Death Metal

[ArneZ]

Vader is seriously one of the most underrated death metal bands. Have they ever made a bad album? The Ultimate Incantation, De Profundis, Litany, Impressions in Blood are all perfect albums, kicks so much ass its insane. Their new Welcome to the Morbid Reich is also massive! Death is the only USDM band that comes close to them.

 

[Son of the North]

Yeah. I got to see Vader in '09 at a free show they did headlining with Decrepit Birth and Augury. Pretty good show! Especially for free haha

 

[Thralldom]

Vader is one of the most popular and well-known death metal bands. They're hardly underrated.

Also, Death has 1.5 good albums. The later ones suck and are hardly even related to death metal.

Lately I have been listening to Ares Kingdom.

 

[Son of the North]

Also, Death has 1.5 good albums. The later ones suck and are hardly even related to death metal.

You have AIDS of the ears.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

Celestial Season's first album Forever Scarlet Passion has been reissued. People into the UK death/doom trio of Anathema, My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost should check it out.

stream the new Inverloch mcd Dusk/Subside. Inverloch is the new project of the former bassist and drummer of diSEMBOWELMENT

 

[Thralldom]

You have AIDS of the ears.

At least I don't have AIDS from liking later Death. That's how Chuck Schuldiner died as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Son of the North]

At least I don't have AIDS from liking later Death. That's how Chuck Schuldiner died as far as I'm concerned.

I believe you should invest in a hearing aid. You know, to help combat the other AIDS...... in your ears...... Hah

 

[SomeGuyDude]

You have AIDS of the ears.

I like Death okay, and I see what they did in terms of inspiring others, but honestly I almost never find myself spinning any of his stuff. I listen to a lot of old music, but rarely Death.

 

[Krow]

Vader is seriously one of the most underrated death metal bands. Have they ever made a bad album? The Ultimate Incantation, De Profundis, Litany, Impressions in Blood are all perfect albums, kicks so much ass its insane. Their new Welcome to the Morbid Reich is also massive! Death is the only USDM band that comes close to them.

Just because this is bothering me... for the most part Vader can be very boring.

The Ultimate Incantation is okay old school death at best... De Profundis is probably the best thing I've heard by them and it in no fucking way can compare to Spiritual Healing. I'm not even that huge of a Death fan, but honestly nothing Vader has done touches any of their first 4 albums.

 

[Bitencourt29]

^ Yes, Vader's a good band. Their live performances are fucking great and some of the albums are decent. A few are very good. But comparing Vader to Death is insane.

Whoever thinks Vader's better has serious problems getting what Death Metal really means.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Also, Death has 1.5 good albums. The later ones suck and are hardly even related to death metal.

.... put down the crack pipe son.

^ Yes, Vader's a good band. Their live performances are fucking great and some of the albums are decent. A few are very good. But comparing Vader to Death is insane.

Whoever thinks Vader's better has serious problems getting what Death Metal really means.

QFT!

 

[Thralldom]

If you ask me, the drastic musical departure displayed on later Death albums constitutes my referring to them as something other than death metal, especially The Sound of Perseverence. I find them to be overambitious, musically displeasing despite the technical ability displayed and full of poor lyrics and even worse vocals. Another problem that I have is that the albums don't sound spontaneous in the slightest and the musicians did nothing to convince me that they were doing anything other than going through the motions in the studio. The "Painkiller" cover on the last album is especially awful because of the musical rigidity and vocal similarity to Dani Filth.

I enjoy Scream Bloody Gore a lot, and each album after it successively less.

 

[Blind Guardian]

I haven't heard The Sound of Racial Preservation yet. Seems weird though that they made racist albums, since Chuck Schuldiner was Jewish.

 

[Son of the North]

I haven't heard The Sound of Racial Preservation yet. Seems weird though that they made racist albums, since Chuck Schuldiner was Jewish.

What?

 

[SomeGuyDude]

If you ask me, the drastic musical departure displayed on later Death albums constitutes my referring to them as something other than death metal, especially The Sound of Perseverence. I find them to be overambitious, musically displeasing despite the technical ability displayed and full of poor lyrics and even worse vocals. Another problem that I have is that the albums don't sound spontaneous in the slightest and the musicians did nothing to convince me that they were doing anything other than going through the motions in the studio. The "Painkiller" cover on the last album is especially awful because of the musical rigidity and vocal similarity to Dani Filth.

I enjoy Scream Bloody Gore a lot, and each album after it successively less.

I disagree with your comments on quality of their albums, but agree wholly with the genre thing. Sound of Perseverance isn't anything one would normally call "death metal". Great album, but death metal? Hardly.

To me, Death is "death metal" in the way Venom is black metal. Aside from the name link (be it band or album name), there is a KERNEL of the later genre in there, but it isn't fully formed and certainly isn't what you would call a prototypical example thereof.

 

[Son of the North]

The "Painkiller" cover on the last album is especially awful because of the musical rigidity and vocal similarity to Dani Filth

I enjoy their cover of Painkiller. Chuck always had a greater love of traditional metal than death metal. The cover is a symbol of that love. Before he died, he got to do a project that further embodied that love. Control Denied is an awesome summation of Chucks passion!

 

[Spiderchrist]

I'm not a huge fan of Death, but I enjoy The Sound Of Perseverance a lot. It's one of the few prog Death Metal albums I can tolerate (Prog DM is different than Tech DM). I can respect what Death did for Metal as a whole, but their whole collection isn't something I personally shit bricks over.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

They are easily one of top 3 death metal bands of all time, and for me they're firmly planted at the top spot ... and their whole catalogue is amazing, only a few bands can even come close to having a discography like theirs.

 

[The Ozzman]

The weakest Death album is Leprosy. Symbolic, Spiritual Healing and The Sound of Perseverance are three of the greatest metal albums of all time.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Leprosy is just as good, if not better than any of their first three ... but i do agree on the other three mentioned, Symbolic and TSoP are my two favorite albums from their post Spiritual Healing period.