How is Deicide "brutal death metal"?

Beneath (Iceland) - The Barren Throne album.


Solo comes in at 3:04 in the song I linked. This band is much more melodic in general than most brutal death, which helps it stand out to me.

The Czech band Despise has a song that may work for you; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx-QXQXnp4M. It's from their only full length and if you enjoy brutal/tech death I suggest you take a listen to the whole album. In this song there's some melodic stuff but there's a passage at around 2:50 - 4:00 that might suite your fancy.

Kronos puts a lot of melody in their brutal death metal stuff sometimes:

Thanks, but not really looking for grindcore or powerviolence. Just straight up death metal-- deathgrind is cool, as long as it leans more towards the death metal side of things.

You can try "Throne of Reign" by US Pathology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksHYsMD1xgo

brutal death with slam parts and solos by Shaune Kelley (Ripping Corpse-Hate Eternal) among others as guest leads.

Requesting cheesy melodeath with "F-Zero" guitar leads, similar to Arch Enemy, In Flames, etc.. (At least the earlier works of these bands--I haven't heard the later material).

What do you mean with "f-zero?

I'm guessing along the lines of hyper-melodic, like something you'd hear in a video game.

Like Marionette then?

What's an album or band that sounds like Sinister's Hate? Hard to explain exactly what it is I'm looking for but it's kind of atmospheric, kind of melodic but still pretty straightforward death metal. I don't like anything too atmospheric and I'm definitely not interested in melodic death metal. Also, a lot of parts to each song but not spastic like a lot of technical dm that does this (not necessary but would be great).

(please don't recommend more Sinister, I'm already a huge fan)

This might be a bit obvious, but have you tried Brutality? Their debut sounds reasonably similar to the album in question.

There's all the related Dutch bands. Off the top of my head, Infinited Hate, Thanatos, etc etc etc... (check related bands tab, also band members other bands linked).

I already know them but thanks for trying.

Any bands like Dyscarnate? Other than Dying Fetus.

I'm in the same boat, I love Sinister and I really love Hate but I don't know many albums that sound similar. That said, you might like Gorefest's False (if you're not already familiar). Maybe Houwitser's Embrace Damnation as well, Aad from Sinister was in that project for a while. It's similar to Sinister but closer to a brutal death sound.

Check out Unbreakable Hatred from Canada.

I've wanted to check out Cannibal Corpse for some time but they have such a huge discography I don't really know where to start. OF course many people would say every one of their albums sounds the same.

What 3 albums would you say are their best?

^ It kind of depends what your tastes are. Their albums are samey, but they've been around long enough for some development to have occurred. The debut, Eaten Back to Life, is fairly thrashy compared to what came later. Butchered at Birth saw them get a bit more brutal which continued into the, better in my opinion, Tomb of the Mutilated. Barnes' last album, The Bleeding, toned down the brutality and upped the catchiness. The first two Fisher albums are usually considered garbage though Gallery has its defenders. Many consider the next one, Bloodthirst, a return to form, and I agree. This is also around the time that some extra technicality came into their sound which may or may not matter to you. I'm not as familiar with their more recent works, as they just didn't do much for me on first listen though I recall thinking Kill was a cut above.

If I were going to rank favorites, it would probably be Tomb, Bloodthirst, and Bleeding in that order though it bears mention that Corpse's catalog is more workmanlike in that they don't really have a signature, defining masterpiece like most legends do. You'll probably like several of them, but I doubt you'll find any of them mindblowing.

Early 90's: Tomb is the most brutal, where Bleeding is the catchiest
Late 90's/early 00: Bloodthirst is probably my favorite of this era, with Gallery of Suicide the only album I dont like. Gore Obsessed is a little too filler
Kill til now: Eric Rutan gave it heavier production. Torture felt fresh when it came out and Skeletal Domain seemed even better, but I think it's because of the clearer production.

I prefer their more melodic stuff - Evisceration Plague followed by Bloodthirst and Torture. I thought they lost some heaviness both in sound and songs on A Skeletal Domain. Their earlier stuff is generally more chaotic, if that's what you prefer.

You might want to check out Cannabis Corpse's Tube of the Resinated. IMO, it would be one of Cannibal Corpse's better albums ... if it was Cannibal Corpse.

Looking for old school death metal a la Master, Sadistic Intent, Possessed -- still has a lot of thrash in it, but also pretty dark. Esp curious to know what new bands are playing this style now.

Mortem from Peru

check out pentagram from chile if you haven't yet. The old stuff is classic and the new album is basically old school with modern production. Thanatos might also be up to your alley i think their best work are the third and fourth albums.

