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Posted: April 12 2008 at 19:57

I only really like the ambient bits from Burzum...

Dark Tranquility would be good if the vocals didn't suck.

Opeth is king to me.

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Posted: April 13 2008 at 04:42

Plankowner wrote:

uhm, no one has mentioned slayer?

Slayer isn't death metal, they are considered thrash metal and/or speed metal. I've never really heard Slayer referred to as death metal, at most it's Evil Thrash metal, but I can agree with anyone that says Slayer and similar bands are closely related to death metal.

I always tended to see it as, bands like Megadeth, Metallica, Testament and the like were the more melodic thrash bands, while Slayer, Death Angel etc, were the more dissonant and in general more influential on death metal as a genre, while Tallica, Deth and Testament had more of an influence on the late 80s/early 90s prog metal, like Dream Theater etc.

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Posted: April 13 2008 at 05:01

As for my favorite Death metal bands (I never really got into Black Metal to be honest, but I might give it another shot one day):

Opeth

Death

Morbid Angel

Obituary

Arch Enemy (I loved Wages of SIn, but after that I didn't like much of what they had to offer)

Hypocrisy

Kataklysm

In Flames

Dark Tranquility

At The Gates

Necrophagist

Nile

Cannibal Corpse (the later, more technical stuff, not of a fan of their early work)

Cryptopsy

Other than that, I just haven't really listened to much other death metal bands, as I was more of a thrash metal dude than death metal, well at least when Metal was what I listened to more than anything else, which changed when I got into more prog and shred guitar.

I honestly haven't even heard any of the major Death metal bands to come out of my own country, but Metal isn't that big in Australia anyway, let alone Death metal or black metal.

Since I've gotten more into the progressive side of metal, I'll probably check out some more of the progressive death bands soon enough.

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Posted: April 13 2008 at 05:15

Havn't listened to Death metal in a good while, but my favorite bands are:

Atheist

Death

Opeth

I never liked black metal, since 99,5% of it sounds like crap! But i do like one song:

Burzum - Det som en gang var

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Posted: April 13 2008 at 10:20

Did anyone ever listen to NOCTURNUS, they are known to be the very first death metal band to use synthesizers, which caused them to be bashed by the close-minded average metal listeners.

"The key" and "Thresholds" are masterpieces of progressive death-metal.

Here is a quote from wikipedia : Nocturnus was an American progressive death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987 by drummer/vocalist Mike Browning (formerly of Morbid Angel). They were known for their science-fiction themed lyrics and use of keyboards, both of which were virtually unknown in extreme metal.

Edited by lucas - April 13 2008 at 10:21

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Posted: April 13 2008 at 14:39

My favourite black metal band is Keep of Kalessin(though some people say they're not really BM, but rather extreme metal. I'm not sure myself). I also enjoy early Ulver. As to death metal, I guess the ones I listen to the most are Death, Atheist, Cynic, Lykathea Aflame, and if you classify them as death metal, Meshuggah.

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Posted: April 14 2008 at 13:32

lucas wrote:

Did anyone ever listen to NOCTURNUS, they are known to be the very first death metal band to use synthesizers, which caused them to be bashed by the close-minded average metal listeners.

"The key" and "Thresholds" are masterpieces of progressive death-metal.

Thanks for reminding me about them, I heard a song off their return album but wasn't too impressed.

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Posted: April 16 2008 at 13:05

Plankowner wrote:

Had quite the Venom collection till my Dad burned them .. heh. (But Dad those are 30 dollar imports...he didn't care.)

Wow, he actually burned them? Good to know there are some parents out there actually still paying attention and taking an interest in their child's welfare and being a parent.

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Posted: April 16 2008 at 13:52

Squonkman wrote:

Plankowner wrote:

Had quite the Venom collection till my Dad burned them .. heh. (But Dad those are 30 dollar imports...he didn't care.)

Wow, he actually burned them? Good to know there are some parents out there actually still paying attention and taking an interest in their child's welfare and being a parent.

Well... in a way. But really... Venom doesn't kill nobody. Relax anyway, wait till he can't touch your stuff no more and buy all the satanic sh*t you want. Or any sh*t, for that matter.

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Posted: April 16 2008 at 14:09

The T wrote:

Squonkman wrote:

Plankowner wrote:

Had quite the Venom collection till my Dad burned them .. heh. (But Dad those are 30 dollar imports...he didn't care.)

Wow, he actually burned them? Good to know there are some parents out there actually still paying attention and taking an interest in their child's welfare and being a parent.

Well... in a way. But really... Venom doesn't kill nobody. Relax anyway, wait till he can't touch your stuff no more and buy all the satanic sh*t you want. Or any sh*t, for that matter.

My dad did the same thing to my collection of Air Supply cds when I was a kid.

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Posted: April 16 2008 at 14:13

Squonkman wrote:

The T wrote:

Squonkman wrote:

Plankowner wrote:

Had quite the Venom collection till my Dad burned them .. heh. (But Dad those are 30 dollar imports...he didn't care.)

Wow, he actually burned them? Good to know there are some parents out there actually still paying attention and taking an interest in their child's welfare and being a parent.

