in stoner, hardcore-punk and finally black and death metal. I discover new things all the time :-) The 90's fucking spoiled me :-D
I feel like I went through the country, jazz, classical, and Indian Konnokal phases throughout this last year, not even joking, it is EERIE how accurate this video is!!!
Yeah, the same. I think, especially musicians go through this. Atleast I did thinking it would make me a better player. It did not. Because I don't like it. Back to hard rock and metal.
I can listen to Iowa and Meshugga before it gets too much for me. I tried checking out a Grindcore record recently and I do get the hype, it probably just needs to grow on me.
@@user-lw8pr8ll1k @go1988 It's Deathspell Omega's Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum album. An avant-garde black metal band that plays a lot with dissonance in their music! I would recommend their 2010 album Paracletus
Despite my dad actually having loads of Black Sabbath records (and me listening to them as a kid) I never considered them particularly heavy. I simply thought they were a cool and really groovy rock band that sounded unlike any other. All of that changed when I was 13 and listened to Painkiller by Judas Priest for the first time. Now *that* is heavy.
"Intense black metal phase" so true, lasted 10 years in my case. And the last one is super accurate too, as I returned to Slipknot 15 years after being a supermad fan in my teenage years :D. also, instead of country/ blues, I have a new wave / synth pop / post punk (ongoing) phase.
Currently sitting in the obligatory country stage. What can I say? I legit did a little Jazz before hand. As a Bassist I do enjoy the lines. Found it funny how you nailed that. I had a bit of a classical stage a few years ago. Looking forward to the Indian Konnakol phase... That's gunna take some explaining.
@@BuyBitcoinBefore1MillionPop and mumble rap peasents, too fukin real man, before I got deep into metal like I am now, I used listened to that shit, making myself think that shit was good, now I realize its just not good music, Im not saying that about rap in general though.
For me it was a bit of a circle. It started with Queen, went from there to Dio and Alestorm, then to Motörhead, Metallica and AC/DC, finally peaking at Slayer in terms of heaviness. From there on it dropped to the oldest metal bands like Deep Purple, Zeppelin and Sabbath, took a twist to the stoner territory via Sleep, Orange Goblin and Budgie, and now am listening to lots of blues and trippy prog.
I think 2017-2018 was my "Now THAT'S heavy" phase, mostly blamed on Slam Metal for entering my life. Because that really opened up my mind to Grindcore and even some Noisegrind things. Nowadays I just put on whatever tickles my bones the right way be it Morbid Angel's "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh" or J-pop. I honestly don't care anymore for "heaviness" in the sense of wanting more and more of it because at some point you're just going to be listening to TV static and wonder to yourself "so now what then?"
Well said! One could say slam metal is where you receive the bottom of the barrel. I could easily switch from listening to Devourment in one song and the next one being Linkin Park's. Also, Formulas Fatal To The Flesh is my favorite Morbid Angel album!
@@yvesheinrich5013 The same here, just a little more complicated because for me it's a tie between Altars and Gateways, just because I tried to find out which one of the 3 I liked more and gave up because I honestly can't tell if I like one of them more than the other. But Slam Metal I'd say now feels more "refined" ironically because a lot of it is still trying to have a bigger production (If we're talking like Vulvodynia stuff) whereas a lot of Grindcore and primitive forms of Black Metal tend to strip themselves down instead and sound like a toaster breaking down. Not saying I'm not into it, but overall I feel like Grindcore/Black Metal likes to veer off into more incoherent styles than Slam does. Either way great to see someone who gets what I mean at least to some degree, I don't dislike the very primal styles of Genres but it's kinda dawned upon me that they're pointless to seek out just for the sake of getting something "heavier"
@@SuicidalGrind *The same here, just a little more complicated because for me it's a tie between Altars and Gateways, just because I tried to find out which one of the 3 I liked more and gave up because I honestly can't tell if I like one of them more than the other.* I see what you mean. I actually prefer Blessed Are the Sick over Altars of Madness, and it's also a tie between that and Gateways to Annihilation. *But Slam Metal I'd say now feels more "refined" ironically because a lot of it is still trying to have a bigger production (If we're talking like Vulvodynia stuff) whereas a lot of Grindcore and primitive forms of Black Metal tend to strip themselves down instead and sound like a toaster breaking down. Not saying I'm not into it, but overall I feel like Grindcore/Black Metal likes to veer off into more incoherent styles than Slam does.* Of course, this is all subjective which makes it really hard to define what's heavy or the heaviest. Sometimes I find Carcass's Reek of Putrefaction one of the heaviest, in the same sense as Bolt Thrower's Realms of Chaos (we're talking A standard tuning in the late 80s - who does that?!), Cenotaph's The Gloomy Reflection Of Our Hidden Sorrows, Mortician, Devourment, Nile, Lymphatic Phlegm, some war metal, some death/doom and some even funeral doom metal. Hell, I would go as far as to say that even metalcore tends to get very heavy with stupendous breakdowns. *Either way great to see someone who gets what I mean at least to some degree, I don't dislike the very primal styles of Genres but it's kinda dawned upon me that they're pointless to seek out just for the sake of getting something "heavier"* For sure!
