SONG SURVIVOR: Dissection - The Somberlain - Round 2

TechnicalBarbarity · May 12, 2024

Dissection - The Somberlain - 1993

VOTE FOR YOUR THREE LEAST FAVORITE TRACKS

AND REMEMBER, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE YOUR PICKS

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Thirty Years Later, Dissection’s The Somberlain Stands the Test of Time

Today, we honor this great masterpiece!

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Essential Black Metal Listening: DISSECTION The Somberlain

By 1993, the Norwegian black metal scene was engaged in an all-out, lo-fi war with mainstream death metal and the society that condoned it. Dissection, forming in Sweden, didn't have much choice but to fraternize with death metal's royalty (they shared a practice space with At the Gates). Like many

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TechnicalBarbarity · May 12, 2024

A Land Forlorn is an easy choice for me here. But picking any of the other tracks is like deciding which finger to cut off.

crimsonfloyd · May 14, 2024

The title track and Mistress of the Bleeding Sorrow have always been my two clear favorites from this album, so actually pretty easy for me

TechnicalBarbarity · May 16, 2024

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rms · May 16, 2024

What the hell are people listening to black metal for if they're favorite track is Black Horizons ??

And what the hell is wrong with A Land Forlorn...what a tune.

no country for old wainds · May 16, 2024

rms said:
What the hell are people listening to black metal for if they're favorite track is Black Horizons ??

TechnicalBarbarity · May 16, 2024

no country for old wainds said:

rms' wisdom definitely isnt wide. He stares into the night when his vision isn't clear.

Black Horizons is imo not only the best Dissection song, but the greatest black metal track ever.

CiG · May 16, 2024

Yeah but it has one clean vocal in it, therefore what the hell are people listening to black metal for????

TechnicalBarbarity · May 16, 2024

CiG said:
Yeah but it has one clean vocal in it, therefore what the hell are people listening to black metal for????

Pssshhhh. Its obviously a King Diamond cover track brah. YoU doNt hEaR iT?

I just hope he doesnt try to push the lame and completely incorrect "but its melodeath" argument here, especially after praising the one track on the album that comes closest to being melodic death metal(which it still isnt)

rms · May 16, 2024

TechnicalBarbarity said:
rms' wisdom definitely isnt wide. He stares into the night when his vision isn't clear.

Black Horizons is imo not only the best Dissection song, but the greatest black metal track ever.

Wow, that three minute interlude does not make it even the best track on the album for me. I am getting an ATG vibe, but that's a SUB genre I never listen to.

no country for old wainds said:
Dissection should be melodic death, rather than black.

TechnicalBarbarity · May 16, 2024

rms said:
Wow, that three minute interlude does not make it even the best track on the album for me. I am getting an ATG vibe, but that's a SUB genre I never listen to.

What three minute interlude?

And wainds was probably 8 when he wrote that, not 48 like you

... so he gets a pass

rms · May 16, 2024

TechnicalBarbarity said:
What three minute interlude?

And wainds was probably 8 when he wrote that, not 48 like you ... so he gets a pass

21 fucking years on this forum. What a wild man.

Only 35 over here!

Like 4:10 to 7:10 is what I'll call the interlude. I think I was wrong about A Land Forlorn, but I guess the small majority at GMD likes this album for an entirely different reason than myself

TechnicalBarbarity · May 16, 2024

rms said:
21 fucking years on this forum. What a wild man.

Yeah man, he's seen the abyss and all that lies within.

Im just ribbing you man. All the tracks rule anyway, no wrong choices here.

no country for old wainds · May 17, 2024

yeaa the somberlain is straight meloblack to me. i was probably talking more about SotLB which has way more of a pronounced trad metal influence, although i don't think of it as 'melodeath' these days.

no country for old wainds · May 17, 2024

and yeah i was 15 when i posted that:

rms · May 17, 2024

no country for old wainds said:
yeaa the somberlain is straight meloblack to me. i was probably talking more about SotLB which has way more of a pronounced trad metal influence, although i don't think of it as 'melodeath' these days.

I think I googled "somberlain melo death" to see if there was some big argument over this and that thread was like the third hit :lol:

TechnicalBarbarity · May 17, 2024

no country for old wainds said:
and yeah i was 15 when i posted that:
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You looked like a young Chuck Schuldiner in the top pic and a young Sean Penn in the bottom one. Now you look like Bentley from The Jeffersons.

CiG · May 17, 2024

I totally see the Schuldiner resemblance.

no country for old wainds · May 17, 2024

it's because i have leprosy.

CiG · May 17, 2024

Is that slang for chin pimples?

SONG SURVIVOR: Dissection - The Somberlain - Round 2

WHICH ARE YOUR THREE LEAST FAVORITE TRACKS?

Black Horizons

The Somberlain

A Land Forlorn

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