100 Heaviest Albums

sorry last one should be "95"

nuts to your standards

94. jerusalem - jerusalem
93. blue cheer - vincebus eruptum
92. gorguts - obscura
91. monarch - s/t
90. birchville cat motel - s/t
89. gallhammer - gloomy lights
88. randy holden - population II
87. flipper - generic
86. lugubrum - helige dwazen
85. surface of the earth - interference
84. brainbombs - urge to kill

83. winter - into darkness
82. blue phantom - distortions
81. transmission - s/t ep

seriously, why does no one talk about the transmission ep? the one that came out on table of the elements? the one that's related to the swans? the one that's just sax and drums and sounds like a fucking hurricane of distorted, razor-edged noise and pounding drums?

honorary one-song mention for terry brooks & strange "ruler of the universe." the "guitar solo" (really a guitar, feedback and echoplex solo) is this thread all over.

80. Flower Travellin' Band- Satori
79. Art Bears- Hopes And Fears
78. King Crimson- Red

77. gravitar - now the road of knives
76. goslings - grandeur of hair
75. godflesh - s/t
74. airway - live at lace
73. ashtray navigations - use '69 copenhagen guitars...

72. Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
71. Bathory - Hammerheart
70. Eisenvater - II
69. Lustmord - The Place Where The Black Stars Hang

68. Merzbow/Pan Sonic - V
def. one of my favorite albums of the last 10 years

67. Magnog - s/t

i seriously need to hear magnong, apparently.

also cool to see eisenvater.

66. fushitsusha - withdrawe, this sable disclosure ere devot'd

cause "vertigo" is insane.

May as well have a bit of:

65 - Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow

64. Warhorse - As Heaven Turns To Ash
63. Aufgehoben - Anno Fauve

62. Tubeway Army- self-titled

61. Skull Defekts - Open the Gates of Mimer

(keeping in mind your parameters)

60. ministry - psalm 69
59. karp - s/t
58. necessary evils - 1st lp

I'd give some love to Painkiller and Annihilation of the Wicked, but balls to your numbering

57. swans - public castration is a good idea
56. swans - cop
55. swans - filth

If we're doing multiple albums by an artist I guess we could chuck in some more Campbell Kneale and Merzbow..

54. the birthday party - mutiny e.p. ("swaaaamplaaaaaaand")

Not sure I'd use the word "heavy" to describe the kind of music you're looking for but:

53. The Angelic Process: Weighing Souls With Sand (be sure to check out the shoegazer metal thread)
52. Dust: Hard Attack (esp. "Suicide" for trad heavy metal)
51. Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X (particularly the title track)
50. Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary: Seven Up
49. Amon Düül II: Phallus Dei
48. Cluster: Cluster II
47. Drunks With Guns
46. Popol Vuh: In Der Gärten Pharaos
45. All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors: Turning Into Small
44. Paavoharju: Yhä Hämärää
43. Mars: 78+
42. Cromagnon: Orgasm
41. Hapshash and the Coloured Coat featuring The Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids
40. Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis
And, um,
39. My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
38. Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

37. Pedestrian Deposit: Fatale

36. Rubberoom: Architechnology

35. part chimp - i am come

34. Heavy D & the Boyz - Heavy Hitz

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavy!

Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X (particularly the title track)

Oh shit! I meant "Endangered Species." But the title still overwhelms. I love the poop out of this record!!!

The track TRACK still overwhelms. ARGH!

The TITLE TRACK still overwhelms. OK I'm leaving now.

:D

39. My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
38. Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

You're 'avin a laugh, Kev.

33. Mainliner - Mellow Out

loveless is kinda heavy though.

Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements isn't, however. despite my love for that album.

Well, actually, I was being serious with those two albums. I'm not getting this definition of heavy as "really dense, layers and layers of murkiness/distortion, swirling masses of noise." I always thought that Black Sabbath: Paranoid epitomized heavy and thus could be used as a guide to measure all other instances of heavy. Maybe that's wrong. Nevertheless, the definition Mark lays out describes those MBV and Stereolab albums, no? Ok maybe not every track on the Stereolab. But "Jenny Ondioline" fits the description, right?

