Essential Melodic Death Metal Albums | Lock Horns
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Bodom mentioned and discussed, but nothing on Amorphis. Tales from the Thousand Lakes is melodic and is death metal. The guitar melodies are simply stellar.
I mean, if you have Amon Amarth, you need to have the band that did that sound first. Proto album? Or even legend.
Early Amorphis is very melodic but overall I think they are firmly planted in the Death Doom category, not too different from Hooded Menace and such. 🤔
Still watching the re-run but I'm surprised to see Dark Tranquility kinda went past you (At least initially) in the early-essentials discussion: Skydancer came out in 1993 *BEFORE* Carcass' Heartwork and sure it was mostly unknown *then* except maybe on the local Gothenburg scene but unlike the initial At The Gates release it was unambiguously melodic death metal with all but direct quotes to that Maiden and Priest guitar harmonies sound. So it's at least as influential as Heartwork but I would argue even more so since Dark Tranquility and almost at the same time In Flames when on to really develop the sound through the 90s while Carcass largely abandoned it in Swansong.
The Jester Race is my favourite album of all time, In Flames peaked early. Dark Tranquillity took a while to peak, but Damage Done is legendary, and that run of 3 albums (Damage Done followed by Character and Fiction) was amazing. Kalmah needs more attention, Hades is one of the greatest Melodeath songs of all time.
Swamplord from Kalmah is such a legendary album.
Agreed with basically everything you said although I personally rank Character over DD even though they are pretty similar albums. I also still love The Gallery even though it’s not a perfect record.
@@luzzbuzz Lost to Apathy is my favourite song, but I feel like top to bottom, DD is a bit stronger as an album! Cheers \m/
Why no mention of the gallery ? Easily their best album and one of the best albums ever created. By far the best melodic death metal album ever made and one of the best albums period.
Simply put, Kalmah deserves to be mentioned here. Swamplord and Swampsong are classics that can't be understated. Bands still going strong after 30 years of graft as well. I feel they're often overlooked.
True
Extremely underrated band bro.
Wait.. just started the video. They aren't mentioned!! Dang!
I 1000% agree, with one correction: Swamplord, Swampsong, AND They Will Return are melodeath classics. Those were some of my gateway albums into melodeath and heavier metal in general
Yeah Kalmah always seems to get snubbed in these talks. For my money, they have some of the best melodic riffs and they really cultivate a unique atmosphere whether it be on their early albums or the meatier post-Black Waltz stuff. Love them
In Flames, Dark Tranquility, and Arch Enemy are the bands that got me into harder metal. Loved melodeath from the 00's and early 10's. Glad the genre got some love.
Melodeath was one of my favorites metal genres in the late 90s early 00s, and is one of the reasons I never got into nu-metal. I appreciate BangerTV doing the episode, but why do it with people with such lack of knowledge? You had guests in the past with knowledge in the topic at hand. Dark Tranquillity and Arch Enemy deserved to have their albums discussed in details just like In Flames. And there was no mentioned of Eucharist or Ceremonial Oath? But you add Dethlok and Darkest Hour? C'mon! The lock horns talk should have been about bands like Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Hypocrisy, Omnium Gatherum, etc deserve to be included in the melodeath genre.
52:15 fully agree about COB. Never really counted them in death metal. More power/speed with an extreme side
It has been debated what genre CoB belongs to has existed since day one. Usually the consensus is they are just a power meral band with death metal vocals, not straight up Melodeath. But then again that is not a defined genre where Melodeath is so it is hard to put them anywhere else.
@@MaaZeus melodeath has a range of different sounds. There's the more melodic early In Flames and Dark Tranquillity. The heavier stuff with At the Gates. Then there's the more heavy leass melodic Carcass and Arch Enemy style. I think COB definitely fits in there somewhere.
Something Wild - Melodic/Symphonic Black Metal
Hatebreeder/Follow the Reaper - Extreme Power Metal
HCD - Extreme Power Metal/Thrash
COB definitely ARE NOT a death metal band
Best metal show is back yaaaaay!
Wow, cool to see Lock Horns back!
You guys really helped me find a lot of cool stuff when I was becoming a full-blown metalhead back in 2015/16.
