I have to say, this really is your best retrospective. I especially like what you said about Chuck's legacy at the end (btw, I completely agree with you about chuck and the whole "nice guy" thing) but also, where's the death retrospective?
i really never understood why people did not like spirtual healing ive always loved this album it is such a masterpiece but all of Death’s disography is a masterpiece
I gotta say this is far and away your best retrospective to date, you've really stepped up your research. I await when you do some more power metal retrospectives.
It’s not that I stepped up my research, they just have more little facts to talk about that i knew about before doing this that no one talks about. It’s easy to pad the episode when you’re dealing with information never talked about or lied about.
dude wtf, Spiritual Healing has always been my favorite Death album, I never knew there was people that thought of it in such a low regard. Makes no sense
When I got into Death ,I looked at a lot of lists ranking the albums and Spiritual Healing was always at the bottom or close to the bottom. Surprisingly, it was the album that got me into the band because it has Chuck's best vocals. I couldn't get into the band for the longest time because of the vocals, but the music was just so good that I kept trying. Spiritual Healing hooked me and I haven't looked back.
A lot of people look at the first two albums as the raw Death, then with Homan they became a more technical death Metal, then final two are the more melodic albums.
Because it's the transitional album between the early raw DM style and the Tech Death/Prog style. It's too watered down for the ppl who want it raw, and it's too simple/straight for the people who want it technical and experimental.
Damn. Probably my favorite retrospective you guys have done. Really emotional in a lot of ways, but still informational as well as entertaining. Excellent work.
What is most admirable about this band is that every album is different but still Death. I think the hatred of later albums is a bit over stated. I mean yeah, there was some discontent among fans but that is par the course for bands with any kind of longevity. I distinctively remember Perseverance being voted album of the year by fans of Metal Maniacs magazine. Which at the time, was the most popular underground zine of the 90's.
Props for giving Spiritual Healing the respect it deserves. As classic as Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy are, Spiritual Healing is such an improvement on all levels - songwriting, soloing, riffs, you name it. It's to the point where I gotta believe that people who put it low on the tier list of Death albums are doing so because it's the lazy popular opinion to have and they didn't actually listen to it.
People don't like it because it's the "jack of all trades, master of none" album. If you prefer the raw sound of SBG and Leprosy, Spiritual Healing feels like a less aggressive, more watered down version of that. If you like the more technical/progressive style of Human or Individual Thought Patterns, it just feels like a immature and incomplete version of what they do later. Spiritual Healing is the very definition of an album that's used to transition between two different musical styles, which the album itself suffers from, by lacking a clear direction or goal.
Brilliant video, mate. My favourite death metal band. Went to see them in Edinburgh, Scotland back in 1990, with Kreator. The infamous time Chuck hadn't travelled but the band played on with Louieand Walter. I've ALWAYS appreciated those guys showing up and still giving us a killer show. Death Forever. RIP Chuck.
SCREAM BLOODY GORE - Thank you for acknowleding the insane vocal performance, definitely my favourite vocals on any death metal record. LEPROSY - Finally someone else notices the "Death" song structure: "Part 1-Midsection-Part 1 reprisal" (new lyrics for verse 2). Only the Scream Bloody Gore songs, the instrumentals, Primitive Ways and To Forgive Is To Suffer deviated from this. And the music still holds up, decades later! Ironically, after the video played out RUclips started the Obituary retrospective video. So much for Chuck wanting to separate Death from Death metal :D
Gonna agree with ya on the Spiritual Healing front. Amazing album. And I like it better than Human. In fact, it’s probably my 2nd favorite DEATH album. Killing Spree, is maybe my all-time favorite track by DEATH. So many to choose. But it’s always in my top2/3. I don’t get the hate on this album. But then my favorite TSOP also gets dogged, for too much ‘wank’. So, it just so happens that my 2 favorite DEATH albums, are usually the most criticized. Nice job on the retrospective! 🤘🏼R.I.P. Lord Schuldiner. 🎸
Great retrospective! Certainly one of your best. I love all of their albums here how I would rank them 1. Sound of Perseverance 2. Symbolic 3. ITP 4. Spiritual Healing 5. Human 6. Leprosy 7. Scream Bloody Gore
Sound of Perseverance is where I started too, 2008. In my top 10 greatest albums and pieces of art ever released. 10/10 in every single way. In 2018 I got a call from my girl but I was listening to it again in August. She was pissed off I didn't answer, I told her I was doing something more important
Spirit crusher in 2007...16 year old me wasnt ready for how much that song would change my way of listening to music. Now my favorite chuck album was The Fragile Art Of Existence, but i cant imagine there being a...best...chuck album. The best one is the one playing. Thats all i got
Death's last two are their best two and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. We all love brutal death metal, but the songwriting was on another level in his later era.
