Bloodbath

[Aaron Smith]

I personally love the guitar tone on "The Fathomless Mastery". It's not something that would work for every band (isn't that true of all recorded guitar tones?), but it has a ridiculously cool scratchy bite to it that makes the scary vibe even scarier...totally appropriate for what they're playing.

 

[DanLights]

I personally love the guitar tone on "The Fathomless Mastery". It's not something that would work for every band (isn't that true of all recorded guitar tones?), but it has a ridiculously cool scratchy bite to it that makes the scary vibe even scarier...totally appropriate for what they're playing.

Agree 100%, the whole production is really creepy in a way, the subtle (some parts not so subtle) background synths and stuff go perfectly well with the guitar tone and give the album a really unique vibe to it, plus still sounding heavy as fuck

MOCK THE FUCKING CROSS I love that riff

 

[Melb_shredder]

I has live Wacken dvd and all I can say is... jizz jizz jizz... Yeah Bloodbath are fucking awesome!

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/.../578194-eaaattteeeennnnn-your-one-desire.html

^^I posted a short little cover of Eaten that I did in there haha! My little homage to the fucking kings!
*Dan Swano is a legend*

 

[DanLights]

I read they were gonna close that set with Eaten, but they were cut short and couldn't play it. Great song.

 

[The Unavoidable]

*Dan Swano is a legend*

Except that they got proportionally better the less he had to do with them.

 

[no.mop]

I read they were gonna close that set with Eaten, but they were cut short and couldn't play it. Great song.

They were running out of time and had Cry My Name and Eaten left to play, with time only for a single song so they dropped Cry My Name and played Eaten.

Unfortunately, we had to scrap one song since the stage time was running out, so even though it was rehearsed and part of the show – the song “Cry My Name” was dropped as a last second decision, just to make sure “Eaten” was closing the gig, as the flagship it is.

 

[The Unavoidable]

Sweet, cause Cry My Name is kinda lame

 

[NNotN-ENN]

Except that they got proportionally better the less he had to do with them.

Whaaaaaaaaaaa?????!

He wrote basically most of the best songs on NMF (Eaten, Brave New Hell) and I think the same of Resurrection Through Carnage - I think I left the CD in my sister's car..... in another state so I can't check, he definitely wrote Cry My Name though.

I actually think they got worse since he left. Nothing really sticks out as being great off the Fathomless Mastery, and I only liked one track from the EP (Mouth of Empty Praise) so maybe we've just got opposite tastes. How do you feel about the actual bands that Bloodbath is (intentionally) ripping off? I'm a big lover of early Swedish death (particularly Dismember and Edge of Sanity - not that Bloodbath ripped EoS off much but I guess that's where my Swano love comes from)..

 

[The Unavoidable]

Nothing really sticks out as being great off the Fathomless Mastery,

What, you mean except everything?



I'm a huge fan of Swedish DM. Entombed, Dismember, Grave etc etc. Haven't heard much of EoS at all really, though everyone keeps telling me to check em.

Looking through the writing credits, Swanö did indeed wright "Eaten" and I guess that says alot about his writing skills. None of the other songs he wrote on NMF really stand out too much though, as I feel that he intentionally tried to "dumb down" the band which I guess is why he quit.
RTC doesn't state who wrote what, but Cry My Name is easily the worst song on there.

TFM just disembowel all kinds of corpses, it's one of the best metal records I've ever heard. "Unblessing..." is great too, but the mix is so much stronger on TFM that I just end up liking it alot more.

 

[FloridaRolf]

I was kinda disappointed when Blakkheim kicked Swanö out via E-Mail for no reason, but at least they still blow out very high quality death metal and I'm gonna see them this year at Rock Hard Festival (can't repeat that often enough )

btw the Mock The Cross shirt is one of the coolest I own

 

[The Unavoidable]

I was kinda disappointed when Blakkheim kicked Swanö out via E-Mail for no reason

Care to elaborate on that part?

 

[FloridaRolf]

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/bloodbath/250760-about-me-leaving-bloodbath.html

Somewhere in this thread

 

[The Unavoidable]

Thanks, that was a cool read.

 

[DanLights]

Except that they got proportionally better the less he had to do with them.

I have to agree with you 100%. He wrote some great songs, but IMO I prefer both Jonas' and Anders' songs, and the newer albums kick ass, Swano was more into copycatting old DM bands (first EP had a huge Morbid Angel feel, they wen more swedish with RTC IMO) while the other guys were more creative about making brutal death metal with a very creepy vibe to it

 

[P-E]

@The Unavoidable

Listen to Edge of Sanity's Crimson, Purgatory Afterglow and Crimson II.

All are ace.

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Yup, and Spectral Sorrows as well (and of course, Moontower )

 

[P-E]

^ I never really got into Spectral Sorrows, gonna check it out again.

And never listened to Moontower, I heard it's kickass though.