Comments on METAL INQUISITION: Late 90s Death Metal You May Have Slept On

lol @ getting into Oppressor from Dave Steele and ...

2011-12-20T18:00:55.717-05:00

lol @ getting into Oppressor from Dave Steele and Chris Leonard

These kind of post are always inspiring and I pref...

2011-04-15T12:35:08.175-04:00

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this post brought me back. but how could you have ...

2010-05-21T05:51:08.582-04:00

this post brought me back. but how could you have left out Eternal Suffering???!?! That record they put out on extremities was/is so fucking sick. Heavy fucking knarly breakdowns. I think their drummer was sxe at the time and he went on to play in the hardcore band back a da neck.

DUSK rocked!!!!! Best ever and now they are Profan...

2009-12-06T00:45:16.445-05:00

DUSK rocked!!!!! Best ever and now they are Profane and they suck and spit on you at their shows.

Hey now, I didn't say Decrepit sucks. I have ...

2009-11-04T21:26:40.237-05:00

Hey now, I didn't say Decrepit sucks. I have that 7". I just said that Gammacide is way better than Decrepit. And I do stand by that statement, ha, ha!

Thank Booze, glad you liked it! Also, I always LO...

2009-11-04T13:46:36.825-05:00

Thank Booze, glad you liked it!

Also, I always LOVED this line:
"Ordinary tools, now instruments of killing. You must make the choice, Murder or building".

Good stuff Sgt. I remember seeing Broken Hope on ...

2009-11-04T13:03:05.727-05:00

Good stuff Sgt. I remember seeing Broken Hope on the Loathing tour. My friend was a big fan, even of Bowels of Repugnance era BH.

One time a friend loaned me an Oppressor CD and he mistakenly had Biohazard in the Jewel case. This is the same guy that loaned me a best of Bauhaus and gave me a mix tape with Deicide's Once Upon the Cross and ICP's Great Malenko. Not kidding in the slightest.

Oh, also some of that stuff is really "sick" as you say and new to me. Thanks.

@Anon 6:55 PM Tom Araya is a Christian and Vi...

2009-11-04T02:25:37.846-05:00

@Anon 6:55 PM

Tom Araya is a Christian and Vikernes does not hate anymore. Now what do we do? Stop listening to their music? Follow their new way of life? Pleez...

The guy up there (probably not a wise person) is talking about their lyrics, not their sex orientation. Most of the time these people are jokes, they cannot even practice what they preach, but as someone else once put it, I'm glad some people somewhere are thinking like this. The some way that I'm glad that some people today can speak and read Latin.

So give some space to these true metal warriors, I don't want to read about pornogrind the whole fucking time.

I often think about how metal evolved in the 1980s...

2009-11-04T01:53:09.929-05:00

I often think about how metal evolved in the 1980s...in that decade we had NWOBHM, then THRASH and early DEATH METAL amd DOOM, then GRINDCORE. When death metal had its commercial peak around 1988/92, it took elements from both thrash and doom and early death metal (Celtic Frost, etc) and even grindcore.
That leads to my answer to the question "Brutal Truth's first album is grindcore or death metal".
That's death/grind, indeed.

"Heavy Metal is such a majestic style of musi...

2009-11-03T18:55:29.736-05:00

"Heavy Metal is such a majestic style of music and way of life,laid down by great bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest"

Statements like this are part of what makes metal such a fun and amusing genre. It's totally hilarious that someone actually believes this. 1986 was a long time ago. It's OK to occasionally sample something new (even if you define "new" as old death metal bands from the 90's who broke up years ago).

What way of life do Priest & Maiden represent? Being a short homosexual British man with millions of dollars and your own jet? Yeah, that's something we can all relate to I'm sure.

Sarge, are you aware that Disgorge and Cinerary ha...

2009-11-03T16:14:25.408-05:00

Sarge, are you aware that Disgorge and Cinerary had some of the same band members? According to metal-archives.com they do...

BTW, I hope you understand that metal is a chain... no Maiden, no Embalmer, knowhutimean?

Basically all of Oppressor and the bassist from Br...

2009-11-03T16:06:03.871-05:00

Basically all of Oppressor and the bassist from Broken Hope went on to form the shittastic nu-metal band Soil.

@Russ, I was also at that Madison "hardcore&q...

2009-11-03T12:56:46.887-05:00

@Russ,
I was also at that Madison "hardcore" fest and saw Bowel and Integrity. For the most part that fest totally sucked though.

Oppressor was some badass shit. I think they and ...

2009-11-03T12:29:18.774-05:00

Oppressor was some badass shit. I think they and a guy from Broken Hope ditched the death metal to form some nu-metal band, that was pretty funny. That early Deeds Of Flesh was great stuff too.

Like Tim said, The Crown were awesome late '90's stuff. A bit different vein from what's here but Deathrace King is probably the best album to come from Gothenburg. If more of these metalcore kids had listened to it then today's music might have a bit more balls to it.

In late 90s I felt like a sponge saturated...no pl...

2009-11-03T11:09:33.373-05:00

In late 90s I felt like a sponge saturated...no place for any new music, especially extreme music, and too much crap released in mid-90s by bands I once appreciated.
Anyway, I'll manage to check Broken Hope latest releases out!

This blog takes me WAY back. I remember going to ...

2009-11-03T08:48:06.142-05:00

This blog takes me WAY back. I remember going to one of the Lorian, Ohio Deathfests...at the Flying Machine, actually. I think it was in 2002. It was a pretty good time, really...especially watching a crippled guy on crutches get crowdsurfed during Skinless' set and discovering many Japanese metalheads high on a nitrous tank I guess Brian Baxter or someone had stashed in the back.

