Death metal probably saved the lives of a lot of kids... what a fricken powerful conduit to release stress and anger... It's very Jungian actually because it allows kids to explore the shadow or darkness that we all have and confront it in a healthy way.
@@layditms2there were, and still are, a lot of kids into this form of music. I myself started listening to death metal when I was 13. I am 25 now and still love it
Hate it when people call Death, Cannibal Corpse, or Entombed the Gods of Death Metal(or any other band you like) - Scott Burns was THE man who gave every band their signature sound. His production and mixes were top notch and he was the only guy who could do it. Scott is the real God of death metal. Think of how Cannibal Corpse would sound without him
ち匚丹尺ㄚ 爪口れち匕モ尺 Well technically Entombed never had anything to do with Scott. They were produced by his Swedish equivalent, the equally legendary Tomas Skogsberg, responsible for so much of the classic Swedish death metal sound. Love Scott too
I know Metallica isn't Death Metal, but I remember when ....And Justice For All came out and I brought it home. My parents went nuts over the cover. My mother was more upset with boobs than anything else. I told them to listen to it and I'd listen to it with them. After they listen to it, they just handed it back to me and said "Enjoy!" Then Megadeth's album Rust In Peace came out, I had to do it all over again. My dad said "I can't understand the words!" My mother said "Wow, someone willing to speak the truth about our government!" So the guy talking about the parents taking the time to actually listen to the music, instead of passing judgement on the cover art is the key.
Miles Hodges No my parents are Constitutionalists. After they listened to the album and I explained the bands background then my mother had no problem with them.
Yes ,I couldnt quite place her Accent.Not quite full on American,too twangy to be fully British.Now I know.Very nice looking too,probably a really sweet Person off camera also.As on.
Im glad that Slayer got the recogntion for influencing the death metal genre, but i think bands like Kreator, Sodom and Destruction also should be recognized. Pleasure To Kill is the most brutal album in 86. In my opinion, its more brutal and faster than Reign In Blood. Its borderline death metal with Mille's screams and fast riffs and drums.
1986 was the peak year. Repulsion demo was the most brutal thing in '86 but not an album. Cryptic Slaughter Convicted album in '86 was more brutal though.
ahhh, Teresa Roncon, my 12 yr old TV crush. I used to tape the pepsi power hour on Canadian TV Much Music. Good to see a young Chris Barnes, too bad he ever left Corpse
Steve DiGiorgio recording Death's 'Nothing is Everything,' just mindblowing. Wish I could've seen him record Human and Individual Thought Patterns with my own eyes, would've been killer!
Mortification listed Pestilence TOTA as a driving force influence ,as I remember, for the style of their Post Momentary Affliction Album which was from 1993 and such a classic in their earlier career.
He was so right on point and he was evil as hell I hung out with him a few times and we will just say what a Sinner . SwORN that was our Death Metal Band
It's hard in today's world of mono-culture to understand the impact culture had in the early nineties, what it was like to feel threatened and scared by this extreme music and extreme culture. I remember, though only being five yrs old when DM was in its zenith, the threat that was Beavis and Butthead and Nickelodeon, or stuff like Dr. Katz, Ren and Stimpy with its gross out humour, or MTV, or this 'darker' metal. Maybe that's why I love it so much now, because I have matured and can appreciate the art in the music, rather than the anti-conventionality. I freakin' love 90s culture. At the time it felt like a sea-change against all good and holy, but the internet has destroyed any possible fear. I am of course referring to the pop-psychology. Everyone who wasn't a hip insider at the time was afraid of this weirder side of culture. These views were rather mainstream at the time, "nihilistic despair", this existential despair-culture was widely attacked all throughout the 90s. It kind of sucks being an adult now and having no semblance of a bounteous, multi-cultural culture. We took the 90s for granted. It really was such an innocent time, without the internet pulling us every which way and directing our thought on the second, it's like seeing a more primal human race. I think the very idea of information or new information was scary before the internet. Culture was ostracized as a threat. How time changes.
It’s so hard to explain this, I’m pretty young but I remember what you mean... subcultures could mature unadulterated by the outside world in every area of the country... they can’t do that now. It really was such a different feeling... and I had internet in my teen years but it still was so incredibly different than now.
I’ve seen movie review channels on UA-cam try to explain why the Blair witch Project had the cultural impact it had, I think that’s a good example of pre/early Internet America versus now… I can imagine it’s really hard for people that didn’t live at that time to grasp that naive innocence culture had in general
Death "individual thought patterns" was my first death metal tape that owned. Blew me away when I heard a song on "bevis and butthead" at 12-13 years old.
my first death metal record was black tongue.. and I've been listening to all types of metal from early teens.. I had heard Cannibal Corpse, Gorgoroth, and the Numetal bands..but I could never get with Death Metal until I could fully understand the vocals.. Black Tongue did that for me..
