GMD Poll: The Chasm's Discography Ranked
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Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph (1998)
In Superior Torment... - 4/5 (really cool waltz-y stuff from beginning to end)
Apocalypse - 4/5
Chanelling The Bleeding Over The Dream's Remains - 3/5
A Portal To Nowhere - 3/5 (they just suck at thrash metal, little of that here and it's for the better, better atmospherics and progression)
The Triumph (Of My Loss...) - 2.5/5
Possessed By Past Tragedies (Tragic Shadows) - 2.5/5 (a hint of Gothenburg)
No Mercy (Our Time Is Near) - 2/5 (thrash)
Revenge Rises/Drowned In The Mournful Blood - 1.5/5 (thrash + Emperor, tiring)
I'm The Hateful Raven - 1.5/5
Procession To The Infraworld (2000)
At The Edge Of The Nebula Mortis - 4/5 (shows the importance of musical ability and clear production for songs like these, that break 4 minutes in wouldn't have had nearly the same impact if the drumming was as shit as it often is on Deathcult, lots of ideas and they flow excellently)
Storm Of Revelations - 3.5/5 (some parts have !TOOH!-tier spaz-factor, others are the closest to that Amorphis weepy stuff on the first two albums though it works much better here)
Fading... - 3.5/5
Return Of The Banished - 3.5/5 (more meloblack/death, still quite good, shiny solo section)
Spectral Sons Of The Mictlan/The Scars Of My Journey - 3/5, 3.5/5 (instrumental intro) (pretty straight-forward thrash by their standards but they've learned how to actually play thrash so it works)
Architects Of Melancholic Apocalypse - 3/5 (I think Vektor borrowed that main mid-tempo thrash riff, probably the most accessible/least interesting song)
Cosmic Landscapes Of Sorrow - 3/5 (first couple (and the last) minutes were dorky, good bridge)
Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph (1998)
In Superior Torment... - 4/5 (really cool waltz-y stuff from beginning to end)
Apocalypse - 4/5
Chanelling The Bleeding Over The Dream's Remains - 3/5
A Portal To Nowhere - 3/5 (they just suck at thrash metal, little of that here and it's for the better, better atmospherics and progression)
The Triumph (Of My Loss...) - 2.5/5
Possessed By Past Tragedies (Tragic Shadows) - 2.5/5 (a hint of Gothenburg)
No Mercy (Our Time Is Near) - 2/5 (thrash)
Revenge Rises/Drowned In The Mournful Blood - 1.5/5 (thrash + Emperor, tiring)
I'm The Hateful Raven - 1.5/5
Procession To The Infraworld (2000)
At The Edge Of The Nebula Mortis - 4/5 (shows the importance of musical ability and clear production for songs like these, that break 4 minutes in wouldn't have had nearly the same impact if the drumming was as shit as it often is on Deathcult, lots of ideas and they flow excellently)
Storm Of Revelations - 3.5/5 (some parts have !TOOH!-tier spaz-factor, others are the closest to that Amorphis weepy stuff on the first two albums though it works much better here)
Fading... - 3.5/5
Return Of The Banished - 3.5/5 (more meloblack/death, still quite good, shiny solo section)
Spectral Sons Of The Mictlan/The Scars Of My Journey - 3/5, 3.5/5 (instrumental intro) (pretty straight-forward thrash by their standards but they've learned how to actually play thrash so it works)
Architects Of Melancholic Apocalypse - 3/5 (I think Vektor borrowed that main mid-tempo thrash riff, probably the most accessible/least interesting song)
Cosmic Landscapes Of Sorrow - 3/5 (first couple (and the last) minutes were dorky, good bridge)
challenge_everything
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For a second there I thought you were saying A Portal to Nowhere was thrash and I was scratching my head.
Anyway I love that track, all those doomy sections at the beginning are like a slow burn, building up to it all cutting loose at the end.
Anyway I love that track, all those doomy sections at the beginning are like a slow burn, building up to it all cutting loose at the end.
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HBB gave a Chasm album an average track rating > 3. 
Anyway, Procession is their most something album, death, thrash, whatever. I don't think too much about genre definitions.
Anyway, Procession is their most something album, death, thrash, whatever. I don't think too much about genre definitions.
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A Portal to Nowhere was the first Chasm song I ever heard and I was obsessed with it. It’s still actually my favourite they’ve done and perhaps my favourite metal song ever. It still gives me chills to this day.
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Seven songs deep into the album and this is my impression as well. Doesn't even sound like death metal anymore.
