Best Swedish Death Metal Band?

by **Bestial Bill** on Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:41 am

Holy Crap! Lions! wrote:
Bestial Bill wrote:
Holy Crap! Lions! wrote:So Morbid Angels only death metal album was Altars? I have altars on picture disc LP and play the shit out of it, don't treat me like some noob.

Lord of All Fevers and Plagues, as an example, has intensity but thats about it. What use is speed and aggression if you don't have something to contrast it with? That's why Altars gets so boring. There's no real distinction between the songs.

No, Altars isn't their only death metal album, but I think that Domination and, to some degree Covenant, while great metal records, aren't that dark or obscure, and further have fairly simple structures.

What Morbid Angel were great at in their early days was for me complete death metal: obscure melodies, measured blasting, killer riffing, loads of time changes, complex but memorable songs, superb individual performances, great lyrics, etc. If you think all the songs on Altars sound the same then it seems we haven't been listening to the same album. Strange that you 'play the shit' out of an album that 'gets so boring.'

Strange that you only like 'obscure' bands. You didn't say Domination or Covenant, you said Morbid Angels later stuff directly after mentioning Altars. Blessed Are The Sick is far better than Altars.

Standout songs on Altars? Chapel of Ghouls, Suffocation and Immortal Rites.

I would hardly consider Morbid Angel, Immolation and Darkthrone to be 'obscure' in the sense of unknown, even if they have an obscure sound. Either way, we clearly differ on what we enjoy in music and what we like in DM; this argument is pretty pointless now.

by **James** on Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:14 pm

Yes, things are really going nowhere.

by **Holy Crap! Lions!** on Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:05 pm

Bestial Bill wrote:
Holy Crap! Lions! wrote:Either way, we clearly differ on what we enjoy in music and what we like in DM; this argument is pretty pointless now.

But it was fun wasn't it?

I don't think our tastes are that dissimilar, we just like different albums.

by **Bestial Bill** on Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:29 pm

Heh, you're right, and I'd certainly rather discuss that than some Division 3 thrash band like Xentrix or Toxik! I guess we'll find out how similar our tastes our when Sekhmet play Reanimator in July.

by **The Fourth Norseman** on Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:35 pm

Bestial Bill wrote:Heh, you're right, and I'd certainly rather discuss that than some Division 3 thrash band like Xentrix or Toxik! I guess we'll find out how similar our tastes our when Sekhmet play Reanimator in July.

oh you'll pay. Don't think you wont pay.

by **boovidge** on Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:07 pm

The Fourth Norseman wrote:
Bestial Bill wrote:Heh, you're right, and I'd certainly rather discuss that than some Division 3 thrash band like Xentrix or Toxik! I guess we'll find out how similar our tastes our when Sekhmet play Reanimator in July.

oh you'll pay. Don't think you wont pay.

Nixon from the simpsons :lol:

Calling Toxik 3rd division is ultimate FAIL.

by **Holy Crap! Lions!** on Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:32 pm

Bestial Bill wrote:Heh, you're right, and I'd certainly rather discuss that than some Division 3 thrash band like Xentrix or Toxik! I guess we'll find out how similar our tastes our when Sekhmet play Reanimator in July.

by **phodg** on Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:44 pm

I prefer "Blessed" to "Altars", although a lot of the songs on the first two were written at the same time. You can hear early versions of both on the "Abominations Of Desolation" demo which eventually got released on CD. It's a great mix of both albums (and features Mike Browning on drums and was recorded before Dave Vincent joined).

by **Voidhanger** on Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:00 pm

MartinC wrote:Not my fault you made a rubbish poll. Someone close this thread and ban him.

heh.

Well for me Entombed simply because Clandestine changed my perception of what death metal could be, taking that raw punk/hardcore element and chucking it in with atmosphere just shat on everything for me.
At The Gates gotta be a very close second too.

by **Darkweasel** on Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:47 pm

I'm actually listening to the new Entombed album "Serpent Saints" right now. In my humble opinion, it's the best thing they've released for years.
Riffs. Lots of riffs.

by **phodg** on Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:25 pm

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I agree. I listened to it over the weekend and again yesterday. Best thing they've done since "Wolverine Blues". They've even thrown a few blast beats in there.

by **STD_Caps** on Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:42 pm

It's not out yet, is it? Either way, that's cool news. Possibly the first death metal band I got into.

by **Holy Crap! Lions!** on Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:34 am

Entombed's new album is out?

:doh:

by **phodg** on Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:42 pm

Not yet.

by **The Rash** on Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:27 am

I voted Unleashed. They're cheesy but they were the best live at Masters of Death. But ATG owns em all.