That being said this video is pretty great. You would never see Rikki Rachman interviewing a producer like this or giving Death Metal this kind of coverage.
@@darrellabbott2603 Right? I got into Death and Black metal in its heyday but I was super young (thanks to a cool neighbor friend) snd had to sneak downstairs to watch HB and put a blanket over myself and thw tv to watch it lol. But it's the first place I saw a Morbid Angel video etc. Nit a ton of death metal, but it aS there
Chuck Schuldiner and DEATH were the core for Death Metal. At the time, pretty much all Death Metal bands were being influenced by bands like Venom, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Slayer, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Bathory, Sodom, Kreator, Destruction, Sepultura, and Discharge. R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner, the Godfather of Death Metal.
I swear y’all fan girls always forget possessed even chuck would credit them as the true death metal founders. Possessed were the core of DM influence to chuck
I was late to punk , hardcore , thrash…but Death Metal was fun to see grow and prosper from its beginnings Morbid Angel , Entombed, Death … awesome music !
I like death metal because it falls outside of the so called ''safe'' confines of the mainstream, I also appreciate the musicianship of the members especially when they are tight and play their instruments really well.
Excellent doco medude5, honestly mate thanks for posting this! I have seen other doco's about death, techincal, black and thrash metal but I have 2 say that this is the best, most beneficial and most important one yet. Thanks a bunch ;)
An older friend introduced me to bands like Sepultura and Entombed when I was 12-13, and that changed everything. I'd heard Slayer and Metallica, but once I discovered Death, Cynic, Pestilence, Deicide and Morbid Angel, that was it. What distinguishes early 90s death metal is the _atmosphere_ and the fact that the bands didn't fully know what they were doing - i.e. it was a _new_ genre with a fertile scene of supporters.
Nothing Like the days of good old Death Metal Thrash Black Metal it was a statement a new way of Life for us Young Metal Heads looking for a Way to Release or Angry misunderstood Lives Rebellious against our parent's saying no you can't listen to that and we say yes we can I started going to concerts at age 14 Mosh pits the hole sceen loved it still do
Chuck was pretty much the first guy to break character and say that he's just a regular person and not some evil executioner because he fronts a death metal band. His style really broke a lot of stereo types in and out of the studio.
Sure Slayer is an influence and all but Exodus, Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction were all very well-liked by and influenced Death Metal too. Also so cool that Chuck liked King Diamond and Rob Halford! Metal unity as its best!
SCOTT BURNS is SO the man! Thank you to him SOOOOOO MUCH!!! Anything with him producing you knew was going to kick major gnikcuF ass!! Quite honestly I always looked for his name, not kidding 🤘🍻
Scott burn is a legendary death metal producer in the late80s and early 90s, but im glad Morbid Angel went with Jim/Tom Morris. They didn't sound like anyone else with their signature raw and a slightly dirty sounding guitar tone. Fit their stye to perfection.
I grew up a 10 minute walk from Morrissound Recording studio. It was actually in Temple Terrace, FL. I was just a kid when all this was going down but man did growing up there influence my guitar drum and bass style. I was a GREAT time to learn to play! That neighborhood used to be really nice but over the years it went down pretty hard. My baby boomer mom was also really into what was going on back then and was a great support for a lot of the neighborhood kids who were writing and playing their own songs. She would often say that it all reminded her of Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly and Jethro Tull. She still says that!
I moved from Iowa to Palm Harbor in 91. Then moved around to Clearwater and Dunedin. My dad always talked about these crazy bands that practiced in the storage garages around there. I was in 4th grade at the time but now I know me and my dad were watching so many death metal bands.
@@bleedingears5222 It was truth! I saw\heard it! lol. I had the same experiences. My dad would take me to help him drop a straight 6 into a Ford F-150 at a storage joint and we would watch these bands practice. I didn't know it was Morbid Angel back then!
Haohmaru Windy two totally different bands. I love the first 4 CC albums also the 2 Athiest albums everyone knows of but two totally different bands. Athiest is so inovative, even Death wasn't doing what they were at the time.
