Metal Reviews

Let's see how this works out . Vote for your least favourite five, after a day or two I'll remove the five with the most votes then do round 2... I'm using the Decibel list because I'm lazy, if you have any suggestions them mention it and if someone is all "I agree" then I'll add them.

Paul Ryan (Origin)
Nicke Andersson (Nihilist, Entombed, Death Breath)
Barry "Baz" Thompson (Bolt Thrower)
Nergal (Behemoth)
Patrick Mameli (Pestilence)
Robert Vigna (Immolation)
Matt Harvey (Exhumed, Repulsion, Dekapitator)
Luc Lemay (Gorguts, Negativa)
Muhammed Suicmez (Necrophagist)
Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation)
Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel, Ripping Corpse)
Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed)
Kelly Shaefer (Atheist, Neurotica)
James Murphy (Death, Obituary, Cancer, Disincarnate)
Mikael Akerfedlt (Opeth)
Anders Bjorler (At the Gates, The Haunted)
Karl Sanders (Nile)
Bill Steer (Carcass, Napalm Death)
Chuck Schuldiner (Mantas, Death)
Trey Azagthoth (Morbid Angel)

my votes:
Paul Ryan
Barry Thompson
Mikael Akerfeldt
Erik Rutan
Scott Hull

possible additions...Paul Masdival (Death, Cynic), James Malone (Arsis)...

right, so there are a few i haven't heard yet. can you recommend me some:
- atheist
- Entombed
- Bolt Thrower

preferably fast stuff

Entombed - Clandestine
Atheist - Piece of Time

are my favourite by those two bands, although I've only heard one other Entombed album. I've only heard a handful of bolt thrower songs here and there so I dunno what their best album is.

Listen to On They Slay by Atheist.

My Votes:

Paul Ryan
Mikael Akerfeldt
Karl Sanders (omg!)
Terrance Hobbs
Scott Hull

Mikael Akerfedlt
Robert Vigna
Matt Harvey
Anders Bjorler
Erik Rutan

Sorry to leave out Erik...

I would have to agree with noodles on Clandestine, easily the best Entombed album. I'm not too familiar with Atheist unfortunately.

For Bolt Thrower, go with War Master. Amazing album, though you might not like them as they tend to go for a thunderous groove instead of all out speed.

As for which five to vote out, I'm still having a tough time deciding.

i heard Bolt Thrower were really fast when they first started out. tr00?

Yeah more like grindcore (realm of chaos) but what made bt what is is today the monstruous bass sound and crushing pounding slow riffs.


OK my list:

Akerfeldt
Nicke Andersson
Paul Ryan
Matt Harvey
Andreas Bjorler

Check out:
Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
Athiest - Elements

As for Guitarists:
Erik Rutan
Paul Ryan
Nicke Andersson
Terrence Hobbs

Wow I haven't heard a lot of these bands. Can someone create a list of what albums to generally check out. I don't know bands like Pestilence, Immolation, Exhumed and Gorguts.

Immolation - Unholy Cult (it's my favourite although pretty much everything they've done is great)
Gorguts - Obscura
Exhumed - Anatomy is Destiny (their last three are all great, as you get later in their discography they get less early Carcass-sounding and more technical/thrashy)

Pestilence's albums range from good to amazing, but I'd go with Testimony of the Ancients. I doubt you'll be disappointed.

Still can't believe some of you are leaving out Terrence Hobbs...

Nergal
Muhammed Suicmez
Karl Sanders
Chuck Schuldiner
Eric Rutan

I'm still a death metal noob, I haven't heard a lot of those bands.

And I agree with noodles on James Malone.

You did too, sailor man.

Dude, I'm hoping you just misunderstood the rules.

Woops. I guess I did.


Although, those are about the only bands I've heard from that list so... I guess it could go both ways.

This is hard!!!

I'm sticking with these five at the moment:

Anders Bjorler
Mikael Akerfeldt
Matt Harvey
Robert Vigna
Paul Ryan

Check out the recommendations that people have listed in this thread for Entombed, Atheist, Bolt Thrower, Immolation, Pestilence, and Gorguts (though I'd go with The Erosion of Sanity for them, even though Obscura is awesome).

By the way, the Obscura review on this site is pretty shoddy, and that's being generous.

Paul Ryan
Terrance Hobbs
Erik Rutan
Scott Hull
Anders Bjorler