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AMx93
Yeah I really dig Timewave, I get why it came as a shock to some but for what it is and who it's coming from it's actually a solid ambient project! Blood Incantation are definitely legends at this point, excited for whatever the hell they decide to put out next. Hiss was great as well! So bummed it's their vocalist's last, but at least he went out with a with such a solid album. I'll definitely check out Ethereal Shroud, I see Pasage D'Hiver is a related artist (at least on Spotify) so it's already got my interest haha. For me this year's kinda been all over the place, I've enjoyed some new records but have also continued discovering classic stuff such as Massacre, disEMBOWLMENT, and Dismember's debut now that it's back on Spotify. But for new stuff, I've going back to the latest from Cosmic Putrefaction and the Void Ceremony EP a lot. Thought the new Artificial Brain and Soreption records were really good too, and I'm looking forward to Phobophilic's debut in September!
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Fogshaper
I've been thinking about your question a little more and I think I'm ready to give a more streamlined answer. Undeath (just like 200 Stab Wounds or Undergang) approach death metal in a more gorey, old school death metal way. It's about being groovy, it's about body parts being detached and heads exploding. Taphos (like Phrenelith or Krypts) approach it from a more serious, gloomy direction. It's dark and ominous. It's less about death and all its gruesom ways, and much more bout the symbolic act. It's about stepping into the he darkness, about returning to nothingness. It takes more influences from black metal in a way. Neither of those approaches is wrong, I like both of them, but the latter appeals to me much more.
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Fogshaper
Answering this question isn't easy in text form, but I'll try - and I'll take the pecise example you used. The difference between Taphos and Undeath at the end of the day is how they approach atmosphere building. It starts with the album covers. Undeath uses shrill and over-the-top imagery that reminds me of old school splatter horror and the mid 80s role playing game imagery. Loud and shrill, almost poppy or even trashy (in a good sense) to some degree. Taphos approaches the whole thing in a more settled, subtle way. Their artstyle is gloomy and ominious. It's got subtlety and solemnity to it, and it oozes of atmosphere. The lyrics show a similar pattern. Undeath approach the whole Death Metal asthetic from a goey, horror angle. Suitably Hacked To Gore or Head Splattered in Several way are very popish ways of talking Death Metal lyrics. It reminds me of movies like Final Destination or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Taphos, in that regard, again are more atmospheric and subtle. (1/X)
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Fogshaper
Taphos use song titles and lyrics to create atmosphere, absract images. Less focused on raw enterainment and more on atmosphere and creating a feeling in your mind. I could come up with a dozen examples, but just take it from "Impending Peril"; the lyrics go: "Tranquillity, is no more. Neverending ceasely agony, the forlorn past remains now as a blemish" where as Undeath write a track that has lyrics that go "I kick and I kick and I kick, turning his guts into gibs with my boot's metal toes I deliver mortal blows. Kick and I kick and I kick, his pain has no limits". I mean, just take the album titles. Undeath calls their record "It's Time... to Rise From the Grave" which is loud and claps and makes very clear what's going on. It's straight forward, fun and not very subtle. Taphos calls their record "Come Ethereal Somberness" - it's hard to come up with a more ominous, and oozingly atmospheric record name (actually, I love that name so much that've been considering getting it tattooed)
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Fogshaper
And please, don't get me wrong here: Both these styles are perfectly valid and have their places. They're awesome and they rip, and I enjoy both of them very much. But at the end of the day, I'm a guy who loves atmosphere when it's built well. I love concept works, I like when albums have an ongoing, well crafted subtheme. I've never been someone who picked music mainly for the fun factor. I've always been drawn towards the poetic and the atmospheric end of genres, not just in death metal. The same goes for rap, goes for folky music, goes for black metal. And just to close this out: I'd put Tomb Mold, Witch Vomit, Fulci or Undergang in a smilar box as Undeath in this regard, where as Phrenelith, Vacivus, Spectral Voice or Vanhegld would go with the Taphos end of things. Bands like Moritferum, Necrot or especially Blood Incantation manage to ride a fine line where they have elements of both, imagery being rather "shrill" and the rest being a little "downtuned".
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Fogshaper
And now, for my final point, I'd even claim there's a certain link to geography to be found here. Scandinavian (or even European) bands in general tend to be more on the atmospherically dense end of things, where north american acts often end up in the more "pop-culture" end of death metal things often. That should be it for now. I said a lot of words.