Hello everybody,

Would anyone be so kind as to recommend me some epic death metal loosely in the same vein as Cenotaph's "The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden Sorrows", The Chasm's "Reaching the Veil of Death", R'Leyh's "Ancient Terrors", Inanna's "Converging Ages" and the Ancient Gods/Infinitum Obscure split, please?

awesome thanks, Pentagram exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for. Thanatos wouldn't have occurred to me, but I do love their first record, before they got more death metal-sounding.

Anyone care to recommend some death metal in the vein of Repugnant's "Epitome of Darkness", Behemoth's "Demigod"/"The Apostasy" or Angelcorpse's "Exterminate"/"The Inexorable"? I've failed to come across bands that have that level of catchiness, brutality and that kind of slimy, dirty and bloodsoaked quality to the sound (except for Behemoth's latter stuff).

Tribulation - The Horror

Spearhead's Decrowning the Irenarch for the Angelcorpse comparison. It's vicious!

I heard it a while ago, I liked it but I feel it just doesn't reach the level that "Epitome of Darkness" does. Thanks for the rec anyways!



I liked it a lot! The production is a bit plastic (like Of Lucifer and Lightning) but it's very good. Will check their discography now. Thanks!

Yeah, The Horror is more polished instead of gruff and rough like EoD, but the riffs are definitely there and the album slays. Its production is more in line with something like a new age Clandestine so take that in mind and you'll probably enjoy it more.

On DtI, it's a bit polished and clean yes but my reasoning is the same as above, the riffs more than make it count! To me it's pretty much the only album that even touches Exterminate so that's that. Their first one has more black metal in the mix but it has this really savage drumming and Theomachia I didn't really like, sounds too tame and focuses too much on the groove.

PS: For Behemoth I'd assume you're familiar with Hate from Poland?

Merciless - The Awakening
Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
Totten Korps - The King of Hell Reclaims His Throne

For Behemoth check out Veld's Daemonic: The Art of Dantalian

Yeah, that must've been the reason I didn't enjoy The Horror as much as Epitome, but I did like it.
Yes! Decrowning the Irenarch is great! Gave it a listen last night while studying and loved it, it's so vicious and it has that little tinge of thrash that Exterminate has. Loved it.
I know of Hate but never really gave them a proper listen. Care to recommend an album in particular?



Thanks for the recs! Totten Korps is great, one of the few old school local bands I've liked.

Anaclasis onwards it's all cool stuff, though I'd probably tell you to try Erebos first. It's more dynamic and has some of the best material the band has put out. If you want something a bit more savage you can try Azarath which is Inferno's other band. There's also that band everyone talks about, Sarcoptes or whatever. They're British and released an "Egyptian" album last year I believe.

I don't think Beyond is really the style that he was looking for, I think Beyond is much more like Necrovore who do play a different style of DM if you ask me.

But I still suggest to check it out, I own it on vinyl and CD for a reason - one of the best albums for me.

Correction, it's Sarpanitum: http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Sa ... .../473859

Are you not familiar with Sarpanitum drodi? They're really fucking good if you're not, just sayin.

Also while I'm here this is something that's been on my mind for a bit. Anything that sounds like Pyaemia's Malodorous Rancidity? I'm particularly in love with the bit right after the bass noodle, from 1:08 to about 1:35 and then again towards the end of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vraYjjHm_QY

Also I already know of Disavowed so yeah not them. Really just specifically that part of the song is what I'm after.

I am actually, just didn't remember their name correctly (and there's a new thread for Sarcoptes, and I wrote that post on a run on my phone, and I'm getting old... ). I remember hearing their debut, which was praised to hell and back, and not thinking much of it. The sophomore sees history repeating itself.

Goddammit, blasting Exterminate again thanks to these recs and I have only one word: RRRRRRUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHH

Ohh very good!! Damn you got in before my edit... you're one of my go to guru's for death metal so hopefully you see it later.

Oh my, I haven't listened to Pyaemia and Disavowed in almost a decade! Ha, good times when everything was blunt blunted blunter.

I won't mention any of the bands on the similar artists tab, so how about some of these:

- Deamon's Descend Dethrone, really noodly bass and groovey semi-technical with a bit of a Suffocation flair.
- Insision's Beneath the Folds of Flesh (OK OK, so this one is on the similar artists tab but it's a really cool album from memory).
- Beheaded's Perpetual Mockery reminds me a lot of the Style on Cerebral Cereal, the rest of their discography is kind of meh...

There's Flaying from Latvia and Enthrallment from Bulgaria but they both have one feet on the grind, though the later does have an overly clanking bass on the sophomore album. The former has a bit of a Cryptopsy vibe too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdd29RPLIj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_CjdfJJ2G4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSMyrNn9jgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvA6GtryXTQ (I think something's missing here, my CD runtime is nearly 30 minutes)