It's fucking ridiculous, Chuck Schuldiner is the one who truly was ahead of his time. Atheist? Are they played death metal at that period? Have to ask Kelly what he thinks about it. Remove the extreme vocals and instead of early Atheist you'll get a more jazz-influenced Coroner. Oh, maybe you judge by the demos? So tell me, which of the demo tapes Atheist played techno-death and if it was up to the end of 80's-early 90's? As for the rest of the bands, for example Morbid Angel (and I'm not talking about demos for now), so they also never was a techno death (if we take their first two releases). Pestilence, for example, was a straight up death metal too. What about Nocturnus. When Death's "Leprosy" thundered around the world, Nocturnus just released their first demo, which, if say it softly, was not at the level of Chuck's creativity, and in '91, when "The Key" went out, Death has already released "Human" - a masterpiece of "tech-fusion". Comparing a dry and boring Nocturnuses sound with a Schuldiner's technical, juicy and smashing riffs is truly a blasphemy. But that's not all - compare Ethereal Tomb with any Death album since '91, and you'll be unpleasantly surprised - the comparison is not in Nocturnus favor! Besides, Death has never stealed someone else's riffs as Nocturnus did, for example, on their '93 "Farewell" single. I hope guys that you got the point.
R.A.V.A.G.E.'s first demo wasn't some jazzy Coroner, it had hints of Piece of Time which was definitely tech-death mixed with thrash, even Atheist's demos were tech death and thrash. I do acknowledge Nocturnus and Death.
If i read these comments "What is Slayer doing in a Docu about Death Metal", i only think - holy s..t!! Seriously? Do you guys really have no idea how this Genre was born? Bands like Possessed, Death, Massacre, Morbid Angel, Nocturnus, the first real Death Metal Bands - they all heard Kill em All from Metallica and Show No Mercy from Slayer, what inspired them to make the music that is called Death Metal. Without Metallica and Slayer there would be no Death Metal. They were the ones who paved the way and who inspired all these bands to go even further and make music called Death Metal. Thats why Slayer has to be in every documentary about Death Metal.
Growing up in Florida I remember punk circles debating how you say “asssuck,” and they would try to pronounce like “assook” and sound sophisticated until an older dude from tampa told us all it’s supposed to be “ass suck.”
watching this almost 30 years later is kind of hilarious and adorable at the same time... I mean all these concerned older people, then the old legendary bands themselves being young whipper snappers and rapscallions... I think if you would make a documentary today, not much would be different... sure, society is more accepting these days and whst shocked people back then is prolly mainstream now, but these stereotypes with metalheads being loners, weirdos, but also the self-understatment of the scene as exactly that, a safe place for extreme tastes is largely the same today I feel
+6672rock Back then, the term thrash metal would have been invented recently so bands didn't have a clearly defined genre. Sepultura would have just been considered Death Metal. Today, they were considered Death/Thrash for the 2-4 albums. This video doesn't state that Slayer are Death Metal though but people would have called them Death Metal due to there image and lyrics. Even Metallica was called' Death Metal' during there early days.
+6672rock Slayer were considered black metal in 1983. Mostly by the press. That wore off. Slayer were sometimes considered death metal in 1985, that also stopped.
Sad no filmmakers ever went in depth with the godly Swedish/Finnish and even some Norway death metal bands. Those Nordic bands and scenes were even better than the U.S. imo.
Slayer was the only band that got accepted into the Death Metal scene and the only thrash band from the so called 4 that took Death Metal bands under their wing and brought them on tour with them.
Chuck Schuldiner: “Well, it’s definitely flattering [to be credited with having started the death metal scene], but I really can’t consider myself to have started it. In my opinion Venom were the first - to have the brutal vocal style, tuning low their instruments, that initial brutal aggression. But I think that maybe I’ve kept it going to what death metal is today, as a lot of those older bands are no longer going, like Venom; and I guess I picked up where they left off, and I’m still in there luckily.”
It’s not gay to think someone is insanely talented and also acknowledge they’re conventionally attractive. Women don’t have any issue calling each other hot. If you were straight to begin with, you will still be straight after admitting it lol You’re good.
The worse thing to happen with the rise of death metal was how pigeon holed Scott Burns was placed. He couldn't spread his wings. It got to the point that Scott took himself out of the art of recording. Scott is sorely missed. I still feel no one can touch what Scott Burns has done.
Most early black metal wasn't seriously satanic either. Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Sarcofago... even the early norwegian stuff was just anti-christian and used "satanic" imagery for shock value (and to be different from the death metal bands who had more "horror/gore" or otherwse abstract lyrics).
Lots of ppl comming now and sayin *uh whats slayer doing here?* *uh slayer are not death metal* ... back then the labeling/genres werent the same as today... Slayer are one of the main influences for death metal back then and even today... And all this genres, subgenres, all this labeling that we have just sucks sometimes...
Everyone expects death metal musicians to be evil or mean and stupid people, but most of them are really nice guys and very intelligent.
42/5000
Not always "intelligent people are good"
corpsegrinder buys legos from target sales. not quite what you expect.
This why we need black metal
Not deicide lol
So its all just an act?
