Track from Slayer’s new album. Hate Worldwide.
http://rapidshare.com/files/260615478/Hdw09_KZH_www.mediaportal.ru.rar
New Dying Fetus at their myspace:
2009 is turning out to be a KICK ASS year for metal.
[quote]yusef wrote:
Oh and have a listen to hate forest.[/quote]
Hell yeah…and along with that, give Drudkh a listen as well. Essentially the same band but with a much different sound.
I guess my biggest beef with the new death metal is that it tends to be more bass/grove driven. I’ve been to about a dozen concerts where bands like Lamb of God or Mastadon or somebody played. Every song starts in likea blur of music for about 10 seconds and then just goes into the same beat over and over. Probably the best new death metal bands I’ve heard in awhile are Fragments of Unbecoming or The Black Dahlia Murder.
By the way, nice mention on Pyrexia earlier. Sermon of Mockery was great. Other overlooked acts are:
Centurian
Asphyx
Mortification
Pestilence
Quo Vadis
[quote]BBriere wrote:
By the way, nice mention on Pyrexia earlier. Sermon of Mockery was great. Other overlooked acts are:
Centurian
Asphyx
Mortification
Pestilence
Quo Vadis[/quote]
Mortification’s best was “Scrolls of the Megilloth”…and that was coming from a Christian band (gasp!). Ever hear their black metal work as Horde? I always thought Pestilence were great, though “Spheres” was a little out there…or perhaps just ahead of their time? I preferred their earlier works. Of course, with Van Drunen which takes you right into Asphyx. He’s got some other thing going on right now as well…Hail of Bullets I believe. All good classic bands you posted actually.
[quote]Lohryx5 wrote:
BBriere wrote:
By the way, nice mention on Pyrexia earlier. Sermon of Mockery was great. Other overlooked acts are:
Centurian
Asphyx
Mortification
Pestilence
Quo Vadis
Mortification’s best was “Scrolls of the Megilloth”…and that was coming from a Christian band (gasp!). Ever hear their black metal work as Horde? I always thought Pestilence were great, though “Spheres” was a little out there…or perhaps just ahead of their time? I preferred their earlier works. Of course, with Van Drunen which takes you right into Asphyx. He’s got some other thing going on right now as well…Hail of Bullets I believe. All good classic bands you posted actually.[/quote]
Horde was… interesting. Especially considering it was just one guy. Didn’t he make the ‘band’ just in spite of Mayhem or something? Mortification could be pretty kick-ass sometimes, too, at least their older stuff.
Not that I’m into Christian DM though, haha. Back when I was still into the church thing in High School I wanted to find some DM that wasn’t purely Satanic.
Crimson Thorn - Crimson Thorn- Whithered - YouTube
Antestor - Antestor Mercy Lord - YouTube (This song is really, really kick-ass Doom Metal. Sounds pretty ominous.)
^^^ The epic-battlefield apocalyptic feel of this song is almost as good as…
^^^ Sorry, had to put this one here because I feel like a douche for actually knowing some Christian DM bands… hahaha.
I’m not reading all 34 pages so sorry for repeats. I just want to add Massacre as one of the early pioneers of death metal. They were around in 83 but took along time to get an album out. First band I saw live in 91 with Morgoth and Immolation.
Heres Massacre - From Beyond curtesy of you tube,
and Morgoth - Isolated
[quote]SSC wrote:
Lohryx5 wrote:
BBriere wrote:
By the way, nice mention on Pyrexia earlier. Sermon of Mockery was great. Other overlooked acts are:
Centurian
Asphyx
Mortification
Pestilence
Quo Vadis
Mortification’s best was “Scrolls of the Megilloth”…and that was coming from a Christian band (gasp!). Ever hear their black metal work as Horde? I always thought Pestilence were great, though “Spheres” was a little out there…or perhaps just ahead of their time? I preferred their earlier works. Of course, with Van Drunen which takes you right into Asphyx. He’s got some other thing going on right now as well…Hail of Bullets I believe. All good classic bands you posted actually.
Horde was… interesting. Especially considering it was just one guy. Didn’t he make the ‘band’ just in spite of Mayhem or something? Mortification could be pretty kick-ass sometimes, too, at least their older stuff.
Not that I’m into Christian DM though, haha. Back when I was still into the church thing in High School I wanted to find some DM that wasn’t purely Satanic.
Crimson Thorn - Crimson Thorn- Whithered - YouTube
Antestor - Antestor Mercy Lord - YouTube (This song is really, really kick-ass Doom Metal. Sounds pretty ominous.)
