Um what about like a whale or smth i feel like those could be heavy. Like imagine a big hump back or smth. That would be really heavy i bet. But idk tho
The Prodigy were an electronic act so heavy they were uniformly accepted by the metal community. Fundamentally they're a dance act but they popped up at a bunch of heavy festivals and always went down a storm.
The Prodigy are great! Definitely a honorary metal band despite actually being electronic. I don’t bat an eye if I’m listening to a metal playlist and they come on. A more modern band that gives me very strong Prodigy vibes is WARGASM. They’re a British duo (I think, there might be backing band members too, but the two vocalists are the faces of the band) of a guy and gal and they go heavy as hell. Strong strong electronic elements with screaming, heavy riffs, clean vocals and a very high pace. I might say they lean closer to punk than to heavy metal, but that’s debatable. Either way, if you like Prodigy you’ll probably enjoy them, or at least find something to appreciate about them. Some standout songs I love and think are worth checking out include HEDONIST (RECHARGED), Modern Love, Do It So Good, Pyro Pyro, D.R.I.L.D.O and Fukstar. Do It So Good is especially great for my Prodigy loving heart and was the one to hook me on their stuff.
Useewa by Ado. It means stfu in Japanese. Or 'The Fox's Wedding' by Masa. The Fox's Wedding is electronic Japanese traditional music the song is about demon possession and cannibalism. Another good one is Beheading Dance about Samurai who beheaded an entire village in a dispute with a brothel. Or Dance of the Corpses by Kikuo.
Look, the heaviest non-metal song ever is Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. To this day, it's still the default spooky, monster, Dracula-ass theme song. That shit goes hard.
Another good heavy classical moment is In The Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt. Starts off slow and quiet, builds to an utter moshpit, largely because it's supposed to represent a bunch of angry Trolls hurling boulders at the hero.
I'll pitch in Echano and Children of Sanchez (jazz band version but guitar one also good) by Chuck Mangione as Heavy. Great licks and a riffing brass section.
In terms of classical, I'd say that Shostakovich absolutely deserves a mention for being heavy. My go to example would be the Allegro Molto section of Quartet No 8. Heavy. Bleak. Haunting. Magma also goes incredibly hard. De Futura is 17 minutes of just pure heaviness. The section 8 minutes in that speeds up is intense as fuck. The instrumentation is sick and the vocals sound like an early evolution of harsh vocals.
J. S. Bach was pure metal. He was a riff master and a shredder. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was pure metal. Big powerful chords on pipe organ with shredding mixed in. Then there is his shredding on harpsicord. Another piece of music that is pure metal is John Williams Imperial March from Star Wars. Little known fact: Darth Vader was a singer in a death metal band when he wasn't choking out subordinates. I think the band was The Darth Stars.
@@ChuckJansenII No, it was literal nicking and stealing. And it was done on purpose and absolutely openly - technically it wasn't even stealing, cause the original composers were longer gone than any copyright could exist. Spielberg literally put into the job description: Make classical music into movie music, cause i want it to survive into the new media.
Vivaldi's Winter and Summer are basically what guitar shredding would have been, Beethoven Moonlight movement no3 also, play those on guitar and it's a neoclassical shredfest.
There is this guitarist guy, Erock331 who does an absolutely amazing job shredding through some of these classical pieces. He has a series of classical/anime/pop etc. meets metal.
Nice to see classical music here. Matt Bellamy, who was heavily inspired by this music, did say that Rachmaninov’s playing had a dark energy and a heavy playing style that he didn’t get from other genres.
Imperial March (star wars)- John Williams A Rancid Romance - Diablo Swing Orchestra Overture (Phantom of the Opera) - Andrew Lloyd Webber Toccata and Fugue - Bach
Yeah, i mean the latest metal innovation was basically Djent and that has faded into obscurity in my opinion. The genre is falling off because alot of metal heads have grown up and moved on.
Definitely happy to see Helter Skelter as one of the first examples since it’s considered one of the earliest metal songs and I’d also throw in I Want You (She’s So Heavy) since it’s one of the earliest doom riffs (which also inspired Pull Me Under by Dream Theater), also some other songs I’d shout out are Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd, Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, which I’m genuinely surprised wasn’t on here either but all damn solid picks
birds of fire and inner mounting flame are some killer mclaughlin and his stuff with Miles is just amazing, all classic. Bitches brew, in a silent way and my favorite tribute to jack johnson. Lets not forget when he teamed up with santana on that guitar heavy AF love devotion surrender album where theyre ripping leads left and right. Great stuff
"Stagger Lee" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was the song that showed me that you don't need to be metal to be incredibly heavy. Some other Nick Cave songs like "Tupelo" are also excellent for their heaviness.
Interesting take. I feel that Mikael Akerfeldt was trying to say something similar about In Cauda Venenum. Talking about how heavy something is is not dependent on how it sounded but the overall tone.
King Crimson Red is probably the most metal album of all time that is not metal. 50 fuking years. Nile song from Pink Floyd - one of the first metal song ever. Some songs from Lord of the rings movie are heavy af.
