Post Reply - Death Metal Kill Zone

As far Sepultura . . .

I wonder if its the newer stuff you've heard (?)
Try:

1. Beneath the Remains

2. Arise

3. Chaos A.D.

All with original line-up.

These are imo the best of them, 1 and 2 I can remember being considered "Death Metal" and

then much later being rolled-up in the "Thrash" category, so that gives you a sense what the

music is like.  But these 3 are technical in their own right.  Igor Cavelera was known as one of

the most technical drummers at those times as well.

I'm a HUGE Opeth fan, and Faceless I need to get more albums.

Recommends for various degrees of Death Metal:

- Carcass (from Necroticism-Descanting the Insalubrious to Swan Song)
- Death (Spiritual Healing to Sound of Perseverance are my fave period)

- Malevolent Creation (earlier material is highly recommended)
- Entombed (their debut "Left Hand Path" is a classic, stick with their earlier works)

- Obituary

- Morbid Angel (I prefer their "middle" period on)

- Sentenced (their 1st 3; Shadows of the Past to Amok) this is before they changed their sound.
They were one of the bands to put Finland on the map for extreme music.

- Napalm Death (So damn heavy next to Carcass, you can start at their post-Punk/Grindcore

days, or the more melodic yet BRUTAL era, and then come full-circle to the combinations of the

later years!).

As far as the Technical side of Death Metal (which is my fave):
- See Death again (Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic and Sounds of Perseverance). 

Chuck Schuldiner changed the path for all Death Metal to come.

- Atheist (especially A Questionable Presence)

- Decapitated

- Meshuggah (Destroy Erase Improve is a great start) They are a technical wonder, but not in a

Cynic or Spiral Architect sense, as they have said in many Interviews, they are about a "Groove"

but most of it is in 4/4 but its what they do IN 4/4 is what makes them technical.

- Edge of Sanity (try "Crimson" to start you off, probably the 1st Death Metal act to do a "Concept

Album". Also features Mikael Akerfeldt on "Cookie" vocals and Guitar).

- Cynic

- Dynahead

- Scar Symmetry

- Gorod

- Necrophagist

- Obscura

- Augury

- Sectu

- Nile

You can also checkout my Playlist at YOUtube called "Origins of Math" . . .
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCE9E94C150EA5E99&feature=mh_lolz

Hope you find some cool stuff to start you on your path .