Hell Awaits carries the DNA of death metal in terms of riffcraft way more than Seven Churches. And to trace it back further, there's no Hell Awaits without Don't Break The Oath.
Stricken to live, hell on earth Shackled and bound we lie In praise of death, life's a dream We're only living to die. If that isn't a mission statement for death metal, I don't know what is.
@@jefflawson3574 Certainly more lyrically competent than the laughably juvenile lyrics found on Seven Churches. Like most I preferred it when Jeff or better yet Tom wrote the lyrics. By any chance do you have the 2008 5-panel (inverted cross) digipak deluxe edition of Seven Churches? That one has the best mastering/sound quality of any edition.
Fenriz has great taste in music. I know he is a fan of Uriah Heep. Brah-Brah should listen to them. Phenomenal classic rock band. Way better than Zeppelin.
The Real question is name a Thrash Metal album that isn't Heavier than 72 Seasons by Metallica. Megadeth - Risk doesn't count, because it wasn't Thrash Metal
They bonded over a freshly microwaved Guinea pig. Napalm Death and Broken Hope were the bands responsible for giving people the idea that all Death Metal bands wear Sweat pants onstage. Most Death Metal bands wore jeans black work boots and long sleeve black shirts onstage , but Napalm Death and Broken Hope almost always wore hoodies ,sweat pants and high top white tennis shoes ( sometimes Hawaiian shorts)
I would say that Morbid Visions and Bestial Devastation by Sepultura are Black Metal albums with elements of Death and Thrash metal as those releases along with a lot of the cogumelo bands heavily influenced the sound of Black Metal bands such as Blasphemy, Mystifier, Profanatica, Beherit, Impaled Nazarene, Archgoat along with many others in black metal. Your thoughts?
I saw a Deicide Self Titled Album shirt on Hells Headbangers last night, literally just came back this morning to order it and now it's nowhere to be found. What the heck happened between now and last night damnit!?!?
I witnessed 3 albums get made with C.A. was the 1-Man rot crew. 929 S. 4th street... IYKYK.. MORGUE, CADAVEROUS and HAVEN were born in that basement. I was also Jim D "50-cal drummer" (old drummer) drum Tech. Good times.
These guys are the coolest!!! And this interview is cool! Best modern Death Metal band ever!! P.S. Death Metal Darkthrone > Black Metal Darkthrone and anyone who says Goatlord is a bad record POOOOOOOOOOOOOSER
Can we talk about the Goatlord artwork through the years? What’s up with that new tech-death album cover? They reissued it once before too with different artwork. I prefer the original
A great modern band I like that I definitely recommend is a modern goregrind one man band, Lipoma. Dude adds these melodic evil riffs to it and it’s fucking awesome.
We have the screen for it. We might do a repress of that one again somewhere down the road. Got a few older designs HHR will do. Dont wanna give too much away, but will be unveiled in due time
When I was a kid (I am 54 now) in the scene in the early 80s we just considered Hellhammer thrash, venom was thrash when welcome to hell came out and when venom black metal came out cronos would say venom is black metal and black metal is venom. .... but i feel some of these early bands were closer to Death Metal than they were black metal. Until you hear early sodom and destruction and I guess they could have influenced black metal? To be honest everyone has an opinion of where it actually started. I think it was a mix of all these bands from the 80s including HC/PUNK would go onto influences death and Black Metal. I was lucky enough to into it since 79 and 80 and still love everything old and new today. I spend way too much money at HHR haha
Fenriz still like death metal. More now than back then. Back in the 90s it was more like a war mentality against death metal bands (here in Norway) getting polished and looking stupid in their hawai t-shirt and shorts. Many bands in DM he hated, but he liked bands like Morbid Angel and Autopsy. The funny thing about this is that a lot of black metal bands lost their edge in 96. Getting more polished and became more commercial than most death metal
Justin..you need to ask this question. ALL THESE GUYS SAY THEY LOVE THE RAWNESS. OLD PRODUCTION…so WHY do they go on to get rid of that and create over produced things that literally sound less “raw” because I think this channel and the guests on it have proved…raw is good…obviously the music had to be played well. But raw is good.
