Death - The sound of perseverance

[Flaming Death]

My first experience with Death was with Symbolic. I love that album most probably but The Sound is awesome too just like the rest of Deaths discography.

I think Chucks vocals are good on The Sound... just as good as any other Death album but different.

I really want to hear some of the Control Denied demo stuff with Chuck on vocals.

 

[Krilons Resa]

this album owns your mother.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

No, it owns *your* mother. And everyone's, for that matter. Except mine, of course...

Some call it mindless, unmemorable wanking, but I've had "Scavenger Of Human Sorrow" in my head for a week straight now.

 

[SculptedCold]

Spirit Crusher will always be soooooo cool. Don't you just love the dynamic time changes in that beast?? oh and the intro to Flesh and the Power it Holds is one of the best ever.....its a shame they didn't repeat the melody later in the song but oh well! That's progressiveness for ya!

 

[Eternal_Decadent]

The Sound of Perseverance is an amazing & wonderful album , but my little complain about the album , is the lack of tightness of the sound , unlike Symbolic.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

Man, everyone seems to love Symbolic.

I must get that album soon. Chuck's vocals on that album bother me, though...

 

[SculptedCold]

Symbolic is the only Death album left that I still want to get. I've got Scream Bloody Gore and from that I can tell i'd likely be pretty bored by everything else pre-Human.

 

[The Devil's Steed]

As a general comment, I'd like to say that I just got to listen to The Sound of Perseverance for the first time yesterday.....I must say, it is one great fucking album, period. I've enjoyed every Death CD I've heard, even though I only have three, and this one is no exception, it completely mesmerized me and caused me to get lost in the music right down to the Painkiller cover, I remember downloading some songs off of Kazaa from that album, and not enjoying them too much....now I've heard those same songs and loved them, I simply wasn't ready for them yet, then. I only have one complaint, which is Chuck's vocals, Once I got used to them, I enjoyed them to some extent, however, I prefer his older vocal style. Otherwise, I don't have anything bad to say about it.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

I hate Scream Bloody Gore. 80's death-metal-nonsense, if you ask me. The first good Death album was Human.

 

[Dark_Disciple]

Upon choosing a favorite album, I am torn between all albums from "Human" and onwards. It's hard to choose. But if I'm to pick just one album, it would have to be "Symbolic". "The Sound of Perseverance" is a masterpiece too, though, especially the brilliant "Scavenger of Human Sorrow" and "Spirit Crusher".

 

[Demiurge]

TSOP reminds me of one of the first 2 Atheist LPs sans everything that ruled about the first two Atheist LPs....

Enough with slobbing Chuck's knob, he was never half as talented as Death's second guitarist. Furthermore, he didn't innovate anything. Possessed, Massacra, Sepultura, and Morbid Angel all beat him to the punch.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

Chuck definitely innovated his own brand of melodic death metal.

 

[Demiurge]

Chuck definitely innovated his own brand of melodic death metal.

Tell me, are you merely making a fallacious statement or do you wish to engage me in a debate?

Chuck didn't innovate jackshit. TSOP was done by Atheist(first 2 LPs) and Cynic(demos) in the late 80s-early 90s and it was done more artistically to boot.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

More artistically? How so?

I wasn't aware one could make something more artistic than someone else.

 

[Demiurge]

More artistically? How so?

I wasn't aware one could make something more artistic than someone else.

One of the definitions of the word "artistic" is "Showing imagination and skill", that should answer the question.

Atheist wrote music that got to the point sans TSOP's noodling and disruptive interludes.

 

[Life Sucks]

TSoP is a great CD. I don't know if it is my favorite though. One thing that I do not like about it as much as the other CDs is the vocals. I don't know why they are so high pitched on that CD. The music is top notch though.

 

[CF87]

Death fucking rules but Atheist and Cynic were doing the melodic oldstyle progressive Death Metal/thrash infleunced shit first(remember Death was pure thrash/death for awile) and they started making the change when 2 Cynic members joined and they put out Human. Atheist-Unquestionable presence is also hands down one of the greatest albums. The thing Death did better was stay around longer and put out continue's strong albums for a long time while Atheist and Cynic did not make it far enough. R.I.P Chuck

 

[Demiurge]

More like they stayed around till they became a self-parody....

Things had already began to go awry as of "Human", Death truly became a maudlin faggot-fest on "Symbolic". "Leprosy" is easily their best.

 

[Demiurge]

People sometimes mistake the truth for my personal opinion. "TSOP" is an insipid copy of the Cynic demos, Coroner, and old Atheist. It's ideologically repellant; pretentious, self-absorbed, sentimental bullshit. The composition is prone to pointless noodling and meandering irrelevance. Not only is it obsolete, it's inferior to that which it is derived of. Though its elements are complex, it is not. Oh yes, there's plenty of polyrhytmic wankery but it's structurally closer to stadium rock than anything else. Maybe you're about to say "that's what the fuck I'm talkin' about!", if so, you're an idiot.

I like Immortal, but for personal reasons I prefer Darkthrone. I'm willing to acknowledge the contributions of Immortal though. When I say something shitty is shitty, it's not so much personal opinion as it is statement of fact. This, of course, does not prevent people from liking the shit.

Chuck was a faggot; I need to find a link to the article that details the time he ditched his band....

 

[InFlames101]

People sometimes mistake the truth for my personal opinion. "TSOP" is an insipid copy of the Cynic demos, Coroner, and old Atheist. It's ideologically repellant; pretentious, self-absorbed, sentimental bullshit. The composition is prone to pointless noodling and meandering irrelevance. Not only is it obsolete, it's inferior to that which it is derived of. Though its elements are complex, it is not. Oh yes, there's plenty of polyrhytmic wankery but it's structurally closer to stadium rock than anything else. Maybe you're about to say "that's what the fuck I'm talkin' about!", if so, you're an idiot.

I like Immortal, but for personal reasons I prefer Darkthrone. I'm willing to acknowledge the contributions of Immortal though. When I say something shitty is shitty, it's not so much personal opinion as it is statement of fact. This, of course, does not prevent people from liking the shit.

Chuck was a faggot; I need to find a link to the article that details the time he ditched his band....

You make it seem like you're the ultimate authority on commenting whether a band has all the elements to be considered "good". Perhaps you should elucidate your comments about how the structure is basically stadium rock. And also, clarify as to what you deem irrelevant.

When I say something shitty is shitty, it's not so much personal opinion as it is statement of fact.

Oh, and I hope you don't honestly expect people to take this self-indulgent quote seriously....