Ah, Symphonia of course lol. 1 year, guys

How about Legend (US)? Only one album, half of it amazing. I feel that playing-wise they were magnificent, but that they had a little way to go before crafting an entire album full of classic tunes. But they could have done it, had they stuck around longer. Damn shame that From the Fjords is all we've got.

Dopamine. They've only put out like 5 songs in total, mostly in 2010, but they're some of the finest post-black metal I've ever heard. The guy behind it had a new project (in 2011) that released 2 songs though... No further info beyond that but I hope something's on the way.

Anytime man. Just hope you enjoy it and spread the hate! True that, number of bands I've found just reading threads on here is huge, then you just pop back over to the main site and look them all up.

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Vio-lence as well, now Rob is in a subpar post-thrash band.

Funny that despite their debut, I did enjoy Thresholds and Ethereal Tomb as well. Some people don't care about them, but I liked them for what they did. The first album I ever heard from these guys was Ethereal Tomb and I really enjoyed it (this was back in 2005).

Coroner. The half-album's-worth on their S/T is really excellent. They lessened some of the repetition that hindered the more aggressive songs on Grin, but simultaneously exploring the longer and more atmospheric/wall-of-sound style on other tracks, and while I don't like admitting it, the drumming improved on the tracks not featuring Marky as well.



Got to disagree on this one; Choir of Horrors is indeed very good in its realm and I like the 80's stuff even more, but Rotten Perish was kind of simplified and drier, and the last one wasn't good at all.

I was mentioned in a piece of a paragraph earlier in the thread but dammit: Possessed! All three of their main releases were fantastic and still are fantastic. Jeff Becerra's vocals ruled in a Van Drunen kind of way (in his own rite), and just imagine what could have been bestowed upon us had this band continued what it started? Note: sure, they are listed as 'active' but about that new material...more like 'inactive'

Who'd think another album by S.O.D wouldn't be fun?

I would have loved anything more form Layne Staley and though AIC continues, imagine another release by Mad Season with him at the helm? Fuck.

Dio ended too early. (Capt'n Obvious, I know)

Dismember - yes long career, no, I've never had a chance to see them. One more (US) tour?

yeah, Possessed were HUGELY influential, too. Many death metal bands afterward (including Van Drunen's Pestilence) claimed a direct influence from them. Probably the first band ever to use pure death metal vocals, although Death(Mantas) started right around that same time. While I agree that their discography is short, it's kind of hard to say whether they ended too early. All other internal band quarrels aside, the chemistry of that band was wierd with Larry Lalonde- he plainly wasn't into that kind of music after the first album came out. It's said he was almost entirely responsible for the second and third releases having more Metallica-like songs on them as opposed to the raging hardcore proto-death metal on the debut. So I'd argue that they simply weren't destined to last, unless they replaced Larry Lalonde, or if not, well, who knows what their future releases would have sounded like- death-funk? (is there such a thing, probably?)

As far as them being "active" or not, that's one of those controversial grey areas I've noticed on this website. A band will reunite, or in some cases just one original member will hire three or four "hired guns" and play a couple special reunion shows here and there, or maybe even do a short tour. But they have no real intention of permanantly reviving the band, touring extensively or recording anything new- it's just typically a one-off show, either for a quick cash grab or for "shits and grins" old time sake. I think that's basically the case with Possessed. If they (or rather, he; at this point) decides to put some new music out then more power to em as far as being considered "active."

Realm were an interesting band, in the sense that their 2 albums were quite distinctive and inspired.

Witchfinder General, Acid Bath, Reverend Bizarre, original Alice in Chains, original Kyuss and Type O Negative. All of these bands were the very definition of consistency in terms of material they've produced.

Yes, perhaps, but do you really think these bands ended "too early"? I understand being sad at their demise, but most of these bands had a chance...wrote a bunch of albums, developed a big fanbase, toured around the world. My idea of a band that "ends too early" is one that's nipped in the bud as it were, just as they were developing something really special. A perfect case would be a band that only got to release a few demos and one LP, and never got a proper tour due to bad chemistry, death or some other unfortunate circumstance. You could argue that bands like Reverend Bizarre, Kyuss and Type O already had reached the apex of their possibility. I mean, Reverend Bizarre, for example, took their sense of indulgence to the absolute extreme with So long, Suckers: I know they had planned to do two more albums, but really, I can't think of a more appropriate way to say both a farewell and a "fuck you" to their career as a band. You could also say that Type O came full circle in a way with Dead Again, and it is an oddly appropriate way for them to "go out", being a more naturalistic and "rootsy" sounding record than their previous bunch. AIC had a huge amount of success as a band and anyway, are still active....too bad about layne but, you know, their sound lives on, and they still go on world tours.

Ok, so another case of a band that ended too early for me was Sorrow from the uS. Their EP was nothing too special, but the hatred and Disgust album, for me, is an amazing slab of doomy death metal. I always wanted to know where they would have taken the sound next. APparently some people think they dragged out their songs excessively, so perhaps they would have tightened it all up and created a masterpiece of to-the-point, impactful music that drew equally from Slayer and the slow parts of Celtic Frost.

I dunno, I agree with Acid Bath, but as far as Type O and Alice in Chains go, AIC are still very much awesome. I mean, yeah, it's a damn shame Layne had to go the way he did, he was a great vocalist, but their sound has lived on. It's not like they're pissing all over the original stuff. And Type O, they put out tons of albums, and no, I didn't want Peter to go and I was as shocked and saddened as everyone else, but the fact is that they realistically took their sound as far as I think they could without progressing into different genres or recycling. They were around for years, whereas Acid Bath WAS a real tragedy, as they could have still done all sorts of shit. Two great, nay, fantastic albums, and I think they could have put out at least one more were it not for the unfortunate death of their bassist.

Well, this is more opinionative, but Sonic Syndicate. Their first album, Eden Fire, was fucking AWESOME! And then after that they kinda slowly withered away and died. I keep dreaming of a bunch of guys getting together and picking up where SS left off with Eden Fire.

Hypnosia, one of the best modern thrash albums.