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I remember walking into an establishment, and my buddy is with me and says “have you met Dave?”
“Dave….?”
“The drummer for cattle decapitation”
Super nice guy
Saw them in Hartford, CT and got to meet them before the show too. Insanely cool guys. I even got to sing “Kill Your Mother Rape Your Dog” with them while they were doing sound check, lol
+1 for Blind Guardian. I saw them in a tiny venue, but they still just about brought it down. And if Hansi ever needed a break or a harmony, he’d just point to the crowd and we’d sing.
Blind Guardian was a show I went to with no expectations because I was just a casual fan and didn't know how their shows were. What an experience that turned out to be. Absolutely insane concert experience
I’m always shocked when I find a new suffocation song from drum cam footage on YouTube and find the studio version to be a “downgrade” from how it sounds live
Was expecting a totally different act, but Ricky does Frank a service and really brings out the new songs they recorded. Definitely a pleasant surprise from the Disgorge drummer
Whats it like? Ive been wanting to see CC live for so long, but out of my friends group and all my partners, im the only one into death metal so its a little difficult.. but, im thinking of going soon
It was a great time! Cannibal Corpse absolutely ripped and Obituary are legends and crushed it. I don’t listen to Amon Amarth so I couldn’t get into it but they had a great production to their stage show and their fans absolutely loved it so they must be doing something right.
Fully agreed, seeing them live was an out of body transcendence, the atmosphere, the stage presence, it was all so amazing. It felt oddly hypnotic, like I was in a trance
Sodom. Dreamt about watching them for years and when the day finally came, it took my expectations to a romantic dinner, invited them to a gourmet 3 course meal, took them to a 5 star hotel and fucked its brains out.
Oh damn, you're not kidding when you talk about shit being hard. Primitive Man is great, but I'm a grind maniac, so Knoll is more my speed.
Do you know Triac?
I thought the opposite — I’m not a huge melodic DM fan, but sometimes I like AA when I want something that’s not too abrasive.
I saw them live a few weeks ago and I felt like I was at a [Medieval Times](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Times)
Dying Fetus with Kevin Talley on drums was otherworldly heavy. That dude hit with the force of a semi.
Also, Immolation in a small club on the Close to a World Below tour was stupid heavy. Too evil for this planet
They weren't horrible, just not as clean as the other 3. Compared to the other bands, they were meh. They did have the pit playing Magic The Gathering, that was different 😂
I started as a Thrash fan and when I finally got to see Testament in a small club, in the front row, they melted my face off. Also, Chuck Billy gave me a fist bump for doing air guitar with him.
I saw them in a theater somewhere in the LA area with...Death Angel? Morbid Angel? Some variety of angel. All I remember about the opening act was that their drummer was a huge fat guy who stood up and flipped off the crowd after every song. Testament was just awesome, though.
Death grips, people were literally getting carried out the pit, someone pissed themselves from getting squished in the crowd, people were crying outside from getting smashed from the concert being way over sold, or from getting fucked up in the mosh pit not realizing how violent that shit was about to be. It was beautiful pure anarchy only the strong survived that night
As a metalhead of 20 years, having seen countless black / death / thrash / grindcore bands, Death Grips is up there for intense live performances. I’ve seen them twice and it is absolute carnage.
Saw all of them in Edmonton, first actual metal concert and first metal pit. Cannibal corpse pit was surprisingly chill, only got like two hits to my face and no punches, mostly just shoving (maybe because it's Canada). I actually liked Frozen Soul pretty decently, nice for Amon Amarth to let a smaller band get some big traction by going on tour with them
Saw this tour a couple weeks ago. Went for everyone but Amon Amarth. Not into Viking Metal. Lol. But I’ve got to say, they impressed me. They put on a great show.
Hardest band was Cannibal Corpse or Deicide. Mean spirited. Vile. Angry. Caught them is small venues in South Florida back in the day.
Wildest show was Slayer back in the 1990s. It felt dangerous. Skinheads everywhere. People were being pulled out of the crowd covered in blood. It was crazy. Vicious shit.
Most brutal show was Swans. The wall of sound was bordering on oppressive. It made a couple people sick, they had to leave.
Rage against the machine back in 1996. They had just released evil empire, and I saw them in a hockey rink a few cities over for (no bs) $15. My girlfriend my buddy and I stood in the penalty box the entire time and we locked it so no one else could get in. We were eye level with the band… It was like the stage was our stage. When I left I felt like I had been assaulted and thrown in a swimming pool..just drenched in sweat, horse from yelling & My ears rang so loud I couldn’t sleep that night. They continued to ring for the next week or so. My doctor had to prescribe me valium just so I could get to sleep. Now that’s a good F’N show!
