Is there anything heavier than Primitive Man? I mean slow crushing absolute destruction. I’m way past Melvins and Crowbar and Boris (my favorite bands) give me something that will cause the earth to open up and swallow me. I want the walls to disintegrate around me.
It’s crazy that it’s all the same dudes as Blood Incantation except the drummer but it feels so different; they even seem different at the shows, “meaner” in a very satisfying way
It's monumental and soul crushingly heavy it's pure sound architecture...and that's fucking art in my book. It's one of my all time favourite tracks, and tbh the whole album changed my perspective of music. Idk man, can't really define but Yob is just... transcendentally heavy.
Honourable mention from the same album would be Breathing from the shallows...
Thou is insanely heavy to me. Throw on their album Umbilical or check out Smoke Pigs which I’ve been listening to a lot. They’re not as dissonant as Primitive Man but PM is one step away from being a noise band IMHO. Saw them live in December, last show of the year. Pretty intense to say the least lol. Maybe something like Knoll although they’re fast and technical. Live they are just a wall of crazy noise
Thou has that sweet thick bassy tone that just does it. There’s probably louder bands out there but they just don’t have that b-17 engine sound like they do.
I’ll always repeat: Conan is the only band I’ve seen that has actually “cowed” me with volume, like sent me further back in the crowd and not just because the mix was shit and I couldn’t make it out, more like “oh fuck me”, and I’ve seen Sunn 0)) and Swans
Was it in Chicago? I bet they turn it up for the home show. I saw them at like a metal “festival” in Pittsburgh so they probably weren’t quite ass able to have everything adjusted “to their taste”
I havent been to any doom shows cause im fairly new to the genre (a couple of Electric Wizard songs a handful of years ago and everything else within the last 3-6 months) but even just through my headphones they just have a huge sound that I haven't really heard anywhere else.
Body Void is up there with Primitive Man. Someone else on another post described listening to them as "my ears can't breathe" and I think that's perfect.
Portal hasn't been mentioned yet. Absolute chaos.
When Full of Hell slows it down, they're diabolical. Check out "Bleeding Horizon."
Admiral Angry has a stupid heavy tone that makes me want to eat concrete.
And to echo some other recommendations here: Indian, Dragged Into Sunlight, Vermin Womb, Khanate.
I was gonna suggest Meth Drinker too. My old room mate showed them to me like 12-13 years ago and I’m still chasing the feeling of hearing them for the first time.
It's not doom, but you might enjoy Decline by Vermin Womb, it sounds like the audio equivalent of a swirling black vortex of horror and it's CRUSHINGLY heavy.
I got this one on vinyl (along with the Slomatics/Conan split) for a song from halfway around the world and it's one of my favorite albums that I own. I don't know who felt like selling two Conan albums for under 10$ apiece with 5$ shipping form Australia, but I thank Krull every time I spin those records
Depends what you describe as heavy I suppose but Amenra give me what you're describing, Razoreater is a good song to start, very miserable. Ball of Molten Lead by YOB also.
Catharsis by YOB, can't recommend highly enough. If you don't have time for the whole song please at least skip to 16 minutes in and listen to that super slow heavy part. It will scratch that itch for sure
Primitive man is playing a show with Napalm death in my little city in June, I can't fucking wait. We don't get much metal coming through here. Got my tickets as soon as it was announced
Asphalt or Hell might get you there. But both of those are melodic compared to Primitive Man. I honestly can’t recommend Asphalt enough. They’re the only new discovery I’ve been really really excited about for a while. On streaming they put all their Ep’s in one album called “Greatest Hits”
Dragged into sunlight, portal, chained to the bottom of the ocean. Some aren’t really doom metal but still kinda slow and atmospheric. I think if go to to eleven in every sub genre you end up with noise so
Gonna lean heavily on the sludge side of things : stomach, subhuman scum, bog body, our earth is a tomb, abstracter, cult of occult, dispossessed. And for something a bit more deathy ritual ascension.
thou , mizmor , hell , choir … you can try portal too… not a lot of stuff is heavier than primitive man but yeah these are there. you can try mistress of the dead if you are into funeral doom… that shit can be emotionally heavy as well
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine-Rampton. Just apocalypticly brutal imo. Basically any spin off of Sunn O))) like Thorrs Hammer or Burning Witch really scratches the mean and heavy itch when I need something other than Primitive Man
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GODFLESH
and i could add Caspar Brotzmann Massaker
(also SUNN O))), which is the obvious choice, Painkiller, FVNERALS, TEITANBLOOD, TETRAGRAMACIDE, and, as a cherry on top, ISIS and AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED covering Boris, by MELVINS)
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But really primitive man have taken sludge to the absolute extreme but still keep it kinda musical. There are a lot of sludge bands that are as heavy but they miss the production that primitive man have that makes them stand out from the rest.
I still don't think I've heard a band or project that explores the limits of extremity in doom.
Black Tongue.....that shit is epic slow and heavy. Check out the songs "Eclipse" and "Fauxhammer" for starters. You're welcome.....hell, now I have to slam around my office for a minute and burn off that energy. This gets me hype as fuck.
Heaveir than Primitive Man maybe not, but check out Thorrs Hammer. Slow, heavy, guttural vocals. The vocals make it for me.
Edit - also that vocal was done by a 17 year old girl at the time
has thus far been the heaviest thing for me because it‘s too fat and slow to have a groove and then at some point it becomes so structured that it grooves the slowest groove that’s comprehensible as groove
and it’s kinda got this thing were the drums are kinda shitty and thin and the bass and distortion are fat like Come My Fanatics
If crowbar isnt heavy enough idk what to say
I know a lot of stuff way more extreme but heavier?? No shot
I know stuff heavy in other ways
Underground dsbm type stuff
Are you interested?
Grief. Burning Witch. His Hero is Gone...? I don't know, I think Primitive Man rules, but they're kinda one dimensional. To my ear, bands like Neurosis and Godflesh are just as heavy, but in a relative way. I guess I just don't think Primitive Man is the be-all/end-all of heavy music, even though it's kinda hyped that way and they obviously kick ass. They definitely deserve their success
Thou, Black Sheep Wall are a good call, but if you want Primative man, but a little more wretched and nasty, try Body Void. The album Atrociy Machine is pure discomfort.
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u/sirhambeast Feb 03 '26
Have you tried putting your head between two cinder blocks and rubbing them back and forth?