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Regarding Cannibal Corpse, I honestly don't know how you can get that impression from their first three albums. Tomb Of The Mutilated, especially, is indispensable Florida DM in my opinion. I hear a lot of fun and energy. It's sloppy and campy and a little thrashy and still nasty. The Bleeding is too poppy to hold my interest, and I've gone on at length about my thoughts on most of their other stuff. I cut my teeth on their early albums, so I'll acknowledge my bias. They set my standard for death metal as a kid. I don't play them often anymore, I don't really enjoy their newer work, and I didn't really get into the last live set I saw of theirs, but over the years I've enjoyed them immensely and they get a lot of credit from me for that. BTW, you didn't miss much by not watching the rest of the ATG videos, for my money...
They were no doubt an early and influential band, but other than a song or two here and there, they don't hold my interest for long. It's like what my parent's interpretation of what death metal would be if I described the genre tenets to them, but they had never actually heard it. The hallmarks are there, but they've basically always just existed as that, not a means to an end, just a way to fill space and be as extreme as they could be.
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Latest run: Incantation - Onward to Golgotha Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene Incantation - Diabolical Conquest This, to me, represents Incantation at their finest, and all have different strengths. Onward is raw and nasty, Mortal Throne is heavy, savage, and decrepit, and Diabolical Conquest is epic, complex, and brutal. All of which feature excellent vocals from Craig Pillard, with his super low tone, and Daniel Corchado, delivering his lines with passion and versatility, respectively. All 3 are essential listening for any death metal fan IMO, but I don't know that I could pick a favorite. Right now it's a toss up between Mortal Throne and Diabolical for different reasons.

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Listening to the Finntroll album now. Man' date=' this is some goofy, bouncey Black Metal. One song reminds me of a polka. Recorded live and the audience is eating it up. Are they Finns? That might explain it .[/quote'] You've never heard Finntroll before? That's a great example of a band that combines schtick with a fun atmosphere and good songwriting. I wouldn't call them black metal by any stretch of the imagination, but they are one of my favorite folk metal bands. I haven't heard the new one, but the last one was pretty stale, you should give Jaktens Tid and Nattfödd a listen if you're new to them.
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You've never heard Finntroll before? That's a great example of a band that combines schtick with a fun atmosphere and good songwriting. I wouldn't call them black metal by any stretch of the imagination' date=' but they are one of my favorite folk metal bands. I haven't heard the new one, but the last one was pretty stale, you should give Jaktens Tid and Nattfödd a listen if you're new to them.[/quote'] This was my first experience with them. They do sound fun and the songs are well constructed. I was told they were BM though so that certainly tainted my perception.
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Colosseum - Chapter I: Delirium (album), followed by Fungoid Stream - Celaenus Fragments (album) I would also like to reguest another round of doomy suggestions from BAN, if he can find the will and time to do so?
When next I have time, I most certainly will. Work can get crazy when you run a company, even if it's a small business, but I do love recommending bands to people.
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Type O Negative - World Coming Down BTW, Os Abysmi, my favorite grindcore albums are Brutal Truth's "Need To Control" and Discordance Axis' "Jou Hou". For a more grunty, brutal approach, Assück's "Anticapital" is great. Don't miss out on Daughters' "Canada Songs" either - I'm not sure if I'd call it grindcore, but it's spastic, dissonant, fast, and nasty.

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