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Everything from Deceased to Cannibal Corpse to Dismember to Devourment.  I'm 37, I've been into this music since I was 13, but my heart definitely lies with the older stuff.  As I get older, newer things just fail to interest me unless it's mind blowingly good.  The newest bands that have done that would be Cerebral Rot, Trench Rot (RIP), Fluids, and Pharmacist.  What about yourself, dude?

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Cool. I'm a spring chicken by current forum standards at 43, and I also got into death metal when I was 13. I've been kind of all over the map lately. The older DM I've put on in the past couple weeks has been Cannibal Corpse, Death, Necrophobic, Timeghoul, Wicked Innocence, Pan.Thy.Monium... right now I'm listening to some old Evoken. Newer bands I've been putting on recently are Grave Miasma, Disma, Afterbirth... one of my friends put me onto that recent Lunar Chamber album with horrible art... the first Dream Unending is pretty cool for atmospheric outside-the-box doom death. But I'm just starting to come out of a slump where I hated everything and wasn't listening to any metal for a few months, so nothing is normal right now.

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16 hours ago, Koji_Boddicker said:

I'm Koji, I love practically all forms of Metal, my favorites being almost anything from the old school, Death Metal, and some Black Metal.  Also love Horror movies.  I look forward to getting to you know you crazy bastards.  Cheers, and horns up!

Yet another fan of metals extremes? You’ll fit right in with the rest of us, lunatics…
 

Side note I do think there is great modern death metal out there, it just tends to be more in the style of Ulcerate and Grave Miasma, not everyone’s pint of beer, that’s for sure

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21 hours ago, Koji_Boddicker said:

I'm Koji, I love practically all forms of Metal, my favorites being almost anything from the old school, Death Metal, and some Black Metal.  Also love Horror movies.  I look forward to getting to you know you crazy bastards.  Cheers, and horns up!

Welcome

12 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Cool. I'm a spring chicken by current forum standards at 43, and I also got into death metal when I was 13. I've been kind of all over the map lately. The older DM I've put on in the past couple weeks has been Cannibal Corpse, Death, Necrophobic, Timeghoul, Wicked Innocence, Pan.Thy.Monium... right now I'm listening to some old Evoken. Newer bands I've been putting on recently are Grave Miasma, Disma, Afterbirth... one of my friends put me onto that recent Lunar Chamber album with horrible art... the first Dream Unending is pretty cool for atmospheric outside-the-box doom death. But I'm just starting to come out of a slump where I hated everything and wasn't listening to any metal for a few months, so nothing is normal right now.

Pah! 43.

Child, I am over 900 years old.  I "die" every third summer solstice to be reborn some more hideous abonimation than previously known and the majority of my listening habits are the bugs and grubs crawling through my ribcage.  It's called Wormcore if you're interested?

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10 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

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Pah! 43.

Child, I am over 900 years old.  I "die" every third summer solstice to be reborn some more hideous abonimation than previously known and the majority of my listening habits are the bugs and grubs crawling through my ribcage.  It's called Wormcore if you're interested?

Which member of Watain are you?

Also, thanks for the warm welcome, all of you.  I need to hear this Lunar Chamber album.  Also, Necrophobic was mentioned and I must say, The Nocturnal Silence is still one of my favorite Death Metal albums of all time.  When I was 13, I had a pen pal from Canada who turned me on to the more extreme stuff.  The Nocturnal Silence was one of the albums he was kind enough to burn for me, along with Enthroned's first two, Altars of Madness, Bloody Blasphemy by God Dethroned, and a few others that went on to be serious staples in my musical love.

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2 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Lunar Chamber is pretty cool:

It actually is. This discussion yet again shows how our collective rambling and ranting is in the end of value. Like many I didn't even sample this album when I came across it because of the lame album art. But I enjoyed listening despite my expectations.

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