Was this legitimately the heaviest thing ever recorded in 1987?
Also post other albums that could claim the title “heaviest album ever” at the time of their release.
SCUM
Leo Ross
Logan Mitchell
Two years later with streetcleaner also, doubt anything else was as heavy sounding as that
David Turner
This one is a contender for 1985.
I don’t think anything this heavy had been released at the time.
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Thomas Foster
>Possessed - Seven Churches
>Slayer - Hell Awaits
>Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
>Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
>Swans - Filth
Those are the first one who come to mind that are as heavy (if not more) than Scum desu, maybe the last one is more agressive than heavy but still
Justin Ortiz
Come on man. You think any of those are as heavy as scum?
Fucking LISTEN to this. It’s insane even today.
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Makes Slayer and Possessed sound like classic rock.
Ayden Walker
oh yeah also
>Sodom - Obessed by Cruelty
>Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
James King
Sebastian Cruz
>You think any of those are as heavy as scum?
Do I think Seven Churches was as heavy in 1985 as an album that hadn't been released yet?
Noah Williams
reminder that this man had a hand in inventing everything you think is cool. say 'thank you, Justin.'
Hudson Allen
The real question is what is the heaviest album of 1985?
Seven Churches, Endless Pain, or Bestial Devastation?
Zachary Nguyen
hardcore isn't really "heavy", it's noisy and chaotic. that's not really "heavy" to me.
Landon Martinez
there are a lot of great contenders that year but for me I would say either seven churches or to mega therion.
Isaac Carter
If your definition of heavy is thick guitars, then it’s probably Electric Wizard or Sunn O))) or something.
Heavy for me has always been synonymous with “extreme” or “intense” and it doesn’t just mean metal to me.
When I hear a really intense hardcore song, I think “That was really heavy.”
Wyatt Bailey
This album still sounds scary. The vocals on the B-side don’t even sound human. He sounds more like a rabid animal.
Kevin Hughes
Joseph Foster
God DAMN.
Released the same year as this, and it makes it sound like Motörhead.
William Evans
The bit at 4:20 onwards was so ahead of its time, it's insane. 5:11 is a literal Norwegian black metal riff, but in 1984.
Parker Clark
Black metal from 1969.
Gavin Brooks
Definitely. Nothing else in the world sounds like this song. It feels like something that shouldn’t exist. Like it exists outside of time.
Colton Wright
Gabriel Perry
This one is heavily disputed. I don’t think the tone on Triumphatus Sad was even possible in 1969.
Cameron Phillips
I'm pretty sure this album got exposed as a hoax or something
The keyboards and organ were from the 60s (which was released in 1969, but was incredibly obscure and limited to like 300 copies), the guitar was added in the 1980s without rereleasing it, and then he put a drum machine over it in the late 90s, quietly released it in 2001 and hid the fact that it was released in 2001 by passing it off as his 1969 release.
Benjamin Edwards
yeah those guitars are 100% not from 1969
Bentley Nguyen
Album cover is a black and white version of their second album, from 1972.
It never existed in that high contrast Transilvanian Hunger style back in the 60s or 70s.
It was made in 2001.
Ryder Barnes
Absolutely correct.
This 1972 album is legitimate though, but no where near as heavy as that """1969""" album.
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The hoax is just a case of some boomer trying to acquire stolen valor by pretending to be the first metal band and he tricked people for a few years because he was producing shit in the 1960s.
Levi Price
I agree that it’s total bullshit, but you could probably achieve that tone with the right equipment.
The Beatles used a similar tone.
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Wyatt Sanders
There was this in 1984, but Scum was more intense for sure.
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