DM with Texture and Color

[Eligos]

Hey guys, I've taken a serious breather from death metal after being saturated with the old school/slam/grind scene I grew up in where all the bands worshiped Cephalic Carnage (who are cool dudes so no foul on their part).

The last death metal album I enjoyed was Ulcerate's Destroyers of All. After hearing those guys integrate their outer influences really well, I'm looking for death metal that is equally textured, colored, well-rounded, and "modern".

 

[KafkaX]

Not sure what you mean by texture, well rounded, colored etc. but Flourishing have a similar sound to Ulcerate. Check them out if you havnt already.

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[Eligos]

I'll drive the point about color home with a band that I've seen you reference. "Color" is an abstract quality that sums up a bands ability to convey moods. Lantlos does this a whole hell of a lot, their stuff is practically saturated with color.



That Flourishing record reminded me quite a bit of the Axis of Perdition or Bergraven - sophisticated, but not necessarily colorful due to its atonal focus. I dug it though.

Texture, in my book, is the compositional ability to build layers and walls of sound that work together to convey an idea. Choruses are mono-textural because many instruments are playing the same thing, whereas the most textural song convention is usually the bridge, where the band members will break off and do their own thing to build tension.

And a band is well-rounded if its members can play with multiple tempos, emotions or rhythms well, without sounding gimmicky.

 

[KafkaX]

Excellent way of descirbing those terms.

Thanks for taking the time to!

 

[Destroyer]

Not exactly modern, but Disembowelment's Transcendence into the Peripheral seems rather fitting for the criteria that you're/were looking for.

 

[ClichéUserName]

Stargazer perhaps?

this is from the latest album

 

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