...but The Sound Of Perseverance might be my favorite Death album.(which is weird) It's an album that will never be replicated and I still haven't heard anything like it.
Ill take it further. I loved his progressive direction and Control Denied's one album and chucks last is my fave. The Fragile Art Of Existence is just magical. Chuck took his writing to the fkin cosmos.
ITP and tSoP are by far my favorites. Chuck for sure was difficult. So is Mustaine, Ackerfeldt, etc. And... even if Chuck was gay, who the frikk cares? Literally shouldn't even be a talking point. Sounds a lot like he had some serious mental health issues, which sadly is more common among creative geniuses than not. Sad all we can do is speculate. As for the Sound of Perseverance, I feel it's genre is more a mix of Progressive/Technical Blackened Thrash, when you compare the elements. Chucks vox are very much more a Black Metal witch rasp on it. All the elements the "BR00T4L D3ATH" crowd hate honestly are what makes me love it. Pacing and Riffs definitely feel more Thrash to me. And much as I love Gene and Steve, this is my favorite rhythm section in actual recorded songs. Heck I even love the Painkiller cover. For straight DM, I'll whip out my Bolt Thrower collection. *shrugs*
I'm a death noobie, just started listening to them, and I'm really surprised people didn't like symbolic at the time. I'm glad people have come to their senses these days. My favorite song as of right now from death is empty words!
Totally respect your opinion man. I personally think Death`s discography is close to perfection, I love the different periods and change of style. They are one of my favourite death metal bands along with Bolt Thrower, Carcass and Obituary.
Every single album has been my favourite Death album at some point. But I keep returning to Leprosy and Spiritual Healing the most. ITP was the first. Great retrospective.
Spiritual Healing has Chuck's best vocals BY FAR! It took me a while to get into Death because I couldn't get into the vocals for the longest time. I kept trying because the music was so good. Spiritual Healing was the first Death album I could get into. Defensive Personalities' chorus hooked me. When that double bass hits and you hear that awesome riff in the background, it's still one of my favorite Death moments. The album as a whole is still one of my favorites from the because it's a great balance of their career as a whole. I'm still not the biggest fan of Chuck's vocals overall, but the music is just next level.
I grew up in South Florida and saw death at the pit in West Palm Beach Florida and was into him ever since the beginning and they were awesome actually got to smoke a joint with Chuck and Bill Andrews and I saw cynic in Miami beach at the Cameo theater on the reflections of a dying world tour and smoked weed with Sean and Paul. South Florida was booming with that metal and I was into it heavily at that time and still am those were the best years Of My Life.
Never thought I'd see it. Awesome retrospective. I love the facts and research involved in this, definitely makes me wish I were more tech savvy as I could talk metal for days on end. Makes me want to go back and binge the retrospectives, please continue with the awesome work.
editing this stuff isnt that hard, im always down for helping people out with editing and stuff, just join the discord server and ask for editing advice
It kinda feels like you’ve come Full-Circle with your Relationship with Death. This is probably one of your more intimate/personal episodes I’ve watched from you.
Very nice, first time viewer and I watched(listened) without pause through the entirety. 2 bands I'd love to hear one of these on are Monstrosity and Vader. Subbed🤘
Well researched and fair assessments. You did a great job here. I've had my head in the sand for 25 years and just started listening to Death this past summer. Started with Sound of Perseverance due to being blown away by the Eindhoven performances that pop up 1st when searching the band on RUclips. And you are 100% correct, by doing that it did make it harder to get into Spiritual Healing and the albums before it. I've pretty much been listening exclusively to Death for the past 3 months straight..making up for lost time I suppose. It is fun to wonder where things would have gone after the 2nd Control Denied record came out. Theres always those that think Death was Chucks 1st love and he would eventually go back to it. I think I read from Eric Grief that there was almost zero chance once Chuck was free from Deaths obligations that he would ever sign up to be stuck in them again. Either way I'd love to go back and kick my 15 year old self for not picking up a Death album when I was buying every metal album I could afford so I could have been along for part of the ride while Chuck was still here.
