SONG SURVIVOR: Dissection - The Somberlain - Round 2

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Dissection - The Somberlain - 1993

VOTE FOR YOUR THREE LEAST FAVORITE TRACKS

AND REMEMBER, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE YOUR PICKS

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Thirty Years Later, Dissection’s The Somberlain Stands the Test of Time

Today, we honor this great masterpiece!

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Essential Black Metal Listening: DISSECTION The Somberlain

By 1993, the Norwegian black metal scene was engaged in an all-out, lo-fi war with mainstream death metal and the society that condoned it. Dissection, forming in Sweden, didn't have much choice but to fraternize with death metal's royalty (they shared a practice space with At the Gates). Like many

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[TechnicalBarbarity]

A Land Forlorn is an easy choice for me here. But picking any of the other tracks is like deciding which finger to cut off.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

The title track and Mistress of the Bleeding Sorrow have always been my two clear favorites from this album, so actually pretty easy for me

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@WorldObliteration33 @Bourbon @rms @Baroque @Vegard Pompey @challenge_everything @Atomic Tide @Serjeant Grumbles @zerostatic @EchoForever @dwellerINTHEdark @HamburgerBoy @EternalMetal

 

[rms]

What the hell are people listening to black metal for if they're favorite track is Black Horizons ??


And what the hell is wrong with A Land Forlorn...what a tune.

 

[no country for old wainds]

What the hell are people listening to black metal for if they're favorite track is Black Horizons ??

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

rms' wisdom definitely isnt wide. He stares into the night when his vision isn't clear.

Black Horizons is imo not only the best Dissection song, but the greatest black metal track ever.

 

[CiG]

Yeah but it has one clean vocal in it, therefore what the hell are people listening to black metal for????

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yeah but it has one clean vocal in it, therefore what the hell are people listening to black metal for????

Pssshhhh. Its obviously a King Diamond cover track brah. YoU doNt hEaR iT?

I just hope he doesnt try to push the lame and completely incorrect "but its melodeath" argument here, especially after praising the one track on the album that comes closest to being melodic death metal(which it still isnt)

 

[rms]

rms' wisdom definitely isnt wide. He stares into the night when his vision isn't clear.

Black Horizons is imo not only the best Dissection song, but the greatest black metal track ever.

Wow, that three minute interlude does not make it even the best track on the album for me. I am getting an ATG vibe, but that's a SUB genre I never listen to.

Dissection should be melodic death, rather than black.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Wow, that three minute interlude does not make it even the best track on the album for me. I am getting an ATG vibe, but that's a SUB genre I never listen to.

What three minute interlude?

And wainds was probably 8 when he wrote that, not 48 like you ... so he gets a pass

 

[rms]

What three minute interlude?

And wainds was probably 8 when he wrote that, not 48 like you ... so he gets a pass

21 fucking years on this forum. What a wild man.

Only 35 over here!

Like 4:10 to 7:10 is what I'll call the interlude. I think I was wrong about A Land Forlorn, but I guess the small majority at GMD likes this album for an entirely different reason than myself

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

21 fucking years on this forum. What a wild man.

Yeah man, he's seen the abyss and all that lies within.

Im just ribbing you man. All the tracks rule anyway, no wrong choices here.

 

[no country for old wainds]

yeaa the somberlain is straight meloblack to me. i was probably talking more about SotLB which has way more of a pronounced trad metal influence, although i don't think of it as 'melodeath' these days.

 

[no country for old wainds]

and yeah i was 15 when i posted that:

 

[rms]

yeaa the somberlain is straight meloblack to me. i was probably talking more about SotLB which has way more of a pronounced trad metal influence, although i don't think of it as 'melodeath' these days.

I think I googled "somberlain melo death" to see if there was some big argument over this and that thread was like the third hit

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

and yeah i was 15 when i posted that:
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You looked like a young Chuck Schuldiner in the top pic and a young Sean Penn in the bottom one. Now you look like Bentley from The Jeffersons.

 

[CiG]

I totally see the Schuldiner resemblance.

 

[no country for old wainds]

it's because i have leprosy.

 

[CiG]

Is that slang for chin pimples?