Favorite death metal song?

[Derek]

This is probably a bit of an odd question to ask here but I think there are a few fellow fans of death metal here.

This isn't my favorite song by any means, but I've been rather taken with Amon Amarth of late.

Amon Amarth - Cry of the Blackbirds

[soliloquy]

Although I always prefered doom and sludge.

[pita bread]

hmm...

Arch Enemy - Bridge of Destiny, Taking Back My Soul
In Flames - Stand Ablaze, December Flower
Opeth - Moonlapse Vertigo
Soilwork - Asylum Dance

[mike_lang]

Slayer - Death's Head (

)

[prometheus]

Maybe A Canorous quintet - The Complete Emptiness

https://zingel.dubki.ru:8080/A%20Canorous%20Quintet/1998%20-%20The%20Only%20Pure%20Hate/

[soliloquy]

Slayer - Death's Head (

)

Isn't Slayer thrash/speed?

[mike_lang]

Isn't Slayer thrash/speed?

Yes...perhaps it is borderline, but the subject matter at least seems to qualify, in general, as death metal.

[anodibu]

Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4134872335790423990&q=hypocrisy+final+chapter&total=13&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

[mattgreenecomposer]

I'm glad someone mentioned Slayer.  It seems every heavy rock band today stole from 3 people or bands.  Thats why they all sound the same and there is no originality any more.

Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer, Mike Patton 

If your interested in Heavy metal stuff but didnt grow up in the 80's these people are like the Bach, Beethoven and Wagner of classical music.....everybody copied their ideas and now we have the crap we have today.
Oh well, I still have my old CD's yea!
 

[minor9th]

I'm a big Morbid Angel fan--hard to pick just one, but I guess I'd go for "Rapture."

[ahinton]

Death - metal - er, let me think for a moment - metal dying - rusting - ah, yes, that's it: anything played by Rustropovich.

Maybe there's a reason for such an ineffably silly answer.

I'll get me coat...

Best,

Alistair

[pianowolfi]

Death - metal - er, let me think for a moment - metal dying - rusting - ah, yes, that's it: anything played by Rustropovich.

Maybe there's a reason for such an ineffably silly answer.

I'll get me coat...

Best,

Alistair

Do you mean Rostropovich? (Emphasis on the 3d syllable) I love him, I admire him, he is one of the greatest musicians to me, though....too perfect, sometimes
But why metal-dying-rusting? I don't get it

Death metal...

I have listened to some excerpts from the above posted links and...well...I understand why someone listens to things like that. I have been in that mood sometimes, in my life, where, had I known that some music like that exists, I would maybe have got addicted for a while. Now I can't listen for more than a minute without feeling uncomfortable Nothing against it, of course Just my feelings. Maybe I will think differently in 4 years, who knows?

I'll get me coat..

And...I mean...why do you write "me" instead of "my"? I have read that a few times on this forum and i just don't get it, I mean, does this have any specific dialect source or slang? Like dasdc? Or so? Just asking  

[prometheus]

I don't really see what mood has to do with it.

[pianowolfi]

I don't really see what mood has to do with it.

A lot. At least to me. I mean, I could try to listen just "as an interested musician" Which I honestly tried....

[ahinton]

Do you mean Rostropovich? (Emphasis on the 3d syllable) I love him, I admire him, he is one of the greatest musicians to me, though....too perfect, sometimes
But why metal-dying-rusting? I don't get it

Rost... Rust... Dear me, what I wrote was quite bad enough even before I endeavoured to explain...

"Me" substituted for the grammatically correct "my" is a kind of idiomatic slang in British English (my oh my, that's two explanations in one short post - this'll have to stop...)

Yes - Rostropovich was indeed all that you say and I suppose that it might represent some kind of redeeming gesture to wander off this particular thread topic momentarily in order to to mention him...

Best,

Alistair

[cmg]

A lot. At least to me. I mean, I could try to listen just "as an interested musician" Which I honestly tried....

