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Topic: Death Metal Giants
Posted By: Waiting
Subject: Death Metal Giants
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 10:37pm
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Kinda wanted to jumpstart some conversation here how people usually would back in the PA.
I'm not much of a death metal guy, but these seem like the big groups in the genre, and are pretty seperate from each other in aesthetic and mentality. I know they all have a huge following in their respective genres; Opeth with the prog heads, Cannibal Corpse with the straight forword gory following, In Flames with the Gothenburg melodeath scene, Morbid Angel with the American old school headbangers, and Nile with the brutal/tech metalheads.
Mostly PA people are consistant with this site, therefore I expect Opeth to win by a large margin, but I'd like to see who else puts up a fight. While my favorite is indeed Opeth, I'll give Nile my vote.
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Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 10:44pm
| I went to "Cannibal Corpse" as a result. My personal favorite is Suffocation and Autopsy. It listens to Death and Emtonbed well. |
Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 10:44pm
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 10:47pm
| Currently, I'd say Cannibal Corpse. Opeth could have easily had my vote as well. I've just been in more of a CC mood lately. |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 11:16pm
| Opeth |
Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 12:40am
It is this old fart who is putting Opeth up the front in the poll ------------- Matt |
Posted By: DeathOfSeasons
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 3:52am
| It was a tough choice between In Flames and Nile but I went with In Flames. Very few albums are as good as Whoracle, and Black-Ash Inheritance might just be my favourite Metal EP. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 4:14am
I'm not too familiar with Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse or Nile so no vote. I loved In Flames around the Colony/Clayman era but after that lost all interest. Opeth on the other hand  ------------- http://iamthreepeople.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow">  <- Click on this!
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Posted By: Metalbaswee
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 9:13am
| Opeth, i'm bot the biggest Death Metal fan, and i really like Mikeal's voice. And the way they combine Metal with some softer stuff. |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 9:18am
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Opeth is my favorite out of the above mentioned but I�ve always had a soft spot for Morbid Angel too. I saw Morbid Angel on the tour for Covenant and it�s one of the best live concerts I�ve yet attended. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 3:30pm
It'd be a crime for me to vote against the mighty Opeth in this one 
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Posted By: Waiting
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 3:36pm
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^ I understand. Though I am impressed with the distribution in votes thus far. -------------  "Amidst Universal Pandemonium and Those Who Slither and Crawl Shall Rise Again Once More to Inherit the Earth" |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 6:23pm
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Opeth. I really don't care too much for most death metal unless it's progressive. |
Posted By: Metalbaswee
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 7:37am
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I'm moving this to the poll subforum. ^^
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Posted By: angelmk
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 5:18pm
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Opeth for me, one of my favourite bands. And Nile are great also ------------- www.last.fm/user/angelmk 
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Posted By: kshskang
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 7:40pm
| Opeth is my favorite without a doubt. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 7:59pm
| I have to go with Nile. Excellent techical band. Great for when you just need a blast of everything metal you can imagine. Annihilation of the Wicked is a masterpiece. |
Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 8:05pm
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topofsm wrote:Posted By: Waiting
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 9:27pm
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^I'm on it!
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Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:12am
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Opeth here, but tehre are other death metal bands that I like better. -------------   
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Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 11:05pm
| Needless to say where my vote went. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 5:19pm
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A "death metal giants" poll without Death, Entombed, Obituary, Dismember, Carcass, Suffocation ??????????????????
Well, I vote for Morbid Angel of course ("extreme music for extreme people"). My second vote would go to Cannibal Corpse, I saw them last year on stage they kicked ass.
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Posted By: EM Hearst
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 1:04pm
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Morbid Angel will always be my favorite Death Metal band... Cannibal Corpse probably second. Suffocation, Immolation, Incantation, and Nile are up there too on the all-time greatest list... Opeth are w**kers... their best album was the most un-metal one: Damnation. They'd be a great straight-up Camel-ish retro-Prog band, i just find their metal side dull. ------------- http://nulll-void.com/nulll/collective/ - The NULLL Collective http://www.archive.org/details/SynapticFracture-TheLunaticTransmissions2010 - Synaptic Fracture |
Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 4:03pm
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As far as your List: My vote went to Opeth (and that said, I've been a Fan since Still Life, then purchased Blackwater Park and went backwards in their catalogue and been a die-hard fan ever since). I have known about Opeth since their 1st album Orchid, from reading about them in a Great long-gone Extreme Metal Magizine that was called Ill Literature. It had a great description about their music and was very intriguing. I have no idea why I never got around to buying all those albums all those years. I then saw them open for Nevermore (the Dead Heart in a Dead World Tour) for their "Blackwater Park" album and I was... stunned!
