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

If somebody requested you to call the heaviest track ever recorded, which might you decide? There are numerous robust 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 track Iron Maiden ever recorded, segueing right into a dialogue about whether or not he prefers Journey the Lightning or Grasp of Puppets, the place he revealed his decide for the heaviest track of all time.

“And in the identical approach that I at all times stated ‘Aces Excessive’ is the quickest track ever recorded, ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’, I believe, is the heaviest track ever recorded. And I do know Meshuggah and Neurosis exist, and I do know Obituary exists, and every kind of stuff. And that is additionally true. And that is the heaviest factor ever additionally in one other approach. 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 track — I’ve by no means tried to jot down a track like that, however I hold going again to desirous about that track by way of what’s truly heavy music. Yeah, we tune down and that a part of the sound is necessary, however not one of the issues that matter earlier than — you possibly can’t put the cart in entrance of the horse… So it must be Journey The Lightning.”

Obituary and Meshuggah positively belong within the dialog, however you possibly can’t fault Eckerström‘s logic both. Earlier this 12 months, the singer stated he hopes Avatar shall be again within the studio quickly to work on the follow-up to 2023’s Dance Satan Dance.