I 100% agree with what you said about Rick as a guitar player compared to the others. No doubt the guy is good, but really, when going back to leprosy, you notice a massive contrast between chuck's lead playing and Rick's. Chuck is much more intricate and technical with his playing, whilst Rick's solos really just came down to him doing dive bombs and pitch squeals with a floyd. To me, Rick's solo's are what I would like Slayer's solos to sound like. Dude actually knew how to use a whammy bar, instead of abusing it and hitting mindless notes which aren't in key.
Nice retrospective.😁 My favorite Death - Album is definitely Individual Thought Pattern.😋 And I actually love that they always changed the lineup, even though they left for unfortunate reasons. Always new people and all of them were great plus every album sounds more or less different, probably also due to the different members.
Spiritual Healing is a killer album and everyone I know loves it. I don't know the type of people you're talking to but ask anyone and Spiritual is up there as one of the best.
Atheist's PIECE OF TIME was really recorded in 1988 but not released until 90 so yea they were first w the technicality being brought into DM but Death had much more output over the years and consistency
I feel like Hell Awaits and Reign In Blood inspired Death Metal too, TONS of the riffs are death metal sounding. Tom’s vocals are what link it more to thrash, but (especially Hell Awaits) those two albums should be taken into consideration when discussing origin of death metal. Just my opinion. Great retro, probably my favorite!
Ma Visser not really, Slayer had a certain riffstyle (at least in my opinion) that feels death metally (on HA and RiB). If you know other thrash bands that did that back then please let me know which ones
Thank you for the video anyway, I agree with you about him creating a bridge between genres. Chuck was an amazing song writer, we all go through dark places in our life, we weren't actually there, I won't judge him for anything, long lived the legend and the amazing band, my favorite band of all time
IMO, what makes Scream Bloody Gore the first legitimate death metal album is the brutality of the vocals and lyrics, which I've always believed is what separates death metal from thrash the most.
The early 90s. I was actually seeing them in Copenhagen back then when Kam Lee and the rest of the band were standing in for Chuck. I was always wondering what the hell that was about? Later I got to see Chuck himself and Steve and so on in 1993. Murphy was the best guitarist no doubt. Just check his Disincarnate album. I think Atheist was partly inspired by Watchtower from Germany. Anyhow, Good breakdown. I even wrote a memorial thing for Chuck back then when he died. One of my close friends helped Murphy when he had problems.
Land of No Return and Beyond the Unholy Grave were left off the album because Combat Records thought it would be too much to have 12 tracks, so they insisted on 10.
Alex Webster is most likely the best Death Metal bassist...Steve DiGiorgio is fucking awesome as well..thats a tight for the number 1 spot...Both are insanely good.
Didn’t realise Symbolic suffered from the heartwork problem , it’s consistently been one of my favourites along with Leprosy and Spiritual healing . Majorly preferred it to the stuff they where doing on individual thought patterns .
i did a meet and greet with the DTA tour line up in san francisco several years back, and I had no idea what to ask or talk about lol. I felt like the kid on santas lap who couldnt talk in that movie a christmas story. Did happen to talk to rick rozz, and trevor peres though. They were cool.
I can't believe i just watched this whole thing. Chuck was a man with a vision. being stubborn was a good thing for the development of the sound and legacy he wanted to leave behind.
that comment about production in Extreme Metal then and now is spot on. Modern Extreme metal especially Death Metal has lost that gritty rawness that made the genre what it was. Death metal is not supposed to sound squeaky clean and perfect
I told you guys it was real.
🤔
Was it though?
I have to say, this really is your best retrospective. I especially like what you said about Chuck's legacy at the end (btw, I completely agree with you about chuck and the whole "nice guy" thing) but also, where's the death retrospective?
This made my day
Your mom's real
"Privacy and intimacy as we know it, will be a memory"
There are people like you all round the globe.
"Promises. EAT POTATO! To hurt, is anything real?"
"Among many to be passed down, to those who never knew."
EMPTY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORDS
Prophetic words. Chuck was a true visionary.
i really never understood why people did not like spirtual healing ive always loved this album it is such a masterpiece but all of Death’s disography is a masterpiece
People use to not like Deaths albums after Human
I reckon it's class mate
I gotta say this is far and away your best retrospective to date, you've really stepped up your research. I await when you do some more power metal retrospectives.
It’s not that I stepped up my research, they just have more little facts to talk about that i knew about before doing this that no one talks about. It’s easy to pad the episode when you’re dealing with information never talked about or lied about.
