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Re: Your favorite death metal bands? Most definitely In Flames. I know many people will say they aren't death metal any more, but follow my logic here, they were pioneers of melodeath, and therefore, should be able to make more than just melodeath, as otherwise it'd be monotonous. But when it comes to the more "true" death metal bands, gotta love Dark Tranquillity, and Arch enemy. So many bands... heh. Death Metal is what keeps me sane I think.

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*Facepalm* Not death metal.
AMEN TO THAT. Well, to answer your question... Like a lot of other people here, I'm a Dark Tranquillity fan. Omnium Gatherum sounds a lot like them, with more atmosphere. Immortal Souls is pretty good melodeath. Scar Symmetry and Solution .45 are similar, sort of a half-progressive, half-death metal enterprise...not that everyone doesn't already know about them... Aletheian are very good tech death with a humble style but really nice playing. Battlelore is sort of in a genre of their own since they also have clean female vocals (very good ones too) but their death vocalist sounds like an Uruk-hai. That fits, since they sing all about J.R.R. Tolkien's works. Miseration employs the vocal talents of Christian Alvestam and produces a combination of melodic death metal and technical death metal. Sympathy is an obscure Canadian metal assault. The drumming and guitars are absolutely top-notch. However... Quo Vadis is my favorite. They put in just enough melody so that it's not all esoteric technicality, but everything is excellent. :mrgreen:
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Re: Your favorite death metal bands? Suffocation (it begins and ends there, there is no more brutal band on the face of the planet), Dying Fetus, Fleshgrind, Older Cannibal Corpse (First four albums), Gorefest, Septicflesh(there first two albums are classics), Behemoth,God dethroned, Internal Bleeding, Vader (Litany is a beast), Morbid Angel (their latest album sucked of course), Angelcorpse, Atheist, Immolation, Incantation,Dismember, Older Vital Remains Other lesser known bands: Drawn and Quartered, Guttural Secrete, Cemetary Urn, Digested Flesh, Brutality (USA), Baphomet (Dying Fetus covered them), Demilich, Mitochondrion, Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm, Gutural Engorgement, Revenance, Covenance, Skinless, Sepsism, Deeds of Flesh, Beheaded (Malta), Decrepit Birth, Hour of Penance, Belphegor, Commit Suicide, Myrkskog, Misery Index, and many more.

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Re: Your favorite death metal bands? Brand new here, thought I would post more bands I like. Nile (they gotta be my favorite) Death (my other favorite) Morbid Angel (except their new album) Angelcorpse (just got into them, they kick ass) Monstrosity (also just got into them) Deathchain (kinda got me into death metal, even though they're more death/thrash) Cynic (I don't care what they are, they're amazing) Vital Remains (yes, even their new stuff) Autopsy (nice n' soupy sound) Dying Fetus (I've been overlooking them until lately) Cryptopsy (I don't like "The Unspoken King," but lets be honest...that is the best fucking deathcore album ever made) I'm sure I'll think of more later, long after I posted this. :D

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Re: Your favorite death metal bands? Decapitated, Bloodbath, I chaos, Amon amarth, Disarmonia Mundi, Miseration, The Few againsy Many, Kataklysm, Behemoth, Beyond Creation, Burning human ,Cerebral Bore, Cerberus, dark Haven, Unleashed,Defeated Sanity, Dethklok, Diskreet, Divine Heresy, God Dethroned, Hypocrisy, Hour of penance, Ingested, Necrophobic, Regain The Legacy, Science Of Demise, The Faceless, Torchbearer, Vader, Woe Of Tyrants, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Disentomb, Devian, Deivos, Disparaged, Ascariasis, Arkiak, all Shall Perish, All i can Remeber right now

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Re: Your favorite death metal bands?

Not death metal by any stretch of the imagination, perhaps more industrial-esque groove metal or something of that sort.
I thought they were a good metal band with a lousy vocalist. They do seem to have a -core sound to me though.
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I thought they were a good metal band with a lousy vocalist. They do seem to have a -core sound to me though.
If you want to hear a great band with a shitty vocalist check out Enchantment 'Dance the Marble Naked'. Musically it's excellent. Vocally its laughable.
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If you want to hear a great band with a shitty vocalist check out Enchantment 'Dance the Marble Naked'. Musically it's excellent. Vocally its laughable.
Ummm...interesting song name. :? Maybe I'll listen to it...
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