Eucharist - A Velvet Creation

Every time I've tried to purchase this, I couldn't find it for less than too much $$$. Yep, just checked, $50 or higher. Would love to own a copy, but not for that much money.

Heartwork was my introduction to melodic death, still find it unbelievably good. It is pretty yet fucking brutal, a combination not often found. Necroticism is the opposite of melody.

The Jester Race still sounds fresh as fuck all these years later. So clean. So good. This is my kind of cheesy metal, because it has just a slight hair of it.

The Gallery gets better with each listen, and I fucking love The Dividing Line in particular, that time change at 2:30 is PERFECTION. I never got into much other Dark Tranquillity.

Edge of Sanity are probably the only melodic death I obsess over as a band. Even their meh stuff blows me away. Except Crimson II which always gives me this face: :(

Slaughter of the Soul was overrated back then, and it's overrated right now. Terminal Spirit Disease and The Red in the Sky is Ours are :kickass: and :kickass: , respectively, for entirely different reasons. Not unlike Heartwork and Necroticism as a pair really.

I was a devout Hypocrisy fanboy for years, that's how I first discovered UM. Abducted is probably in my Top 25 list.

The Somberlain is definitely a better album, but I still prefer listening to Storm of the Light's Bane. It's just so... cold.

I still really dig the first Ominium Gatherum album, even if it doesn't have an original bone in its body. :tickled:
 
Nad, brilliant post. Except for the comment on Necroticisisms. But that album has a special place in my heart and I consider it monumental.
 
I meant that statement on Necroticism in the best possible way. :D The solos are melodic, but rest is so bizarre and angular. I adore it, but it took me years to appreciate.
 
Ah, gotcha. Yes, that album is a surgical tool of inhuman geometric shapes wrapped in smooth, warm gauze.
 
I've yet to get into that one either.

Heartwork, on the other hand, singlehandedly destroyed the factory speakers of my Saturn back in high school.
 
Also, I reviewed Mirrorworlds for RC back 10 years (!!) ago. Guess it's lost now. Pretty sure I gave it 9/10.
 
decameron sucks

a velvet creation rules

tritsio is #1 the best death metal album ever