A little part of me dies every time I see someone say Spiritual Healing is the worst Death album.
It's actually my favorite Death album but to be honest all of their albums are amazing.
It’s a legitimately bad album
@@collt091 No it isn't
@@w-james9277 it absolutely is ,my opinion bud
@@collt091 Yes your opinion, not a fact. I think it's a great example of technical death metal.
One of my favourite Death songs is ‘Empty Words’. That melodic chorus is so powerful
dude wtf, Spiritual Healing has always been my favorite Death album, I never knew there was people that thought of it in such a low regard. Makes no sense
When I got into Death ,I looked at a lot of lists ranking the albums and Spiritual Healing was always at the bottom or close to the bottom. Surprisingly, it was the album that got me into the band because it has Chuck's best vocals. I couldn't get into the band for the longest time because of the vocals, but the music was just so good that I kept trying. Spiritual Healing hooked me and I haven't looked back.
same
Spiritual Healing is 1 ITP comes in second
A lot of people look at the first two albums as the raw Death, then with Homan they became a more technical death Metal, then final two are the more melodic albums.
Because it's the transitional album between the early raw DM style and the Tech Death/Prog style.
It's too watered down for the ppl who want it raw, and it's too simple/straight for the people who want it technical and experimental.
My history with getting into Death is 100% like that. I can literally agree with this 100%.
Damn. Probably my favorite retrospective you guys have done. Really emotional in a lot of ways, but still informational as well as entertaining. Excellent work.
What is most admirable about this band is that every album is different but still Death. I think the hatred of later albums is a bit over stated. I mean yeah, there was some discontent among fans but that is par the course for bands with any kind of longevity. I distinctively remember Perseverance being voted album of the year by fans of Metal Maniacs magazine. Which at the time, was the most popular underground zine of the 90's.
Best comment i have ever read and agreed!🤙🏼🤘🏼🤙🏼
Props for giving Spiritual Healing the respect it deserves. As classic as Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy are, Spiritual Healing is such an improvement on all levels - songwriting, soloing, riffs, you name it. It's to the point where I gotta believe that people who put it low on the tier list of Death albums are doing so because it's the lazy popular opinion to have and they didn't actually listen to it.
People don't like it because it's the "jack of all trades, master of none" album.
If you prefer the raw sound of SBG and Leprosy, Spiritual Healing feels like a less aggressive, more watered down version of that.
If you like the more technical/progressive style of Human or Individual Thought Patterns, it just feels like a immature and incomplete version of what they do later.
Spiritual Healing is the very definition of an album that's used to transition between two different musical styles, which the album itself suffers from, by lacking a clear direction or goal.
Brilliant video, mate. My favourite death metal band.
Went to see them in Edinburgh, Scotland back in 1990, with Kreator. The infamous time Chuck hadn't travelled but the band played on with Louieand Walter.
I've ALWAYS appreciated those guys showing up and still giving us a killer show. Death Forever. RIP Chuck.
Spiritual Healing is criminally underrated.
Spiritual healing is one of my favorite death albums top three no doubt
This was a really good video, really strong especially towards the end
Thank you for making this video, as a fan I appreciate you and your channel. Death rules
Nice It's not a troll. Good to see Perseverance grew on you, didn't think you would ever talk positive about it.
SCREAM BLOODY GORE - Thank you for acknowleding the insane vocal performance, definitely my favourite vocals on any death metal record.
LEPROSY - Finally someone else notices the "Death" song structure: "Part 1-Midsection-Part 1 reprisal" (new lyrics for verse 2). Only the Scream Bloody Gore songs, the instrumentals, Primitive Ways and To Forgive Is To Suffer deviated from this. And the music still holds up, decades later!
Ironically, after the video played out RUclips started the Obituary retrospective video. So much for Chuck wanting to separate Death from Death metal :D
The is a fantastic retrospective! I didn't know most of this info. I've watched your Slayer and Death retrospective back to back too. Great work!
I love the closing statement! Really good work on the video, cheers!
The acoustic solo at the outro of crystal mountain gets me rock hard. Great video🤘
You're on the money: Spiritual Healing is 100% moving death toward technical death metal.
Regurgitated Guts is one of my personal favorite songs off Scream Bloody Gore.
