Death metal fans....favorite Death album

blows my mind that such an important piece of metal history happened p much in the area I grew up. as Kam Lee said at one of his Massacre shows last year, "Death metal didn't begin in Tampa, it began in Altamonte Springs!" (I'm sure some would protest that statement, but I digress).

a few years ago, I went to a bar, and my ex was there with a friend. I went over to say "Hello", and she told him "tell Neanderthal the story you just told me".

Her friend wasn't a metal guy at all, but he asks me if I knew the band Death. He then talked about how he went to Lake Brantley High (my high school's main rival) in the 80s, and he had a classmate named Chuck. And how he was quiet and soft-spoken, but friendly. He didn't know him real well, but he knew he was really into metal music. They weren't close friends or anything, just acquaintances, and lost touch after high school. He had no idea that Chuck was a musician himself, much less that he was in the process of inventing an entire subgenre of metal.

The friend hadn't thought of Chuck in years until the news spread among fellow alumni that he was sick, and eventually died. But it wasn't until after he passed away that he discovered that he really didn't know who his classmate eventually became. Initially, he was stunned to see the news of his random high school classmate reported on MTV news bulletins, rock and metal zines, and sprawled all over the internet. It was only when he dug further that realized the soft-spoken quiet dude that he had a few classes with was actually the Godfather of Death metal.

“bodies deformed way beyond belief” is an all time album opener lyrics

I love this band so much and would love to go see alumni from any Death era play this stuff but I can’t really hack it that night

ITP is so sick, builds wonderfully off of human. I haven’t spent enough time with the last two albums yet.

It was the second one I owned, but I didn't think all that much of Sound of Perseverance at first, other than the "Painkiller" cover, but after seeing Death to All in 2014 and hearing it live, I revisited it...and it's really good! Other than my issues with the vocals (outside of the "Painkiller" cover), it's pretty fantastic.

I really wish bands even had the time to evolve like this, I feel like the pressure to produce has bands either afraid to pivot at all, or rushing it to where they make the jump to a new sound before they had ample time to explore. nobody wants to put out 'transition' albums anymore unless you're a big established entity.

"big" being a very relative term here, of course

the end of "Perennial Quest" stirred up feelings in me I can't describe tonight. it always does.

Death fans, if you have a chance to catch the Death to All tour, please do. it was an incredible experience.

not exactly thrilled that I decided to share copious amounts of video of my drunken antics last night tho, someone should really take my phone away at these things.