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Actually' date=' they bore the hell out of me. I wanted to like them since they're Icelandic but they just didn't deliver. I'd definitely use the words 'got on my nerves' because that's exactly how I felt, they just kept taking the lazy and uninspired route when they could have done something interesting. They're on Unique Leader, which despite hosting the likes of Arkaik, Dominion, Fallujah and most recently Gorod is still a haven for crappy, soulless and boring death metal like Cytotoxin, Beneath, Deeds of Flesh and the very incarnation of the idea of 'sound and fury signifying nothing'...Odious Mortem.[/quote'] I think you should re-examine Beneath, nothing 2nd rate about them at all. Also, Deeds of Flesh were the main inspiration for the Unique Leader sound, so painting them into the same corner as the bands ripping them off is like saying Darkthrone is as soulless as their clones. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, vol 1 Mostly unaccompanied female choral recordings - this volume is from the fifties, I think. It sounds old. I love these harmonies so much... Edit - there have been at least two compilations released as "Le Mystère" or "The Mystery", from what I can tell. This is from the four-disc retrospective set, not the two-disc set from the 90s, which I recall having more instrumental music. This one is by far my favorite.

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'Night Witches' by Sabaton. Hooray for the Northrop P-61!

I think you should re-examine Beneath' date=' nothing 2nd rate about them at all. Also, Deeds of Flesh were the main inspiration for the Unique Leader sound, so painting them into the same corner as the bands ripping them off is like saying Darkthrone is as soulless as their clones.[/quote'] If you say so, Deeds of Flesh never struck me as particularly good. I wanted to like Beneath but maybe it's just that they did a kind of brutal death metal that I didn't like. Their album art was awesome but that was about it from what I remember. Ah well, now that they have a second album I'll have an excuse to check them out.
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'Night Witches' by Sabaton. Hooray for the Northrop P-61! If you say so, Deeds of Flesh never struck me as particularly good. I wanted to like Beneath but maybe it's just that they did a kind of brutal death metal that I didn't like. Their album art was awesome but that was about it from what I remember. Ah well, now that they have a second album I'll have an excuse to check them out.
I'm still not crazy about them either, but they started that sound, so I can't see grouping them in with their clones. As much as I don't like Slaughter of the Soul, I would still place it head and shoulders above most of its imitators, as at least it was original at the time and doesn't sound as lifeless as most of the mallcore bands that ripped it off (I'm looking at you The Black Dahlia Murder). Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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'Sacrificial Ritual' by Beneath.

I'm still not crazy about them either' date=' but they started that sound, so I can't see grouping them in with their clones. As much as I don't like Slaughter of the Soul, I would still place it head and shoulders above most of its imitators, as at least it was original at the time and doesn't sound as lifeless as most of the mallcore bands that ripped it off (I'm looking at you The Black Dahlia Murder).[/quote'] Very well. I was just referring to Deeds of Flesh musically, I didn't have much of an insight into how they fit into the broader death metal narrative. But thank you very much for telling me to revisit Beneath! I think what must have happened was that I was on a long metal research binge and just checked out a couple of their songs and lyrics and concluded that they were more generically anti-religious material, so I didn't bother to listen to much of their stuff. Looking more closely at the lyrics I'm noticing the album is somewhat more subtle on that front than I gave it credit for, and it's very well-done brutal death metal in the vein of the great Element.
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'Sacrificial Ritual' by Beneath. Very well. I was just referring to Deeds of Flesh musically, I didn't have much of an insight into how they fit into the broader death metal narrative. But thank you very much for telling me to revisit Beneath! I think what must have happened was that I was on a long metal research binge and just checked out a couple of their songs and lyrics and concluded that they were more generically anti-religious material, so I didn't bother to listen to much of their stuff. Looking more closely at the lyrics I'm noticing the album is somewhat more subtle on that front than I gave it credit for, and it's very well-done brutal death metal in the vein of the great Element.
I found out about them because one of their members (the vocalist I think) was a member of the legendary Sororicide, whose album The Entity is one of most rare and sought after in all of death metal. Beneath isn't much like Sororicide, but they are awesome in their own right. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I found out about them because one of their members (the vocalist I think) was a member of the legendary Sororicide' date=' whose album The Entity is one of most rare and sought after in all of death metal. Beneath isn't much like Sororicide, but they are awesome in their own right.[/quote'] Yeah, I did enjoy that first album and I'm checking out the second just now. It actually sounds even better.
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