Suffocation- Seeds of The Suffering

Happy 25th Anniversary to Effigy of the Forgotten

Suffocation- Jesus Wept

My favorite from this album. Always wish it was a live staple over Liege or Crypts.

Am I missing out by not digging further into Suffocation?

Yes, my friend. Suffocation is one of death metal's finest bands.

I tried Effigy a while ago but couldn't get into it. It may be time to try it out again.

Try getting used to bands like Deicide and Morbid Angel first, especially the latter. If you don't like them, then I don't think you'll dig Suffocation.

Was just listening to that album earlier. Seeds of the Suffering is such a unbelievably awesome song. Love that minute long trade off soloing in the middle of the song.

Also, I believe Death's Human came out that same day.

I don't like Deicide and Morbid Angel. I thought I would but they strike me the wrong way. I liked some Suffocation but they didn't click yet, so I think I'll give them a shot.

Try songs like "Brood Of Hatred", "To Weep Once More", "Beginning Of Sorrow", "Marital Decimation", "Pierced From Within", etc. I didn't find them particularly hard to get into, but they take aggression and brutality to the next level, so it's normal to not understand what they're all about at first. Just explore death metal at your own pace and will.

Ancient - Svartalvheim (the album)

I really don't understand why this record never gets any attention, it's easily one of the best BM albums ever released

because Ancient was a joke.

Aura Noir- Dreams Like Deserts mcd

where the riffs started....

(Care to explain?)

Iron Maiden - Heaven Can Wait

My favorite song from the album

Peste Noir - Peste Noir

I think this is my favorite of Peste Noir's oddball material. Love the acrobatic riffs and how the drunken accordion melody/guitars lurch around happily in "Démonarque," for example.

Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came

This band is quickly turning into one of my favorites.

Dornenreich - Nächtlich liebend

Not usually a fan of keyboard-heavy post-second-wave black metal, but the vocals make it worth it, and the riffing isn't that bad.

Intestine Baalism - Anatomy of the Beast

One of the few bands I know that have a good balance of melodic and brutal. Kind of Japan's answer to Dismember or Hypocrisy. I missed the chance to see them in Japan a few months ago.

Suffocation - Pierced From Within

...yeah sc you're definitely missing out.

I just listened to (1993) Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract.
As usual with this band, it went from one hear to the other without letting there anything.

(1991) Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten.
Chainsaw guitars!

The Gathering - Mandylion

No chainsaw guitars!

Decembre Noir - Ghost Dirge

nice take on death/doom

Eh, not as much as you are by not getting into Deicide and Morbid Angel. TBT I don't really listen to Suffocation anymore. I just gave it a spin because 25th anniversary.

Cranium - Riders of Damnation

Semi-obscure late 90s speed/black/thrash metal from Sweden. Never really heard riffs like these before, at first they just sound like good old super fast Teutonic thrash ones, but there's a pretty strong eerie second-wave black vibe about them as well. Might be the production. Either way this ROCKS

Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption

Hell yes!

Suffocation is the easy 2nd place to the eternal Cannibal Corpse/Vader deadlock in terms of my favorite death metal band. If you didn't like Effigy, you probably won't like the rest of their discography, in all honesty. They get more technical (Breeding the Spawn), heavier (Pierced from Within), and more hooky (Despise the Sun), but overall their formula doesn't change much. They're not the type of band you can see live and instantly pick out which songs are from the beginning or end of their career based simply on the sound, other than maybe Reincrimation, which I don't even think they play anyway, but that's like the only song with any of the lingering thrash influence that death metal still had in 91. Their post-reunion stuff is noticeably inferior to the initial run, with Frank's vocals obviously deteriorating (though picking out his hilariously thick "New Yawk" accent through his growls is funny) and I'm still convinced that all the best riffs and songwriting tricks had to have been Cerrito's doing, since nothing strikes the masterful blend of brutality and memorability as his time in the band.

I like how they were more popular when deathcore was totally ubiquitous though. Not because they resonated with the crowd or they released a great album at the time or anything (they actually released the only one I don't care for in 2009), but because every single metal fan who hated deathcore was constantly saying "Fucking hell, Suicide Silence, if you want to put breakdowns in death metal, do it how fucking Suffocation does it".


Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Like four of the nine tracks on this album are among my all time favorite death metal songs. I flip flop between which version I prefer more (this one or Human Waste), but Infecting the Crypts is seriously right next to Hammer Smashed Face for the definitive death metal song for me. Pure violence.

"My Kantele" by Amorphis

Not a bad start to the day!

How so? A lot of "true" bm bands wished they released an album as strong as Svartalvheim, songwriting wise.

Just tried the Suffocation again and I just can't stand it for the most part. I dig a lot of the riffwork but everything is done in a style that does nothing for me. I also don't like the vocals. At all.

Benediction - Transcend the Rubicon

So freaking awesome. This post probably makes me look like a hypocrite, but whatever haha.

"Transformation" -
Sonne Adam

I've known about these guys forever, and even had them on a hard drive before at some point but I never got around to listening to them! This is good.

Yeah, I know, but cut me some slack. I've liked death metal for about 2 and a half months, probably not even.

Fair enough. I have spurts of not liking Suffocation too. It took me nearly ten years to really appreciate Brutal/ Technical stuff. I'm only now getting into the style as a whole.

"MMXIII" -
Malthusian

This is some interesting stuff here.

This was always one of my favorite DM albums. Been a while since I heard it, but the way they write songs is marvelous.

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm album

Good for a walk on a bright sunny day like this.

Katavasia

not sure if I like this yet or not.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse

Probably my favorite of theirs.

Gamma Ray- Majesty

Seriously, this whole album is SO FUCKING GOOD.

Curious, have you taken a crack at Scream Bloody Gore, Leprosy or Seven Churches yet?

Gamma Ray- Revelation

Never played live. A shame.

All of those albums rule on massive levels. I didn't really say much on here when I finally got into Death (this was a couple weeks ago) but I actually really love Symbolic, SBG, and Leprosy. Haven't heard Spiritual Healing yet, but I plan to. I remember talking about them not clicking with me, but after a few listens to the debut and Symbolic, I got hooked. I actually knew of Possessed when I was little because of Larry Lalonde (I'm a massive fan of him) and I liked them back when I only knew thrash.

Hell yes is correct my friend. Really love when Napalm goes into a groove on this album. Unfit earth, circle of hypocrisy, the chains that bind us, if the truth be known etc. These songs all have fucking awesome grooves.

MINDSNARE!!!!!!!

Helmet - Renovation

Probably the worst of their initial run(Aftertaste) but still good.

Ereb Altor - Sacrifice

Perfect for a chill weekend and oncoming fall.

Hexenhaus - Phobia

All of the albums by this band amaze me but this is one of my favorites. Mike Wead's solos are just incredible.