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[Phylactery]

I think they advertised it as such. Deliverance was supposed to the “heavy/brutal” album and Damnation was the mellow one. I find Deliverence to be the weakest of the first 6. It’s not horrible, but as I said it’s pretty dull and plodding. The title track especially drags on for way too long for me, and that ending everyone seems to love doesn’t do a whole lot for me.

The only Opeth I really listen to is Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse and selected tracks from Blackwater Park. I occasionally revisit Orchid as well.

 

[EspaDa]

Opeth used to be the most overrated band on this forum until The Chasm took over. But it was a few years before CiG, I guess. That's basically how we should measure time on the forum: Before CiG and after CiG.

 

[Phylactery]

The only overrated The Chasm album is The Spell of Retribution. Their first two are underrated if anything.

 

[EspaDa]

Maybe I put it wrong. I love The Chasm, but the neverending conversations about them being the best death metal band on the planet are getting boring for me.

 

[Phylactery]

Maybe I put it wrong. I love The Chasm, but the neverending conversations about them being the best death metal band on the planet are getting boring for me.

Well which bands would you prefer to be in the discussion? Death metal struggles for consistency. There's plenty of bands with one or two great releases but more than that it becomes a smaller and smaller pool. The Chasm are widely regarded as being consistently good/great, which puts them in the discussion immediately imo. Most point to their run of Deathcult through Farseeing as being consistently great. How many other death metal bands have a 5 album run like that? Not many.

Death have a similar reputation, but I personally don't care for them post Human. And I don't particularly like Spiritual Healing either.

Btw, I'm pretty much just as big a fanboy of Morbid Angel and Darkthrone, but I must admit their discographies aren't as consistently strong (especially Morbid Angel's).

 

[zerostatic]

Found out these guys are playing a show next week in Las Vegas with Idle Hands. First listen and I like what I hear.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Maybe I put it wrong. I love The Chasm, but the neverending conversations about them being the best death metal band on the planet are getting boring for me.

Yea, big time overkill. Easily the most annoying thing about this place. And its usually the same few people. They are faaaaaaaaar from the best death metal band(not even in the top fucking 20 in reality), but if you come to this forum and read what the same few vocals fanbois say you would think they're the be all end all of death metal.

 

[CiG]

I think The Chasm would probably make my top 20 death metal bands at this point, though I would consider them for a spot hesitantly because I'm still new to most of their catalogue. I have to say though, for a band that plays non-classic death metal they are pretty consistent. Only thing I don't really like is their debut, which is quite offensively amateurish.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

How many other death metal bands have a 5 album run like that? Not many.

Death, Immolation, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Nile, Incantation and Dismember just to name a few. And some of those bands had more than 5 killer albums in their runs. And those said albums would destroy the best works from The Chasm. Tbh not even in the same league if we compare their best. Any of the top albums from the bands i mentioned absolutely curb stomp on Deathcult or anything else you guys consider to be The Chasm's best

 

[CiG]

Immolation and Bolt Thrower are the only bands there I'd place above The Chasm.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Immolation and Bolt Thrower are the only bands there I'd place above The Chasm.

you place The Chasm over Death and Morbid Angel? you cant be fucking serious here. If so, than anything you say on the topic of death metal should basically be void. In other words, Phyllis level. That's a pretty ridiculous statement in general, but pretty flop-floppish when coming form someone who has said Leprosy and SBG are among the best death metal albums. Do you actually think anything The Chasm has done comes close to say .... Altars or Leprosy? They're not even in the same ballpark tbh, there's actually a few tiers between Death, Morbid Angel etc and bands like the fucking chasm.

 

[CiG]

Actually I'd also put Death above The Chasm, Morbid Angel are way too inconsistent with some of their albums being outright dogshit.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Morbid Angel's B-D run is pretty much trash as is the post-H stuff. The Chasm's better.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Actually I'd also put Death above The Chasm, Morbid Angel are way too inconsistent with some of their albums being outright dogshit.

i can say the exact same thing for the chasm, but to a higher degree. A few of their albums are downright garbage. But if were talking about their best runs ... are you saying the the 5 albums from the chasm that Phyllis mentioned is stronger than the godly run MA had from Altars allll the way to Gateways? Oh please

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Morbid Angel's B-D run is pretty much trash as is the post-H stuff. The Chasm's better.

someone who has been listening to one of those bands for a month or two has no say on this matter fool. Especially when its coming from the same guy who used to thrash that same band.

B-D run was trash? .... contrarian faggot lol

 

[CiG]

I only dislike one Chasm album so I can't agree, and even that album is better than whatever that horrendous industrial metal album was Morbid Angel gave us.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I only dislike one Chasm album so I can't agree, and even that album is better than whatever that horrendous industrial metal album was Morbid Angel gave us.

answer my question please.

"are you saying the the 5 albums from the chasm that Phyllis mentioned is stronger than the godly run MA had from Altars allll the way to Gateways? Oh please "

 

[CiG]

I'm still figuring out exactly how I feel about The Chasm, I've been listening to Morbid Angel most of my life though and there's never been a Morbid Angel album I've truly felt satisfied with. Altars of Madness is an old favourite, Blessed Are the Sick is a flawed masterpiece with some issues I just can't get over, Covenant is another old favourite and then the next album I like a lot is Formulas Fatal to the Flesh which is a recent discovery for me so it has a nebulous position in my taste like The Chasm does.

Morbid Angel are a great classic band but they're far from being a favourite of mine, whereas The Chasm has this otherworldy weirdness to their sound that speaks exactly to what I like.

So in short, I don't see that run as "godly" to begin with.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

fair enough i guess. Phyllis level though, that's for sure

I think Altars, Blessed, Covenant, Formulas, Gateways, Abominations and even most of Domination absolutely destroy everything The Chasm have in their discography. One is/was a top tier band, the other is pretty much C level and always has been. A few members on this forum have convinced you guys otherwise though.

 

[CiG]

Nobody convinced me of anything, that's how I feel when I listen to the band. You'd think at this point I'd had enough out-crowd opinions that this meme of GMD brainwashing would be dropped. Morbid Angel albums still make it into my Top 10 lists, it's not like I'm throwing them in the trash.

Bolt Thrower obliterates all those bands anyway (probably controversial) and then Immolation comes along and clears away the rest.

This reminds me, we need to do 1989 already.