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I'm sure that there's plenty that you would enjoy' date=' especially if you like two of the more well known bands. The US has always produced a bunch of killer death metal, but a bunch of crap as well.[/quote'] When I was younger I was a bit of a Europe snob, which is funny given that Mastodon and Neurosis got me into metal. I just fell madly in love simultaneously with Swedish death and Norwegian black, which turned into exploring as much European metal as I could. As I've gotten a little older I'm realizing there's a lot of good stuff here as well.
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When I was younger I was a bit of a Europe snob' date=' which is funny given that Mastodon and Neurosis got me into metal. I just fell madly in love simultaneously with Swedish death and Norwegian black, which turned into exploring as much European metal as I could. As I've gotten a little older I'm realizing there's a lot of good stuff here as well.[/quote'] Man, there's good stuff everywhere. Until I joined here, I hadn't listened to most black metal outside of the Scandinavian scene and the first wave big hits, and I'd given up on most newer death metal based on all the annoying tech and deathcore that I'd heard. My friends and I would hang out, get drunk, and bitch about how nothing really good had been recorded since 1995. I have opened up to some of the ultra modern sounding bands, but there's a lot more new shit that avoids the polish and flash that I dislike. Some of my favorite DM bands now are newer ones: Grave Miasma, Abyssal, Dead Congregation, Ulcerate; the latest album by Gorguts is stellar, and the new Suffocation and Immolation are pretty solid IMO.
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Man, there's good stuff everywhere. Until I joined here, I hadn't listened to most black metal outside of the Scandinavian scene and the first wave big hits, and I'd given up on most newer death metal based on all the annoying tech and deathcore that I'd heard. My friends and I would hang out, get drunk, and bitch about how nothing really good had been recorded since 1995. I have opened up to some of the ultra modern sounding bands, but there's a lot more new shit that avoids the polish and flash that I dislike. Some of my favorite DM bands now are newer ones: Grave Miasma, Abyssal, Dead Congregation, Ulcerate; the latest album by Gorguts is stellar, and the new Suffocation and Immolation are pretty solid IMO.
I absolutely love the latest Gorguts. Grave Miasma I've heard of but not checked out yet. And I need to give Ulcerate another chance. I picked up one of their records a couple of years ago and wasn't a huge fan. I still need to check out the NY bands we've talked about as well.
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I absolutely love the latest Gorguts. Grave Miasma I've heard of but not checked out yet. And I need to give Ulcerate another chance. I picked up one of their records a couple of years ago and wasn't a huge fan. I still need to check out the NY bands we've talked about as well.
I think you'll really like Grave Miasma, their LP "Odori Sepulcrorum" is one of my favorite and most played albums from last year. A great sense of pacing, some creepy melodies and great doom/death sections, production that sounds old-school without being too murky... my favorite Ulcerate is still Destroyers Of All, but they do take a bit of work.
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I think you'll really like Grave Miasma' date=' their LP "Odori Sepulcrorum" is one of my favorite and most played albums from last year. A great sense of pacing, some creepy melodies and great doom/death sections, production that sounds old-school without being too murky... my favorite Ulcerate is still Destroyers Of All, but they do take a bit of work.[/quote'] That sounds like my cup of arsenic. And that's actually the album I have haha. I remember being impressed but ultimately a bit bored. Maybe I was in the wrong headspace.
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The more you get into metal, the more you realize that the big scenes are just that; big. Quantity does not equal quality, and lack of quantity doesn't equal the absence of quality either. You can find good stuff from all over, but the smaller scenes do tend to get less press, and not because they're not every bit as good as (or better than) the bigger scenes. Exploration is key, assuming that there isn't anything else worth your time in a given genre or sound means that you're just not looking hard enough.

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The more you get into metal' date=' the more you realize that the big scenes are just that; big. Quantity does not equal quality, and lack of quantity doesn't equal the absence of quality either. You can find good stuff from all over, but the smaller scenes do tend to get less press, and not because they're not every bit as good as (or better than) the bigger scenes. Exploration is key, assuming that there isn't anything else worth your time in a given genre or sound means that you're just not looking hard enough.[/quote'] Yeah that has definitely been what I've found. I was only 17 when I joined this forum and my knowledge and tastes have grown immensely in that time - and I still know very little, really.
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Yeah that has definitely been what I've found. I was only 17 when I joined this forum and my knowledge and tastes have grown immensely in that time - and I still know very little' date=' really.[/quote'] The more that I've learned and discovered, the more I realize just how large of a world music is, and how small my experience is with it.
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I have yet to listen to them' date=' actually. Like I said elsewhere, he's kind of dragging the whole thing down for me lately. Great technique, great enunciation, so fucking boring... which I guess we could blame on the guys who actually write the vocals. But I've always heard good things about Monstrosity.[/quote'] Check out their albums that feature him, Imperial Doom and Millenium. Imperial Doom showcases the more brutal side of early Floridian death metal, and Millenium is an awesome early tech-death album.
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