POV: Early 90s Death Metal

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I am noob. Old schoolers, plz to school the hoos. Based on what little little I've heard (recommended by AMG, no less) my desert island might be

Carcass - Heartwork
Deicide - Deicide
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Napalm Death - Fear Emptiness Despair
Entombed - Clandestine

Seen http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=55263 but I wanna know what you dudes would choose to be stranded with.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Those are all very good records, but you also need Atheist's Piece Of Time and Pestilence's Testimony Of The Ancients and Suffocation's Pierced From Within (don't remember if that's early 90s or mid/late 90s, but it rules anyway).

― unperson, Sunday, 25 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

There's also this POV DM.

I think I'd update that as:
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Immolation - Dawn of Possession (they released a string of excellent albums starting here - In After, but early 90s)
Demilich - Nespithe (free dl
Deicide - Legion

― xox, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh cool, search must have missed that one. Sorry all, thanks dude.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for the DL, by the way!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Old schoolers obv. choose 80s death metal.

1980s
Possessed - Seven Churches
Sepultura - Bestial Devastation
Vulcano - Live
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Death - Scream Bloody Gore

1990s
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Gorefest - False
Blasphemy - Gods Of Warrrrrrrrrrrr
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade

― Siegbran, Monday, 26 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

My first post, hello everyone!

More deathly picks from the early 90s:

Asphyx - The Rack
Grave - Into the Grave
Illdisposed - Four Depressive Seasons
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Morgoth - The Eternal Fall
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Nocturnus - Thresholds
Sinister - Cross the Styx
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep

Century Media is running a very nice series of cheap and good-looking reissues.

― no-nonsense, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

dead by dawn
dead by dawn
dead by dawn
DEAD...BY...DAWN

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

But Charlie that's only four.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Entombed - Clandestine
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha

Honorable mention to Cynic's "Focus", which doesn't feel like it belongs in the list even though I love it. Too newagey for, perhaps.
I'm not nearly as fond of the rawer 80's stuff as I used to be. No patience for "Seven Churches", for instance.

Gorefest - False
For some reason I never heard that one. I owned a copy of "Soul Survivor" at one point, which I found rather lame. They were going for more of a hard rock thing on that though, so I shouldn't have let it kept me from checking out the earlier records.

― Øystein, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Soul Surviver is terrible indeed. False is a whole different beast - think Bolt Thrower + old Pestilence + Left Hand Path-era Entombed + Fourth Dimension-era Hypocrisy. And better than all of these. None of that blast-all-the-time stuff, it's oldfashioned headbangable DM all the way. Everything works, riff after riff, all spot-on, memorable solos, instantly airdrummable, growl-along choruses. Jan-Chris' vocals are glorious. Unfortunately his voice was completely shot after the subsequent tour. "Erase" and everything after was absolutely afwul.

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked their "Autobahn" cover, though. Reportedly Gorefest are in good shape again (I didn't get to listen to the comeback album). They were also going on tour with Bolt Thrower last year but we got God Dethroned instead.

― no-nonsense, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

By the way, WELCOME no-nonsense! You have kicked me much knowledge, it's very appreciated and the CD collection is growing by leaps and bounds thanks to this thread.

I'd heard thrash doods speak pejoratively of Bolt Thrower before, but I'm pleasantly surprised to find that I really like The IVth Crusade!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

btw, weren't you guys in the ole metal newsgroups around 10 years ago?

― no-nonsense, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I like all Bolt Thrower. The latest one was amazing, probably the best since "...For Victory".

― no-nonsense, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

alt.rock-n-roll.metal.death

― Siegbran, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Those were the days! I was not that regular a poster but kept an eye on them since the alt.thrash days until 2000 or so.

― no-nonsense, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link

nine years pass...

Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Convulse - World Without God (I have a t-shirt of this album cover w00t)
Brutality - Screams of Anguish

― Neanderthal, Saturday, 28 January 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link

Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Demilich - Nespithe
Entombed - Clandestine

World Without God rules tho

― Dominique, Sunday, 29 January 2017 04:23 (seven years ago) link

Massacre - From Beyond
Obituary- Cause of Death
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments

― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Sunday, 29 January 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link

xpost just listened to Golgotha - monstrous.

Clandestine ruelz.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 29 January 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link

tomb of the mutilated
effigy of the forgotten
legion
warmaster
cause of death

― dollar general (am0n), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link

where's Glenn, can he do a chart between this thread & the other DM POV that shows us which albums show up most often & gives us a consensus top 5

like on glance I feel like Mental Funeral & Onward to Golgotha & Erosion of Sanity all have a shot

(j/k Glenn I know you're busy)

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link

actually replace tomb w/ none so vile

― dollar general (am0n), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link

otm

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 2 February 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link

I guess I never gave mine

Blessed
Onward
Mental Funeral
Human
Erosion of Sanity

really this is a pretty great exercise for this genre because there's SO much you end up leaving out - None So Vile, Tomb, Legion, Heartwork, Thresholds, plus dozens of "but I love this one" like Gorefest but those'd be my five right now

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 2 February 2017 00:13 (seven years ago) link

ahh, a man after my own heart re: Erosion of Sanity. i feel like spinning that now.

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link

feel weird that mine's all U.S. but...USDM is the stuff that opened the door for me, the only thing I had back in the day from abroad was an Afflicted 7" which I didn't really get at the time

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 2 February 2017 00:51 (seven years ago) link

or U.S. & Canada rather

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 2 February 2017 00:52 (seven years ago) link

I only listed those that hadn't yet been listed, my actual top, er 7, would be something like

Clandestine
Human
Testimony of the Ancients
Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
Blessed Are the Sick
A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Deicide
Dawn of Possession
False
War Master

― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 2 February 2017 09:06 (seven years ago) link

OK, top 10.

― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 2 February 2017 09:07 (seven years ago) link

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