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Fogshaper
It's not like Lesions was a beautiful artwork either. I guess that's Undeath's style. I like it, in a way, because it's not trying so god damn hard. That's kind of rad. Talking album of the year, I doubt that Undeath will make that cut this year. The album is likely going to be up there, but Undeath has this brand of Death Metal to them that's not 100% my kink spot. It'll be a tough sell (or a change in atmosphere) for me to think Undeath makes it as my AotY.
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Fogshaper
i live on the first floor of the building i live in, and on the ground floor there's a bar. on the weekends, that bar can be a little louder and when i have trouble falling asleep, i tend to play some ambient music to "beat" the music from downstairs, and it's often times some ritual ambient or some dungeon synth, but recently it's always been a spin or two of timewave zero. just really enjoyable stuff.
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Fogshaper
timewave zero does everything right that good dungeon synth records (i know timewave zero isnt dungeon synth) do right. it's captive while being never pushing itself into the foreground, it flows and despite not being melody driven it still has several very memorable "riffs". i actually keep wondering how the first movement of Ea would sound like if it was worked out as death metal riff.
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Vyrph
I only have about two spins of the whole record, so final verdict is still out, but so far I'm reaaally enjoying it. Putrid, filthy shit for sure! New Witch Vomit EP is great! I think they're getting better with every release, and I can't wait for their next album! By the way, I dunno if you have, but if not, you should check out Convulsing. It's a one man band from Australia that plays Black/death. I'm very much in love. Both of his albums are near masterpieces. The two albums are not on Spotify, but Bandcamp and YT saves the day yet again. Keep the recommendations coming btw! I think my favorite thing in music is discovering sick new shit. Next time you discover something think of your Vyrphie-buddy boi ;)
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Fogshaper
nekrovault just seems like no frills no bullshit kinda death metal, right? i dig 'em a lot, actually not only got their vinyl on a pretty sick purple but i also was able to get a shirt. that's nice. usually getting merch costs u like twice the shirts price in shipping, but not this time round because for once the band lives in the same country as i do. spooooky!
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Fogshaper
i usually listen on spotify, even though i know it's kinda sucky as a whole platform. when i like stuff, i usually grab it on bandcamp or i buy vinyl of records i enjoy thoroughly. like, i geniuinely own every death metal record i scrobbled on last.fm, barring a few records that are sold out and are in desperate need of represses because their available presses go for 40+ euros on discogs. i just listen to too much stuff to really buy everything, but i own almost everything in my top-whatever on last.fm, either physically or bandcamp. i know spotify is a shitshow, but it's convient as hell, so i try to support in some other way, too.
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Fogshaper
yea, david is still vocals in phrenelith. david only stopped doing the vocals in hyperdontia. and i get what you mean, not that i think deluge of ashes is bad or anything, but on an album with 7 monstrous hits and one "fine but nothing to write home about", deluge of ashes clearly is the odd one out. new album's coming this year!
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Fogshaper
if you're looking for something more gorey, check out mortuous. it's really filthy stuff, like a little less slimy fetid maybe. for some staight up disgusting shit, you like undergang so you'll probaly find some cryptworm welcome on the menue. for some doom death you recently found atavisma, who sound kinda similar to funeral leech. even though, if i consider the album release dates, funeral leech sound similar to atavisma, but you get the point. still very destinct overall sounds tho.
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Fogshaper
in case you're looking for a 50-minut record of biblical dimensions on the border of funeral doom metal and doom death metal, check out the album Lone by Oak. that thing alone recently kicked me down a whole series of funeral doom stuff. horizonless by loss, stygian by atramentus, convocation (especially scars across), jupiterian have a new album named protosapien (but terraforming is still an insane record, too), the tomb of all things by un, chasms as well as tempest by lycus - not to mention bell witch and primitive man also exist. i've never really clicked with primtive man, but i think the genre might finally be clicking for me.
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Fogshaper
and cadaver circulation isn't even their best album for me, unending degradation is my personal favourite. it took a while for me to get into them, too. i thought their logo looked weird, but one of those evenings where i was chilling on the couch with music on and only candles lighting the room (yeah i enjoy that shit unironically, call me a hippie) i didn't want to listen to eroded corridors of unbeing again (it's usually my go to for those evenings), and i decided to dip my toe into krypts again, and stated with unending degradation and it hit me like a truck. now i'm kinda fanboying over their stuff. if their material has as much replay value as i currently get the impression it has, they'll be up there with taphos, phrenelith, mortiferum and blood incantation as my favourites in death metal. that being said though, i've only really spent half a year fooling around with death metal, so there's still plenty to discover for me for sure.
