The Best Death Metal Band
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Morbid Angel would probably be the best death metal band if their last two cds did not exist.
If Cryptopsy broke up after 1996 they would be one of the best death metal bands. Now they fall way down on my list.
If Cryptopsy broke up after 1996 they would be one of the best death metal bands. Now they fall way down on my list.
lastthrash
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My picks...
1. Vader
2. Suffocation
3. Malevolent Creation
4. Grave
5. Morbid Angel
6. Death
7. Obiturary
8. Behemoth (now-a-days, Demigod deserves a place on the map)
9. Brujeria
10. Immolation
1. Vader
2. Suffocation
3. Malevolent Creation
4. Grave
5. Morbid Angel
6. Death
7. Obiturary
8. Behemoth (now-a-days, Demigod deserves a place on the map)
9. Brujeria
10. Immolation
Md Player
Demons race into my eyes
Profanity
The Post Master
ENTOMBED
the sound of Swedish Death Metal. The unique blend which makes Swedish DM. This band has expanded the genre and took it to new heights.
CARCASS
the proof that melody can help create a DM atmosphere. Unmatched ferocity which hammers out a machine code of intricacies.
THERION
FLESHCRAWL
the sound of Swedish Death Metal. The unique blend which makes Swedish DM. This band has expanded the genre and took it to new heights.
CARCASS
the proof that melody can help create a DM atmosphere. Unmatched ferocity which hammers out a machine code of intricacies.
THERION
FLESHCRAWL
Erik
New Metal Member
Over the course of time? The Chasm
There is however a band with the talent and vision to challenge that throne at some point.
Crimson Massacre The Luster of Pandemonium
For me, the most disappointing aspect of the post-1996 devolution of extreme metal from a series of artistic movements into a collection of social "scenes" has been the loss of the sense of possibility that once pervaded black and death metal. No longer do I look forward to new artists bringing a fresh creative perspective. The best I have been able to hope for over the past few years is that established artists like the Chasm or Graveland don't fall into the creative obsolescence that eventually overtakes almost all artists.
So I can say I was more than pleasantly surprised to find a work of true genius like The Luster of Pandemonium coming from a band formed after the turn of the millennium. What Crimson Massacre have achieved here is nothing less than the complete re-imagining of the entire "technical" death metal subgenre, turning away from the usual displays of self-important wankery and toward a new vision of the nightmarish postmodern fragmentation of reality delivered at the absolute fringe of instrumental possibility.
There is real innovation at the level of technique here, as phrases are rendered in almost ludicrously hyperextended form, with absurdly complex melodic, harmonic and rhythmic interplay flashing past almost too rapidly for the mind to adequately reassemble what the ear hears. Structurally, songs are built around a narrative framework, but that framework is twisted and disturbing, with the clarity and elegance of Burzum or The Chasm exchanged for paranoid pyrotechnics of an almost Pynchonian sort.
The real genius of The Luster of Pandemonium lies in its ambivalence. Beauty is always crushed by dissonance, dissonance is subsumed by beauty, and resolution is never reached. Passages reveal an inner logic, but the expected conclusion is always deferred. Even the eleven minute accoustic epic "The Hyperborean's Epitaph" builds toward a sublime climax only to collapse into a tortured, wailing death keen that never ends, but simply fades away. Crimson Massacre find in life an inherent meaninglessness, but rather than hiding from it, embrace the chance to build their own meaning from the fragments of possibility, and, in an act of supreme artistic courage, invite you to do the same with through their music.
10/10
There is however a band with the talent and vision to challenge that throne at some point.
Crimson Massacre The Luster of Pandemonium
For me, the most disappointing aspect of the post-1996 devolution of extreme metal from a series of artistic movements into a collection of social "scenes" has been the loss of the sense of possibility that once pervaded black and death metal. No longer do I look forward to new artists bringing a fresh creative perspective. The best I have been able to hope for over the past few years is that established artists like the Chasm or Graveland don't fall into the creative obsolescence that eventually overtakes almost all artists.
So I can say I was more than pleasantly surprised to find a work of true genius like The Luster of Pandemonium coming from a band formed after the turn of the millennium. What Crimson Massacre have achieved here is nothing less than the complete re-imagining of the entire "technical" death metal subgenre, turning away from the usual displays of self-important wankery and toward a new vision of the nightmarish postmodern fragmentation of reality delivered at the absolute fringe of instrumental possibility.
There is real innovation at the level of technique here, as phrases are rendered in almost ludicrously hyperextended form, with absurdly complex melodic, harmonic and rhythmic interplay flashing past almost too rapidly for the mind to adequately reassemble what the ear hears. Structurally, songs are built around a narrative framework, but that framework is twisted and disturbing, with the clarity and elegance of Burzum or The Chasm exchanged for paranoid pyrotechnics of an almost Pynchonian sort.
The real genius of The Luster of Pandemonium lies in its ambivalence. Beauty is always crushed by dissonance, dissonance is subsumed by beauty, and resolution is never reached. Passages reveal an inner logic, but the expected conclusion is always deferred. Even the eleven minute accoustic epic "The Hyperborean's Epitaph" builds toward a sublime climax only to collapse into a tortured, wailing death keen that never ends, but simply fades away. Crimson Massacre find in life an inherent meaninglessness, but rather than hiding from it, embrace the chance to build their own meaning from the fragments of possibility, and, in an act of supreme artistic courage, invite you to do the same with through their music.
10/10
WNxScythe said:
Where Gorguts are such an amazing band musically, their ideology and lyrics don't strike me as powerful as that of Morbid Angel. And while Morbid Angel are not as technical as Gorguts, they are still great musicians. So overall, I must give the nod to Morbid Angel.
But of course, these threads are all defined by the individual, so there is no right answer.
Favorite bands:
The Chasm
Death
Morbid Angel
Favorite albums:
Possessed - Seven Churches
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
The Chasm
Death
Morbid Angel
Favorite albums:
Possessed - Seven Churches
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Carcassian
Utopian Blaster
Carcass - Necroticism (Best DM album ever).
I'm also very partial to early Entombed, Dismember, Morbid Angel, Nile, and especially Bolt Thrower. (oh, and VADER!!!)
Newer bands I like would be Blood Red Throne, Golem (de) and the newer direction of the Behemoth albums.
Liking Decapitated and Dies Irae (Pol) too.
I'm also very partial to early Entombed, Dismember, Morbid Angel, Nile, and especially Bolt Thrower. (oh, and VADER!!!)
Newer bands I like would be Blood Red Throne, Golem (de) and the newer direction of the Behemoth albums.
Liking Decapitated and Dies Irae (Pol) too.
the_Moor
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Helspyre
Member
Carcass, in my non-respected opinion, are the best. Other bands that deserve a mention are Autopsy, Rottrevore, Massacra, Carnage, Sinister (early), Impetigo, Grave, Bolt Thrower....
plaguewilder
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If we were talking about the first 4 albums Morbid Angel would be close to the top. Atheist is waaay up there also. Suffocation is pretty amazing as well.
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