Death Metal - Metalcore - Deathcore - Grindcore - DUNNOCORE

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THEMATICS RADIO - SWEDISH METAL SPECIAL

PLAYLIST - 12th September 2009

General Surgery - Necrocriticism
Birdflesh - Deathgore of the Fleshmaster
Sayyadina - The Great Blackout
The Arson Project - Salvation-Virus
From The Ashes - Let Them Burn
From The Ashes - Money For Pain
From The Ashes - This Can't Go On...But it Will
Asterisk* - Iron Head Palestine
Asterisk* - Another Dane Law Carved in French
Nasum - Particles
Nasum - It's Never Too Late
Nasum - Du är Bevakad
Gadget - God of Led
Splitter - Vidriga Skam
Regurgitate - Testicular Trauma
Retaliation - Hearse
Retaliation - Triumph and Beast
Sewn Shut - Charred Remains
Sewn Shut - Fall To Extinction
Crowpath - Hellbound
Exhale - Hatet
Hypocrisy - Suffering Souls
Grave - Hating Life
Dismember - Case #Obscene
Entombed - Eyemaster
Nihilist - Carnal Leftovers
Unleashed - Dead Forever
Amon Amarth - Death in Fire
Bathory - Return of the Darkness and Evil
Dark Funeral - 666 Voices Inside
Watain - On Horns Impaled
Marduk - The Fleshly Void
Lord Belial - Night Divine
Crimson Moonlight - My Grief, My Remembrance
Nefandus - Twofold Star of Saturnalia Solstice
Sorhin - Dàr Ukkt Svunnet Ur, Där Ingenting Ur Ullt
The Haunted - Choke Hold
Raised Fist - Between the Demons
Cult Of Luna - Dark Side of the Sun
New Keepers Of The Water Towers - The Knowledgeable Kangaroo
Forest Of Shadows - Bleak Dormition

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[jjopara]

i love metal to the bone. too many bands to list. just waiting on new albums.

[tomm]

I'm bored so I'm gonna chat aimlessly about Death Metal tunes new and old (and maybe some powerviolence and grindcore 'cause we love the rapid thrashy punk too, of course!)

So, recently there's been a huge revival in the Old School Death Metal sound. I first became aware of this regressive glory when I stumbled across one of my favourite releases back in '05. Dead Congregation, some unknown band from Greece, put out a tape called Purifying Consecrated Ground. I nabbed this on Soulseek and quickly bought that tape (now have it on CD, vinyl and their recent '08 full-length on vinyl). Here's a track entitled Auguring An Eternal War.


Pretty slick, huh? Well they put out their debut full-length in '08, like I said, and it was just sublime. Probably the best Death Metal I had heard in a long, long time. Here's a stunning track that's just as atmospheric, blisteringly fast and brutal:


Fucking hell, those riffs are insane! I hadn't felt that feeling listening to a Death Metal track since the time I first bought Cryptopsy's None So Vile!

And then came 2009 and we were treated to not just one or two great releases but enough to actually form a top 10 of great material. Funebrarum (members of funeral/death doom band Evoken) put out The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams which is slow, dark, chugging, heavy THEN insane, rapid and awesome:


but we also had material from a new band named Vorum. Proper old school sounding material that reminds me of a great '92 release by Morpheus Descends. It's fast, brutal and everything you want from a Death Metal release. It's a short EP called "Grim Death Awaits". Here's the title track:


Then there was Teitanblood who I had been keeping an eye on. Being the big Black Metal fan that I am, I always like to keep on top of Norma Evangelium Diaboli's releases and when I heard Teitanblood were working on an album I was mad excited. They're a Black/Death Metal band which essentially comes across as atmospheric Death Metal with really sick, atypical vocals (black metal sans shriek). The lofi production works well since it's done right too:





Okay, now the new has been fractionally covered, here's some older classics that I won't go into depth with but they need a mention 'cause they're all so awesome.

At The Gates - Kingdom Gone


Morpheus Descends - Corpse Under Glass


Dark Millennium - Inside The Sunburnt Thoughts Of Frost (my favourite Death Metal track ever)


Afflicted - Tidings From The Bluesphere


Baphomet - Torn Soul


Gorguts - Obscura (technical Death Metal without being a poncy, limp wankfest)


Uncanny - Screaming In Phobia




Okay, that was lengthy. Anyone want me to do one of these for Grindcore, Powerviolence, Hardcore Punk, Screamo/Emoviolence, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Doom (Sludge, Trad, Drone, Death, Funeral) or any other heavy genre?

[tomm]

doppelgee post there

[Lurka]

yes tomm do a grindcore one!

[tomm]

Grindcore: essentially Hardcore Punk played by sweaty metalheads that liked things simple, heavy, fast and brutal.

The most important band to Grindcore was Boston Hardcore Punk band Siege. Their demo tape/album "Drop Dead" came out in '84 (two years before the Repulsion album was recorded & three years prior to Scum being released). Here's a track:


yeaaaaahhhhhhhh

The of course we have, as mentioned before, two absolute classics! Repulsion who were one of the first bands to play Death Metal/Grindcore and probably the most influential Grindcore band aside from Siege.


