a new list:
HailMetal.Com ~Top 50 Death Metal Albums Of All Time
http://www.hailmetal.com/gate.html?name=BestOfDeath
number 1:
1 AT THE GATES - THE RED IN THE SKY IS OURS
― djmartian, Thursday, 4 October 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
bizarre old list. one album per artist = zero cred
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 4 October 2007 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a kinda shit list, but it's good to see some overlooked albums on there. miasma, abomination's first one*, stargazer's fucking AMAZING the scream that tore the sky (highly recommended for anyone into sadus/atheist technical but still ripping jams), arghoslent.
i have to be honest and say i never really cared for at the gates. and soulside journey? c'moooonnnn....
* i love the abomination album, but it totally doesn't deserve to be on this list. death strike, maybe, or the master 1985 recordings.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 4 October 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
the rest...summary
#2 MORBID ANGEL - ALTARS OF MADNESS #3 AMORPHIS - TALES FROM THE THOUSAND LAKES #4 KATATONIA - BRAVE MURDER DAY #5 DEATH - SPIRITUAL HEALING #6 THE CHASM - DEATHCULT FOR ETERNITY: THE TRIUMPH #7 THERION - BEYOND SANCTORUM #8 OBITUARY - CAUSE OF DEATH #9 ENTOMBED - LEFT HAND PATH #10 OPETH - MORNINGRISE
11. Vader - Litany 12. Possessed - Seven Churches 13. Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells 14. Asphyx - The Rack 15. Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery 16. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked 17. Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry 18. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious 19. Cryptopsy - None So Vile 20. Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments 21. Darkthrone - Soulside Journey 22. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse 23. Sepultura - Morbid Visions 24. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream 25. Grave - Into the Grave 26. Tiamat - The Astral Sleep 27. Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil 28. Massacra - Final Holocaust 29. Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory 30. Carnage - Dark Recollections 31. Psycroptic - Scepter of the Ancients 32. Autopsy- Severed Survival 33. Hate Eternal - I, Monarch 34. Gorguts - Obscura 35. Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall 36. Atheist - Piece of Time 37. God Macabre - The Winterlong 38. Runemagick - The Supreme Force of Eternity 39. Nocturnus - The Key 40. Abomination - Abomination 41. Cadaver - ...In Pains 42. Macabre - Sinister Slaughter 43.Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence 44. Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated 45. Stargazer - The Scream that Tore the Sky 46. Deicide - Deicide 47. Fleshcrawl - Descend into the Absurd 48. Miasma - Changes 49.Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes 50. In Flames - The Jester Race
― djmartian, Thursday, 4 October 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Spiritual Healing is definitely not the best album by Death. Especially the rhythm section is shaky at best, and the one the thing redeeming the album are James Murphy's solospots. I would vote for everything after that album, specifically Human and Symbolic (that one being my favorite Death-album, even though they started sounding more like a technical thrashmetal band).
― Marty Innerlogic, Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Glad to see "The Astral Sleep" there, an oft-overlooked classic (its inclusion in the genre can be argued, though).
― no-nonsense, Thursday, 4 October 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Tomb of the Mutilated is not the best album by Cannibal Corpse. That would be The Bleeding.
― MacDara, Thursday, 4 October 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic, although melo-death is a total dud.
― Reatards Unite, Thursday, 4 October 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
This list is almost spot-on.
― Siegbran, Friday, 5 October 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
listening to Messiah's "Rotten Perish". looking for a lot of these obscure 80s/90s death metal(ish) releases. any others I might have missed? recently got into Massacra too.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 10 May 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
Sorrow's "Hatred and Disgust" is a death/doom cd I've been listening to lately. I've had it for years, but it wasn't my style at the time, so I've rediscovered it.
― Zachary Taylor, Monday, 11 May 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Revenant - Prophecies of a Dying World
Infester - To the Depths ... In Degradation
They may not be considered obscure. At this point it's difficult to tell.
― Devilock, Monday, 11 May 2015 02:32 (eight years ago) link
And yes to Sorrow. I like their Forgotten Sunrise EP too.
thanks, good start!
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 11 May 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
At metal-archives there's a thread called OSDM Gems. It has an obscene amount of awesome unknown greatness amidst its 24 pages. If a link is broken/expired, it's a good idea to do a manual YT search. There is SO MUCH that I'd recommend taking it in teeny tiny doses.
― Devilock, Monday, 11 May 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
christ I'm on that site daily and I'd never seen that. THANKS
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 11 May 2015 03:04 (eight years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/death-metal-music-attracts-sharks-documentary-crew-finds-out-10381295.html
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 13 July 2015 11:35 (eight years ago) link
^^^ proof that God hates us & wants us to be dead
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 13 July 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
I never thought I'd see the day AC/DC were described as Death Metal, but there it is.
― arbiter of sorrow (aldo), Monday, 13 July 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
Dudes should try some Kraanium or Devourment
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 13 July 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
(This is not an endorsement of Kraanium or Devourment)
damn I'm loving Brutality's "Screams of Anguish" lately
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
I have to check that out again - always felt like Brutality (along with Malevolent Creation) were mediocre back in the day, but I might've been wrong. Also I kinda like old school mediocre death metal these days.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
they kinda scratch the same itch as early MC did really.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Ha I just remembered Brutality's demo having a song called "Lust For Sex" on it.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
I went through a death metal period as a teenager, but most of it doesn't hold up today. The vocal style is stupid, the satanic lyrics are stupid, and I hate the absurd obsession with "keepin' it real" in death metal.