Gonna agree with ya on the Spiritual Healing front. Amazing album. And I like it better than Human. In fact, it’s probably my 2nd favorite DEATH album. Killing Spree, is maybe my all-time favorite track by DEATH. So many to choose. But it’s always in my top2/3. I don’t get the hate on this album. But then my favorite TSOP also gets dogged, for too much ‘wank’. So, it just so happens that my 2 favorite DEATH albums, are usually the most criticized. Nice job on the retrospective! 🤘🏼R.I.P. Lord Schuldiner. 🎸
Thank you for this. This is some history right here.
This video will explode within -the mind- a few months
Individual Thought Patterns is my favorite Death Album and Scream Bloody Gore a close second. Chuck was a pioneer.
The more I listen to this band, Individual Thought Pattern is my favorite, because Andy Larocque is being Andy Larocque.
Great retrospective! Certainly one of your best. I love all of their albums here how I would rank them
1. Sound of Perseverance
2. Symbolic
3. ITP
4. Spiritual Healing
5. Human
6. Leprosy
7. Scream Bloody Gore
Sound of Perseverance is where I started too, 2008. In my top 10 greatest albums and pieces of art ever released. 10/10 in every single way.
In 2018 I got a call from my girl but I was listening to it again in August. She was pissed off I didn't answer, I told her I was doing something more important
I must say sound of perseverance is the greates metal album of all time for me, when he said its his least favorite i was little bit sad :(
Spirit crusher in 2007...16 year old me wasnt ready for how much that song would change my way of listening to music. Now my favorite chuck album was The Fragile Art Of Existence, but i cant imagine there being a...best...chuck album. The best one is the one playing. Thats all i got
My new favorite channel! 🤘🏼
Worth the wait! You did Chuck good 🤘
‘Scream Bloody Gore’ will always be my absolute favorite Death album. Far from an original comment I know, but it’s just a gem plain & simple.
Richard Christy pronounced it Schul-deener. Since he was in Death, thats what I stuck with.
ill take it from chuck himself. who says its "shul-din-er".
SCHOOL DINNER
Shøl dinner
It was probably a good thing that Gene left when he did, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to play on the City album by Strapping Young Lad.
Thanks for the time and effort you put into this. Really appreciated!
Cheers from Finland, Petri
Finally! Thank you so much for this video Death is the one of the best metal bands ever
one of your best retrospective ,maybe my favorite !
Every album is a blast... Regardless of the difference between them. Best Death Metal band of all time.... \m/
Death's last two are their best two and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. We all love brutal death metal, but the songwriting was on another level in his later era.
...Symbolic might be my least favorite Death album
...but The Sound Of Perseverance might be my favorite Death album.(which is weird) It's an album that will never be replicated and I still haven't heard anything like it.
Sound of Perseverance, Individual Thought Patterns, Human... my top 3.
@@stefanstoyanoff8206 I can get down with this answer too. Middle era Death had the best of both worlds. Brutal and progressive
Ill take it further. I loved his progressive direction and Control Denied's one album and chucks last is my fave. The Fragile Art Of Existence is just magical. Chuck took his writing to the fkin cosmos.
ITP and tSoP are by far my favorites. Chuck for sure was difficult. So is Mustaine, Ackerfeldt, etc. And... even if Chuck was gay, who the frikk cares? Literally shouldn't even be a talking point. Sounds a lot like he had some serious mental health issues, which sadly is more common among creative geniuses than not. Sad all we can do is speculate.
As for the Sound of Perseverance, I feel it's genre is more a mix of Progressive/Technical Blackened Thrash, when you compare the elements. Chucks vox are very much more a Black Metal witch rasp on it. All the elements the "BR00T4L D3ATH" crowd hate honestly are what makes me love it. Pacing and Riffs definitely feel more Thrash to me. And much as I love Gene and Steve, this is my favorite rhythm section in actual recorded songs. Heck I even love the Painkiller cover.
For straight DM, I'll whip out my Bolt Thrower collection. *shrugs*
I'm a death noobie, just started listening to them, and I'm really surprised people didn't like symbolic at the time. I'm glad people have come to their senses these days. My favorite song as of right now from death is empty words!
Totally respect your opinion man. I personally think Death`s discography is close to perfection, I love the different periods and change of style. They are one of my favourite death metal bands along with Bolt Thrower, Carcass and Obituary.
Every single album has been my favourite Death album at some point. But I keep returning to Leprosy and Spiritual Healing the most. ITP was the first.
Great retrospective.
