AVATAR Singer JOHANNES ECKERSTRÖM Says This Is The “Heaviest Song Ever Recorded”

If somebody requested you to call the heaviest music ever recorded, which might you choose? There are numerous sturdy arguments however Avatar singer Johannes Eckerström is aware of precisely what he thinks is the heaviest of all time, as he stated in an interview on 96.7 KCAL-FM (transcribed here).

Earlier within the interview, he stated that “Aces Excessive” is the quickest music Iron Maiden ever recorded, segueing right into a dialogue about whether or not he prefers Trip the Lightning or Grasp of Puppets, the place he revealed his choose for the heaviest music of all time.

“And in the identical means that I at all times stated ‘Aces Excessive’ is the quickest music ever recorded, ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’, I believe, is the heaviest music ever recorded. And I do know Meshuggah and Neurosis exist, and I do know Obituary exists, and all types of stuff. And that is additionally true. And that is the heaviest factor ever additionally in one other means. However simply these riffs, that anger, with that rage and sense of — I do not know — its significance that comes by means of in how that riff is performed, that primitive riff to start with, and the choice to place the cymbal crash on the primary snare within the bar after as a substitute of the opposite one, and all that. In order that music — I’ve by no means tried to jot down a music like that, however I hold going again to occupied with that music when it comes to what’s truly heavy music. Yeah, we tune down and that a part of the sound is essential, however not one of the issues that matter earlier than — you may’t put the cart in entrance of the horse… So it needs to be Trip The Lightning.”

Obituary and Meshuggah undoubtedly belong within the dialog, however you may’t fault Eckerström‘s logic both. Earlier this yr, the singer stated he hopes Avatar can be again within the studio quickly to work on the follow-up to 2023’s Dance Satan Dance.