So was Akerfeldt! He was soo gracious and even a bit timid to
hear such a warm reception to their 1st time in the US. What can
I say, I like all the facits and layers of making their Death Metal
very unique (If you like it or not) and they have had great musicians
in their line-ups.But I do like Nile in that pure Death Metal sence, and that they are technical is cool too, and also Guitarist & Vocalist Karl Sanders is interested in Egyptology and other Middle Eastern history- ups the wow factor 10 fold. Excellent Music! Cannibal Corpse- I admire them for their sheer musical talent, but the Gore Lyrics, I'm not a fan of the genre (sorry, I'm just really into lyrics and that stuff depresses me). In Flames- I am more of a fan of the "Whoracle" era and previous albums. Morbid Angel- Fan of their later years. I think other Bands that are the "Icons" of Old School (and reletively newer) that I admire: 1. Death- from "Human" to "The Sound of Perseverence" are my fave era. "Individule Thought Patterns" is my favorite album. Chuck Shuldiner is probably my fave Death/"Cookie Monster" vocalist 1st, then Akerfeldt, as far as understanding what they are singing for the most part. 2. Carcass- Even though they are one of the Bands that started Gore/Grindcore it was unique, but "Tools of the Trade" to "Swansong" are my fave era with "Heartworks" being my fave, a brilliant album. 3. Meshuggah- I'm a huge fan, these are the newer kids on the block I guess with Opeth (what, its been 20 + years now?), Meshuggah and Opeth have also been put in the Progressive Metal catagory as well , so they are both very diverse. I put Meshuggah in the Death/Math catagory because if you tell the average Progger or Metalhead theyre "Death Metal" , they'll have a pre- concieved notion what it might be. I just believe this music should be used to catapolt Tiger Tanks at low flying 747's while being shot at with 50mm Vulcan Canons. 4. Sepultura- I know I know, the "kids" will say "Thats Thrash", but when they started, they were considered Death Metal. Unfortunately I think they lost their way after the Band broke apart (the 1st time), but my faves are, "Beneath the Remains", "Arise" and "Chaos A.D.". 6. Pestilence- One of the 1st to be technical and yet brutal, they then tried to get into the early days of "Math/Tech Metal" but I just couldnt get into it, and I'm a Prog fan. Something about the Guitar Tone they switched to and those annoying Keyboard sounds overpowered the Guitars. "Malleus Malificarum" and "Consuming Impulse" are my faves. I have not heard their latest but looking forward to it. 7. Malevolent Creation- I have heard most of their early albums but "Retribution" should be considered a Classic! Freakin' MEAN Cookie Vocals but you can understand him clearly, these guys were not only fast but accurate not sloppy. Alex Marquez on Drums should be up there with the greats. Brett Hofman the Vocalist really emphasises the anger of the Lyrics, especially in the song "Slaughter of Innocense" about a serial killer and the Revengeful gutteral scream against him ". . . DIE! - MOTHER - f**kERRRRRR!!!!!!" sums it all up. Any Violence in the lyrics is more to tell a blunt story, not for sheer shock value and I respect that. The Guitar Duo are violent as Chainsaws cutting through shards of steel, but again, precise and well executed. I also like: Necrophagist, Gorod, Gardenian, Darkane, Extol, Soilwork, Arch Enemy (older albums, but later era is good as well), Napalm Death, Decapitated, Atrocity, Mourning Sign, At the Gates, Rosicrusion, Oppressor, Cryptopsy, Goreguts (later years), Emperor (later years), Ihshan, Scar Symmetry, Edge of Sanity ("Crimson", another highly influencial album) and Loudblast. I'm a little behind on the newer guys, but I like the Technical with the Brutality. I'm into Thrash and Tech-Thrash/Math Metal as well. If you are a Opeth fan, I suggest checking out: 1. My Dying Bride (The originators of that "sound") 2. Winds 3. Leprous 4. Enochian Theory 5. Novembers Doom Good to be a part of this new Forum from PA! I can be a "Newbie" with everyone else now  Bang On! ------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: mosefus
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010 at 9:54pm
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I'd pitch my tent in the Morbid Angel camp, though I like all of these
