I couldn't find a specific song that this reminds me of but I do hear a lot of similar ideas on Avenged Sevenfold's Waking the Fallen album, particularly the tracks Chapter 4 and Reminissions. Anyone else here the similarities?
Yeah. The agressive riffs are reminiscent of early melodic death metal 1990-1996, which intestine baalism takes a lot of influences from. But you havent checked out the origins of melodic death metal yet i think, you heard be’lakor, they are amazing band but more modern. I cant wait until you hear about early melodic death metal compositions like in flames or dark tranquillity. Cenotaph from mexico and eucharist from sweden among many, are one of other finest examples of early melodic death metal. Iron maiden riffs, diads and harmonies all over the place with death metal and thrash metal grit
Yeah, I was thinking this myself while listening to this haha. It's like a combination of At The Gates and Hypocrisy (two popular melodeath bands) plus early Avenged Sevenfold. I'm sure A7X took influence from At The Gates since that's where a lot of early metalcore's sound came from.
Cool to see these guys on the channel. I only recently discovered them myself and they're pretty awesome. They're lauded in the death metal scene for being really great melody writers while maintaining the brutality of death metal. The vocals are often more varied than this as well. The vocalist, main guitarist, producer, and songwriter, Seiji Kakuzaki, also has a pretty unique, very black metal high-pitched scream and he switches between the two to great effect on many tracks. Also, the production of this album is less consistent because the band was going through various line up changes and it's a mix of old and new songs. The production on the first album is actually more old-school than this. More info on this here, if you're interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zOyQuUsKlnc.html
In this album Intestine Baalism was a lot more melody than death metal but their previous album was a good deal more towards death metal with more consonant melodic aspects. I love both though lol. You should listen to Corporal Celebration by these guys from their previous album. Would love to hear your thoughts on At The Gates' Within or Through Gardens of Grief.
Per Metal-Archives: "The album's recording process from beginning to end was mired with lineup changes, time constraints, and various pitfalls and setbacks beyond the band's control, hence the differences in the mix and lineups within the album." The production on the first half of the album is much wider and cleaner.
Wow! I can't imagine producing an album with so many differences from track to track. Most albums, even if not concept albums, are connected on a sonic level but this album isn't. That's bonkers.
Wooooow. U reacted to Intestine Baalism. They are so UNDERRATED. they gave so good stuff, that even from the style, musically and melodically are wonderfull . I like to say that they are Death/Black/trash/melodic/prog Metal
@@CriticalReactions glad to hear that. And I've noticed that 👌🏼👌🏼 u should try from them, ultimate instinct.. all the album is wonderfull but the album titled song mixes all of the greatness 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I transcribed most of this song but yeah that flourish/harmony/melody theme is the highlight of the song, ive always had a problem with the simple powerchord riff haha.
This bands catalogues kinda really varied in some ways, within their last two albums as well (this one, 2002 i think? And the following Ultimate Instinct 2008) Id say the bass work definitely improves in Ultimate Instinct, Cry for the Black Sun I think would continue sort of the line of this song while improving on it a good deal.
While I wasn't familiar with this particular band, you'd be happy to know this is not a one off and there's a tiny off-shoot genre called Death N Roll with bands that went from the classic death metal style to actually using a more of a traditional rock structure and rhythm (In other examples even the heavy use of pentatonic scales and such) but keeping the same really low growls for vocals from death metal with acts like Gorefest, Entombed, SFU and even the last 90s record of Carcass.
Would love to hear your ideas for the bass for this song. In their next album Ultimate Instinct the bass and drums got a good improvement I'd say, Though in this album the song Avenger has a neat bass solo but the guitars seem a tad lazy in some parts haha.
This track is basically power metal with death metal vocals. Makes sense too since the band is japanese if i'm not mistaken and japan is huge on power metal (see basically any anime theme song)
This is from their second album which was when they mellowed out a lil bit. Their first album is brutal death metal. Their latest album (released on 2008) is kinda a combination between the two.
Quite an obscure one, this band, at least for me I have to say (& also the fact you did a poll about this theme did made me thinkfor some reason you were looking for a Top Ten D.M. bands but I guess I'm wrong now, as I guess you also have to do a subjective choice in your picks as we probably suggested too many songs/bands, right ?). For me it is Melodeath, and a bit in the Finnish style (which reminds me, if not made I haven't double checked it, you should do here an Insomnium reaction, as they're really masters at Melodeath imho). Now about the song, I recon that they are good melodically (and the guitar solo is superb, really), but I dont like the production's choices on instruments & the singing (ok, growling) which I find particularly weak, but, once again, it is just my opinion on a single song.
I asked for suggestions that ended up being tossed in a poll and voted on over on Patreon. Haven't heard of Insomnium (I don't think) but I'm usually down for Melodeath so I'm interested.
@@CriticalReactions ok, no problem...sure that for me, this D.M. week ended too quick, but it's the game....INSOMNIUM wise (for me the masters of the genre, really), I'll recommend for instance songs like "Inertia/Through the Shadows" (a chain between the album opener intro+first song, typical from them/from their 2011 album "One for Sorrow") or "The Primeval Dark/While We Sleep" (same concept) from "Shadows of the Dying Sun", their 2014 album. I like what's going on between the first & second song each time, it's almost an organic prolongation...(maybe the second example is better, though, also production wise I think ?). Anyway those guys always manage to put me into a good mood...That whole album is a treat, btw...PS: Now if you had to pick only one song (relativement short : 4'59), choose "Lose to Night" (from "Shadows..." as well) & you won't regret it ...Cheers !
Never heard of this band, but they may have the single ugliest guitar tone I've ever heard. Beyond that, I did really dig the riffs, which were definitely more melodeath than classic DM.
Love the music, but the singing... Has anyone thought of covering this shit with proper singing? I've toyed with the idea a few times, but don't have an epic enough voice to pull it off. Sounds like Iron Maiden with an injured pig on vocals.
I'd love to find a group who cover metal songs with clean vocals. I think that would be an interesting twist since we see a lot of clean vocals getting the growled cover treatment.
