any death metal freaks here?

[Fire breath]

This year's death metal has been rather so so I must say. I always find albums to like though and I have found 40 worthy of my time though of course not everyone's!

40. Decimation - Anthems Of An Empyreal Dominion
Cool death metal with intricate riffing.

39. Diluvian – Epidemic
Tight and clinical tech death blastathon.

38. Made of Hate - Pathogen
Great riffed up melodeath with slightly raw production but tons of riffs to enjoy.

37. Revolting - The Terror Threshold
Old school death metal is king.

36. Heaving Earth - Diabolic Prophecies
Morbid Angel worship is king.

35. A Loathing Requiem - Psalms Of Misanthropy
Necrophagist worship is win but production is lose.

34. Synperium - Elemental Disharmony
Aussie staccato tech death but not quite as good as the best but solid nevertheless.

33. Ichor - Benthic Horizon
Brutality and death metal music with songs fixated with the sea.

32. The Absence - Enemy Unbound
Top quality melodic death metal a genre which I have slowly fallen out of love with but when it's done properly well who can resist.

31. Solerrain - Fighting The Illusion
Super dooper Bodom worship from the icy Russian wastes. Fast, melodic and well produced.

30. Cerberus - Redemption Of Demigod
Clinical and tight brutal death from our Chilean amigos. Comprende?

29. Overoth - Kingdom Of Shadows
Morbid Angel worship is king and then some as far as this band's concerned.

28. Fleshwrought – Dementia-Dyslexia
Well played tech death.

27. Sarcolytic - Thee Arcane Progeny
Super brutal and tight tech death.

26. Demiurg - Slakthus Gamleby
Classic old school death with Dan Swano and the man man Rogga Johannson

25. Inherit Disease - Visceral Transcendence
The most brutal album by far in my list. Not for the weak of will or heart. I know everyone hates it.

24. Sothoros - Flood The Stone
Again well played tech death with some melody as well.

23. Fleshrot – Traumatic_Reconfiguration
Standard cool death metal like Cannibal Corpse but faster.

22. Element - The Energy
Sci-fi tech death with clean sound. Like Detachment or Psyferia or bands of that ilk.

21. Atheist - Jupiter
I have very mixed views on this come back. The production sounds good but the arrangements sound very messy and disjointed to me. There's not much flow. I have never liked the vocals in Atheist and I continue to dislike them in fact I think he completely sucks as a "death metal growler singer or whatever". Having said that there are some amazing riffs on the album so all is not lost but for my ears this album could have been so much better if the songs were more catchy and focused.

20. Dawn Of Demise - A Force Unstoppable
Cool and heavy riffing death metal plain and simple.

19. Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void
The kings of the genre gets darker and more blackened but still have class in spades.

18. Arsis - Starve for the Devil
Good solid melodic death metal with pristine production. I'll take them over Arch Enemy any day.

17. Zilla - Pragmatic Evolution
Melodic and tech death with slightly bad vocals but nice music. I'll get over the vox.

16. Entrails - Tales From The Morgue
Hahahaha! (that was supposed to be an evil laugh by the way!) Killer old school death with Sunlight guitar sound and all round catchy, deathly, ghostly, gravely, evilness.

15. Diskreet - Engage The Mechanicality
Brutal and tech death guys with much more tech sound than before with a cleaner production. Like it cerebral? Listen to Diskreet!

14. Flesh Consumed - Ecliptic Dimensions of Suffering
Brutal and tech death machine, very well played.

13. Hideous Deformity - Defoulment Of Human Purity
Really solid brutal tech death with great separation in the production and really solid all round.

12. Kalmah - 12 Gauge
The best melodeath album of the year with ease. Kalmah are real stalwarts of this genre now.

11. Severe Torture - Slaughtered
The European Corpse Worship Machine as I like to tag them. They know what the fuck they are doing and deliver brutality and hig precision level death metal.

10. Annotations Of An Autopsy - The Reign Of Darkness
Ex UK deathcore merchants leave that bullshit behind and deliver solid and heavy pounding death metal with strong Morbid Angel licks and slowish groove riffs.