And even in saying that, I actually still haven’t taken a real deep dive into MeloDeath (my gateway was more through Prog like Opeth and Ihsahn) so this will be great to watch!
Thanks! 🤘🤘
Wow that’s cool that your entry point is prog metal. That’s not the most accessible type of metal to be a gateway. It’s complex and unconventional.
@@Grimeyhoob Yeah, my parents are classical musicians so that’s mostly what they played when I was growing up. I think it helped me get into Prog Rock & Metal. Now I love a lot of more “simple” music as well.
Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Gates of Ishtar - The Dawn of Flames
Sacrilege - Lost in the Beauty you Slay
Moonstruck - First Light
Satariel - Hydra
Eluveitie - Slania
Sentenced - North from Here
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
In Flames - The Jester Race
Exhumation - Seas of Eternal Silence
A Canorous Quintet - Silence of a World Beyond
Kalmah - Swamplord
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
The Absence - From your Grave
Night in Gales - Toward the Twilight
Ablaze My Sorrow - If Emotions Still Burn
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
Apophis - Heliopolis
Armageddon - Crossing the Rubicon
Azure - King of Stars Bearer of Dark
Callenish Circle - My Passion Your Pain
Carnal Forge - Please...Die!
Ceremonial Oath - Carpet
The Crown (Crown of Thorns) - The Burning
Impious - Holy Murder Masquerade
Diabolical - Synergy
The Elysian Fields - Adelain
Embracing - I Bear the Burden of Time
The Everdawn - Poems Burn the Past
Gardenian - Soulburner
God Dethroned - The Grand Grimoire
The Haunted - Made Me Do It
Hypocrisy - The Fourth Dimension
Hypocrite - Edge of Existence
Prophanity - Stronger than Steel
This Ending - Inside the Machine
Necromicon - Peccata Mvndi
The Duskfall - Frailty
Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
I could mention alot more but some cross between melodic black/death which i did mention a few here. Necrophobic, Dawn, In Aeternum, Sacramentum, Dissection for example. Both genres together as melodic black/death is my favorite.
Once Sent YES! Once Sent and With Oden blow Twilight out of the water. Hate that such a mediocre album is their biggest
Loved Satariel and wish they never had stopped…
This is actual mdm... Think these guys were just freestyling because they seem to know nothing
nekrogoblikon
The Fifth Season is better
I am super stoked to see Lock Horns back , I was at work earlier when it was on Twitch live but I am really enjoying watching it now🙏 Thank you Banger🤘🤘
My favorite Banger show: Lock Horns!! Amazing stuff guys. Thank you 🤘😊
Great to have Lock Horns back!
I'm a bit bummed that Amorphis wasn't at least in the proto part. But maybe it's just my Finnish point of view. Amorphis is super important for Finnish scene. They were trying to use progressive elements on tha Tales -album but it was still death metal. For sure most of Finnish melodic bands got influenced from that album (Insomnium, Norther, Ensiferum...).
So it's a hard album to define. Based on death but melodic stuff sounds like folk music and lyrics being from Kalevala (Finnish epic).
I hear ya. I'm American and Amorphis's Karelian Isthmus was my introduction to melodic death metal, and every melo-death album I hear I compare to that one. The more I look into them, definitely a very influential band to the Finnish scene at the very least.
Tales and Karelian Isthmus are classics. The guitar melodies on Tales are so good. Among the best in the genre.
Been a while since I listened to Tales. Time to check it out again.
Karelian is a monster album but Tales is total perfection for me and definitely is an untouchable classic.
Hope you guys will do another Essential Progressive Metal episode of Lock Horns! Love seeing the show back. Keep up the great work, guys!
Soilwork 'A Predator's Portrait'
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows
Arch Enemy 'Burning Bridges'
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
Darkane 'Rusted Angel'
Insomnium 'Above the Weeping World'
and finally for In Flames ANY ONE from 'The Jester Race' / 'Whoracle' / 'Colony' / 'Clayman' - you can make many points for which is the best, but they are all soo great and equally important.
Oh boy, lack of Edge of Sanity cred is kinda shocking.
Crimson are pure prog death album, but they have Unorthodox, The Spectral Sorrows and Purgatory Afterglow to choose from for this discussion + Moontower from Swano cos' of the ahead of its time sound.
