Death Metal/
 

Can anyone recommend me some good death metal?
Or something really heavy whatever.

NECROPHAGIST.

The best death metal band I've heard.

Followed by Cryptopsy.

I was obsessed with death metal for months until I realized that most of it sounds the same, but I can honestly say the reccomendations I just gave you are the two best I heard.

The first album by Nile is pretty good, from what I remember.

Sepultura's Morbid Visions is amazing, and sort of laid down the template for lots of bands



Morbid Angel, Altars of Madness.



Slayer, Show No Mercy

The first two Carcass LPs are pretty damn awesome, actually.

Slayer & Napalm Death

entombed
nile
deicide
autopsy
necrophagist

More more more!

From Poland, Vader - The Art of War.

Look at that album cover and tell me you're at least a bit curious to give it a listen

If you can stand the sight (and indeed) smell of Norweigian black metal, then one of the first 4 Burzum albums may find favour.

Vader means dad in Dutch.

mellysingsdoom- Yeah I know plenty of black metal bands but I was looking for some death metal

Darkthrone's first one would classify as death metal more than black metal I guess.

Apparently justin broadrick said that the ideal guitar sound he can think of was featured on old Obituary albums. I listened to their myspace songs but wasn't all that excited about them. Are they worth checking out more thoroughly?

I dunno if i'd class slayer as death metal.
The BEST death metal by far is dreaming with the dead by ripping corpse. Other good bands are nile, demigod, obituary atheist and nuclear death. I prefer thrash metal though.

ok, let's see:

-morbid angel: altars of madness is awesome for pure classic death metal.
-deicide, either get something really early or one of their latest
-carcass: their first four albums are fantastic.
-cannibal corpse: i know it's kinda unpopular to say it but i like their latest as opposed to their oldest.
-entombed - left hand path for some horror movie-influenced dm
-i can't recommend cryptopsy enough, one of the best ever!!!
-suffocation: most of their output, amazing, technical yet very very brutal.
-tipping your toes on grindcore here but terrorizer's world downfall.
-i don't listen to much obituary but they have their moments, especially early on.
-at the gates - slaughter of the soul
-immolation - harnessing ruin
-behemoth - demigod
-nile, although i wasn't so into their most recent.
-hate eternal - king of all kings
-benighted - identisick (sounds quite similar to early obituary but it's just amazingly executed)
-angel corpse - the inexhorable

They got rid of Lord Worm now...
"Cryptopsy is currently looking to audition candidates to fill the positions of "Singer/Frontman" and "Keyboardist/Sampler".

Singers must be able to sing in clean voice, on pitch, and also be able to scream/growl."

With the "clean voice, on pitch," I assume that means... they're going downhill...

*Mind, I'm not very familiar with them, I just know this, and death metal + clean vocals = pretty shitty almost always...

ohh shit!!! cryptopsy is going to suck now!!!

oh yeah, and necrophagist are really awesome too.

check out Slowly We Rot

Hey check out this Death/Black Metal band from London, Akercocke, they kick serious ass.

Forgive the off-topiciness of this post, but the two best ever sentences on wikipedia are on the death metal page:



Anyhow, does anybody else find heavy metal genre distinctions incredibly confusing? What makes a death metal a death metal and not a thrash metal?

I've never been too much into death metal, but Altars of Madness from Morbid Angel is a classic and compulsory listening in the genre. Can't go wrong with early Sepultura either (until Arise, then they're moving away from death). Slayer isn't death.

That's hilarious. Seems like it's been written by a 14-year-old (or someone with the mindset of a 14-year-old) for who it's some competition about who's listening to the most extreme music.
I agree that it's confusing. I'm not an expert at all, but to me death metal is a bit of an extension on thrash metal from the early 80's. it just takes thrash more to the extreme, both in music and vocals. The vocals are more extreme (grunts) compared with most thrash metal, plus the lyrics are a lot more morbid... but it's not always easy to differentiate. 80's Sepultura is a bit hard to define as thrash or death as it seems to be somewhere in between. They took the thrash from Slayer and went on from that, until they started using punk/hardcore elements on Chaos AD etc.

there's a distinctive ambience going thru a black metal song, whether death metal is really aggressive and challenging guitar music.

there's some death metal bands that put a lot of black metal bands to shame, in terms of heaviness and there's a lot of wimpy black metal (dimmu borgir, cradle of filth, anyone?). my point is, there are different in the end, one can't really be all "ohh this is heavier!!" "no, this is!!". fucking pointless.

SADUS (a vision of misery, elements of anger, out for blood)



CORONER (mental vortex, grin, coroner)

coroner is thrash, although with prog influences, not unlike voivod. yeah, mental vortex is awesome.

i'm seeing sadus with obituary in like a week.

ps: anyone here ever heard zyklon? it's samoth from emperor's death metal band, i've read mostly good reviews but have never found someone who actually have listened to them.

How did I forgot zyklon. Get world ov worms, it is the 2nd best death metal album in my opinion. They are so brutal live as well.

Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
Suffocation - Despise The Sun
Immolation - Close To A World Below

That must be the best nickname I've ever seen.

i would say that death metal is an extension of grindcore too, these two strands meet somewhere in the middle to form death metal

Unless I'm very much mistaken, the greatest of them all haven't been listed yet:




Death - Leprosy. One of the heaviest records of all time.
Download Pull The Plug




Exodus - Bonded By Blood. A thrash classic. Think Metallica's Kill 'Em All... but twice as fierce.
Download No Love

Both classics!!

bonded by blood is one of my all time favorites, i like it more than anything slayer have ever released. reverb and all.

Entombed - Clandestine


Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene


Gorguts - Obscura

And if you like technical DM that is still dark and discordant then check out my band Ulcerate

http://www.myspace.com/ulcerate

I saw Zyklon once. I liked it a lot at the show, but Emperor is more my style for general listening.

ohh fuck!! that takes me back!!! i haven't seen that album in fucking 15 years...i actually can't remember the music in it.

the differences between death metal and black metal are pretty distinctive
also slayer is totally a thrash band.

i dont know much death metal, except a little where it crosses into grind territory so i dont have much to suggest.

Pestilence rule dude. You could argue that its thrash but frankly its so damn aggressive and heavy that it couldnt be anything other then death metal. In fact it trolloped a lot of 'death metal' releases into the ground in terms of heaviness when it came out in '88. Testimony of the Ancients rules too, but not as raw as Consuming Impulse

GORGUTS - OBSCURA

will probably be my next "classics album" post.