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Fogshaper
ah yes. i'm not much of a video game person, but my two lovely flatmates have been both pretty psyched on cyberpunk recently. new music, huh? i didnt check your last.fm if you already know those, but here's what's been thicc with me recently: mortuous seems sick, krypts is absolutely my ballpark. i'm a pretty big fan of all three Temple Nightside records, fantastic way to blend death- and black metal. i'm been slipping into doom/funeral doom recently, which isn't too suprising considering kypts, phrenelith, mortiferum and void rot have been my go-to death metal bands. in the "purely doom" genre i've been psyched about convocation, atramentus, loss, oak and jupiterian. i think bedsore have a sick record out in 2020, and taphos and obliteration are just two bands i haven't ever turned off once i put an album by them on. death metal has been really good this year. i didnt even mention of feather and bone, necrot, ulcerate or undeath. yet.
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Fogshaper
black metal has been a bit rougher for me this year, maybe you should talk to celestial-light for that. admittedly, i've recently started to crawl through the label catalogs of projects like Me Saco Un Ojo, 20 Buck Spin and Extremely Rotten Productions, so it's not super shocking that I've found shittons of death metal but very little on the black metal end of things. anyhoot, i've liked the new albums by sunken, panzerfaust and afsky. also, vital spirit is canadian black metal by some dudes that also play in wormwitch. good ep came out on vendetta this year. also, not metal but still crazy good record, caspian's on circles is worth checking out.
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Fogshaper
i'd like to add some more about blood incantation because i spend 90% of my time listening to death metal these days and i have no real life friends to talk to, at least not about death metal. i think starspawn has surpassed hidden history again in my personal juice scale. yeah, hidden history is still really good and i'll still grade it higher than you have, but i think by now i'm with you (again) on placing starspawn a notch above hidden history. it's just too fucking good.
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Fogshaper
ouph. thats a tough one, honestly. starspawn is super good. the opener has some sick shit going on, chaoplasm is sweet and starspawn is absolute gold, i cant get over how well blood incantation do the whole cartoonish star gate topic in a way that i cant help but love it. however, the hidden species and the meticulous soul devourment dont really get me. so overall, good album, but not quite amazing. now, i get into hidden history after a while and i start to really groove with it. i jam it. all the time for a while. it's just that cool. i got a hoodie with the logo in the front and a cover on the back just because their trashy anunaik shit is done SO FUCKING well. the oriental pat on giza power plant is so stupid but so good. i like all the songs on the record. i still think the three songs i named from starspawn are their three best individual songs. so its hard to juice-grade this. do you juice grade for peak or for overall level?
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Fogshaper
if i juice grade for peak, starspawn is a 10, hidden history a 7. if i juice grade for consistency, starspawn is a 7 and hidden history a 10. i actually also really got into interdimensional extinction. i saw a shirt of theirs somewhere that had the lyrics of subterranean aeon on it and checked the song out. i also think the 5th tablet is legit. i'd grade interdimensional extinction 9(p) and 7(c) on the juice scale.
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Fogshaper
I've actually never been a huge fan of anything Death Metal and for the longest time I've been almost Black Metal exclusively, apart from Rivers of Nihil. I got into the whole Death Metal thing a couple months ago, and damn, was I foolish to write of the entire genre as an "uninspired low-tuned swamp". As a matter of fact, "low-tuned swamp" now sounds like exactly the sound that hits the spot for me at the moment.
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Fogshaper
ill check out starspawn later today, sounds kinky. it's not necessarily that i'm going for the danes, but danish death metal appears to either simply be the best in the genre or whatever tickles my kinks the most. it's just raw, no frills, death metal. either crushingly heavy or in case of taphos raw filth. i love that shit.
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Fogshaper
yeah starspawn is pretty legit, listened to it front to back twice. it has some of the raw energy that's the main reason why i think taphos is so good. it's weird that hidden history feels so... uninspired compared to starspawn. i did steal cosmic putrefaction from your charts, that shit is nasty.
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