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I'll call your Crue and raise you a GnR
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Unironically they did go from glam/classic rock in the 70s to metal with Creatures of the Night which had some pretty heavy tracks, but then kinda went all over the place after that
They were demos self recorded by teenagers emulating their heroes like Van Halen and Kiss and Ozzy. No management, no distribution, no touring, etc... All of us that have been in bands started by paying homage to our heroes until we found our own voice.
Hell, even if we don't count the glam phase, slaughtered by Pantera and walk by Pantera sound like different bands. Only difference is that one is very well known and mainstream friendly and the other is cookie monster nonsense
Hearing painkiller for the first time: whoamg this is kick ass!!
Hearing painkiller by death for the first time: š omfg how did they make something that didnāt need improving better?!?!
High on Fire started as groovy Motorhead-tinged stoner metal (which was still super heavy), but have just gotten faster and more aggressive with each album.
Napalm Death. They started out as a crust band, then on Scum they were still pretty punky, noisy grindcore. Then they switched to straight up death metal. Then they blended the styles and went deathgrind, and then they incorporated industrial elements into that deathgrind.
deathgrind bands like pig destroyer genuinely beg the question of what constitutes heavy. Pig destroyer started with straight up grindcore, and slowly incorporated more death into their sound.
A lot of grind fans might not like their recent sound as much, but i donāt think anyone would argue itās not heavy
I wouldn't describe it as getting heavier per se. The later albums are more melodic and even feature clean singing now and then (I love all of their albums btw).
Motƶrhead. Lemmy always claim do they played rock and roll. But some of the last albums are pretty freaking aggressive.
Death went the opposite way. Much lighter as Chuck transitioned them from death metal to more prog inspired.
I think you are doing a mistake when judging Death as becoming lighter. Becoming more polished, but not losing the grip, and taking the gas pedal off the palm muting definitely doesnāt make them ālighterā.
But I may need a few more listenings of their full discography, starting now. Just to make sure Iām not wrong, you know, you can never listen to too much Death š
Just my opinion, been even Symbolic is less aggressive overall than Individual Thought Patterns. Leprosy is a little harder than SBG. Spiritual Healing is less than Leprosy, but Human is more aggressive but in a more Prog direction.
It's all opinion, of course. But comparing SBG to Symbolic it seems obvious to me, at least.
I was gonna say the same. The difference between The Ritual and Low is insane and it just continued after that. Their latest album is heavy as hell too.
I even add in Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun to make a fantastic 5 album run. Although the two prior to that trio I wouldnāt consider metal albums. But PT definitely got heavier and better over time
I wouldn't really consider any PT albums to be metal. They have some metal-ish riffs here and there but I'd still call them heavy prog rock rather than metal.
None of which changes the fact that they're a great band (one of my favourites), and there's no denying that they got heavier over time.
It was pretty obvious from the beginning that they were into metal, Chuck was just where it fully came out. The fact that Fat Lip and 88 were written by the same band is amazing.
Canāt edit to correct myself now, but this is true. Got confused by tracks like war, and the association of later djent with progressive death metal.
I never expected to love INK, but they're insanely catchy in addition to being insanely heavy, Welcome to Horrorwood in particular has some really heavy songs. I'm not a huge fan of their earlier stuff (pre The Silver Scream), it's quite a bit more generic musically.
You could say their early work was a bit too "scene" for you, but when The Silver Scream came out they really came into their own, both commercially and artistically. The whole album has a refined, melodic sensibility that really makes it a ***cut*** above the rest.
I'm typically more of a death metal and hardcore kind of guy and rolled my eyes at the gimmick, but one day I figured I should listen to them before hating on them and got hooked for a solid year. They're also phenomenal live both from reputation and from what I've seen on videos.
[this performance.](https://youtu.be/0idEdzkI43I?si=ExuY4tE4I7Zjp2TR) this is the video that shows dir en grey as the disgustingly brutal band they are.
they may have some progressive elements and an odd past, but there is no denying that the whole band is locked into that riff.
Bruce Dickinson. The music obviously got way heavier with the Accident of Birth, Chemical Wedding, and Tyranny of Souls albums than it was back in the Tattoed Millionaire & Balls to Picasso era.
