I'm a huge death metal enthusiast. I love them riffs. I went to Maryland Death Fest this year and I already plan to go next year. While it's not all pure DM, it's got its share of amazing bands. Some of the bands I saw there were Acid Witch, Defeated Sanity and Dead Congregation. All of which I was up in front for and I had managed to get the set list for Dead Congregation.
A lot of my friends consider me to be a Death Metal snob. I like to keep up to date wit the newer releases and such. I always am looking for any stuff I might have missed but I am pretty picky with some types of metal. Specifically with bands that have already been posted. I just find them generic and boring.
On July 26 2011 04:35 Marth wrote: Amon Amarth Links in a Death Metal Thread? Wait...
I love Vader so much, its easily my favorite Death Metal band besides Death and Nile and a couple of others. + Show Spoiler +
I love De Profundis by Vader, I do not digg the production on their new stuff at all but they are still a pretty classic band in my book.
On July 26 2011 05:00 ZombieNostalgia wrote: I'm a huge death metal enthusiast. I love them riffs. I went to Maryland Death Fest this year and I already plan to go next year. While it's not all pure DM, it's got its share of amazing bands. Some of the bands I saw there were Acid Witch, Defeated Sanity and Dead Congregation. All of which I was up in front for and I had managed to get the set list for Dead Congregation.
A lot of my friends consider me to be a Death Metal snob. I like to keep up to date wit the newer releases and such. I always am looking for any stuff I might have missed but I am pretty picky with some types of metal. Specifically with bands that have already been posted. I just find them generic and boring.
Sounds like a good time : )
Acid Witch are classic, I prefered their debut to Stoned but both are good death/doom records, do you like Hooded Menace by any chance?
I will check out the bands linked, I live in Denmark myself so I was not able to attend MDF although the line-up looked very nice.
What are your favorite DM releases of this year? I have personally found it really dull.
Yeah, I agree Witchtanic Hallucinations is better, it's because they had a different singer. I do like Hooded Menace. They were at MDF but i left right before they went on at 12am. I did get a cauldron from Acid Witch's set right before.
I have to leave for work but an album to check out this year for DM is Nader Sadek's In the Flesh album or Disma's Toward the Megalith. Ill have more later if you want them.
I haven't heard many albums of 2011 myself yet... Basically only the new Necros Christos and Autopsy. However, there's another band which I WILL check out once they release their EP in another format other than the limited (sold out before I could get it ) cassette. They're called Venenum and feature the guitarist from Excoriate/drummer of Hellish Crossfire. If you liked Excoriate's old school-Sepultura influenced death metal you'll love this:
I'll post a link to an Excoriate song aswell, and another one from a band called Grave Miasma just for the hell of it (even if it's "blackened" death):
And some more stuff:
It hits me when I try to think of different death metal bands that I need to listen to more closely to artists other than the old Swedish ones... Hmm.
On July 26 2011 02:10 Slipgoon wrote: Missed this thread! There's a lot of good death out there... How about "Job for a cowboy"? pretty chunky with that bass sample
And that dude from Opeth got a great band called Bloodbath, great and old-school.
Job for A Cowboy is considered deathcore, post it in the heavy metal thread rather.
On July 25 2011 09:29 Alabasern wrote: My good friend and mental mentor recommended this recently to me.
TimeGhoul - Rainwound
The guitarist (I think) has made a deal with Dark Descent Records to release the old demos + some unreleased material on LP/CD. No date set yet, but it's about time that band get the justice it deserves. Remember when one of the demos started circulating on the internet 4-5 years back or so, was like nothing I had ever heard before in the genre.
And on another note, on the discussion of Sacramentum as being black, death, melodic this or that or whatever. I myself put them in the melodic death metal genre (as it sounded in its inception, before the Gothenburg scene took it over) This goes for Vinterland and Dissection aswell, and surely some other bands of similar style aswell. That's just my personal aesthetical asswankery though, in truth its somewhere in the grey zone between black and death, and which side of the fence you want to put them. Well, who cares!
Anyway, here's some music, the band of a few acquaintances of mine: And here's from a live gig with them, where me and a friend of mine got up on stage for some reason or another (we were pretty much intoxicated, hrrrmmm). I'm the non-blonde guy. And here's another Swedish band, I know the members of this outfit a bit closer, even though they live in another town:
On July 26 2011 02:03 Louuster wrote: I saw morbid angel live yesterday in Montreal, Immortal rites live is pretty good Song, in case some ppl still havent heard this which i doubt lol
Legendary song from a legendary album, I envy you! Even though I was very dissapointed at the new release their old stuff still stands as a testimony of excellence!