Death metal probably saved the lives of a lot of kids... what a fricken powerful conduit to release stress and anger... It's very Jungian actually because it allows kids to explore the shadow or darkness that we all have and confront it in a healthy way.
we weren't kids
alot were and so was i when i first found death metal@@layditms2
@@layditms2there were, and still are, a lot of kids into this form of music. I myself started listening to death metal when I was 13. I am 25 now and still love it
Death, black, speed, thrash metal is a religious esoteric transcendental experience for me.
Check Scott Burns' Discography, He did make 70% of Death Metal Classics, he retired some years ago, such a legend.
Scott sucks. Never repiled to fans letters
Nobody would be anywhere without Scott Burns. Period.
Amen
Hate it when people call Death, Cannibal Corpse, or Entombed the Gods of Death Metal(or any other band you like) - Scott Burns was THE man who gave every band their signature sound. His production and mixes were top notch and he was the only guy who could do it. Scott is the real God of death metal. Think of how Cannibal Corpse would sound without him
ち匚丹尺ㄚ 爪口れち匕モ尺 Well technically Entombed never had anything to do with Scott. They were produced by his Swedish equivalent, the equally legendary Tomas Skogsberg, responsible for so much of the classic Swedish death metal sound. Love Scott too
Carcass, bolt thrower, carnage, dismember, entombed etc etc?
Lol. K. No
"The whole universe spins around Chuck from Death"
True ahah
Ivo Wilson Death is the ultimate r.i.p. Chuck
Chuck and Quorthon make the Metal world go round.
I prefer Deicide
Total wimp.
@@arms7260 hi, s i m p
I know Metallica isn't Death Metal, but I remember when ....And Justice For All came out and I brought it home. My parents went nuts over the cover. My mother was more upset with boobs than anything else. I told them to listen to it and I'd listen to it with them. After they listen to it, they just handed it back to me and said "Enjoy!" Then Megadeth's album Rust In Peace came out, I had to do it all over again. My dad said "I can't understand the words!" My mother said "Wow, someone willing to speak the truth about our government!" So the guy talking about the parents taking the time to actually listen to the music, instead of passing judgement on the cover art is the key.
I take it you're mom was republican then haha
Miles Hodges No my parents are Constitutionalists. After they listened to the album and I explained the bands background then my mother had no problem with them.
I loved this comment.
Wow!I am very impressed with your story.
My mom made me sell penetrelia because of satanist lyrics bought me a deicide shirt 😂
Chuck was so sweet and polite. I love that he had a soft spot for animals.
Great to see the gorgeous Canadian video journalist Teresa Roncon!
She was great, I really miss Power 30/Loud.
Yes ,I couldnt quite place her Accent.Not quite full on American,too twangy to be fully British.Now I know.Very nice looking too,probably a really sweet Person off camera also.As on.
93 was a hell of a year for Death Metal
1989
1991
1993
1993 was a better year for black metal. DM was dead by 93. too overproduced & polished (except for Covenant, which is great)
@@coldacre 🤣 absurd statement and it can only come from someone that has a black metal ear.
@@coldacre DM was dead by 93? No way.
Im glad that Slayer got the recogntion for influencing the death metal genre, but i think bands like Kreator, Sodom and Destruction also should be recognized. Pleasure To Kill is the most brutal album in 86. In my opinion, its more brutal and faster than Reign In Blood. Its borderline death metal with Mille's screams and fast riffs and drums.
Much agreed. Death Metal really seems to be the next evolutionary step after Thrash in extreme Metal.
bathory,hellhammer,possessed took it further... '84,'85
gawd these avatars
1986 was the peak year. Repulsion demo was the most brutal thing in '86 but not an album. Cryptic Slaughter Convicted album in '86 was more brutal though.
@@chuckdeless9891 '89 was the best year. Altars Of Madness, Symphonies Of Sickness, World Downfall, Beneath The Remains.
ahhh, Teresa Roncon, my 12 yr old TV crush. I used to tape the pepsi power hour on Canadian TV Much Music.
Good to see a young Chris Barnes, too bad he ever left Corpse
Steve DiGiorgio recording Death's 'Nothing is Everything,' just mindblowing. Wish I could've seen him record Human and Individual Thought Patterns with my own eyes, would've been killer!
Pestilence was amazing. Testimony of the Ancients is a masterpiece.
Even Patrick’s vocals?
Dean H Yes.
Of course, they had their own sound, top notch thrash / classic death metal depending on the album. Killer riffs above all.
Mortification listed Pestilence TOTA as a driving force influence ,as I remember, for the style of their Post Momentary Affliction Album which was from 1993 and such a classic in their earlier career.
Consvming Impvlse. Period!
Scott Burns is smart as shit, he predicts the next 10+ years of metal.
