Death: Classic or Dud.

Also xp to Brimstead, while I am also a noob I'd recommend Matterhorn from Switzerland in terms of a recent/contempo band whose vocals seem to me to be very much in the spirit of Chuck

(my other recommendation would be Gruesome, which maybe shouldn't count b/c they are explicitly a Death tribute band writing original material in that vein, but I think they do it extremely enjoyably well, esp on Twisted Prayers which focused on the sound/style of the Spiritual Unity/quasi-crossover era):

https://matterhorn-ch.bandcamp.com/

Spiritual Healing, whoops/haha
#deathcry

Gruesome are a blast. the first LP was my fav, and live they are a great time. I started an "Evil Chuck" chant at one of their shows, which they were cool w/.

i wrote a dissodeath piece? apologies if there’s another brad here lol

Matt Harvey of Exhumed is quite a mimic, as he had another side project (band name I forgot) that pretty much recreated Repulsion-esque grindcore - that might sound pejorative ("he can just copy people, he can't do his own shit!"), but I like the recent run of Exhumed albums a lot too

Oh, sorry! Got it twisted/diff Brad:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/dissonant-death-metal-list

lol i'm psyched to read this piece regardless

out of all of the bands I'll never see due to death/retirement/etc, Death is probably my second biggest regret next to Prince.

I was always wondering after he died, why did I never manage to see Death live all those years, when I saw all the other US death metal bands at least once? And then I watched the Death By Metal docu how he broke off those European tours prematurely and of course that's why.

naturally being from FL, I could have seen him in fuckin' Lakeland. but I was too busy listening to Ace of Base