Documentary video with excerpts from concerts and interviews with band members Slayer, Gorguts, Atheist, Demolition Hammer, Death, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura, Entombed, Morbid Angel and producer Scott Burns.
Death metal probably saved the lives of a lot of kids... what a fricken powerful conduit to release stress and anger... It's very Jungian actually because it allows kids to explore the shadow or darkness that we all have and confront it in a healthy way.
@@layditms2there were, and still are, a lot of kids into this form of music. I myself started listening to death metal when I was 13. I am 25 now and still love it
I know Metallica isn't Death Metal, but I remember when ....And Justice For All came out and I brought it home. My parents went nuts over the cover. My mother was more upset with boobs than anything else. I told them to listen to it and I'd listen to it with them. After they listen to it, they just handed it back to me and said "Enjoy!" Then Megadeth's album Rust In Peace came out, I had to do it all over again. My dad said "I can't understand the words!" My mother said "Wow, someone willing to speak the truth about our government!" So the guy talking about the parents taking the time to actually listen to the music, instead of passing judgement on the cover art is the key.
Miles Hodges No my parents are Constitutionalists. After they listened to the album and I explained the bands background then my mother had no problem with them.
Im glad that Slayer got the recogntion for influencing the death metal genre, but i think bands like Kreator, Sodom and Destruction also should be recognized. Pleasure To Kill is the most brutal album in 86. In my opinion, its more brutal and faster than Reign In Blood. Its borderline death metal with Mille's screams and fast riffs and drums.
1986 was the peak year. Repulsion demo was the most brutal thing in '86 but not an album. Cryptic Slaughter Convicted album in '86 was more brutal though.
Hate it when people call Death, Cannibal Corpse, or Entombed the Gods of Death Metal(or any other band you like) - Scott Burns was THE man who gave every band their signature sound. His production and mixes were top notch and he was the only guy who could do it. Scott is the real God of death metal. Think of how Cannibal Corpse would sound without him
ち匚丹尺ㄚ 爪口れち匕モ尺 Well technically Entombed never had anything to do with Scott. They were produced by his Swedish equivalent, the equally legendary Tomas Skogsberg, responsible for so much of the classic Swedish death metal sound. Love Scott too
Yes ,I couldnt quite place her Accent.Not quite full on American,too twangy to be fully British.Now I know.Very nice looking too,probably a really sweet Person off camera also.As on.
ahhh, Teresa Roncon, my 12 yr old TV crush. I used to tape the pepsi power hour on Canadian TV Much Music. Good to see a young Chris Barnes, too bad he ever left Corpse
Steve DiGiorgio recording Death's 'Nothing is Everything,' just mindblowing. Wish I could've seen him record Human and Individual Thought Patterns with my own eyes, would've been killer!
Mortification listed Pestilence TOTA as a driving force influence ,as I remember, for the style of their Post Momentary Affliction Album which was from 1993 and such a classic in their earlier career.
Death "individual thought patterns" was my first death metal tape that owned. Blew me away when I heard a song on "bevis and butthead" at 12-13 years old.
my first death metal record was black tongue.. and I've been listening to all types of metal from early teens.. I had heard Cannibal Corpse, Gorgoroth, and the Numetal bands..but I could never get with Death Metal until I could fully understand the vocals.. Black Tongue did that for me..
It's hard in today's world of mono-culture to understand the impact culture had in the early nineties, what it was like to feel threatened and scared by this extreme music and extreme culture. I remember, though only being five yrs old when DM was in its zenith, the threat that was Beavis and Butthead and Nickelodeon, or stuff like Dr. Katz, Ren and Stimpy with its gross out humour, or MTV, or this 'darker' metal. Maybe that's why I love it so much now, because I have matured and can appreciate the art in the music, rather than the anti-conventionality. I freakin' love 90s culture. At the time it felt like a sea-change against all good and holy, but the internet has destroyed any possible fear. I am of course referring to the pop-psychology. Everyone who wasn't a hip insider at the time was afraid of this weirder side of culture. These views were rather mainstream at the time, "nihilistic despair", this existential despair-culture was widely attacked all throughout the 90s. It kind of sucks being an adult now and having no semblance of a bounteous, multi-cultural culture. We took the 90s for granted. It really was such an innocent time, without the internet pulling us every which way and directing our thought on the second, it's like seeing a more primal human race. I think the very idea of information or new information was scary before the internet. Culture was ostracized as a threat. How time changes.
It’s so hard to explain this, I’m pretty young but I remember what you mean... subcultures could mature unadulterated by the outside world in every area of the country... they can’t do that now. It really was such a different feeling... and I had internet in my teen years but it still was so incredibly different than now.
