Heaviest Death Metal Song? Symbolic

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • Heaviest Death Metal Song? It just might be Death's "Symbolic." Symbolic is off Death's 1995 record of the same name. According to front man Chuck Schuldiner, the song is about losing the innocence of youth....a HEAVY topic indeed. Is it really possible that Death is heavier than Cannibal Corpse, Meshuggah or Thrash giants like Megadeth and Metallica? In order to find out, we watch a live performance of Death's Symbolic recorded in Los Angeles in 1998. Decide for yourself and post your opinion in the comments below. Get on Chuck Schuldiner's level with my full music theory course below. It's the best way to reach level 666 fast muhahaha!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 277

  • @ShredmasterScott
    @ShredmasterScott  2 роки тому +11

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  • @christopherbeavers8344
    @christopherbeavers8344 2 роки тому +77

    Death was an example of how deathmetal can be very individual and creative. No one sounded like them before, no one has since. It is what every band should aspire to.

    • @hbc431
      @hbc431 2 роки тому

      decrepit birth - diminishing between words is the only album ive heard that sounds like death

    • @shredfreak83
      @shredfreak83 9 місяців тому

      @@hbc431 Chemical Breath - Fatal exposure. Sadly enough that band was grossly overlooked. i guess mainly because the second album values was a serious step backwards imho.

    • @syntezjaofficial4240
      @syntezjaofficial4240 4 місяці тому

      I feel like on Symbolic they had everything: emotional leads, heavy riffs, technical skills when they're needed and the most important for me: the melody. I would say it was prog death mixed with melodic death and I love it.

  • @Langdon6993
    @Langdon6993 2 роки тому +229

    in my opinion, death's most heavy song is Flattening Of Emotions no doubt, the amount of riffs and badass vocals make this song perfect. You should review this song too!

    • @davef4214
      @davef4214 2 роки тому +7

      This song live hits on a totally different level. It gave me chills

    • @detts5082
      @detts5082 2 роки тому +10

      to me their heaviest song is Born Dead, the riffs...

    • @deathmetal0073
      @deathmetal0073 2 роки тому +15

      Suicide machine, see through dreams, and leprosy are also quite heavy

    • @m0rf1n20
      @m0rf1n20 2 роки тому +13

      Altering the Future , my guy

    • @penttikoivuniemi2146
      @penttikoivuniemi2146 2 роки тому +11

      I agree, Flattening of Emotions set a level of heaviness that I for a long time thought nobody could overcome. But Human in general is crushing and amazing.

  • @DonnieFreymoyer
    @DonnieFreymoyer 2 роки тому +47

    NEVER a day passes that I dont listen to death and or play Chuck's riffs.

  • @Emet.V
    @Emet.V 2 роки тому +60

    Death’s music always calms me down.Death’s music sounds to me like the ocean, mysterious,vast,deadly, dangerous and peaceful at the same time. 🧘‍♂️🤘🎸🌊☮️🕊✌️

  • @strangecorgi2903
    @strangecorgi2903 2 роки тому +44

    Symbolic just blew my mind the first time I heard it. There isn't a song on that whole album that is even remotely uninteresting or boring, due in large part to the fact that that album was the one they spent the most time writing. That and TSoP were Death's peak, and then there's The Fragile Art of Existence...

    • @riffreaper
      @riffreaper 2 роки тому +1

      Just started listening to this album after finding out chuck worked on that piece /band ( as guitar ofc & some songwriting ) with Tim Aymar ( the vocals in Control Denied ) which also lead to me t discover Tim Aymars other band Called Psycho scream, no sign of life is one of their first songs ive heard.

    • @strangecorgi2903
      @strangecorgi2903 2 роки тому

      @@riffreaper Just checked out No Sign of Life, and I'm very impressed! PS seems very underrated.

