Any death metal fans?

My favorite genre and many times it's not too far from doom. In fact, groups like Ashen Mortality, some Mortification and Pantokrator blur the lines a lot. I love it fast and I love it slowed and heavy.

etombdissonance wrote:

I love it fast and I love it slowed and heavy.

That's what scottmitchell won't shut up about.


Actually, I am quite a fan of the genre. Obituary. Deicide, Morbid Angel, Monstosity, Akercocke, Lowbrow, old Entombed all tickle my pickle.

I like Ian Arkley's forays into death mainly, but I also like some of the ENTOMBED I've heard, thanks to Tranny.

Other than that, I have a hard time getting into the vocal style unless it's done REALLY well and has some dynamics to it (i.e. Ian Arkley, as I mentioned earlier) because, as a vocalist, I can virtually "feel" things that others sing and if it makes me clutch at my throat in imagined pain while I'm listening to it, I can't take it for long.

I am the exact same way.. vocals can kill it for me.
Pretty picky about who I can handle... also people are so anal about the genre that half the time I can't figure out what constitutes death metal....

But I do know this... I can't stand black metal vocals.... just retarded to my ears

Definitely the vocals are either you love 'em or hate 'em for most people. Hm, maybe my lack of carrying a tune in a bucket is the cause.

That's cool...and that's also the reason Baskin Robbins has 31 flavors.

Death metal? My bread and water!

If I'm not listening to death black or doom, I'm problably asleep :p


My first real metla album was one by Morbid Angel.

TrogDawn wrote:

Other than that, I have a hard time getting into the vocal style unless it's done REALLY well and has some dynamics to it (i.e. Ian Arkley, as I mentioned earlier) because, as a vocalist, I can virtually "feel" things that others sing and if it makes me clutch at my throat in imagined pain while I'm listening to it, I can't take it for long.

Which is why I do not like a lot of Death Metal myself.....improper vocal technique seems to be the in thing with a lot of the more "popular" bands. Plus the lack of enounciation really turns me off to a lot of bands. It's like they're born again troglodytes learning to "grunt" for the first time.

"Grog make hevee moosick fer cayve freens..cal moosyck deeuhsyde"

Im picky about my death........hee......that sounds funny.

I used to be BIG into Cannibal Corpse but then realized they werent really all that good and the whole gore thing got boring. Well they were good but more repetative than anything.

I do like Mortification, Obituary, Scourged Flesh and the deathy era of Celtic Frost.

Talking about Scourged Flesh... check out this thread for some live clips (a whole gig infact) by them.

https://thecave.niceboard.com/mines-of-moria-f6/whole-scourged-flesh-live-gig-on-youtube-t1033.htm

To answer the thread: yeah, I am a fan of death metal. But I don't like
the generic bands. You and I have all heard them ... the bands that
basically sound like a watered down version of Deicide, Suffocation,
and Morbid Angel all mixed into one & with absolutely no thought
put into the musical structure or lyrical themes at all. I
think I enjoy about 1 out of every 10 death metal bands I come across.
All that said, I do LOVE the great old school death metal bands, before
death metal became a trailer park sensation in the early 90's. I also
like some of the modern bands, but again, they must still be unique and
interesting in order for me to listen to them.

Some death metal bands I like:

MORBID ANGEL - Morbid Angel is the Jimi Hendrix of death metal bands.
Their music is absolutely unspeakably great, for reasons that I choose
not to ramble about currently. But IMO the best death metal band of all
time, both then and now.
POSSESSED - ESSSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL band for both death metal
and thrash fans. It's influence cannot be understated. Seven Churches
is an all time favorite for me.
OBITUARY - Fans of Celtic Frost have NO EXCUSE for not listening to
this band! Though the vocal style employed here kept me away for years
as well. Great band though.
IMMOLATION - very creative and influential band; interesting & unique song structures
INCANTATION
NIHILIST & early ENTOMBED
AUTOPSY
early DARKTHRONE - anyone here enjoy Soulside Journey or Goatlord?
VADER - the AC/DC of death metal ... these guys just keep going ... it
pretty much all sounds the same, and it's all great heavy thrashing
old-style death/thrash. I'd highly reccomend the album "The Ultimate
Incantation".
PESTILENCE - Some good old school death metal

Some runner ups

Suffocation
Death
Deicide - not really a fan, but they had their moments in their early days.
...
I can't really think of many more right now. Personally I don't like
the "Gore" death metal much, so you probably won't find much of it in
my collection ...