Also seeing Arch Enemy in this, while bands like Dismember (Like an Everflowing Stream), Scar Symmetry (Holographic Universe) or Omnium Gatherum (New World Shadows) exist is also upsetting.
Anyway, thx for the content, guys.
No way!! Locked horns introduced me to the whole banger channel I'm super stoked🤟🤟
Finally! It’s back! This is my favourite Banger show👍
Just picked up my first Opeth album this past Saturday for Record Store Day here in BG OH. My Arms, Your Hearse.
Random comment but that is my favorite Opeth album so I hope you enjoy, cheers!
@@luzzbuzz thanks. I commented during the beginning of the stream when they mentioned something about Opeth. I can't remember what it was but I was pretty excited about my find and I confess I was not very familiar with Opeth music before this. I've definitely been missing out.
Nice that’s awesome! Great band most of their albums are great from Orchid and Morningrise to Ghost Reveries and Watershed. Blackwater Park, Deliverance/Damnation, and Still Life in between are essential as well!
yeeeees! Thank you for bringing this show back!
It’s so nice to have this lengthy content to dig into topics on, I always felt most episodes of lock horns were too short, still loved it but everything felt frantically rushed and any detailed subject would have to be ignored, this is great.
Necroticism is still Carcass' best and definitely still holds up today - better than a lot of muck in modern music
Respect & Peace
Top 3 album for me personally!
That was there creative peak and they we're firing in all cylinders on that album.
In flames has got to be the greatest example of how legendary a band was before they decided to be the exact opposite of that. Also always thought it was crazy that dark tranquillity and in flames pretty much traded singers after their first albums or eps
Welcome back Lock Horns!
Arch Enemy, some early Amorphis, later At the Gates, early Black Dahlia, Bodom, Dark Tranquility, Later God Dethroned, some in flames, Gates of Ishtar, Insomnium, Kalmah, early nightrage, norther, soilwork, amon amarth, omnium gatherum, later carcass, scar symmetry, some hypocrisy and some Swano and some The Haunted stuff might hit too many other genres, but definitely all these deserves a place there.
Dark tranquility is one of my favorite band ever, and impressive longitivity with consistent albums; I’d like to mention Edge of Sanity who could have created all, eternal tears of sorrow or Omnium Gatherum
Unorthodox in 1992 from Edge of Sanity started mixing in those “foot off the gas” moments. Should consider them proto melodeath alongside Carcass.
EoS does not get enough love in general, the Crimsons are fucking legendary
Totally agree with Sam on CoB - I have never thought they sounded like death metal at all. Like a black/thrash/power metal blend to me, especially on the early stuff. Speaking of which Hatebreeder gets my vote from them; surprised the first 2 albums weren't brought up (at least to where I am in the video). Also Colony is my favorite In Flames album by far.
What a Hard Fought Battle between Wages of Sin and Crimson in last minute!
Can't wait to tune it in again..
-Jokomatsumoto
Love that Locked Horns is back!
Melodic death metal was 100% the bridge for my love of extreme metal
Soilwork’s “The Ride Majestic” from 2015 is one of my favorite Melodeath albums ever made. I know it’s a newer record, but it would be on my list.
Great album!
It's easily my favourite Soilwork album.
Carcass are the GOAT
Respect & Peace
nocturnal was definently the album that got me into death metal in general i think
Im way late to the Melo Death party, didnt even find this stuff til the pandemic hit and I went on a great discovery period. Dark Tranquility and Mors Principium Est get my vote. And one I found on bandcamp that doesnt belong on this list Nanga Parbat - Downfall and Torment
Dark Tranquillity is my favourite band, period. :)
MPE’s the Unborn is a crazy underrated album!
Writing this while wearing my Left Hand Path shirt… this may be out of left field but I’d like to say that “Iowa” is the gateway record for me to get into death metal/melodic death metal, along with At The Gates and Bodom.
Im 39. Been a long time fan of melo death and after a time away from the genre I've really gotten back into it after leaving the genre for more progressive, power and heavy metal. I took an odd path in metal. I started with White Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Iron Maiden and Iced Earth back in the early 90s. From there it went to thrash and symphonic black metal. Enthroned Darkness Triumphant kinda paved my way into melodic death (along with the Knuckle Tracks sampler that came with Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles).
