Help please, I'm new!

[SLASHer]

I just realized that I have not heard much Death. I kinda wanna get an album, but the only record the store by my house has is The Sound of Perseverance. I have read good reviews and I think I am going to buy it. What do you guys think. Is this a good album? Is it a good place to start with Death?

[Bonehead]

You really can't go wrong with any Death album, and Sound is a great album, so snap it up as soon as possible. After that, pick up Symbolic when you can as I think that it is Chuck's masterpiece, even though ~deathboy~ would probably choose Scream Bloody Gore. But my guess is that eventually you will want the entire catalog, as we did.

[Mark Carras]

I know your tastes pretty well, and you would prefer the later era Death releases to the early stuff. So like Bonehead said, buy The Sound of Perseverance. Then get Symbolic as well. Both are cd's you would love.

Yes I know that many of the fans that listen to a ton of death metal will tell you to buy the early stuff, but (like me) you are not a huge death metal fan. So don't listen to them. :D

[-deathboy-]

what these guys said is true. you will prolly dig the latter era death stylings more as it was much more technical and delved into different topics. but then, after you have had to a chance to absorb that, take a listen to leprosy for a true death metal classic. as bonehead pointed out, SBG holds a fond spot in my heart, but leprosy is a much more accessible death metal classic.

[SHUT UP AND DIE]

As an obsessive DEATH METAL fan, I must say...... (drum roll)......

Symbolic was their best effort, hands down. Symbolic and Perserverance are very thrashy in comparison to the more dm related Death stuff. Plus if you're a (barf) Judas Priest fan thay have that Painkiller cover on Perserverance.

Now, if you're ever interested in a REAL dm release from Death: Spiritual Healing all the way. I'm sure I sound like a freak of the dm world when I way that SBG and Lep really don't do all that much for me, but oh well. Spiritual Healing is their best death metal release, whilst Human and Individual Thought Patterns are kind of like awesome links between the dm sound and their later, more thrash/trad sound.

I'll blaspheme also and dare to say that Death is NOT as much of a death metal band as people made/make them out to be.

[-deathboy-]

freak.

but i do agree that, whilst they did help to shape and define the genre, they really aaren't what i think of when i hear the term "death metal". neither is possessed for that matter, and they coined the phrase for fucks sake!

[SHUT UP AND DIE]

freak.

but i do agree that, whilst they did help to shape and define the genre, they really aaren't what i think of when i hear the term "death metal". neither is possessed for that matter, and they coined the phrase for fucks sake!

Yeah, exactly. A lot of people think that death metal is all supposed to sound like one of those two bands or vice versa (kinda like when people think all BM should sound like Venom), when the vast majority doesn't. And yes, I am a freak, tons of my buds are into the early Death stuff, and I will say that I do enjoy it, but it's nothing compared to Symbolic, that album just blew me away the first minute I heard it.

[Bradzilla]

SUAD is a smart lad, Symbolic is indeed Death's finest. Deathboy's right too though, for the pure aggressive old sound you gotta check out Leprosy.

[-deathboy-]

hey bradzilla, congratz on gettin the FA machine rollin again! not sure if i will make the lakepointe show, but keep it metal!
:maiden

[SLASHer]

Yeah, exactly. A lot of people think that death metal is all supposed to sound like one of those two bands or vice versa (kinda like when people think all BM should sound like Venom), when the vast majority doesn't. And yes, I am a freak, tons of my buds are into the early Death stuff, and I will say that I do enjoy it, but it's nothing compared to Symbolic, that album just blew me away the first minute I heard it.

I agree with this. Out of all the Black Metal I have listened to very little actually sounds like Venom, which is good and bad because I like Venom. Would you guys consider Behemoth Black Metal or Death Metal??? I hear a little of both in their sound.

[Bradzilla]

hey bradzilla, congratz on gettin the FA machine rollin again! not sure if i will make the lakepointe show, but keep it metal!
:maiden

Thanks dude. :monkey If you're in the neighborhood, we're playing a low-key warmup show at the Galway Arms on University Ave on 12/29. There will be others later also.

[Bradzilla]

Back when bands like Possessed, Venom and Death were getting started, that kind of stuff WAS death metal and black metal. Everything has evolved so much since then that it's not really the case any longer.
As for Behemoth, I've heard some of their old albums and they were black metal, but all their new stuff, since Satanica, sounds like death metal to my ears.

[-deathboy-]

yea, back in the day, there were'nt a whole lot of subgenres and and such. it was all metal or not. kind of like women. you would either do her, or not. take possessed for instance. they actually coined the phrase "death metal". yet they are a far cry from what death metal actually sounds like. subgenres are great for explaining to someone what something sounds like, but they are a major restriction also.

i think behemoth mixes the two together.
:headbanger

[SHUT UP AND DIE]

Yes, Behemoth is blackened death nowadays. Their early stuff, though, is EXTREMELY authentic black metal, with crappy production and everything....not to mention Nergal's attempts at "singing". :rotfl