Problem with trying to pinpoint the origins of death metal is back then in the early/mid 80's these sub-genres didnt exist yet. So metal bands who were pushing things in a more extreme direction weren't constrained by these narrow sub-genre definitions like we have now. Bands like Hellhammer and Sodom and Possessed and Slayer all mixed what we now think of as elements of thrash and black and death in their sounds. You can't call any of the earliest extreme stuff pure death metal by today's definitions, but those were all the albums along with Venom that spawned death and black metal. I agree with beardo on the left though, SBG first legit pure death metal album. Too bad Death fell off a cliff after Spiritual Healing.
There's lots of greatest black metal bands, a good portion of them from Finland. Archgoat, Azaghal, Behexen, Horna, Baptism, Sargeist, Ordinance, Forgjord.....all great.
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth and Incantation - Onward To Golgotha were the greatest Death Metal albums ever recorded. I consider Cannibal Corpse responsible for changing Death Metal from ordinary Death Metal to Brutal Death Metal. Suffocation invented Slam , but Butchered At Birth was the first Brutal Death Metal album , and both Tomb of the Mutilated and the Bleeding still are Brutal Death Metal. I would consider Vile to also qualify as Brutal Death Metal, but the Vocals are too high and clear, but after Vile Cannibal Corpse changed to a cleaner more technical style of Death Metal
For Darkthrone, Blaze is my favorite, then Under a Funeral Moon. I liked Transylvanian Hunger in my teenage years but it hasn’t done much for me in recent times (it’s OK). But anything from Darkthrone 2004 down is worth a listen I think.
@@grim9872 Panzerfaust is good, one of the few I own. I liked some stuff after that too though. I thought Sardonic Wrath and Hate Them were decent. I liked Total Death. Only one I’m not super familiar with is Plaguewielder
I do not understand how metal fans do not like black metal. I understand not liking metal core shit but come on man how do you not like inquisition!! Them boys are fucking killer
I remember this friend got a shirt special ordered from the record shop. It was a mayhem shirt and on the back it had this huge paragraph and at the end of it there was all this bashing on death metal and napalm death. It didn’t make me feel they were anymore extreme
Jeff Becerra himself has repeatedly said in many interviews that POSSESSED is Death Metal. Seven Churches even has a track titled Death Metal. To me, I consider them to be a blackened thrash band at best. They routinely played shows with the bay area thrash bands, gets included in many thrash metal documentaries.
of course he would say that, that makes him relevant but Possessed was just Slayer from aliexpress. only time they went DM were on that demo from 1993.
Fenriz said a lot of stupid things back in the day. I think it's normal for kids to feel like they have to be all edgy and stuff to fit a certain image. He is far more likeable as a grown man who just wants to enjoy music and not worrying about who thinks he's cool or not.
I agree about darkthrone. I love their first 3 or 4 black metal albums, some of the best bm but everything else is garbage. Fenriz can't make his mind up. That album cover on their newest album is a joke. I see a lot of people saying it's cool. Wtf is wrong with people?
I like about their first 6 or 7 (if you consider Goatlord an official album) but they have lost their edge and now and they’ve kind of now fall into the category of “Black metal for people too scared of black metal”
the Best DEATH METAL Album of all time..??? ASPHYX'S Self Titled album from 1994 on Century Media Records. Crushing, Atmospheric, Experimental at times... would definitely make Celtic Frost proud. The only ASPHYX album to feature Ron van Pol on Bass & Vocals
I may be young or ignorant but I can careless about Slayer , some songs are okay but it does nothing for me , mind me that LA is full of slayer maniacs , I still don’t really care the vocals are trash Af maybe it’s one of the few reasons I hate thrash 😂 cool interview tho…. Yes In some zines some black metal members were talking shit about death metal 😂😂😂 .. PS just speaking my opinion, I’m open to opinions but don’t get all crybaby on me… I think scream blooody gore as a kid fit the bill for death metal
I fuckin love Slayer. I’m old, and a dad. So I guess I can understand Slayer being dad rock or classic rock. Hell, their first album turns 40 this year. I’d love to hear The Antichrist on classic rock radio😂
There's nothing but negativity on this channel. Horval does nothing productive for the continuation of the music... Let's spend 20 minutes every morning of the week ripping on people and shouting how right and how 'true' we are. No thanks.