bands to varying degrees. In Flames were a firm favourite - I have a tattoo for the sake of all our Christ's - though, in recent times, they have become too tame and radio friendly to be acceptable. Cannibal Corpse are always good for a laugh, and are a band that I name check regularly when in the mood to shock sensitive sorts. Opeth do little for me. Too interested in impressing with their musical technicality, I do tend to nod off mid way through most songs. I've tried, folks, more than thrice, but they err towards the tedious. As for Nile, well, I love it when they slow down from time to time. Lashed to the Slave Stick is one of my all time favourites, even though they didn't write the main hook (this is the incidental music from Stephen King's Cat's Eye) and the last section of Black Seeds of Vengeance is frighteningly effective. But yeah, favourite death band. Got to be Morbid Angel.... ------------- http://www.smellthecult.com http://www.smellthecult.blogspot.com Keep it metal and ye shall be wise |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 9:38am
| Kind of unfair for the other bands as they are all pure death metal acts (except In Flames of late) and Opeth is not, but hey, I vote Opeth ! |
Posted By: alberto mu�oz
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 7:03pm
| Where is Death actually? |
Posted By: elder08
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 2:24pm
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Really Cannibal Corpse is so low on votes DAMNNNNNNNNNITTTTTTTTTT ------------- I scrolled through the offended page and listened to cannibal corpse while masturbating.-elder08 |
Posted By: Beekeeper
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 11:17pm
They would have been a much better choice than In Flames. |
Posted By: Harry
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 11:25pm
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One of those polls where I find it almost impossible to vote. Each band is equally important as the next in the death metal genre. Hell I'll give my vote to Morbid Angel, simply because at this moment in time I enjoy them the most out of this list ------------- 
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Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 8:26am
| Actually, although I don't really care for Death Metal, I'm just curious about something...what do you guys think of 'Master'? |
Posted By: Beekeeper
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 9:42am
Groundbreaking for their time and one or two great songs but you only really need to listen to one of them, any more and you're likely to get bored pretty quick. |
Posted By: bonnek
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 12:49pm
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Opeth, my favourite at everything. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: 08 May 2010 at 3:47pm
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Yesterday I saw Bolt Thrower on stage. That was fabulous. And they ARE death metal giants. i woud stongly recommend the album 'war master' : |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 11 May 2010 at 12:45am
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^And they have a giant death metal sound to boot. Anyways, I don't see how In Flames is important really. Popular to be sure, maybe the prototypical mainstream melodeath. Opeth is similar though not so much, they've had enough time to influence more progressive bands. ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: 23 May 2010 at 10:05am
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OPETH! -------------  GLAM METAL!
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Posted By: DeKay
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2011 at 7:50pm
| In Flames for me |
Posted By: Vic
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2011 at 9:54am
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What? Opeth? Winning a "Death metal giants" poll? Not many death metal fans here, eh? :P OK, I voted without any hesitation for Morbid Angel, who along with Cannibal Corpse are the only Death Metal Giants in the list. Favourite album is Altars of Madness for me but I'll listen to any of the first four. The list needs (based on the title. Giants mean best and most historical in my opinion): American: Death Possessed Morbid Angel Obituary Deicide Sadus Atheist Cynic Malevolent Creation, Suffocation, Immolation (the MAJOR "-ation" bands!) Cannibal Corpse Master UK: Carcass, Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower, Benediction Europe generally (OK, maybe Sweden deserves a special mention too): Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed, At the Gates, Morgoth, Pestilence, Autopsy, Grave, Vader, Pungent Stench This is the starting list. In Flames and Opeth shouldn't be considered a Death Metal band really, and Nile is modern brutal death/grind, which is death metal of course but a newer distinct style. I am the old-school type fan! Sorry for the rant!  Any fans of Brutality here?? ------------- 42 |
Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2011 at 10:11pm