^^^ The epic-battlefield apocalyptic feel of this song is almost as good as…
^^^ Sorry, had to put this one here because I feel like a douche for actually knowing some Christian DM bands… hahaha.[/quote]
Man, I forgot all about Crimson Thorn! They were great. Living Sacrifice was pretty interesting too as was some Tourniquet. Christian Death Metal is a bit strange, but it was nice hearing Christian music that wasn’t Carmen or Stryper. Horde didn’t make sense. Why would a Christian band make fun of a guy that was killed?
I don’t know what your whole take on black metal was, but I liked some of the early works. Once the guys started adding a bunch of keyboards, fairy music, flutes, etc. it got pretty lame. Mayhem, Darkthrone, Dark Funeral, Emperor, Abyss were among some of the greats.
[quote]BBriere wrote:
I guess my biggest beef with the new death metal is that it tends to be more bass/grove driven. I’ve been to about a dozen concerts where bands like Lamb of God or Mastadon or somebody played. Every song starts in likea blur of music for about 10 seconds and then just goes into the same beat over and over. Probably the best new death metal bands I’ve heard in awhile are Fragments of Unbecoming or The Black Dahlia Murder.
By the way, nice mention on Pyrexia earlier. Sermon of Mockery was great. Other overlooked acts are:
Centurian
Asphyx
Mortification
Pestilence
Quo Vadis[/quote]
Why would you mention Lamb of God and Mastadon in the same sentence as death metal? Those bands are considered to be groove based bands in their own ilk.
Lack of Disgorge makes me sad
Disgorge - Dissecting Three Apostles
Vader - Xeper
Obituary - Suffocation
Suffocation - Metal Hemorrhage
[quote]Lohryx5 wrote:
BBriere wrote:
By the way, nice mention on Pyrexia earlier. Sermon of Mockery was great. Other overlooked acts are:
Centurian
Asphyx
Mortification
Pestilence
Quo Vadis
Mortification’s best was “Scrolls of the Megilloth”…and that was coming from a Christian band (gasp!). Ever hear their black metal work as Horde? I always thought Pestilence were great, though “Spheres” was a little out there…or perhaps just ahead of their time?[/quote] They tried something new and did not yet know how to really make it all fit together/play their new style well. Don’t think they really went anywhere with it, anyway. Their new album (macabre resurrection?) is pretty simple when it comes to song-structures and all that, and not really “out there” at all.
Took me a while to get into it actually, as I expected something totally different.
Works pretty well as workout music (hangman, devouring frenzy). Bit disappointed at some of the guitarwork and lack of bass soloing and such especially. Darkane drummer (wildoer) did a pretty good job though, imo.
[quote]BBriere wrote:
I guess my biggest beef with the new death metal is that it tends to be more bass/grove driven. I’ve been to about a dozen concerts where bands like Lamb of God or Mastadon or somebody played. Every song starts in likea blur of music for about 10 seconds and then just goes into the same beat over and over. Probably the best new death metal bands I’ve heard in awhile are Fragments of Unbecoming or The Black Dahlia Murder.
[/quote] None of the bands you mentioned are really considered death metal (or consider themselves death).
Ok, Lamb of God sort of used to be… (as the palaces burn)
But I dunno, that’s all pop-metal/mtv-metal as far as I’m concerned. All refrain-based largely, a few good tracks per album and the rest is filler. Stuff you’re into for a while and then forget about as there’s nothing new to discover by listening to the album repeatedly… No interesting technical stuff, etc. [quote]
By the way, nice mention on Pyrexia earlier. Sermon of Mockery was great. Other overlooked acts are:
Centurian
Asphyx
Mortification
Pestilence
Quo Vadis[/quote] ← How long have quo vadis been around? I thought they were a fairly new “prog”-death band?
Vital Remains
Prostitute Disfigurement
Paganizer
Hail of Bullets
Decapitated
Brujeria
And, of course, GHOUL!
[quote]detazathoth wrote:
Vader - Xeper
[/quote]
I’m seeing them soon. 
New Behemoth album streamed on Myspace.
[quote]Zomg wrote:
New Behemoth album streamed on Myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/Behemoth[/quote]
Already have it.
Hmmmmmmm. Not really into it yet. Thus far I must say I kind of preferred Demigod and Apostasy over Evangelion.
Production changed a little again, is it just me, or are the drums (mostly cymbals and hi-hat) a lot louder now? Like, too loud compared to the guitars?
