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Re: Technical Death Metal Scratch that, I did actually hear some of Demlich. They're OK, but I don't care for the poor sound quality because it makes me think that they are worse than they really are. You're right about the vocalist though.

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Re: Technical Death Metal Maybe. Sickening Horror also has a kind of muddy sound production but they sound better to me. Perhaps I should include Mirrorthrone. They're more avant-garde but still technical in that they change passages a fair amount.

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Re: Technical Death Metal Anata is fantastic. Unfortunately, they are also very anti-clerical (especially on The Conductor's Departure), as are many tech-death bands. As a result I don't buy their material. 'A Problem Yet To Be Solved' is a good example, with them dragging up the argument from evil even though it's hackneyed and useless. A better title might have been 'A Poor Argument Yet To Be Phased Out'. They may well be mature in their atheism, realizing the depressing reality of a godless world, but the fact remains that they still view faith as a detriment and I can't condone that.

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Re: Technical Death Metal My music might conflict with my personal philosophies if it let it, but as with anything I think something useful can be extracted from different views to compare with your own. I personally am not a racist, but many NSBM bands are proud of the heritage of their forefathers, which I respect. Everyone is entitled to believe what they want, and I know people that like Burzum that won't spend their money on his albums because it would "enable him to continue with his propoganda", although I see that as being a bit pointless.

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Re: Technical Death Metal anti-religious sentiment in metal or in fact in music as a whole is nothing new, in the words of Kerry King "the bands that want to be the biggest badasses pick the most badass subjects" I think in most cases these things need to be taken lightly, I don't know if the bands you're talking about honestly believe their lyrical message but most bands don't. for example in a lot of lyrics I write there seems to be a very anti-religious message but I don't view the faithful as something to be gotten rid of.

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Re: Technical Death Metal Metal has never been about the message. If the music is there what's said is really superfluous. I hate Varg but I rather enjoy Burzum. Do I support a man who hate's America and all that it stands for just because I like the music? I know he's not the only one out there that does, but he's one of the most (if not the most) vocal about his stupid beliefs.

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Re: Technical Death Metal I dunno some black metal dudes from Norway would rank high on the list too, so long as its metal I say who cares what the fucking message is, quit being a pussy about "oh that band worships satan" "oh he's a nazi" etc for fuck sakes you listen to metal its not meant to be popular anyway that my rant for today

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Re: Technical Death Metal If you're going to poke fun at 'unblack metal', there is a place for that. :evil: In the meantime, there are good Christian tech-death bands. Granted, there are probably only about ten in the world, but they do exist. Problem is that some of them specifically eschew the 'Christian' label so that kvlt metalheads won't throw them into the unfashionable bin along with Red, Thousand Foot Krutch and the like. Miseration and Sympathy fall into this category. Aletheian are unapologetically Christian but they're definitely good.

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If you're going to poke fun at 'unblack metal', there is a place for that. :evil: In the meantime, there are good Christian tech-death bands. Granted, there are probably only about ten in the world, but they do exist. Problem is that some of them specifically eschew the 'Christian' label so that kvlt metalheads won't throw them into the unfashionable bin along with Red, Thousand Foot Krutch and the like. Miseration and Sympathy fall into this category. Aletheian are unapologetically Christian but they're definitely good.
It's going to poke fun at a lot of stuff. :o
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Just found a handful of good bands that I'm enjoying so far and are worth listening to: Tholus: wgZw8zBrmAM Pavor: ms3rkheJbBE Gorguts: RW9X0aYpiRo
Wow, surprising to see Pavor mentioned. Those guys are awesome, really original and bass heavy tech death. The bassist Rainer Landfermann also performed some of the most insane vocals in metal history on Bethlehem's Dictius Te Necare. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I saw a video with Pavor in it but the snippet in question wasn't really a good demonstration of what they're capable of. By contrast, the guy's portrayal of Carcariass was far too favorable, the band's kind of boring when you assume that Watery Grave is about par for the course for a given band.

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No Neuraxis is definitely tech-death. They're actually an odd case in that their latest work doesn't strike me as special in any way at all, it's just pretty generic tech-death. I remember some stuff from Trilateral Progression and Truth Beyond that I thought was good and interesting, however, and I should go check that out. I'm listening to a bit more Necrophagist now to get a sense for their music, and I like Epitaph a bit better.

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No Neuraxis is definitely tech-death. They're actually an odd case in that their latest work doesn't strike me as special in any way at all' date=' it's just pretty generic tech-death. I remember some stuff from Trilateral Progression and Truth Beyond that I thought was good and interesting, however, and I should go check that out. I'm listening to a bit more Necrophagist now to get a sense for their music, and I like Epitaph a bit better.[/quote'] Yeah, I just got that two disc comp that has Neuraxis' first 3 albums on 2 discs, good stuff. I prefer Onset of Putrefaction to Epitaph from Necrophagist, though it make sense that you like Epitaph more. Great live band though, saw then twice (once with the incredible Marco Minneman on drums) and they killed it both times. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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