My staple melodeath albums include:
Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine (my gateway album)
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From the Golden Halls
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Mercenary - Everblack
Exhumation - Dance Across the Past
Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance
Out of my more recent finds I'd recommend:
Fires in the Distance - Echoes From Deep November
Crepuscle - Heavenly Skies
Eternal Storm - Come the Tide
Anything from Insomnium
The Absence - A Gift for the Obsessed
Hecate Enthroned - Virulent Rapture
Windfaerer - Breaths of Elder Dawns
Wolfheart - Winterborn
Aeolian - The Negationist
Countless Skies - Glow
That Amon Amarth record has so many catchy riffs but for me it’s Versus the World although I love how raw Once Sent is.
Love Blackwater Park but not melodic death for me.
Sweet Vengeance is super underrated!
Awesome video! When I was in middle school I was more into Punk/Ska (anything on Viva La Bam) lol. Then I had to move and start my freshman year at a new school. I remember being on the bus headed home from school when this older kid asked me what I was listening to, we started talking about music and he showed me Children of Bodom’s “Needled 24/7” and I was hooked! I still have the burnt CDs of Hate Crew Deathroll and Follow the Reaper lol 😂
Dark tranquillity to me are the most consistent and best overall out of all the Gothenburg bands from the 90s that are still going
Agree
Hypocrisy has been one of the best melodeath bands for the last 20 years i don't know you smoking
One of the few Melodeath bands I listen to anymore too. I was huge on old In Flames and such as a teenager but not so much today. Hypocrisy kicks ass still though.
When Dethalbum 2 released I was playing World Of Warcraft with a friend and put my speakers on playing the album and kept my mic on Ventrilo chat. Me and a friend listened to it atleast twice through. Basically an online listening party :)
Going to see Opeth, Mastodon and Khemmis as well this Saturday. My first concert since pandemic.
The lack of love for Soilwork or Arch Enemy baffles me here. Both are essential melodeath bands by any metric.
For anyone in doubt, check out Soilwork - A Whisp of the Atlantic. They are super consistent to this day. Arch Enemy for me fell off a cliff once Angela and Christopher Amott left...even before they left they were becoming a bit repetitive.
@_Ezzgar_ Pre Carnage not Dismember btw. Cheers
Clayman should have made legend status IMO. Also everyone slept on Colony. Love that record
Also a big fan of Darkest Hour
100% with Blayne on Dekthlok's first record being extremely important in the conversation. That's a huge gateway record I think
I'm so glad you posted this here, I have no interest in joining Twitch. I think for melodeath, you could perhaps have crowned Sweden as it's official country. I hope there are some interesting topics coming up like you did with artwork previously. I think "Best theme/gimmick/visual presentation band" could make for a fun episode. Imagine Gwar, Portal, Midnight, and Amon Amarth in the same episode!
Amorphis and Sentenced are the masters
At the gates slaughter of the soul was my first melodeath album. Loved the style ever since.
So awesome to see Lock Horns back into action. Best show ever.
That Mastodon/Opeth show was killer in Saskatoon. It's great to see live music again!
I agree Clayman should be legend.
The other albums including Reroute To Remain are all essential to me.
Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes should be essential at least.
Dethlok isnt Melodic Death Metal to me.
Arch Enemy definitely is Melodic Death Metal.
Agree with all of this. Even Dethklok being questionably MDM. I have trouble wrapping my head around that idea too.
Really missed the mark on this one IMO. Dark Tranquility, In flames, and At the gates should have been under legends because they are considered the big 3 of gothenburg style melodeath. Wages of sin, and the chain heart machine should be considered essential. We are also missing some of the second wave bands here with Insomnium, Be'lakor, Kalmah, Mors Principium Est, Before the dawn, Omnium Gatherum, Scar Symmetry... Maybe a second stream for the second gen melodeath bands.
Yes!!!
Xactly
Second wave bands? Try like fifth or sixth wave.
Oh thank god they posted it to youtube. I was worried I might miss this.
Opeth, Mastodon, and Khemmis sounds like the greatest concert ever!
Someone make it happen.
