Others, like Atheist, blend in a fusion of prog-rock, funk, jazz and mathematically complex rhythms that defy easy categorization. Some death metal bands prefer to stick to a pretty raw and searing variation on thrash metal.
They did, more or less, invent death ‘n’ roll, after all - listen to “ Revel in Flesh” and tell me that’s not a hoot and a half. But more than simply making ugly sounds more efficiently, Entombed found a proper balance between fun and fury. A quick listen to the title track on Left Hand Path, and it’s pretty obvious that Slayer were highly instrumental in informing their menacing muck, but Entombed took that thrash metal template and made it extra laser focused, with an even more noxious level of overdrive compressing their crusty elements into their own vile diamonds. The group clearly wore their crust punk influence a little more brazenly than several other deathmongers, and typically played at speeds highly unsafe for the novice metalhead. Stockholm’s Entombed is responsible for pioneering one of the most simultaneously filth-encrusted and yet somehow streamlined guitar sounds in all of metal. The album is a death metal classic, not just because it hams up the blasphemy, but because it merely rocks so damn hard. On their debut full-length, Altars of Madness, almost all of Morbid Angel’s tracks end up blasting into a relentless sprint, as if chasing down the innocents with their hell-born sonic creations. Much like their peers in Death, Morbid Angel’s sound was deeply indebted to the extra-Satanic thrash metal sound of Slayer, as well as UK black metal precursors Venom, not to mention grindcore pummelers like Napalm Death. Oh, and that’s a good thing, if you couldn’t tell. – JTĮxcuse me, waiter? There are demons in my soup! Tampa-based death metal pioneers Morbid Angel wore evil on their album sleeves proudly, and in their lyrics, song titles and just the general onslaught of vile filth they vomited forth. There’s an uncompromising assault on “Eternal War,” groovy riff action on “ Through the Eyes of Terror,” and even a touch of doom on “All That Remains.” And if you dig this one, their other seven albums are pretty rockin’ too. But Realm of Chaos was their first great album, and thus stands as a proper introduction to the English bulldogs. Picking a starting point for the band, however, can almost be done totally blindly, as just about all of their albums feature a similar ratio of grooves to roars to nasty-sounding distortion and nigh-grind breakdowns. It’s a pretty logical progression, actually, and in the case of Bolt Thrower, one that worked out pretty great for them in the long run.
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The end result is a palatable dozen tracks that provide a clinic on how to deliver death metal effectively and efficiently.- CGĬoventry, England’s Bolt Thrower, much like every other UK death metal band worth their salt (Carcass, Napalm Death) began as a grindcore band, but eventually opted to slow down their breakneck blasts in favor of getting down, dirty and guttural. He screams bloody gore left and right, but he does so with purpose. To top it all off, Schuldiner’s voice has personality, a tone that emotes beyond mere screaming. The end result is a collection of tight, no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point songs about zombies, corpses, mutilation, and so on. The first three words on the first song, “ Infernal Death,” are “die,” “die,” and “die.” What makes Death stand out is the lack of pretense: the songs are modest in length, the main riffs display punk-like simplicity, and guitar solos, while well-executed, are brief. Every second of Death’s 1987 debut Scream Bloody Gore is designed to make arm hair stand on end when listening on record, and make all limbs flail in angst-driven moshing when listening live. This band was not going to ride the new wave of death metal Death was going to legitimize it. The late Chuck Schuldiner didn’t leave any room for misinterpretation when he formed Death in the mid-’80s. But the 10 essential death metal albums we chose most certainly rule. Since we limited it to 10, we had to leave out a lot of favorites (Asphyx, The Crown and Cynic, just to name a few). But this weekend marks the annual Maryland Deathfest, which isn’t entirely death metal in nature, yet still puts an emphasis on the super heavy and, if you will, “br00tal.” In the spirit of getting ghoulish and vile, we put together a list of our favorite death metal albums. Some years have passed since death metal was in its prime, though it’s as brutal and ugly as ever, even if many of the pioneers have either moved on or changed course.
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