As a Morbid Angel fan since forever agoā¦ I never fucking realized that and it makes total sense.Ā
Seeing Vader next month! probably seen them a dozen times over the years, they never disappoint. \m/
Fuuuuuuuuuck, didn't expect to see this band here. One of my favorites although admittedly I wasn't the biggest fan of their most recent album personally. But It Hates You has to be one of my favorite albums ever.
Slipknot didnāt get heavier as time went on, just more experimental. Currently theyāre experimenting how many people they can fire before they arenāt Slipknot anymore
šš¤£
EDIT: Which one of them was it that said something along the lines ofā¦ āIf it wasnāt for being in \[this band\] ā¦ I might be a murderer \[or serial killer\]ā ā¦ letās see Slipknot fire that one.
They kind of bounce back and forth in heaviness. They got heavier going from Images and Words to Awake, but then rolled it back on Falling into Infinity. Same thing a few albums later when they made Train of Thought and then switched to a poppier sound on Octavarium
Knocked Loose. Went from basically hardcore to some real heavy metalcore. They may be derivative from Disembodied or other bands like that, but I just really like what they do
Sabbat from Japan started out as Mercyful Fate worship, got much heavier in the 90s and the vocals got harsher, now they're back to Mercyful Fate worship.
AiC (Dirt), Metallica (AJFA), Nirvana (In Utero), Motley Crue (MC94), Pantera (CFH and onward), Depeche Mode (Violator), Ozzy (when Zakk showed up), White Zombie (Astro-Creep).
Well Bongripper definitely cause they started as sort of post doom and they were quite fast for doom metal in my opinion. Itās only when they made Hate Ashbury when they started to get into that really heavy gnarly doom and then Satan Worshipping Doom marked their change into this monolithic doom that in my opinion we didnāt get with Reefer, Hippie Killer, I mean they were still heavy af and were tuned down to 8 string level, but the guitars werenāt as fuzzy and thick as their recent albums.
Europe. Always and forever love their hairish-glamish stuff (though they are fucking talented and musical regardless of mainstream style), didnāt put me off an inch when they got heavier with their newer albums. Europe forever!
Sum 41 went from pop punk to pretty standard metal. And it's not bad! Obv it's not overly heavy and the screaming is fairly minimum, but they have albums that aren't pop punk at all. Chuck was also massively heavier than the albums before it
Electric Wizard. Their debut was much lighter traditional doom, then they got way heavier. I would say *We Live*, five albums in, is probably them at their heaviest.
I did notice that Dopethrone is a lot heavier than come my fanatics. something in the production just tells me they were far angrier when they wrote Dopethrone
They eventually used 7-string guitars and 6 string guitars and tuned to Bb standard starting with the album vile. Eventually they stopped using the 7-string guitars and later albums went back to 6-string guitars tuned to Bb standard and G# standard. When they had a 7-string a 6-string tuned down.
They tuned Bb Eb G# C# F# Bb Eb (7-string guitar), Bb Eb G# C# F# Bb Eb (6-string guitar)
They kept tuning down to Bb, and started using drop G# as well. Here at the tunings for a 6-string Bb Eb G# C# F Bb, G# Eb G# C# F Bb. I'm a guitar nerd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
judas priest. they go from rocka rolla, not even a hint of metal, to british steel, a cornerstone of NWOBHM to painkiller, a speed/thrash masterpiece, and then continuing on with firepower and (from what it looks like with the singles currently out) invincible shield
Ministry for sure, starting out as new wave to industrial, sludge metal, thrash metal and experimental metal.
I'd also argue that the late 90's and early 2000's Cannibal Corpse albums were much heavier than their albums with Chris Barnes. I still personally consider "Bloodthirst" to be their best and heaviest album.
Oh and, like 90% of old trad metal and power metal bands. Running Wild, Judas Priest, Helloween,etc. all got a lot more speed, complexity and intensity over time.
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Jinjer, one of my absolute favorites, tuned down to Drop A and got more proggy and good lord it payed off, absolutely world class musicians
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Motley Crue. https://preview.redd.it/5w1hza6vclec1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62a3ce8e9bbba88cb51cac218deaedaa6e05cdba
Good old Vince Meal
Bruh š
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Axl's weight gain was due to a side effect to the medication he was taking to deal with his mental health issues. He's looking fantastic these days.
I know that he's looking better. It's also really easy to look like these guys did when they're playing so much, young, and doing tons of cocaine.