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun is pretty doom too, As is some old Fleetwood Mac. Oh Well and of course Green Manalishi. Fuck that one's real heavy
Locomotive Breath, When the Levee Breaks, Careful With That Axe, Eugene (the live version from Ummagumma), Kick out the Jams are all good examples of classic heaviness as well
Gustav Holst, the planets circa 1918 has at least one track considered heavy metal, and not just heavy metal for its time. 106 years later it still holds up well
For me, metal is not about heavyness, but darkness. And sometimes metal is just random chugs and a guy making weird noses with a mic instead of taking you to a place where everything is dark and scary. Iron Maiden taught me that when I was 9, and my life changed since then with the Fear Of The Dark album
There is a lot of Orthodox liturgical chanting that goes unbelievably hard. No bass or drums can reach the absolute brutality of multiple oktavists just droning. Honestly, pretty much anything from that whole region is pretty brutal. Rachmaninoff is basically metal half the time.
@@Salliana_Of_Suramar They're my favorite black metal band by a longshot. I'm honestly surprised that it's not more common. Christianity is honestly pretty metal and bass-heavy choral music just makes such a great base.
in classical music there's In the Hall of the Mountain King by Peer Gynt, both Summer and Winter from Vivaldi's 4 seasons, Palladio (composed in the 90's, so it's modern classical music, but still), Beethoven's 5th, Dvořák's New World Symphony, Bach's Toccata and Fugue, Verdi's Dies Irae, O Fortuna by Orff
Honestly I think the plateau in heaviness came back in the 90s. IMO the heaviest stuff today isn't really any heavier than the heaviest stuff in the 90s. Turns out, you can't just infinitely out-extreme the folks who came before you. There are limits.
"Run Through the Jungle" by CCR; both vocally and lyrically it's about as heavy as anything was at that time. Also any type of Mongolian throat-singing music deserves a mention as well. I think of it as prehistoric metal.
Glad that King Crimson got a mention. 20th Century Schizoid Man is heavy as all hell. I'd like to add The Kinks' You Really Got Me as well. I think I've seen Coven mentioned as well, which I definitely agree with. And maybe a bit leftfield, but Laibach, particularly with the lead vocals being reminiscent of Till Lindemann's deep baritone growl could be a good shout.
Throbbing Gristle, Dead Kennedys or any of the 70's British Industrial bands were usually heavy enough to exceed their Schwarzschild radius and cause a black hole event.
Rite of Spring was adapted for electric guitar by Joe Parrish, and it's as metal as you would expect: ua-cam.com/video/GFG70gFbvOg/v-deo.htmlsi=N90FsefWSKjrqCqT
Can't mention heavy mainstream Rock by non-Metal bands without mentioning Smashing Pumpkins. They had some really heavy songs on Mellon Collie. Also, in Classical music, the scene from Don Giovanni where his dad's spirit comes up from the grave to drag him to hell is pretty damn heavy. Also, props for mentioning Scott Walker. That man's music was cool as shit.
An Ode to No One is their Helter Skelter and XYU is their Everybody's yada yada yada Monkey. Pissant, Tristessa's chorus and Marquis in Spades are quite heavy in their own right.
Sir, I'm so glad you're around, making these videos, bringing up these bands I've never seen, but they sound great, and I want to track them down. I'm a recovered alcoholic and music is the only drug I have left. I like a lot of Metal, but my parents are Boomers and shared their music with me, when I was a kid. Then, I went in the USMC, and had my horizons broadened with a crowbar. Great works, SIR!
So glad you mentioned King Crimson! Another early prog band that was incredibly heavy at times is Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Their song The Barbarian is insane, and there might be nothing more metal than stabbing your synthesizer with knives like Keith Emerson was known to do at live shows. I've also been saying for years that I enjoy electronic music because some of it is heavy af. Some of my favorites are Pendulum, Carpenter Brut, Rezz, Subtronics, Black Tiger Sex Machine, and MARAUDA. Some of the songs that Crush 40 did for the Sonic games get pretty heavy too. I Am... All of Me by Crush 40 from the Shadow the Hedgehog game, for example.
On the topic of King Crimson.... Forbidden (criminally underrated thrash band from back in the day) did an awesome cover of their song 21st Century Skitzoid Man on their Distortion album. Well worth checking out.
@@rubenszentesi1166 to me, Pink Floyd were experimenting so amazignly, like many rock types ahead of heir times. Similar to the Beatles or Hendrix and many other bands. For me, by their desire of progressing, Pink Floyd influenced countless generations of band that we're still getting amazed today!
I heard it through the grapevine has a pretty heavy bass riff, I wanna be your dog by the stooges sounds like it could be sludge metal at points, and voodoo child by Jimi Hendrix has heavy moments. Also the second movement of Dimitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet number 8 is insanely heavy.
The Shadows - Dynamite The breakup Song - Greg Kihn Band Concerto in G Minor for Violin - Vivaldi Heaven And Hell - C.C. Catch Cause You Are Young - C.C. Catch Safar - Mohsen Yahaghi Ain’t no Love in Oklahoma - Luke Combs American Remains - Highwaymen A Question of Time - Depech Mode Just wanted to add some songs I’d put into the category
no dinosaur jr ? MBV has some heavier songs too (the riff from "you made me realise" is heavy af imo) Jon Zohrn also have pretty abrasive and heavy (straight up inspired by metal ) music projects like naked city or electric madasa's at the mountains of madness.
