uh... no
xp: yeah I thought it was kind of a sellout for a minute but then I listened to it; you really can't fuck with it, man, crazy riffs for years and Walker still sounds like himself; I don't even know that it could've been a sellout at the time, you know? Nobody was really playing music like that back then. It seems like it only became a subgenre after Heartwork.
― si monvmentvm reqvires, pvmpkin spice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 October 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
And they play with such vicious conviction! I'd love to read an oral history of Heartwork, actually, because it sounds like they rediscovered a love of Euro-HM and were just driven to this new style.
― si monvmentvm reqvires, pvmpkin spice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 October 2015 03:14 (eight years ago) link
Death Certificate is my fav, easily
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 17 October 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
Heartwork poll
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 17 October 2015 10:53 (eight years ago) link
Probably Death Certificate for me too, again, but every track is great.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 17 October 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
This was probably my 2nd death metal album. 5.99 used at CD Warehouse.
"Buried Dreams" was my email tag Freshman year of college.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 17 October 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
All i can recall is in my town a couple of prominent metallers hated it as a sell out and they were into real extreme stuff like cradle of filth. Funny how that worked out innit?
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 17 October 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
I can get why people who were into their real sick brand of grind/death-grind felt "betrayed" by the move to less 'extreme' pastures but IMO I feel like Carcass never would have achieved much permanently staying in Reek/Symphonies mode.
Melo-death of today often gets derided for forgetting to rock at the same time. "Heartwork" was melodic death with teeth.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 17 October 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 18 October 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
only 7 votes? (i voted Heartwork fwiw)
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 October 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
Embodiment is so good.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
riffs for days
the riffs are so unrelenting that you can be numbed to how riffy they actually are
― j., Wednesday, 18 October 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
After seeing them last night, This Mortal Coil is a dark horse.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 November 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link