Yeah, me too.  Listened to "Slayer":  here's what I heard:  it's music since it's definitely organized sound.  Incessant, unvarying beat -- pretty hypnotic, but, then so is that jackhammer hammering away on the street below.  Lead singer either has nodes on his vocal cords by now or is the process of getting them.  Really rancid tone production there, but I suppose it's meant to evoke, what, rage?  Don't hear anything but the most basic chord progressions.  Pretty static.  VERY loud, which, I guess, keeps it from becoming boring -- as long as you're on Exstasy or some other party drug.  Can't imagine tolerating it for very long without major drugs.

"Hypocrisy -- The Final Chapter".  Listened to two minutes of that.  VERY moody, theatrical staging there.  Great lighting.  And, of course, anyone naked from the waist up attracts SOME attention.  Are there lyrics here?  Couldn't hear them, but heard some sort of background, ominous incantation going on.  I only heard two pitches in the guitar line -- a pitch, raised a half-step, then back down again.  Over and over.  Not a lot of variety.  Also, VERY loud.  Auditors seem hypnotized, as always, by the pounding, relentless beat.  I guess drugs make it better.

Can anyone enlighten me about this music?  I like pop.  Who doesn't?  Much of it is terrific.  But this?  I don't get it.  Sounds sophomoric and pompous.  Adolescent angst.  Maybe that's the point and I'm too old to hear it. 

And why are the song titles and band names so, well, arch and pretentious?  Whatever happened to names like Gladys Knight and The Pips?  Simple, direct -- to match the music they made.    

[soliloquy]

Rost... Rust... Dear me, what I wrote was quite bad enough even before I endeavoured to explain...

"Me" substituted for the grammatically correct "my" is a kind of idiomatic slang in British English (my oh my, that's two explanations in one short post - this'll have to stop...)

Yes - Rostropovich was indeed all that you say and I suppose that it might represent some kind of redeeming gesture to wander off this particular thread topic momentarily in order to to mention him...

Best,

Alistair

Bashing that which you don't understand, Terry?

[pianowolfi]

  Can't imagine tolerating it for very long without major drugs.

Rofl that was my thought when I visited a disco last time..... well I actually was quite drunk. And maybe even that (visiting a disco being sloshed)  could happen again

In 2005 I actually went to the Kylie Minogue concert in my town and...well I liked With ear protection, of course

[ahinton]

Bashing that which you don't understand, Terry?

Not bashing anything, irrespective of my understanding or otherwise - merely making a small and self-confessedly not very good joke, as I thought you'd have deduced even without such prior admission from me, let alone with it.

Who is this Terry to whom you refer de temps en temps?

Best,

Alistair

[Derek]

Yeah, me too.  Listened to "Slayer":  here's what I heard:  it's music since it's definitely organized sound.  Incessant, unvarying beat -- pretty hypnotic, but, then so is that jackhammer hammering away on the street below.  Lead singer either has nodes on his vocal cords by now or is the process of getting them.  Really rancid tone production there, but I suppose it's meant to evoke, what, rage?  Don't hear anything but the most basic chord progressions.  Pretty static.  VERY loud, which, I guess, keeps it from becoming boring -- as long as you're on Exstasy or some other party drug.  Can't imagine tolerating it for very long without major drugs.

"Hypocrisy -- The Final Chapter".  Listened to two minutes of that.  VERY moody, theatrical staging there.  Great lighting.  And, of course, anyone naked from the waist up attracts SOME attention.  Are there lyrics here?  Couldn't hear them, but heard some sort of background, ominous incantation going on.  I only heard two pitches in the guitar line -- a pitch, raised a half-step, then back down again.  Over and over.  Not a lot of variety.  Also, VERY loud.  Auditors seem hypnotized, as always, by the pounding, relentless beat.  I guess drugs make it better.

Can anyone enlighten me about this music?  I like pop.  Who doesn't?  Much of it is terrific.  But this?  I don't get it.  Sounds sophomoric and pompous.  Adolescent angst.  Maybe that's the point and I'm too old to hear it.

