GMD SONG SURVIVOR: DISMEMBER - LIKE AN EVERFLOWING STREAM - ROUND 1

[HamburgerBoy]

If Dismembered didn't have that awesome groovy break it'd be one of the weaker songs as well. But it does, so it isn't.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Yeah listening to In Death's Sleep again more critically and this isn't that good. The first minute is pretty cool and doomy, then it goes saccharine for a bit before the main verse parts. For the implication of Soon to Be Dead being short and simple, the verse riffing of this song is actually much more repetitive and simplistic. The break at 2:35 is just a less dynamic version of the first verses of And So Is Life, which is then followed with an ordinary Florida-style death metal progression which doesn't do anything except repeat itself four times (aside from the drumming which changes things up a bit), brief return to break before then a sudden punk-y d-beat break which also doesn't really do anything. Guitar solo, then back to the early verses' section, then the song abruptly cuts to an outro-solo which is cool but slipshod in execution.

None of that is to say this is a bad song, but the arrangement is decidedly ad hoc, unlike most of the album.

Nice. I answered "yes" to an implied "yes or no" question regarding a song. As ever, a simple "no" would've done just fine.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Nice. I answered "yes" to an implied "yes or no" question regarding a song. As ever, a simple "no" would've done just fine.

Que?

 

[Manic Ferocity]

"I heard this one transition from some band I can't name I heard like five years ago, and it totally resembled a Dismember song so they are just stealing that riff and it's just derivative of that one song I heard and it's just a poorly written song because of that one solo I heard at 1:35 that resembles Boston. Oh, in-crowd so pwnd."

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Thanks for making an actual argument for once, albeit in strawman format.

It doesn't have to do with "stealing" (other than self-recycling, but my point there is more that the song many apparently consider the weakest has a similar part to the song everyone apparently loves). I'm just saying that the Florida DM part sticks out as incongruent with the rest of the song, not that they specifically stole a Death or Obituary riff or anything, just that it's like they took a stock riff and plopped it in the middle of a song, at the end of an album where said riff style isn't really a prominent part. It'd be like if you had a faster Slayer song and then in a bridge you threw in the Welcome to Hell riff for four bars; it's too common and essential to the genre to call it a copy, but it would be out of place.

I just don't understand why anyone would consider this such an obviously superior song. Even on RYM, it's a mere 0.4 points above the lowest-rated song, which is a really tight spread for that website, and only 0.2 above And So Is Life.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Hey, dude, no one gives a shit. You sound like a manic who's desperate to prove that he doesn't like music that others do. Keep it simple and to the damned point.

You should give the same kind of elaborate descriptions for music you actually do like. I'm pretty sure I've never seen that from you.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

For example: Soon to be Dead is my least favorite track. It just seems like an afterthought and a filler compared to the rest of the album.

I'm not interested in breaking down every last bit of the damned song because no one wants to read that.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Phylactery asked "What are you talking about", I answered using a thorough and objective quantitative approach. Now no one has an excuse when they ask.

Soon to be Dead could have been a really strong Reign in Blood-style "filler" like Piece By Piece, in that yeah it's short and some of the individual components are simple, but really pay attention and there's actually some real progression going on there. It has a thrashy primary "verse" that I assume turns people off, but the arrangement is still too dynamic with the other two sections so it has this ABACACB thing going all just in the first 1:20 with even a couple of brief riff-bits (which never repeat) between a couple of sections, and then closes with three more riffs in the last 30 seconds with the drumming carrying an intense climax. Many a band would have taken all of that and spread it out for at least another minute, but that song is lean as fuck. Efficiency > redundancy, every time.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I stand corrected. \m/

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

In Death's Sleep is the least "Dismember sounding" song on the album.

 

[no country for old wainds]

precisely why it's the best amirite

 

[EspaDa]

Override of the Overture is a beast both musically and lyrically.

 

[Dak]

Skin her alive is the weakest song on the album.

Override of the Overture is a beast both musically and lyrically.

At least someone else finally said it. Might be my most favorite OSDM song.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

precisely why it's NOT the best amirite

yourite.

edit:its like you guys(IC) go out of your way to congregate around the weakest tracks on these album games. Anyway, i dont see how you or phylactery can love that album and band so much but at the same time prefer the least Dismember sounding track from an album that has some of the best songs in Swedish death metal history.