@@rosiegratz8377 What do you mean? What I said was agreeing with you. I'm saying their early albums are masterpieces and their later albums are pop. Is that not what you were insinuating with your initial post?
@@rosiegratz8377 It's all good, I can see how my post could have been misinterpreted. My joke didn't come through as well as I would have hoped. Cheers.
This and The Red in the Sky is Ours are pure gems, raw and dirty yet magnificient. The production here is surprisingly good, even tho I came to like their first LP's unpolished sound.
While this isn't bad for a "some dudes in Sweden in 1991" EP the sound quality is not that good. Although I have heard a lot worse.. at least you can differential the instruments and it doesn't sound like it was recorded off a cassette tape in a wind tunnel through a tin can.
@@nts3208 I have listened to soooo many cassette demos that sounded exactly like you describe! Amorphis, General Surgery, Vomitory, Demigod, Necrophobic... those were the days...ordering random stuff off a photocopy order form, purchasing those postal money stamps...getting a 7" or tape and hoping you could hear some "music" in there somehwere.... I have to say, the remastered re-release on CD is way better sounding than the cassette version of Gardens of Grief...like it sounds as good as Red in the Sky...with even better mixing of the bass guitar. I can actually hear the bass on the GoG re-release. It is amazing how much noise is on those old tapes and 7" records, that muffled the already bad sounding mixdown... I prefer this version of All Life Ends and City of Screaming Statues better than on the full length release...perhaps someday a re-master of The Red in the Sky will fall from the (red) sky and into my speakers!
@@drmindbender6406 lmao, that's the limitations of cassette for you.. unless you managed to get a copy on a type IV cassette the sound quality would be tinny and low quality no matter how well the master was mixed. Luckily a lot of those old master tapes are being digitized now, so even without remastering the sound quality will be a lot better in comparison.
Just checking out Grotesque now because of your comment. Their: In The Embrace Of Evil is on RU-vid. Didn't know this existed. Really enjoying it. Cheers. :)
At the Gates cool ep totally different from their Album Slaughter of the Soul.Which is the only album I know by them one of my favorites. I like this one very different its more Death Metal.Slaughter of the Soul is more like Black Metal/ Death Metal cool music great band digging this one definitely
Matthew Lohr well its a huge gap between regular death and melodic death. For example i enjoy loads of melodeath but regular death i can couunt on fingers
@@cristianusuga1737 of course. i dont know which style do you prefer so i will tell you my favorite releases fall of the leafe - august wernicke (atmospheric folk melodeath) meadows end - ode to quietus (symphonic doom melodeath) lunarsea - route code selector (technical groove melodeath) dark age - acedia (progressive modern melodeath) anterior - both of their albums (thrash melodeath with some of best solos i ever heard) in thy dreams - highest beauty (old school melodeath) enshine - singularity (progressive doom melodeath) rapture - songs for the withering (doom melodeath) sunless rise - promo 2009 (stellar technical melodeath) be'lakor - stones reach (progressive doom melodeath) obsequiae - aria of vernal tombs (blackened folk melodeath) degradead - out of body experience (thrash melodeath) zero degree - surreal world orphreus omega - bleed the way (thrash melodeath) sympuls-e - mirror city (technical melodeath) skyfire - esoteric (progressive symphonic melodeath) renascent - praise of the lord god almighty (blackened symphonic technical melodeath) dark the suns - all ends in silence (gothic doom melodeath) garden of shadows - oracle moon (old school melodeath) cipher system - central tunnel 8 (technical groove melodeath) noumena - the absence (folk melodeath) lahmia - into the abyss (thrash melodeath) worlds of farewell - immersion (doom melodeath) trashcanned - key to the paradox brymir - slayer of gods (epic symphonic melodeath) timecry - timecry (first ep, modern melodeath) archons - the consequences of silence (technical melodeath) whispered - shogunate macabre (samurai folk melodeath) nothgard - warhorns of midgard (epic folk melodeath) and here are a couple more worth checking out dagon, neptune, obtenebris, dead of night, solerrain, valtari, rise to fall, chaos injected, eventide, burden of life, meridian, disarmonia mundi, sangre eterna, aeveron, parasite inc., decadawn, superdeathflame, bloodred hourglass, persefone, flamorn, blackguard, fallen joy, elzevir, sacrilege, fractal gates, forodwaith, made of hate and plenty plenty more
Oh, please, STOP WITH THAT, both album are the best in your own style. Is tedious see many coments like this, obviously if you like it the raw and primitive sound, this demo es better for you. I think than all albums At The Gates is quality at its best, except for the last two albums.
@onewithmyself no way lol. Slaughter of the Soul's songwriting doesn't even come close to this EP's angular, intricate and just downright oppressive songwriting.
Slaughter of the soul was, as the band himself admits, an exercise in simplicity rather than elaborateness and exploration which Alf Svensson was into as the lead composer of songs until he left.
they're equally good in different ways. gog is bleak, esoteric, and illusory, with cyclopean riffs and alien harmonies underscored by cryptic lyrics. sots is a melodic masterwork of "pop"-like songwriting in a death metal context with some of the most memorable riffs and catchy choruses in metal. apples to oranges.
bruh i kinda respect every bands origins, but people gave it too much praise to the "old material". Like for real who thinks this is better than TSD and SOTS lmaooo
Slaughter of the Soul is awful brocore more suited for a skateboarding soundtrack than concentrated listening. This EP and The Red in the Sky is amazing intricate metal.
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