Death Metal: How brutal should it be?

by **terrorizer** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:57 pm

Fuck I saw the Mexican Disgorge in Nottingham a few years ago, I stood at the side of the stage and watched the drummer, he was amazing, almost as jaw-dropping as when I sat behind Gene Hoglan at a SYL show.

by **Darkweasel** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:40 pm

A selection of Death Metal bands I listen to regularly:

Nile
Akercocke
Amon Amarth
Death
Deicide
Behemoth
Morbid Angel
Cynic
Cannibal Corpse
At The Gates
Carcass
Atheist
Vital Remains
Mortician
Arch Enemy*
In Flames*
Children of Bodom*
Soilwork*
One Man Army and the Undead Quartet*
Legion of the Damned*

Oh, and... DETHKLOK!

A selection which encompasses most levels of brutality. Anything after Nile becomes nothing but a blur of blastbeats and noise.

*European based bands who always seem to divide people on whether they're death metal or not (eg: Soilwork and In Flames were, but now?)

by **poison_was_the_cure** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:43 am

i cant remember who just said something about vader but i think vader are probably the best death band going at the minute! fuckin exellent band

by **boovidge** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:50 am

ideally death metal should be technical and melodic with rasping vocals. Dark and mysterious lyrical themes about reality.

by **terrorizer** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:40 am

Rasping vocals pwn pig wrestling!

by **BEER CAN** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:43 am

Krisiun
nazum
nile
suffocation
decapitated
malevolent creation
vader
dismember
cryptopsy
Kataklysm
necrophagist
aborted
pig destroyer
Brujeria
Gorerotted
Cephalic carnage
dissection

...just a few

by **swizzlenuts** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:35 am

Death metal should be filled with riffs, melodies, and deep vocals.

I prefer the tremolo riff oriented bands though.

I'd say The Chasm is the best death metal band around right now!

by **swizzlenuts** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:36 am

Also Arghoslent.

by **Shugmaster** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:36 am

ribbons69 wrote:
terrorizer wrote:So far no one has admitted a liking for out and out brutal stuff. Hmmm interesting.

It's difficult to know what you mean by "brutal" I like Nile,Cannibal Corpse and co,I'm looking forward to seeing Kataklysm and Aborted twice next week,but are they brutal?
I've got a cd by a band called Bound and Gagged "Fornicate the gutted" and the singer just sounds like he's wrestling with a pig.Unfortunately it just sounds a bit daft.

Yay, Kataklysm!!! Cannae wait to see them next Monday. Of course Kataklysm are brutal. Just listen to that opening riff on "As I Slither".

I don't like the mentally fast stuff. Only DM i can dig is stuff like Obi, Pestilence, Death, newer Napalm Death (Harmony Corruption to present), Nocturnus.

by **thrash metal maniac** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:50 am

Death Metal shouldn't have much harmony, not trooooo DM anywhose!!!

by **Steve** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:06 pm

What about Vital Remains?

by **boovidge** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:35 pm

thrash metal maniac wrote:Death Metal shouldn't have much harmony, not trooooo DM anywhose!!!

no but it should have an amount of melody. otherwise its just shit.

by **Chest Rockwell** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:24 pm

er, you can associate the real extreme stuff/pig squeak vocals with Grindcore... once it goes too insane/crusty then it's generally known as Grind... I'd call Cryptopsy Death Metal. I mean Anaal Nathrakh are a little Death-y but mainly Black Metal I guess.

old skool for me too BTW. Obies, Death... etc.

by **BEER CAN** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:52 pm

Chest Rockwell wrote:er, you can associate the real extreme stuff/pig squeak vocals with Grindcore... once it goes too insane/crusty then it's generally known as Grind... I'd call Cryptopsy Death Metal. I mean Anaal Nathrakh are a little Death-y but mainly Black Metal I guess.

YEAH!!! grind!! motherfucker!!! fucking grind! Leng Tch e !! Agoraphobic nosebleed! Cripple bastards, Goryptic, ...fucking br00tal

by **Chest Rockwell** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:25 pm

aye. I went to Obscene Extreme last year. good craic it was. fucking mental euro-grinders walking around out of their minds wearing women's panties at 1 in the afternoon. and cheery chaps like this headcase...