The Official Old School Death Metal Thread

[skeptik]

Torchure are great indeed with two high-quality albums under their belt.Beyond the Veil is a masterpiece. If it weren't for the bad production on The Essence I probably would've loved it as much as BtV

That's odd, I've never had any problems with the production on that album.

Anyway, everyone should be listening to Morgue - Eroded Thoughts, Mortuary - Blackened Images, Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom, Afflicted - Prodigal Sun, and Transgressor - Recollected Limbs.

 

[Solipsist]

Afflicted - Prodigal Sun.

Ah yes, solid old-school example of tech-death... i'll be sure to check out the others you recommended too sometime.

O yea, anobody who loves classic Therion (as in their death metal era) should check out yet another underrated DM band from Germany called the Lemming Project (two albums, "Extinction" and "Hate and Despise").

 

[Slayed Necros]

I approve of the last three posts.

Lemming Project is massively underrated.

Any of you heard Mythic? Savage, brutally heavy Death-Doom, with an all female line-up. This girl growls lower than many male contemporaries. Unforunately they only released a few demos and an EP, but it's all well worth investigating.
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[More Murder]

I am dying to hear Lemming Project, but no one on soulseek has them.

 

[CF87]

I bought Lemming Project 'hate and despise' at an FYE used for very cheap. I probably would not consider it death metal, they sound like a really heavy pissed off groove metal band mixed with hardcore/punk or something. The first lemming project vocally and musically sounds more like death metal.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I'm usually sharing both their albums, but I'm having some problems with the PC currently. I'll have them up in a few days. Soulseek name is Macabre End.

 

[swizzlenuts]

Hate and Despise is good, fairly weird death metal.

Mythic rules.

 

[CF87]

Yeah. Psychostasia is weirder and more whacked out than Slumber of Sullen Eyes, but not as out there as Nesphite.

Psychostasia is probably what Demigod's follow up to slumber of sullen eyes would have sounded like. Demigod does not really seem productive at all so they never got around to making another good album.

 

[Hatebreeder]

Listen to Cadaver's ...In Pains then. It fucking rules

Yes, yes it does.

Atrocity's "Hallucinations"/"Todessehnsucht" and Phlebotomized "Immense Intense Suspense" are also magnificent. I swear, the third one is nothing short of mystical.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Am I the only one that thinks Suffocation isn't really old school at least in terms of sound?

 

[Life Sucks]

Am I the only one that thinks Suffocation isn't really old school at least in terms of sound?

No. They sound more like a brutal death metal band. In fact, they were probably the most important band to influence the modern brutal death metal sound.

 

[Solipsist]

Am I the only one that thinks Suffocation isn't really old school at least in terms of sound?

I get what you mean, seeing how their sound had much of the characteristics that would go to define the more rhythmic modern types of death metal. I think it was with their album, Pierced From Within that really broke ties with them being labeled "old-school" though... the Human Waste EP I think contains their best material however.

On a side note, the only thing I do not like about Phlebotomized's "Immense Intense Suspense" are the occasional "group shouts" that pop up in some songs (which bring up thoughts of lame football rallies and shit like that), but other than that, the cd is wonderful.

 

[Life Sucks]

I think it was with their album, Pierced From Within that really broke ties with them being labeled "old-school" though.

Actually, Effigy of the Forgotten is more of a pure brutal death metal album than Peirced. It is the archetypical brutal dm album.

 

[CF87]

I have been listening to Asphyx 'the rack' a lot lately. This album pretty much defines crushing death metal. Death metal years later still is not this crushing and morbid.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Holland had one of the most impressive death metal scenes in the early 90's.
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[Mr_Haze]

I have been listening to Asphyx 'the rack' a lot lately. This album pretty much defines crushing death metal. Death metal years later still is not this crushing and morbid.

Not many albums have a sound and riffs that solid.

 

[DarkBliss]

Holland had one of the most impressive death metal scenes in the early 90's.
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I agree, The only band I can't get into is Sinister. I've heard Cross The Styx, Hate and Diabolical Summoning but they all sound bland to my ears

 

[Slayed Necros]

I agree, The only band I can't get into is Sinister. I've heard Cross The Styx, Hate and Diabolical Summoning but they all sound bland to my ears

Fair enough. I particularly enjoy Cross The Styx. It's one of the few death metal albums with regular blastbeats that I can tolerate.

 

[Killbot]

Holland had one of the most impressive death metal scenes in the early 90's.
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Pestilence ftw. Although their best stuff was released in the 80's.

 

[cookiecutter]

Am I the only one that thinks Suffocation isn't really old school at least in terms of sound?

I don't think they sound old school. As Life Sucks said, Effigy of the Forgotten created Brutal Death metal.