Yeah, OK, it is kinda heavy. And I did think again after I posted that. But would it really be in the 100 heaviest albums ever? I mean, HEAVY. Depends what kind of list this is, I guess. If this was a mainstream magazine poll, I'm sure they'd include it so as show that heaviness doesn't always crush in the same way. But I'm sure there's 100 albums of absolute morbid planetary obesity that causes you to puff out your cheeks and say 'OOF!!'. Can't we strive strive for that?

32. Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments

31. buried at sea - migration
30. saint vitus - s/t

29. Killdozer - Little Baby Buntin'

28. jesus lizard - liar

But I'm sure there's 100 albums of absolute morbid planetary obesity that causes you to puff out your cheeks and say 'OOF!!'. Can't we strive strive for that?

I hear ya, Michael. But that's not that kind of heavy this thread is after. I think you and I would agree that The Melvins and Saint Vitus belong on a list of "100 albums of absolute morbid planetary obesity that causes you to puff out your cheeks and say 'OOF!!'." But that's not necessarily what Mark is looking for.

Maybe I should have stated my definition as more open-ended -- and like I said, I don't own too many heavy albums and the ones that I do have tend to match up more with the "layers and layers of murkiness/distortion, swirling masses of noise, etc." So that kind of stuff tends to be show where I'm coming from in regards to sonic "heaviness", but clearly others are coming from different places, and that's fantastic for building this list.

I think my goal was to have some kind of list where both MBV AND Master of Reality/Saint Vitus/Melvins hang together. But that's my own fault for not stating the original post clearly enough. (And while I think in one regard Loveless isheavy, part of the reason it's so interesting is that it seems really thick and murky, but at the same time, somehow kind of gossamer, thin and "wispy" but that's another question).

I was debating naming the thread 100 Heavy Albums rather than 100 Heaviest Albums -- while it might not seem to make much of a difference it probably would have better suited my goal of getting a nice big list of albums that could be described as "heavy" in any kind of way.

But in any case there is a LOAD of stuff on here that I'm not familiar with at all that I'm very excited to check out. I'm sure hearing this stuff might change what I think of as "heavy."

OK.... I just don't think it's that heavy. 100 Wooziest, maybe.

Well, in that case, Mark, you should definitely hear that Angelic Process album. It splits the difference between heavy and woozy. One of my faves of this year.

27. hjarnidaudi - pain:noise:march

26. Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within
-----This album is as pure as integral calculus, linear algebra and might even explain the unified field theory.

25. Ramesses - The Tomb
----Grungier than anything outta Seattle. It's nothing less than a morbid onslaught

24. Kronos Quartet (et. al.) - Black Angels (ala George Crumb)
-----This just might be the soundtrack to Hell - very painful; both physically and emotionally.

23. Spacemen 3 - Performance

22. Hawkwind- Space Ritual
21. Groundhogs- Split

20. Fushitsusha - Pathetique

19. Circle - Sunrise

18. sq - monosite
17. the dead c - operation of the sonne
16. frown - wallghost

15. Magic Dirt - Friends In Danger

http://www.ozmusicproject.net/band/325.jpg

lol.

How does their music stack up these days?

14. kevin drumm - impish tyrant

xpost. Last major label album was ok, not great. Now doing stuff on their own label: one album of noise that I will download from slsk at some point, one ep that seems to be a throwback to their first 2 eps (i.e. pretty good).

COOL!

13. toadliquor - the hortator's lament

12. Kites/Prurient split

Kevin Drumm and Swans have already been mentioned, so:

11. Corrupted - Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos

10. Nadja - Touched

I love that album.

9. john coltrane - olatunji concert

8. Khanate - Things Viral
7. UFOMammut - Godlike Snake
6. God - Anatomy of Addiction

Honorable mentions for stuff I wanted to put but didn't want to hog up too many numbers

Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Scorn - Gyral
Techno Animal - Brotherhood of the Bomb
Mick Harris & James Plotkin - Collapse
5ive - Telestic Distracture

hototogisu - prayer rug exorcism
khanate - s/t

Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Musica Transonic - Hard Rock Transonic

Prurient - s/t
Skullflower- IIIrd Gatekeeper
Death Unit - Infinite Death
Psychic Paramount - Gamelan into the Mink Supernatural

5. morthana - morthana

best jazz/metal hybrid ive ever heard...you can listen to the first track here.. http://www.n-collective.com/files/morthanatrakk1.mp3

1. Air Supply - Lost In Love