I actually liked Regurgitation, Nunslaughter, Hemdale, Blood Coven, etc. That was a fun time for metal in general since bands weren't recording in full digital yet, and places such as Baxter's store "Extreme Musick" were still around. As much as I enjoy the whole "point-click-download" thing, I do miss being able to learn about bands by chatrooms, forums, and going to the record shop.

The Phantasy pretty much eats ass. I went back to Ohio in 2006(?) when they decided to bring back the Ohio Deathfest with another promoter, which was an epic disaster. 2 Days of 100+ degree weather, more bands and merch sellers than fans, and the fest actually got shut down after Circle of Dead Children played because either the promoter didn't have the cash to rent the venue, or because the Phantasy simply hates booking metal bands that much. I dunno which is true to this day.

Thankfully since I live in Northern Virginia, the Maryland Deathfest is a mere 1 hour away, and honestly blows ODF away.

Wow, Sergeant D. I gotta tell you that I was quite...

2009-11-03T08:39:06.911-05:00

Wow, Sergeant D. I gotta tell you that I was quite impressed with your picks here. I still rock the Cinerary (saw them at the Lorain "Ohio Death Fest" in 2001 or 02), and especially Embalmer. The Embalmer disc was still receiving heavy spins within my death metal brotherhood until I left it. That first Disgorge disc is also a near masterpiece. I love how on the Embalmer disc, it's so thickly mastered (at least the newer tracks)--making it ridiculously over bassy without sounding like anything urban.

Anon: It goes both ways. Some people (such as me) ...

2009-11-03T07:19:38.085-05:00

Anon: It goes both ways. Some people (such as me) don't understand how you can be into limp, boring dinosaur metal like Iron Maiden. The difference is that (unlike you) I respect your preferences and don't get stangry and butthurt about it.

Vulgaris: ...and it's a fact, at least for tho...

2009-11-03T05:18:02.276-05:00

Vulgaris: ...and it's a fact, at least for those of us who grew up in a shithole, that before the Internet actually getting your hands on a metal album at all was reason enough to totally indulge in it. I spent hours trying to lika bands like Mercyless (with an "Y"), Krabathor & Darkwoods my bethrothed, even though those bands suck from an objective point of view. The metalscene is so saturated these days that you can easily find at least ten bands that fully represents everything that you might like bout DM...
My guess is that this is the reason for all the retro bands coming through these days. There is simply no point in trying to do something new.

To prove that there is something to be gained by listening to heaps of god-awful bands, try listening to "the conspiracy of the pagan cult" by Darkwoods my bethrothed - AMAZING SONG! One of my favourite BM-tracks of all time. Now there's a post for ya - great songs by bands that suck.

In this sea of unmemorable covers, the zombie hear...

2009-11-03T03:48:26.651-05:00

In this sea of unmemorable covers, the zombie heart stands out. I've never listened to the broken hope record, but at least I can remember seeing this in some specific recommendation lists. Don't bother memorizing the band's name, just make sure that you won't get the wrong zombie heart: http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=1953

This is just sad. Heavy Metal is such a majestic s...

2009-11-03T01:55:22.925-05:00

This is just sad. Heavy Metal is such a majestic style of music and way of life,laid down by great bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest- and this is what it has come to? A bunch of talentless clowns bashing on their instruments and growling like a cookie monster? How does that in any way compare to knowing how to create music with melody and grandeur,music that moves and inspires you?

It doesnt. This pathetic "Death Slam Metal" is just noisy garbage. How is going "chun chun chun cha chun" on the low strings requiring of any talent? They ALL do the same palm muted,down tuned riff- why bother re-writing it by just using a different note in the one you play? It requires no talent of appreciation of real Heavy Metal power and precision.

And the people who play this style call it "technical"? As if this requires any technique.

How embarassing.

God, how many times did I have to sit through Runt...

2009-11-02T22:36:50.796-05:00

God, how many times did I have to sit through Runt at those shows? 5 times? 6?

The Clevo Music Scene (1999-2002): "Well, I don't really have anything else to do tonight...I guess I'll go to the Phantasy to watch one of Jason Popson's 10 bands and not talk to anyone."

haha! i saw bowel at the madison wisconsin sxe fes...

2009-11-02T22:36:43.621-05:00

haha! i saw bowel at the madison wisconsin sxe fest with integrity strife (pre victory) and numerous shitty (but popular) bands. chorus never showed so obviously it sucked. anyways i can't remember what was better - me catching dwid having a smoke x'd up behind the venue with his long blue hair. or one of the gorillas from bowel flicking a lit smoke into a pack of sxe kids as they backed away to make room for the local skinheads to hammer the shit out of them. hahah good times! i still think about that weekend 15 years later! amazing!

"People Who Know Tony Erba" lol I have...

2009-11-02T22:27:18.895-05:00

"People Who Know Tony Erba"

lol

I haven't been to the Phantasy in years. I just found out that they had a fire over the summer. The pirate ship wasn't damaged, was it?

Krabathor was always good for some Obies-style sim...

2009-11-02T19:30:14.696-05:00

Krabathor was always good for some Obies-style simplistic death metal.

Defleshed was ripping it up like a death metal Pleasure to Kill through the late 90s too. That has to be one of the most underrated dm bands that ever existed.

As was The Crown, another criminally underrated band from that same era.