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Conjuration of the Spectral Empire (2002)
Traveling Through Chaos (I, the Pastfinder II) - 4.5/5 (see Brand except better fused and now it actually works, some gorgeous wall-of-sound stuff too, harmony leads at 6 minutes and that bass line underneath are giving me chills)
A Soulstorm Bleeds Over the Horizon/Procession to the Infraworld - 3/5, 3.5/5 (instrumental intro former, spacey lead stuff) (instrumental, something about opening a lengthy album closer with a simple galloping riff always gets my dick hard, unfortunately it's kinda meandering around after that, I was expecting some One Shot at Glory-tier shit but this is still pretty good, especially the second half)
Deathcult Arrival - 3.5/5 (instrumental, that Darkthrone-sounding riff 2 minutes in is awesome, strong riffing all the way through)
The Conjuration - 3.5/5 (very '93 At the Gates here, riffing a bit pedestrian at times but the melodies push it up)
Brand the Mournful Liberation - 3/5 (waltz-y romantic Chasm for the first half, goes neoclassical Destruction-style for a bit after that, I should love this in theory but the rhythms are too bland, lacks the necessary propulsion that songs like In Superior Torment offer)
Dark Cloud - 3/5 (intense)
Reveal the Truth - 2.5/5 (average Slayer/Morbid Angel-y death/thrash)
Master of the Arcane Torment - 2/5 (that main riff is actually bad, it's like they tried fusing a basic thrash rhythm and a basic USPM rhythm and kept only the wrong elements of each, the other parts are typical but the solo section is very good)
The Ecstasy of Pain & Destruction - 2/5 (thrashy but boring, sounds like a weak Protest the Hero song with Darkthrone/Chasm dissonance tossed on)
The Spell of Retribution (2004)
Conjuring the New Apocalypse - 3.5/5 (another thrash song but they finally tried some new rhythms, the Metallica break halfway through was pretty sweet, some lurching epic parts too, closes with some Dark Angel punctuated double-bass and chop, this is what the entire album should have aspired to be)
Remains of the Covenant - 3.5/5 (melodies are really layered here, some Helstar vibes)
Eternal Cycle of Delusion - 3/5 (did the production change here? it feels like they just repeated earlier ideas in the album but made it a bit louder and heavier to fake a meaningful album climax, the Destruction-style parts are nice though, that tech-y thrash riff 5 minutes in was cool until they unnecessarily filled out the pauses)
From the Curse, a Scourge... - 3/5 (instrumental, some neoclassical wank, giving me bro metal vibes)
Retribution of the Lost Years (I, The Pastfinder III) - 2.5/5 (some good parts but too slow and long)
The Eclipse: Monument to the Empire - 2/5 (boring melo-whatever, on occasion it feels like it's going somewhere meaningful like around 6.5 minutes in but most of this is Schuldiner-tier rifflessness)
Manifest My Intervention - 2/5 (first couple minutes were good, at first bordered on self-plagiarism but began moving in a new direction, but then in came all that dut-dutalutdut Testament/Protest the Hero riffing)
Fortress - 1.5/5 (yeah this is basically indistinguishable from any modern thrash/"melodic metalcore" band, total bore, should have been a 3 minute song tops)
Conqueror & Warlord - 1.5/5 (pretty rigid, that first riff is disgusting, rest is just there)
The Omnipotent Codex - 1/5 (force-fed too-many-notes meloblack shit, obnoxious and Emperor-tier)
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Phylactery
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Didn’t you give Eternal Cycle of Delusion a 9/10 in the mixtape game?! I’m also pretty sure that a while back when we were on one of our Master of Puppets debates you reviewed every Deathcult track and gave Possessed by Past Tragedies a 9/10 and now you’ve given it a 2/5 but I can’t seem to find the post.
You’ve gone way too far with your The Eclipse review! It’s one of their best epics for me. The section starting at around 3 minutes is godly. At least you’ve given Travelling Through Chaos a high mark, definitely one of the best on Conjuration. I’m quite surprised you don’t like the closing instrumental more actually.
You’ve gone way too far with your The Eclipse review! It’s one of their best epics for me. The section starting at around 3 minutes is godly. At least you’ve given Travelling Through Chaos a high mark, definitely one of the best on Conjuration. I’m quite surprised you don’t like the closing instrumental more actually.