I'll spin a Morbid Angel or Napalm Death track once every few years, but personally, I have no interest in the exploring new death metal. It's angry music for angry people - and I'm just not that angry anymore.
― TetrisAttack, Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Cool, thanks for stopping by!
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
^^^
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Saturday, 25 July 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
i for one want to hear more personal opinions of this valuable poster
― j., Saturday, 25 July 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
he has a point tho - we're clearly VERY angry people!
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 26 July 2015 07:02 (eight years ago) link
shut the fuck up turd
― j., Sunday, 26 July 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
I've always liked this Eno quote:
Ambient is closer to heavy metal than anything else. Because it's to do with immersion and so is heavy metal. It's obvious to me that the next step is going to be something like metal ambient, some extremely harsh, hostile but intriguing sonic environment.
Admittedly, this is from a while ago, and certainly bands like Isis were around, but I've noticed that especially when it comes to more "extreme" metal the music can transcend the genre trappings and achieve a certain dense, monolithic reverie. I mean, it's not music for hospitals, but it can be music to get lost in, ambient music of a different sort.
Less so the more technical stuff, whose stop-start tricky time sigs take me out, though they of course offer their own pleasures.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 July 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
It's angry music for angry people - and I'm just not that angry anymore.― TetrisAttack, Saturday, July 25, 2015 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― TetrisAttack, Saturday, July 25, 2015 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
either way, I'm sorry the changes in your life have deprived you of the pleasures of DM, but I hope you're enjoying your newfound inner peace :)
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Sunday, 26 July 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
xpost Melechesh kinda does that for me
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 26 July 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
I never understood metal being called essentially angry music. I don't feel like most of it is essentially angry, though some of it definitely is. I see the love of loudness, heavy sounds and threatening imagery. But even most of the violent and savage imagery doesn't make me think it's an expression of anger. I've seen a lot of metal musicians talking about the anger they put into their music but I'm sceptical about how much of what they do rests upon that. I feel like the awe is more important. From my comparatively limited experience it seems like early metal is more often sung from the perspective of a horrified victim/bystander or excited adventurer and the later more extreme stuff from the perspective of monsters. When singing from the perspective of a monster the songs of all-consuming hatred sound a bit too larger than life, abstract and mythic to come from real anger. There will be loads of exceptions of course.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 26 July 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
most of metal that seemed fueled purely by anger was the aggro-bro shit I don't even like. a poorly kept secret is that metalheads, despite the meathead stereotype, are a goofy, nerdy bunch who like to listen to concept albums about elves. where else can you do a cheesy air guitar with two other complete strangers to Abysmal Dawn, who are playing 50 feet away from you? or get drunk and excitedly talk about the bands on a dude's battle jacket? or share a blunt with Steve Asheim?
i don't doubt my teen angst likely spurred me getting into it in the first place but it sure as hell wouldn't have kept me listening through adulthood if that's all it had.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 26 July 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
I think what first enamored me to metal in general (but death metal particularly) were the different textures woven. I'd never heard a guitar *do* those things before, when I'd previously just listened to alt rock, Metallica/Megadeth, and pop music. It doesn't necessarily sound like a standout compared to what's around it, but the first time I heard Hypocrisy's "The Final Chapter" (first melo-death album I bought) I thought 'this is what i've been looking for, all this time!'.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 26 July 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
I assume when they mean angry they mean the shouty vox. but that applies to hardcore and punk too
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 26 July 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
big news for Autopsy fans (aka me) - http://www.peaceville.com/news/article/208541
A new record, with a special 4-disc edition containing all their demos, and unreleased tracks.
― Dominique, Thursday, 3 September 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
that'll be a weekend lost for me when that drops
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 3 September 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
HELL YEAH
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 September 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
mmm The Chasm's "Procession to the Infraworld"....
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 14 September 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Several years ago on itunes I stumbled on Awakening: Females In Extreme Music. I was impressed by the clean vocals on the Acrostichon track "Pain" but discovered she mostly did monster vocals which didn't sound as good to me but some of you might like it.
Scott Seward has praised their first album Engraved In Black multiple times and it was reissued with new cover art last year.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
I gotta go back and check that out. I remember tape-trading for their demo and album back in the day but it didn't stick with me.
There's an Acrostichon related band called Spina Bifida (I know) who are pretty solid death/doom, for anyone in the market for that. They also had a woman vocalist.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 4 August 2017 08:30 (six years ago) link
Been listening to Windham Hell's South Facing Epitaph. Very 90s with the serial killer fixation. The way the use clips from films/tv with guitars over it is a lot like Butthole Surfers, especially the untitled 12th track. Way too much deep voice effects though. I quite liked it; got their third album waiting for me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 October 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Ha, I love the name. Surprised I haven't heard of them before.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
For some reason I have a vague desire to listen to Malevolent Creation. Should I do this?
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 February 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link
yes but only if their first two or three albums
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link