@IG: That's GREAT that your first metal album was a Morbid Angel album
... mine too! Actually I'm not sure if it was the first first first one
I ever got, but Morbid Angel's Formulas Fatal to the Flesh was the
album ... and it's still one of my all time favorites to this day for
its raw power and the fact that the album is heavy as molasses.

That's a good list though I think Darkthrone has more black metal then death. I agree with the gore thing, it gets tiresome quick though Lair of the Minotaur has some mixed in with their Greek mythology that I don't mind. Two of your runner ups are two of my favorites: Suffocation and Death. You should check out Martyrs Shrine, an album with two ex members of Mortification for some old school death.
Anyone like the melo death? I'm a Dark Tranquillity fanboy.

etombdissonance wrote:

I'm a Dark Tranquillity fanboy.

you would enjoy Insomnium's album "the day it all came down" as much as i did then.

dOOm&gLOOm wrote:

@IG: That's GREAT that your first metal album was a Morbid Angel album
... mine too! Actually I'm not sure if it was the first first first one
I ever got, but Morbid Angel's Formulas Fatal to the Flesh was the
album ... and it's still one of my all time favorites to this day for
its raw power and the fact that the album is heavy as molasses.

Whoa, thats awesome! Formulas Fatal to the Flesh WAS the first one I ever got. It was so heavy, I felt as if I was suffocating the first time I sat down and listened to it!

IronGuardian wrote:

dOOm&gLOOm wrote:

@IG: That's GREAT that your first metal album was a Morbid Angel album
... mine too! Actually I'm not sure if it was the first first first one
I ever got, but Morbid Angel's Formulas Fatal to the Flesh was the
album ... and it's still one of my all time favorites to this day for
its raw power and the fact that the album is heavy as molasses.

Whoa,
thats awesome! Formulas Fatal to the Flesh WAS the first one I ever
got. It was so heavy, I felt as if I was suffocating the first time I
sat down and listened to it!

Sweet dood. Formulas is also a VERY well written album from start to
finish. It opens perfectly with the awesome "Heaving Earth" right
through the 10 minute closer, the name of which escapes me at the
moment. Also features some great re-recordings of "Covenant of Death"
and "Hellspawn: The Rebirth". I also love the instrumental pieces on
that album; some people don't like M.A.'s ambient moments, but I think
they are always placed so perfectly within the album to provide
'breaks' from the heaviness that I could not imagine listening to a
Morbid Angel record without them.

One of the [many] reasons I like Morbid Angel so much is because they
are not just about heaviness. They are so good at creating an
impression or feeling within a song. I love that they vary the pace of
their songs to feature even funeral doom inspired moments (Nothing is
Not
for example...). Plus Pete Sandoval and Trey Azagthoth have such great
chemistry together. It can sometimes feel like I'm listening to a death
metal jazz improv session because those guys play off of each other so
well.

etombdissonance wrote:

That's a good list though I think Darkthrone
has more black metal then death. I agree with the gore thing, it gets
tiresome quick though Lair of the Minotaur has some mixed in with their
Greek mythology that I don't mind. Two of your runner ups are two of my
favorites: Suffocation and Death. You should check out Martyrs Shrine,
an album with two ex members of Mortification for some old school death.
Anyone like the melo death? I'm a Dark Tranquillity fanboy.

Martyr's Shrine ... I will make a note to check them out.

You're right on the Darkthrone point. They are actually my favorite
black metal band as well. But I was just referring to their early
material as an Entombed-inspired band. Though Darkthrone were unique even in those days.