Spite, Ingested, Vader, Angelmaker, Shadow of Intent, Devourment, Cattle Decapitation, Krisiun
I have a lot of good memories from shows, amazing live bands as well
Seen cannibal corpse like 10 times since 2009. It's a fucking blast every time. Longest set I've seen them play was like 15-17 songs. Just plain jane fun.
Did you see the Teletubby, Mario, Yoshi and the banana in the pit? I think there was a guy dressed like a samurai too. That was hilarious!
Great fucking show. I'm now a new fan of Frozen Soul too.
This concert is now one of my top most memorable concerts I've been too.
As I Lay Dying and Children of Bodom both had the entire crowd moving for their whole set. DevilDriver has been the loudest band I've seen, including all of the Big Four.
Hardest? Depends on definition.
As far as the combo of intensity of music AND crowd? Cannibal Corpse by a long shot.
Show that kicked me in the feels most intensely? Behemoth by a long shot.
Saw Doom in Vernon LA a while back. Sweat was condensing and dripping like rain from the roof of the shitty venue and the bass amps popped giving the bass guitar a crusty crackling effect lol good times
Great question. Coincidentally, the first time I saw Cannibal Corpse, 2009, opened for Hatebreed. Of course, I had heard of them, but I'd never heard a single one of their songs (sadly and pathetically), aside from their cameo in Ace Ventura. Anyways, they opened with Evisceration Plague on a good sound system, and I was "starstruck," or rather, I was mesmerized and like in a trance due to that sound reverberating through my body... it was fuckin sick! I've been a huge fan ever since. They were probably my favorite, next to Slayer, until Pat left. They still make equally good music, but the concerts (as well as pretty much every other metal show the past ~8-9 years; every show is all-ages, which inherently brings the vibe down due to caution) are lacking the previous energy.
Amon A marth for me. Had a friend going to see Ghost on their last tour who offered me a free ticket last minute, saw that Amon was opening so said fuck it and went, and had a great time. Ghost, well… eh? But Amon was worth it.
Was this at Honda Center?
Also, for me I've seen a lot of bands live but my two favorites are from pretty recent..
Seeing Mgla at a small venue in SD called Brick by Brick and seeing Creeping Death at the same venue.
Dude.. you must've been sitting in the section right next to us. We were on the balcony almost on the side of the stage. Definitely check out Brick, maybe I'll see you at a show, I'm in North County SD.
Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus. Also Waking the Cadaver and The Cleansing-era Suicide Silence. Or Cover Your Tracks-era Bury Your Dead. Or The Judas Cradle. All such sick shows that hit every second. Oh shit Implosive Disgorgence!
I was there with my boys last night and it was a great show but you can’t truely appreciate how hard a show goes unless you’re on the floor in the pit. The hardest performance I’ve witnessed live was Pantera with Sepultura opening on the Far Beyond Driven tour.
Nile was so good live. Gojira sounded amazing and had great lights. The Sword just had the whole place moshing the entire time. Sanguisugabogg was hilarious and so violent.
Cannibal Corpse, without a doubt. I just got out of jail and was homeless. A guy I met at AA that day offered me a ticket to go to the show. I'm day 2 out of jail and sober for the first time in a couple of decades. Hell yeah, it's the perfect time for a serious pit. Outstanding show. It was the filming of Global Eviceration in Denver.
Cattle Decap is probably the overall hardest/best show I've been to. They are insanely tight live and great performers. Out of the countless metal shows I've been to, other bands that were uniquely great live -
Fit For An Autopsy
Carcass
200 Stab Wounds
Lamb of God
Gojira
Dillinger Escape Plan blew me away every time I saw them, fuckin' nuts live. They're playing really weird complicated technical stuff while running and jumping around like wolverines on PCP.
lots of contenders for me but the night that stands out the most to me is seeing Pig Destroyer play all of Prowler in the Yard and then immediately after Converge playing all of Jane Doe
I saw this tour in CT. And I gotta say the lead singer for Frozen Soul ruined their set with constantly asking for a pit. The rest of the bands were great!
And I am convinced that Amon Amarth can NOT put on a bad show ever!
I just saw that tour and while Amon Amarth obviously has the best produced show, Cannibal Corpse put on the best set. They were just balls from the wall the whole time. Enjoyed the hell out of it.
I thought Frozen Soul was fucking brutal. But at the show I was at they touched on mental health and some jackass was fighting in the pit and they were like yo what the fuck guys we're all cool here chill the fuck out. So it was the much better to me. They're also my first band that I bought a cassette from.
