Death Metal/Grindcore Book Discography

Opeth – Deliverance (Music For Nations)
Amon Amarth – Versus The World (Metal Blade)
Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage (Century Media)
Origin – Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas (Relapse)
Yakuza – Way Of The Dead (Century Media)
Origin – Origin (Relapse)
Vader – Revelation (Metal Blade)
Destruction – The Anti-Christ (Nuclear Blast)
Destruction – Metal Discharge (Nuclear Blast)
Pestilence – Testimony Of The Ancients (Roadrunner)
Children Of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll (Century Media)
Krisiun – Works Of Carnage (Century Media)
Fleurety – Something Something (Candlelight)
Ved Buens Ende – Something Something (Candlelight)
The Black Dahlia Murder – Unhallowed (Metal Blade)
Lamb Of God – As The Palaces Burn (Prosthetic)
Grave – Back From The Grave (Century Media)
Vital Remains – Dechristianize (Century Media)
Fear Factory – Concrete (Roadrunner)
Mortician – EVERYTHING
Cannibal Corpse - EVERYTHING

also, off the top of my head, CIRCLE OF DEAD CHILDREN.

Also, where the fuck is Jane Doe? Converge may not be very traditionally death or grind, but they've fucking amazing.

You'd also better add 'Monuments To Thieves' by His Hero Is Gone before I smack you.

No Carnage "Dark Recollections" because it's not very good and it was a carbon copy of Nihilist /Entombed. Brutality’s "When the Sky Turns Black" is forgettable Morrisound, Scott Burns cookie-cutter dm.

Old school grind bands like Fear of God, ENT, Siege and Heresy are all part of the disco. Agathocles could all be added, as they were influential and good. Assuck were neither.

Carcass was still a death metal band circa “Heartwork,” in my opinion (plenty of brutal riffs and a number of blast sections). It’s only with “Swansong” that they fell of the wagon.

Godflesh is not grindcore. There are no blast beats, which is an essential element of grind. Also, both His Hero Is Gone and Converge (along with Dillinger) defy blanket categorization so they don't make the list. So no reason to smack me.

I didn't think Godflesh sounded anything like grindcore, but everything I read about them keeps telling me they are. They sound more like The God Machine or My Bloody Valentine to me. Meh.

Also, don't talk to me about Dillinger. Shitty shitty shitty band.

dillinger escape plan? what, not enough hair for you?

"...as they were influential and good. Assuck were neither."

hmm. sounds like a history of grindcore apart from what i've experienced. i guess that's expected.

the locust might be worth throwing on the discography somewhere.
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Hair? Hehe, no. They sound "wanky" to me - that is, technical for technicality's sake. Gimme Botch or Converge over those bastards any day.

ahh... i can respect that. i really like "43% burnt"... i think that's their One Perfect Track TM... but yeah, the rest is sort of here or there. (OPT's justify even a mediocre band's existence. see: Taco "Puttin on the Ritz")

i've got the mp3s of their bbc live session and they covered billy idol and it was awful. it was the most bland, powerless powerpunk imaginable... which was weird coming from such a technical band.

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Possessed "Seven Churches" (the first! the legendary! - might include the demos as well too)
Death Strike (another formative one, 1985 if I'm correct?)
Hellhammer (the three demos and "Apocalyptic Raids" - as proto-DM)
Grotesque
Asphyx
the first two At The Gates records
the early Bolt Thrower albums
Dead Horse
the first two Pestilence records
the Thanatos debut
the first two Therion records
VON - Satanic Blood (indispensable!)
Rigor Mortis
Massacra
Massacre
Nuclear Death
Deceased
Sarcofago/Sepultura/Vulcano/all the other bands on Cogumelo
CSSO and all the other Japanese grindcore
Acheron
Blasphemy & Beherit (VERY influential!)

your discography seems to focus heavily on the big labels Roadrunner/Earache/Nuclear Blast/Century Media/Relapse.

yeah, another speckmann thing - i'm not exactly clear on it, but i believe it went master->deathstrike->funeral bitch->abomination...

(siegbran, as usual, otm, especially nuclear death who i can't believe i forgot)

also - pentagram from chile... old lady drivers... might just want to go through the thankslist on napalm death's _scum_ and follow on from there.

Well, maybe not. But c'mon!

-Alan

BTW here is the Deathgrind list. Rather incomplete and mostly abandoned, but up to circa 1993 (which is the only stuff that anyone should really care about anyway) it is pretty helpful.

"F,E,D" was such a huge disappointment after "Utopia Banished" - which wasn't a complete classic but at least rocked like hell. I really gave up on the band by then, and nothing I've heard from the later albums has convinced me to reconsider, sadly.

And: Paradise Lost Lost Paradise (1990)

Oh wow, I've been looking for this book this week and couldn't find it locally. Look it up on here, and dude himself started the thread! Neat.

Someone stole this book from the local Borders this weekend.

Well, hopefully I made up for it by buying one in Seattle while hanging out with a few ILX denizens. And I got much, much more out of it than 'Lords of Chaos.'

A new and definitive Black Metal grimoire seems overdue.

There has never been a definitive book about Black Metal, IMO.

PS -- I hopefully have made up for it as well by ordering another one.

Yes, that's what I mean. 'Lords of Chaos' seems to be generally despised. Isn't it about time someone did it properly?

Maybe I will.

Totally, dude. I'm sure there's a whole bunch of guys sitting out there in the fijords in their corpsepaint, staring middle age in the face, who'd really like nothing better than a sympathetic ear and a chance to set the record straight.

there is no record that can told to mortals. only those who grasping the true meannings of the darkness can understand.

Vas - of course! You're the man - the book will be printed on goatskin, and only available to immortals.

No! it shall be printed on the hides of Cradle of Babies and other such christianized weakling band who make mockery of the scene. for black metal is not an entertainment. it is a lifestyle and a way of death. a nation of wolves who will tear your throat and scatter in the wilderness

if lucky you might find a freshly steaming pile of scat left behind but by time you stoop to smel it you wold be dead.

Great to hear you're on the case, Vas!

Pig Destroyer should be somewhere in that book, no?

And this is probably as good a thread to ask this question, but someone recommend me an album/band that sounds like "Song #6" off of Anal Cunt's Morbid Florist. I love that song with all my heart <333.

Pig Destroyer are good, yes.