09. King Of Asgard – Fi'mbulvintr
The new Amon Amarth so to speak.

08. Arkaik - Reflections Within Dissonance
Brutal and high quality tech death from this underground band. A brilliant and well played album with cool intuitive riffs.

07. Colonize the Rotting - Composing the Masticated
One of the best productions I have ever heard on a brutal death metal album. the sound is totally monstrously massive and yet crystal clear. The songs are short groovy and to the point with high precision level drums and riffing.

06. Aeon - Path Of Fire
Swedish uber satanists deliver their usual catchy death metal with stomps, grooves and cool vocals with lyrics which to me seem slightly tongue in cheek.

05. Stigmatized - Whispers of the Dead
German mob return after great first album and do not disappoint. The production is fabulous and there are some totally brilliant passages here. The vocals are a bit too mixed up and I wish they would stick with the Chuck/Tardy mix of the first album. Musically these guys can hold their head with the best that death metal has to offer.

04. Jack Slater - Extinction Aftermath
One more for our Deutsch friends in Jack Slater. Clean riffed heavy tech death with quality sound. What more can you ask for as a fan of death metal I say.

03. Decrepit Birth – Polarity
Not sure if Polarity is as good as the previous album but it sure as hell kicks ass in it's own right. These guys have the most amazing solos I've heard all year.

02. Soreption - Deterioration Of Minds
Wow what top quality Decapitated worship this is. If you like stop start clincal riffathons then this band is for you. The songs are very catchy to boot.

01. Son of Aurelius - The Farthest Reaches
This is just a stupendous album of death metal magic. Yes it has links to the deathcore scene and I will say that the vocals took a damn lot of getting used to from my perspective (and i still don't like them by the way), however the music in this band is just amazing to say the least. Free flowing not overly busy or brain damaging but with superb musicianship. I just love the flow and the melodies these guys use in their riffs. It all seems so effortless though I'm sure it's as complex as hell. I also like the fact that they don't try to be too brutal and just let the music flow so well so that it doesn't sound disjointed like in many death metal bands.

So that's it for death metal in 2010. Cannibal Corpse will release in 2011. Let's hope it rips face!

 

[AeonicSlumber]

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My favorite DM albums of the year. Also you strike me as not "getting" Atheist at all dude. They are/were canonically disjointed. Rand Burkey wrote all those riffs on the first three albums with his guitar upside down. It's supposed to be messy and weird, not a clinical wankfest.

 

[Fire breath]

Never heard Conffinworm but judging by that song it's far too lo-fi and black metal sounding. Pass. Defeated Sanity is sicker than all hell but terribly boring and badly produced. Don't like Trypticon. I only like one Immolation album and some songs here and there, Harnessing Ruin being the album in question. I find Majesty and Decay to be ultimately boring if a reasoanble death metal album. Black Breath is quite cool and has the old sound I like but the delivery is just too rough and crusty for me to like. Entrails kills it IMO. The band that best describes the old school sound I like is Fleshcrawl who are not crusty but meaty. As for not getting Atheist, don't think I've been listening to death metal five minutes dude. I started more or less with death metal and slowly found more melodic music. I pretty much started around 1990 with death metal and the first metal gig I've ever seen in my life was Carcass in 93. I first heard Atheist probably a year or so later so I know exactly where they are coming from and I love their early albums and I like many elements of the new one but I'm not wanking my cock raw over it if that's ok.

 

[Prog_Please]

I'm surprised no mention of the latest Black Sun Aeon. I guess its technically Death/Doom, but its definitely one of my favorite albums for that genre. You didn't mention the latest Trauma album either. Archetype of Chaos was a quality release IMO.

 

[Fire breath]

yeah I don't like any doom in my death metal and I didn't like the Trauma too much in the end hence it didn't make the cut.

 

[AeonicSlumber]

Never heard Conffinworm but judging by that song it's far too lo-fi and black metal sounding. Pass. Defeated Sanity is sicker than all hell but terribly boring and badly produced. Don't like Trypticon. I only like one Immolation album and some songs here and there, Harnessing Ruin being the album in question. I find Majesty and Decay to be ultimately boring if a reasoanble death metal album. Black Breath is quite cool and has the old sound I like but the delivery is just too rough and crusty for me to like. Entrails kills it IMO. The band that best describes the old school sound I like is Fleshcrawl who are not crusty but meaty. As for not getting Atheist, don't think I've been listening to death metal five minutes dude. I started more or less with death metal and slowly found more melodic music. I pretty much started around 1990 with death metal and the first metal gig I've ever seen in my life was Carcass in 93. I first heard Atheist probably a year or so later so I know exactly where they are coming from and I love their early albums and I like many elements of the new one but I'm not wanking my cock raw over it if that's ok.