Spiritual Healing has Chuck's best vocals BY FAR! It took me a while to get into Death because I couldn't get into the vocals for the longest time. I kept trying because the music was so good. Spiritual Healing was the first Death album I could get into. Defensive Personalities' chorus hooked me. When that double bass hits and you hear that awesome riff in the background, it's still one of my favorite Death moments. The album as a whole is still one of my favorites from the because it's a great balance of their career as a whole. I'm still not the biggest fan of Chuck's vocals overall, but the music is just next level.
Would you rather have pig squeals?
You kept me watching for an hour bro. Great video, keep it up
I grew up in South Florida and saw death at the pit in West Palm Beach Florida and was into him ever since the beginning and they were awesome actually got to smoke a joint with Chuck and Bill Andrews and I saw cynic in Miami beach at the Cameo theater on the reflections of a dying world tour and smoked weed with Sean and Paul. South Florida was booming with that metal and I was into it heavily at that time and still am those were the best years Of My Life.
Man, I have to say this. Chuck had an absolutely beautiful singing voice
Damn I think you covered everything that needed to be said! Great Video!
James Murphy is a FUCKING BAD ASS !!!
His band "DISINCARNATE" has only one album & is a masterpiece!!! Love your video's brother😀🎶
Spiritual healing is a master piece no matter what ANYBODY THINKS OR SAYS!!!
Never thought I'd see it. Awesome retrospective. I love the facts and research involved in this, definitely makes me wish I were more tech savvy as I could talk metal for days on end. Makes me want to go back and binge the retrospectives, please continue with the awesome work.
editing this stuff isnt that hard, im always down for helping people out with editing and stuff, just join the discord server and ask for editing advice
It kinda feels like you’ve come Full-Circle with your Relationship with Death. This is probably one of your more intimate/personal episodes I’ve watched from you.
Death’s music is so soothing.
Very nice, first time viewer and I watched(listened) without pause through the entirety.
2 bands I'd love to hear one of these on are Monstrosity and Vader.
Subbed🤘
Hell yeah I binged the full video!!!!
Great job bro!Death for life, Chuck allways in our hearts.
My favorite song from Scream Bloody Gore goes Baptized In Blood without question...
Completely agree with you about production and Scott Burns
By far your best retrospective!
The Sound Of Perseverance is personally my favorite album by the band, a masterpiece from start to finish.
Well researched and fair assessments. You did a great job here. I've had my head in the sand for 25 years and just started listening to Death this past summer. Started with Sound of Perseverance due to being blown away by the Eindhoven performances that pop up 1st when searching the band on RUclips. And you are 100% correct, by doing that it did make it harder to get into Spiritual Healing and the albums before it. I've pretty much been listening exclusively to Death for the past 3 months straight..making up for lost time I suppose. It is fun to wonder where things would have gone after the 2nd Control Denied record came out. Theres always those that think Death was Chucks 1st love and he would eventually go back to it. I think I read from Eric Grief that there was almost zero chance once Chuck was free from Deaths obligations that he would ever sign up to be stuck in them again. Either way I'd love to go back and kick my 15 year old self for not picking up a Death album when I was buying every metal album I could afford so I could have been along for part of the ride while Chuck was still here.
I never thought that I’d live to see the day this got posted
I 100% agree with what you said about Rick as a guitar player compared to the others. No doubt the guy is good, but really, when going back to leprosy, you notice a massive contrast between chuck's lead playing and Rick's. Chuck is much more intricate and technical with his playing, whilst Rick's solos really just came down to him doing dive bombs and pitch squeals with a floyd. To me, Rick's solo's are what I would like Slayer's solos to sound like. Dude actually knew how to use a whammy bar, instead of abusing it and hitting mindless notes which aren't in key.
Thank you for this discography
Nice retrospective.😁 My favorite Death - Album is definitely Individual Thought Pattern.😋 And I actually love that they always changed the lineup, even though they left for unfortunate reasons. Always new people and all of them were great plus every album sounds more or less different, probably also due to the different members.
Always loved spiritual healing as living monstrosity was the first song i heard by death
I actually really enjoy Individual Thought Patterns
Spiritual Healing is a killer album and everyone I know loves it. I don't know the type of people you're talking to but ask anyone and Spiritual is up there as one of the best.
Great work gents.
All of Leprosy is perfect including the snare sound. My fav death metal album, between that and Obituary Cause of Death.
Love them all! Being Human and Individual my favorites...
This was a very well put together video, nice job!