  • @SpiritSlayer-xd1in
    @SpiritSlayer-xd1in 2 роки тому +65

    I love Death so much. Such a unique band

  • @ajhproductions2347
    @ajhproductions2347 2 роки тому +74

    My death tattoo tingles every time you mention chuck...no homo...
    Flesh and the power it holds, and Scavenger of human sorrow opened up new worlds for me when I first heard TSOP. The drums are so jazzy, the bass is so groovy, and the guitars and vocals are so piercing, it just sounds demonic and so very metal! cheers brother! Thanks for the great music theory lessons!
    🤘
    Support metal, not rumors!!

  • @mkm7251
    @mkm7251 2 роки тому +14

    Just got into Death, and definitely one of my favorites is Spirit Crusher. It primes you with the opening riff, then just sweeps you along with its heavy metal caravan.

  • @yavuz2638
    @yavuz2638 2 роки тому +11

    In the '90s, big bands like Megadeth and Metallica reduced the hardness and complexity of their music and released more radio-friendly albums, while bands like Pantera, Slayer, and Death did the opposite.
    Especially Death deserves to be in a very interesting position. Human and every album after it has intensified depth in the lyrics, searched for the different, produced works that are layered and not easy to digest.
    It's really respectable. Chuck is truly a genius. There are orchestral versions of some Death songs on UA-cam. I recommend everyone to listen.

  • @BastadNKunt
    @BastadNKunt 2 роки тому +7

    Unbelievably iconic band for the metal world chuck was legit a genius

  • @RaveEpic
    @RaveEpic 2 роки тому +3

    Morbid Angel’s Summoning Redemption crushes.

  • @adam55244
    @adam55244 2 роки тому +4

    Chuck will always be my fav guitarist

  • @muhammadsabah6527
    @muhammadsabah6527 2 роки тому +9

    Chuck Is one of the greatest musician ever lived

  • @TP-te4eb
    @TP-te4eb 2 роки тому +4

    Chuck was a genius. The guitar, the vocals, everything’s amazing. Death is a legendary band…

  • @armandosolorzano570
    @armandosolorzano570 2 роки тому +3

    Thanks for the chuck content shred I appreciate it. I think Human is his heaviest album because the production value was much higher than spiritual healing but he was still using marshall jcm back then. He switched to the valvestate before symbolic and got that classic midrangy tone, shredding soaring melodies, but the tone on human is very dark, bassy and cavernous, exploring the underworld. I think vacant planets or together as one are my favorites off that album

  • @Rollyyy
    @Rollyyy 2 роки тому +7

    I love Symbolic! imo their best album. Without Judgement is my favorite Death song and Crystal Mountain and Misanthrope are just great. Also has good production, which compaired to their old stuff makes it way more fun to listen to.

    • @cherrytv4572
      @cherrytv4572 2 роки тому

      Scream bloody gore was also a banger

  • @lynncampbell962
    @lynncampbell962 2 роки тому +4

    Seeing Richard kill those drums, it's so strange hearing him do Ethel and Rusty on HS. Like how can that be the same person?

  • @spankyt7612
    @spankyt7612 2 роки тому +2

    I love hearing about death and Chuck as they are very inspiring to me as a musician

  • @TheEndwalker
    @TheEndwalker 2 роки тому +4

    My favourite band ever! Chuck was a genious!!!

  • @salvegaming9599
    @salvegaming9599 2 роки тому +3

    Should I sell my soul? Or just drink some wap juice? (Whoops, no wap juice today, not enough power then)

  • @nolangoldenberg8843
    @nolangoldenberg8843 2 роки тому +1

    The lyrics to this track and rhythmic changes make this such a powerful song. Unbelievable

  • @davebooth5608
    @davebooth5608 2 роки тому +1

    “Shred, you pick that twang-box farley tolerable!”

  • @ambassadortourettes753
    @ambassadortourettes753 2 роки тому +5

    Definitely any song off of HUMAN is the heaviest material they made.... Granted it might not have as many tempo changes or dimensions as Symbolic 🤔 However 🤷🏻‍♂️Hard to top Flattening of Emotions 👌

  • @jason_108
    @jason_108 2 роки тому

    You're a trip man. I like you lol. Good reactions with awkwardly cool personality.