Seen the show here in mtl sam!!!! What a show!!!! Daylor was just amazing as aslways!!!!
I agree with Sam, Melo Death is my favorite and has been for a long time, it’s definitely is the perfect marriage between Traditional Heavy Metal and Death Metal which also brought me to old school Death Metal , Black Metal and Brutal Death and Grind core, Melo Death is still my favorite 🔥🤘🤘
Good to see these bands
Glad you mentioned Chuck and Death because yes Human and Individual Thought Patterns aren't just melo-death but they definitely had more melody than their first three records obviously and all the other artists you mentioned like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide and stuff. The Philosopher and Hammer Smashed Face are death metal yes, but a million miles apart in terms of writing styles. You can see interviews for Human where Chuck literally says he doesn't like music being brutal just for the sake of being brutal and having nothing else to really offer the listener.
Finally!
*It's back!*
In the last few years, death metal saw a revival. I hope we see a melodeath revival this decade. If it's going to happen, I think The Halo Effect has a shot at catalyzing the movement
There's never been any shortage of good melodeath
Look out for the band Majesties that 20 buck spin just signed. They have 3 singles out from their new album and it sounds like a modern Jester’s Race amped up to 10 with a touch of Slaughter of the Soul. Very exciting material
35:35 yep! Saw them in Buffalo NY on that tour. My girlfriend (now wife) also went. Such a fun show.
It’s back and it’s Melodeath! Nice!
Gorguts - Considered Dead is the most melodic, musical bad ass death metal album i ever heard. Luke Lemay and his classical twist on writing is mind blowing. The album art is dope too.
im a hige arch enemy fan but i can definitely say they've made a shift. Even Michael Amott said theyre not death metal anymore, but 90's AE set the staple for Melodeath!
In Flames 'Whoracle' and Children of Bodom 'Follow the Reaper' were my intro for melo death metal. However, and I know this will get some detractors, but Fear Factory 'Demanufacture' and 'Obsolete' were my intro to anything death metal related.
I love Fear Factory. Demanufacture is absolutely perfect. Was listening to them from Soul of a New Machine on, long before I discovered MDM. My intro to extreme music was Carcass, Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious, and still a massive Carcass fan today. :)
DEATH -SPIRITUAL HEALING from 1990!!!
totally with Sam on the whole deathklok thing. great show!
One I know won't get mentioned much but for me is a favorite of melo death is Godgory 'Resurrection'. Has such a soaring sound IMO,
YOU are correct. That album does Soar. Some sick melodic solos. Very doom melodic death for sure. NOT many people know nor appreciate them. Good Call
@@EddieTHead2266 I'm happy to see someone else actually agrees 😄
Insomnium should've gotten a mention.
They're too new.
@@russell2890 Really? In the Halls of Awaiting came out in 2002.
@@drxsmetalhippie Hey didn't expect to hear from you this quickly lol. 2002 is already late to be considered essential for the genre in my opinion as by that time, the genre has already been established as the pioneers of the genre released their albums in the early to mid 90s. Heartwork was released in 93, Slaughter was in 95 and Jester race in 96. That's just my opinion lol.
Arsis - We are the Nightmare
Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
Good discussion on Dethklok. I think they're definitely melo-death, even if they have some songs that are more straight death metal or brutal metal. I don't know if they're essential by definition, but as a gateway band ... you know what, maybe!
If we're talking essential albums, though, you've got to have the Gothenburg trio represented, and Heartwork is a must-have, as well. It doesn't matter if it's been surpassed; it's essential.
Amon Amarth definitely belongs; Insomnium is an amazing melo-death band, but I don't know if any of their albums are necessarily essential to the scene itself.
That, I think, is important: what's essential to the genre? To its development, and for listeners to "get" the sound?
I think Surgical Steel is better than Heartwork, but I'm surprised to hear anybody speaking less than favorable on Heartwork's production value. I think it's one of the best produced extreme metal albums ever.
100%
Try to keep in mind "Hesrtwork" was 1993 and remember to focus on what the overall metal and music landscape was at that time. It was revolutionary. There would be no Surgical Steel if no Heartwork. It's essentially theor attempt at a sequel. While real.good just not as sharp and important as the first
@@EddieTHead2266 agree, but SS was one of the absolute best come back albums of any band ever as well.