I really love how passionate you are about music its truly inspiring. Not to be corny it's actually why im such a fan of you because i too am very passionate about the music i love and we seem to love the same music. Cheers Beans youre the man
David Bowie - She Shook Me Cold. Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors. George Harrison - Art Of Dying. Radiohead - Just. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Knife Edge. Kate Bush - Sat In Your Lap. The Monkees - Admiral Mike. Status Quo - Drifting Away. XTC - Helicopter. Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us. Eurythmics - Missionary Man. The Verve - This Is Music. Lush - Ladykillers. The Veronicas - Godzilla.
"Allegro Barbaro" by Bela Bartok is one of, if not the heaviest classical song out there, because he pretty much just makes a string quartet play dissonant, almost techdeath like riffs for pretty much the entire run time, and it's genuinely headbangable. "Rite of Spring" reminds me of Opeth, while "Night on Bald Mountain" sounds like a black metal song. In terms of electronic, I would say the song "Cold Pizza" by M1dy comes to mind. That song is basically thrash/death metal riffs being played by harsh synths while techno drums are doing literal blastbeats. Hell, pretty much the entire speedcore subgenre in general, since it's basically techno with blastbeats.
In no particular order. 1. Coven - The Dignitaries of Hell (literally has a blastbeat, was recorded in 1969 WTF.) 2. Reverend Horton Heat - It's a Dark Day (depressed psychobilly, incredible solo. Whole album is heavy.) 3. Comus - The Bite (Folk, but somehow progressive metal 20 years before progressive metal existed) 4. Cardiacs - Jibber and Twitch (precursor to Mr. Bungle, aggressive sims music. 10/10) 5. Pram - Gravity (stressful) 6. Sunn O))) - The Sinking Belle (emotional tungsten) 7. Street Sects - Copper in the Slots (Electronic, brutal)
The first thing that comes to my mind is Vágtázó Halottkémek, a "shaman punk" band from Hungary. They're basically hardcore punk, before hardcore or punk was even a thing. And keep in mind, most of this was during the Soviet Union's rule. These guys were literally banned at the time. But even today there's nothing else that has this much pure primal energy. Here are some of their heaviest songs: - Hol vagy? - Aláírhatatlan történelem (this one sounds very similar to black metal) - Álmodom - A Földalatti Zene Ellentámadás (very thrash metal sounding main riff) - Éljetek halottak - Világ ne halj meg (very eerie juxtaposition of silence and noise) The pure folk spinoff Vágtázó Csodaszarvas isn't far behind either, with songs like Emberélet, Napkapu and Hunok Csatája, they still got plenty of raw energy.
Missed it, therefore some Piano Metal added for the algorithm: Johann Sebastian B: Piano Concerto 1 d-minor, when played on Cembalo and fast allegro Prokofieff: Toccata and Sonata 6, first movement, even demands punching the keyboard at one point Ligeti: Etudes, for drive and complexity (Try Desordre or Fanfares)
"Machine" from the album Earquake is one of the most metal-sounding orchestral pieces I've heard, aside from Rite of Spring. It also helps that "Machine" has a lot of metallic percussion used throughout.
Here's a few dance tracks that have varying levels of heavy about them: Shpongle 'Dorset Perception' (Lo-Step Balearic Breaks Remix) Jeff Wayne - The Eve of the War (Hybrid's Fire in the Sky Mix) Basement Jaxx 'Where' Your Head At' Death in Vegas 'Dirt' (Slayer Mix) FCB 'Excalibur' Fluke 'Squirt' (The Europicolamix) Hocus Pocus 'Here's Johnny! ('96 Remix) The Crystal Method - Now Is The Time (Secret Knowledge Overkill Mix) (jump to about 4:40) Lunatic Calm - Roll The Dice Drumcorps 'Grist'
I don’t know if I’m going to make my way through this whole video, but there are tons of free and avant garde jazz and improvisation from the mid-60s into the 70s which makes most metal, which I enjoy, sound rather adolescent.
Each part of a song can only hit as hard as the difference between it and the part before. Thats why breakdowns in deathcore don't sound heavy to me, but a song that builds into a crescendo or alternates clean and heavy parts (Opeth being a great example) hits me waaay harder
My favourite song ever is " Barracuda " by Heart. Heard it as a kid and thought dayumm this is heavy. Then I learnt the meaning of the song and was like dayumm this is heavy. Plus alil wierd but Ann Wilson in her younger days, what a babe. What a voice 😍
Fucking great call you have with Barracuda. I remember being on Fremont Street in Vegas when I was like 16 as my young metalhead self and the light show went along to Barracuda and I was like 'fuck, man this is alright!!!' Fun night that was.
This was a super fun one! What other songs/artists would you pick??
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Pixies.. Broken Face?
Skrillex
Pain of Truth
The heaviest non metal is Iodine, hope that helped.
I tend to lean towards noble gases such as Xenon but Iodine is pretty heavy.
Um what about like a whale or smth i feel like those could be heavy. Like imagine a big hump back or smth. That would be really heavy i bet. But idk tho
the replies helped me get the joke
@@EddieS31 a whale is made with a wide variety of metals, like sodium, potassium, iron, magnesium as well as nonmetals like carbon
God damnit 😂
The Prodigy were an electronic act so heavy they were uniformly accepted by the metal community. Fundamentally they're a dance act but they popped up at a bunch of heavy festivals and always went down a storm.