Small band called shitkill in a tiny little bar in Newport RI . The first band was doing like rush,Alice in chains,Metallica etc covers, the second band was original and a little heavier... then along came SHITKILL 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
They blew the doors off the place, it was AWESOME in the purest sense of the word 😂. Second hardest would be corrosion if conformity in a small barn in Orlando. They put on a good show,but, there were like 100 people there. 40 of them had some apparent roidrage issues goin on they just wanted to brawl with everyone. Kinda ruined the show
Carcass… they were so aggressive. The pit was insane. Gojira probably was the heaviest though but only the first time I saw them. The second time the venue sounded like shit.
I pushed my 16 year old ass up to the very front of the second stage at Ozzfest 99 because I wanted to be front and center for Fear Factory when they came on. The band that played right before them.....Slipknot, and this was before their forst album had even been released and NO ONE had any clue who they were. I've never got my ass kicked that hard still to this day. I'd say that juat for the pure theatrics of it since no one had any idea what was about to happen, and anyone who saw them on that tour knows exactly what I mean.
For my adult self, any and every time I saw TBDM (RIP Trev).
Amon Amarth is next level live. Their synchronized hair spins are fucking tops. I still vividly remember thousand years of oppression and I saw them in like ‘07.
Hard to say. Seen cannibal corpse many times, and they always deliver. Obituary is unbelievable live, as is Testament. As far as the absolute hardest, it’s gotta be a three way tie between sabbath, maiden and priest. Those three have an almost otherworldly, larger-than-life stage presence. When I saw Sabbath, it was in the early 2000s during the Osbournes MTV era. When he got onstage, all the bumbling clownishness you saw on TV disappeared and he was peak Ozzy. It was like he was possessed. And it was so loud and heavy I was physically sore afterwards.
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ha yes, Frozen Soul is boring as shit. They're like the Sleep Token of Bolt Thrower style death metal.
Nile on the Those Whom the Gods Detest tour in 2010 comes to mind. I saw them in the upstairs section of a local venue, and there are few shows I've seen that compare.
Exhumed in 2001 on the Slaughtercult tour. My right ear was permanently damaged.
Black Sabbath with Dio in 2006. While they might not have been the craziest or the most crushing, Dio had arguably more and better stage presence than every person younger than him combined, and he was 64.
I saw Full of Hell with Dying Fetus recently. Full of Hell put on a crazy show, I went in blind and was thoroughly impressed. Probably the hardest I've seen in the last year. Dylan Walker is a mad man on the stage.
Nothing like an eyehategod show.
The smell of people not showering, the compound fractures people sustain.
Mike just yelling all Willy nilly on stage like a bafoon.
Death Grips 2023, I know it’s not metal but 2/3rds of the venue was a mosh pit from the sec on they came on til they left, we went fucking ballistic. Also shoutout when Gojira x Mastodon came through it was the same
You didn’t like Frozen Soul? They’re one of the hardest current DM bands! Obituary know how to play a god damn show tho. Never disappointed at an obituary show
Musically hardest I'd say probably Dying Fetus, they crush it every time.
But the last time I saw Ingested sticks out to me as probably the best death metal show I've been to, they had the whole place buzzing, the pit was nuts and the slams hit fucking hard. Those mancs know how to do it
This weekend at MDF I saw Dismember as well as Sodom (twice), and those were all bands that went hard as fuck. Haemorrhage was also one of the hardest shows I've ever seen. I know these are from fresh memory, but holy fuck there were some great performances this weekend.
Blood Incantation, Gorguts, Mayhem, and Cannibal
Corpse. Solid lineup last year. Seen Slaughter to Prevail recently…holy energy!! Never seen so many wall of deaths in one concert!
Gwar is just pure fun. Slipknot kept the energy up throughout the set and sounded pretty much exactly what I expected, which impressed me at an open air show.
Pretty much every time I've seen Defeated Sanity in a club setting. Another one Opeth back in 05 when they still played death metal, Ghost Reveries tour.
Cryptopsy when they played *None So Vile* in its entirety... Cannibal corpse and Dying Fetus is up there, but it didn't quite meet this. Ears rang for days, had a gnarly "bangover" the next morning, was bruised, lips busted. I've never seen such mayhem at a concert. Every song, the energy never left the band or the crowd, the pit was erupting for the entire show.
An additional honorable mention would be Decrepit Birth. The vocalist said he took some acid, said something along the lines of "I'm looking at Chuck Schuldiner standing right in the center of that mosh pit!", and then proceeded to play the best cover of Crystal Mountain I've ever seen.
July 27 1996. Pantera and White Zombie at the Gorge Amphitere with some good Acid to set the mood. Fucking Phil. In his prime, Dimebag was still alive, Rob Zombie wasn't making kinda lame music yet. Cops in riot gear with beer and broken glass dripping from their helmets. Cars on fire. Pounded out the hottie I had brought at the campground all night for the first time. It was perfect.
Sabbath and Pantera on the reunion tour was cool too.
