― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
cryptopsy - none so vile
morbid angel - altars of madness (or, on another day, blessed are the sick)
decapitated - the negation
behemoth - demigod
― cb, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyhoo second-yay for Dissection. It might well be the only melodic death album I -really- like. I do have a weak spot for Afflicted's Prodigal Sun though.
― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
1 - carcass - necroticism: descanting the insalubrious
2 - morbid angel - altars of madness (also the hall of fame album this issue)
3 - at the gates - slaughter of the soul
4 - obituary - cause of death
5 - entombed - left hand path
6 - napalm death - harmony corruption
7 - carcass - heartwork
8 - cryptopsy - none so vile
9 - bolt thrower - realm of chaos
10 - cannibal corpse - the bleeding
11 - death - scream bloody gore
12 - incantation - onward to golgotha
13 - morbid angel - covenant
14 - death - human
15 - carcass - symphonies of sickness
16 - nile - in their darkened shrines
17 - suffocation - pierced from within
18 - dismember - like an ever flowing stream
19 - atheist - unquestionable presence
20 - autopsy - mental funeral
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Meh. It's not even Obituary's best.
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Nokturnal were a somewhat obscure NJ band, anybody remember them? Their first two demos were brilliant but the magic didn't carry over to their studio album, Nothing But Hatred, unfortunately.
― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― ng-unit, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
But I can see where some could find it pedestrian or generic (dare I say nu-metal?). What is Napalm Death's best post-Scum album?
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
gorguts - erosion of sanity death - the sound of perseverance autopsy - mental funeralatheist - unquestionable presenceincantation - onward to golgotha
the "erosion of sanity" reissue has convinced me that it's a better album than "obscura."
― J0hn D., Saturday, 20 December 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't agree! but i like it a bunch. i actually think their last album - from wisdom to hate - is the slept on gorguts record. i love it.
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 December 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I like that too actually. I got an attitude problem about obscura anyhow owing to its "death metal for people who don't like straight-up death metal" status.
― J0hn D., Saturday, 20 December 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
There's that one song with the piano break on Erosion... that is so cool. (Orphans of Sickness, maybe?)
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 21 December 2008 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link
there needs to be more love for disembowelment, jeez what a great band
― Man Is Nairf! (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Sometimes disembowelment reminds me of that thing dickhead older kids with cars used to do, where'd they slow down to let you in and then speed up once you got there, over and over. And like those older kids, disembowelment are really cool, so I let them get away with it.
Really feelin' Nocturnus's The Key right now.
― A severe accident, perhaps a dinosaur tragedy (CharlieS), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 07:37 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, i just dug out "the key" and have been listening to it, too. i kinda slept on that one, i have to admit.
― WAR - ZOOM! DEVILS - DOOMED! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Ever heard their other stuff? How does it compare? I wouldn't mind having three or four records that sound exactly like this.
― A severe accident, perhaps a dinosaur tragedy (CharlieS), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
The follow-up to The Key was Thresholds and is basically in the same vein. I've heard some of the albums after that one, but those weren't all that great.
― Marty Innerlogic, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess I never did this. Anyway, off the top of my head:
Morbid Angel - DominationMorgoth - OdiumUnleashed - Where No Life DwellsImmolation - Closer to a World BelowBolt Thrower - Realms of Chaos
There are lots more though.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Realm of Chaos
five current faves, just for the hell of it...
convulse - world without godimmolation - majesty and decayulcerate - everything is firegrotesque - in the embrace of evildeath - scream bloody gore
― cb, Saturday, 20 March 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I am standing by Pestilence's Consuming Impulse, man. All vicious, thrashy riffs and intelligent, tricky song constructions that have to have been influenced by listening to Master of Puppets. Oh and the chorus of "Suspended Animation" is almost an audio illusion and feels like it's getting faster and faster.
I think it's constantly playing somewhere in my reptile brain.
― subject's companion from prior surveillance (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 07:34 (nine years ago) link
I am an admitted dilettante re death metal but I've recently found a point of entry: Gorguts 'Obscura' and Death "Individual Thought Patterns'. I love how progggy/groovy they are. Is fretless bass common in dm? What else similar is out there? The only recent stuff that's resonated with me is Morbus Chron and Inculter who I guess would be considered thrash. Anyway, thanks for humoring a noob.
― Yelploaf, Friday, 26 February 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
Fretless isn't really that common in most death metal, though it is quite widely used in the more fiddly prog stuff. On that tip Focus by Cynic might be worth a try (CAUTION: vocoder)
As far as Gorguts go, it took a long while for it to happen but there are quite a few bands that are heavily inspired by Obscura; as ever most just sort of ape the source material but some like Pyrrhon and Genevieve take the twisted dm thing and put their own spin on it.