And why are the song titles and band names so, well, arch and pretentious?  Whatever happened to names like Gladys Knight and The Pips?  Simple, direct -- to match the music they made.   

Before you close the door on metal for yourself, check out this song by opeth

Face of Melinda

it gets heavier later in this song. But many of their songs contain many passages which provide extreme contrast to the heavy, loud style of usual death metal bands.  I've always thought to myself, if there is ONE death metal band I will still listen to and enjoy when I'm 95...it's Opeth.  Not because it is easier on the ears, but just because it satisfies me as completely as the most complex and revered classical pieces do.  I know I'm not SUPPOSED to like a metal band as much as I like Beethoven (said with a grin), but, I do. I can't help it. I am who I am.


to me, metal has as much variety in it as anything else in the human race. if you know where to look, there are gems.  if you don't try, you'll probably only see the most shocking and ugly bands, which includes Slayer and Cannibal Corpse.  Though, I do admire the guitar work of both bands, I find Cannibal Corpse completely tasteless and Slayer a bit too grating on my nerves. I get in the mood for Slayer every now and then though.

[cmg]

Hey, Derek, thanks for the link. 

"Face of Melinda" is a fine, fine song!  Really haunting.  These guys are real pros.

Well, I just learned that I could actually appreciate death metal.  Love it when closed doors open.

Again, thanks.

[soliloquy]

Lace by Lace by Possession Spawn is also good, but there isn't a good video of it on youtube =/

[anodibu]

Hey, Derek, thanks for the link. 

"Face of Melinda" is a fine, fine song!  Really haunting.  These guys are real pros.

Well, I just learned that I could actually appreciate death metal.  Love it when closed doors open.

Again, thanks.

You should check this song out as well. It's one of my favourite Opeth songs. It starts calm with acoustic guitars and and slowly builds up with electrical guitars and ultimately winds down again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQuloMBttI

[minor9th]

Lace by Lace by Possession Spawn is also good, but there isn't a good video of it on youtube =/

Sounds like you have a taste for the extreme! Have you heard Necrophagist, Brain Drill, Cryptopsy, or Decrepit Birth?

[prometheus]

I know cryptopsy.

[soliloquy]

Sounds like you have a taste for the extreme! Have you heard Necrophagist, Brain Drill, Cryptopsy, or Decrepit Birth?

Yes, Necrophagist's "Advanced Corpse Tumor" is the link I supplied originally as my fav.

[ahinton]

Brain Drill

Well now, there's a good idea! (albeit probably not in the sense originally intended here)...

Best,

Alistair

[soliloquy]

just wanted to say someone uploaded a high quality rec of the previously mentioned "Lash by Lash" by Spawn of Possession:

And here's that Necrophagist one I was talking about:

[gilad]

I can't remember the name of the song. But the words are something about skulls and minced body organs. Not really haha.

Although i don't listen to death metal its pretty good music.

[dnephi]

My friend beth

[pita bread]

You should check this song out as well. It's one of my favourite Opeth songs. It starts calm with acoustic guitars and and slowly builds up with electrical guitars and ultimately winds down again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQuloMBttI

To Bid You Farewell is my second favorite Opeth song.

[countyorik]

Some of my favourite death metal songs, off the top of my head are:

Morbid Angel - God of Emptiness
Nile - User Maat Re
Cannibal Corpse - Addicted to Vaginal Skin
Carcass - Crepitating Bowel Erosion

and to a somewhat lesser extent.

Death - Crystal Mountain

I did notice that Slayer, Hypocrisy (Final Chapter Era) and Opeth were mentioned... It should be noted that none of these bands are Death Metal.

[yuc4h]

Impaled northern moonforest

[anodibu]

I did notice that Slayer, Hypocrisy (Final Chapter Era) and Opeth were mentioned... It should be noted that none of these bands are Death Metal.

You have a point, I don't consider Slayer and Opeth as death metal neither. For Hypocrisy there is discussion possible, though the song I posted isn't typical death metal.
Anyway I don't listen much to hardcore death metal bands, I am more of a black metal fan.