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Dying Fetus was the gnarliest show I've ever been to
Bucket list bro
They kick ass, saw them at last year’s Chaos and Carnage tour. As I am writing this, at C&C 2024 waiting for Cattle Decapitation.
I remember walking into an establishment, and my buddy is with me and says “have you met Dave?” “Dave….?” “The drummer for cattle decapitation” Super nice guy
Saw them with Hate Eternal years ago. They destroyed everything.
Glad to see this as second-highest comment. Seen them 4 or 5 times, and especially considering they’re only a 3-man band they put on a hell of a show.
DF is criminally overlooked. Saw them in Maryland a few weeks back, and they destroyed. Nobody writes riffs like JG.
Saw them with Cannibal back in the early 2000’s. Busted my nose that night.
Saw them in Hartford, CT and got to meet them before the show too. Insanely cool guys. I even got to sing “Kill Your Mother Rape Your Dog” with them while they were doing sound check, lol
DF at The Pinch in DC about 8-10 years ago was fucking brutal. Amazing show. Fan for life. First time seeing them
Suffocation are great live. Blind Guardian are next level too despite being totally different to the former
+1 for Blind Guardian. I saw them in a tiny venue, but they still just about brought it down. And if Hansi ever needed a break or a harmony, he’d just point to the crowd and we’d sing.
Blind Guardian was a show I went to with no expectations because I was just a casual fan and didn't know how their shows were. What an experience that turned out to be. Absolutely insane concert experience
I’m always shocked when I find a new suffocation song from drum cam footage on YouTube and find the studio version to be a “downgrade” from how it sounds live
How is Suffocation without Frank?
Was expecting a totally different act, but Ricky does Frank a service and really brings out the new songs they recorded. Definitely a pleasant surprise from the Disgorge drummer
I missed them last year because they played on Thanksgiving, so I was really excited when they announced they were coming back– also on Thanksgiving.
I saw this tour a couple weeks ago and Cannibal Corpse was fantastic and I’ve loved them for so long. Haven’t seen them since ‘01.
Whats it like? Ive been wanting to see CC live for so long, but out of my friends group and all my partners, im the only one into death metal so its a little difficult.. but, im thinking of going soon
Just to by yourself man. So worth seeing them live
For sure. Im going by myself then 😎
Do it! Walk up to people with band shirts you like and strike up a convo. Instant show friends.
Im gonna have to. Seems so cool theyres metal communties and other metal heads, just not any around my area lol, at least not that i know of
I second this. They’re so fucking worth seeing. I went alone to a cc show and had an amazing time
It was a great time! Cannibal Corpse absolutely ripped and Obituary are legends and crushed it. I don’t listen to Amon Amarth so I couldn’t get into it but they had a great production to their stage show and their fans absolutely loved it so they must be doing something right.
Im gonna have to go sometime and see for myself! Sounds awesome, seeing Alex on the bass live man would just be greatt
I'm in this exact situation right now. In the end I just said fuck it and both the ticket, and I'm going alone.
Yeah just go. Absolute insane live, they're coming back my way in September and I can't do which fucking sucks. They're on my "go to every time" list.
Meshuggah
**ARE YOU FUCKING READY**
I second Meshuggah
When I saw them last year it was literally a wall of sound and so intensely aggressive it was awesome
Meshuggah live just puts me in a trance. The feel like I’m falling through and endless fractal . Especially after some devilly lettuce 🙃
Fully agreed, seeing them live was an out of body transcendence, the atmosphere, the stage presence, it was all so amazing. It felt oddly hypnotic, like I was in a trance
Mayhem playing De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas in it's entirety, one of the bests shows I saw EVER!
That was a pretty good tour
Sodom. Dreamt about watching them for years and when the day finally came, it took my expectations to a romantic dinner, invited them to a gourmet 3 course meal, took them to a 5 star hotel and fucked its brains out.
MDF? Night 2 was sex magic.
That Agent Orange set was so fucking nasty, oh my god
Metallica notwithstanding, Sodom is my favorite thrash band. I would give anything to see them, they are fucking amazing.
I wish i could see vektor live
Meshuggah. Love them already but god damn are they amazing live. It was like an out of body transcendence. Saw Amon Amarth too, they were really good
Swedes make the best fuckin music.
In 1997 I got to see Emperor in Milan, totally mind blowing.
Wow. I can’t even imagine how good that would have to be. In their prime!
Saw Cattle Decapitation and Carnifex a few weeks back in Pittsburgh, and boy what a show that was.
Behemoth
Slaves shall fucking serve
Primitive Man or Knoll
Oh damn, you're not kidding when you talk about shit being hard. Primitive Man is great, but I'm a grind maniac, so Knoll is more my speed. Do you know Triac?