  • @bellmeisterful
    @bellmeisterful 2 роки тому +1

    Finally somone who recognizes the ultimate greatness of Symbolic! Wha hahaha..whenever I bring up the top ten metal album of all time Symbolic, dudes are always bringing up the earlier album thats good...but doesnt touch the perfection that is Symbolic. Bwah hahahah

  • @franciscoramirez6162
    @franciscoramirez6162 Рік тому

    I love so much that is palpable that you’re a huge death fan as I am long life Chuck

  • @metaldad4979
    @metaldad4979 6 місяців тому

    I would've picked 'Misanthrope'. That chorus riff is filthy! 🤘

  • @MBBGun14
    @MBBGun14 2 роки тому

    Kickass song, that starting riff is very catchy.

  • @blackmetalworship3713
    @blackmetalworship3713 2 роки тому

    This was my very first extreme metal show i went to i was about 15 years old seeing death for the first and last time r.i.p. chuck

  • @atranfanatic
    @atranfanatic 2 роки тому

    Didn't realize before. But that other guitarist really flubbed up that second part of the solo. lol

  • @mnogonozhka8640
    @mnogonozhka8640 Рік тому

    heavy, riffs , melody .. best band of death metal

  • @rikvartigyan2667
    @rikvartigyan2667 2 роки тому

    I gotta say Open casket imo... Good video Thumbs up!

  • @_Rib_tree_
    @_Rib_tree_ 2 роки тому

    It's awesome to see people read and watch music like this

  • @redpillmafia960
    @redpillmafia960 2 роки тому

    I like how there is Chuck... and then there is the other guy... lol.

  • @retrospiritsgaiden
    @retrospiritsgaiden Рік тому

    You can't kill metal but you can force it off stage at 10pm due to local noise control legislation

  • @tieukhavu8832
    @tieukhavu8832 2 роки тому

    Good morning my Friend!

  • @TheCyberMantis
    @TheCyberMantis 2 роки тому +2

    I bought this cd back when it came out. I literally sh1t myself. A legendary classic. Studied by many wanna-be musicians.

  • @ResubidorSerial
    @ResubidorSerial 2 роки тому

    the philosopher, see through dreams, Lack of comprehension

  • @jhx97
    @jhx97 2 роки тому +2

    Listen Death is my favorite death metal band of all time but i think Lashed to the Slave Stick by Nile is the heaviest death metal song ever written

  • @michaszuty5035
    @michaszuty5035 Рік тому

    It is heavy and touching AF , but it is something far beyond death metal. Chuck in his whole life wanted to expand new musical teritories and his last albums with Death and Control Denied prove it.

    • @yomuthabyotch
      @yomuthabyotch Рік тому

      definitely. his lyrics are not death metal at all.

  • @commonclayofthenewwest6045
    @commonclayofthenewwest6045 2 роки тому

    Ad a Dglgmut, Arsonist, Disease Injury Madness, by Between the Buried and Me. Those have some heavy dirtyness.

  • @genocidjunkie
    @genocidjunkie 2 роки тому

    I’d say misanthrope off of symbolic is the heaviest but the song symbolic is right there with it in my opinion

  • @boygeorgemonde6608
    @boygeorgemonde6608 2 роки тому +3

    This is nothing compare to summoning redemption

  • @jasoncousins1343
    @jasoncousins1343 Рік тому

    The sound of perseverance is my favorite album Richards drumming is next level on that one

  • @davidd9325
    @davidd9325 2 роки тому

    Laughs in Necrophagia

  • @krata420
    @krata420 2 роки тому

    So as we looking for heaviest death metal song maybe some Cannibal Corpse or Nile next time?

