What are the hardest hitting, aggressive songs you know about?

Any Pantera song, just start at Fucking Hostile and work your way through.

My friend, have you heard of Snot?
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lz8eu8AHKh1p_INeCV-HGTCJgDyW9E0ok&feature=share

Blood Eagle by Periphery is pretty damn heavy, but it may sound like noise on the first listen. The mix is dense, so it can take a minute to really digest what you're hearing.

https://youtu.be/__eKAvBST3s

Try some of these

Heaviest Lamb of God - Vanishing, Desolution, To the End, Anthropoid

...unique, always energetic Devin Townsend - Mighty Masturbator (starts slow... wild ride), Kingdom, Liberation, Juular

Excellent melodies Brendon Small - Beastblade, On My Way

If you like Noisia, we should be on the same page here...

The Hole Where Your House Was - Spor

Nothing Matters (Noisia Remix) - Mark Knight feat. Skin

Kingdom - Spor

Primordial - Audeka

Scarif - Black Sun Empire and Pythius

I Saw You - Black Sun Empire feat. Sarah Hezen

War March - Joe Ford

Life & Death - Rezz and Deathpact

Core - RL Grime

Amber - Ivy Lab

Some of those last few are hard in a different way, but anyway, should be at least one you like in there.

Have you considered Mick Gordon’s Doom soundtrack?

Off the top of my head there’s also “Hell Patrol” (Judas Priest):

https://youtu.be/qp9fqO4etHM

Maybe the opening of “New Drugs” (Dead When I Found Her):

https://youtu.be/Z24aHbq5U_g

Or maybe “The Serpents of Eden” (Dawn of Ashes):

https://youtu.be/ojvhswrzHf0

Here's a few of my favorites, across a few genres. Each of these goes very hard in their own right. Some in unexpected ways, but they all have a really strong energy behind them.

Carpenter Brut - The Widow Maker
Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer
GosT - Maleficarum
Perturbator - She Moves Like A Knife (NSFW thumbnail)
Heilung - Norupo
Nightwish - Noise
Abbath - Winterbane
Rotting Christ - Χ Ξ Σ (666)
Gojira - Stranded
BLVCK CEILING - WVFFLIFE
Machinae Supremacy - Player One
KMFDM - A Drug Against War
Mindless Self Indulgence - Witness

Then, if you have the time, these two are both some personal favorites of mine, but they're pretty long. But definitely worth the time, as they are not only absolutely beautiful songs on their own, but they also go very hard.

20:58: Nightwish - The Greatest Show On Earth (This is a live version of the song, and tells a story about the Big Bang and the birth of our universe, and has a special appearance by Richard Dawkins.)
14:07: Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence (This song is heavily inspired by The Iliad, the classic Greek poem by Homer.)

RIOT - Overkill

Sullivan King & Ray Volpe - The Dead March

Virtual Riot - Wallmonger

Crankdat - Ding Dong

shwirl, -Alow, & faux ivvy - kocham cię

Portrayal of Guilt is a heavy as fuck metal band that I really enjoy.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6orPCwBWW9Li0CBseEcDHJ?si=RXTWTXHwSRS90439VcMhUg

Dyers Eve by Metallica is a pretty overlooked song. It’s raw, aggressive and pretty deep. There may be heavier songs in this thread but the anger in this song really elevates it.

And there’s also most Pantera songs.

Watch It Crash by Streetlight Manifesto

There is an interesting division when it comes to music that is perceived as "hard", and that is groove. Some just want music to sound evil and have harsh sounds, others require groove to feel the power. So, here are my recommendations with some groove:
Everything by Devildriver
Everything by Dethklok

If it's energy you're looking for, I don't think I've ever seen much more of a "banger" than French band Shaka Ponk's "Palabra Mi Amor"

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MrLWo2QOsH4&feature=share

Children of Bodom are you dead yet

You Will Never Be One Of Us - by Nails

Death Walking Terror - by Cannibal Corpse

All The Devils Are Here - by Dyscarnate

Flying Whales by Gojira

Holy Roller by Spiritbox

Death To The Holy by Zeal & Ardor

Arsonists get all the girls

City of angels cakewalk https://piped.video/watch?v=Jcl1zZoZ4jk&t=28

Scobra vs cupcake https://piped.video/watch?v=7aNn4vZFnU4

Save the castle screw the princess https://piped.video/watch?v=H93kG1ZU1zY&t=2

Showbiz - Muse

Ænina - Tool

I Get It - Chevelle

Really good suggestions already (Meshuggah, Spiritbox etc). But this list is not complete without: Rage against the machine - Bullet in the head, wake up, testify, sleep now in the fire. All great!