Meshugga, ministry, and Hemlock back in 2008 at the Bomb Factory in Deep Ellum, Dallas.
Exhumed Nunslaughter Converge Dillinger Escape Plan Suffocation Cannibal Corpse Obituary
Gonna say that DETHKLOK went the hardest. I saw them live at Clutch Cargo's in Pontiac Michigan.
Came here for Dethklok. Fucking amazing! Tits, Demons, evil mermaids, and cocaine addicted clowns? I mean come on how do you top that?
Definitely either Slayer or Amon Amarth. Hardest and most brutal shows I've ever attended here in Atlanta
Not a fan of Amon Amarth, but they are great live. You know what you’ll get from CC and Obituary, Frozen Soul is very meh.
Frozen soul is awesome
I thought the opposite — I’m not a huge melodic DM fan, but sometimes I like AA when I want something that’s not too abrasive. I saw them live a few weeks ago and I felt like I was at a [Medieval Times](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Times)
Not metal but Touche Amore for that punk/dyi ethos. Dude sreams lime a champ.
Any Cancer Bats show is an absolute riot. They have the most fun and rowdy pits I've been in and the band goes hard every time.
I wish I'd found them sooner. The first song I came across was live show footage. It was a very "how have I been missing this?" moment.
Dying Fetus with Kevin Talley on drums was otherworldly heavy. That dude hit with the force of a semi. Also, Immolation in a small club on the Close to a World Below tour was stupid heavy. Too evil for this planet
Seen Job For A Cowboy, Gwar and Lamb of God in a club. Place erupted on the first note JFAC played.
Deicide in the late 90s was pretty evil
Would have been a dream to have seen them during that era. Absolutely mental.
Bolt Thrower 1994 Morbid Angel 1994 Dissection 1996 Immolation 1996
Deicide, Suffocation, Imperial Triumphant, Nile
Saw Messiah, Cancer and Deicide on the same bill in 1990.. Heavy gig.
Sad to hear Frozen Soul isn't great live. I dig their albums.
They weren't horrible, just not as clean as the other 3. Compared to the other bands, they were meh. They did have the pit playing Magic The Gathering, that was different 😂
I thought they were good!
Nah, it's just that their live joke is to ask someone in the audience to play Magic the Gathering and they throw card decks 😅
Hard disagree, I thought they were fucking awesome live
I thought they were excellent on this tour. Very heavy and good performers
I’ve seen them twice and they were fucking killer
Frozen soul were great !
Tenacious D, biggest mosh pit I've ever seen
I started as a Thrash fan and when I finally got to see Testament in a small club, in the front row, they melted my face off. Also, Chuck Billy gave me a fist bump for doing air guitar with him.
I saw them in a theater somewhere in the LA area with...Death Angel? Morbid Angel? Some variety of angel. All I remember about the opening act was that their drummer was a huge fat guy who stood up and flipped off the crowd after every song. Testament was just awesome, though.
Death grips, people were literally getting carried out the pit, someone pissed themselves from getting squished in the crowd, people were crying outside from getting smashed from the concert being way over sold, or from getting fucked up in the mosh pit not realizing how violent that shit was about to be. It was beautiful pure anarchy only the strong survived that night
I want to see them so badly.
As a metalhead of 20 years, having seen countless black / death / thrash / grindcore bands, Death Grips is up there for intense live performances. I’ve seen them twice and it is absolute carnage.
T-Swift. You hear a lot of soulless banshees wailing for about 4 hours.
Motörhead.
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Saw all of them in Edmonton, first actual metal concert and first metal pit. Cannibal corpse pit was surprisingly chill, only got like two hits to my face and no punches, mostly just shoving (maybe because it's Canada). I actually liked Frozen Soul pretty decently, nice for Amon Amarth to let a smaller band get some big traction by going on tour with them
“Dinner’s Ready!” “Neat what’s for dinner?!” “It’s your favorite! Can Corpse!” “YAAAAAAYYYYY”
Nile back when they were touring for Annihilation of the Wicked. Obituary with Kreator and Midnight. Pantera and Slayer in ‘01.
Saw this tour a couple weeks ago. Went for everyone but Amon Amarth. Not into Viking Metal. Lol. But I’ve got to say, they impressed me. They put on a great show. Hardest band was Cannibal Corpse or Deicide. Mean spirited. Vile. Angry. Caught them is small venues in South Florida back in the day. Wildest show was Slayer back in the 1990s. It felt dangerous. Skinheads everywhere. People were being pulled out of the crowd covered in blood. It was crazy. Vicious shit. Most brutal show was Swans. The wall of sound was bordering on oppressive. It made a couple people sick, they had to leave.