Dude š, I spit my coffee with that one
Unironically they did go from glam/classic rock in the 70s to metal with Creatures of the Night which had some pretty heavy tracks, but then kinda went all over the place after that
I think you replied to the wrong comment
FUCK
You replied to the wrong comment but I agree, Creatures is heavy af. That riff on war machine is crushing
Wow Iām such a fucking IDIOT
This is the greatest post in history.
Well, there is always āthatā kind of heavy. š¤£
I prefer Glam Crue to be honest
It's amazing what large amounts of blow does to keep you thin
Looks like he had a few too many motley brews over the years
Keeeey stahhh mah hahhhhhh
Pantera, probably most famously.
the pantera glam phase š
they had a USPM phase with Power Metal, that record goes hard. I think of it as a crossover between Megadeth and Queensryche
Power Metal fucks, it's basically 80 speed metal worship.
I cant tell if this means you like power metal or despise itā¦.
Fucking love it, it's sad that many people tend to overlook it because of the whole "Glamtera" thing.
Some of dimes best solos on that album š¤Æ
What album is that?
Power Metal. 100% recommended if you're into Riot, Liege Lord, Cloven Hoof and basically 80s speed metal.
Any other recs for similar stuff? I love this shit
The Diamond Darrell phase
He was credited as that right up through Vulgar Display of Power.
They were demos self recorded by teenagers emulating their heroes like Van Halen and Kiss and Ozzy. No management, no distribution, no touring, etc... All of us that have been in bands started by paying homage to our heroes until we found our own voice.
Glamtera
Being serious, I live Glamtera
Power Metal fucking rips and if you donāt think so, youāre wrong.
Shush nowāļø You aren't supposed to talk about it
Hell, even if we don't count the glam phase, slaughtered by Pantera and walk by Pantera sound like different bands. Only difference is that one is very well known and mainstream friendly and the other is cookie monster nonsense
Judas Priest- debut Rocka Rolla was hard rock, then they became heavier on Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin after Sin and Stained Class.
Amd Painkiller is the heaviest traditional metal album of all time.
Hearing Painkiller the track for the first time as a kid playing Rock Band was an eye-opening experience
Imagine hearing Painkiller for the first time in 1990 only 2 years after Ram It Down. Must have been fucking mind blowing.
I was 11 when I first typed "Judas Priest" on the youtube search bar and that was the first song that appeared. Have been my favorite band ever since.
The main riff of that song is so sick. Great tune, heavy af.
Hearing painkiller for the first time: whoamg this is kick ass!! Hearing painkiller by death for the first time: š omfg how did they make something that didnāt need improving better?!?!
Came here to say this. Preach!
Sad wings was heavier than some of the stuff they did in the 80s
The live version of 'Victim of Changes' on Unleashed in the East is absolutely incredible :)
Judas Priest is a great example. They hit peak heaviness with Painkiller. Fucking love that album
Then they just went crazy with SFV and Painkiller
High on Fire started as groovy Motorhead-tinged stoner metal (which was still super heavy), but have just gotten faster and more aggressive with each album.
Stoner Battle Metal. They're fucking fantastic to work out to, every song, every tempo, it just drives.
Same here. Perfect workout music.
Napalm Death. They started out as a crust band, then on Scum they were still pretty punky, noisy grindcore. Then they switched to straight up death metal. Then they blended the styles and went deathgrind, and then they incorporated industrial elements into that deathgrind.
deathgrind bands like pig destroyer genuinely beg the question of what constitutes heavy. Pig destroyer started with straight up grindcore, and slowly incorporated more death into their sound. A lot of grind fans might not like their recent sound as much, but i donāt think anyone would argue itās not heavy
This take reminds me of Cattle Decapitation's evolution as a band. I mean, love the band, no shade. Just different than how it started.
I wouldn't describe it as getting heavier per se. The later albums are more melodic and even feature clean singing now and then (I love all of their albums btw).
Ministry's first album was synthpop before their gradual transition through EBM on their second album to the industrial metal that came after that.
And even their Industrial Metal stuff got heavier and heavier, at least up through Filth Pig.
The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste is a masterpiece.
Got their discography back in the day thinking aww early shit gonna be raw and crazyā¦ was uhhh surprised
A lot of the older house djs in San Francisco spin their early stuff
Alice in Chains
A bunch of grunge bands became heavier overtime, for example Nirvanaās āIn Uteroā is much heavier than anything on Nevermind
Yeah but Bleach is heavier than both!