I’ve seen movie review channels on RU-vid try to explain why the Blair witch Project had the cultural impact it had, I think that’s a good example of pre/early Internet America versus now… I can imagine it’s really hard for people that didn’t live at that time to grasp that naive innocence culture had in general
An older friend introduced me to bands like Sepultura and Entombed when I was 12-13, and that changed everything. I'd heard Slayer and Metallica, but once I discovered Death, Cynic, Pestilence, Deicide and Morbid Angel, that was it. What distinguishes early 90s death metal is the _atmosphere_ and the fact that the bands didn't fully know what they were doing - i.e. it was a _new_ genre with a fertile scene of supporters.
Nothing Like the days of good old Death Metal Thrash Black Metal it was a statement a new way of Life for us Young Metal Heads looking for a Way to Release or Angry misunderstood Lives Rebellious against our parent's saying no you can't listen to that and we say yes we can I started going to concerts at age 14 Mosh pits the hole sceen loved it still do
That being said this video is pretty great. You would never see Rikki Rachman interviewing a producer like this or giving Death Metal this kind of coverage.
@@darrellabbott2603 Right? I got into Death and Black metal in its heyday but I was super young (thanks to a cool neighbor friend) snd had to sneak downstairs to watch HB and put a blanket over myself and thw tv to watch it lol. But it's the first place I saw a Morbid Angel video etc. Nit a ton of death metal, but it aS there
Chuck Schuldiner and DEATH were the core for Death Metal. At the time, pretty much all Death Metal bands were being influenced by bands like Venom, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Slayer, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Bathory, Sodom, Kreator, Destruction, Sepultura, and Discharge. R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner, the Godfather of Death Metal.
I swear y’all fan girls always forget possessed even chuck would credit them as the true death metal founders. Possessed were the core of DM influence to chuck
Haohmaru Windy two totally different bands. I love the first 4 CC albums also the 2 Athiest albums everyone knows of but two totally different bands. Athiest is so inovative, even Death wasn't doing what they were at the time.
It's fucking ridiculous, Chuck Schuldiner is the one who truly was ahead of his time. Atheist? Are they played death metal at that period? Have to ask Kelly what he thinks about it. Remove the extreme vocals and instead of early Atheist you'll get a more jazz-influenced Coroner. Oh, maybe you judge by the demos? So tell me, which of the demo tapes Atheist played techno-death and if it was up to the end of 80's-early 90's? As for the rest of the bands, for example Morbid Angel (and I'm not talking about demos for now), so they also never was a techno death (if we take their first two releases). Pestilence, for example, was a straight up death metal too. What about Nocturnus. When Death's "Leprosy" thundered around the world, Nocturnus just released their first demo, which, if say it softly, was not at the level of Chuck's creativity, and in '91, when "The Key" went out, Death has already released "Human" - a masterpiece of "tech-fusion". Comparing a dry and boring Nocturnuses sound with a Schuldiner's technical, juicy and smashing riffs is truly a blasphemy. But that's not all - compare Ethereal Tomb with any Death album since '91, and you'll be unpleasantly surprised - the comparison is not in Nocturnus favor! Besides, Death has never stealed someone else's riffs as Nocturnus did, for example, on their '93 "Farewell" single. I hope guys that you got the point.
R.A.V.A.G.E.'s first demo wasn't some jazzy Coroner, it had hints of Piece of Time which was definitely tech-death mixed with thrash, even Atheist's demos were tech death and thrash. I do acknowledge Nocturnus and Death.
I like death metal because it falls outside of the so called ''safe'' confines of the mainstream, I also appreciate the musicianship of the members especially when they are tight and play their instruments really well.
I was late to punk , hardcore , thrash…but Death Metal was fun to see grow and prosper from its beginnings Morbid Angel , Entombed, Death … awesome music !
Excellent doco medude5, honestly mate thanks for posting this! I have seen other doco's about death, techincal, black and thrash metal but I have 2 say that this is the best, most beneficial and most important one yet. Thanks a bunch ;)
Scott burn is a legendary death metal producer in the late80s and early 90s, but im glad Morbid Angel went with Jim/Tom Morris. They didn't sound like anyone else with their signature raw and a slightly dirty sounding guitar tone. Fit their stye to perfection.
Chuck was pretty much the first guy to break character and say that he's just a regular person and not some evil executioner because he fronts a death metal band. His style really broke a lot of stereo types in and out of the studio.