Atheist's PIECE OF TIME was really recorded in 1988 but not released until 90 so yea they were first w the technicality being brought into DM but Death had much more output over the years and consistency
I feel like Hell Awaits and Reign In Blood inspired Death Metal too, TONS of the riffs are death metal sounding. Tom’s vocals are what link it more to thrash, but (especially Hell Awaits) those two albums should be taken into consideration when discussing origin of death metal. Just my opinion. Great retro, probably my favorite!
so what dude, could make that argument about EVERY thrash band by that logic.
Ma Visser not really, Slayer had a certain riffstyle (at least in my opinion) that feels death metally (on HA and RiB). If you know other thrash bands that did that back then please let me know which ones
That is definitely true, pretty much every big death metal band that you can name cites Slayer as an influence for the exact reason you mentioned
Heavy tremolo picking and grotesque lyrical themes..did somehow made Slayer a sort of an inspiration for later extreme metal bands..no doubt about it.
I remember when Scream Bloody Gore was released. Amazing! I still listen to it quite frequently. Leprosy is my favorite though. R.I.P. Chuck.
Great vid 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
Thank you for the video anyway, I agree with you about him creating a bridge between genres. Chuck was an amazing song writer, we all go through dark places in our life, we weren't actually there, I won't judge him for anything, long lived the legend and the amazing band, my favorite band of all time
Alright, my all time favorite band!
IMO, what makes Scream Bloody Gore the first legitimate death metal album is the brutality of the vocals and lyrics, which I've always believed is what separates death metal from thrash the most.
both of which also exist on seven churches
Great analysis bro.
The early 90s. I was actually seeing them in Copenhagen back then when Kam Lee and the rest of the band were standing in for Chuck. I was always wondering what the hell that was about? Later I got to see Chuck himself and Steve and so on in 1993. Murphy was the best guitarist no doubt. Just check his Disincarnate album. I think Atheist was partly inspired by Watchtower from Germany. Anyhow, Good breakdown. I even wrote a memorial thing for Chuck back then when he died. One of my close friends helped Murphy when he had problems.
Land of No Return and Beyond the Unholy Grave were left off the album because Combat Records thought it would be too much to have 12 tracks, so they insisted on 10.
Anyone ever tell you, that you look like a teenager? I mean it as a true compliment dude! I really enjoy this band! You are a great commentator, sir!
Alex Webster is most likely the best Death Metal bassist...Steve DiGiorgio is fucking awesome as well..thats a tight for the number 1 spot...Both are insanely good.
Alex Webster has always been the best death metal bassist.
Didn’t realise Symbolic suffered from the heartwork problem , it’s consistently been one of my favourites along with Leprosy and Spiritual healing . Majorly preferred it to the stuff they where doing on individual thought patterns .
Sound of perseverance is my favorite Death album. Symbolic and Human are incredible as well
Richard Christie (drums for a while) is a writer and contributor on the Howard Stern show since the mid 2000s
Loved the Death by Metal doc, although some of the editing was a bit wonky, was awesome to finally see it.
Leprosy is my favorite because I started there & I love how visceral the drums are & was disappointed when nothing else sounded like that
Individual Thought Patterns is my favorite album they did. SDG & HOGLAN! Nothing else to say
two legends on their first release
I wish you'd talked about the show in Houston where a riot started on the Death/Pestilence/Carcass tour in '90 XD
Wtf why did that happen?
I’m glad I got to meet chuck at Janus landing and he gave me a shirt
Thats really cool!
i did a meet and greet with the DTA tour line up in san francisco several years back, and I had no idea what to ask or talk about lol. I felt like the kid on santas lap who couldnt talk in that movie a christmas story. Did happen to talk to rick rozz, and trevor peres though. They were cool.
I can't believe i just watched this whole thing. Chuck was a man with a vision. being stubborn was a good thing for the development of the sound and legacy he wanted to leave behind.
you're making excuses for shitty behavior
DownFall NetWork I know, it’s part of the fun
Ok but where's the death retrospective?
I think it's coming after the Death retrospective.
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Frampton comes alive is definitely the first death metal album. And Body count is the best black metal band.
that comment about production in Extreme Metal then and now is spot on.
Modern Extreme metal especially Death Metal has lost that gritty rawness that made the genre what it was.
Death metal is not supposed to sound squeaky clean and perfect
Dude has "a lot to get into in a minute"
Great video!
Very nice work man.