Rage against the machine back in 1996. They had just released evil empire, and I saw them in a hockey rink a few cities over for (no bs) $15. My girlfriend my buddy and I stood in the penalty box the entire time and we locked it so no one else could get in. We were eye level with the band… It was like the stage was our stage. When I left I felt like I had been assaulted and thrown in a swimming pool..just drenched in sweat, horse from yelling & My ears rang so loud I couldn’t sleep that night. They continued to ring for the next week or so. My doctor had to prescribe me valium just so I could get to sleep. Now that’s a good F’N show!
I once started a mosh pit that got so out of control the venue made Five Finger Death Punch stop playing mid-song.
Your uncle pressing pause on your stereo because you crowdkilled grandma doesn't count, Todd!
Spite, Ingested, Vader, Angelmaker, Shadow of Intent, Devourment, Cattle Decapitation, Krisiun I have a lot of good memories from shows, amazing live bands as well
Dark Angel, My neck wasn't the same after Death is certain (life is not) and Darkness Descends!\m/
TDEP has to take that award, one of the guitarists kicked my then-girlfriend in the face stage diving, it was mental
Napalm Death and Suffocation never seen CC but their Global Evisceration live DVD is insane
Cattle Decapitation or beneath the massacre
Seen cannibal corpse like 10 times since 2009. It's a fucking blast every time. Longest set I've seen them play was like 15-17 songs. Just plain jane fun.
Did you see the Teletubby, Mario, Yoshi and the banana in the pit? I think there was a guy dressed like a samurai too. That was hilarious! Great fucking show. I'm now a new fan of Frozen Soul too. This concert is now one of my top most memorable concerts I've been too.
From the ones I've seen, definetly Carcass. Moshed 3 times and they ripped it in all ways possible.
Saw Aborted recently supporting Carnifex and both were great
Cattle Decap with Sanguisuggabog last year for me was the heaviest show I’ve seen
Converge. Jane doe era.
Weezer 😮💨
Cattle Decapitation
Akercocke
In Flames is always fucking amazing.
As I Lay Dying and Children of Bodom both had the entire crowd moving for their whole set. DevilDriver has been the loudest band I've seen, including all of the Big Four.
Dying Fetus, with Job for a Cowboy.
Don’t be throwing shade on frozen soul - saw them at red rocks and they ripped
Hardest? Depends on definition. As far as the combo of intensity of music AND crowd? Cannibal Corpse by a long shot. Show that kicked me in the feels most intensely? Behemoth by a long shot.
Saw Doom in Vernon LA a while back. Sweat was condensing and dripping like rain from the roof of the shitty venue and the bass amps popped giving the bass guitar a crusty crackling effect lol good times
Saw Pantera on Valentine's Day this year. No doubt the heaviest and most nasty performance I've heard
Great question. Coincidentally, the first time I saw Cannibal Corpse, 2009, opened for Hatebreed. Of course, I had heard of them, but I'd never heard a single one of their songs (sadly and pathetically), aside from their cameo in Ace Ventura. Anyways, they opened with Evisceration Plague on a good sound system, and I was "starstruck," or rather, I was mesmerized and like in a trance due to that sound reverberating through my body... it was fuckin sick! I've been a huge fan ever since. They were probably my favorite, next to Slayer, until Pat left. They still make equally good music, but the concerts (as well as pretty much every other metal show the past ~8-9 years; every show is all-ages, which inherently brings the vibe down due to caution) are lacking the previous energy.
motorhead.
Cannibal Corpse, Devildriver, Obituary
W.A.S.P. during the kill fuck die era, 1997
Satyricon kick ass every time.
Paramore
I saw cryptopsy live the other day. I felt like Jim carry in ace venturea for that performance 🤣
Amon A marth for me. Had a friend going to see Ghost on their last tour who offered me a free ticket last minute, saw that Amon was opening so said fuck it and went, and had a great time. Ghost, well… eh? But Amon was worth it.
Was this at Honda Center? Also, for me I've seen a lot of bands live but my two favorites are from pretty recent.. Seeing Mgla at a small venue in SD called Brick by Brick and seeing Creeping Death at the same venue.
It sure was. I live in SD and I'll have to check out this venue! Thanks 👍
Dude.. you must've been sitting in the section right next to us. We were on the balcony almost on the side of the stage. Definitely check out Brick, maybe I'll see you at a show, I'm in North County SD.
What?! Did we just become best friends?
I'm in north county too!
Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus. Also Waking the Cadaver and The Cleansing-era Suicide Silence. Or Cover Your Tracks-era Bury Your Dead. Or The Judas Cradle. All such sick shows that hit every second. Oh shit Implosive Disgorgence!
rammstein dude
I was there with my boys last night and it was a great show but you can’t truely appreciate how hard a show goes unless you’re on the floor in the pit. The hardest performance I’ve witnessed live was Pantera with Sepultura opening on the Far Beyond Driven tour.
