Death Metal/Black Metal

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!!