Shining. Specifically, the album Halmstad. Specifically, the first and last songs (the last is one of my favorite songs ever). A brutally heavy album about depression and suicide. Their whole thing (specifically their vocalist, Niklas Kvarforth) is trying to get people to harm themselves and commit suicide. Part gimmick, part truth.

Listen to Halmstad late at night when you're feeling down on life and it's just an insane experience.

Stop by !dsbm@lemmy.world if you want some more - I have a post with some starting bands.

Some other favorites of the genre are Make a Change... Kill Yourself (my favorite), Leviathan, and Xasthur.

origin - expulsion of fury, venetian snares - ibantchivapulk

I'm definitely saving this thread for later, personally I love the new Doom games soundtrack, or anything else from Mick Gordon. In a similar vibe I loved the soundtrack for a game called Cube, the guy that composed it (Marc A. Pullman) has an album that's great called Odious (other things by him are great also, but Odious is my favourite).

Great question, and I have two to suggest:

Cattle Battle - Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor. Builds with a punching industrial sound that's rife with Reznor's flavour, and climaxes hard with a moment of quiet before the impact.

Straight for the Sun/Desolation - Lamb of God. Intro is a quick breath and pure fury through Sun, then a seamless transition to Desolation which is a machine gun metal blast to the face.

The Greatest Show On Earth, especially from the 5:46 mark (epilepsy warning - EXTREME flashing lights)

Pixies - Rock music: https://piped.video/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A

Deftones - 7 Words

https://piped.video/watch?v=hsUWqNQdTws

I've always really liked Du Hast, by Rammstein.

Rawthang - Scorned (wait for it)
DaVIP & Encode - Vamonos
Meshuggah - Millenium Cyanide Christ
Machine Head - Blood for Blood

Paroxysm Unit slaps pretty hard. I would also reccomend the latest album from Cattle Decapitation.

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Pumped up kicks is quite „hard“, at least text wise: https://open.spotify.com/track/7w87IxuO7BDcJ3YUqCyMTT?si=Tbx96MsYTRiOrTdMsRmSiQ

And so is bullet: https://open.spotify.com/track/7MB22jLCA12Ev7Jjp3e1aU?si=af0w80NnTAC7sZCWRNqq1w

Beat wise few tracks hit harder than „hit me hard“: https://open.spotify.com/track/4xvOZdRvnhaK2XbdHzIelj?si=eCXbqOILQFm8-7h1ALNiMA

I looked through the comments and some very excellent suggestions are listed. I did not see the first one that came to my mind, may have missed it though. Old, but still banging, Sepultura! Chaos AD is a favorite of mine. They aren't for everyone but are a staple in my library.

Lydia by Highly Suspect

https://piped.video/watch?v=ev-bR9ii7Gs

DVP by PUP

https://piped.video/watch?v=iVuB1ZASrGw

Throwin' Down by Psychostick

https://piped.video/watch?v=GPTuiH2X0E4

I can post some more agressive ones if you'd like.

Bad Rabbits - U Mean I'm Not

MARAUDA - RAGE ROOM

Recently discovered Lorna Shore, they definitely scratch that itch for me. Especially the latest releases with Will Ramos

War by IDLES.

It sounds like a fucking air raid

Counterparts- The Disconnect

This song has actually been stuck in my head lately so I'm glad I got a chance to share it. I've seen them in concert 2 or 3 times, they're awesome

Discovered Four Fists during the 2020 protests. It was timely.

Nobody's Biz

Annhiliation

I didn't see an official video link for the second one...

Starset!!! Specifically, Trials, Carnivore, Annihilated Love, and Something Wicked.

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

The Album Samurai ,the song Reiter Maniacs

Second the album Der rote reiter, the same named song.

Frontierer is one that hit me hard recently: Frontierer - Glacial Plasma

Author & Punisher

Rip & Tear - Mick Gordon Doom 2016 OST in general

well i found out about noisia recently, so I hear what you are saying, but its not really fair to just describe techno and drum/bass as "hard", there's plenty of mumble rap that goes hard, reaggeton, etc. rock n roll. I hope you find more songs that transport the energy to you, because I feel it with a wide variety of music. Just gotta get into it without analyzing too much.

Cursed - Friends In The Music Business

Backstabbers Inc. - I don't care how many times you've seen Fight Club, you're not Tyler Durden / We attack at dusk

I'm pretty sure you may find some here: https://www.mixcloud.com/DJNim/dj-nim-metal-trap-mix/

Unfortunatly I lack of the unmixed tracks links

Stage - Live Tears you a new one!

https://piped.video/watch?v=Vd9Hhuc8__A