Prodigy is one of the few electronic bands my ears tolerate. I tried bands close to Prodigy but it doesn't work.
They're great.
@MarcCastellsBallesta I mean the obvious ones to me are Pendulum and The Qemists if you haven't checked them already
The Prodigy are great! Definitely a honorary metal band despite actually being electronic. I don’t bat an eye if I’m listening to a metal playlist and they come on.
A more modern band that gives me very strong Prodigy vibes is WARGASM. They’re a British duo (I think, there might be backing band members too, but the two vocalists are the faces of the band) of a guy and gal and they go heavy as hell. Strong strong electronic elements with screaming, heavy riffs, clean vocals and a very high pace. I might say they lean closer to punk than to heavy metal, but that’s debatable. Either way, if you like Prodigy you’ll probably enjoy them, or at least find something to appreciate about them.
Some standout songs I love and think are worth checking out include HEDONIST (RECHARGED), Modern Love, Do It So Good, Pyro Pyro, D.R.I.L.D.O and Fukstar.
Do It So Good is especially great for my Prodigy loving heart and was the one to hook me on their stuff.
Useewa by Ado. It means stfu in Japanese. Or 'The Fox's Wedding' by Masa. The Fox's Wedding is electronic Japanese traditional music the song is about demon possession and cannibalism. Another good one is Beheading Dance about Samurai who beheaded an entire village in a dispute with a brothel. Or Dance of the Corpses by Kikuo.
@@KenjaTimu Answering to the last comment but I want to thank everyone who suggested bands. Definitely adding them to the list.
Look, the heaviest non-metal song ever is Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. To this day, it's still the default spooky, monster, Dracula-ass theme song. That shit goes hard.
i'd also add Vivaldi-The 4 Seasons: Summer
While often attributed to JS Bach, there's debate as to whether or not he actually wrote that particular piece.
Winter for me @@itsdokko2990
@@itsdokko2990 Winter is also pretty metal
I think that "Gloomy Sunday" is pretty heavy, the song has been banned during 50 years due to suicide of listeners
O Fortuna will always be one of the heaviest intense ominous dramatic epic pieces of music
Lady fortune is bald.
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This version of the song is crazy. The drop is so powerful.
Yep, Carl Orff and his Carmina Burana is definitely some heavy stuff, but great to listen to. 👍🏻
Carl Orff did symphonic deathcore before gutturals and distotred guitar was added in.
definitely my number one!
Another good heavy classical moment is In The Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt. Starts off slow and quiet, builds to an utter moshpit, largely because it's supposed to represent a bunch of angry Trolls hurling boulders at the hero.
Glad it got mention.
Or maybe le vértigo from pancrace royer
Came to suggest classical music that would have been metal if it had been invented. The Classical Conspiracy by Epica is a good example.
Dance of the Knights. Now that is heavy AF
Maaaadnesss reeeeiiiigns...
Oh. Wrong song.
I have to say Lizzo is probably the heaviest non metal artist
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The heaviest non metal song has to be "I Put A Spell On You" by Screamin J Hawkins
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“Fire” by Arthur Brown
I couldn’t agree more
The Thomas the tank engine theme has no business going as hard as it does
If you didn’t mention classical music I would’ve rioted
I'll pitch in Echano and Children of Sanchez (jazz band version but guitar one also good) by Chuck Mangione as Heavy. Great licks and a riffing brass section.
@@MaxRamos8 I’ll give it a listen, it sounds interesting!!
Funny and topical comment
Definetively. Me too.
In terms of classical, I'd say that Shostakovich absolutely deserves a mention for being heavy. My go to example would be the Allegro Molto section of Quartet No 8. Heavy. Bleak. Haunting.
Magma also goes incredibly hard. De Futura is 17 minutes of just pure heaviness. The section 8 minutes in that speeds up is intense as fuck. The instrumentation is sick and the vocals sound like an early evolution of harsh vocals.
4th movement of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony is super heavy
Yes to both Shos and Magma. I like the emerging doom of the first movement of his 10th, and the metal snare of the last movement
@@counterfit5 Yeah it's basically the speed metal of classical music.
+9000...Magma's De Futura is heavier than most metal.
We could also mention Vers la flamme from Scriabine and the sonata from Beethoven called Hammerklavier.
The End - The doors get super intense and heavy
Good one
Up the doors
YES! And there are some demo and "experimental" recordings of it with some unhinged heavy screaming
That breakdown/bridge especially, that part is fucking awesome
They were influenced by The Music Machine from '66
The Nile song by Pink Floyd, completely unexpected classic metal sound from the album More, I believe it was either 1968 or 1969.
It's brilliant!
J. S. Bach was pure metal. He was a riff master and a shredder. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was pure metal. Big powerful chords on pipe organ with shredding mixed in. Then there is his shredding on harpsicord.
Another piece of music that is pure metal is John Williams Imperial March from Star Wars. Little known fact: Darth Vader was a singer in a death metal band when he wasn't choking out subordinates. I think the band was The Darth Stars.
John Williams nicked a lot of music from Gustav Holst (The Planets) - did the same on Jaws (Dvorak / Ravel / Debussy)
@@Manu-Official It's called inspiration not nicking or stealing.
