The band that brought you Consvming Impvlse has now become a progressive deathcore band for its ninth album, Exitivm, which you can hear in full streaming from giant corporate megadouche entity YouTube:
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Parts of this sound very similar to Spheres.
If they had just done Spheres with the cool narrative riffing of Consvming Impvlse, this band would have been bigger than Morbid Angel and Deicide.
Likely.
With time I’ve grown to really like Spheres. I think it’s criminally underrated.
Spheres faced several challenges:
In my view, the synth guitars were an attempt to work multiple voices into the music while not disrupting the sonic intensity of the distorted guitars. It sort of worked; black metal came up with a better solution, which was melodic lead rhythm riffing but this was rarely used.
It was clear back in 1993 that metal had reached its ultimate evolution in death/black, and that the future involved dropping the vocals entirely and going to something instrumental, sort of like King Crimson or Paganini. However, this requires a compositional attention span beyond most fans and uninteresting to most bands, so the genre has stagnated.
Just the kind of insight other metal sites don’t have.
A genre rife with treasure, and it only has one proper intellectual. What a world.
When are we getting Disqus, btw?
I got three words for DMU: Black Metal Rainbows
I am very much looking forward to DMU’s piece on that
I’d like to see a DMU Kumite in which legendary bands are compared to see whose legacy is greater. A good face off in my opinion is Pestilence vs. Suffocation. Factors to be taken into consideration can be: 1) Which band has the better discography? 2) Which band was more influential? 3) Which band was more groundbreaking? 4) Which band had superior musicianship? 5) Which band is more respected by genre fans? 6) Which band adhered to their principles/genre better?
Suffocation never really clicked with me and the only album I really enjoyed from Pestilence is Consvming Impvlse. I’ll also give an honorable mention to Malleus Maleficarum which I thought was adequate, but not on the level of Consvming Impvlse. Would like to see the responses to this; perhaps I have been unfair to both bands and I need to give their music another listen.
Suffocation’s “Human Waste” and specially “Effigy”. Effigy has the SOUND. Super compact sound for a crushing experience. I cannot dig any of their later input, in terms of being entertained enough I guess. I got rid of “Breeding” and “Pierced” due to this, I figure that for me, Suffocation put the bar too high with Effigy. There are other articles and discussions in this site regarding Suffocation, too.
Cannot comment about Pestilence. It’s that for me, Effigy is one of my ten best Death Metal albums ever. What a record.
I tend to check the cover to get clues about the record content. Much probably you will have more examples, but I recall Carcass’ “Surgical Steel” and this one and… Check the references to “Tools of the trade” and “Spheres” and… It feels like “Revisit the past!”. And I feel like “oh man I am not sure if I am going to like this”, because it has been 30 years already, you are not the same, no one is the same, I do not feel comfortable. Dunno. Never liked too much complicated Death Metal. I like steamrollers.