caix wrote:Nobody mentioned Old Man Gloom? They're heavier than any of the five top bands.

Who the hell are they?

caix wrote:Nobody mentioned Old Man Gloom? They're heavier than any of the five top bands.

I would like to hear some Old Man Gloom.

Ty Webb likes them and that's enough for me.

Old Man Gloom are heavy, for sure, from what I've heard. But they run across a whole load of different styles. 'Hot Salvation' which you can hear on their myspace is pretty fucking sludge.

http://www.myspace.com/oldmangloom

And Neurosis deserve more attention in this thread.

There's this one Birchville Cat Motel track, 55,000 Flower sfor the Hero which is about the heaviets thing I've ever heard. It's on a 3" CD I have knocking around somewhere. Relentless one chord juggernaut.

Old Man Gloom are indeed incredible and incredibly heavy. But they're too inconsistent to get my vote.


SecondEdition, OMG are a side project of members of Isis, Converge, and Cave In (among others) based in Massachusetts. Lots of creepy atmospherics and slow builds to head-crushing explosions, a la Neurosis, but with a more doomy/evil edge and more ambient, droning sections.

SecondEdition wrote:

caix wrote:Nobody mentioned Old Man Gloom? They're heavier than any of the five top bands.

Who the hell are they?

They are a band made up of members of ISIS, Cave In, and Zozobra. They are awesome. I am honored to say they are also my band's label mates.

fantasmatical thorr wrote:'Beethoven'

I second that.

Beethoven or the Melvins. It has to be.

Christmas by Old Man Gloom is one of the creepiest, heaviest, and most frustrating metal records of recent years. I love it, but it drives me batshit because so there's just not enough of it.

A honking bong load, a good set of headphones, and Christmas will put the heebie in your jeebie.

Ty Webb wrote:
SecondEdition, OMG are a side project of members of Isis, Converge, and Cave In (among others) based in Massachusetts. Lots of creepy atmospherics and slow builds to head-crushing explosions, a la Neurosis, but with a more doomy/evil edge and more ambient, droning sections.

That sounds pretty fucking awesome. I think I'll have to check them out. I take it that they're pretty slow and harsh then, kind of trudge-metal at times? (I think I just made that genre categorization up right now...) I bet I'd like that...though I am really not a well-versed metalhead in the slightest, although I have a friend who's pretty into it and introduced me to some pretty fucking cool blood-pressure raising shit like Dillinger Escape Plan.

the thing with metal is that the metal bands I've heard usually just play and thrash really really fast and hard and, while that's cool and all, it gets old real quick and I have real trouble distinguishing it from itself. I've found that I tend to like the slower stuff - it just feels heavier and more distinct. like how "Evolved as One" on Napalm Death's From Enslavement To Obliteration is the best song there bar none because it sounds like the musical equivalent of a tank stuck in mud while Lee Dorrian howls "YOUR WEAK MINDS!!!!!!!!" over and over again. the others tend to blend in with each other. although "Unchallenged Hate" fuckin tears ass.

El Protoolio wrote:They are a band made up of members of ISIS, Cave In, and Zozobra. They are awesome. I am honored to say they are also my band's label mates.

Cool! What band are you in?

SecondEdition wrote:

El Protoolio wrote:They are a band made up of members of ISIS, Cave In, and Zozobra. They are awesome. I am honored to say they are also my band's label mates.

Cool! What band are you in?

Just check my signature...

Second Ed, the slow parts of OGM aren't exactly harsh. They're more like the skin on the back of your neck crawling because you know someone's behind you, except it lasts for several minutes, not a few seconds. Unnerving and insidious, but not necessarily harsh.

The other parts are when the person behind you hits in the skull with a claw hammer.

If you want trudging, unbearably heavy harshness in this same sort of ambient/Neurosis vein, check out a band called Buried At Sea. Not coincidentally, they're on Neurot.

With a totally different sound, but also full of trudging harshness, is a Chicago band called Indian. Brutal:
http://www.myspace.com/indiandoom