(...) very heavy and very crushing but boring(...)

I found the total Abhorrence worship to be way more fun, but obviously fun isn't the goal of Beneath...

Genocide Shrines from Srilanka
Full length Song from the upcoming ep - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejSAnjs3KNo

It happens a lot with some of these new bands trying to capture the OSDM feeling. Some of them are way to simplistic to have any replay value. They are heavy, sure, but bring nothing else to the table. That's why I think bands like Undergang are really amazing, they crush you with heaviness, they also create the proper atmosphere and they know how to use dynamics, they always manage to keep the songs interesting. I guess like in every other movement/trend/whatever, there are the leaders, the good ones and the mediocre. I still remember the BM boom in the 90's and the quantity of copy-cats it created ahah!

Thats kind of why I liked Undergang and Slugathor when I first heard them, they also don't mind getting goofy and including a few grooves in their songs as well.

Well, yeah, agreed on the fact that Sleep is a more fun album than the much more apocalyptic and even Lovecraftian Beneath the Columns, but I guess latter is more what I usually look for in death metal. And I'm not saying Sleep is a bad album, I do enjoy it a whole lot and gave it a very good score, I'm just much much more partial to the debut.

^That Sanguis Imperem was decent but lost its edge fast, very heavy and very crushing but boring much like Angelcorpse, Bolt thrower, and the other bands that influenced them.

Did you just call Bolt Thrower boring?

It has previously been confirmed that Veracs' taste in death metal is very suspect.

Necrolust is doing the OSSDM to the tee. Hellbutcher from Nifelheim on vocals sets them apart from the rest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FidKOaeAh_8he rest.

you say necrolust, but link to necrocurse - which one did you actually mean? (there also seems to be some typoing going on at the end of that url)

Haha, NecroCURSE, doh. You'd think that people that are obviously creative would be able to come up with a name not used by thousands. Necro this and necro that.

Huge list of extremely well known bands

And of course I can't let a thread like this go by without repping one of my favorite bands, Innsmouth. Maybe some day they'll actually put out an album!

Yes, that absolutely has a different sound, what a great song though... I've gotta get that demo (Available anywhere by chance?) Love the slow passage around 3 minutes, and the vocal style is right up my alley. The variety of riffs keeps those songs pretty interesting.

You'll be happy to know that they've (more or less) continued under a new name, Desecresy. And they're about to release their third album in 2014 according to some of the news I've read. The sophomore is very good, although I also find much enjoyment in the debut. It's more Finnish and less Boltthrowerish (R) than Slugathor though. Still, The Doom Skeptron ranks as one of the top DM albums from last year.

That Undergang debut has a really bassy production, so if your speakers are pumping out too much bass the vocals may be lost in translation. Try equalizing it a bit, cut a couple of dBs at 50 and 250Hz for instance.

Going to recommend the debut album, Zealotry - The Charnel Expanse (2013)

The tape is unfortunately sold out but it was a fairly large run (800 copies or something like that?) so it should be floating around somewhere or other. They also have a 7" with two songs that's pretty cool, and a split single with Mongrel's Cross that has a really fucking cool song. If you think of whatever band they reminded you of be sure to name-drop 'em as I've yet to find anything that really sounds all that close to Innsmouth despite their unabashedly old-school worshiping sound.

You'll be happy to know that they've (more or less) continued under a new name, Desecresy. And they're about to release their third album in 2014 according to some of the news I've read. The sophomore is very good, although I also find much enjoyment in the debut. It's more Finnish and less Boltthrowerish (R) than Slugathor though. Still, The Doom Skeptron ranks as one of the top DM albums from last year.