How accurate, after 8 years of ascending the metal heaviness ladder, 2 years quitting to listen to folk music, country, jazz, blues, everything and anything, now I'm back at grunge and Metallica/Pantera as my 2 fave vibes from "when I was younger" 🤣
Dude, this is exactly what happened with me but starting at the age of 12. I started with Bon Jovi, moving on from my obsession with Queen, Prince, Michael Jackson and 80s Pop & Soft Rock. Then I made a playlist of more “Rocky” stuff, since my favourite song was Livin On a Prayer. Then all of the Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Metallica, and the rest all started to fall in. I still listen to that playlist and I can’t get enough of it. I can’t even explain how happy I was when my guitar teacher taught me to play Back in Black (AC/DC) Thanks for this video dude it was hilarious.
I had my jazz and classical music phase before becoming a metalhead, so when I started to listen to death/black metal the first thing I tried to find was really heavy bands that used these other 2 other genres in their songs
thrash (old Metallica in particular) was my thing since 3d grade (roughly since 2003), then in 2015 I discovered stoner/doom, and that lasted for a good 4 years. I'm 29, and I feel like now, the less hair I have on my balding head, the more I like hardcore punk and even a bit of grind. also been listening to a lot of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, who have like 20 albums in all sorts of genres.:D
@@frank123612 hell yeah:) came across "Infest the rats' nest" somehow in 2019, don't even remember where. It was like my gateway drug into their colossal discography:D
Can't believe how accurate this is. Nowadays what I'm listening the most is the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal. In a world of 8 string guitars I find so much Confort in standard tuning and high voiced singers.
Same here! I’m absolutely obsessed with Brutal Death Metal ATM, specifically the technical side of it. I’ve listened to Cryptopsy’s None So Vile and that spiralled me into Suffocation, Deeds of Flesh, Dying Fetus, Nile, Wormed and Defeated Sanity.
In Finland our "heavy metal journey" starts when we are like 5 years old because we literally have heavy metal bands for kids, like "Hevisaurus". Also our dads and uncles listen metal (or hard rock) basically evyrywhere they can 😃.
I started with Blind Guardian via a Tolkien meme, got into Dragonforce via a crush’s recommendation, got into Maiden and Nightwish via a RU-vid channel, got into Trivium via their live-streamed shows, got into Soilwork and Amorphis via fanfiction (don’t ask… or maybe do, IDC) There’s been more, of course, but those are the highlights. It’s been pretty unconventional, or so I’d like to think.
French metal wasn't enough for many of us, we got into mongolian metal, japanese metal, thai metal, indian metal, nordic folk metal, maori metal and even dinosaur metal four our children 😅
@@himinthegulf8338 Well, not really. Southeast Desert Metal is an Australian metal band, comprised completely of indigenous people, in the middle of the outback. It is some of the most passionate and powerful stuff I've ever heard.
The feeling of needing something heavier and heavier is definitely a real phenomenon with metal enthusiast, feeling something is missing musically till you find it is also a thing; and the ecstasy of finding the true metal sound your soul had been craving all along is life changing, a love and addictive for life 🖤
bands like Ulcerate and Blut Aus Nord are probably the pinnacle of heaviness and amazing songwriting for me so far. my work supervisor recommended me 777 - Cosmosophy earlier this year and I havent really been the same since.
Somewhere in the country/jazz/classical phase there also exists a short circuit whereby some of us take an impossibly hard right turn right into synthwave, from whence we never properly escape.
I'm at the stage where it's either the utter chaos of extreme metal like anaal nathrakh, 45 minutes of distant chiming, reverb on one minor chord and whimpering from Bell Witch, or extremely chill stoner rock with really grimy low tuning, I've been listening to a lot of elephant tree lately. Idk what phase that is.
What happened to me: The first song I reportedly ever heard was “My Little Man” by Ozzy. By the time I turned 5, my favorite band was already Death and my favorite album was Leprosy. Still is today.
I though I had finally heard someone playing the heaviest metal ever in my neighborhood, until I investigated and realized it was a guy with a tractor dragging a metal storage container across a parking lot...maybe I need help....lol
The same thing happend to me but with prog. I started searching for the strangest thing I can found, never enough, went through a phase where were only Michael Manring, did a 6 months period with electronic music, and now I',m back listening to tecnichally everything, but 5/10 times Disturbed. Can relate 100%
Damn. This is scary accurate. Went through all of those phases and now I'm blasting whatever my playlist randomly plays. Now I'm one of those guys listening to brutal death metal, Hard Bop, trance, rap, classical and whatever chill music sung by all those gorgeous female singers with mellow voices and occasionally Luke combs or those sweet Russian deep house beats