If you're feeling adventurous Ehnahre might also be worth a try.
I'm more into black metal, mind, and have only just started to listen to more death recently so there should be someone out there to give a few more ideas.
― space prophet wogan (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:02 (eight years ago) link
Thanks ultros! Reading the thread now and seeing Cynic come up repeatedly. 2 Cynic dudes played on Individual Thought Patterns so that's a slam dunk. I'll check the others. too.
― Yelploaf, Friday, 26 February 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
Minor correction: the Cynic members (Reinert and Masvidal) played in Death's Human, not ITP. You should probably also check that one out in addition to Cynic's Focus.
― chihuahuau, Friday, 26 February 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
Fretless bass in death metal's new generation would be Stargazer. Check out "The Scream That Tore the Sky" or the "A Merging to the Boundless"!
― Mongolian Cow Yoghurt Supergirl (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 February 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
Immolation - Close to a World BelowDeath - LeprosyObliteration - Black Death HorizonCryptopsy - None So VileNocturnus - The Key
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 22 December 2016 02:59 (seven years ago) link
Autopsy - Mental FuneralDemilich - NespitheIncantation - Onward to GolgothaGorguts - ObscuraNihilist - 1987-1989
― Dominique, Thursday, 22 December 2016 03:07 (seven years ago) link
These are both great lists.
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 22 December 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
I love how varied these lists can be
today...
Incantation - Dirges of ElysiumDeicide - Once Upon the CrossVader - De ProfundisGrave Desecrator - Insult (hey I'm a sucker for Brazilian death metal run thru the Sepultura-izer)Krisiun - Black Force Domain
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
Convulse - World Without GodMare Infinitum - Alien Monolith GodEdge of Sanity - CrimsonHowls of Ebb - Vigils of the 3rd EyeOpeth - Ghost Reveries
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 03:07 (seven years ago) link
man I love Ghost Reveries, haven't played it in way too long.
well always ride for that Convulse. got to see them in 2013, sick.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
alien monolith god is such a fucking keeper. p bold to have it on a pov but I support this boldness
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 12:24 (seven years ago) link
I don't have my record collection at hand so will probably forget something important:
Morbus Chron - SwevenPhlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense!.T.O.O.H.! - Rad A TrestGorguts - Obscura
hmmmmm....
Adramelech - Psychostasia
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
Also I like how the OP lists 3 bm albums, followed by doom and thrash
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
Actually scratch Adramelech and replace it with
Dark Millennium - Ashore the Celestial Burden
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
p bold to have it on a pov but I support this boldness
On a different day, I could have gone a bit more canonical and included some Death and Autopsy. Very much a POV in the moment.
― o. nate, Friday, 10 February 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link
Suffocation - Effigy of the ForgottenCannibal Corpse - Tomb of the MutilatedDeath - HumanDying Fetus - Killing on AdrenalineImmolation - Failures for Gods
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 September 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
Picking a new 5 only from things I've discovered in the three years since my last list:
Asphyx - Last One on EarthCoffin Rot - A Monument to the DeadImprecation - Damnatio Ad BestiasKhanus - FlammarionUndergang - Misantropologi
― o. nate, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
Off the top of my head:
Gorguts - ObscuraDeath - HumanAt the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning DarknessMy Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans (death doom counts, right?)Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance (still early, but whatevs)
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Mine would all be classic era:
Entombed - ClandestineDeath - HumanCarcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the SickPestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 14 September 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
xpost Tomb Mold looking like a Best of Decade for me.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 September 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
blood red throne is great. tchort is great
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
yeah, my metal cruise friends got me into them. they actually waged a multi-year campaign to get them booked on the boat and succeeded many years later.
this album is especially dope. i was playing it on a 9 am drive and wanted to leap out of my car and jump on someone. I waited until I got to a red light.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
Cadaver - Hallucinating Anxiety
btw methanietanner I checked this out and enjoyed it a lot, kind of funny how different it was to what came later. it feels like the musical expression of a video nasty, the feeling of being in a basement surrounded by people you don't trust and no idea how to escape.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
Glad you dug it and that's a good description of its uh unique appeal.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
yea, few death metal albums I've heard that are truly that filthy sounding....
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
putting this shit here cos i'm lazy and this is a thread that becomes active when one of us posts in it.
so I've decided to give Therion another shot. literally my only experience with them was Theli 15 years ago, and it didn't gel with me at all, so I destroyed the cd and actually killed some of the people in the band.
anyway, years later, I'm starting back over, and started with Beyond Sanctorum, which is totally my shit. good old school death metal with atmosphere.
also got Lepaca Kliffoth to get something in the transition period, and am digging this, almost on the same level I dig Sentenced's North from Here.
what albums of theirs are the best? I am totally cool with the more orchestral stuff, actually very curious about it, also wondering if there's any other 'old' stuff worth a shit in their catalog similar t Beyond Sanctorum.
