Death Metal/Black Metal

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okay.

Death Metal:
*Morgoth - The Eternal Fall
*Obituary - Slowly We Rot
*Death - Spiritual Healing

These all form a nice, solid introduction. There are many others, also some subgenres and crossover material that deserves mention. Just drop me a line in the email if you need some more hints. Posting a query here is obviously not easy; everything is turned into a joke...nice pictures though scott...

I don't know where Children of Bodom fit in, but they're pretty rad, too.

'aspera...' and 'la masquerade infernale' are both very interesting and impressive, however. hearing 'wintry grey' a number of years back prompted me to look closely into the genre of black metal.

no garm no credibility

Death Metal:
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade

All are bona fide classics yet quite accessible.

What's good and new? SHARE SUGGESTIONS!!!

So far I'm really into the Hopeless demo tapes. At least two blogs that I know of have posted the tracks, link below, and I have to say that it really amazing black metal along the lines of maybe mid-era Hypothermia. Maybe shorter length, but certainly many more transitions.

http://depressive-black-metal.blogspot.com/2009/01/hopeless-esp-hopeless-demo-2008.html

The new Hirilorn is also great. Lo-fi, pissed, with great riffs and excellent vocal performance.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Attila_the_Hun/~3/511248307/hirilorn-hymn-to-ancient-souls.html

Rolling Metal Thread 2009

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2012/02/the-metal-vocal-hit/

I want to get into more death metal after rediscovering Nile's 'Black Seeds OF Vengeance'. What else is good? Also - what's the best Nile album other than that one?

Asphyx

Azarath

Incantation, Onward to Golgotha

Nile got really hyper-tech after that but In Their Darkened Shrines is still cool in my book

album of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwQ9g5rW5jg

Love Azareth - often banged on about them since discovering them in the eoy metal polls

pestilence - spheres
immolation - here in after / failures for gods

more recently, i've been digging stuff like disma, cattle decapitation, portal, ulcerate and vastum. autopsy's latest was also really good. and quite surprisingly i've also been digging 'torture' by cannibal corpse - best thing since...idk, 'the bleeding' ?

Oh yeah Pestilence - first 4 albums, all perfect.

Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

oh my god why am i only hearing this azarath record now

I think they're fairly obscure but I had there album on my iPod for months after eoy

that dismember album that siegbran mentioned is the best death metal i've ever heard. it totally kills from start to finish.

this shit is so dope. i don't know what friggin' thread to put it on. could listen to this forever and ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBL8swhPl8&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJXx0fjQVOE&feature=channel&list=UL

i mean a doom thread or whatever but whatever. i gotta go to bed.

that's cool music, Scott! had never heard of them before.

anyway, realised this thread isn't complete without a mention of Dissection. the pre-incarceration stuff is unbelievable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1VCRhWOSKM

a short, blistering set in its entirety.

http://www.terrorizer.com/blog1.php/2012/08/24/the-terrorizer-friday-death-metal-top-15

that terrorizer list is pretty weird. celtic frost? maybe proto-death (and black!), but not death per se. and, despite having a song called 'death metal', possessed are really thrash, as are sepultura, i woulda thought. 'mental funeral' over 'severed survival' for autopsy and 'the stench of redemption' for deicide, imo. no entombed, carcass, cryptopsy? bah.

I think it was just knocked up on a friday morning in the office for the blog. It's the kind of thing they do.
Celtic Frost are amazing as they influenced thrash/death/black/doom/gothic/avant garde metal.

yeah, i love celtic frost, but have never thought of them as 'death metal', but you're probably right about this being a friday-morning-in-the-office job; pointless to whinge about really. like that they included 'winds of creation' tho'.

and you know who always seem to be overlooked in these 'best DM ever' lists? the chasm!! this is stupefying to me.

best ever discussion of who is really the most satanic metal band

would poll this thing but don't even know where to start

Morbid Angel's whole trip is conjuring up demons for the apocalypse, man. Deicide is straight up hate, for everything, man. And a lot of these bands kinda blend in together, there are lyrics in here that you would really think are filled with hatred - and they are - but just Deicide kinda that't their little niche is just straight hatred. Mercyful Fate is full-blown Satanism. Morbid Angel's out of the necronomicon, Mercyful Fate is straight outta the Satanic Bible, he follows Anton Levay religiously, they're good friends man...

Dude, you gotta tell me again, how in the fuck do you think that the Grateful Dead are Satanists?

I KNOW they are. I don't think it, I KNOW IT. I think they're one of Satan's key tools.

[Paganini] was the first known musician who openly sold his soul to the devil, he admitted it. Have you heard about this guy? He is the first musician to have openly sold his soul to the devil, to have made no bones about it and did you hear about the way that he died? There's thousands of people that saw him die and said it was amazing. All of 'em concurred that this is what happened... like - ghosts - he died during one of his performances and ghosts came up out of the ground and carted him off dude.

I'm guessing some of you will see this fillum eventually

http://www.docnyc.net/film/death-metal-angola/

Not heard of it before but I really want to now.

Listening to:
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream (and also the complete demos set)
Carnage - Dark Recollections (and demos)
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Nihilist - 1987-1989 demo set
Vader - De Profundis, Litany

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Atheist - Piece of Time, Unquestionable Presence

Am discovering I tend to go for the Swedish stuff a bit more than the Florida, as it seems less overtly technical, more "punk", dirtier. Also, all the demo sets I mention above are incredible, often seeming to be more in line with what I like than the official albums (maybe because I am approaching this stuff after getting into black metal). Best studio record I've heard so far as Ever Flowing Stream, but pretty much everything above is great. I don't think I am naturally as inclined towards death metal as I was to a lot of the BM I've heard over the past couple of years, but once I attune my ears to this stuff, there is so much to love. Actually, preceding this, I listened to some old thrash, and you can definitely see a line from that to DM, and also grindcore (had gotten into Repulsion around the time I started investigating BM). Anyway, very fun self-education, and always looking for tips from lovers of the old school stuff. (or new school -- I heard a demo by Swedish band Vampire that kind of jump started my interest in listening to DM in the first place)

Have you read the exhaustive book on Swedish Death Metal called Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth, Dominique? It's well worth reading and it discusses the evolution of death metal (lots of noisier anarchist end of hardcore-punk as well as more obvious metal ones) and there is also an awesome 3 CD companion chock full of demos (author tends to be of the mindset that most of these bands never bested these).

I have not, but it is now on the list. Thanks!!