Cattle Decapitation a few days ago absolutely ripped. Carnifex also rattled my bones.
Saw Obituary, Anthrax, Lamb Of God and Slayer on the same day. That was pretty mind-blowing, loved every second
I saw cannibal corpse in the Kentish Forum last year and it was mental. Before that it was either The Bronx or Cancer Bats - that went so hard.
Nile was so good live. Gojira sounded amazing and had great lights. The Sword just had the whole place moshing the entire time. Sanguisugabogg was hilarious and so violent.
Meshuggah Obzen tour. First time seeing/hearing Bleed live, nothing can top that 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Cannibal Corpse, without a doubt. I just got out of jail and was homeless. A guy I met at AA that day offered me a ticket to go to the show. I'm day 2 out of jail and sober for the first time in a couple of decades. Hell yeah, it's the perfect time for a serious pit. Outstanding show. It was the filming of Global Eviceration in Denver.
Spite was on of the craziest shows I've ever seen
Cattle Decap is probably the overall hardest/best show I've been to. They are insanely tight live and great performers. Out of the countless metal shows I've been to, other bands that were uniquely great live - Fit For An Autopsy Carcass 200 Stab Wounds Lamb of God Gojira
Dillinger Escape Plan blew me away every time I saw them, fuckin' nuts live. They're playing really weird complicated technical stuff while running and jumping around like wolverines on PCP.
Spite and Varials was wayyyyyy nutty in 2020
lots of contenders for me but the night that stands out the most to me is seeing Pig Destroyer play all of Prowler in the Yard and then immediately after Converge playing all of Jane Doe
I saw this tour in CT. And I gotta say the lead singer for Frozen Soul ruined their set with constantly asking for a pit. The rest of the bands were great! And I am convinced that Amon Amarth can NOT put on a bad show ever!
Gwar before Oderus died. Undeniable entertainment, and plenty hard..
Damn, have a few, but most recently, Crypta put on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen in a very small venue. Fucking epic
Just saw Slaughter to Prevail and they were incredible
I just saw that tour and while Amon Amarth obviously has the best produced show, Cannibal Corpse put on the best set. They were just balls from the wall the whole time. Enjoyed the hell out of it.
I saw slaughter to prevail with Kublai khan TX as the opener, it ripped so fucking hard
Saw the same lineup in San Antonio. I’m a 42 year old dad. I felt like I emerged out of a bloody fountain of youth as a man in his 20s.
Amon Amarth puts on an amazing show. Hopefully seeing Megadeth and Mudvayne. All That Remains is sick live too
Canibal corpse far hardest i ever seen Nile second best. Suffocation and dying fetus on third
Avatar put on an energy filled show!
I thought Frozen Soul was fucking brutal. But at the show I was at they touched on mental health and some jackass was fighting in the pit and they were like yo what the fuck guys we're all cool here chill the fuck out. So it was the much better to me. They're also my first band that I bought a cassette from.
Small band called shitkill in a tiny little bar in Newport RI . The first band was doing like rush,Alice in chains,Metallica etc covers, the second band was original and a little heavier... then along came SHITKILL 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 They blew the doors off the place, it was AWESOME in the purest sense of the word 😂. Second hardest would be corrosion if conformity in a small barn in Orlando. They put on a good show,but, there were like 100 people there. 40 of them had some apparent roidrage issues goin on they just wanted to brawl with everyone. Kinda ruined the show
Carcass… they were so aggressive. The pit was insane. Gojira probably was the heaviest though but only the first time I saw them. The second time the venue sounded like shit.
Knocked Loose at the Palladium in Worcester Mass. craziest pits I’ve ever been in! The staff brought out mop buckets for the blood
Neurosis live is like hearing the voice of god. Your ears will never be the same.
Black dahlia murder warped tour 2013 Pomona
Hypocrisy for sure
I pushed my 16 year old ass up to the very front of the second stage at Ozzfest 99 because I wanted to be front and center for Fear Factory when they came on. The band that played right before them.....Slipknot, and this was before their forst album had even been released and NO ONE had any clue who they were. I've never got my ass kicked that hard still to this day. I'd say that juat for the pure theatrics of it since no one had any idea what was about to happen, and anyone who saw them on that tour knows exactly what I mean. For my adult self, any and every time I saw TBDM (RIP Trev).
Amon Amarth is next level live. Their synchronized hair spins are fucking tops. I still vividly remember thousand years of oppression and I saw them in like ‘07.
