Death Metal: Crap / Not crap
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Not the sort of thing you'd find yourself singing in the shower or whistling when you walk the dog when you are bit older though, is it?
Psychonaut
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marksims68 said:
Its been a while, but i remember them as down-tuned thrash with DM vocals
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drag0n said:I get proper confused by subgenres. What are Carpathian Forest? Ahh, google tells me they're black metal. Is that more ominous than death?
Oh, God no. Not the "is it death or thrash or speed" debate?
Meltingpot
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harticus said:
I think Slayer count as death metal, especially post "Reign in Blood". I agree with the poster who says he's getting too old for it now (though I've still got my old Death (the band ) tapes from the 90's, I don't play them much).
No way. Nope.Meltingpot said:
Death is typified by gutteral/grunted vocals (as opposed to maybe more screamy shouty ones in thrash), blast beats as opposed to the more distinct, driving beat of thrash/speed and a much more overpowering (and probably de-tuned) guitar sound than the one Slayer/Kreator etc used. Post Seasons in the Abyss, slayer went all de-tuney and nu-metallish, not death metal, not no good anyhow. Slight return to tradition/form recently
Reign in Blood is a shining piece of perfection.
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ok I went back and listened to some of God hates us all, you've got a wee bit of a point, although I just don't think Slayer sounded right when they were at that caper
damnhippie
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pogofish said:Waits for someone to post that pic of that band trying to look terrifying but ending-up looking like they have bad constipation instead.
It's a grand album all right, the title track "shreds", but Altars of Madness is their best I think. I'd never heard anything quite like it at the time.LD Rudeboy said:That's a brilliant album. Fuck me, I haven't played that in years and years. I'm going to have to dig that out.
The Grindcrusher album was also the source of so much joy, for less than three sterlings:
Godflesh, Repulsion, Morbid Angel, Napalm etc, plus a track from the god-like Terrorizer
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Fedayn said:
Listen to Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick and then come back here and tell me that it's a "pile of teen angst guitar wankery"
Me thinks that you confuse it with Linkin Park.
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Dubversion said:
boringly agree with dub as usual.
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Meltingpot
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_pH_ said:Slayer? Death metal? Hmmmmmmm.......
Death were OK IIRC. I listened to this quite a lot:
But it always threatened to plunge off the edge of reason into cheesiness
I bought that one secondhand a while back. I think they should have given some of the money they earned from it to leprosy charities, but that's just me I suppose. Still like "Left To Die" off that one.
Sadly Chuck's dead now, died of a brain tumour round about 2001. He was a great guitarist but not the easiest person to get on with by all accounts.
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bluestreak said:
LOLOL That one is funny.
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Meltingpot said:
One of the best ever, at least 4 REAL, genuinely crushing tracks - pull the plug, left to die, open casket, choke on it. Looking back, the rhythm section was a bit weak, but it still had that frenetic quality.
Most extreme metal starts to sound bad as i get older, because if your playing OTT like that it needs to be a sheer adrenaline rush (very rare) or else its just lame filler. That album had a lot more 'real' bits in than most, iyswim.
I think its great, always liked Sepultura. My sister used to be really into it and I kind of grew up exposed to some of it. Some of the guitar solos and musical arrangements were awesome, and the videos too. I used to sit up every Friday night watching 'Noisy Mothers' a programme devoted to the cause, that was on Fridays at 4am. It did show more conventional stuff too though, like Megadeth. The harsh Death Metal thing is quite exciting though, because its half sinister, half comedy so has a charming kind of Jerry Springer show occult nihilism.
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Psychonaut said:
Yes it did, they really went for it on that one.
Psychonaut said:
Yep, very good point.
beesonthewhatnow
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Awwww, just go and listen to some Mistress, or better still go to one of their gigs, then you'll know what proper fucking metal is
damnhippie
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beesonthewhatnow said:Awwww, just go and listen to some Mistress, or better still go to one of their gigs, then you'll know what proper fucking metal is
ha, i went to see my mate's band play with them. they were really pissed and the guitarist kept getting his cock out.
beesonthewhatnow
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My mate Dave is the lead singerdamnhippie said:
Here's a few samples of the reviews they get:
"'after listening to the first Mistress album, I felt like I needed a shower. And probably would have had not "Mistress" induced such a state of depression I couldn't get up off the couch'"
"'putting Mistress on this bill is like pissing in your kid's dinner"
"'Pounding reckless oblivion for those who want their metal delivered to them with the power of a hijacked Sherman tank run amok in a shopping mall"
"a vile musical bastard, a bilious, screaming, snot-faced sludge orphan with all the taste and decorum of a sexual encounter in Wormwood Scrubbs"
And all the above are meant in a highly positive way by their respective authors
damnhippie
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beesonthewhatnow said:My mate Dave is the lead singer
cool, i don't really know them but my friend has played with them a fair bit. 'rat piss' is a brilliant song...they were good live. apart from that whole cock thing.
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