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Topic: Death Metal vs. Black Metal Posted: November 05 2012 at 02:10
Black metal for sure. Though there are death metal bands I love, such as Between the Buried and Me, there is no music that chills the soul like black metal.
I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't
their first few albums are classic, man! definitely got mediocre after that though... still, i'll take some boring new Cannibal Corpse over the garbage that is the last two Death records any day
Their first few albums are especially what I'm objecting to. Butchered at Birth is probably the most unintentionally funny album I have ever heard. Their newer albums are completely uninteresting, but at least they're not comically bad. And you must be the first person I have seen who doesn't like Symbolic.
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Posted: November 04 2012 at 03:12
Death metal for me. Especially lo-fi recorded black metal turn me off completely. There are exceptions but that´s my general feeling about it. i remember when the second wave black metal artists began to flood the extreme metal scene in the early- to mid-nineties. I hated most of it. I´ve come to like a lot of it in time (for instance I absolutely adore a band like Satyricon these days, and I used to dislike them), but I guess some of the feelings from back then are still stuck in my mind.
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Posted: November 04 2012 at 02:57
Big fan of both styles here, I think I'll go with black metal... it has better melodies I think, while death metal focuses more on rhythm, and I'm more of a melody person. Another great choice would be Blackened Death Metal, Akercocke is one of the best bands in the metal and prog genres, I think.
Edited by Ferturi - November 04 2012 at 02:57
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Posted: November 03 2012 at 13:03
CPicard wrote:
^Well, I must confess that I barely know Morbid Angel
(the political shenanigans of David Vincent disturbed me at these
times). In fact, I just listened to some tracks from "Illud Divinum Insanus" and... Well, I liked it...
dude Illud Divinum Insanus is f**king horrendous. but it doesn't matter. I'm more concerned with the fact that you claim to like death metal but aren't familiar with Morbid Angel's early work.
Educate yourself
Their first two albums are top-tier death metal, no arguments.
HarbouringTheSoul wrote:
Not a big fan of either, but I do have my favorites. Black metal wins,
even though I like the band Death more than any black metal band.
Cannibal Corpse, on the other band, are garbage, and I doubt I will ever
change about that.
their first few albums are classic, man! definitely got mediocre after that though... still, i'll take some boring new Cannibal Corpse over the garbage that is the last two Death records any day
Not a big fan of either, but I do have my favorites. Black metal wins, even though I like the band Death more than any black metal band. Cannibal Corpse, on the other band, are garbage, and I doubt I will ever change about that.
Edited by HarbouringTheSoul - November 03 2012 at 12:43
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Posted: November 03 2012 at 12:21
^Well, I must confess that I barely know Morbid Angel (the political shenanigans of David Vincent disturbed me at these times). In fact, I just listened to some tracks from "Illud Divinum Insanus" and... Well, I liked it...
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Posted: November 01 2012 at 17:10
^
interestingly you mention Terrorizer (more grindcore than death metal) but not Morbid Angel...
Also, besides Loudblast, Agressor and Gojira, France has Supuration, Massacra, Mercyless, Misanthrope, Maëlstrom, Kalisia
Anyway, I like both.
Black metal has Lugubrum, Impiety (well blackened thrash), Funeral Mist, Dark Funeral, Rotting Christ, Emperor, Abigail Williams...
Death metal has Cédric's above-mentioned bands, and also Suffocation, Dismember, Trauma, Morgoth ('odium' is a masterpiece), Dark Tranquillity (early), Amorphis (early)...
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
Oh, sorry, just a natural reflex. Let me just summarize my current stream of thoughts: NAPALM DEATH CARCASS DEATH ENTOMBED BOLT THROWER OBITUARY LOUDBLAST AGRESSOR PESTILENCE EDGE OF SANITY GOJIRA LANDMINE MARATHON TERRORIZER
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 16:17
they're gross :P but i used to be super into metal and especially underground stuff so I came out of it with a very elitist mindset, i can't stand some of the current bands trying to play black metal like Krallice or Wolves In The Throne Room. They seem to try too hard to fit into a certain niche instead of being natural, but it's inevitable when a genre becomes popular enough to be trendy.
For me a good example of the direction black metal should go in is something like this
some elements of death metal present as well but it's still a genuine expression of metal rather than trying to be a certain kind of this or that like most bands today
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Posted: October 28 2012 at 15:59
black metal for me. I used to be a huge metalhead and loved both genres but black metal just has a lot more variation and potential for different moods and emotions. Death metal is usually just the same kind of angry aggressive vibe, black metal can range from something terribly punishing and raw like Blasphemy or Conqueror to something really ambient and atmospheric like Burzum or Weakling. But really though, traditional metal > all
Gotta say neither. Back in the day I used to like Death Metal but now...ugh I can't listen to it. I pretty much like Death, and maybe 2 or 3 others. Just boring and cold. At least Death had a sense of groove.
Black Metal is also pretty terrible though. We on PA spew love over the 20 good ones which are progressive/avant/folk ones but 99% is just terrible trash.
That's for the straight up not proggy kind. If you wanna talk progressive metal, I'd probably take black since it tends to be more atmospheric and avant.
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which are progressive/avant/folk ones but 99% is just terrible trash.