And secondly, the most highly revered Grindcore album of all time: Napalm Death - Scum. Here's a track entitled Human Garbage from the first half of the LP (the standard tuning side [arguably better than the downtuned second side]). It's really as good as it gets:


So, essential stuff covered. And a year after Scum we had another British band with a new debut album. Carcass were related to Napalm Death. Their guitarist recorded the second half of Scum (the non-J Broadrick side) before their awesome album "Reek Of Putrefaction".


More short tracks, lots of bass and general awesome grindy heaviness!

My final pick for British classic Grindcore would be Extreme Noise Terror. They stayed true to the Punk ethic behind Grindcore and played really stupidly fast and brutal Crust that basically came across as Grindcore.




Breaking away from the UK scene, we also had a lot of cool stuff happening in America around about the time Carcass brought out their debut full-length. In '89 we had two of my personal favourites making some pretty fucking sick material. Terrorizer, after a run of demos, put out "World Downfall".


And Assück had their first EP Necroslavation.





From there things start to get a little bit silly so I'm just gonna post a list of really awesome Grindcore tracks.

Benümb - Cesspool of Human Sewage


Iron Lung - Complications


Yacopsae - Frost


Nasum - There's No Escape


Anal tnuc - Art cigarette (LOL so shit it's great)


Asterisk* - Stasis Is Death


Brutal Truth - Birth Of Ignorance


Phobia - Who's The Enemy


Discordance Axis - Radiant Arkham


Magrudergrind - Bridge Burner


Insect Warfare - Self Termination




Okay, that should do for just now. I can do individual album rec's if you guys want (couldn't really find a lot of stuff I wanted to on youtube). Hope people keep interested in the finer side to heavy music.

[ultraspatial]

some classics


"Spheres" is a perfect album imo.

[particle-jim]

Sikth
Despised Icon
Between the Buried and Me
Born of Osiris
Veil of Maya
The Faceless
Ion Dissonance
War from a Harlots Mouth
The Boy Will Drown
Beneath the Massacre

Generally on the more technical end of the spectrum but there are a couple of more hardcore influenced ones in there too

[Dead Rats]

I haven't listened to a new metal album in about 2-3-4 years, now.

[particle-jim]

I haven't listened to a new metal album in about 2-3-4 years, now.

Me neither really, thats mostly just stuff i was listening to about 2 years ago, the only exception is BTBAM, I can always make time for them, saw them at the Underworld last year and they played their album "colors" (my fave album ever) in it's entirety... It's a strong contender for best night of music ever (system and the many cardiacs gigs i've been to are also contenders)

[ultraspatial]

new Spawn of Possession album is really good

[wubstep]

Last page has been rad, been meaning to listen to more Iron Lung for an age, albums?

Need a better general metal thread though;



Can barely read it here but all about the very bottom stage. Like how they've got it laid out by genre pretty much. Valley stage all weekend near enough, bar Nasum, Entombed & Arson Anthem!

[particle-jim]

new Spawn of Possession album is really good

I'll check it out, a mate played me some of their stuff before and i enjoyed it, never bothered to investigate any further than that though

[ultraspatial]

Last page has been rad, been meaning to listen to more Iron Lung for an age, albums?

Need a better general metal thread though

Just death metal, doom, sludge etc or metal in general?

[Duffman]

That's as heavy as it gets for me. Although I am partial to a bit of core like Converge, Botch, BTBAM.

[Killamike49]

THE NEW FACELESS ALBUM IS FINALLY GOING TO COME OUT THIS YEAR. Thank god. I'm going to catch them at summer slaughter again. I wish Veil of Maya's new album was fire. It's pretty standard, but i can't really find a fault with it. Anyone know of a cannibal corpse tour coming up? My google powers are school-locked. Haha.
And i really need to get back into deathcore. Oceano and their bass bombs. Doesn't the new vocalist for ABRB suck or something? Fuck i'm glad someone bumped this thread.

[ultraspatial]

THE NEW FACELESS ALBUM IS FINALLY GOING TO COME OUT THIS YEAR. Thank god. I'm going to catch them at summer slaughter again. I wish Veil of Maya's new album was fire. It's pretty standard, but i can't really find a fault with it. Anyone know of a cannibal corpse tour coming up? My google powers are school-locked. Haha.
And i really need to get back into deathcore. Oceano and their bass bombs. Doesn't the new vocalist for ABRB suck or something? Fuck i'm glad someone bumped this thread.

Tbh you ain't missing much. Oceano's second album is nowhere near as good as Depths. They went down that srs death metal 2nd album route...
Whitechapel is the only deathcore band I'm still excited about tbh. Ok, maybe Carnifex too.

[Dead Rats]

Jesus fucking Christ. Looking back at my preferred taste in metal in this thread is frankly embarrassing. Calling BMTH's new album good with 'little electronic elements, not overused'...it's like I don't know the tnuc who wrote that.

I wonder if my taste has DEVELOPED or I've just become more critical of the things I listen to...hmm...

[Duffman]

I was wondering whether you would come back and condemn your first post

[Dead Rats]

Condemn your MUM, mate, she's had more bums than a second-hand toilet seat.