I grew up a 10 minute walk from Morrissound Recording studio. It was actually in Temple Terrace, FL. I was just a kid when all this was going down but man did growing up there influence my guitar drum and bass style. I was a GREAT time to learn to play! That neighborhood used to be really nice but over the years it went down pretty hard. My baby boomer mom was also really into what was going on back then and was a great support for a lot of the neighborhood kids who were writing and playing their own songs. She would often say that it all reminded her of Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly and Jethro Tull. She still says that!
I moved from Iowa to Palm Harbor in 91. Then moved around to Clearwater and Dunedin. My dad always talked about these crazy bands that practiced in the storage garages around there. I was in 4th grade at the time but now I know me and my dad were watching so many death metal bands.
@@bleedingears5222 It was truth! I saw\heard it! lol. I had the same experiences. My dad would take me to help him drop a straight 6 into a Ford F-150 at a storage joint and we would watch these bands practice. I didn't know it was Morbid Angel back then!
Sure Slayer is an influence and all but Exodus, Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction were all very well-liked by and influenced Death Metal too. Also so cool that Chuck liked King Diamond and Rob Halford! Metal unity as its best!
watching this almost 30 years later is kind of hilarious and adorable at the same time... I mean all these concerned older people, then the old legendary bands themselves being young whipper snappers and rapscallions... I think if you would make a documentary today, not much would be different... sure, society is more accepting these days and whst shocked people back then is prolly mainstream now, but these stereotypes with metalheads being loners, weirdos, but also the self-understatment of the scene as exactly that, a safe place for extreme tastes is largely the same today I feel
SCOTT BURNS is SO the man! Thank you to him SOOOOOO MUCH!!! Anything with him producing you knew was going to kick major gnikcuF ass!! Quite honestly I always looked for his name, not kidding 🤘🍻
Slayer was the only band that got accepted into the Death Metal scene and the only thrash band from the so called 4 that took Death Metal bands under their wing and brought them on tour with them.
+6672rock Back then, the term thrash metal would have been invented recently so bands didn't have a clearly defined genre. Sepultura would have just been considered Death Metal. Today, they were considered Death/Thrash for the 2-4 albums. This video doesn't state that Slayer are Death Metal though but people would have called them Death Metal due to there image and lyrics. Even Metallica was called' Death Metal' during there early days.
+6672rock Slayer were considered black metal in 1983. Mostly by the press. That wore off. Slayer were sometimes considered death metal in 1985, that also stopped.
The first time Slayer played in Idaho it was a bloodbath and they had really well trained security and medics handling it. No casualties is a good thing.
My friend was the sweetest person, he loved...so loved his pets and was a true family man and on guitar only Trey, his close friend was is equal....I love you Chuck. I miss you. MY QUESTION TO SLAYER (fan of Slayer since 80's) "Did the reality of Morbid Angel be it their music or lyrics make you take a shift to doing the punk album because Morbid CLEARLY knocked your asses off any kind of throne you thought you were on? As an old Slayer fan....the last true release until CHrist was Decade of Aggression.
Growing up in Florida I remember punk circles debating how you say “asssuck,” and they would try to pronounce like “assook” and sound sophisticated until an older dude from tampa told us all it’s supposed to be “ass suck.”
If i read these comments "What is Slayer doing in a Docu about Death Metal", i only think - holy s..t!! Seriously? Do you guys really have no idea how this Genre was born? Bands like Possessed, Death, Massacre, Morbid Angel, Nocturnus, the first real Death Metal Bands - they all heard Kill em All from Metallica and Show No Mercy from Slayer, what inspired them to make the music that is called Death Metal. Without Metallica and Slayer there would be no Death Metal. They were the ones who paved the way and who inspired all these bands to go even further and make music called Death Metal. Thats why Slayer has to be in every documentary about Death Metal.
Chuck Schuldiner: “Well, it’s definitely flattering [to be credited with having started the death metal scene], but I really can’t consider myself to have started it. In my opinion Venom were the first - to have the brutal vocal style, tuning low their instruments, that initial brutal aggression. But I think that maybe I’ve kept it going to what death metal is today, as a lot of those older bands are no longer going, like Venom; and I guess I picked up where they left off, and I’m still in there luckily.”
Sad no filmmakers ever went in depth with the godly Swedish/Finnish and even some Norway death metal bands. Those Nordic bands and scenes were even better than the U.S. imo.
The title says 1993, but Slayer is shown playing Killing Fields which is from their 1994 album Divine Intervention. Were they playing it live before the album was released?
It’s not gay to think someone is insanely talented and also acknowledge they’re conventionally attractive. Women don’t have any issue calling each other hot. If you were straight to begin with, you will still be straight after admitting it lol You’re good.
Chuck had a vision and may have wanted everyone in the current line up to play what he wanted but the albums probably wouldn’t be as legendary if he let the other musicians do what ever they wanted.