I dont get this "Opeth is not a death metal band"  . . .I mean, how many of us listened to "Orchid" when it came out? Each album after they progressed into something out of the norm, thats what appeals to us I would imagine, as we listen to the "brutal" stuff, the "Gothenburg" sound, "The Florida Death Metal scene" and all the other locals/sub-genres that fit within Death Metal. As Akerfeldt has said in the Documentary on the "Lamentation" DVD, "Opeth will always be a Death Metal Band...", it has been his intention all along, but why be like all the others-he wanted to do something different with the genre. Same went for Carcass, everyone started to copy the Gore-metal/Technical Medical Jargon, and decided to be a bit more "musical" yet stay brutal (Death can say the same). . . . Thinking outside the box. I'm into the old school brutality as well (see my previous list) but I am VERY picky what I like, and many of the Death Metal I do like alot that are a bit more technical-I put in the "Math Metal" catagory. By the way, Nile death grind? I mean, Napalm Death has gone back to that type of sound and Soilent Green, Nasum, Dying Fetus and Cephalic Carnage (and the like-in the NWOGrind Core era) are still doing the same sound, but Nile is akin to the more technical Death Metal in vein of Decapitated, Goreguts, Cryptopsy etc. Anyways I guess this is where we'll pick up knives, I'll pick a rusty spoon, its more brutal   ------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2011 at 10:17pm
| I hadn't voted in this yet, so seeing as it's been resurrected I'll toss one the way of Morbid Angel. And yes, this poll desperately needs some Death. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 8:07am
Yeah, I don't get that either. They're not a pure death metal band, so I guess that's what they mean. ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 12:37pm
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Well if you look at it objectively they really don't have a lot of death metal elements for a death metal band. They've got the vocals and... not much else. Blast beats? They only have one song with blast beats. Distorted guitars? They're distorted, just not to the extent of your average joe death metal band. Dissonant or atonal riffs? They are a band that relies on melody. I find such is the case with many melodic death metal bands, which is why I really don't think of them as death metal, but rather in a separate category. ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 1:02pm
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Opeth has lots of atonal riffs, Arizona Pete. However, I don't really think atonal riffs are a defining feature of death metal |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2011 at 4:13pm
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Opeth, definitely, though as said before this poll is missing a lot of the greats. So my real vote goes for Death...
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Posted By: Vic
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 2:53pm
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I'll answer the Opeth thing, since I am guessing those comments were triggered by mine. I wouldn't have a problem calling certain Opeth albums as part of the death metal genre, nor would I object to anyone who would add that description to the music they play. I would (and I did!) object to call them Death Metal Giants. Perhaps I'm making too much a fuss out of the poll title but when I think of Death Metal giants of the genre I think of Death and Morbid Angel, not In Flames or Opeth, who are newer bands who simply borrow some of the sonic aesthetics of the death metal genre (most notably the vocals of course). Nile plays modern brutal death metal, which is incidentally the genre which features prominently blast beats. And which is also the genre that is the natural evolution of the death/grind genre. Classic Tampa Florida Death Metal and the classic swedish death metal scenes were in the golden years (late eighties early nineties) NOT identified by blast beats, which weren't a *regular* attribute. I'm trying to remember if Death has ANY blast beats on their albums. It was grindcore bands who did. And they brought them to death metal when the archetypical grind bands turned death (Napalm Death, Carcass etc) and were also adopted by the Tampa giants like Deicide and Morbid Angel. I would consider Deicide's Legion a good precursor album to the modern brutal death metal sound that I referenced above. In my head there is a distinct difference between what Nile plays and what the classic Death metal sound is, just like there is a difference between Reign in Blood and The Ten Commandments. For the record, and to be completely honest, Opeth bores me. Sorry! :P In Flames, I can stand from Clayman onwards. I can't stand the Whoracle sound and back. ------------- 42 |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 2:59pm
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Opeth!!!
