My list is gay
I suck at making these kinda lists, i barley fit 100 in there and it took me two hours. In the end i was desperate so i put more Emmure than usual into the list. I dont really care about the last row, and the second and third part of list aren't really arranged. So here we go (Wall of text and shitty tongue-in-cheek jokes ahead):
10. Waking The Cadaver - The Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler.
Fuck you, this is THE slam album. The guys in WTC dont know what kinda masterpice they created. Its fun, its catchy, its melodic and brutal. I love the snare tone. This shit is something beautiful.
9. Chelsea Grin - S/T EP
I forgot to put in Count Your Blessings, i knew that i missed something, but i instead put this pretty cool deathcore album. Its totally scene but i love it, favorite part is the sweeping part in outro of Crewcabanger, and poorly done version of Recreant. All songs blow Desolation of Eden out of water (Which is included at the end of my list), and Cheyne-Stokes is faster and not as mechanistic. The only thing better on DoE is Recreant and the fact it has Sonnet of the Wretched. Anyway, enough of talking about this scene shit.
8. Suicide Silence - The Cleansing
I love this because of the guitar tone. The tone here is heavier than Mortician and Slipknot. Well maybe not the first one but Mortician is pretty worthless, and Slipknot is too jumpdafukup. I find myself listening to this often, and if not the whole album, its Unanwsered/Pity for a Coward/Destruction of a Statue. The whole album experience is better, though. So here we leave the -core land into something more threatening like...
7. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Infecting the Crypts intro goes dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun and its fun. Fun to play on guitar, too. Riffwork is top notch and it inspired all above three albums so... I guess it deserves to be better than them. Its not at heavy as The Cleansing but more catchy, i guess.
6. Whitechapel - The Somatic Defilement
This kinda reminds me of Waking The Cadaver. Its pretty melodic and brutal at the same time, but the tone is FAR more threatening and heavy. Features such lyrical gems as "...when i sew your cunt" and "and now you rot!", and this is a pretty good reason to include it in top 10. No really. The lyrics are almost as good as Lord Worm. (i said almost
, i think i myself fell off the chair reading this) Breakdowns are plenty here, and so are slams, so no disappointment. Phil Bozeman is pretty good vocalist by normal standards, and THE best by deathcore standards (Only to be topped by Mitch Lucker, but you know, he died.).
5. Insect Warfare - World Extermination
This album has almost as much blastbeats as Putrefaction in Progress, but hint hint. It doesn't suck and is pretty much awesome. Has plenty of slow riffs, like Wormrot (Why isnt Wormrot in top 10? Ah i remember, i had to make space for WTC) which help release the tension before more blastbeats. Has nice lyrics too. Check them out.
4. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
One of first actually extreme metal albums i heard, i remember i almost shat my pants hearing the first riff (nowadays putrefaction is progress is not brutal enough, i think i need to go to bed). I love the shit out of this record, used to be my number two before i discovered Cryptopsy. This album is inferior to Necroticism because... i dont know. I even like the cover more. Fuck me i should put it at 3. Count Necroticism and Symphonies as equal, because they are equally great and timeless. Digging dual vocals "bad cop vs good cop". This together with Reek of Putrefaction inspired masses of shitty clones which never were as good as Carcass (Well maybe County Medical Examiners, Exhumed is worthless aside from a song or two). Although the clones are plenty, the number never managed to top the number of shitty djent Periphery clones (Djent bashing sentence? Tick).
3. Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious
My friend is constantly trolling me humming a riff similiar to "Corporeal Jigsore Quandary" and saying "i trolled you!1!11!". No one cares but i feel bored and i wanted to rant about that. Featuring the best riff ever, Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious was my top album for a long time, but got dethroned by None So Vile and put into number two (Before i discovered Blasphemy Made Flesh). Riff to Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition sounds oddly similiar to Gangnam Style, but everyone tells me im full of shit. Psy ripped of Carcass, duh. They could make MILLIONS if they recorded the riff with a synth. Aside from riffwork, the kick drum tone is a highlight of the album.
2. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
I could probably write a review about this, thats how brilliant it is. (Im too lazy to do anything, yet im bored, duh, i'd give it a 99%) Lord Worm is the best lyricist, vocalist, live performer and wormeater ever. His vocal style of "Assault on all senses" is truly marvelous and impossible to duplicate, even he couldn't fully do it on Once Was Not. Flo Mounier is the best drummer ever, fuck your George Kolliases and guys from Hate Eternal, this guy manages to be incredibly technical in his patterns, yet doesn't suck and keep them very interesting (Biggest part of what makes Phobophile great is the drumming). Performance of Jon Levasseur and the other rather unknown guitarist is dope, and while Steve Thibault probably wrote some riffs here, Jon is just as good songwriter as Steve is. Lack of Steve here can be felt though, the riffs are not in same style as Blasphemy Made Flesh, the style of riffwork is different. Eric Langlois deserves a mention, too, just listen to Benedictine Convulsions and that proto-deathcore slap bass breakdown over there. Though soon, the songwriting of Cryptopsy would fade.
1. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
One does not simply walk into Mordor. This album features a different bassist and different second guitarist than NSV, and this combination is way more lethal than NSV one. My conspiracy theory is that the source of awesomness of Cryptopsy riffs is not Jon Levasseur, but Steve Thibault. Why would be the other reason to fade into mediocrity after None So Vile? After all, And Then You'll Beg sucks ass more than The Unspoken King. And i hate digideridoos (did i spell it right? no? okay.). End of pointless rambling, this shit is awesome and the best metal album ever. Maybe even the best music album ever, as it effectively connects human suffering and music into one. This just emanates with pure filth and sickness. So does Enmity, but Enmity feels forced in its brutality, while Cryptopsy feels like actually written by a mad, really mad man who is actually very lonely at heart. The melodies say it all. Music goes like blastblastriffriffangryangry, then into melodies, showing a glimmer of hope in this otherwise fucked up world. Solo aren't some atonal whammy bar abuse Slayer shit, they have actual melody (!). You heard Necrophagist Fermented Offal Discharge? These solos are shorter but as awesome. And Lord Worm does a 28 second scream in Open Face Surgery. And writes the best lyrics. Whatever, this is a masterpiece 10/10 would bang.
I feel like i should go to bed, i didn't see sun for a long time.