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This isn't metal it's hardcore punk or proto-grindcore but I'd say it's certainly more vicious and aggressive than Reign in blood.
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I should also point out that there is a group of people who would argue this is the most brutal album period. Again though it depends on your definition and yeah it's not metal I know. But it is from 1986.
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It gets more nasty after a while but I think there is something to be said when this bands music was such that it forced fans to vomit and run out during concerts.
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Lol pussies. But yeah, I've been meaning to give Swans a proper look in for a while; I've read a few Napalm Death interviews where they state how big an influence they are. And you can definitely hear the similarity between that^ and something like Godflesh.
From the sound of it it will probably take me a few listens to get accustomed to it though, if at all.
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Swans has changed their sound a lot and most of their stuff doesn't sound like that. Children of God is a good one for something more commercial and on the artsy side. Public Castration is just considered them at their most brutal though I think it requires being played at a really loud volume to catch on to why.
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Everytime I see the word "purgatory", I hear Lindberg screaming "purgatory unleashed". I haven't listened to to Slaughter of the Soul in over 10 years and I remember that line for whatever reason. I'll have to listen to The Red in the Sky is Ours now to cleanse this filth.
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Yeah there's that one too. TRAPPED IN PURGATORY, A LIFELESS OBJECT ALIVE AWAITING REPRISAL DEATH WILL BE THEIR ACQUITTANCE!
Probably used to know almost all of the lyrics to the entire album in my mid teens, but I rarely listen to it these days. I'll almost always reach for Hell Awaits or Show No Mercy instead.
Probably used to know almost all of the lyrics to the entire album in my mid teens, but I rarely listen to it these days. I'll almost always reach for Hell Awaits or Show No Mercy instead.
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Nah, 1988 can go fuck itself for the most part.
That's fucking retarded.
This is "more metal" than Nirvana certainly.
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I don't like either of those albums. Obviously there are a lot of great 1988 releases (Sadus and Bolt Thrower's debuts for example) but for me it's pretty meh for music.
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1988 was fucking awesome, what are you on? It was a weaker year for the big names, but an amazing one for the underground. Spectrum of Death, Irae Melanox, Mind Wars, Dimension Hatross, Deception Ignored, Malleus Maleficarum, Endless War, Black Death, Ritually Abused, not to mention there were a few big ones dropped as well (e.g. Operation: Mindcrime) it's hard to deny 1988.
1987 was the weakest year of the second half of the 80s by a pretty good margin imo.
1987 was the weakest year of the second half of the 80s by a pretty good margin imo.
TechnicalBarbarity
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Punishment for Decadence, The New Order, South of Heaven, Reek of Putrefaction, 4 of a Kind, Blood Fire Death, AJFA, Forbidden Evil, Battalions of Fear, Suffering Hour. A few that come to mind from 88.
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I don't give a shit about most of that. Good call on Dimension Hatross though.
I was just saying that because whatshisname up there theorised that people's favourite music tends to be from the year they were born. Not so much for me.
I was just saying that because whatshisname up there theorised that people's favourite music tends to be from the year they were born. Not so much for me.
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hmmm. 87.
Coroner - R.I.P, Scream Bloody Gore, Schizophrenia, Release From Agony,Persecution Mania, Terror Squad, Terrible Certainty, Under the Sign of the Black Cross, Raging Steel, None Shall Defy, Dream Evil, Celtic Frost, Cryptic Slaughter, Exodus etc just to name a few. Those first few albums should tell you right away that you're probably wrong.
and i cant believe i forgot about Eternal Nightmare for 88. One of my favorites.
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Nah, 1987 has a few of my all-time favorites (as does every year of the 80s), but relatively fewer of them, and the "merely great" albums are usually usurped by better releases from other years (e.g. I'd take PfD or NMC over RIP, or Leprosy over SBG, or Nothingface over KT). Like, if I were to take my top 3 from 85-89, they'd rank up roughly as follows...
The Spectre Within (85)
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (86)
Irae Melanox (88)
Bonded By Blood (85)
Nothingface (89)
Energetic Disassembly (85)
No More Color (89)
Rage for Order (86)
Eternal Devastation (86)
Hall of the Mountain King (87)
Operation: Mindcrime (88)
Endless War (88)
Release from Agony (87)
Perfect Symmetry (89)
Run to the Light (87)
The Spectre Within (85)
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (86)
Irae Melanox (88)
Bonded By Blood (85)
Nothingface (89)
Energetic Disassembly (85)
No More Color (89)
Rage for Order (86)
Eternal Devastation (86)
Hall of the Mountain King (87)
Operation: Mindcrime (88)
Endless War (88)
Release from Agony (87)
Perfect Symmetry (89)
Run to the Light (87)
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