  • @uerur8683
    @uerur8683 2 роки тому +1

    You should react to dissection

  • @ELICARLO11
    @ELICARLO11 Рік тому

    I've read a long time a go, Richard got a terribly flu...so everything they played that day was a bit aceleRAAATED.

  • @stephenl5416
    @stephenl5416 2 роки тому

    Bobby koeble originally created second solo and Shannon murdered it.

  • @justinsanday
    @justinsanday 2 роки тому +1

    Obituary

  • @jaychen2000metal
    @jaychen2000metal 2 роки тому

    Death is a great band but i could think of 15 heavier bands probably. Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Decrepit Birth, Mephistophelian, Abramelin, Fleshrot, Putridity, etc. They just don't have the riff skills as Death.

  • @deathmetalmvs5924
    @deathmetalmvs5924 2 роки тому

    What about Spirit Crusher

  • @madmickometal5205
    @madmickometal5205 2 роки тому

    Fast, intense, brutal metal 🤘the way metal should be 🤘I grew up listening to death, and my music is heavily influenced by them and slayer, 🤘

  • @chrislaprete7582
    @chrislaprete7582 2 роки тому

    Death was amazing , Chuck was the man. Morbid Angel had some great stuff too.

  • @michaellmiller2382
    @michaellmiller2382 2 роки тому

    Shred, if you do another video with Death, you should use a clip with Gene Hoglin on drums. All hail the human metronome!

  • @ayatan9119
    @ayatan9119 2 роки тому

    Yes!!!

  • @EdBMetal
    @EdBMetal Рік тому

    DEATH 4 LIFE!!! 🖤🔥🤘💀🤘🔥🖤

  • @Alfred8805
    @Alfred8805 2 роки тому

    Love death a lot but I would put any of their songs near the heaviest death metal song

  • @markgreene1162
    @markgreene1162 2 роки тому

    No bad album 🤘🤘

  • @slane9393
    @slane9393 2 роки тому

    i love death bro

  • @borysbakowski8597
    @borysbakowski8597 2 роки тому

    can we get more death metal?

  • @steveferraro7086
    @steveferraro7086 Рік тому

    How bout Deaths ,"Leprosy" album....1st I heard of Death

  • @vladtheimpaler7375
    @vladtheimpaler7375 2 роки тому

    Have you ever listened to Cannibal Corpse? Lol
    I love Death, it is nowhere closest to the heaviest Death Metal.

  • @TheArmour88
    @TheArmour88 2 роки тому

    Loving that big white nostril you're rocking this vid. A few nose beers before recording a video is never a bad thing!

  • @Kowinaida
    @Kowinaida 2 роки тому

    Death metal has progressed into a far more intense form. Listen to Nile...

  • @kdr129
    @kdr129 Рік тому

    I would say the album itself is their heaviest. But Perennial Quest may be Chuck's heaviest song of all time, imo.

  • @praisethesay10
    @praisethesay10 2 роки тому +1

    Please react to studio versions
    It's more enjoyable for you and us

    • @SausageFingers420
      @SausageFingers420 2 роки тому +1

      Live versions are less likely to get content ID'd. The words "fair use" don't mean much on this here platform.

  • @mattjingles5758
    @mattjingles5758 2 роки тому

    besides spirit crusher this is my other favorite death song.

  • @billsalvey
    @billsalvey 9 місяців тому

    🙏🤘🤘🙏

  • @deeschlong8086
    @deeschlong8086 2 роки тому

    🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿

  • @dasapples
    @dasapples 2 роки тому

    If Music Is Win and FitMC had a kid, and their child lost the genetic lottery, this is what would come of it. Literally the cringiest qualities of both of them

  • @TheSnapdad
    @TheSnapdad 2 роки тому +2

    I appreciate Chuck's talent, but Death Metal has been the bridge I am unable to cross. In my heart American Thrash will always be the pinnacle of Metal.

