Albums currently kicking your ass

[Krow]

Yes! I fucking love that album, one of my choices for 2017 AOTY so far.

Its fantastic and has the best album art I've seen so far this year. Iron Bonehead is currently the best extreme metal label imo.

 

[CiG]

Its fantastic and has the best album art I've seen so far this year. Iron Bonehead is currently the best extreme metal label imo.

Toss up between Iron Bonehead and Headsplit Records for me, but I would probably lean towards the former just due to the variety.
And fuck yeah that album cover is so good, it was my avi here for a few months. Fucking amazing man Chris Moyen rules forever.

 

[RedinTheSky]

Refreshingly Evil !

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Groovy, punky, dissonant tech-thrash similar to the first Wachtower and Voivod. Love this demo.

 

[EspaDa]

Wimps and posers can die

Good album! I own this. Posers dont appreciate it.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

More great tech-thrash, Canadian, has a bit of that DBC sound

 

[CiG]

 

[Satanstoenail]

 

[Satanstoenail]

 

[Draehl]

Refreshingly Evil !

I love the balanced production of this album. Distant sounding when it needs to be, but not too murky or plastic sounding either.

 

[Phylactery]

Iniquity - Seranadium

I don't think I'd even heard of this until I saw it mentioned on a few lists in the 1996 thread! Savage guitar tone.

 

[Mort Divine]

Antediluvian - Through The Cervix Of Hawaah

Not as good as Logos, but still really damn good.

 

[Draehl]

Bestia Arcana - Holókauston (from Naas Alcameth, same dude from Nightbringer / Akhlys)

Rather good and better than the Nightbringer record IMO.

 

[Burkhard]

I'm listening to the new album for the ninth time right now and I'm really enjoying it. It sounds different from the first two albums and I like it definitely better than its predecessor. "The Starless Sleep" is luckily the only "commercial" song. My favourite songs thus far are "Into the Fire/Into the Storm", "Medusa Child", "The Sky at the Bottom of the Sea" and "A Kiss (from the End of the World)", not only, but also because of the - mostly distorted - organ-playing, the sound of which I really love. And the relaxing final instrumental "Hurricanes and Halos" is simply beautiful.

 

[Baroque]

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I don't see why you wouldn't like loads of other death metal if you like Morbid Angel, though.

Okay, let's do this. I'm in a death metal mood again tonight.

Now is the time to sell me on another band. Be warned, though: I'm very picky, and I don't like "loads" of any metal subgenre because I hate hearing the same ideas repeated over and over.

Probably the main reason I fell in love with Morbid Angel is I heard a ton of ideas across their discography. A diversity of riffs, rhythms, tempos, and (between albums) production styles. There's something unique about every one of their albums, and to me that's very rare for a metal band to achieve while maintaining the level of quality Morbid Angel maintained for most of their career.

Quality aside, though, I'm also in a tiny minority of people who enjoys (at least part of) Illud Divinum Insanus because it's catchy, funny, and unlike any other metal album I know.

So given all those parameters, what is the next death metal band I should check out?

 

[The Ozzman]

Very weird you would choose the first BT album which is completely different soundwise from their other albums

 

[zabu of nΩd]

That's probably why it's my favorite BT album. There's something raw and fresh about the sound. It's thrashy, but heavier and messier than typical thrash. I like other albums of theirs, but there's something relatively monotonous about the others I've heard.

 

[CiG]

Autopsy? Each of their classic era albums is pretty different from the previous.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Cool, I'll queue that up.