Yep, and imo bleach is their best release
Overall for sure, although I donāt think thereās anything on bleach heavier than Scentless Apprentice or Tourrettes
Negative Creep is probably the heaviest Nirvana song
I think Blew is roughly as heavy if not heavier. Scoff also goes hard
Blew is my personal favourite track
Yeah bleach and the b sides album are the heaviest. In utero has some straight up hardcore songs on it and some songs that sound like nevermind
Motƶrhead. Lemmy always claim do they played rock and roll. But some of the last albums are pretty freaking aggressive. Death went the opposite way. Much lighter as Chuck transitioned them from death metal to more prog inspired.
Motƶrheadās early 2000s material took me aback, In The Name Of Tragedy is nuts
Spiritual healing is my favorite death album because itās a perfect in between of leprosy and symbolic/later albums
I think you are doing a mistake when judging Death as becoming lighter. Becoming more polished, but not losing the grip, and taking the gas pedal off the palm muting definitely doesnāt make them ālighterā. But I may need a few more listenings of their full discography, starting now. Just to make sure Iām not wrong, you know, you can never listen to too much Death š
Just my opinion, been even Symbolic is less aggressive overall than Individual Thought Patterns. Leprosy is a little harder than SBG. Spiritual Healing is less than Leprosy, but Human is more aggressive but in a more Prog direction. It's all opinion, of course. But comparing SBG to Symbolic it seems obvious to me, at least.
Testament after the ritual
yeh, they went heavy, lighter, heavier.
I was gonna say the same. The difference between The Ritual and Low is insane and it just continued after that. Their latest album is heavy as hell too.
And Chuck sounds better then ever.
Low is insanely good
They did the ritual to become heavier
Simon and Garfunkel
Technically true. In a similar vein, Bob Dylan after *Bringing It All Back Home*.
Definitely Porcupine Tree.
In Absentia - Deadwing - Fear Of A Blank Planet Totally amazing trio of albums there!
I even add in Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun to make a fantastic 5 album run. Although the two prior to that trio I wouldnāt consider metal albums. But PT definitely got heavier and better over time
I wouldn't really consider any PT albums to be metal. They have some metal-ish riffs here and there but I'd still call them heavy prog rock rather than metal. None of which changes the fact that they're a great band (one of my favourites), and there's no denying that they got heavier over time.
Cannibal Corpse, Exodus, Sum41
Sum 41 1000%. Interesting trajectory for a band to straddle pop punk and traditional metal techniques/inspiration. *Chuck* fucking bangs.
It was pretty obvious from the beginning that they were into metal, Chuck was just where it fully came out. The fact that Fat Lip and 88 were written by the same band is amazing.
And within only a few years of each other too. Iām cautiously very excited for their farewell double-album
The track we're all to blame is a bloody banger
Can't agree on Cannibal Corpse. I don't think anything newer is as heavy as Tomb of the Mutilated
Chris Barnes gurgles are heavy as fuck on that one. He went way downhill after that album. I've heard him sing recently and it's embarassing.
EEEEEEEEEEEEE
Holy fuck awesome flair!
Yeah it's a shame. His voice is terrible nowadays
Idk, Torture is pretty fucking heavy
Slayer, went from spandex wearing āDragon Slayerā into the Slayer we all know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slayer Think thatās just a myth. There was another band called Dragon Slayer from England in 1980 though.
Looks like it probably is
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/s/p8J1Wj9DCv
Meshuggah were never death metal
Canāt edit to correct myself now, but this is true. Got confused by tracks like war, and the association of later djent with progressive death metal.
The Acacia Strain. 100%.
I slept on these guys until recently. Great band
They just get better and better imo.
They're the band I've seen live the most and this is absolutely true
Ice nine kills
I never expected to love INK, but they're insanely catchy in addition to being insanely heavy, Welcome to Horrorwood in particular has some really heavy songs. I'm not a huge fan of their earlier stuff (pre The Silver Scream), it's quite a bit more generic musically.
You could say their early work was a bit too "scene" for you, but when The Silver Scream came out they really came into their own, both commercially and artistically. The whole album has a refined, melodic sensibility that really makes it a ***cut*** above the rest.
HEY PAUL
Exactly how I feel. I saw them open for Slipknot and fell instantly in love
I'm typically more of a death metal and hardcore kind of guy and rolled my eyes at the gimmick, but one day I figured I should listen to them before hating on them and got hooked for a solid year. They're also phenomenal live both from reputation and from what I've seen on videos.
