Technical Death Metal

[zoidberg]

listen to decollation or die

 

[AchrisK]

Cursed Lands? or something like that? I had that CD and I think I got rid of it.

 

[zoidberg]

cursed lands indeed.

 

[cookiecutter]

Ack, check out Intestinal Strangulation and Mindly Rotten. Brutal stuff but some seriously good guitar work as well.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

SICKENING HORROR

I bought When Landscapes Bled Backwards today...just uploaded the lyrics to Metal-Archives...some pretty disturbing, surrealist stuff!

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Checked out the Pavor songs on Myspace. I gotta say, that is one amazing band! I need to get their CDs!

bah! I've been meaning to buy their shit for so long!

SICKENING HORROR

I bought When Landscapes Bled Backwards today...just uploaded the lyrics to Metal-Archives...some pretty disturbing, surrealist stuff!

I really want to hear this. George is a fucking beast!

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Yep, he RULES on the album...I don't like Nile much, but he is definitely talented and kickass. Some cool jazz fills here and there.

Check out their fan-made Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sickeninghorrorfanclub

 

[AchrisK]

Ack, check out Intestinal Strangulation and Mindly Rotten. Brutal stuff but some seriously good guitar work as well.

Alright. I'll look into them. Thanks.

Sickening Horror sounds interesting too.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It is, definitely.

Pavor is fucking fantastic, also.

 

[Boiorix]

I don't see what the big deal about Sickening Horror is. Sure, it's got some fancypants drumming and (unnecessarily loud) masturbatory bass lines, but the meat of the songs are pretty standard modern death metal. Why is this cool again?

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Interesting concept (dark surrealist technical death metal with disturbing stream-of-thought lyric approach), good incorporation of outside influences (fitting in of industrial samples such as in "The Perfect Disease" and "Dark One Surreality"), and quite good musicianship. Also they don't extrapolate their songs at all; they keep them efficiently short and to-the-point, despite a quite disorienting way of structuring them (it's on purpose, trust me...the main man of the band, Ilias Darias, is a very intelligent guy who has constructed the entirety of the album to fit with its separate parts instead of just being "wanky").

Yes the bass is loud, yes there are jazz/flamenco breaks, yes it is not particularly mindblowing in the Gorguts sense (sticking in tech death here), but it is a very competent debut of well thought-out, ever-so-slightly innovative death metal, which I believe the genre and style desparately (emphasis here) needs...

 

[Boiorix]

Meh. The music itself is unremarkable, except for the superfluous grafted on parts. It's not overtly gay like Lykathea Aflame, but man, there are dozens of bands plying this same gray, featureless terrain.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Please recommend me more death metal bands with creepy, obtuse surrealist lyrics and industrial influence, because I'd love to hear the "dozens" doing it!!

It took me a few listens to get into the album; once you can tell the songs apart (most death metal begins as same-y to hardened fans, which is understandable), it becomes a rather fluid experience to listen to, and the technicality is no longer an obstacle, but a necessary part of the whole concept which contributes to it.

 

[Boiorix]

Please recommend me more death metal bands with creepy, obtuse surrealist lyrics

Lyrics? Nigga, this be death metal, who gives a shit about lyrics?

and industrial influence, because I'd love to hear the "dozens" doing it!!

There are a million bands that have fucking samples in them, so what? Death metal begins and ends with the guitar lines, everything else is window dressing and elaboration. The guitar lines sound like every other dissonantly harmonized modern death metal act. It's not terrible, but it's pretty generic nonetheless.

 

[DarkBliss]

Everyone's favorite nigga is back.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Lyrics? Nigga, this be death metal, who gives a shit about lyrics?

Nigga, someone who wants to take the art as an entire package. What a cop out for an ANUS buddy

There are a million bands that have fucking samples in them, so what? Death metal begins and ends with the guitar lines, everything else is window dressing and elaboration. The guitar lines sound like every other dissonantly harmonized modern death metal act. It's not terrible, but it's pretty generic nonetheless.

You missed the point of mine where I mentioned in a previous post that the samples incorporate into the songs themselves; they are not cheesy movie samples we're talking about...they're PARTS of the music itself.

Anyway, if you're going to be a total retard about this and keep dodging my points and saying stupid things, it is not worth it to deal with you anymore.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

because they suck

 

[AchrisK]

After all that I am only more intruiged by Sickening Horror.

 

[Boiorix]

Nigga, someone who wants to take the art as an entire package.

The 'entire package' in music consists of the MUSIC (including vocals), lyrics are window dressing, especially when they are (as in this case), unintelligible without a lyric sheet in hand. If you want to read, get a book.

You missed the point of mine where I mentioned in a previous post that the samples incorporate into the songs themselves

Again, so what? At that point, you're managing a technique so advanced that Akercocke and Deathspell Omega can pull it off. Whoopdeefuckindoo. None of this changes the fact that, aside from surface novelty, there's nothing going on here that isn't at work in pretty much every modern death metal recording. We've heard these same chord voicings in the same basic patterns a million times. What's here to make someone who has already heard this shit stand up and take notice?

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Considering I (and others I know) have noticed it (that which elevates this band to a status of "this is worth listening to multiple times") and already listen to plenty of modern death metal, I'd say you're outnumbered on this one. It sounds like one of the members raped your dog or something by the way you're talking about them. In any case, must every new band do something completely off-the-wall original in order to impress you? If so, why are you even here? Go to a metal board that moreso discusses bands who have already perfected everything you enjoy.

Music as art requires lyrics, album packaging, and other auxiliary components to form a cohesive whole intellectual product. This argument sucks and is now about ice cream. I enjoy coffee ice cream, but some people dislike it. What is your taste and do you enjoy mine (that is to say, coffee ice cream)?