Collection Of Butchery (2003)
Putrid Piles “Collection of Butchery” Is simply 12 tracks of extreme Brutality! The song construction is great down to the very last song and all the instrument are skillfully played and can all be heard perfectly well! Also Collection Of Butchery has an original sound, even thew it takes after a few bands it cant be labeled as similar to any of them, There sound is some-what original witch is a nice change. Surprisingly Putrid Pile is a one-man band and even thew they use a drum machine, which normally I find, on a cd of this genre is a bit of a let down…thew in this particular cd it sounds great! The overall sound production on the cd is top class with a very crisp and clear yet it also has a sick sound to it. Finally a sick ass Digi-art cover of some women cut to peaces by a guy, adds to the over all sick image of the release. The cd also comes with lyrics witch are often forgot on Death/grind releases! In my opinion this is surely one of United Gutturals better releases! This is a must by for anyone interested in sick Death/grind!!
The Pleasure In Suffering (2005)
I would be unfair to say that Putrid Pile's second full-length, 'The Pleasure In Suffering', is exactly the same album as their first. Since I'm feeling charitable, I'll say that it is ESSENTIALLY the same as their first. Never since Bolt Thrower have I heard a more infinitesimal change in style or quality from a death metal band, setting Putrid Pile somewhere in the realm of Cannibal Corpse as far as consistency goes. Aside from the production having gotten louder/clearer/'wider'/more distorted, quite literally nothing has changed at all between the two releases. 'The Pleasure In Suffering', like 'Collection Of Butchery', is the sound of Putrid Pile: fast, gory brutal death metal which employs a blasty more than filly drum machine and lots of tremolo riffs and big held chords, as well as low gurgly vocals and high shrieky vocals. It all sounds very eeeeevil and Death Metal with capital letters. It's very brutal because it's very fast, has extremely thick and bassy production, and is intentionally abrasive in essentially every regard. This is probably what non-metal people think of when they hear the words 'death metal'. It really is just 'Collection Of Butchery' part two. It even has the same number of tracks and a running time that differs by just over half a minute. Really though, did we expect anything more than that? Your enjoyment of this album is directly proportional to your enjoyment of the last one. I don't know about you, but I'm still starvin' for them baby brains.
House Of Dementia (2009)
The production is adequate, mainly highlighting the guitar. The drums clearly sound like a programmed drum machine, so that acoustic, organic sound is lost in favor of a triggered sound, but each drum is easily distinguished from the other (unlike, say, Brain Drill's "Apocalyptic Feasting") so complain I cannot. As stated before, the bass doesn't show up once, which is a gripe of mine that I have with this album. So, why does this album get an 85 from me if the drums sound clicky, the vocals are only average, and there's no bass to be heard? Because the songs flow so nicely into another, and the overall sound is just enjoyable and fun. Shaun LaCanne, along with Shawn Whitaker (Insidious Decrepancy, Viral Load), is the best one man band in the world, and he executes his vision so well that, despite the slight lack of originality, the music turns out great. If you like brutal death metal, check this out.
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Download "Collection Of Butchery": DEPOSITFILES | FILESERVE
Download "The Pleasure In Suffering": DEPOSITFILES | FILESERVE
Download "House Of Dementia": DEPOSITFILES | FILESERVE
Stoner doom at its best. One of the fundamental albums of the genre. I feel a strong urge to post more stoner/sludge/doom related stuff in the near future, prepare whatever drugs you prefer and brace for awesome.
Like Nasum? Sure you do, everyone does, and this excellent piece of Swedish grind follows exactly the path laid down by the last two Nasum albums.
Two-song Promo EP from one of the best Russian slam death bands, and they have a lot of them. Faster and more "tech" than their full-length, better sounding than their last few songs from some split I never really cared about, and has different vocals from all their previous stuff. Short, but good.
I am stoned out of my mind at the moment. I can barely move, even typing this is mentally exhausting. Anyway, this is fun to listen to in a such state, so try it. Describing it would be too much of a task for me to do now, I suggest you acquire the recommended substances and listen to the album yourselves. I assure you, it will be quite cathartic.
Death metal heavy on melody and incorporating epic viking/nordic atmosphere without taking on any crazy folk stuff. Think Avenger-era Amon Amarth, add a bit of Epic-era Kataklysm, a slight touch from the last two albums of Arghoslent, and melodies sometimes resembling those of old Finnish death metal.
Haemorrhage are one of the most well-known pathologic goregrind bands, so fuck you if you want a detailed description of their music, you should be at least a bit familiar with it already. This is their most recent studio full-length and sounds considerably cleaner than the rest of their stuff, but it's pretty much the same style. You like early Carcass? Good, you'll like this too.
I see a lot of really bad stuff being posted lately so I thought I'd fix it up with one of the most influential Swedish death metal albums.
Machine-like tech death. Read my descrip and download the rest of their albums from here.
Too much thrash lately, so here comes an ultrafast cybergrind release with awesome guttural vocals and funny song titles. In great quality, even.
Everyone loves Cephalic Carnage. They mix good stuff with more good stuff - atypical deathgrind with sludge and many more different genres - resulting in an exceptional amalgam of diverse extreme metal styles they call Hydrogrind. Anomalies is a big favorite of mine and the rest of their discography is also worth a listen (Lucid Interval being the runner up and Xenosapien after that). I don't know this one lives up to my expectations because I haven't listened to it yet, but whatever. Try it, tell me if it should, I'm off for a drink.
One of my favorite death metal albums from the early 90s. Bluesy, groove-filled death metal with a hint of doom, and a bucket of gory humor and deranged sexuality. The production is sufficiently muddy for the music to deliver the sickeningly repulsive atmosphere it deserves, but every instrument is audible. The cover is a picture by photographer Joel-Peter Witkin (google the name for the rest of his works, you'll shit bricks) to boot, which adds to the creepiness.
This album is interesting because it's tech death from the last year death metal albums can be classified as legitimately "old school", yet borders mathcore regarding its style. It's stuffed with riffs spread across complex rhythm patterns, which manage to be groovy in some awkward way. When the band split up in 1999, the members went on to form their own bands: guitarist/vocalist Erik Burke founded the band Sulaco, which is similar to Lethargy but leans more toward the mathcore side, a deathgrind band called Kalibas, and also plays guitars in Brutal Truth; while Bill Kelliher (guitar) and Brann Dailor (drums) became founding members of Mastodon and also played with Today Is The Day.
Hungarian band mixing Bolt Thrower style midtempo death with hardcore/sludge elements resembling Crowbar. Some people label them deathcore as in death metal mixed with hardcore, but this has nothing to to with today's meaning of deathcore, ie. no eyeliner, horrible facial piercings, tight clothes, and hairspray here, just pummeling death metal with an added chug and groove. Last track a hidden song at the end, it's a cover of Raging Speedhorn's kickass song Scaramanga.
Netherbird is a Swedish melodic black metal band with an authentic black metal sound with lovely memorable guitar melodies. They don't abuse the keyboards in every song, which I think many black metal bands tend to do. Instead, they let the guitars speak for themselves and use the keyboard as a song fulfilling ambient, bridge or intro etc. This album kind of grows as it goes along, I found myself raising the volume more and more. It got pretty loud on The Weight of Vapour and had turned to almost deafening on the splendid track Across the Chasm.