He was so right on point and he was evil as hell I hung out with him a few times and we will just say what a Sinner . SwORN that was our Death Metal Band
It's hard in today's world of mono-culture to understand the impact culture had in the early nineties, what it was like to feel threatened and scared by this extreme music and extreme culture. I remember, though only being five yrs old when DM was in its zenith, the threat that was Beavis and Butthead and Nickelodeon, or stuff like Dr. Katz, Ren and Stimpy with its gross out humour, or MTV, or this 'darker' metal.
Maybe that's why I love it so much now, because I have matured and can appreciate the art in the music, rather than the anti-conventionality. I freakin' love 90s culture. At the time it felt like a sea-change against all good and holy, but the internet has destroyed any possible fear.
I am of course referring to the pop-psychology. Everyone who wasn't a hip insider at the time was afraid of this weirder side of culture. These views were rather mainstream at the time, "nihilistic despair", this existential despair-culture was widely attacked all throughout the 90s.
It kind of sucks being an adult now and having no semblance of a bounteous, multi-cultural culture. We took the 90s for granted. It really was such an innocent time, without the internet pulling us every which way and directing our thought on the second, it's like seeing a more primal human race.
I think the very idea of information or new information was scary before the internet. Culture was ostracized as a threat. How time changes.
well written. I feel the same. people still live like this though. in 3rd world countries. 3rd world metal.
It’s so hard to explain this, I’m pretty young but I remember what you mean... subcultures could mature unadulterated by the outside world in every area of the country... they can’t do that now. It really was such a different feeling... and I had internet in my teen years but it still was so incredibly different than now.
I’ve seen movie review channels on UA-cam try to explain why the Blair witch Project had the cultural impact it had, I think that’s a good example of pre/early Internet America versus now… I can imagine it’s really hard for people that didn’t live at that time to grasp that naive innocence culture had in general
The internet ruined the atmosphere and mystery of many bands
at 24:15 Scott Burns speaks about the future naming Godflesh and Ministry . Wow. Very nice watch. I enjoyed a lot. Thanks for shared it
Death "individual thought patterns" was my first death metal tape that owned. Blew me away when I heard a song on "bevis and butthead" at 12-13 years old.
my first death metal record was black tongue.. and I've been listening to all types of metal from early teens.. I had heard Cannibal Corpse, Gorgoroth, and the Numetal bands..but I could never get with Death Metal until I could fully understand the vocals.. Black Tongue did that for me..
awesome thanks for uploading!
That being said this video is pretty great. You would never see Rikki Rachman interviewing a producer like this or giving Death Metal this kind of coverage.
henry mustard apparently he advocated for more death metal in MTV, rumors say that gis advocation might have been one of the reasons why he got fired.
Did you even watch headbangers ball
@@darrellabbott2603 Right? I got into Death and Black metal in its heyday but I was super young (thanks to a cool neighbor friend) snd had to sneak downstairs to watch HB and put a blanket over myself and thw tv to watch it lol. But it's the first place I saw a Morbid Angel video etc. Nit a ton of death metal, but it aS there
Thanks God for Scott Burns and Jim Morris and all that guys who are milestones of death metal scene. That was great times.
Scott Burns' vision of the future of death m. was spot on. A few years after his interview tastes went to nu metal
Scott is a poser.
@@chuckdeless9891 guess what, a poser produced all of your favorite death metal albums
Chuck Schuldiner and DEATH were the core for Death Metal. At the time, pretty much all Death Metal bands were being influenced by bands like Venom, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Slayer, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Bathory, Sodom, Kreator, Destruction, Sepultura, and Discharge. R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner, the Godfather of Death Metal.
TokusatsuHeavyMetalKaiju 2000 don’t forget possessed
Discharge influnced first wave black metal than they did death metal
Discharge influnced first wave black metal than they did death metal
I swear y’all fan girls always forget possessed even chuck would credit them as the true death metal founders. Possessed were the core of DM influence to chuck
RIP Richard Brunelle.May you find some peace elsewhere in the afterlife
Thank you Scott Burns
he mentioned the future being polka metal in the radio interview as a joke - then ensiferum, finntroll etc was established - wise words!
Killer documentary on the death metal scene from the era, thank you matsba, very accurate information.
Death metal makes me a happier people
It makes me a happier people, too.
I was late to punk , hardcore , thrash…but Death Metal was fun to see grow and prosper from its beginnings Morbid Angel , Entombed, Death … awesome music !
I like death metal because it falls outside of the so called ''safe'' confines of the mainstream, I also appreciate the musicianship of the members especially when they are tight and play their instruments really well.
Chuck man, all the lyrics in every song was/is/always will be great. RIP
Awesome. Thank you so much for posting this classic gem. Really appreciated. Hail old school death metal.
