pov: death metal albums

ok resisting the temptation to google Pete Sandoval dreads

He apparently did it for his girlfriend.

terrorizer is THE GREATEST

riff they ride out at the end of "world downfall" is a personal fav

did they invent the 'horrors of war/modern society' collage album cover with that record?

granted Terrorizer at this point is Pete and the dudes from Monstrosity, but their new alb was good, and they do such a good job of recreating the WD album live....but I saw them live last year and it was just an endless barrage of grind, people going nuts, my friend Kelly standing next to me just being enthralled (she had never heard them before).

so many ppl air drumming...

also, another monstrosity is hardly the worst thing I can think of

I got to see them a few years ago, one of their first shows after they reformed. it was a lot of fun.

bought myself a terribly printed Monstrosity shirt that doesn't fit anymore.

then i went home and bought what I thought was an EP of new stuff they released but it turned out to be a hip hop act. then the album dropped a few years later (2018?)

yea, I saw em touring that last record. fun show. sick leads.

hell yeah. gotta pull that one out again

these are just the ones I'm listening to now and enjoying tf out of, not my favs

Brutality - When the Sky Turns Black
Morpheus Descends- Ritual of Infinity
Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind
Benediction - Scriptures

Digging this Morpheus Descends. The kind of raw old-school DM I can get behind.

yeah, I literally just finished spinning again. even by 90s standards they weren't bringing 'new' ideas to the table, just doing the ideas very well and gritty, earthy style.

blood red throne is great. tchort is great

yeah, my metal cruise friends got me into them. they actually waged a multi-year campaign to get them booked on the boat and succeeded many years later.

this album is especially dope. i was playing it on a 9 am drive and wanted to leap out of my car and jump on someone. I waited until I got to a red light.

Cadaver - Hallucinating Anxiety

btw methanietanner I checked this out and enjoyed it a lot, kind of funny how different it was to what came later. it feels like the musical expression of a video nasty, the feeling of being in a basement surrounded by people you don't trust and no idea how to escape.

Glad you dug it and that's a good description of its uh unique appeal.

yea, few death metal albums I've heard that are truly that filthy sounding....

putting this shit here cos i'm lazy and this is a thread that becomes active when one of us posts in it.

so I've decided to give Therion another shot. literally my only experience with them was Theli 15 years ago, and it didn't gel with me at all, so I destroyed the cd and actually killed some of the people in the band.

anyway, years later, I'm starting back over, and started with Beyond Sanctorum, which is totally my shit. good old school death metal with atmosphere.

also got Lepaca Kliffoth to get something in the transition period, and am digging this, almost on the same level I dig Sentenced's North from Here.

what albums of theirs are the best? I am totally cool with the more orchestral stuff, actually very curious about it, also wondering if there's any other 'old' stuff worth a shit in their catalog similar t Beyond Sanctorum.

I don't have time to listen to it all myself so don't tell me to do that or I will be forced to ask you politely to leave.

ok i cheated and picked up Vovin and this is some good shit

The debut is good too if you like Beyond Sanctorum.

morbus chron: sweven
obituary: cause of death
gorement: the ending quest
aeternus: ... and the seventh his soul detesteth
unleashed: odalheim

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, September 14, 2020 9:15 PM bookmarkflaglink

that Unleashed is not fuckin' around at all, holy shiiit

i looove that album

i've heard all eras of Unleashed, but never this album. hot fuckin' damn.

correct answer is probably five immolation albums tbh

^hi-five

man have I discovered so much lately, here's a brand new 5

Adramelech - Psychostasia
Necrophagia - Ready for Death
Rottrevore - Iniquitous
Pessimist - Slaughtering the Faithful
Killing Addition - Omega Factor

Adramelech is good for people that like artier death metal that still sounds like death metal, i.e. Demilich. Necrophagia isn't really a standout in the catalog, it was just their 'lost' album and I dig how raw it is.

Rottrevore album almost seems like a much more aggressive Obituary, but one that wasn't as into worshipping Celtic Frost. Pessimist sounds like other Pessimist and they seem like douchey people but I was really into their sound and this was the only one of theirs I hadn't heard.

Killing Addiction are Florida legends that only had one album that's really floor-punchy 90s aggressive, and have a new one due out soon.

I love Adramelech and Rottrevore. Need to check out that Necrophagia.

Oh there's a newish Adramelech demo comp for anyone who needs that.

that adramelech is a stone cold classic. but weirdly, I never checked out anything else they put out. I was satisfied. but a demo comp does sound intriguing...

Killing Addiction are awesome, great to have a new album after a 28 year wait.

Main dude Chris Wicklein was also in Druid Lord not so long ago, doom a la Winter/Gorement. Cool stuff.

I love Druid Lord. they're based 20 minutes from where I live, so I get to see them a lot (or did, prior to the pandemic). sometimes they outdraw the national act (for instance they opened for Deceased once and after their set, there were like ten people left for Deceased lol).

they're so popular here that pretty much few other local acts have really emerged cos it's a heavy shadow to be in. Intoxicated is the other band that's blown up here, but they're actually an older band that went dormant for a while. since they've been back, they've gotten almost as many bookings as Teh Lord.

Cancer - To the Gory End
Embalmed - Boiling Humans
Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline
Regurgitation - Tales of Necrophilia
Wombbath - Internal Caustic Torments

Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation
Funebrarum - Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods
Fluids - Ignorance Exalted
Putrid Pile - Collection of Butchery
Fulci - Tropical Sun

I really enjoyed Grave’s dominion viii recently, I think the consensus is that they long stopped mattering by this point, but it fucking rips imo, maybe it’s the remaster?

I don't know that one specifically, but most all Grave is pretty damn good.

also spawned one of the more hilarious Jeff Gilbert album reviews in Guitar World history, of their Extremely Rotten Live album, to which his review was merely "Yes, it is"

write-in vote for Malignancy - Intrauterine Cannibalism, which was one of a few albums I bought in college just from the album cover.

they're more known for their more tech-deathy later stuff, but this one is just raw dumb shit with good riffs.

funebrarum are some kinda direct hit right into my brain’s idiotic pleasure zone, i can’t even be critical about any of it, really

that said, the sleep of morbid dreams is ridiculously great stuff

5 recent-ish ones of crushing brutality:

Angel Morgue - In the Morgue of Angels
Coffin Rot - A Monument to the Dead
Imprecation - Damnatio ad Bestias
Sněť - Mokvání v Okovech
Vastum - Orificial Purge

yeah that Imprecation is great

really liked their last one too. i mean, they’re all great to some degree or other (of what i’ve heard)