Oct 14th, 2004, 08:24 AM
It's all bout stupid metalcore these days so this will be a little 'extreme classics' rather than new new new stuff all the way.
*Suffocation. If you only get one record, make it 'Pierced form Within'. Standout track: s/t
*Obituary. 'Cause of Death' and 'Slowly we Rot'. Most distinctive vocalist in death metal. Defunct for years, now back together and I will see them live ina week! Standout track: Chopped in Half
*Dissection. Get 'Storm over Night's Bane'. It all shreds. No bad tracks. That's as good swedish black/death ever got.
*Origin. Jesus fucking christ. Most driving and brutal 'straight' death metal (this means no hardcore moshing faggotry around) around. Get their one album Standout track: Portal.
*Aggaloch: Great folkish black metal. Get album 'Pale Folklore'. Really distinctive stuff in a very oversaturated genre. 'The Painted Fire Across the Skyline' is a very good song to start with.
*At The Gates. If you don't have 'With fear I kiss the Burning Darkness' well... you should. Absolutely essential. Sounds very strange. The two guitarists never play the same riff at the same time and the drummer's nuts. That's the only record of theirs I really like but lots of people praise the latter day thrash attack material like 'Slaughter of the Soul'. Actually if you're more into metal thrashing madness than cold and empty extreme metal, you're better of with 'Slaughter...' too. Download 'Stardrowned' and 'Cold' and compare and contrast.
*Autopsy. This is a soft spot for me. Might not like. But I think they're one of the best death metal bands ever. I have everything, and there's not ONE song of theirs that doesn't make me want to bang my head and smoke a joint. And I detest drugs so that's a powerful effect to have on someone, heh. Start with song 'An Act of the Unspeakable' which sums up their sound great. Expect sludged out sloppy death metal with lots of doom breaks and great vocals.
*Carcass. You have Necrotisism and Heartwork, right? Good.
*Cephalic Carnage. An exception to my 'no core fags allowd' rule on this thread, simply because they're fucking insane. Get 'Lucid Interval' (song and album) and it'll blow your mind how it's like death-like technicality on a humourous grind band. In you also like extreme doom, their 21 minute song Halls of Amenti is awe.
*Cryptopsy. Just for their drummer. Best drummer in death metal right now. Get 'Voice of Unreason' from the album 'And Then You'll Beg' and see if it does anything for you. Sucky vocals, great band.
*Dark Angel. DARK FUCKIN' ANGEL!
*Dismember. Get 'Like an Everflowing Stream'. Personally, I think this is the epitome of early Swedish death metal. Not Entombed, not Grave. Although you'd do well to get 'out of the grave' and 'clandestine' by those other two bands too. Standout track: Overture for the Requiem (I think that's the name).
*The Haunted: first s/t album only. Then they go to suck completely.
Standout track: 'Bullet Hole'
*Human Remains: EVERYTHING
*In The Woods... : 'HEart of the Ages' and 'Strange in Stereo'. Beware, they sound completely different. The first is pagan black metal (extremely good, though) and the second album is gothed out proggish psychedelic ambience, but good! I love this band, but you have to have a tolerance for lots of avant garde twists and turns. Standout tracks: 'In the Woods' and 'Titan Transcendence' respectively.
*Kaamos: a return to the old swedish death metal sound. Very good. Only one album out, all killer.
*Lethargy: crazy technical death metal band, two members of which later formed Mastodon. Very very technical. The watchtower of death metal. Very funny sometimes too. You could get a two disk complation of everything they've done. I really like them.
*Maudlin of the Well. Indescribable. Get 'Bath' and 'Leaving your Body Map'. Standout tracking here is unfair.
*Naked City. Jazz thrash grind. Get their album ' Torture Garden ' most tracks are really short and great so it's easy to get a good sample of what this is like
*Nasum. They've gone from good to better. Their new one is awe. Called Shift. If you like 'clean' grindcore, this is it.
*Nocturnus: The Key. This album is insanely technical and very groundbreaking back for the eighties. Substandard drumming, but good god, the guitarist! 'Lake of Fire' is a good track to start with.
*The Red Chord. Another exception to the core fag thing. Very good sometimes. There's some filler on their debut, though.
*Strapping Young Lad. Idiosynchratic band with wonderful music. Get everything.
*Tiamat. Get Astral Sleep only. Maybe Wildhoney for more chilled out moments. As a death metal band, Tiamat were awesome. Now they've gone to shit, mostly.
*Watchtower. Aquired taste. One of my top 3 bands. Creators of technical metal/'prog'. Think Rush, only metal, only crazier, only some of the best musicians in the metal scene back in the eighties. The vocals are so so.
That's it. I'll leave it to Ninjavenom to suggest hordes of other death metal bands.
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