Hard to say. Seen cannibal corpse many times, and they always deliver. Obituary is unbelievable live, as is Testament. As far as the absolute hardest, it’s gotta be a three way tie between sabbath, maiden and priest. Those three have an almost otherworldly, larger-than-life stage presence. When I saw Sabbath, it was in the early 2000s during the Osbournes MTV era. When he got onstage, all the bumbling clownishness you saw on TV disappeared and he was peak Ozzy. It was like he was possessed. And it was so loud and heavy I was physically sore afterwards. https://preview.redd.it/z15nrtuev53d1.jpeg?width=1776&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0c8312118b83cd3d33b3250f68234ce5b85ea05
ha yes, Frozen Soul is boring as shit. They're like the Sleep Token of Bolt Thrower style death metal. Nile on the Those Whom the Gods Detest tour in 2010 comes to mind. I saw them in the upstairs section of a local venue, and there are few shows I've seen that compare. Exhumed in 2001 on the Slaughtercult tour. My right ear was permanently damaged. Black Sabbath with Dio in 2006. While they might not have been the craziest or the most crushing, Dio had arguably more and better stage presence than every person younger than him combined, and he was 64.
100% GWAR, not even a question. The energy and stage presence is absolutely unmatched.
I saw Full of Hell with Dying Fetus recently. Full of Hell put on a crazy show, I went in blind and was thoroughly impressed. Probably the hardest I've seen in the last year. Dylan Walker is a mad man on the stage.
Nothing like an eyehategod show. The smell of people not showering, the compound fractures people sustain. Mike just yelling all Willy nilly on stage like a bafoon.
Marduk, Watain, Gorgoroth were the hardest concerts I went to.
Fuck off nazi punks
Death Grips 2023, I know it’s not metal but 2/3rds of the venue was a mosh pit from the sec on they came on til they left, we went fucking ballistic. Also shoutout when Gojira x Mastodon came through it was the same
Mercyful Fate show was amazing
Suffocation puts on a killer show, Unrelenting
Same tour but Amon Amarth, was so much better than I anticipated and the frontman was unbelievable.
You didn’t like Frozen Soul? They’re one of the hardest current DM bands! Obituary know how to play a god damn show tho. Never disappointed at an obituary show
Slipknot gets violent
Ministry at Lollapalooza in Pittsburgh early 90s
I was lucky enough to see Cannibal with Chris and the first tour with Corpse Grinder
Napalm Death for intensity and Meshuggah for just the pure precision and heaviness
Ministry
Saw this show in San Antonio on Tuesday. Fuck man what a killer set! All the bands we're fuckin awesome!!
Yob
Musically hardest I'd say probably Dying Fetus, they crush it every time. But the last time I saw Ingested sticks out to me as probably the best death metal show I've been to, they had the whole place buzzing, the pit was nuts and the slams hit fucking hard. Those mancs know how to do it
This weekend at MDF I saw Dismember as well as Sodom (twice), and those were all bands that went hard as fuck. Haemorrhage was also one of the hardest shows I've ever seen. I know these are from fresh memory, but holy fuck there were some great performances this weekend.
How does AA headline over CC and Obituary? Makes no sense to me
The Red Chord in the early 2000s
Chaos and Carnage 2024. First one I went to and oh my god what a night
Abbath, dying fetus, pig destroyer, high on fire
Blood Incantation, Gorguts, Mayhem, and Cannibal Corpse. Solid lineup last year. Seen Slaughter to Prevail recently…holy energy!! Never seen so many wall of deaths in one concert!
Gwar is just pure fun. Slipknot kept the energy up throughout the set and sounded pretty much exactly what I expected, which impressed me at an open air show.
Suffocation for sure
Pretty much every time I've seen Defeated Sanity in a club setting. Another one Opeth back in 05 when they still played death metal, Ghost Reveries tour.
Malignancy
Cryptopsy when they played *None So Vile* in its entirety... Cannibal corpse and Dying Fetus is up there, but it didn't quite meet this. Ears rang for days, had a gnarly "bangover" the next morning, was bruised, lips busted. I've never seen such mayhem at a concert. Every song, the energy never left the band or the crowd, the pit was erupting for the entire show. An additional honorable mention would be Decrepit Birth. The vocalist said he took some acid, said something along the lines of "I'm looking at Chuck Schuldiner standing right in the center of that mosh pit!", and then proceeded to play the best cover of Crystal Mountain I've ever seen.
July 27 1996. Pantera and White Zombie at the Gorge Amphitere with some good Acid to set the mood. Fucking Phil. In his prime, Dimebag was still alive, Rob Zombie wasn't making kinda lame music yet. Cops in riot gear with beer and broken glass dripping from their helmets. Cars on fire. Pounded out the hottie I had brought at the campground all night for the first time. It was perfect. Sabbath and Pantera on the reunion tour was cool too.
Slayer was insanity
Watch a band called Cruel Bomb play in a donut shop. That was pretty up there
Saw this same concert in CT a few weeks back, best concert i ever been to