Well... in a way. But really... Venom doesn't kill nobody. Relax anyway, wait till he can't touch your stuff no more and buy all the satanic sh*t you want. Or any sh*t, for that matter.

My dad did the same thing to my collection of Air Supply cds when I was a kid.

Air Supply??

Man, I can try to understand how Venom can be a bad influence (I can TRY)... at least they're kind of... satanic.... but... Air Supply??? Even the nights are better?

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Posted: April 16 2008 at 14:49

As much as I love pure BM such as Mayhem, Hecate Enthroned and early Emperor and the overy theatric symphonic BM of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir. My vote would go for Primordial - not a pure Black Metal band, but one that has constantly pushed the boundaries and included their own (Celtic) culture and influences into their music.

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Posted: April 16 2008 at 14:53

The T wrote:

Air Supply??

Man, I can try to understand how Venom can be a bad influence (I can TRY)... at least they're kind of... satanic.... but... Air Supply??? Even the nights are better?

I don't know, T. If I was a father I'd burn the crap albums. It's gonna be so surreal when I had my future kid a Death CD and he laughs at A)the "huge" size of the CD and B)at how tame he finds them.

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Posted: April 16 2008 at 16:47

1800iareyay wrote:

The T wrote:

Air Supply??

Man, I can try to understand how Venom can be a bad influence (I can TRY)... at least they're kind of... satanic.... but... Air Supply??? Even the nights are better?

I don't know, T. If I was a father I'd burn the crap albums. It's gonna be so surreal when I had my future kid a Death CD and he laughs at A)the "huge" size of the CD and B)at how tame he finds them.

Well, if my son arrives at home with a reggaeton or hip-hop cd I will have to burn it... for my own sanity...

I can imagine how my son (or daughter even more) would see the cover of Mayhen's De Miisterys Dom Sathanas and say to me: "dad, what the hell?!? I'll have to burn these cds, they may be a bad influence over you"...

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Posted: April 17 2008 at 17:57

Visitor13 wrote:

"The key" and "Thresholds" are masterpieces of progressive death-metal.

Thanks for reminding me about them, I heard a song off their return album but wasn't too impressed.

But the two albums I quoted are worth listening.

BTW, I discovered this band after having purchased a tape of "the Key" (metalmind productions ;-) in Przemyśl during holidays spent in the now Województwo podkarpackie in Poland ;-)

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Posted: July 29 2008 at 00:38

Death metal and black metal are huge loves of mine. I became slightly bored of them which is what drove me to begin listening to progressive music, but I still thoroughly enjoy many black and death metal bands.

For death metal, I like Morbid Angel, Death, Guttural Secrete, Defeated Sanity, Prostitute Disfigurement, Immolation, Inveracity, Suffocation, Incantation, Sanguis Imperium, Kronos, late-period Behemoth, Arghoslent, Necrophagist, Spawn of Possession, and Deicide.

As for black metal, I love the better known stuff such as Emperor, Darkthrone, Mayhem, and Venom (who are really more thrash than black metal, despite the name of the album "Black Metal"), but also a lot of semi-kvlt stuff like Watain, Deathspell Omega, Ulver, Peste Noire, and Nachtmystium, and really hard to find stuff like Bestial Warlust, Dodsferd, M8L8TH, and Grand Belial's Key.

Lately though my favorite stuff has been blackened death metal, which combines the heavy riffing and down tuning of death metal with the rapid fire trem picking and raspy vocals of black metal. Good examples are Belphegor, Infernal War, Destroyer 666, and Satanica-era Behemoth.

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Posted: July 29 2008 at 02:05

I only listen to Nuclear Death,

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Posted: July 30 2008 at 05:24

I can't say i like much pure Death metal apart from the obvious ones like "Alters Of Madness" But i love the death /doom genre Katatonia, Daylight Dies, Swallow The Sun etc.
With black metal Ulver, Burzum, Mutiilation, Peste Noir and Gorgoroth are among my favorites.

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Posted: July 30 2008 at 21:14

my alltime fav black and death stuff:

Conqueror / Revenge - THE most psykotic violent maniacal warblackgrind ever!!!!! and supremely funny too........

Blasphemy - without them no Revenge/Conqueror and hilariously nonsensical 'Canadian war metal'!!

Darkthrone - lords of the tranced-out blackfuzz

Impiety - serious mindbogglingly brutal & violent blackdeath elite assault!!!

All the one-man jokers like Striborg (the maddest!!), Leviathan, Xasthur, Draugar etc etc etc etc...........say goodbye to production values and hello to endless ambient buzz............

Wolves In The Throne Room - can i say their stuff is just so BEAUTIFUL??? epic, sad, misty, u can smell the forest............

Liturgy - Dawn of Ash (think they only made ths one album, but man it is unbelieveably DEEP as in gutteral.........this must be wat some ppl call brutal death grind!)

Anaal Nathrakh - Total f**king Necro (this collection of demos is one of the most nutcase extreme black metal i've ever heard, pity their albums proper are a bit too 'well-produced'.....)

Grindcrusher (not a band but that seminal Earache comp from 1990 or 1989..........blew me away with all the classicks like Morbid Angel, Carcass, Spazztic Blur etc etc etc....)

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