In the idiosyncratic anomalies of metal, Global Warming stands out for being a death metal album with thrash vocals and occasional heavy metal influences which come from the more confrontational side of that genre instead of the groovy, relaxed side.
The first thing that hits the ears here may be the most distinctive aspect, namely the Cryptic Slaughter styled vocals, but the underlying heavy tremolo riffing which borrows from the school of pacing established on South of Heaven and Altars of Madness creates an atmosphere of urgent oppressive doom.
While this one gets overlooked because it falls between the surface distinctions of categories in the vocal arena, the integration of these minimal but compelling riffs makes for cohesive songs that would be stronger if they evoked more organic existential experiences but hammer hard on the dark moods of death metal and doom metal without being entrenched in the stylistic trappings of either.
Tags: death metal, suffer, Thrash
Swedish Metal is enigmatic to my tastes. I don’t “get” most of it. I like a Carnage, a Merciless, and a Carbonized. Necrophobic, Niden Div 187, Hypocrisy. It must be close to 16 years since I had last found Suffer, thanks be to Stevens, and now revisit it, thanks be to Stevens.
Add Therion, At the Gates, Entombed, Nihilist, Carnage, Unleashed, and maybe Uncanny and I am there.
Great starter list of Swedish death metal.
Let’s not forget Dismember – particularly the debut album.
Totally unrelated, but Slayer added kind of a cool museum section to their site that focuses on the different eras of their live act:
https://www.slayer.net/collections/live-assaults-1981-through-today
How can I upvote this 10k times? Not just Dismember but Therion, Unleashed, Carnage, Nihilist, At the Gates…
But… you already reviewed this one.
Did I warn that I am repetitive? Sometimes, you just start thinking about the classics.
That would be awesome.
Great to remember these obscure ones! They followed it up with a full-length as well.
I listened to that too; it is an interesting album although I think being a hybrid makes it difficult for them to shape songs toward full expression. Death metal may have had a masterstroke in making the vocals a rhythm instrument that moved more slowly.