Albums currently kicking your ass

[Vegard Pompey]

While I don't listen to it very often, I coincidentally did so this morning. Do you happen to know which version your album is? I've got a CD which contains the original German mix from 1972 as well as the 1976 US mix.

I've always listened only to the 1972 mix, which I've been told is the way to go.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

 

[Phylactery]

Great album! Better than Entombed and Dismember's best!

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Great album! Better than Entombed and Dismember's best!

Definitely better than anything Entombed did (granted, I'm not a fan). Not sure it matches Like an Everflowing Stream. Give me a few weeks. It has an excellent ambience and is one of the more emotionally subtle death metal albuns I've heard.

 

[Phylactery]

I don't like Like an Everflowing Stream nearly as much as most death metal zealots. I mean it's very good, but it's never been one of my favourites.



Moonblood - Blut & Krieg

 

[Krow]

That Gorement album is no where near as good as LHP or LAEFS or even Clandestine or the first three Grave albums. Waaaaay over rating that second tier death metal.

 

[Phylactery]

It's better than all of the above. As is a whole lot of SweDeath. Those you listed should be in the second-tier. Overrated as fuck. Makes me laugh when people cite those as examples of why Euro death metal > US death metal. None of those come close to the top tier of the US death metal scene.

LHP has the supreme opening track and then it all falls apart and washes together into a completely unmemorable album that relies too heavily on aesthetic and lacks substance .Clandenstine is okay. First 2 Grave are good, relentlessly crushing but ultimately one dimensional.

I can't really pinpoint why I don't love LaEFS. It has some amazing tracks and moments but I pretty much never want to listen to it.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

^ I still need to check out Moonblood.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

That Gorement album is no where near as good as LHP or LAEFS or even Clandestine or the first three Grave albums. Waaaaay over rating that second tier death metal.

I'm not familiar Grave, but Gorement is way more interesting then Entombed, which is the definition of overrated second tier death metal.

 

[Phylactery]

^ I still need to check out Moonblood.

You haven't heard any Moonblood?! I'm sure you'd love them. I demand that you listen to Blut & Krieg and Taste our German Steel! right now.

 

[Sirjack]

uugh
wet shitty shite lacklustre turdish pathetic feeble mess
not sure if that completely describes it..
thats fucking pathetic

 

[Phylactery]

Nobody expected you to understand the majesty of Moonblood.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Love Blut und Krieg. Taste Our German Steel has never done it for me. The split with Deathspell Omega is sick.

 

[no country for old wainds]

even a lot of people with good taste in BM don't like moonblood in my experience. only the truly grim and necro can understand imho

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

You haven't heard any Moonblood?! I'm sure you'd love them. I demand that you listen to Blut & Krieg and Taste our German Steel! right now.

That song was fucking sick. I'm on it!

 

[Phylactery]

even a lot of people with good taste in BM don't like moonblood in my experience. only the truly grim and necro can understand imho

But they're not even that raw and inaccessible so I don't understand.

 

[no country for old wainds]

the people i'm talking about wouldn't be bothered by stuff being raw and inaccessible. it's more that they're derivative i guess? which they are to a point but no moreso than a lot of other stuff that gets praised. i think it's more a kneejerk reaction against the way certain BM communities jack off over their kvltness.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

They get overhyped by some because their tapes and records are rare as fuck; then they get overly hated on for others as backlash against the hype. An honest evaluation is that they're a strong but not great black metal band with a distinct yet traditional second wave sound. They have one great album, Blut und Krieg.

 

[Phylactery]

They get overhyped by some because their tapes and records are rare as fuck; then they get overly hated on for others as backlash against the hype. An honest evaluation is that they're a strong but not great black metal band with a distinct yet traditional second wave sound. They have one great album, Blut und Krieg.

Do they have HamburgerBoy as their leader?