Melo death ... hmmmm reccomend me some good bands because I've heard a
number of melo death bands and while I do like some of them (Immortal
Souls for example), the genre never really grabbed me as a whole.

Death a runner up? WOW! I forgot to add them to my list of death metal bands I do like.LOL Chuck rewrote the book in the late 80's with Scream Bloody Gore.......well actually he rewrote it with Spiritual Healing IMO.

Suffocation and Pestilence are two good ones too. I sold off my Pestilence and Suffocation stuff and kinda wished I hadnt. I was in one of those modes where if there was anything on an album that really struck a nerve with me spiritually I got rid of it. Im pretty much past that now but some bands like Deicide I wont give them the time of day.......although their first 2 albums COMPLETELY RAWKED!

zombiewalkin wrote:

Deicide I wont give them the time of day.......although their first 2 albums COMPLETELY RAWKED!

I totally understand why people hate on Deicide and I don't want to convert anyone. But I have loved Deicide for 18 years (longer than my wife!) and even if wanted to, I couldn't take Glen's over the top anti christian message seriously. I really think even God is giggling or rolling his eyes at that one.

I stopped buying albums of theirs when they released Once Upon The Cross......the inside artwork was a complete turnoff.

spectrefate wrote:

zombiewalkin wrote:

Deicide I wont give them
the time of day.......although their first 2 albums COMPLETELY
RAWKED!

I totally understand why people hate on Deicide
and I don't want to convert anyone. But I have loved Deicide for 18
years (longer than my wife!) and even if wanted to, I couldn't take
Glen's over the top anti christian message seriously. I really think
even God is giggling or rolling his eyes at that one.

Haha, that's exactly the reason I can't take Deicide seriously
actually. Glen Benton is a 100% wanker ... and most of the satan-head
scenesters will tell you the same thing!
I think as far as their sound goes, one could listen to Immolation,
Incantation, Suffocation, or any number of early 90's death metal
"pioneers" and get the same thing they would get out of a Deicide
record, without all the ridiculous drabble-babble. I actually do like
Deicide's Legion record however, songs like "Satan Spawn, the
Cacodaemon" I just imagine are about the big one-eyed fireball spitting
baddy from the world's best video game DOOOOMM!!!

BTW your point about "Once Upon the Cross" is interesting because that
album, musically, was actually a return to form for them and as such I
think is one of the less-bad moments of their career.

zombiewalkin wrote:

Death a runner up? WOW! I forgot to add them to
my list of death metal bands I do like.LOL Chuck rewrote the book in
the late 80's with Scream Bloody Gore.......well actually he rewrote it
with Spiritual Healing IMO.

Suffocation and Pestilence are two
good ones too. I sold off my Pestilence and Suffocation stuff and kinda
wished I hadnt. I was in one of those modes where if there was anything
on an album that really struck a nerve with me spiritually I got rid of
it. Im pretty much past that now but some bands like Deicide I wont
give them the time of day.......although their first 2 albums
COMPLETELY RAWKED!

Well then this will give you the perfect opportunity to pick up
Pestilence's first (and IMO best) album, "Malleus Maleficarum" in its
remastered form with 6 bonus tracks from their 2 early demos. The demos
are actually really good, though they sounded A LOT like Possessed in
those days.

About Death -- I actually like Scream Bloody Gore quite a bit, but like
I said, the gore thing is a turn off for me and therefore when I listen
to bands in this vein I usually go for Possessed, early Pestilence, or "Abominations"-era Morbid Angel over Death.

Woah, sorry for the triple post doodz, but I just thought I'd
mention-- the fans of old-school death/thrash that are comin' out of
the woodwork in our subterranean doom-chamber here would do good to
check out the band Death Breath. A newer death metal band who plays in
the old-school 80's style but with modern production, plus a good
Obituary-esque sense of humor throughout their albums. Anyone like?

Also, does anyone here listen to the Nihilist demos? I also think there's some quality death metal there!

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Melo death ... hmmmm reccomend me some good bands because I've heard a
number of melo death bands and while I do like some of them (Immortal
Souls for example), the genre never really grabbed me as a whole.