I'm not really much into dm much anymore either to be honest. But I can't stand bands like Sons of Aurelius. It's just so clinical and pointless. Those kinds of bands seem more concerned with showing off and noodling around than actually writing cool riffs. I'm not in love with the last Atheist album either, but calling it "disjointed" is a compliment to their sound haha. Also DS badly produced? Explain!

 

[Pellaz]

Cool, didn't know Kalmah had another CD out. Adding it to my next mass-purchase order(s).

 

[Fire breath]

For my ears, and I know what sound I like, the DS has bad sound. Good sound is something like Son of Aurelius or Aeon. Thick sound. DS sounds thin and the drum sounds like a tin pot. Not saying the sound is awful but it's not pleasant to my ears as far as death metal sound production goes. Also this clinical approach is what attracts me to many bands. It's very precise and sounds like a meticulous and intricate operation in metal form. Not that I'm all about that hence my inherent love for old school death in some forms and not others. For example Hail of Bullets does precisely zero for me. The old school style I love is almost exclusively led by Rogga Johansson's many albums that he's involved in and a few others too of course. I am not sure if you know the guy. He's like some old school death psycho from Sweden how spends his time forming many project bands.

 

[Cheiron]

Immolation.

Otherwise, not much. Protest the Hero and Nile's latest raised my standards. Most bands fall incredibly short.

Triptykon is death? Hmm. Well its Tom's worst album for my tastes.

 

[Fire breath]

What on earth has Protest The Hero got to do with death metal by the way. If they are death metal then I'm thin!

 

[nomisofsiman]

Triptykon is death? Hmm. Well its Tom's worst album for my tastes.

I was thinking the same thing. I don't think you can really label the last Celtic Frost or Triptykon to be any actual genre, certainly I wouldn't call it death metal. I would disagree with it being his worst. I dig it quite a bit. Top 10 for me so far this year.

 

[dcowboys311]

Can't say I'm into most of the albums on that list. Some of them sound cool...especially the Heaving Earth and Overoth discs. I did enjoy the Atheist and Arsis albums. Thought the new Dark Tranquillity was garbage. I was very surprised by the new Decrepit Birth, though.

2010 was a great year for DM. Not as good as the past two years, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's a great time to be a death metal fan!

Vasaeleth's debut was incredible. Suffocating and claustrophobic. Great mix of Incantation and Archgoat style. Will definitely end up in my top 5 for the year.

Top demos/EPs:
Living Decay
Bone Sickness
Herpes
Cruciamentum
Grave Upheaval
Autopsy
Innumerable Forms
Grave Miasma


Top full lengths:
Vasaeleth
Black September
Hooded Menace
Bastard Priest
Blasphemophagher
Immolation
Encoffination

 

[oldboy]

In a recent trip to Puerto Rico I discovered a death metal band called Death Arrangement. Worth checking out.

 

[Perditions Ghost]

Over the last year, my interest in DM has waned significantly. I've gotten to the point where I know what I like but I'm not really interested in finding any new (to me, or new in general) DM bands.

The only albums mentioned in this thread that I've enjoyed are Atheist, Arsis, and the Autopsy EP. Thought the Dark Tranquillity album was pretty bad and Triptykon was so highly praised by people that by the time I heard it I was very disappointed.

The new God Dethroned album Under the Sign of the Iron Cross is really great. Like Passiondale before it, its a combination of the band's older Blackened Death sound and the newer Melodeath material, but it leans towards the older sound.

 

[AeonicSlumber]

Triptykon is death? Hmm.

Well, moreso than PTH....

 

[oldboy]

Found a link for a Death Arrangement song.
http://soundcloud.com/deatharrangement/death-arrangement-human

 

[AngraRULES]

Well, moreso than PTH....

LMAO!

 

[4acidbath4]

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