Someone even suggested Toccata and Fugue at 8:17
@@BlackGrizzly89 Good catch. I wasn't on the live stream and didn't pay attention to the running chat from it. Looked and saw it just now.
@@ChuckJansenII No, it was literal nicking and stealing. And it was done on purpose and absolutely openly - technically it wasn't even stealing, cause the original composers were longer gone than any copyright could exist. Spielberg literally put into the job description: Make classical music into movie music, cause i want it to survive into the new media.
Vivaldi's Winter and Summer are basically what guitar shredding would have been, Beethoven Moonlight movement no3 also, play those on guitar and it's a neoclassical shredfest.
There is this guitarist guy, Erock331 who does an absolutely amazing job shredding through some of these classical pieces. He has a series of classical/anime/pop etc. meets metal.
The outro of The Beatles’s “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is straight up Doom Metal, like WTF IT’S SO HEAVY
Paperback Writer is pretty heavy too
Literally what I started hearing in my head when I was thinking of a heavy non-metal song
"White Room" by Cream slaps so fucking hard. The true birth of mettle.
That and Mississippi Queen.
Cream are great! "Tales of brave Ulysses" is even heavier than White Room imo.
Nice to see classical music here. Matt Bellamy, who was heavily inspired by this music, did say that Rachmaninov’s playing had a dark energy and a heavy playing style that he didn’t get from other genres.
Prelude in C sharp minor...
Finally a fan od Muse.
Hash Pipe by Weezer deserves a mention, that riff goes so hard
I want you (she's so heavy) - The Beatles
Much heavier than Helter Skelter.
That’s one of my favorite songs
Heavier than Helter Skelter
@@Laceration_Gravityyythat whole medley on the backside of abbey road is my favorite
I was looking for this in here and I'm not disappointed
"In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg is a true metal masterpiece.
Bluey got my nephew into that shit! 🤘
Spirit in the Sky has the dirtiest rift for an ancient song about Jesus. Shit had no right being that dirty.
Best guitar tone ever.
Imperial March (star wars)- John Williams
A Rancid Romance - Diablo Swing Orchestra
Overture (Phantom of the Opera) - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Toccata and Fugue - Bach
Definitely The Prodigy as heavy, would definitely get me going back in the 90s
Dirtchamber Sessions was always our "Getting ready to go out to a gig routine" ( AKA Cristalor Beer & Weed ) soundtrack.
R.I.P, Keith. 💚
Don't forget some of the influential riffs of Mike Patton and Faith no More.
Me'ol perhaps has.. plateau'd?
thosu seemth correct
Pla’od
Yeah, i mean the latest metal innovation was basically Djent and that has faded into obscurity in my opinion. The genre is falling off because alot of metal heads have grown up and moved on.
@@BlackSpineRecords ple`od
@@blazingmonolith4323 I have to disagree. The latest metal innovation, as far as I know, is the saxophone
1 Georgy Sviridov - Time, forward!
2 Dvar-Hissen Raii
3 Art Of Noise-A Time To Fear
Black Midi are a great example of heaviness outside metal, songs like: bmbmbm, welcome to hell, John L are very heavy
Love their first album to death!
7:30 that Rite of Spring section is The Thing That Should Not Be chorus. I remember an interview of Hetfield admitting the influence
Definitely happy to see Helter Skelter as one of the first examples since it’s considered one of the earliest metal songs and I’d also throw in I Want You (She’s So Heavy) since it’s one of the earliest doom riffs (which also inspired Pull Me Under by Dream Theater), also some other songs I’d shout out are Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd, Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, which I’m genuinely surprised wasn’t on here either but all damn solid picks
Fun Fact: When Stravinski debuted Rite of Spring, the audience were so outraged by how heavy it sounded, they rioted and tore the place apart!
I'm so happy someone brought up Mahavishnu Orchestra!!!
birds of fire and inner mounting flame are some killer mclaughlin and his stuff with Miles is just amazing, all classic. Bitches brew, in a silent way and my favorite tribute to jack johnson. Lets not forget when he teamed up with santana on that guitar heavy AF love devotion surrender album where theyre ripping leads left and right. Great stuff
That riff from Eternity's Breath, Pt. 1 🤘
You missed the genre that surpasses metal in harshness: noise.
The fact that Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 was not in this video is a travesty
or the first string quartet by Prokofiev ua-cam.com/video/3TRIQP7WNkc/v-deo.html
Facts
Shostakovich in general is pretty heavy
Came here to say this. It's brutal. Sounds like being chased through the woods at night by Mayhem.
Yup. That song straight murder music.
Mike Oldfield has a lot of stuff that sounds very heavy: Taurus 2, Shadow On The Wall, Outcast, parts of Tubular Bells
"Stagger Lee" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was the song that showed me that you don't need to be metal to be incredibly heavy. Some other Nick Cave songs like "Tupelo" are also excellent for their heaviness.
I'll add Papa won't leave you henry, lover man, jack the ripper
Interesting take. I feel that Mikael Akerfeldt was trying to say something similar about In Cauda Venenum. Talking about how heavy something is is not dependent on how it sounded but the overall tone.
Queen- Stone Cold Crazy
Queen - One Vision.
Also, "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, "Jingo" by Santana, "Sweet Dream" by Jethro Tull, "Songs für Liam" by Kraftklub and "Thrash Punk" by Tcukimay
King Crimson Red is probably the most metal album of all time that is not metal.