Well, there is always the squabble about who really is and who isn't a melo-death band. Like I said, Dark Tranquillity can do no wrong in my book. At the Gates may have defined the movement with it's first couple albums as well as early Carcass though people fight about Carcass fitting the category. Early In Flames had some good moments but I never was as gaga as some people. Arch Enemy is another consistent listen. Nightrage, which had the singer of At the Gates on it's first couple, is another good one. Well stop there for now. Let me know if you listen to any of these and what you think.

Those of you who dig the really old-school stuff should check out HAIL OF BULLETS, a recent project featuring Martin Van Drunen (PESTILENCE, ASPHYX, and some live shows with BOLT THROWER) on vocals. It's brutally heavy death metal that sounds straight out of 1988-89 or so. Down tuned, chugging, memorable riffs with no blast beats (tempos range from slow and doomy to "fast" in the OBITUARY meaning of the word). The lyrics are all inspired by World War II, specifically battles between Germany and Russia, and it appears as though Martin really did his homework. Killer stuff, and among my favorites of 2008. If you like any of the bands mentioned above, or early ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER, or CELTIC FROST, I think you'll love this stuff.

I've liked some Death Metal here and there over the years...Suffocation, Death, Morbid Angel, Grave...but only off and on...I've never been a fan of the genre as a whole...

Never been a fan of the genre, primarily because of my severe aversion to "cookie monster" vocals.

detuned wrote:

Never been a fan of the genre, primarily because of my severe aversion to "cookie monster" vocals.

That's my main thing too...but some of the riffs are just so damn cool!

I've actually gotten used to "cookie monster" vocals along with black metal "shrieks". I like Crimston Thorn and Feast Eternal as well as Frost Like Ashes and Elgibbor.

I can't believe I forgot this, but I do enjoy Doom Death Metal...those ultra slow riffs with that "RRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!" is awesome!

I like Death Metal, mostly the european bands of the late 80's/early 90's, like Demilich, Entombed/Nihilist, Massacra, Convulse, Bolt Thrower, early Atrocity, Bluuurgh!! (yes, 'twas a dutch band), Excruciation, Mercyless, Agressor, etc...Some US bands also, but always thought euro Death was better (sorry for you US citizens^^), mostly because it was more dark and less gore, I suppose.

Also, to saty in Doom and Death : Paramaecium, the aussie Doom/Death legend, is no more, but they've started anew on a pure Death Metal band called InExhordium

Yeah, I heard about Paramaecium a while back...thier new InExhordium stuff is pretty cool...

Some of the Doom Death bands I like are Paramaecium, Ahab, Evoken, Thergothon...and the mighty Morgion...

You need to check out My Silent Wake if you haven't already.

My Silent Wake is very good, a lovely combination of death and doom.

Already a MSW fan, fellas...

As long as I'm adding to that list, I'll add MY DYING BRIDE as well...

Do death metal fans oscillate?

If the price is right.

Well, they can windmill

I really enjoy good death metal. Some of my favorites:

Aborted
Bolt Thrower
Brain Drill
Cannibal Corpse
Carcass
Death
Decapitated
Hackneyed
Hail Of Bullets
Kataklysm

Although I more prefer the melodic death variety:

Amon Amarth
early Arch Enemy
At The Gates
Dark Tranquility
Deadlock
Disarmonia Mundi
Divine Souls
Fragments of Unbecoming
Gardenian
Immortal Souls
In Flames
In Thy Dreams
Insomnium
Mors Principium Est
Omnium Gatherum
Skyfire
Solar Dawn
Within Y

I'm a heavy metal addict. Better than crack or porn though, eh?

crucifixion12 wrote:

I'm a heavy metal addict. Better than crack or porn though, eh?

Indeed! Addictive, but less destructive! Oh, and I like a lot of the bands from the first part of your list; not too much of a melo-death fan, but I like the more old-school, brutal death metal quite a bit.

inExordium!

I like some death metal. Morbid Angel is one of my all time favorites.