I have been in a couple of debates concerning weither or not Necrotism by Carcass is DM, I believe it is close enough so I will just drop this CLASSIC tune:
Aah you stole carcass I was going to post Been listening a lot to Corporeal Jigsore Quandary to try play the solo on guitar but it's pretty much not possible. Other than that here's a nice cover of the song
Edit: Maybe I should post some of their own material as well haha
The Berzerker is pretty much industrial death metal-ish... depending on what album we're talking about. Here's one of their best songs imo from the album Dissimulate
Aah you stole carcass I was going to post Been listening a lot to Corporeal Jigsore Quandary to try play the solo on guitar but it's pretty much not possible. Other than that here's a nice cover of the song
Edit: Maybe I should post some of their own material as well haha
The Berzerker is pretty much industrial death metal-ish... depending on what album we're talking about. Here's one of their best songs imo from the album Dissimulate
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Not to be a total dick but I have an UNRELENTING hate for everything The Berzerker does : /
Glad you digg Carcass though, how do you like Symphonies of Sickness?
I know this isn't death metal but Trap Them's new release Darker Handcraft is such a killer album It's weird that my friends are always bitching about how hardcore music is terrible yet they listen to metalcore. I just pull out bands like this
Here is some Death/Doom from the band Vastum. Really good stuff.
I could post so much stuff here. I have accrued such a vast collection over the past few years.
The guitarist (I think) has made a deal with Dark Descent Records to release the old demos + some unreleased material on LP/CD. No date set yet, but it's about time that band get the justice it deserves. Remember when one of the demos started circulating on the internet 4-5 years back or so, was like nothing I had ever heard before in the genre.
And on another note, on the discussion of Sacramentum as being black, death, melodic this or that or whatever. I myself put them in the melodic death metal genre (as it sounded in its inception, before the Gothenburg scene took it over) This goes for Vinterland and Dissection aswell, and surely some other bands of similar style aswell. That's just my personal aesthetical asswankery though, in truth its somewhere in the grey zone between black and death, and which side of the fence you want to put them. Well, who cares!
Anyway, here's some music, the band of a few acquaintances of mine:
And here's from a live gig with them, where me and a friend of mine got up on stage for some reason or another (we were pretty much intoxicated, hrrrmmm). I'm the non-blonde guy.
And here's another Swedish band, I know the members of this outfit a bit closer, even though they live in another town:
On July 26 2011 09:03 Latedi wrote: Aah you stole carcass I was going to post Been listening a lot to Corporeal Jigsore Quandary to try play the solo on guitar but it's pretty much not possible. Other than that here's a nice cover of the song
Edit: Maybe I should post some of their own material as well haha
The Berzerker is pretty much industrial death metal-ish... depending on what album we're talking about. Here's one of their best songs imo from the album Dissimulate
Not to be a total dick but I have an UNRELENTING hate for everything The Berzerker does : /
Glad you digg Carcass though, how do you like Symphonies of Sickness?
Heh may I ask why the hate?
As for Symphonies of Sickness, I'm not too fond of it but I'm not saying I think it's bad either. Whatever band I listen to I usually go with their newest albums as quality is better.
On July 26 2011 09:03 Latedi wrote: Aah you stole carcass I was going to post Been listening a lot to Corporeal Jigsore Quandary to try play the solo on guitar but it's pretty much not possible. Other than that here's a nice cover of the song
Edit: Maybe I should post some of their own material as well haha
The Berzerker is pretty much industrial death metal-ish... depending on what album we're talking about. Here's one of their best songs imo from the album Dissimulate
Not to be a total dick but I have an UNRELENTING hate for everything The Berzerker does : /
Glad you digg Carcass though, how do you like Symphonies of Sickness?
Heh may I ask why the hate?
As for Symphonies of Sickness, I'm not too fond of it but I'm not saying I think it's bad either. Whatever band I listen to I usually go with their newest albums as quality is better.
Because they are a part of a movement in extreme metal I really dislike, where the only thing to explore is FASTER, HARDER, LOUDER and they do all of those really badly but having the most BS drums (drum machine) and uncreative song writing in history. I just can not stand em' sorry.
By quality do you mean production?
In that case I disagree, production can kill a fine record. I much prefer Necrotism and Heartwork to Swansong for an example, this is also due to songwriting though.
Very few bands grow better with time, take examples such as Slayer, Dissection (Reinkaos..), Metallica, Entombed etc.
What I am trying to say is clean production =/= good album.
On July 26 2011 09:03 Latedi wrote: Aah you stole carcass I was going to post Been listening a lot to Corporeal Jigsore Quandary to try play the solo on guitar but it's pretty much not possible. Other than that here's a nice cover of the song
Edit: Maybe I should post some of their own material as well haha
The Berzerker is pretty much industrial death metal-ish... depending on what album we're talking about. Here's one of their best songs imo from the album Dissimulate
Not to be a total dick but I have an UNRELENTING hate for everything The Berzerker does : /
Glad you digg Carcass though, how do you like Symphonies of Sickness?