    • @SausageFingers420
      @SausageFingers420 2 роки тому +1

      I used to feel the same way. Then, after listening to thrash pretty steadily for, like, 15 years, I got kinda bored with it. When I was still in my thrash phase, people used to tell me that and I thought they were crazy. Here I am 20 years later saying the same thing. Oh well, whatever blows yer skirt up, I guess.

  • @ModernSocrates
    @ModernSocrates 2 роки тому

    Heaviest song ever is domination by pantera

  • @fededipi6688
    @fededipi6688 2 роки тому

    Death made the heaviest death metal songs? Honestly, i dunno. Death made the BEST death metal songs? Hell yeah, you can bet your ass they did.

  • @ethangilworth7891
    @ethangilworth7891 2 роки тому

    I mean great song, but the heaviest? Not so sure

  • @Indohispano
    @Indohispano 4 місяці тому

    Na it’s great but not the heaviest. Gotta be something off Leprosy

  • @InveterateMendaciousness
    @InveterateMendaciousness 2 роки тому

    It’s not.

  • @Bpm_2300
    @Bpm_2300 2 роки тому

    One of my top 5 bands of all time

  • @Vule-xe6mv
    @Vule-xe6mv 2 роки тому

    Etombed my fav death metal band ,i dont like death that much its to much melodic

  • @SuicideZUK
    @SuicideZUK 2 роки тому

    Altering the Future is one that comes to mind.

  • @luckydevil38
    @luckydevil38 2 роки тому

    Without Grief - Ungodly
    Check it out

  • @marcanthonycarino4328
    @marcanthonycarino4328 2 роки тому +150

    I wish I can play like that while singing. Crystal Mountain is next shred.

    • @Brandon-dy8us
      @Brandon-dy8us 2 роки тому +16

      Nah. Do Flesh and the Power It Holds. That solo is insane.

    • @ashleywootton9556
      @ashleywootton9556 2 роки тому +2

      @@Brandon-dy8us true

    • @marcanthonycarino4328
      @marcanthonycarino4328 2 роки тому +5

      Oh yeah, the Sound of Perseverance album. I also like the Bite the Pain.

    • @emperialdeath5622
      @emperialdeath5622 2 роки тому +3

      After practice I’ve reached the ability to play all of death, it’s just dedication you can do it too!

    • @thrashmetalhead88
      @thrashmetalhead88 2 роки тому +1

      Crystal Mountain is the only Death Metal song I like. Therefore Death is my favorite Death Metal band, but I hate Death Metal. So, yeah.

  • @holstorrsceadus1990
    @holstorrsceadus1990 2 роки тому +25

    I have a friend who is a Chuck doppelganger. He plays guitar but doesn't listen to Death and it makes me sad.

  • @odinsonthered9226
    @odinsonthered9226 2 роки тому +29

    Death, the reason I picked up a guitar. Chuck was a revolutionary

  • @evenery2153
    @evenery2153 2 роки тому +20

    Hail Schuldiner! One of the biggest losses in the metal scene ever. What a legend 😢

  • @andrewcoates4952
    @andrewcoates4952 2 роки тому +18

    A personal favourite of mine is the song “Spiritual Healing”

    • @alfonso2561
      @alfonso2561 Рік тому

      Spiritual healing is the best death song but worst death album

  • @mikegallagher2732
    @mikegallagher2732 2 роки тому +10

    NO ONE tops the Almighty DEATH ... But MESHUGGAH is a close second I.M.O.. (DESTROY ERASE IMPROVE ERA) I was lucky enough to see them MANY TIMES and talk with Chuck Before He passed ..He was just SOOOO down to earth and an AWESOME guy ...As well as an INCREDIBLE Talent... R.I.P.

  • @Kylora2112
    @Kylora2112 2 роки тому +36

    My favorite BC Rich Stealth fact: the two most prominent users of the BC Rich Stealth are Chuck Schuldiner of Death and Jim West from "Weird Al" Yankovic's band (he used a Stealth in the early and mid 80s, including an appearance on the Merv Griffin Show where they played I Lost On Jeopardy! and where Merv announced that Jeopardy! would be returning to television).

