Death Metal

[Zeno Marx]

a little more thrash...

Exumer - Possessed By Fire 1986 - German thrash - never heard it before this year - cool stuff, and you can hear that signature Kreator tom sound in the fills - if you crossed classic Teutonic thrash with Slayer and some of the more catchy elements of US/Bay area bands of the time - really good record - if I'd seen this in the racks at the time, from the front cover, I would have assumed they were another Exciter, but the GBH shirt on the back photo would have piqued my interest.

Schizo - Main Frame Collapse 1989 - Italian thrash - most of the songs are in the 2-4 minute range and benefit from it - another really good album I'd never heard - two words:  precision and speed.  *just now realized FOAD released their demos on LP+CD.

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss 1990 - I thought this was their last good record, but most of it hasn't aged well, even the songs I remember liking - never cared for South of Heaven.

[absurdexposition]

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss 1990 - I thought this was their last good record, but most of it hasn't aged well, even the songs I remember liking - never cared for South of Heaven.

Seasons is definitely their last good record, but it has some very weak points (like Dead Skin Mask). Lombardo is on fire on that record, though.

South of Heaven is great.

[PedestrianOrgans]

I prefer thrash that rides the line of death metal, but that's probably my personal distaste for typical "thrash vocals". The Tom Araya shouting crap has always rubbed me wrong...

[Zeno Marx]

Lombardo is on fire on that record, though.

right on!

[holy ghost]

Been on a real tear through the Grave Upheaval discography lately. I know the "cavernous" death metal is now longer the soup de jour but these fuckers could slap out some tunes - even if they were pretty short on RIFFS. Makes me want to re-listen to IRKALLIAN ORACLE again, I remember the drums on that last LP were totally sick. Did everyone in these bands loose the robes and start wearing bullet belts and chains and start playing bestial war metal? Maybe now Revenge are no longer kvlt we'll see a resurgence in this style? Who knows what 2021 will bring?

(probably more one man forest walking type stuff now that no one can jam anymore.....)

[drunk]

I recently found this channel on YT and been listening to tons of shit I never thought I would ever be able to find/listen, also remembering reading about so many of these old demos in old xerox zines I had in the 90's it brings me tears of fucking joy.

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdgoIUUre-_fnATBgQ52YsQ

Few things currently on rotation from there

EXMORTIS (USA/MD)- Descent Into Chaos Demo1988[FULL Demo]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UV_OUE7w6Q

INFESTER (USA/WA) Darkness Unveiled EP 1992 [FULL EP]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZbpMaDHeA8

EXCREMENT (FINLAND)- Flesh And Blood Demo 1993 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGscAoWGGfA

PUTRID DECAY(USA/MASS)` Feding Off The Dead Demo 1991 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7db3-blMclg

CROMLECH (USA/MN)- Graven Image Demo 1993 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyAfBYxRWwc

HELLPREACHER (USA/TX) Resurrection Demo 1986 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oocrVm52C70

MAGUS (USA/TX)- Lines That Formed Hexagrams Rehearsal 1992[FULL REHEARSAL]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7WHvZZO7gM

ETERNAL HATRED (USA/IL) Vengeance From The Grave Demo 1994 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3HgKbgaGM

MINDROT (USA/CA)- Faded Dream Promo Demo 1992 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggyPY9ycfUQ

DEATHRUNE (USA/NY) Memories Of The Exhumed Demo 1994 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phc_7PDmzPs

ROTTED (USA/WI) Instinctive Demise Demo 1996 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKYB1yfVx9c

SEPHIROTH (USA/IN)- Moon Sun Heavens & Earth EP 1994 [FULL EP]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfi1xUTCOjU

Now I need this cool as fuck artwork on a shirt


DISORDERED (USA/UT)- Within The Mind Of A Mortician Demo 1994 [FULL DEMO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BkbfS0ussk

So much more to listen to yet!

Also Tomb Mold FUCKING RULE. Whoever disagrees is a poser/hipster/cop/etc.

[drunk]

I don't think I like Cannibal Corpse.  I'd only ever heard the Hammer ? EP.  Got that for the covers.

I suggest to give Butchered at Birth a listen before discarding them completely dude.

[WhiteWarlock]

No Clue if this even fits in this thread...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsJC_U66Q3s
try some Aborted Christ Childe from the 90s Chicago scene...
miss that insaniacbrainiac Nandor & MarkR...  some strange days...

[Zeno Marx]

By way of Swedish HC comps, I ran into Visions.  Swedish death metal leaning towards Swedish HC.  Only two demos, and I've only heard those comp tracks and the first demo.  Can't find the second demo anywhere.  Recorded at Unisound with Dan Swano, so I guess they were trying for a career?  Followed up with the Uncanny discography and then Dellamorte's first album, which has some odd Pantera-esque vibes that I forgot it having.  The Swedes who had one foot in death metal and the other in their HC tradition usually have a great perspective.  I've always really dug Uncanny.  Then Interment...the demos are as cool as you'd expect.  The rebirth of Asocial with the House of Gore 7" is a solid take on deathy Swedish HC.  Soulside Journey.  Then it was just a rabbit hole back into Swedish HC demos and side projects like Fleshrevels and Price of Silence.  It all leads back to Dis-.

[impulse manslaughter]

Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness was one of my favorite records as a teenager. Remember in high-school I wrote a paper about Exhume to Consume for music lessons and used the lyrics for an assignment for English lessons. Saw them live in 92 and entering the huge pit was an adventure. After 15+ years of collecting dust on the shelves I played all their records non-stop over the last few days. Noticed on Discogs the first tape was reissued last year on LP. Need to pick it up I guess.

[Major Carew]

Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness was one of my favorite records as a teenager. Remember in high-school I wrote a paper about Exhume to Consume for music lessons and used the lyrics for an assignment for English lessons. Saw them live in 92 and entering the huge pit was an adventure. After 15+ years of collecting dust on the shelves I played all their records non-stop over the last few days. Noticed on Discogs the first tape was reissued last year on LP. Need to pick it up I guess.

A Carcass related question turned up on on the TV show Mastermind the other night, "What was John Peel's favourite album of 1988?" I had no idea it was 'Reek of Putrefaction'!

[CannibalRitual]

Probably some ugly self promotion and not even Death metal, but anyway here's the first CORPSE EATER full length, to be released on CD on Mortville Records as soon as my lazy ass got around to design the booklet:
https://mortuarygrinder.bandcamp.com/album/the-stench-of-mutilated-corpses

[holy ghost]

Haven't heard much new DM that's tickled my fancy but the new Undergang is really good.

I recall Fetid and/or Cerebral Rot may have records this year.

Miasmatic Necrosis sound great - I paused on ordering the LP when it came out and it's now hella OOP.

Also picked up the Spectral Voice compilation, I have most of the tracks but the bonus 7" with the Metallica cover is actually pretty slick!

[Ashmonger]

Late to the party obviously, but I finally got Death - Scream Bloody Gore. I had heard it before of course, but anyway, glad to finally have it, good Death Metal!
Aside from that my interest in Death Metal is rather small, so I can't say much about new bands at the moment.

[holy ghost]

Miasmatic Necrosis sound great - I paused on ordering the LP when it came out and it's now hella OOP.

Apparently repressed so get it while you can!

Speaking of Death I watched that documentary, really depressing. Seems like he was such a difficult person to work with. No one really said anything "bad" about him but no one really said anything good about him either except for the guy who ran Morrisound Studio. It was like two hours of people talking about how they had been fired or screwed over in some way.