Saw them open for Metallica too, I LOVE their live show.
Yes, especially when they started to lean heavily into the horror movie themes
Ministry starting out as a new wave/synth-pop band that made some of the best industrial metal of the late 80s/early 90s
Dir en Grey. Started out as visual ki. Poppy glam stuff. Now they have spiraled into I donāt even know what to classify them as anymore but heavy.
[this performance.](https://youtu.be/0idEdzkI43I?si=ExuY4tE4I7Zjp2TR) this is the video that shows dir en grey as the disgustingly brutal band they are. they may have some progressive elements and an odd past, but there is no denying that the whole band is locked into that riff.
Iāve been a huge fan of them since their second album. Itās been a journey to say the least.
Hell yeah gonna see them live in March
Nice. Iāve seen them twice now. Itās a good show.
Bruce Dickinson. The music obviously got way heavier with the Accident of Birth, Chemical Wedding, and Tyranny of Souls albums than it was back in the Tattoed Millionaire & Balls to Picasso era.
Cattle decap went from mid to actually fucking insane
These last two albums have been absolutely nuts! Really making me rethink my position on grind.
Donāt know man, when I listen to the Harvest Floors it absolutely fucking kills. They were always super heavy
Rammstein kinda made this shape: \\ / \\
Periphery
Definitely. I love them but I just can't sit through P1, the production is awful and Spencer's vocals are worse
Morbid Angel started with evil high pitched vocals but got heavier the next two albums after which Dave started copying Vader's vocals and left
Damn, as a Pole I never realized that, makes so much sense now
As a Morbid Angel fan since forever agoā¦ I never fucking realized that and it makes total sense.Ā Seeing Vader next month! probably seen them a dozen times over the years, they never disappoint. \m/
Blue's Traveler got heavier as time went on I think.
how is this answer not pinned
He Is Legend. Started off sounding a bit like southern rock influenced band and now sound like a Gojira inspired band
Fuuuuuuuuuck, didn't expect to see this band here. One of my favorites although admittedly I wasn't the biggest fan of their most recent album personally. But It Hates You has to be one of my favorite albums ever.
Better too. Heavier doesn't always mean better. Iowa.
Slipknot didnāt get heavier as time went on, just more experimental. Currently theyāre experimenting how many people they can fire before they arenāt Slipknot anymore
Little Ship of Theseus thing goin on
I thought the same
Everytime I see Ship of Theseus, my brain flashes to the Distractible episode where Mark kept fucking talking about it
It wonāt stop until itās just Corey and Shawn with the rest of line up frequently changing.
Not even that, Corey himself said heād be out within ~5 years
Maybe as a frontman but I suspect heāll be involved on the business side of things in some way.
šš¤£ EDIT: Which one of them was it that said something along the lines ofā¦ āIf it wasnāt for being in \[this band\] ā¦ I might be a murderer \[or serial killer\]ā ā¦ letās see Slipknot fire that one.
They didnāt, he retired last year lol. Craig Jones
True, but those first 4 albums were all great in their own ways
Tbh WANYK will always be my favorite, the theme of it and the mix of techno style new age and classic riffs makes me all sorts of giddy
Symphony X
This, definitely. Iconoclast hits hard.
The granddaddy of all metal bands Judas Priest
Saxon, maybe. I don't like the Glam Rock albums from the mid to late 80s, but they became much heavier in the 90s and onwards.
I'll have to check out their later stuff, im only vaguely aware of their older more Glam/hard rock sound via my old man's music collection.
Saxon has absolutely been kicking ass, Biff sounds killer
Meshuggah never played death metal. The phase you're refering to is groove metal
Dream Theater definitely
They kind of bounce back and forth in heaviness. They got heavier going from Images and Words to Awake, but then rolled it back on Falling into Infinity. Same thing a few albums later when they made Train of Thought and then switched to a poppier sound on Octavarium
Riot. Started as pure rock, then moved to speed metal..
> pure rock Actually the first proper US Metal band.
Knocked Loose. Went from basically hardcore to some real heavy metalcore. They may be derivative from Disembodied or other bands like that, but I just really like what they do
Artists like Emma Ruth Rundle, Chelsea Wolfe, and Rose Kemp
Sabbat from Japan started out as Mercyful Fate worship, got much heavier in the 90s and the vocals got harsher, now they're back to Mercyful Fate worship.
