North From Here wrote:
Yes, Borknagar lite is a fantastic way to put modern Amorphis. While I was listening I thought this is fine but would rather hear Borknagar.
I really don't think the Crimson albums were going for the same type of progressive sound as Death: more of a 70s throwback sound as opposed to increased technicality. I was a huge fan of them, but I haven't listened to either in a while so who knows how they hold up.
The sunlight studios sound always was solid, just most of the material was not something I'd want to revisit much, especially bands like Grave or Unleashed. Obviously Left Hand Path remains a classic, and I assume Dismember never made a bad album, but Swedish brutal death in general was not my favorite, probably because I broke into the genre with Opeth/Dark Tranquillity/Hypocrisy in Sweden and had Nile, Morbid Angel and Death in the USA.
Anyway this Carnage track was very solid, really liked the sneaky lead tone at about 3 minutes (oh, it was a very young Mike Amott!). Keeping in theme with semi-obscure Scandinavian death metal, here is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo7uMVDpbIE&list=PLAEF2A78A7AFD7413That's probably fair re Crimson, I do need to give them another go.
I think the Swedeath sound, or whatever we're calling it, was so good that even bands ripping it off nowadays manage to sound pretty damn good. Everything I've heard from Dismember and Unleashed (and I've run through both discogs at least once over time) is excellent, and Entombed obviously started great and went somewhere different with the death n roll stuff (which isn't automatically bad, but some of those albums are definitely less good than others).
Ahh, Demigod are another example of this style, but are very good at it. Finndeath never really took off, did it? Yet every example I find seems excellent; I still need to educated myself on the early nineties rarities, but here's a more modern bunch of lads that I always liked, doing a rabid version of what Zyklon wanted, I think. Singer was (or still is) in Horna as a guitarist iirc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huHT3J68EzI