I'm over talking about things I don't like, it's a waste of energy, even though I could conceivably rant all day about the injustices in death metal today hahaha. Here, here's some cool tunes that I've been showing some friends lately, let's talk about that shit.
Some cool Russian tech death from 93, interesting stuff.
Blistering UK dm from the 90s.
Very riffy French death metal, bordering on brutal death, from 2000.
BIZARRE Colorado DM...nothing more I can really say.
I'm a huge fan of Centurian and Nox, so when I found out two guys that had played on Liber Zar Zax had had another band, I got excited. Not quite as fast, but a lot of super tasty riffs on this 97 demo, which sounds worlds better than the sadly terribly-produced full length.
These were all fucking killer man, thanks for sharing. The one that especially kicked ass to me was that British band Beyond Fear and it's reminded me that the British scene seems to be lacking in praise for the death metal it gave us (beyond the classics like Bolt Thrower, Benediction, Desecration, Evoke, Prophecy of Doom etc) so I thought I'd share some of my favourite British death metal:
Demented death metal, basically England's answer to Dr. Shrinker or Impetigo (kinda) and so basically my bread and butter. I fucking love this kinda multi-vocal styled gory deathgrind.
Definitely has that early Death and Cannibal Corpse vibe to me.
Rabid ripping death metal, sounds very classic and American like Deceased or some other frantic sounding paranoid death metal band.
Slicing, ever so slightly melodic death metal like Dismember's sophomore with Nocturnus, Morbid Angel and Asphyx thrown together onto a demo.
Reminds me SO MUCH of very early Pungent Stench when they were less groovy but still catchy. Thinking of that split LP they did as well as
For God Your Soul.
Very bassy, kinda like
Severed Survival or something, but overall sounding much more like
Eaten Back to Life meets
Into the Grave.
Very riffy and catchy, almost like early Unleashed but not quite THAT simplistic. Good stuff, hard to believe they never found much success outside of England.
Blasting, very tight sounding death metal that has that sound like they were on a mission to annihilate. No fat to trim anywhere, like early 2000's Cannibal Corpse ethically-speaking.
@morguelord I think specifically you may quite like this one.
Vicious plodding death metal in the vein of Winter or Baphomet.
This fucking rules, I've never heard someone try to combine the jazzy whirlwind style of Atheist with early Absu or some shit. This really is inspiring shit to me, the folky "epic" parts are like Bathory seeping through too, but there's no mistake that this is death metal to me. Also if you want to hear truly brutal brain-melting drums check out their demo tape.
This is so awesome and evil, like a cool mixture of early My Dying Bride or early Paradise Lost but with a fast section that really fucking goes for your guts. Almost like Rottrevore?
Kinda reminds me of a more standard sounding Nocturnus with some Morbid Angel influences. This one is a very recent discovery so I'm not that familiar with it but the more I listen the more I like it.
All the early albums Martin van Drunen was on thrown together with a vocalist who wants to sound like Martin van Drunen and it's a good thing not a bad thing! This shit is heavy as fuck.
A pretty good mixture of the classic bands on the heavier end of things like Suffocation, Broken Hope, Obituary etc.
Brutal OSDM with a very primitive sound, perfect for a demo production.
All I can really say is this one is such a treat of weirdo ADHD death metal, throwing around Primus noodlings with funky Pungent Stench riff-offs, Benediction sections, crushing vocals etc.
Not sure what to compare this to. It's leaning technical death metal but not exactly, it kinda reminds me of later era Death, it's very groovy and riffy and catchy and modern I guess.
This one is a pretty weird (but not exactly weird-sounding) mixture of influences, I hear things like Necrophagia, Grave and Unleashed but then also Cryptic Slaughter or something. Great fun.
This is like Benediction if they hadn't opted for a much more mid-paced groovy sound in the mid-90's and instead just kept it brutal and riff-heavy. Absolutely killer and funny since I remember their previous demo sounding more like black metal or something.
Some very ancient obscure sounding shit with killer riffs, annihilating drums and evil vocals. Shame they went a bit retarded later on and lost all their edge.
Groovy, grindy death metal in the mid-90's Benediction style or Gorefest. Not for everyone but I don't mind it.
I really don't know who to compare this with, it has many marks of classic, standard death metal but then also some weird elements. Really interesting in the best way that demo tapes tend to be before all the originality is sapped out of the band so they can land a record deal and release something marketable, which never happened for these guys anyway. This is probably in my top 5 of death metal demos that came out of the U.K.
Less abrasive sounding (mostly due to the lack of a drum machine) Mortician style death metal with heavily distorted vocals. Pretty cool.
Yeah I know this kinda got outta hand, sorry to everyone's browsers.
