Metal Fans Pick the World’s Heaviest Band
Loudwire hit the pavement to talk to fans at the 2025 Sonic Temple Festival in Columbus, Ohio. Our first question: what is the heaviest band in the world?
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@joshcornwell6061
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Its crowbar or meshugga. Carry on.
@Cadaverine-f3z
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Answer: Godflesh
@gamertag7676
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Abated mass of flesh
@tapeworm_tapeworm
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Like Party cannon, uga uga, or spme other type of lobotomizing slam
@DeathAndBlackMetalFan
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Necroticgorebeast, Agonal Breathing, Putridity.
@MetalHeadFilip780
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Operation C*nt destroyer is the heaviest in my opinion
@S_Z55555
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Last days of humanity, mortician, dying fetus, Meshuggah.
The guys that said Falling in reverse/Metallica.
I need to know if they were serious.
@SredniowiecznaCiemnota
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Nile
@Biological-Landmine
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
I was hoping someone would say waking the cadaver or Skinless. Those would have been my top two heaviest band picks.
@WildZero
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Sunn O)) for sure. but crowbar and HUM
@giancarloc7657
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
I’m a metal head first and foremost. The funniest thing is that it looks like a bunch of people who would never be friendly and from personal experience I can tell you metal heads are the friendliest people that you will ever meet.
@lunchboxtoothpick3775
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Heavy without being silly or cringy that actually gets people to move and mosh (not stupid flailing "slam dancing" ) old-school thrash or Pantera… So like slayer or Pantera…. Challenger me i bet you
@johnkilrainblackstone6986
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Mortician for sure.
@thepretender3814
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
All of these people claiming their metal heads are posers 😆 suicidal tendencies, really? The fuck out of here and go listen to your sleep token.
@thepretender3814
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Cannibal corpse? What a fucking poser 😆 they suck by the way, but not as bad as your wife.
@MURZBO
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
The last guy is right it's Immortal Disfigurement
@kev2o560
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
no crowbar mentioned 😮
@TheMostGloriousBeard
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Infant Annihilator
@DeadstringRed
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
None of these ppl know what death sludge and war metal are. Primitive man, coughdust, devourment, meshuggah, crowbar, acacia strain, portal, scour, greif, malevolent creation, cult of the occult, cryptopsy, frowning, tetrogramicide, sun 0, black toung, cannabal corpse, acid bath, defeated sanity, malignant alter, goat penis, konflict, eyehategod, the tish , bong ripper, chained to the bottom of the ocean, slund, spite, humanity's Last breath, morbid angel, hell, vermin womb, skinless, car bomb, sleep, electric wizard.
@metal_concerts
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Operation C*nt Destroyer, Dying Fetus And Peelingflesh
@orkVomit
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Poser alert
@ekoman2
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
For me, Pustulated, Internal Bleeding, and Rabid (go check them out if you like OSDM/brutal death metal)
@Jerrid_86
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Mortician, Immolation, Suffocation
@heavymetal1330
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Marduk
@fahrezirafid8
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
diSEMBOWELMENT, Cianide, Rippikoulu, Esoteric
@AntonJoaquin
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Cannibal Corpse and Deicide are the ones for me!
@FL0RIS0
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Taylor swift is the only right answer
@DylieBeans
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Cryptopsy is the correct answer
@TobiasSt-e9s
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
For me Napalm death!
@AccountNotUsed224
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
2:44 shut up bro
@GeorgePowell-u5s
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Gutalax is very very heavy
@RocketRod666
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Woke posers 🤨
@gingerbyers2225
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
Waking The Cadaver
@11Chaos76
April 22, 2026 at 12:32 pm
02:45 Metallica. Agree, like, 43 yrs ago..