I don't have time to listen to it all myself so don't tell me to do that or I will be forced to ask you politely to leave.
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 February 2021 06:07 (three years ago) link
ok i cheated and picked up Vovin and this is some good shit
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 February 2021 06:37 (three years ago) link
The debut is good too if you like Beyond Sanctorum.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 4 February 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
morbus chron: swevenobituary: cause of deathgorement: the ending questaeternus: ... and the seventh his soul detestethunleashed: odalheim
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, September 14, 2020 9:15 PM bookmarkflaglink
that Unleashed is not fuckin' around at all, holy shiiit
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 February 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
i looove that album
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 19 February 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
i've heard all eras of Unleashed, but never this album. hot fuckin' damn.
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 February 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
correct answer is probably five immolation albums tbh
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 19 February 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
^hi-five
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 February 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
man have I discovered so much lately, here's a brand new 5
Adramelech - PsychostasiaNecrophagia - Ready for DeathRottrevore - IniquitousPessimist - Slaughtering the FaithfulKilling Addition - Omega Factor
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 May 2021 02:24 (three years ago) link
Adramelech is good for people that like artier death metal that still sounds like death metal, i.e. Demilich. Necrophagia isn't really a standout in the catalog, it was just their 'lost' album and I dig how raw it is.
Rottrevore album almost seems like a much more aggressive Obituary, but one that wasn't as into worshipping Celtic Frost. Pessimist sounds like other Pessimist and they seem like douchey people but I was really into their sound and this was the only one of theirs I hadn't heard.
Killing Addiction are Florida legends that only had one album that's really floor-punchy 90s aggressive, and have a new one due out soon.
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 May 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link
I love Adramelech and Rottrevore. Need to check out that Necrophagia.
Oh there's a newish Adramelech demo comp for anyone who needs that.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 7 May 2021 10:25 (three years ago) link
that adramelech is a stone cold classic. but weirdly, I never checked out anything else they put out. I was satisfied. but a demo comp does sound intriguing...
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 7 May 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
Killing Addiction are awesome, great to have a new album after a 28 year wait.
Main dude Chris Wicklein was also in Druid Lord not so long ago, doom a la Winter/Gorement. Cool stuff.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
I love Druid Lord. they're based 20 minutes from where I live, so I get to see them a lot (or did, prior to the pandemic). sometimes they outdraw the national act (for instance they opened for Deceased once and after their set, there were like ten people left for Deceased lol).
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
they're so popular here that pretty much few other local acts have really emerged cos it's a heavy shadow to be in. Intoxicated is the other band that's blown up here, but they're actually an older band that went dormant for a while. since they've been back, they've gotten almost as many bookings as Teh Lord.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 May 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
Cancer - To the Gory EndEmbalmed - Boiling HumansDying Fetus - Killing on AdrenalineRegurgitation - Tales of NecrophiliaWombbath - Internal Caustic Torments
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 May 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
Purtenance - Member of Immortal DamnationFunebrarum - Beneath the Columns of Abandoned GodsFluids - Ignorance ExaltedPutrid Pile - Collection of ButcheryFulci - Tropical Sun
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
I really enjoyed Grave’s dominion viii recently, I think the consensus is that they long stopped mattering by this point, but it fucking rips imo, maybe it’s the remaster?
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
I don't know that one specifically, but most all Grave is pretty damn good.
also spawned one of the more hilarious Jeff Gilbert album reviews in Guitar World history, of their Extremely Rotten Live album, to which his review was merely "Yes, it is"
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link
write-in vote for Malignancy - Intrauterine Cannibalism, which was one of a few albums I bought in college just from the album cover.
they're more known for their more tech-deathy later stuff, but this one is just raw dumb shit with good riffs.
― sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 February 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link
funebrarum are some kinda direct hit right into my brain’s idiotic pleasure zone, i can’t even be critical about any of it, really
that said, the sleep of morbid dreams is ridiculously great stuff
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 6 February 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link
5 recent-ish ones of crushing brutality:
Angel Morgue - In the Morgue of AngelsCoffin Rot - A Monument to the DeadImprecation - Damnatio ad Bestias Sněť - Mokvání v OkovechVastum - Orificial Purge
― o. nate, Friday, 10 February 2023 21:47 (one year ago) link
yeah that Imprecation is great
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 February 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
really liked their last one too. i mean, they’re all great to some degree or other (of what i’ve heard)
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 11 February 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link