FromTheThicketNZ

Still good to know there's somewhere you can play when you manage to scrape together some band members.

Thanks heaps Will! Thats awesome to hear. 

Hey welcome to the forum 

Thanks FatherAlabaster. Heres a few death metal bands im into:
The classics: Death, cannibal corpse, obituary, morbid angel, Entombed (early), Carcass, At the gates, malevolent creation, suffocation, immolation.
The Polish Beasts: Decapitated (amazing band but sadly ive been less impressed with their post organ halucinosis releases), Behemoth, Lost Soul (also polish and far more technical).
Technical Death Metal: Necrophagist, Neuraxis (underrated band from Canada), aborted, beyond creation, augury, anomalous (not well known but check out their album equivalent - its awesome), The faceless (first two albums, not so much later stuff), obscura, psycroptic, blotted science (instrumental but will appeal to tech death fans).
Modern death metal: Meshuggah (absolute gods imo and a huge influence on me), revocation (thrashy influence, amazing riffs and solos), vildhjarta (djent but rooted in death metal) humanitys last breath (as above), gorguts (huge influence on me) articial brain (gorguts esque/ experimental), fallujah, thy art is murder (modern stuff is death metal imo), ulcerate (amazing band from new New Zealand), Death spell omega (not technically a DM band but thought id include).
Im a big fan of stuff that has dissonance with a sense of unconventional sense of harmony and melody and love those odd rhythms! 
I have got into the djent stuff but agree the scene is pretty formulaic now. John browne (monuments) writes awesome riffs, and Tosin Abasi (Animals as leaders) is a phenominal player and composer.
Those are a few of the big bands i can think of. Many more but need more time to list them all..
 

Hey good people, 
I've been working on an album for my project From The Thicket. I know genre labels are always a point of contention but I'd say my work draws a lot from groove oriented bands (e.g. meshuggah, vildhjarta) and dissonant/strange death metal bands like Gorguts. 
The Album has 13 tracks completed, and I'm currently working on improving the production. I play guitar and bass, and use Ezdrummer for the drums. Its all mixed and mastered by me. I haven't got vocals on this one but I have used scream samples in parts and other voice samples, to fill that void. In the future I'd love to have a full band with a vocalist, however, right now its all about crafting a sound and seeing if I can generate interest.
I've also made my own videos. I love making this stuff so I hope some of you guys enjoy it!
For anyone wondering, the name is actually the meaning behind the name "Bruce". That was my father's name and he sadly passed away In March this year after a battle with cancer. This project is dedicated to him and I've included a few references to him/his illness in the song titles. 
 
From The Thicket Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_51cmaF6u4Lb-_yQ-WBhnA
From The Thicket Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/fromthethicketnz
From The Thicket Instagram https://www.instagram.com/fromthethicketnz
 
 

Hey everyone, 
I'm new here (obviously) and im keen to meet likeminded metalheads (cos we all know how much diversity is in the genre). 
Like most of you, ive got some tunes id love to blast your ears with! My style is death metal with a dose of djent and without vocals. Id be keen to add a vocalist and other members at a future date. 
Anyway, hope youre all listening to some sick metal and I'm looking forward to having a chat and finding new bands!

Nice list. I'm a big fan of most of the older stuff you mention, although I never really got into Morbid Angel and I've lost my taste for Carcass. The first two ATG albums are great IMO, although I'd put them in a different category. Over the last couple of years I've gotten more into early Finnish DM - Convulse, Demigod, Adramelech, Depravity, etc. in addition to old favorites like early Amorphis; also enjoying some knuckle-dragging 90s brutal death like Pyrexia, Scattered Remnants, and Infernal Torment. Old school progressive death (Death, Atheist, Disaffected, Edge Of Sanity) is a huge favorite of mine, too (Contrarian's latest album has a good take on that sound if you haven't heard it). Coming at the progressive thing from a different angle, Opeth (up to Ghost Reveries) is one of my favorite bands of all time.
I'm pickier about tech death and modern DM in general. Early Decapitated is great. I dig Augury (at least Fragmentary Evidence), Necrophagist, Cryptopsy, Pavor, !T.O.O.H.!, old Origin, Cephalic Carnage, Lykathea Aflame, and (when I'm in the right mood) some newer melodic/technical stuff like Virvum and Burial In The Sky, but most new school tech leaves me cold. On the other hand I really enjoy a lot of dissonant death and black metal bands - old and new Gorguts, Ulcerate, Mitochondrion, DSO, Plebeian Grandstand, Skáphe, some Abyssal, Jute Gyte, Suffering Hour, Golgothan Remains, Zhrine, Setentia, etc. Artificial Brain is amazing, I've seen them several times - their vocalist joined up with a band called Afterbirth that you might enjoy as well, they were part of the BDM scene on Long Island in the early 90s but recently reformed with an interesting take on more modern dissonant sounds.
Meshuggah is great. Their older stuff (especially Destroy Erase Improve) is a long time favorite, and I liked Violent Sleep a lot too. I don't hear death metal in their sound - I think the similarities are more a case of convergent evolution and their influence on DM bands - but that's a different conversation. I gotta say that I have yet to hear a "djent" band that I enjoy, though, regardless of how well they can play their instruments. The closest I've come to that sound is the latest Ulsect album, which is a different animal but takes some sonic and songwriting/dynamics cues from Meshuggah.
Anyway, cool to have you here, hope you enjoy digging around the forum.

Welcome. Feel free to start a band thread in the promo section. I'm a big fan of death metal, although I'm going through some burnout of late. What bands do you listen to?