dissection - melodic death??

[Hammer of Might]

What genre would you put Dissection in, because I thought they were black metal, but I've recently read people calling them melodic death metal

:S

Did they start out like that, and get more black or something?

 

[Erik]

Dissection's demo "The Grief Prophecy" was more or less pure death metal. The later stuff often gets the "melodic death metal" tag because 1) they came from Gothenburg and knew bands like At the Gates and the rest of the Gothenburg scene, 2) often used the same kinds of heavy metal-derived melodic leads and riffs, and 3) Jon himself liked to call the music "metal of Death" which some people have equated with "death metal." I see the music as essentially black metal; black metal that came out of the Gothenburg scene with all its heavy metal influences.

 

[Life Sucks]

I definitely think that they play melodic death metal. Their music is very melodic with lots of death metal riffage, and has very little in common with bands such as Darkthrone and Mayhem. The only black metal influence I hear in their sound is in the vocals and the occasional black metal riff.

 

[None_So_Vile]

Im with life sucks on this one although i can see why people do call them black metal and i respect that

 

[no country for old wainds]

Necrophobic were always classed as Death Metal but Dissection get labeled 'melodic black', I never did get that.

 

[J.]

I've always seen them as a cross between melodic death and black metal, kinda in the same realm as Dawn.

 

[Life Sucks]

Necrophobic were always classed as Death Metal but Dissection get labeled 'melodic black', I never did get that.

IMO Necrophobic are a regular old school death metal band. They do not have those guitar harmonies and general Gothenburg-like sound that Dissection does. So I would say that Necrophobic are regular death metal and Dissection are melodic death (not melodic black).

 

[no country for old wainds]

I agree with you. Dissection are more melodic than Necrophobic, but they do have quite a few similarities. So Dissection should be melodic death, rather than black.

 

[Life Sucks]

Yeah, now that I think about it, there are some similarities between Necrophobic and Dissection, most notably the occasional tremelo picking riffs.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I personally love both bands, but perhaps Necrophobic a little more so.

 

[Life Sucks]

I personally love both bands, but perhaps Necrophobic a little more so.

I really like both bands too, but I think I like Dissection a little bit better. But I only have one CD from each band: Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane and Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I only have one CD from each band: Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane and Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence.

Hehe, me too.

Got any Sacramentum?

 

[Flaming Death]

i have alot of melodic death metal and black metal. i love Dissection's music. I tend to think of them as melodic black metal. I dont think they have much in common with regular death metal.

 

[Life Sucks]

Hehe, me too.

Got any Sacramentum?

No I don't. I actually have hardly even heard anything about them. Are they somewhat similar to Dissection and Necrophobic?

 

[no country for old wainds]

I've heard comparisons between them, especially Sacramentum's first album 'Far Away From The Sun.' I only have 'The Coming of Chaos' which I like a lot.

 

[Flaming Death]

speaking of dissection sounding bands. check out the band Unanimated

Ancient God of Evil album.

 

[Erik]

Sacramentum's "Far Beyond the Sun" album is "somewhat" similar to Dissection. Heh.