This will be a thread dedicated to the sub-genre of heavy metal: "death metal"
Short history: In the vein of recent developments in extreme metal, noteable "thrash metal" in the early 80's a small number of groups started to play a slight variant of thrash metal which would slowly come to shape death metal. Proto-death metal so to speak. Majorly influential records in the early stages include the early Hellhammer records, Posessed's Seven Churches, and various other records such as (then) hard thrashers Sepultura.
But when did death metal really become a stable genre?
There are two major years accompanied by very influential releases which are pointed as with being the "first" death metal records.
Death's 1987 debut "Scream Bloody Gore" is often pointed as being the first major death metal debut, featuring Chuck Schunilders signature death metal vocals. But the records had a very thrashy vibe. This is why Morbid Angel's 1989 debut is considered the first pure death metal record, featuring a very proficient use of blast beats and relentless riffing along with David Vincent's majestic death metal vocals.
Death metal has since then been rapidly developing, and has inspired many sub genres. This thread will only be for the closest family of genres, example: Technical death metal is allowed due to the technical tag being an addition rather than a fusion such as death metal and metalcore (deathcore).
Sorry for the spelling mistakes, I will try to clean up the mistakes later on. Discuss/share/request!
There is a nice story to it as at Wacken 2007, a scary big finnish guy came to our camp, looked me in the eyes and said "do you like brutal death metal?" with a very scary voice. I said "yeah, sure", and he gave me this cd. Since then it's my listen-while-drive-to-a-festival CD :-)
I already did a search and found no dedicated threads. I see a lot of discussiong being lost in the "heavy metal" thread due to a mix of genres, that is why I made this thread upon reading this post:
On July 25 2011 02:49 TATTOO wrote: mmmm this thread should be about heavy metal as opposed trash, death, and what have you. Its mostly death metal posts, and to be frank death and thrash metal have/need to have their own thread. i thought it would all be about priest sabbath and maiden, but alas.
Someone a few pages back said short hair and clean vocals is not metal. Caring about your appearance is not metal, and since having short hair is more practical they're the ones who dont give a shit. long hair is metal for the stage presence (why i have it at least) and if i wasnt in a band dear god i would have cut this shit off ages ago....Clean vocals are metal and are aesthetically essential to most manifestations of the genre, and simply dismissing them from your repertoire is really going to hurt your bands dynamics (unless you just got some beast ass motherfucker chris barnes type)
The heavy metal thread's title should really be changed to just The Metal Thread so people stop having the urge to make a new thread for every sub-genre of metal. -_- I mean it's already been turned into basically just 'the metal thread,' but in the past 2 days or so I've seen this thread, and a doom metal thread. Granted I love DM, but there's just no reason to have so many metal threads alive when there's basically already a universal metal thread that's 70+ pages.
I already did a search and found no dedicated threads. I see a lot of discussiong being lost in the "heavy metal" thread due to a mix of genres, that is why I made this thread upon reading this post:
On July 25 2011 02:49 TATTOO wrote: mmmm this thread should be about heavy metal as opposed trash, death, and what have you. Its mostly death metal posts, and to be frank death and thrash metal have/need to have their own thread. i thought it would all be about priest sabbath and maiden, but alas.
Someone a few pages back said short hair and clean vocals is not metal. Caring about your appearance is not metal, and since having short hair is more practical they're the ones who dont give a shit. long hair is metal for the stage presence (why i have it at least) and if i wasnt in a band dear god i would have cut this shit off ages ago....Clean vocals are metal and are aesthetically essential to most manifestations of the genre, and simply dismissing them from your repertoire is really going to hurt your bands dynamics (unless you just got some beast ass motherfucker chris barnes type)
Fair enough. Truth be told, I don't really put much effort into distinguishing similar genres, so I'll assume that you know what you're talking about here, and I'll back off.
On July 25 2011 04:53 ShivaN wrote: The heavy metal thread's title should really be changed to just The Metal Thread so people stop having the urge to make a new thread for every sub-genre of metal. -_- I mean it's already been turned into basically just 'the metal thread,' but in the past 2 days or so I've seen this thread, and a doom metal thread. Granted I love DM, but there's just no reason to have so many metal threads alive when there's basically already a universal metal thread that's 70+ pages.
I can follow your logic seeing as this is a general forum, not dedicated to music discussion only and it takes up too much space
On the other hand death, doom, thrash, black and other genres of metal are very different and I personally feel that a little order is a good thing. Especially for folks like me who will sometime be in mood for a specific thing or wanting to request/discuss something specific to a genre without completely disrupting the flow of another thread.
On July 25 2011 05:05 Soda wrote: I think these metal threads are getting a little out of hand. Nevertheless Here is what most people consider essential death metal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i38m-xGX7io
I would disagree by a small margin.
Death metal laters work move further and further away from pure death metal and more and more over to progressive death metal and with TSOP they were hardly death metal anymore.
Keep in mind that my favorite Death album is actually "Symbolic" and it is very relevant in the further development of death metla after its orgins. But as far as pure death metal I consider "Altars of Madness", "Mental Funeral", "Leprosy" and "Cause of Death".
Demilich and Demigod are my favorite finnish DM bands. Overoth was not half bad at all, thank for sharing. Here is some stuff I have been spinning these day:
Massacre - From Beyond is one of the early gems of the genre, not extraordinary in any way but extremely solid and just unrelenting! 2:40 is f'ing great.. "From beyond enter the horror Of a dark and hideous nature The fall of man is now at hand Awakened from an ancient slumber The immortal ones return The earth is theirs ones again"
Bolt Thrower aka the most consistent DM band ever:
Entombed when they were good:
Incredible new DM and grindish band "Undergang" from Denmark. I was pleased to see them on the otherwise lack luster Roskilde 2011 roster:
Great contributions trias_e and pasado. I am very fond of At the Gates myself, even in their melodeath years, Sacramentum is indeed BM and darn good. Carnage destroys, I am getting the feeling I need to give Dark Recollections another spin.
After the dissapointment that was Morbid Angel's new release we can all be happy that Autopsy's new record after a long hiatus kills:
EPT