Oh no argument from me either.
Be'lakor is a tough one, never really considered it doomy but never quiet saw it as the same as muh in flames either. How about Sacrilege and Ebony Tears?
Colony by In Flames was my first Melodic Death Metal album that I ever heard and bought back in 2011 when I was 16 years old.
Kalmah and Be'lakor should be there for sure
I would say that most melo-death is pushing it in regards to being considered a form of death metal. Much closer to thrash, NWOBHM and power metal, with the vocals being the only thing remotely death.
Personally i much prefer the "proto" melo-death. Being the innovators and not exactly knowing what or where they were going gave these works character, something out of the ordinary, and it avoids the generic quality that haunts modern melo-death, of which is now a formula to follow.
I agree completely, most melodeath is closer to thrash than DM for sure.
I don't disagree, I just think that the label started on *very different albums* than the ones that actually got popular: DT's Skydancer, Inflames' Lunar Strain and At The Gates Red Sky is Ours definitively have that Swedish Death Metal lineage very clear.
Also another thing to remember is the context of when this first melodic death albums were being released: 1993 or so was coming out of *very* early death metal so what you think today as Death Metal was mostly Cannibal Corpse and maybe some Morbid Angel songs and such. But back in those early days, we have bands with very different sound from that like Death, Obituary and such considered to also be "Death Metal" and even some of what we know call Death Doom like Early Anathema, Early Paradise Lost and Asphyx was actually just called "Death Metal" during those days and you wouldn't find too much pushback by calling such acts just plain Death Metal.
So today in hindsight, I think that what you say here is definitively a more accurate description: Trashy NWOBHM perfectly describes the more popular end of the 90s and early 2000s sound of Soilwork, In Flames, DT, Arch Enemy, etc. For sure but the mid 90s stuff that was very fast tempo, had some blast beats and lots more grit in the production and presentation so definitively a close relative to the earlier Death Metal of the beginning of the 90s if you look beyond just what bands like CC, Suffocation, etc. Were doing.
@@personavisceration371 Thrash? Really?
I think they entire genre of players and band members might disagree. Influenced by thrash but more in common with Morbid Angel Altars of Madness and Entombed left hand path then Slayer or Testament.
@@EddieTHead2266 In what way are the bands you're thinking of closer to traditional DM bands? I'm curious what's on your mind.
The only melodic bands to me that tip the scales more towards death are the faster bands such as Crystal Age, The Crown, and Fragments of Unbecoming and even then there's quite a bit of thrash. But when I think of the Wrong Again Records roster in the 90's, I hear Iron Maiden and Infernal Majesty riffs that are slightly sped up with nontraditional song structures and with a harsher vocal that is equally indebted to both BM and DM. The riffs do tend to be more complex and thus more DM-like, but that's the only connection to me.
It's your opinion.
Wages of Sin had a weird release from what I understand. Came out in Japan well before it popped into Europe or the US. But I agree rhe current Arch Enemy era is overshadowing the older eras. Burning Bridges if nothing else should be on the list (I like Stigmata more, personally, but Bridges was a bigger album). Agree Wages if Sin could be there too (kind of like Doomsday Machine more though)
Cool show as always but I do feel like an important band usually gets snubbed in Lock Horns episodes. This time around I really think Hypocrisy should have been in there instead of Darkest Hour. I’m sure if there had been a poll between the 2 Hypocrisy would have won by a landslide, and even Edge of Sanity probably would have beaten them as well. Edge of Sanity could definitely fit on a Progressive Death Metal list (that would be super cool to see some day, wink wink) but unfortunately I doubt Hypocrisy will be featured in any other episode.
Maybe a better way to do things would be to take suggestions from the viewers and then make a poll with all the albums to get a better idea of what should be in the top 10? I’m not sure if that’s possible but I think there’s some better way. I watched the old episodes religiously and usually felt the same way at the end.
Anyway, sorry to be critical. Still a very cool show, that’s just my 2 cents.
I full agree with Hypocrisy, at least for the 'Abducted' album. Was a bridge album, IMO, between their more straight death metal side and the melodicness of Final Chapter, s/t, Into The Abyss and The Arrival (we'll skip Catch 22 for now lol). And "Roswell 47" was key in my introduction to this side of the metal world.