RIP CHUCK I LOVE YOUR CATS ;(
34:13 "The whole universe spins around Chuck from Death" You can bet your ass it does. \m/
thanks for posting, this is awesome
42:39 I've always thought David Vincent was like James Hetfield, and Morbid Angel was the Metallica of Death Metal or extreme metal in general!
This documentary is from 1994, because Slayer is playing Killing Fields live.
They could have been playing some songs prior to the release of Divine Intervention.
@@judemisura4323 yes, Some bands do that, but the Live premiere of Killing Fields was November 6th, 1994 (source: setlist.fm)
FINALLY!! I've been looking for this!! Saw it when it aired and had it taped on a vhs!!!
God damn I was born on wrong time....To see Chuck speaking about Individual Thought Patterns and David Vincent about Covenant gave me the chills...
11:25 thank you Richard Brunelle, for the death meta, you left for us.... Rest In Peace brother
Omg! They interviewed Richard Brunelle!!! Kool! That's my buddy!
Would l be wrong if l say most death metal musicians are rather healthy, intelligent and earth-grounded people?
Fernando Ramoa idk the drugs aren’t very healthy
You're not wrong, you're just an asshole
@@jaredsmorse1994 look at your profile mr scary at recess with your badass acoustic guitar. you're the asshole. dumb little boy
Actually David Vincent is a racist
Excellent doco medude5, honestly mate thanks for posting this! I have seen other doco's about death, techincal, black and thrash metal but I have 2 say that this is the best, most beneficial and most important one yet. Thanks a bunch ;)
"Child Psychiatrist"? I've never heard of that band. They probably suck.
LOL HOLY SHIT
Hah I loved their album "Angry and Depressing" haha
“Bad Neighborhood, Drugs Being Available” was their best release. I wouldn’t pay much attention to them after that.
LMAO
Exhibit Hopelessness is probably my favorite song from them
i learned a lot from this. My favorite death metal band has always been Entombed! \m/
An older friend introduced me to bands like Sepultura and Entombed when I was 12-13, and that changed everything. I'd heard Slayer and Metallica, but once I discovered Death, Cynic, Pestilence, Deicide and Morbid Angel, that was it. What distinguishes early 90s death metal is the _atmosphere_ and the fact that the bands didn't fully know what they were doing - i.e. it was a _new_ genre with a fertile scene of supporters.
Nothing Like the days of good old Death Metal Thrash Black Metal it was a statement a new way of Life for us Young Metal Heads looking for a Way to Release or Angry misunderstood Lives Rebellious against our parent's saying no you can't listen to that and we say yes we can I started going to concerts at age 14 Mosh pits the hole sceen loved it still do
26:58 damn Obituary even managed to make those birds brutal af
Slayer, Sepultura, Atheist, Cannibal Corpse, Demolition Hammer, Entombed, Death, Morbid Angel
Doom666 why poser
Rocky Coroner yes you're an ignorant moron for sure Rocky
Brent Smith u just dont kno shit about real metal.... u think black sabbath is not true thrash metal? FUCK U! black sabeth invented death metal
Rocky Coroner You sound like an old man
holy crap Rocky hahahaha
Chuck was pretty much the first guy to break character and say that he's just a regular person and not some evil executioner because he fronts a death metal band. His style really broke a lot of stereo types in and out of the studio.
Producer Scott Burns is now a computer engineer
Is that right!?
@@lephilosopheinconnu3952 yeah
Sure Slayer is an influence and all but Exodus, Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction were all very well-liked by and influenced Death Metal too. Also so cool that Chuck liked King Diamond and Rob Halford! Metal unity as its best!
SCOTT BURNS is SO the man! Thank you to him SOOOOOO MUCH!!! Anything with him producing you knew was going to kick major gnikcuF ass!! Quite honestly I always looked for his name, not kidding 🤘🍻
Scott burn is a legendary death metal producer in the late80s and early 90s, but im glad Morbid Angel went with Jim/Tom Morris. They didn't sound like anyone else with their signature raw and a slightly dirty sounding guitar tone. Fit their stye to perfection.
I grew up a 10 minute walk from Morrissound Recording studio. It was actually in Temple Terrace, FL. I was just a kid when all this was going down but man did growing up there influence my guitar drum and bass style. I was a GREAT time to learn to play! That neighborhood used to be really nice but over the years it went down pretty hard. My baby boomer mom was also really into what was going on back then and was a great support for a lot of the neighborhood kids who were writing and playing their own songs. She would often say that it all reminded her of Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly and Jethro Tull. She still says that!
I moved from Iowa to Palm Harbor in 91. Then moved around to Clearwater and Dunedin. My dad always talked about these crazy bands that practiced in the storage garages around there. I was in 4th grade at the time but now I know me and my dad were watching so many death metal bands.
