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On 8/12/2017 at 3:45 PM, BlutAusNerd said:

I fail to grasp how a retro act very comfortably retreading the paths blazed by their heroes could be "fucking amazing".

It dos't necessarily matter that the music is not new or groundbreaking as long as it is executed with quality.  I think that they play really well, and the vocals are great.

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1 hour ago, Balor said:

It dos't necessarily matter that the music is not new or groundbreaking as long as it is executed with quality.  I think that they play really well, and the vocals are great.

I can agree with the sentiment, just not in Bloodbath's case for the most part. The vocals are good on Breeding Death and Nightmares Made Flesh, as is the music, but otherwise they sound dull, trite, and hollow to my ears. There's a fine line between hero worship and creating something that could be considered contemporary of your influences, and Bloodbath often falls to the wrong side of that line.

4 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I didn't enjoy Antichrist, but I love everything before that. I'm hopeful. Really happy they reformed. I'm still waiting on that next Anata album...

Really? Sure, it was a step down from Words That Go Unspoken, but anything they did would have been. I would put it on our with Choronzon and ahead of their first two albums, but that's just me.

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5 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

I can agree with the sentiment, just not in Bloodbath's case for the most part. The vocals are good on Breeding Death and Nightmares Made Flesh, as is the music, but otherwise they sound dull, trite, and hollow to my ears. There's a fine line between hero worship and creating something that could be considered contemporary of your influences, and Bloodbath often falls to the wrong side of that line.

Really? Sure, it was a step down from Words That Go Unspoken, but anything they did would have been. I would put it on our with Choronzon and ahead of their first two albums, but that's just me.

It left me pretty cold. It's another album I might put on occasionally in the spirit of fairness. Words is their masterpiece IMO, but I enjoy Choronzon and Goat Of Mendes nearly as much. I'm trying to keep my expectations realistic for the upcoming one; I really want to like it, and the new Voices too, for that matter.

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Antichrist is my least favourite but I still think it's very good. It seems to flirt with the qualities that made Words That Go Unspoken so interesting but at the same time it harkens back to a more primitive and straight-forward death metal approach like on their debut, which on Antichrist with its cleaner production becomes probably the least rewarding aspect to the album.

It should be said that I love their debut. It has an organic and lively production that gives it an utterly savage and satanic sound. That combined with everything else they added, it's a very unique album that never gets dull. The Goat of Mendes may be my favourite though. Despite being more into black metal than death metal and knowing that they tried to infuse more of a black metal feel, I wish they would have stuck with a more death metal sounding production. Choronzon is excellent and so is Words That Go Unspoken. 

Voices' London was excellent too and nearly fulfilled my need to hear something new from Akercocke. I thought Voices' debut was average at best and because of that they fell off my radar until I had heard that the clean vocals on London sounded much like Jason's. 

   

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Bolt Thrower was really good.

On ‎9‎/‎4‎/‎2017 at 0:28 PM, BreeZy said:

I'd probably have to go with good ol' fashioned Death. But if we're talking about current bands, It's a tie between Autopsy, Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus.

Everyone seems to like Death so much, but I just cannot get into it.  I listened to one of their albums a few days ago and could not help but be left feeling that it was somewhat bland.

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33 minutes ago, Balor said:

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Just wondering, but yeah, I can see that. People used to say that Death metal is an acquired taste--that's especially true for Death's progressive albums. It can take a while to get into those and even then they're kind of a love or hate thing. The first Death album I heard was Symbolic; bought it from a music store back in the day as a blind purchase and paid full price for it. I thought it was the most boring piece of shit I ever heard and hated it. I couldn't figure out why people gave Death so much praise and it pissed me off that I spent that much money on it. I listened to Scream Bloody Gore after that and really liked it, then Spiritual Healing, then I came back to their later albums. Human is my favorite out of those, but I eventually warmed up to ITP and Symbolic. It can sound like ITP is just a bunch of fluff and flashy musicianship, and at times Andy's solos can sound out of place, but it's a fast, heavy and very complex album.

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1 hour ago, morbidspectre said:

Just wondering, but yeah, I can see that. People used to say that Death metal is an acquired taste--that's especially true for Death's progressive albums. It can take a while to get into those and even then they're kind of a love or hate thing. The first Death album I heard was Symbolic; bought it from a music store back in the day as a blind purchase and paid full price for it. I thought it was the most boring piece of shit I ever heard and hated it. I couldn't figure out why people gave Death so much praise and it pissed me off that I spent that much money on it. I listened to Scream Bloody Gore after that and really liked it, then Spiritual Healing, then I came back to their later albums. Human is my favorite out of those, but I eventually warmed up to ITP and Symbolic. It can sound like ITP is just a bunch of fluff and flashy musicianship, and at times Andy's solos can sound out of place, but it's a fast, heavy and very complex album.

I will have to try listening to it a few more times.  At bare minimum, at least I got it used at my local record store for little money.

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On 9/23/2016 at 1:04 PM, Thrashman said:

Death, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Obituary.

On 7/10/2017 at 10:34 AM, Thrashman said:

Less than a year later, and my list has grown so much.

Favourite bands now include Obliveon, Morta Skuld, Krypts and Soulskinner.

And honourable mention (for favourite albums) has to go to Desultory, Gorguts, Morgue and Memoriam.

Discovered so much great DM in this time, thanks in no small part to you guys. I'm very grateful. And may need to change my name to Deathman.

Another couple of months on, and my honourable-mention-for-favourite-album list has grown further - Ataraxy, Necrot, Purgatoire, Acrostichon, Baphomet, Depravity, Blackthorn...

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Quo Vadis could probably get back to top of the heap if they issued a new album, but for now it's gotta be Gorod. If First Fragment follows up Dasein with one or two albums that are even remotely as awesome they'll blast right up the rankings too. Same goes for Dawn of Dementia, Deviant Process and Vale of Pnath, and their latest work. As for new bands, I'd say Inanimate Existence has shown the best combination of quality and consistency.

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