Ok fine I’ll be that guy. I like Illud. I prefer it over Kingdoms Disdained even. Illud is basically the death metal equivalent to The Room. I also unironically enjoy the song 10 More Dead. Kingdoms disdained is boring which is something you could NEVER accuse Illud of being. 1. Altars 2. Gateways 3. Covenant 4. Formulas 5. Blessed 6. Heretic 7. Illud 8. Domination 9. Kingdoms
Great video on a great band. A few things though. Megiddo - The Devil and the Whore is a great companion to Unchain The Wolves. No mention of the drum sound on Phoenix Rising? Defiance on CD is too compressed with low guitars, but get a vinyl version as the mix is an improvement. Even the Pic LP sounds a lot better. Definitely worth buying another copy of.
This dude actually said the tracks Chaos of Forms, and The Brain Scramblers were nothing special!?? How could anyone ever take you seriously after that?
Voices and hiss is more experimental, they cant just keep doing the same stuff, so they have to keep the grindcore soul with a bit of experimental riffs
my favourite thing abouts dismember's music is that they were able to incorporate melody in some of their songs without going full into melodic death metal while some others are straight death metal i think kärki's vocals are on point on almost every album and he has a really distinctive style if they are not going to release new music i would love to love some re-recordings of old songs just as Sodom did with the 40 years record
Nice ranking of Bolt thrower pretty on par with mine,just picked up Those once loyal on cd a few days ago.Bolt thrower went out with a bang with that album for sure.
Nice list man, for me I would flip best with great because as good as Altars and Blessed are, Covenant and Formulas are just next level. I would also put Gateways in great, I find it to be a very underrated album but love the atmosphere. I think you hit the nail on the production on Heretic, but it's actually so bad that it masks the fact that some of the songs are actually good. Heretic songs performed live are pretty enjoyable for me. Overall not a good album though, I totally agree. In case you're interested, there's a show from after Formulas was released where they play all the songs faster than the album versions with amazing sound engineering and it is fucking heavy. Here's the playlist in case you haven't seen it and are interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dPBQk5qyGbM.html
Illud is great in my opinion, I never saw or read any of the criticisms until much later and totally blindsided me, because the death metal songs are tight and fast. The experimental tracks didn’t surprise me since Morbid was always experimenting with weird stuff. Much more memorable than Kingdoms.
Your tier list is very similar to mine. The only difference would be that I'd put Covenant and FFtF on the highest tier as well. Matter of fact (and I know it's considered blasphemy), my favorite album is Formulas. I was pretty disappointed with Domination for the exact reasons you say (apart from that I love Hatework) and Formulas just made up for that and then some. All three of the guys brought their absolute a-game, I think, in writing and execution. Gateways was okay but it made me realise I just don't really like Eric Rutans writing. No disrespect, the guy is a legend, but I never got into any of his bands. I bought Heretic blind and played it a grand total of three times. It had no hooks for me. Love me some weird twisted death metal but this just didn't work for me, also because of the silly production. The good thing about Heretic though, was that I had already said my goodbyes when Ilud came out, so that was no skin off my back. Back around FFtF Trey and I corresponded quite a bit (with my very first e-mail address) and he was a super nice and interesting guy. Deeply into this sorta selfhelp/magic intersection (he was a huge fan of that Anthony Robins guys stuff), he was very passionate about explaining his ideas and how he worked that in his music. That also contributed to my love for FFtF. He really created something magical there, in my opinion. Thanks for the video! Keep the metal flowing!
Do you have any death metal recommendations for someone who loves simple heavy groovy monotonous music and thinks Mercenary is the best Bolt Thrower album?
Eclipse of ages into black is a one of a kind album. I love everything about it. I personally think it's the best album they have done. The rest of their albums, though they are also good albums, bore me compared to Eclipse of ages.
1. Fearless Undead Machines 2. As the Weird Travel On 3. Luck of The Corpse 4. Surreal Overdose 5. Supernatural Addiction 6. Ghostly White 7. The Blueprints for Madness I'll be playing bass with Deceased on tour with Mortal Wound, Exhorder, and Vio-lence April 2024. Hope to see y'all out there!
Got turned onto their first one tonight and I love it. Cant wait to check out the rest. A little surprised to find only one ranking on RU-vid but thankfully it’s a really thoughtful and helpful one.
If you want to dig a little deeper, there's a couple EP's-"13 Frightened Souls", "Behind The Mourner's Veil " and a couple covers albums "Robert to the Core 1&2" and "Thrash Times at Ridgemont High".