@@bleedingears5222 It was truth! I saw\heard it! lol. I had the same experiences. My dad would take me to help him drop a straight 6 into a Ford F-150 at a storage joint and we would watch these bands practice. I didn't know it was Morbid Angel back then!
I love hearing psychologists warn of the dangers of death metal! It helps keep the Choads out.
Sorry,but what the hell's a "Choad"?
Atheist were absolutely ahead of their time, Unquestionable Presence is probably the best death metal album imo
You are SO right!!!!!! Next to Nocturnus!
can't tell if trolling or not
Haohmaru Windy two totally different bands. I love the first 4 CC albums also the 2 Athiest albums everyone knows of but two totally different bands. Athiest is so inovative, even Death wasn't doing what they were at the time.
It's fucking ridiculous, Chuck Schuldiner is the one who truly was ahead of his time.
Atheist? Are they played death metal at that period? Have to ask Kelly what he thinks about it. Remove the extreme vocals and instead of early Atheist you'll get a more jazz-influenced Coroner. Oh, maybe you judge by the demos? So tell me, which of the demo tapes Atheist played techno-death and if it was up to the end of 80's-early 90's? As for the rest of the bands, for example Morbid Angel (and I'm not talking about demos for now), so they also never was a techno death (if we take their first two releases). Pestilence, for example, was a straight up death metal too.
What about Nocturnus. When Death's "Leprosy" thundered around the world, Nocturnus just released their first demo, which, if say it softly, was not at the level of Chuck's creativity, and in '91, when "The Key" went out, Death has already released "Human" - a masterpiece of "tech-fusion". Comparing a dry and boring Nocturnuses sound with a Schuldiner's technical, juicy and smashing riffs is truly a blasphemy. But that's not all - compare Ethereal Tomb with any Death album since '91, and you'll be unpleasantly surprised - the comparison is not in Nocturnus favor! Besides, Death has never stealed someone else's riffs as Nocturnus did, for example, on their '93 "Farewell" single.
I hope guys that you got the point.
R.A.V.A.G.E.'s first demo wasn't some jazzy Coroner, it had hints of Piece of Time which was definitely tech-death mixed with thrash, even Atheist's demos were tech death and thrash. I do acknowledge Nocturnus and Death.
13:39
Thank you doctor guy!
He knows what He's talking about.
Finally someone who knows that death metal isn't responsible for making people violent.
Chris Barnes' voice on Tumb of the Mutilated is the best in the history of the genre period
nah. Barnes' voice on Butchered At Birth
Jurmu Nah, Barnes on The Bleeding
Brandon Reeds
Nah, the vocals were kinda raw on that.
+Brandon Reeds Yup "the bleeding" was his best effort in my opinion
Lol what are you talking about, corpsegrinder on kill was a LOT better.
If i read these comments "What is Slayer doing in a Docu about Death Metal", i only think - holy s..t!! Seriously? Do you guys really have no idea how this Genre was born? Bands like Possessed, Death, Massacre, Morbid Angel, Nocturnus, the first real Death Metal Bands - they all heard Kill em All from Metallica and Show No Mercy from Slayer, what inspired them to make the music that is called Death Metal. Without Metallica and Slayer there would be no Death Metal. They were the ones who paved the way and who inspired all these bands to go even further and make music called Death Metal. Thats why Slayer has to be in every documentary about Death Metal.
I've been into death metal for 32 years. I'm glad that there are still musicians out there who continue their work
Yeah man! There's bands like blood incantation, frozen soul, tomb mold, creeping death, sansguisabog (it's hard to spell)
only interested in the Originals
😁
that blonde journalist is beautiful
+johncorolla That's Canadian Teresa Roncon. Had a huge crush on her in the 80's!
dropdead gorgeous!!!
There was some sexual tension between her and David.
MetalBloodIron which David?
MetalBloodIron oh just saw Vincent at the end.
Love listening to the psychologists. Outsiders will always be just that, outside.
who would have thought that Slayer and kids could be so adorable?
Scott Burns created the standard for metal/ death metal engineering and producing
THE BEST YEARS OF MY/OUR YOUTH!!!!
Growing up in Florida I remember punk circles debating how you say “asssuck,” and they would try to pronounce like “assook” and sound sophisticated until an older dude from tampa told us all it’s supposed to be “ass suck.”
RIP Chuck ...
Metal heads are great people
The players and the patrons.
My kind of people.
34:24 and 25 years later 10 times more bands.
like a rehash
watching this almost 30 years later is kind of hilarious and adorable at the same time... I mean all these concerned older people, then the old legendary bands themselves being young whipper snappers and rapscallions... I think if you would make a documentary today, not much would be different... sure, society is more accepting these days and whst shocked people back then is prolly mainstream now, but these stereotypes with metalheads being loners, weirdos, but also the self-understatment of the scene as exactly that, a safe place for extreme tastes is largely the same today I feel
Since when was Slayer considered death metal?