50 fuking years.
Nile song from Pink Floyd - one of the first metal song ever.
Some songs from Lord of the rings movie are heavy af.
Calling red not metal is a stretch for sure
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun is pretty doom too, As is some old Fleetwood Mac. Oh Well and of course Green Manalishi. Fuck that one's real heavy
Locomotive Breath, When the Levee Breaks, Careful With That Axe, Eugene (the live version from Ummagumma), Kick out the Jams are all good examples of classic heaviness as well
Gustav Holst, the planets circa 1918 has at least one track considered heavy metal, and not just heavy metal for its time. 106 years later it still holds up well
Awesome vid, I'm not a metalhead but can appreciate all good music. No idea how some folk can write off a whole genre. Music is life.
For me, metal is not about heavyness, but darkness. And sometimes metal is just random chugs and a guy making weird noses with a mic instead of taking you to a place where everything is dark and scary. Iron Maiden taught me that when I was 9, and my life changed since then with the Fear Of The Dark album
There is a lot of Orthodox liturgical chanting that goes unbelievably hard. No bass or drums can reach the absolute brutality of multiple oktavists just droning. Honestly, pretty much anything from that whole region is pretty brutal. Rachmaninoff is basically metal half the time.
Yes Russian composers do not fuck around
check out Polish black metal band BATUSHKA, they use them as a base
@@Salliana_Of_Suramar They're my favorite black metal band by a longshot. I'm honestly surprised that it's not more common. Christianity is honestly pretty metal and bass-heavy choral music just makes such a great base.
in classical music there's In the Hall of the Mountain King by Peer Gynt, both Summer and Winter from Vivaldi's 4 seasons, Palladio (composed in the 90's, so it's modern classical music, but still), Beethoven's 5th, Dvořák's New World Symphony, Bach's Toccata and Fugue, Verdi's Dies Irae, O Fortuna by Orff
Honestly I think the plateau in heaviness came back in the 90s. IMO the heaviest stuff today isn't really any heavier than the heaviest stuff in the 90s.
Turns out, you can't just infinitely out-extreme the folks who came before you. There are limits.
Nope. Whatever current year war metal or grindcore is way heavier than any known "extreme metal" nor any of the heaviest 90s bands
The breakdown at "I'll be goooone" in the the chorus is METAL AF!
Bartok string quartets go mental.
They’re gorgeous, glad to see them mentioned!
The last movement of his 4th string quartet is so good
Yes! and Grieg's g minor string quartet is another good one.
@@concernedliberal4453 oh my word, yes!
@@elrincondelocutre9884 that's something straight out of SOAD!
"Run Through the Jungle" by CCR; both vocally and lyrically it's about as heavy as anything was at that time. Also any type of Mongolian throat-singing music deserves a mention as well. I think of it as prehistoric metal.
Glad that King Crimson got a mention. 20th Century Schizoid Man is heavy as all hell. I'd like to add The Kinks' You Really Got Me as well. I think I've seen Coven mentioned as well, which I definitely agree with. And maybe a bit leftfield, but Laibach, particularly with the lead vocals being reminiscent of Till Lindemann's deep baritone growl could be a good shout.
Throbbing Gristle, Dead Kennedys or any of the 70's British Industrial bands were usually heavy enough to exceed their Schwarzschild radius and cause a black hole event.
There's your next challenge- a huge metal arrangement of Stravinsky
I would be very surprised if that doesn’t exist and if it doesn’t, somebody should do that
Rite of Spring was adapted for electric guitar by Joe Parrish, and it's as metal as you would expect: ua-cam.com/video/GFG70gFbvOg/v-deo.htmlsi=N90FsefWSKjrqCqT
If you want heavy and abrasive outside of metal, Coil's How to Destroy Angels is one of the most brutal things I have ever heard in any genre.
Can't mention heavy mainstream Rock by non-Metal bands without mentioning Smashing Pumpkins. They had some really heavy songs on Mellon Collie. Also, in Classical music, the scene from Don Giovanni where his dad's spirit comes up from the grave to drag him to hell is pretty damn heavy. Also, props for mentioning Scott Walker. That man's music was cool as shit.
An Ode to No One is their Helter Skelter and XYU is their Everybody's yada yada yada Monkey.
Pissant, Tristessa's chorus and Marquis in Spades are quite heavy in their own right.
“The Everlasting Gaze” has some of the heaviest guitar I’ve ever heard
Sir, I'm so glad you're around, making these videos, bringing up these bands I've never seen, but they sound great, and I want to track them down. I'm a recovered alcoholic and music is the only drug I have left. I like a lot of Metal, but my parents are Boomers and shared their music with me, when I was a kid. Then, I went in the USMC, and had my horizons broadened with a crowbar. Great works, SIR!
Coven is just so heavy without being heavy lmao. The lyrics and stuff are so heavy metal over some rocknroll riffs lmao
You mentioning Dutch hardcore house is one of the best things I've seen this year
Congrats on 500k Bradley keep it up legend🤘☕️🫘
So glad you mentioned King Crimson! Another early prog band that was incredibly heavy at times is Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Their song The Barbarian is insane, and there might be nothing more metal than stabbing your synthesizer with knives like Keith Emerson was known to do at live shows.