Anyway, no song that really did it for me during the first 2 spins.
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Already have it.
Hmmmmmmm. Not really into it yet. Thus far I must say I kind of preferred Demigod and Apostasy over Evangelion.
Production changed a little again, is it just me, or are the drums (mostly cymbals and hi-hat) a lot louder now? Like, too loud compared to the guitars?
Anyway, no song that really did it for me during the first 2 spins.
[/quote]
Yeah, the drums are definitely louder. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing though. I need to listen to the album more before I can say anything conclusive, but so far it sounds OK. Nothing revolutionary but not bad either.
[quote]skaz05 wrote:
New Dying Fetus at their myspace:
2009 is turning out to be a KICK ASS year for metal.[/quote]
It’s taken me a while to settle in to my new place, so I finally gave this a listen.
Damn, I fucking love Dying Fetus. This does not disappoint.
[quote]Zomg wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Already have it.
Hmmmmmmm. Not really into it yet. Thus far I must say I kind of preferred Demigod and Apostasy over Evangelion.
Production changed a little again, is it just me, or are the drums (mostly cymbals and hi-hat) a lot louder now? Like, too loud compared to the guitars?
Anyway, no song that really did it for me during the first 2 spins.
Yeah, the drums are definitely louder. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing though. I need to listen to the album more before I can say anything conclusive, but so far it sounds OK. Nothing revolutionary but not bad either.
[/quote]
Yeah, just more of the same, sort of. Sounds a bit like some band tried to imitate behemoth but didn’t really get it right 
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Zomg wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Already have it.
Hmmmmmmm. Not really into it yet. Thus far I must say I kind of preferred Demigod and Apostasy over Evangelion.
Production changed a little again, is it just me, or are the drums (mostly cymbals and hi-hat) a lot louder now? Like, too loud compared to the guitars?
Anyway, no song that really did it for me during the first 2 spins.
Yeah, the drums are definitely louder. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing though. I need to listen to the album more before I can say anything conclusive, but so far it sounds OK. Nothing revolutionary but not bad either.
Yeah, just more of the same, sort of. Sounds a bit like some band tried to imitate behemoth but didn’t really get it right
[/quote]
I didn’t think it sounded too bad. Not necessarily a big leap forward in metal, but I don’t think they lost any ground.
Oh wells.
[quote]SSC wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Zomg wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Already have it.
Hmmmmmmm. Not really into it yet. Thus far I must say I kind of preferred Demigod and Apostasy over Evangelion.
Production changed a little again, is it just me, or are the drums (mostly cymbals and hi-hat) a lot louder now? Like, too loud compared to the guitars?
Anyway, no song that really did it for me during the first 2 spins.
Yeah, the drums are definitely louder. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing though. I need to listen to the album more before I can say anything conclusive, but so far it sounds OK. Nothing revolutionary but not bad either.
Yeah, just more of the same, sort of. Sounds a bit like some band tried to imitate behemoth but didn’t really get it right
I didn’t think it sounded too bad. Not necessarily a big leap forward in metal, but I don’t think they lost any ground.
Oh wells.[/quote]
Well, it just doesn’t really measure up to their previous 2 albums, song by song.
That being said, I finally got into a few of the songs. And yeah, it’s not so much that the drums are too loud, but the guitars and bass guitar don’t get through well enough/powerfully enough.
I think it’s a little like Amon Amarth’s “Fate Of Norns”, which came out after “Versus The World”.
The latter pretty much put them on the map after all their badly-produced previous stuff and also was imo somewhat different in style. The newer albums haven’t managed to capture the same atmosphere, but went a little in a different direction.
Fate Of Norns had no chance of topping VTW, but everyone had high expectations… And they went with a different (not so great…) production and totally different atmoshpere and all that and it probably ended up being Amon Amarth’s weakest album (though with a nice concept behind it) out of all their newer stuff.
That’s kind of similar to what I think about Evangelion vs. Demigod (hell yeah) and Apostasy (great, too).
Demigod was the first well-produced (well, sort of) album Behemoth made, and it was pretty aggressive overall. Apostasy took a a little longer to get into, perhaps the song-structures were a bit on the obvious side and all that, also somewhat different production… But I liked it, too. (still, Demigod lands in my cd player more often than Apostasy).
Now the new thing seems like it was just an effort at making more money or something. Even though it came out after the other 2 mentioned albums, it’s kind of… Obsolete? Has nothing really going for it compared to the previous 2 albums, even though it’s basically not bad or anything.