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 3:11pm
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Well said Vic. Though Annihilation of the Wicked and In their Darkened Shrines, IMO are definitely modern classics, and they already set the bar for other brutal death bands. I think you describe my feelings on melodic death metal precisely, in the sense that they borrow a few death aspects. That being said I haven't heard In Flames' earlier albums such as Lunar Strain, so I can't comment on what they have done. ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 4:16pm
Hey Vic, I'm pretty much with you on all you said as well. I am glad you make the point of what constitutes quote "Death Metal", but there has been something I have held onto-and would love to do research on for a Book one day, but to ask these "Pioneers" (who started over 20 years ago) "What made Death Metal- Death Metal"? My contention that it was soley based on the Vocals, why the vocals - The Grunting "Cookie Monster" Barks and growls? I think simply at 1st, the one chosen to do the Vocals just couldnt sing! And then in a dominoe effect, it caught on, and a Genre was born. Then came the musicalparts that basically closed the foundation of what we now know as Death Metal. But since the beginning, each generation is trying to improve on it, if youre into it or not. I still love the classics but I am always looking for something new to be amazed at (So Vic, I am not trying to change your mind to like Opeth and I am not a huge fan of In-Flames, but I do like alot of thiermaterial. Also Lyrics are VERY important to me, so I'm not a fan of most Satanic and Gore-Metal acts, but many I concede belong in "Giants" status). Something I was real surprised of was this about Carcass (via-Wikipedia): Symphonies of Sickness is the second album by the British http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_metal" rel="nofollow - extreme metal band http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcass_%28band%29" rel="nofollow - Carcass . It was released through Earache Records in December 1989. The progression of the band's style since Reek of Putrefaction is immediately evident. The sound becomes more characteristic of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_metal" rel="nofollow - death metal , with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Steer" rel="nofollow - Bill Steer 's guitar technique improving, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Walker" rel="nofollow - Jeffrey Walker 's bass and vocals become much more prominent in the mix and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Owen" rel="nofollow - Ken Owen changing his style of drumming completely, implementing a new style of double-bass drumming absent from the band's earlier offerings. Thats pretty interesting, Death Metal was soo "New" that Owen would "discover" Double BassDrumming (My earliest recollection of that prominant sound was Obituary's "Chopped in Half" and how the double-bass were recorded). You (Vic) also poise the question if Death even had any Blast Beats (I dont recall any)? So my theory stands, I think this genre was born from the type of Vocals implimented and the techniques of the musician soon followed. Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt is a pretty intelligent and articulate guy and is a HUGE fan of the genre as well as other musics, all this and his playing abilities is why we love the band, its a matter of taste - but I look at it as another selection of something I can reach for among the Death Metal (Metal, Rock, Prog and other musics) giants we've grown up with. As contemporaries, I do think they are "Giants" and are part of the Death Metal legacy that keeps growing. I mean, Opeth were born in 1990, Meshuggah 1987, Amon/Deicide in 1987 and many others around that time. Many of these deserve "Giants" status imo. The Founding Fathers and its Offspring. I think we may be talking the "Golden Age" of Death Metal Giants when we mention the likes of Napalm Death, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Carcass, Death, Obituary, Malevolent Creation and others of the era (Some creep into the Grind-Core/Gore Metal genre as well), it had to start somewhere with someone. Rock 'n' Roll from 30 years ago isnt the same as Rock 50 years ago . . . But I think the whole point of the Poll was to have a broad spectrum of this genre, just a few were missing but, I'm an old man , I have many a Band in my memory and collection.The younger generation is still discovering what many of us have lived with for decades .With respect, bang on!  ------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 6:16pm
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I think this song helps define what death metal really is. This song by Enslaved is mostly black metal, but at 2:36 it changes drastically into a completely different mood. Before the guttural death vocals come in it sounds like death metal, because of it's heaviness. I know "heaviness" is something that comes up in almost all metal, but there's just a lot of low end riffs, and lots of prominent bass. Doom is a heavy genre because of this, and Death and Doom sort of share the same tones, it's just that Doom is slower and often more melodic. But this is why there's a lot of death/doom crossover. ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 7:03pm
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Funny how that particular Enslaved track reminds me of . . . Almost same changes (Not as many/or at all, Black Metal Blastbeats) and structuring. I understand not liking a band though, their are many popular Death Metal bands I dont like but hey . . . I hear Death Metal here .By the way, its a CRIME I have no Enslaved albums!!!  And that track was awesome.Saw them open for . . . Wait for it!!! . . .  . . . Enslaved put on quite a show!------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2011 at 8:45pm
| Morbid Angel. |
Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2011 at 9:07pm
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WHY IS IMMOLATION NOT HERE?
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Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2011 at 9:08pm
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Nile gets my vote -------------
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Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 2:05am
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....Where the hell is Death??? Impossible to have a bigger death metal giant than them.... Out of these options, Opeth by a million miles. Morbid Angel would be next, good band. Can't say I care much for Cannibal Corpse, and honestly I hate Nile. In Flames has been no good after their third album. But Opeth is not death metal. Don't want to start a discussion but even their early stuff is more progressive than any DM band I know. People hear the growling and think "DEATH METAL" and sure they are heavy...but really, that does not make death metal. It's really far from, and they have never been that close. So, my favorite DM band are the fathers of it all: Death ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2011 at 9:54pm
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Yes a Death metal poll without DEATH, is wierd and i allso whuld like to see Entombed. ------------- http://www.riseaboverecords.com/wp-content/uploads/BLOOD-CEREMONY-new-2016.jpg |