I've also been saying for years that I enjoy electronic music because some of it is heavy af. Some of my favorites are Pendulum, Carpenter Brut, Rezz, Subtronics, Black Tiger Sex Machine, and MARAUDA.
Some of the songs that Crush 40 did for the Sonic games get pretty heavy too. I Am... All of Me by Crush 40 from the Shadow the Hedgehog game, for example.
The end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy) by The Beatles is Heavy as hell.
On the topic of King Crimson.... Forbidden (criminally underrated thrash band from back in the day) did an awesome cover of their song 21st Century Skitzoid Man on their Distortion album. Well worth checking out.
Pink Floyd: Careful with that axe Eugene & One of these days !
One of these Days...invented grindcore vocals perhaps? You know the part...
@@Qemetiel it's definitely a banger from start to end!
Also Nile Song, that's some kind of stoner-punk stuff
@@rubenszentesi1166 to me, Pink Floyd were experimenting so amazignly, like many rock types ahead of heir times. Similar to the Beatles or Hendrix and many other bands. For me, by their desire of progressing, Pink Floyd influenced countless generations of band that we're still getting amazed today!
Great video Mate! I respect that you included classical which is indeed so heavy!
Queens of the Stone Age?
Heaviest non-metal genre thats out there right now is hardtechno and new gabba/hardcore, but those scenes are next to non existent outside of Europe
For classical, listen to Penderecki. Holy moly, that guy made some brutal music.
YES! Leagues beyond the most gruelling, dissonant metal band.
Giacinto Scelsi also
Some of his are true Erich Zahn stuff
My pick would be El Tigr3 - She Swallowed Burning Coals
I heard it through the grapevine has a pretty heavy bass riff, I wanna be your dog by the stooges sounds like it could be sludge metal at points, and voodoo child by Jimi Hendrix has heavy moments. Also the second movement of Dimitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet number 8 is insanely heavy.
The Shadows - Dynamite
The breakup Song - Greg Kihn Band
Concerto in G Minor for Violin - Vivaldi
Heaven And Hell - C.C. Catch
Cause You Are Young - C.C. Catch
Safar - Mohsen Yahaghi
Ain’t no Love in Oklahoma - Luke Combs
American Remains - Highwaymen
A Question of Time - Depech Mode
Just wanted to add some songs I’d put into the category
no dinosaur jr ?
MBV has some heavier songs too (the riff from "you made me realise" is heavy af imo)
Jon Zohrn also have pretty abrasive and heavy (straight up inspired by metal ) music projects like naked city or electric madasa's at the mountains of madness.
I'm so glad you included Rite of Spring and Night on Bald Mountain. Those were the first two things I thought of 30 seconds into this video.
I really love how passionate you are about music its truly inspiring. Not to be corny it's actually why im such a fan of you because i too am very passionate about the music i love and we seem to love the same music. Cheers Beans youre the man
Tom waits is a contender for heavy non-metal, his gruff voice and style is top notch especially in songs like “Hell Broke Luce”
David Bowie - She Shook Me Cold.
Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors.
George Harrison - Art Of Dying.
Radiohead - Just.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Knife Edge.
Kate Bush - Sat In Your Lap.
The Monkees - Admiral Mike.
Status Quo - Drifting Away.
XTC - Helicopter.
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us.
Eurythmics - Missionary Man.
The Verve - This Is Music.
Lush - Ladykillers.
The Veronicas - Godzilla.
The beatles - Because
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Toccata
"Allegro Barbaro" by Bela Bartok is one of, if not the heaviest classical song out there, because he pretty much just makes a string quartet play dissonant, almost techdeath like riffs for pretty much the entire run time, and it's genuinely headbangable. "Rite of Spring" reminds me of Opeth, while "Night on Bald Mountain" sounds like a black metal song.
In terms of electronic, I would say the song "Cold Pizza" by M1dy comes to mind. That song is basically thrash/death metal riffs being played by harsh synths while techno drums are doing literal blastbeats. Hell, pretty much the entire speedcore subgenre in general, since it's basically techno with blastbeats.
He should check "Los Saicos" from the 60's
Sounds horrible and noisy perhaps is punk
@@sofacultadhumo590 Yep haha, probably the first punk band. With lyrics about destroying train stations, scaping from Alcatraz.
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5:40 lead sing of Sabaton over Gabber/Hardcore is insane, undiscovered genre
In no particular order.
1. Coven - The Dignitaries of Hell (literally has a blastbeat, was recorded in 1969 WTF.)
2. Reverend Horton Heat - It's a Dark Day (depressed psychobilly, incredible solo. Whole album is heavy.)
3. Comus - The Bite (Folk, but somehow progressive metal 20 years before progressive metal existed)
4. Cardiacs - Jibber and Twitch (precursor to Mr. Bungle, aggressive sims music. 10/10)
5. Pram - Gravity (stressful)
6. Sunn O))) - The Sinking Belle (emotional tungsten)
7. Street Sects - Copper in the Slots (Electronic, brutal)
You would probably like Cromagnon - Caledonia
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Always love to see random Cardiacs shoutouts in the wild
"Sheer Heart Attack" by Queen
The first thing that comes to my mind is Vágtázó Halottkémek, a "shaman punk" band from Hungary. They're basically hardcore punk, before hardcore or punk was even a thing. And keep in mind, most of this was during the Soviet Union's rule. These guys were literally banned at the time. But even today there's nothing else that has this much pure primal energy.
