On this episode hosted by John McEntee of Incantation /. we chat on the best Death Metal releases of 1989 . Albums turning 35 years old from the early days of the genre !
Great episode so far. I remember one of the best records I remember from that time was Left Hand Path from Entombed. My buddy, Glenn Rambo (first singer for Soilent Green) turned me on to that record. The way the guitars were recorded on that just blew me away and still does. I'm not sure if this record is mentioned as I'm not done watching it yet. Hard to believe I was 21 in 1989, good lord time flies.
@@countralfus6408 Thanks Ralph, forgot about Nihilist! Another band around that time that blew me away was Grave. That was probably a year or 2 later I'm sure.
Great stuff. I was Bolt Thrower's European sound engineer from 1991 - 94 and mixed their support bands Grave, Vader, Benediction and Asphyx too. Good times!
@@countralfus6408 The first band I ever toured with was Witchfinder General in 1983 and I appeared as 'monk on the right' on the Friends of Hell album cover. I love the discussions about metal on RF & SOT. 👍
WOW! well here it comes again as you managed to pick a topic and a year which is the years when death metal peaked, now i intent to write a book about DM, a kinda with a different and to summarize or at least try and also to once and for all pin point some very early influences, UK style, as in H/C punk through anarcho punk, crust and obviously grindcore and the mix which became death/grind, just like the magical '87-'89 death/thrash genre, yes there was a lot of early extreme thrash bands, also what we know call black/thrash and pure BM, and Seven Churches WERE the first DM album (fun fact Hell Awaits has literally 30% thrash riffs, rest is DM riffs, go figure) and then you had albums that was just as much death as thrash, like Sadus's insane debut album; Illusions, now as for thrash riffs being apart of DM is part of the sound although come 1990 and 2nd wave of DM bands you got Cannibal Corpse, Deicide (latter filled with both thrash and BM riffs too) and like John said there were many extreme thrash bands that evovled into DM, Pestilence being a great example, and as for as for Scream, Bloody, Gore, this was the first DM album, marketed as such, and people forget the criminally underrated (and actullly 2nd recorded album) by Necrophagia; Season Of The Dead, similar to M.A's godly debut Abominations, recorded in April '86, being just as much BM as DM, anyhow, yeah in 1990 i saw what was to come, the fact that there was soo much that could go wrong with this genre, as to evolving quickly into something it isn't, sure i can appreciate experimentations, and although being VERY open minded when it comes to quality music whatever genre, i am a purist when this is natural/or feels natural if you will, but i digress, so many of the peak albums in DM was released in '89 and yes there were some phenomenal to come, but triggers and clean production with specialist studios, this became an issue too, i could write a book about this too, and yes there was triggers in '88 already in thrash and also in DM, however not on what was SOO important in the DM scene more than any before it, those FUNDAMENTAL demos, these early bands released, this is key factor in the evolution and shortly the implosion of the genre, one of my closest friends wrote, though concerning BM , the words; it went plastic in '94, oh my god you're such a bore, now i feel and relate very much with how he spits out those words, but anyhow, so much to say and not enough space, but i must correct the fact and highly misunderstood claim, that the highly classic debut from Atheist was NOT released in 1989, here's why, yes it was recorded already Nov/Dec '88, got signed to this amateur label; Mean Machine, intended for release spring '89, well, yes they went bankrupt, and then now find a new label, they landed on MFN sub label Active rec., but Murphys' Law was hanging over this release, after 2 failed mispressings, first with a test photo of the artwork even, the album was released not until spring 1990, now that's a fact, it EVEN correctly documented on Discogs, and THEN, now to find a domestic release, now finally in November 1990, 2 years after it was recorded, Metal Blade licensed the album on CD in the US, and yes Chuck didn't like these guys as they were ahead of HIS vision musically, but anyhow AMAZING episode this one, one of my fave's so far, my picks in no order except Altars, Severed, Symphonies, Realm, Slowly, and though being a DM/grind album, or rather as both as it's a tie; World and Horrified, thanx for this IMPORTANT DM episode guys, much love from Norway as always 🙂
