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I listened to a few minutes of the albums posted by deathmetal, and feel it might need to be an addition to the Clergy Pipe Smokers thread. I'll admit to liking some of it though, Black Sabbath in particular. My problem is, I'm now an old fart with tinnitus, but I always liked hearing different kinds of music. The metal music I am more familiar with is of the heavy metal type. I have a couple of albums by Nine Inch Nails that I like and play from time to time, and I also have an interesting album I got in the late 80s that works the senses called Nosferatu by Art Zoyd. It was made to be a soundtrack for the silent film of the same name. There's so many different kinds of music that's been made down through the years, and it all quite interesting. 8)
In high school I hated metal until I sang with the Milwaukee symphony...the layered rhythms and chords in metal then made sense. If this sounds weird it's ok my wife thought that was nuts too
Cries of the Past by Uneroath after singing Handels Messiah makes sense to me though
Cries of the Past by Uneroath after singing Handels Messiah makes sense to me though
The music just conjures up such raw, primal rage. It's funny how we become our like our parents at some point. It conjures up memories of my Mom's reactions to hearing me cranking up Grand Funk or Led Zepplin. She'd barg into my room slamming down my turntable, yelling, "This crap makes me want to KILL!!!"
Not my genre at all......... but I drive my kids nutz with my music of choice. I can veer into different realms, but don't stay long in the metal spot.... Makes me a bit ill....... 
Here you go George. The best metal video ever. Hang in there until about the 45 second mark. 8O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFWazj7Ud8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFWazj7Ud8
I was never a fan of straight death metal, I found it far too repetitive. I do like a bit of black metal though, or even blackened death on occasion. There are a lot of tech-death bands on the go at the moment but it's a very hit and miss sub genre. I loved the last Fallujah album though; great musicianship, tastful atmospherics and I can actually make out the occasional lyric!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWIF-hxJEng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWIF-hxJEng
Obituary's "World Demise" was the song I was attempting to embed, but I can't figure the embedding process out and I need to leave for work.
I've always found it funny that I can enjoy punk, black metal, but find death metal one dimensional (with a few scant exceptions). More than anything I do enjoy the over the top imagery and band names/song titles. It's theatre, it's a character. Sort of like the "hipster" thing several of you like to go on about.
As with smokes though, to each his own, I'm not one to judge.
As with smokes though, to each his own, I'm not one to judge.
I think that's a good idea. Death Metal will lead you to religion. I will try to explain this briefly, because my tendency is to ramble on.
(1) There are musical similarities between death metal and church music, including selective use of the whole scale and use of form; this is a response to the call/response method of the blues, which probably originated in Scotland of all places.
(2) Death metal terminated in black metal, historically. This was music which took the anti-mainstream/esoteric/occult views of death metal further into nature worship, paganism and a type of devotional.
(3) People forget the full Nietzsche quote: "God is dead; God remains dead; and we have killed him" (paraphrase). Without an inward impetus to resurrection, there is no discovering of God. Death metal takes the Nietzsche path of "undergoing" (through animality) to restoration.
$0.02, which is now worth almost as much as two pesos in 1987.
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The closest I get to that is K.K. Null or Godflesh.
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Seems the peak of the genre to me. 1988-1993 were its busy years.
@scarface
Indeed!
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My Mom hated all of it, but warmed up to Slayer over time.
@theosprey
An essential band, but I included Hellhammer, their previous iteration. I should've tossed Morbid Tales on there too!
Excuse me but lumping in any of those death metal bands with Black Sabbath is blasphemy. Ozzie actually sings, he doesn't just scream into a microphone with lyrics that no one can understand. Black Sabbath plays more than one cord of music in their songs. Black Sabbath 4 is one of the greatest hard rock albums in the history of hard rock. Me and my band learned everyone of their songs and played them pretty damn well. Other hard rock bands were Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep,Grand Funk Railroad, too name a few. Death Metal( my son was into that and his band played it in my house) is a form of music that is an affront to real music. Every death metal band sounds the exact same, with the exact same singer screaming into their microphones at the top of their lungs and being totally unintelligible.
Because my parents used to tell me my music was garbage and a total affront to the music they grew up listening to, (Sinatra,Tony Bennet, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and plenty of others, my parents choices of jazz was something I listened to an appreciated) I gave my son's music the time and consideration that my parents never gave my music. After giving his music every shot I could, I had to determine that his band sucked, his music sucked and the entire genre of death metal, sucked dead donkey dicks.
I really tried to find something of value in it, but no matter how hard I tried, I could do nothing but call it like I saw it, garbaaaaggge. Please do not get upset with me death metal connoisseurs I really really tried to like you. I am a musician( drums and other percussion instruments) so I have a good ear for all kinds of different music. I like old Motown, Jazz, Classical, Reggae, Sinatra, Dean Martin, and other crooners, almost every genre there is, but death metal is beyond my understanding.
Because my parents used to tell me my music was garbage and a total affront to the music they grew up listening to, (Sinatra,Tony Bennet, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and plenty of others, my parents choices of jazz was something I listened to an appreciated) I gave my son's music the time and consideration that my parents never gave my music. After giving his music every shot I could, I had to determine that his band sucked, his music sucked and the entire genre of death metal, sucked dead donkey dicks.
I really tried to find something of value in it, but no matter how hard I tried, I could do nothing but call it like I saw it, garbaaaaggge. Please do not get upset with me death metal connoisseurs I really really tried to like you. I am a musician( drums and other percussion instruments) so I have a good ear for all kinds of different music. I like old Motown, Jazz, Classical, Reggae, Sinatra, Dean Martin, and other crooners, almost every genre there is, but death metal is beyond my understanding.
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