Here are some of their heaviest songs:
- Hol vagy?
- Aláírhatatlan történelem (this one sounds very similar to black metal)
- Álmodom
- A Földalatti Zene Ellentámadás (very thrash metal sounding main riff)
- Éljetek halottak
- Világ ne halj meg (very eerie juxtaposition of silence and noise)
The pure folk spinoff Vágtázó Csodaszarvas isn't far behind either, with songs like Emberélet, Napkapu and Hunok Csatája, they still got plenty of raw energy.
Dude calm down
Lawnmower Deth covered Crazy Horses, and it rocked :D
Missed it, therefore some Piano Metal added for the algorithm:
Johann Sebastian B: Piano Concerto 1 d-minor, when played on Cembalo and fast allegro
Prokofieff: Toccata and Sonata 6, first movement, even demands punching the keyboard at one point
Ligeti: Etudes, for drive and complexity (Try Desordre or Fanfares)
Forgot: Not piano, but brutal for sure: Shostakovich Symphony 14 Nr 8 for example
ID like to add O fortuna by Carl Orff to the list
I mean “all day watcher” by golden earring had some pretty heavy riffs
John Coltrane's Interstellar Space is the heaviest jazz album I've heard.
Have you heard Coltrane's Ascension?
Then you should listen to Naked City's self-titled album
@@hppvitor Are you referring to John Zorn's Naked City?
@@hppvitor It's more punk than jazz
@@bitkower I believe Interstellar Space is heavier. It's raw, fast, has crazy repetitive "riffs", the sax sounds dirty.
"Machine" from the album Earquake is one of the most metal-sounding orchestral pieces I've heard, aside from Rite of Spring. It also helps that "Machine" has a lot of metallic percussion used throughout.
The first live performance of Firebird Suite caused a riot. Nothing more metal than that.
I believe it was Rite of Spring.
@@infinitefretboard That very well might be the case. I don't trust my memory recall at all. If so, thank you.
Yup the Rite of Spring.
@@GregMerritt-ws8tq The way I've remembered it is I've thought of it as "Riot of Spring", lol. The world's first mosh pit.
It was indeed Rite of Spring, but the riot was caused by non-music reasons
Classical-wise: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition - The Hut on Fowls' Legs
The Hut of the Baba Yaga is pretty gnarly too. The Great Gate of Kiev is also heavy in a bombastic Freddie Mercury kinda way haha
Definitely artists and their songs like "Bones - RestInPeace", "Ghostemane - Pentacles" and "$uicideboy$ - MY SWISHER SWEET, BUT MY SIG SAUER"
Here's a few dance tracks that have varying levels of heavy about them:
Shpongle 'Dorset Perception' (Lo-Step Balearic Breaks Remix)
Jeff Wayne - The Eve of the War (Hybrid's Fire in the Sky Mix)
Basement Jaxx 'Where' Your Head At'
Death in Vegas 'Dirt' (Slayer Mix)
FCB 'Excalibur'
Fluke 'Squirt' (The Europicolamix)
Hocus Pocus 'Here's Johnny! ('96 Remix)
The Crystal Method - Now Is The Time (Secret Knowledge Overkill Mix) (jump to about 4:40)
Lunatic Calm - Roll The Dice
Drumcorps 'Grist'
BRUH DIDNT MENTION THE HEAVIEST NON-METAL GENRE:
DUBSTEP
Especially Rukkus, xKore, Xtrullor and others
@@EugenchannelYT ??? never heard those names
@@perryviller That's because you're thinking of Skrillex and he's thinking of the og UK stuff.
Mahavisniu orchestra, The mars volta, merzbow, the velvet underground (sister ray), Skitsystem
Dazed and confused. The string part sounds so evil. Hell, most of the first Zeppelin album paved the way for metal.
I don’t know if I’m going to make my way through this whole video, but there are tons of free and avant garde jazz and improvisation from the mid-60s into the 70s which makes most metal, which I enjoy, sound rather adolescent.
Also endless nameless by nirvana
Each part of a song can only hit as hard as the difference between it and the part before. Thats why breakdowns in deathcore don't sound heavy to me, but a song that builds into a crescendo or alternates clean and heavy parts (Opeth being a great example) hits me waaay harder
Hellter Skelter isn’t even the heaviest Beatles song. “She’s so heavy” literally has heavy in the title.
I ASKED FOR WATER AND SHE BROUGHT ME GASOLINE by HOWLING WOLF-in fact anything by HOWLING WOLF
My favourite song ever is " Barracuda " by Heart. Heard it as a kid and thought dayumm this is heavy. Then I learnt the meaning of the song and was like dayumm this is heavy. Plus alil wierd but Ann Wilson in her younger days, what a babe. What a voice 😍
Fucking great call you have with Barracuda. I remember being on Fremont Street in Vegas when I was like 16 as my young metalhead self and the light show went along to Barracuda and I was like 'fuck, man this is alright!!!' Fun night that was.
"The Old Castle" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Try some of Russian punk-rock:
Гражданская оборона - Лоботомия
Король и шут - Мëртвый анархист
No mention of the live Hocus Pocus by Focus when they were told to cut the song down so they just played it so much faster. It's awesome