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I tried finding my old Deathcult track rating post last night and couldn't either (tried finding it because I wasn't digging Apocalypse as much this time as I remember I did before), pretty sure it got deleted somehow. Someone also deleted my Coroner RIP genre analysis post (but I wisely backed that one up). Some cowardly faggot is probably reporting my higher-quality posts to keep the ignorant masses from drinking from the font of enlightenment that I replenish on a daily basis here.
I'm naturally going to be harsher going through a full discography than hearing a single song out of context. As far as bands that tend to recycle certain themes and ideas go, at least The Chasm has a lot of ideas to pick from, but ultimately it still only goes so far.
I'm naturally going to be harsher going through a full discography than hearing a single song out of context. As far as bands that tend to recycle certain themes and ideas go, at least The Chasm has a lot of ideas to pick from, but ultimately it still only goes so far.
That'd be a bit much considering that you've said that you still like the album.
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Well here's some notes I made yesterday, I will come up with some ranking today hopefully.
Procreation of the Inner Temple seems to get a lot of downrating here as undeveloped, but oh my oh my. It satisfies me unlike many death metal albums. I guess this is around my favorite era for this genre as well - around 1992-1995. I love how The Cosmos Within is basically built around a Bolt Thrower riff. Some of those sections might not be connected well to create some epic masterpiece, but they're so memorable and one just likes to return to them.
Lost Years takes a while to get heated up but the couple of tracks in the middle are really good and a step towards Deathcult. However so far I cannot say I enjoy this better than the debut.
Deathcult has the drums a little too low in the mix, but there's so much happening here, it's like the signature Chasm album. My highlights are No Mercy, Portal to nowhere, and Triumph. I will agree with No Country here that Channeling is the least favorable.
Conjuration is more epic than the previous one and I appreciate the atmosphere sometimes, layered tracks and all, I just feel it's a little draggy at times. I honestly prefer riffy Chasm to harmonic Chasm, if it makes sense.
Farseeing is where they got too smooth for my liking. The sound is well rounded but it doesn't seem as interesting as on any of the earlier albums. The riffage is there still, it's a really good album.
Conscious Creation. I've been listening to that thing a lot tbh. It's been my go to album when in need of some quality death metal riffage and nothing else. It's hard to rate this along with the rest though, as I just appreciate it for what it is, even though it might not be so developed as the rest.
Procreation of the Inner Temple seems to get a lot of downrating here as undeveloped, but oh my oh my. It satisfies me unlike many death metal albums. I guess this is around my favorite era for this genre as well - around 1992-1995. I love how The Cosmos Within is basically built around a Bolt Thrower riff. Some of those sections might not be connected well to create some epic masterpiece, but they're so memorable and one just likes to return to them.
Lost Years takes a while to get heated up but the couple of tracks in the middle are really good and a step towards Deathcult. However so far I cannot say I enjoy this better than the debut.
Deathcult has the drums a little too low in the mix, but there's so much happening here, it's like the signature Chasm album. My highlights are No Mercy, Portal to nowhere, and Triumph. I will agree with No Country here that Channeling is the least favorable.
Conjuration is more epic than the previous one and I appreciate the atmosphere sometimes, layered tracks and all, I just feel it's a little draggy at times. I honestly prefer riffy Chasm to harmonic Chasm, if it makes sense.
Farseeing is where they got too smooth for my liking. The sound is well rounded but it doesn't seem as interesting as on any of the earlier albums. The riffage is there still, it's a really good album.
Conscious Creation. I've been listening to that thing a lot tbh. It's been my go to album when in need of some quality death metal riffage and nothing else. It's hard to rate this along with the rest though, as I just appreciate it for what it is, even though it might not be so developed as the rest.
challenge_everything
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Well I've been refreshing myself on the discography, but tbh this ranking was inevitable for me.
1. Deathcult for Eternity
2. Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
3. Procession to the Infraworld
=4. Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
=4. The Spell of Retribution
6. A Conscious Creation from the Isolated Domain
7. From the Lost Years
8. Procreation of the Inner Temple
1. Deathcult for Eternity
2. Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
3. Procession to the Infraworld
=4. Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
=4. The Spell of Retribution
6. A Conscious Creation from the Isolated Domain
7. From the Lost Years
8. Procreation of the Inner Temple
Phylactery
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I can somewhat understand ranking Concious Creation over the debut, but ranking it over From the Lost Years? That’s fucking mental to me.
challenge_everything
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They could easily be swapped tbh. I'm perhaps swayed by the fact I've been playing it a lot lately and it's still fresh, but also the songwriting on Conscious Creation is, I think, underappreciated given it's masked by how bad the production is.
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