Death Metal

[rms]

I'm going to the Nile concert can someone give me some info on the other bands:

SUICIDE SILENCE, THE FACELESS, UNEXPECT, WARBRINGER

Warbringer is good.

 

[cookiecutter]

Of course not Deeds of Flesh kind of brutal, which is just fine with me

Devourment are my favorite black metal band, of course not Emperor kind of black which is just fine with me

 

[skeptik]

Sinister actually is pretty brutal. So is Incantation. Brutal Death Metal doesn't have a stranglehold on the term.

 

[cookiecutter]

I think at this point the word brutal has a specific meaning when used in the context of death metal and it is confusing if people use it in a different way

 

[skeptik]

When it's capitalized in the phrase "Brutal Death Metal," yes, but brutal is still an applicable term to non-"Brutal Death Metal" bands, though I suppose it would help to clarify if you're making a major point in which the discrepancy is important.

 

[DarkBliss]

Oh, it's Devourment, not DoF. Oops. Nevermind, they all sound the same to me anyway(wow, this emoticon really gets abused around here, isn't it?)

 

[cookiecutter]

As a metalhead, if you can't hear the difference between DoF and Devourment you are deaf

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It does. It's like saying technical tbh. Technical Death Metal is something different than just death metal that is technical (since all death metal is inherently technical and thus that modifier isn't necessary unless you're talking about death metal which FOCUSES on technicality and the compositional elements that arise once you up the level of technicality/rhythmic shifts/etc.).

Brutal death metal does actually mean something new and specific, because it is a sub-genre (style) of death metal; all death metal is brutal to some extent esp. considering the nature of the genre itself (is there any submissive and relenting death metal?...that'd be weird. It wouldn't be death metal I don't think).

edit: mad ninja'd. And I can agree with Nec; the distinction should definitely be made so it doesn't sound like you are saying that Sinister (riff-based old-school death metal) are Brutal Death Metal (usually focuses on rhythmic intensity and primitive groove, or extreme speed and chaos; or both even sometimes).

Even worse is that there are even more SUB-STYLES of brutal death metal. Really, the "genreification" never fucking ends. Deeds of Flesh and Devourment are HUGELY different, but are both still considered brutal death due to the circumstances out of which they were born and how they developed.

 

[DarkBliss]

As a metalhead, if you can't hear the difference between DoF and Devourment you are deaf

Sorry, I tend to overstate a lot. I've never even listened to Devourment. I'll, umm, give 'em a try.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Don't bother tbh. You will intensely dislike it probably.

 

[Life Sucks]

Devourment rule! I do wish they had better production, as it would sound even better if you could distinguish pitch a little bit better than you can. They have some really cool riffs, but with their production, the music pretty much winds up being purely rhythmic in nature (as aspect of their sound I imagine many wouldn't like).

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

What are you even talking about? Plenty of slam death fans like things to be purely rhythmic, and a lot of the early Devourment stuff is definitely almost only rhythmic with guitars playing chromatic slam riffs to accentuate the percussive nature of the songwriting.

 

[Life Sucks]

What are you even talking about? Plenty of slam death fans like things to be purely rhythmic, and a lot of the early Devourment stuff is definitely almost only rhythmic with guitars playing chromatic slam riffs to accentuate the percussive nature of the songwriting.

I wasn't talking about slam death fans at all. I was more referring to fans of old school death metal who look down upon Devourment and bands who sound like them. Of course slam fans have no problem with purely rhythmic bdm.

 

[skeptik]

I think he's talking about people who don't generally like brutal death metal.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

OK, thanks for the clarification. I don't know why I thought what I did

 

[Life Sucks]

TBH, that was one element of that kind of brutal death that took me a while to get used to, as before I was only listening to the more Suffocation-esque style of bdm, which I still riff based.

 

[Death head]

I dig Sinister! My friend let me put they're album Savage or Grace on my computer, I think it's a best of or double album because there are alot of songs on it. Didn't this band have a chick singer reciently, not currently but an album or two ago?

 

[skeptik]

Yeah...it was that album, and it kind of sucked a lot in my opinion.

 

[Death head]

That album I downloaded? Holy sh** that chick grew some balls.

 

[Life Sucks]

Their first three releases are the only thing good they have ever released.