+6672rock Back then, the term thrash metal would have been invented recently so bands didn't have a clearly defined genre. Sepultura would have just been considered Death Metal. Today, they were considered Death/Thrash for the 2-4 albums. This video doesn't state that Slayer are Death Metal though but people would have called them Death Metal due to there image and lyrics. Even Metallica was called' Death Metal' during there early days.
+Vinny V Yeah, moreover Slayer influenced many death metal bands.
chuu207 Exactly, no Slayer, no Death Metal.
+6672rock Slayer were considered black metal in 1983. Mostly by the press. That wore off. Slayer were sometimes considered death metal in 1985, that also stopped.
Gore Elohim Slayer were probably the closest thing to Black Metal particularly there first 2 awesome albums.
Great
Chuck... You're still the best human being ever.
Death metal keeps you young, I was at these shows in toronto and i still listen to these same bands everybody just got way heavier since
24:30 Polka metal, well he was right! hahaha
I barely just noticed just how great eyes chris Barnes has. I can only imagine how they’d get when he got stoned
Scott, the legend. Such a cool guy.
lmao Chris Barnes "real crunchy Gui-TARS" sounded like a straight up new yawker with that accent 5:42
The band is from Buffalo.
thrash gave birth to death
nick poston Thrash gave birth to everything good
Punk gave birth to thrash
METAL !!!!!!!!!! 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
Sad no filmmakers ever went in depth with the godly Swedish/Finnish and even some Norway death metal bands. Those Nordic bands and scenes were even better than the U.S. imo.
There's a Dismember documentary that's pretty cool it's in here too
Slayer was the only band that got accepted into the Death Metal scene and the only thrash band from the so called 4 that took Death Metal bands under their wing and brought them on tour with them.
Skip to 33:00. Thank me later.
+Walamonga 1313 Thnx dude
What am I supposed to see?
Thanks.
thank you ;)
Chuck Schuldiner: “Well, it’s definitely flattering [to be credited with having started the death metal scene], but I really can’t consider myself to have started it. In my opinion Venom were the first - to have the brutal vocal style, tuning low their instruments, that initial brutal aggression. But I think that maybe I’ve kept it going to what death metal is today, as a lot of those older bands are no longer going, like Venom; and I guess I picked up where they left off, and I’m still in there luckily.”
Scott Burns, what a Muthafucking legend!!
Nocturnus..? :(
Waaayyy underrated
good times 90's
i miss u so hard chuck damn u re like my brother
Death Metal starting off with Toronto makes me very happy
I caught myself attempting to increase the quality in video resolution and I now feel depressed...
i remember watching this in like grade 6 lol... how many drums you have
Chicago's Master, Devastation, Sindrome, Terminal Death, Macabre had the scene too.
Was i'm the only one giggling like a little girl when they showed Chuck? If you don't have a mancrush on Chuck you are not a death metal fan.
That is just gay. chuck does nothing for me personally I like first few death albums.
Kevin Uchiha I’ll agree to disagree. But hey, it’s cool if you’re into dudes. It’s 2018, nobody gives a shit anymore. Be safe.
It’s not gay to think someone is insanely talented and also acknowledge they’re conventionally attractive.
Women don’t have any issue calling each other hot.
If you were straight to begin with, you will still be straight after admitting it lol
You’re good.
Northern ghost , his being hebrew means what, exactly? Just so we know, whether you're an anti-semitic schmuck like mel gibson, or knot.
Lame normie Teenbeat fandom
The worse thing to happen with the rise of death metal was how pigeon holed Scott Burns was placed. He couldn't spread his wings. It got to the point that Scott took himself out of the art of recording. Scott is sorely missed. I still feel no one can touch what Scott Burns has done.
I wish those types of interviews will come up eventually. Stoned reported and just have fun to watch. That was TV invented for, right?
Most early black metal wasn't seriously satanic either. Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Sarcofago... even the early norwegian stuff was just anti-christian and used "satanic" imagery for shock value (and to be different from the death metal bands who had more "horror/gore" or otherwse abstract lyrics).
Heh Chris Barnes before losing the voice! And little kids Gorguts XD (and Biohazard shirt on Igor Cavalera... wtf)
chuck and luc
Bolt Thrower-Cenotaph
Thanks bro. Hope for more..
Lots of ppl comming now and sayin *uh whats slayer doing here?* *uh slayer are not death metal* ... back then the labeling/genres werent the same as today... Slayer are one of the main influences for death metal back then and even today... And all this genres, subgenres, all this labeling that we have just sucks sometimes...