#5

this isnt true, just wanted to post their funk days

#6

Cloud Nothings

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#7

Depeche Mode started out as cheesy synth pop - by the early 90s and their Songs Of Faith And Devotion album, things had got more aggressive! Particularly their drug use!

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#8

Pop Will Eat Itself.

Weird English indie dance band end up supporting Nine Inch Nails.

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#9

Primal Scream? Jangle central to “Rocks”.

#10

Tom Waits

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#11

Jangle to xtrmntr!

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#12

'Iowa’s a lot heavier than Slipknot’s first album.

#13

Tentative hand up at the back for Converge

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#14

Spiritualized did that one garage rock album, but it was incredibly meh and really stripped away what makes them great.

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#15

Yes, Linkin Park, although they went both ways.

Minutes To Midnight was heavier than their first two albums, then they softened up for A Thousands Suns then they went hard again for The Hunting Party (one of their best albums) and then soft again so they flip flop a bit :smiley:

#16

Six. By Seven. Started out like this:

Then had songs like this on their second album:

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#17

Ministry
NIN’s least (musically) “aggressive” album was the first
Portishead (sort of)

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#18

Muse?
Ash?

#19

The Posies

#20

The Cult
King Crimson
Killing Joke

loads of 70s heavy metal bands probably got heavier in the 80s with the rise of thrash/speed/death metal

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#21

Faith No More, arguably. Angel Dust was pretty extreme compared to what came before.

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#22

Cave In, sort of.

Started off heavy, became increasingly more accessible and then went at it hard again.

#23

Nirvana were pretty poppy in the 60s but by the 90s they were well heavy :wink:

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#24

Was contemplating NiN but they definitely got way less aggressive as Trent got older.