Best Paranoid cover to date:
Does anyone enjoy the** Morbid Angel** albums with Tucker? I´ve recently been putting more attention to them, and* Formulas Fatal to the Flesh and Gateways to Annihilation* are pretty good⌠not better than A to C, but definitely better than D:
Havent heard H yet⌠and just a couple tracks of that abomination called I.
One of the mightiest riffs of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joM9rTwXPx4
Had to post this VERY solid cover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDW5n8ZfXE
I love how they worked Iron Man in there.
Anyone here like Savatage?
Never knew that Carcass had a video for this classic. I thought they only did that melodic shit Heartwork. Symphonies of Sickness and Necroticism ftw.
Holy Jeff Walkerâs crust dreads.
they also did this one from Necroticism:
And Heartwork is really good, wtf.
New album of Dream Theater is out, so far sounds really good :rock:
Lotsa new albums from classic bands this year:
Autopsy
Dream Theater
Carcass (!!!)
Voivod (!!!)
Gorguts (!!!)
Fates Warning(!!!)
Great, great, great year for metal
They sound fucking sweet, have to check. Also double post because of this:
And even better, THIS:
Speaking of Carcass, iâm so excited to see them on the 28th!!!
Cool they did the best songs from the album as videos.
Heartwork is good but it (and melo death in general) is not really death metal in terms of song structure. Itâs Iron Maiden type stuff with badass growls and Kreator Coma of Souls-esque melodic solos. I still like Heartwork but itâs the start of Carcassâs decline and of a decline in death metal in general. At least we got tech death with Cynic (first album only), Decapitated (first album is still hte best by far as it was produced by Peter from Vader), and Cryptopsy (First two albums only when they had Lord Worm) made up for it. I donât think anything can make up for Archenemy though. When Carcass was recording their comeback, they were advertising themselves as the Archenemy free version of Carcass.
Do we care about metalcore in this thread at all?
Heh, some of us are lucky that the topic is not only about Death Metal or 80âs metal
I fucking agree with your Melo Death description. Thats why Heartwork is the BEST melodeath album, because even PIONEERING those traits, they dont abuse till death (no pun intended).
There are still lots of great DM riffs (not those lazy melodeath riffs), great lyrics, blast beast⌠and cmon, Walker voice! One of the most unique DM vocals ever.
I dont like melo death, but Heartwork is in a level above all those crappy albums.
I personally dislike/despise it, but i suppose some others enjoy it. There are, however, a couple of interesting bands in the genre i guess:
^Im a fan of Lamb of God, their vocalist Randy Blythe is incredible IMO.
Either way, I purchased August Burns Redâs newest CD âRescue and Restoreâ and in my opinion, it is a very good CD. Of course, if you think metalcore is just a bunch of noise, you wonât like it probably.
Just heard the cd of Surgical Steel. Heartwork with gore is my first impression. Track by track breakdown:
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"1985"
An aping of Judas Priestâs the Hellion with the title of the year that Carcass was founded. Pretty cool. -
"Thrasherâs Abattoir"
Full grindcore with melody attack about how theyâre going to eviscerate and murder the dream pop and post-black metal atmospheric shit loving hipsters along with the metalcore posers. Has lyrics I need to open up the dictionary to understand like the good old Carcass. 2/2 so far. -
"Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System"
Heartwork-style with gore. Not bad at all for what it is. Some nice riffs. 3/3 -
"A Congealed Clot Of Blood"
First weak song on the album. Midtempo and slow Carcass is not good Carcass. This almost sounds like Archenemy. Thatâs not good. First misfire -
"The Master Butcherâs Apron"
Groove metalish riffs, almost Swansongish first half leading up to a good second half with an almost Oriental ending. Melodeath done right. -
"Noncompliance To ASTM F 899-12 Standard"
Heartwork mixed with Necroticism. Ken Walker is back for background vox. Good first NWOBHM solo but it slows down later to get super melodic. Not a good thing. -
""The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills"
Truly Iron Maiden with badass growls. What the hell does the chanted 6026916 mean though? -
"Unfit for Human Consumption"
Holy shit did Carcass really steal the riffs from Megadethâs âHoly Wars?â Yes they fucking did. Good song though as Rust in Peace is a classic album. At least theyâre good enough to play that shit, unlike fucking Ghost (Duran Duran trying to be Mercyful Fate) who were stuck stealing the Symphony of Destruction riff for Ritual. -
"316L Grade Surgical Steel"
Almost a rehash of No Love Lost from Heartwork but not as bad. Swangsongish and Led Zeppeliny. No -
"Captive Bolt Pistol"
The single. Not bad at all. -
"Mount of Execution"
Acoustic??? Carcass trying to be epic. Itâs interesting at least.
Bonus track 1: "A Wraith in the Apparatus"
Groovy. Swansongish but at least itâs fast and Bill Steer gets a lot of lines.
Bonus track 2:"Intensive Battery Brooding"
More Swansong. But hilarious lyrics. Read them as you listen and then look up Blue Peacock and chickens on google.
7/10 for what it is. Good but not great. Too clean and dynamically compressed. Jeff Walker doesnât sound as nasty with age and some of the tracks and verses are misfires. Carcass are back and theyâve gone from the gods of grind to masters of melodeath. They play tons of old shit live so go fucking see them. The LP should have awesome audiophilia-jizz worthy sound quality like the teaser unless they pressed it from the CD master
I donât mind some melodeath like pre Slaughter of the Soul (the fucking final sellout to retire) At the Gates and the first couple of Amon Amarth albums. Itâs really when they became just thrashy riffs but with New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) song structures did it start to suck. Arch Enemy is basically just like fucking Saxon or something only with shit riffs, shit song writing, shit vocals, shit everything. Basically repetitive thrash riffs with shitty black metalish vocals, and without the song and riff writing skills of real NWOBHM.
For those of you confused, Melodic death metal /= not death metal with melody. Symphonies of Sickness and Necroticism have melody. Bolt Throwerâs Those Once Loyal has tons of it. So do the flag bearers of Japanese death metal: Intestine Baalism and Gotsu Totsu Kotsu. The difference is that theyâre still old-school death metal in terms of song structure. Fuck even Cryptopsyâs None So Vile, one of most technical, brutal, and best albums ever, has it.