My list of the greatest - - Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, Dark Tranquillity, and Amorphis.
I could listen to Sam read the phone book. Love that this show is back in this format.
Who is the brazilian producer? I heard Danny... is he the same Daniel from the Prog Report?
My intro to Melodic Death Metal was probably an In Flames record like Reroute to Remain or Clayman. I found out about them on the Ozzfest message board back in the day (where I found out about a lot of great bands) and went out and bought some of their CDs after checking out some mp3s. Reroute to Remain would've been out at that point, but after hearing songs, I probably liked "Pinball Map" and bought Clayman first, but it was also 20 years ago, so my mind is kind of fuzzy about that. After that, I hit the ground running. I think I owned every In Flames album out at that time by the time I graduated high school in 2005 and picked up other stuff like Soilwork and At the Gates.
Am I the only one who kind of prefers the original Lock Horns format? Yeah it was a little more cramped and limited but in hindsight I really appreciate the tighter focus, less rambling and of course they always had Lisa with the bell to keep things moving. Not to mention 40ish minutes is a lot easier to sit through than 2.5 hours although I get the appeal of unwinding with a more relaxed paced kind of stream. Idk, just my 2 cents. I'm now even more curious to check out Surgical Steel as I continue exploring Carcass' discography, so I'm glad I at least got that insight. I just listened to Heartwork the other day and even though I mostly liked it, it wasn't anything that crazy compared to where melodeath and extreme metal in general have gone since. Maybe SS will hit a little harder
Definitely not the only one. This new format is rough going, with all the chatty rambling. The original tighter, moderated format was much more enjoyable and informative.
Arch Enemy's Burning Bridge is their best album and an essential melodeath album.
Sam is spot on about Soilwork, imo.
A Predator's Portrait is a solid album, and definitely worth a listen.
Funny enough my gateway melodeath album was Lothlorien's The Primal Event. They did that album in '98 and were never heard from again, as far as I can tell. I think it's a great hidden gem of the genre I never hear anyone talk about.
1995= The Gallery, Slaughter of the Soul and eventhough Jesters race was released in 1996 it was due a delay but was intended to be released in 1995 too. Also, Were focusing only on Gothenburg when Amott was way ahead by putting melodies on Carnage (of course being a Stockholm death metal sound) back in the late 80s, then Carcass. Also Edge of Sanity has to be mentioned as well and even Dismember.Sure they dont play happier melodies than the Gothernburg bunch but theres so many melodies on each of their records, especially Massive Killing Capacity. Theyre a nice combination of Autopsy meets New wave of British heavy metal.
Good to see you sam, jeez we don't see you enough anymore 😔
34:00 Dethklok and GTA IV TLAD was the gateway for me into death metal. I was 14 back in 2007. He is definitely right about Brendon Small being a part of creating a new generation of metalheads. I'm living proof.
Arch Enemy Burning Bridges.
It's back!!!
YES IT'S BACK
The one that deserves to be here is Sentenced - Amok. Made in 95 and is fantastic melodic death metal, very differerent to their Gothenburg counterparts, most atmospheric and rocker. From Arch Enemy, by far de first 3 albums, heavier and melodic; the Ammots in their prime.
I love how blain rips up arch enemy and Sam tries so hard to be fair and stay positive. It’s a great duo.
Undoing ruin, Heartwork, Fiction, Slaughter of the soul 🤘🤘
I’ve been listening to belakor. This band is becoming one of my favorite.
Love this format, followed you just now on Twitch, hopefully I can join in on future festivities \m/
With twitch livestream recordings I find if you overlay the chat on the youtube upload its a better viewing experience. Good shit though, just a suggestion;)
Glad to see Blayne give Brandon Small and Dethklok props. I fully agree it's melodic death metal. And Brandon knows how to write a hook. And agree it was a hell of a gateway for people.
I’m continually baffled by how many people think Carcass’ last 2 albums are better than Heartwork. I just don’t get it all...
Albums worth checking out:
Without Grief - Deflower
Gardenian - Soulburner
Omnium Gatherum - Spirits and August Light
YES. MORE. NOW. DO IT.