Heh may I ask why the hate?
As for Symphonies of Sickness, I'm not too fond of it but I'm not saying I think it's bad either. Whatever band I listen to I usually go with their newest albums as quality is better.
Because they are a part of a movement in extreme metal I really dislike, where the only thing to explore is FASTER, HARDER, LOUDER and they do all of those really badly but having the most BS drums (drum machine) and uncreative song writing in history. I just can not stand em' sorry.
By quality do you mean production?
In that case I disagree, production can kill a fine record. I much prefer Necrotism and Heartwork to Swansong for an example, this is also due to songwriting though.
Very few bands grow better with time, take examples such as Slayer, Dissection (Reinkaos..), Metallica, Entombed etc.
What I am trying to say is clean production =/= good album.
You should listen to their latest album, it's pretty weird I don't know what you call that style. I don't think it's death metal though. And I think they ditched the drumming machine, can't remember. I have to agree that programmed drums doesn't contribute to a band.
As a band progresses their music changes as well and I think bands having played for a longer period of time are more aware of their genre and how to write good songs. Also bands change genre over time and as they are comfortable with it and their skill has improved you could say something like band X writes better music now than 10 years ago even if the genres are different.
I also think gear matters, newer amps will produce a better sound than something from 30 years ago in the 80s. This is probably the main reason I don't really like old music. Everything sounds kind of "weak".
My favorite band is probably In Flames and they have changed so much during their career but every new album is still as awesome as the previous one. Sorry if I'm being vague with all this but I'm not good at speaking my opinions.
On July 26 2011 09:03 Latedi wrote: Aah you stole carcass I was going to post Been listening a lot to Corporeal Jigsore Quandary to try play the solo on guitar but it's pretty much not possible. Other than that here's a nice cover of the song
Edit: Maybe I should post some of their own material as well haha
The Berzerker is pretty much industrial death metal-ish... depending on what album we're talking about. Here's one of their best songs imo from the album Dissimulate
Not to be a total dick but I have an UNRELENTING hate for everything The Berzerker does : /
Glad you digg Carcass though, how do you like Symphonies of Sickness?
Heh may I ask why the hate?
As for Symphonies of Sickness, I'm not too fond of it but I'm not saying I think it's bad either. Whatever band I listen to I usually go with their newest albums as quality is better.
Because they are a part of a movement in extreme metal I really dislike, where the only thing to explore is FASTER, HARDER, LOUDER and they do all of those really badly but having the most BS drums (drum machine) and uncreative song writing in history. I just can not stand em' sorry.
By quality do you mean production?
In that case I disagree, production can kill a fine record. I much prefer Necrotism and Heartwork to Swansong for an example, this is also due to songwriting though.
Very few bands grow better with time, take examples such as Slayer, Dissection (Reinkaos..), Metallica, Entombed etc.
What I am trying to say is clean production =/= good album.
You should listen to their latest album, it's pretty weird I don't know what you call that style. I don't think it's death metal though. And I think they ditched the drumming machine, can't remember. I have to agree that programmed drums doesn't contribute to a band.
As a band progresses their music changes as well and I think bands having played for a longer period of time are more aware of their genre and how to write good songs. Also bands change genre over time and as they are comfortable with it and their skill has improved you could say something like band X writes better music now than 10 years ago even if the genres are different.
I also think gear matters, newer amps will produce a better sound than something from 30 years ago in the 80s. This is probably the main reason I don't really like old music. Everything sounds kind of "weak".
My favorite band is probably In Flames and they have changed so much during their career but every new album is still as awesome as the previous one. Sorry if I'm being vague with all this but I'm not good at speaking my opinions.
I can tell that we have radically different views on music and especially production and band philosophy.
To put my point down really quick I will leave it at this: I believe it is about the sound, the sound can be created from a top notch studio and still be shit. Certain bands are not helped by more expensive equipment, one of my favorite bands are Led Zeppelin and having all their tracks re-recorded with fancy new equipment would be nothing short of disaster. Cause the sound created stims from the music itself, not from fancy equipment. Drum triggers, etc take a lot away from the music for me.
I wasn't in the band when the video was shot, but the non-longhaired guitarist left the band. I think there was a video taken at our latest gig, I might upload it if I can find it.
i'm not that much into death metal (with the exception of bolt thrower), but this song has been a favorite of mine for a long time. very aggressive & very groovy at the same time:
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) cassette. They're called Venenum and feature the guitarist from Excoriate/drummer of Hellish Crossfire. If you liked Excoriate's old school-Sepultura influenced death metal you'll love this:
That's just my personal aesthetical asswankery though, in truth its somewhere in the grey zone between black and death, and which side of the fence you want to put them. Well, who cares!
Been listening a lot to Corporeal Jigsore Quandary to try play the solo on guitar but it's pretty much not possible. Other than that here's a nice cover of the song 