    • @courtmetrage
      @courtmetrage 2 роки тому +1

      And Derringer?

    • @DonnieFreymoyer
      @DonnieFreymoyer 2 роки тому

      The Cars Elliot Easton had a bich also a fun bich fact

    • @kevincurry8350
      @kevincurry8350 2 роки тому

      Didn't Jeff From Slayer play one too for a little while.

  • @freq9939
    @freq9939 2 роки тому +8

    Amazing song. Symbolic, Pull the plug, Flesh and the power it holds are amazing as are many many many Death songs. Live in Eindhoven 1998 is the best. That show’s audio is clear. Everyone is at their maximum. Chuck is a power house through the whole show.

  • @brandonsteele1138
    @brandonsteele1138 2 роки тому +7

    I'd love to keep seeing these Death reaction/analyses! Love Chuck's music and lyrics just as much!

  • @caljerm
    @caljerm 2 роки тому +5

    If you have Symbolic as th3 heaviest death metal song I'm thinking you haven't listened to nearly enough death metal

    • @jehanzebshahzad6579
      @jehanzebshahzad6579 2 роки тому

      What tracks/albums do you have in mind? Just curious

    • @BegetterVIIEVEN
      @BegetterVIIEVEN 2 роки тому +1

      For real, heaviest song in Death would be leprosy in my opinion. In all of death metal, I can't really say.

    • @caljerm
      @caljerm Рік тому

      ​@@jehanzebshahzad6579None So Vile and Pierced From Within - probably the two heaviest albums ever recorded

    • @mathinfame
      @mathinfame 3 місяці тому

      gay ahh albums

  • @ceebee491
    @ceebee491 2 роки тому +6

    Shred- you have helped me re discover Death. Thanks! Forgot how good they were.
    Any chance of Prong or Fugazi on the channel?

  • @Splitfinger709
    @Splitfinger709 2 роки тому +52

    His guitar playing is incredible! His guitar is also very different. No front pickup, no selection switch, no whammy bar. He'll just bend a note two steps.
    Shred, you should do empty words sometime. That has a haunting intro, and killer body!

    • @korolario
      @korolario 2 роки тому

      he could stop belching too

    • @EM-zj1xm
      @EM-zj1xm 2 роки тому +1

      And also a very short scale, too! Shorter, than Gibsons, if I get it right. Brain May also has a very different signature guitar with a short scale.

    • @Stefan-
      @Stefan- 2 роки тому +1

      @@EM-zj1xm Brian Mays guitar is very unique, nothing like a serial produced guitar. He built it together with his father from different things that was avialible like wood from an old fireplace for example.

  • @davef4214
    @davef4214 2 роки тому +5

    I love playing Symbolic on the guitar. The whole album is alot of fun, and great for getting out some aggression

  • @the_dead_one
    @the_dead_one 2 роки тому +2

    you should check "flesh and the power it holds",interesting song

  • @astro2691
    @astro2691 2 роки тому +3

    Symbolic, as good as it is, isn't even the heaviest Death song, let alone the heaviest death metal song.

    • @progshark
      @progshark 2 роки тому +1

      And it's not death metal. As a matter of fact, Chuck hated the term.

  • @JP-mz8xd
    @JP-mz8xd 2 роки тому +2

    Maybe not heaviest, but definitely up there. Personally I’m in on The album “Scream bloody gore”, I think that album has some contenders. Also, Immolations “Legacy of decay” has got some awesome heavy tracks too with a lot of variety.

  • @AKnatta
    @AKnatta 2 роки тому +2

    HATEWORK by Morbid Angel.

  • @robertramirez1082
    @robertramirez1082 2 роки тому +2

    "Do you remember when?
    Hero's were so real
    Their magic frozen in TIme"! RIP Chuck. Your legacy will live on forever. Frozen in Time.