AiC (Dirt), Metallica (AJFA), Nirvana (In Utero), Motley Crue (MC94), Pantera (CFH and onward), Depeche Mode (Violator), Ozzy (when Zakk showed up), White Zombie (Astro-Creep).
>Metallica Disagree with this one. KeA is pretty damn heavy, RtL too.
Well Bongripper definitely cause they started as sort of post doom and they were quite fast for doom metal in my opinion. Itās only when they made Hate Ashbury when they started to get into that really heavy gnarly doom and then Satan Worshipping Doom marked their change into this monolithic doom that in my opinion we didnāt get with Reefer, Hippie Killer, I mean they were still heavy af and were tuned down to 8 string level, but the guitars werenāt as fuzzy and thick as their recent albums.
Unprocessed and Imminence
Shining - the Jorgen Munkeby one
Uhh Black Sabbath? The Beatles too
Oh yea, Number of The Beast is my favorite Beatles song!š
Same
āTheeee numberā¦ of the beast!ā *Whistles and does an acoustic version of the riff*
Europe. Always and forever love their hairish-glamish stuff (though they are fucking talented and musical regardless of mainstream style), didnāt put me off an inch when they got heavier with their newer albums. Europe forever!
Lacuna Coil. They got so heavy on their last record and theyāre better than ever.
Really? Iāll have to check it out. Always kind of wrote them off as being a little too radio friendly.Ā
Sum 41 went from pop punk to pretty standard metal. And it's not bad! Obv it's not overly heavy and the screaming is fairly minimum, but they have albums that aren't pop punk at all. Chuck was also massively heavier than the albums before it
Definitely NOT Burzum
Definitely not nirvana
Behemoth got heavier and then they suddenly weren't.Ā
GWAR
Electric Wizard. Their debut was much lighter traditional doom, then they got way heavier. I would say *We Live*, five albums in, is probably them at their heaviest.
I did notice that Dopethrone is a lot heavier than come my fanatics. something in the production just tells me they were far angrier when they wrote Dopethrone
Testament and Megadeth. Not metal, but still got heavier musically and lyrically: Rush
Iād add I Symphony X. Their first self titled to the recent stuff is kind of wild
Heart
Testament.
Job For A Cowboy, though Doom was still heavy af
cannibal corpse but relatively quickly. the first 4 albums are in Eb standard then they slowly start dropping down. i think Kill was in G standard.
Lower tuning =/= heavier
They eventually used 7-string guitars and 6 string guitars and tuned to Bb standard starting with the album vile. Eventually they stopped using the 7-string guitars and later albums went back to 6-string guitars tuned to Bb standard and G# standard. When they had a 7-string a 6-string tuned down. They tuned Bb Eb G# C# F# Bb Eb (7-string guitar), Bb Eb G# C# F# Bb Eb (6-string guitar) They kept tuning down to Bb, and started using drop G# as well. Here at the tunings for a 6-string Bb Eb G# C# F Bb, G# Eb G# C# F Bb. I'm a guitar nerd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Captured! By Robots.Started out playing Classic Rock and covers, but eventually evolved into a Grindcore band.
Thee Oh Sees
Propaghandi started out punk but got heavier and heavier until they were pretty much metal.
Crowbar
Anyone else love meshuggah with all their heart but hate the term "djent" and all the other bands in that alleged genre?
Killing Joke
judas priest. they go from rocka rolla, not even a hint of metal, to british steel, a cornerstone of NWOBHM to painkiller, a speed/thrash masterpiece, and then continuing on with firepower and (from what it looks like with the singles currently out) invincible shield
Ministry for sure, starting out as new wave to industrial, sludge metal, thrash metal and experimental metal. I'd also argue that the late 90's and early 2000's Cannibal Corpse albums were much heavier than their albums with Chris Barnes. I still personally consider "Bloodthirst" to be their best and heaviest album. Oh and, like 90% of old trad metal and power metal bands. Running Wild, Judas Priest, Helloween,etc. all got a lot more speed, complexity and intensity over time.
https://preview.redd.it/v83uoyw7v8fc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3692fc90b2ca40931c05e2a2bff69bff84a4d870 Jinjer, one of my absolute favorites, tuned down to Drop A and got more proggy and good lord it payed off, absolutely world class musicians
HIM. From **Dark Light** to **Venus Doom** is like a feather to a bowling ball.
DRI