Kamis, 14 Desember 2017

PANTERA






            Pantera adalah kelompok musik heavy metal dari Arlington, Texas yang dibentuk pada 1981. Mereka adalah salah satu pelopor genre musik groove metal.

Pantera tidak menjadi terkenal sampai 9 tahun setelah dibentuk dengan album Cowboys from Hell. Sebelum itu mereka adalah kelompok glam rock yang telah menerbitkan 4 album. Keempat album ini sekarang tidak lagi beredar dan tidak dianggap sebagai bagian resmi diskografi mereka.

Mereka bubar pada tahun 2003 karena perselisihan pribadi. Tahun berikutnya, gitaris Dimebag Darrell ditembak mati di atas panggung dengan kelompoknya yang baru, Damageplan.



Personel pantera  :
  • Philip Anselmo – Vocals
  • Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Lance Abbott) – Guitars and backing vocals
  • Vinnie Paul (Vincent Paul Abbott) – Drums
  • Rex Brown (Rex Robert Brown) – Bass


Diskografi :
  • 1983 - Metal Magic
  • 1984 - Projects in the Jungle
  • 1985 - I Am the Night
  • 1988 - Power Metal
  • 1990 - Cowboys from Hell (Platinum)
  • 1992 - Vulgar Display of Power (Double platinum)
  • 1994 - Far Beyond Driven (Platinum)
  • 1996 - The Great Southern Trendkill (Platinum)
  • 2000 - Reinventing the Steel (Gold)

Senin, 11 Desember 2017

JASAD


          Jasad adalah band dengan genre Death Metal yang lahir dari bandung. Nama jasad pada awalnya di cetuskan oleh yuli, Ia memilih nama Jasad dengan alasan ingin memberi kesan seram tapi tetap dalam bahasa Indonesia. Band ini sebenarnya sudah ada sejak 1990 namun, banyak literatur yang beredar di dunia maya menyebutkan Jasad didirikan tahun 2000.  Formasi awal Jasad terdiri dari Yuli, Tito, dan Faried. Tahun 1992, mereka mengalami pergantian personel setelah Faried keluar. Dengan formasi kedua yang terdiri dari Yuli, Tito, Hendrik, dan Abut, mereka merilis dua singel yang direkam secara live, yakni Life ‘n Die dan Fuckin’ Education. Jasad sendiri merupakan band dengan genre death metal yang sangat berpengaruh di tanah air. 

Perjalanan sebuah band pasti diwarnai dengan berbagai fase hingga pergantian personel. Berikut ini adalah Formasi personel dari Jasad dari tahun ke tahun :

Formasi Personel 1990
- Yuli (Bass/Vocal)
- Tito Kelly (Guitar)
- Faried (Drum)

Formasi Personel 1992
- Yuli (Bass)
- Tito Kelly (Guitar)
- Hendrik (Vocal)
- Abut (Drum)

Formasi Personel 1994
- Yuli (Bass)
- Yayat (Guitar)
- Yadi Behom (Vocal)
- Dani (Drum)

Formasi Personel 1999
- Yuli (Bass)
- Dani (Drum)
- Man (Vocal)
- Ferly (Guitar)

Formasi Personel 2010
- Man (Vocal)
- Ferly (Guitar)
- Yuli (Bass)
- Papap (Drum)

Formasi Personel 2011
- Man (Vocal)
- Ferly (Guitar)
- Yuli (Bass)
- Abaz (Drum)

DISCOGRAPHY :

  • 1992 - Merilis single pertama Life 'n Die dan Fuckin Education.
  • 1996 - Merilis mini album C'est La Vie.
  • 1997 - Lagu berjudul Technological Principle menjadi salah satu kompilasi pada album
                Independent Rebel. Album ini menjadi album bersejarah di Indonesia.
  • 2001 - Merilis album Ripping The Pregnant (Demo) yang berisi tiga lagu, yaitu Diamaton,
                Ejaculation of Rottervore, dan Ripping The Pregnant.
  • 2001 - Merilis album Witness of Perfect Torture.
  • 2005 - Merilis album Annihilate the Enemy. Sebelumnya Jasad juga merilis album demo.
  • 2006 - Rottrevore Death Fest dirilis bersama lagu dari Forgotten, Siksakubur dan
                Disinfected.
  • 2009 - Merilis single Kujang Rompang dari album kompilasi Panceg Dina Galur.
  • 2011 - Promo Demo 2010.
  • 2013 - Rebirth Of Jatisunda ( CD Album, Extreme Soul Prod 2013 )


Kamis, 15 Januari 2015

Iron Maiden

     


   Band Iron Maiden pertama kali dibentuk di London, Inggris, pada tahun 1976, Iron Maiden adalah dari awal merupakan gagasan Steve Harris (b. 12 Maret 1957, Leytonstone, London, Inggris; bass), mantan anggota pub rock Smiler. Dinamai setelah perangkat penyiksaan abad pertengahan, musik itu cocok berat dan keras di indra. Adegan logam berat pada akhir 70-an secara luas dianggap sebagai stagnan, dengan hanya beberapa band membuktikan kemampuan mereka untuk bertahan hidup dan menghasilkan musik yang berkualitas. Pada saat ini bahwa generasi baru band-band Inggris muda mulai muncul. Gerakan ini, yang mulai meninggalkan tempat persembunyian pada 1979 dan 1980, dikenal sebagai New Wave of British Heavy Metal, atau *. NWOB M.. Iron Maiden adalah salah satu band terkemuka dalam genre, dan banyak orang akan mengatakan contoh yang definitif. Lebih muda dan lebih kejam, yang N.W.O.B. *. M. band ditangani lebih cepat, lebih energik logam berat daripada nenek moyang mereka (punk menjadi pengaruh yang jelas). Ada beberapa perubahan line-up dalam Iron Maiden peringkat pada dini hari, dan datang mereka merilis debut EP, band ini menampilkan Harris, Dave Murray (lahir 23 Desember 1958, London, Inggris; gitar), Paul Di 'Anno (lahir 17 Mei 1959, Chingford, London, Inggris; vokal) dan Doug Sampson (drum). 

Band ini membuat yang tinggal debut di Kereta \x26 Kuda pub di Stratford, London timur, pada tahun 1977, sebelum mengasah suaranya di pub lokal sirkuit selama dua tahun berikutnya. Tidak dapat meminta tanggapan dari perusahaan rekaman, band mengirim tiga-track tape, menampilkan Iron Maiden, perampas dan Aneh Dunia, kepada Neal Kay, DJ di utara London's hard rock disko, Soundhouse Kereta musik yang Kingsbury. Perlindungan Kay Iron Maiden memenangkan mereka menyambut instan, yang memicu pelepasan The Soundhouse Tapes pada band label sendiri. Pada November 1979 band ini menambahkan kedua gitaris Tony Parsons ke line-up untuk dua trek pada Logam Untuk Muthas kompilasi, tetapi pada saat band ini memulai sesi untuk album debut mereka, dia telah digantikan oleh Dennis Stratton (l. 9 November 1954, London, Inggris), dan Sampson dengan Clive Burr (lahir 8 Maret 1957; drum, ex-Simson). Sebuah promosi tunggal, Running Free, mencapai nomor 34 di tangga lagu Inggris dan membawa sebuah penampilan di televisi BBC's Top Of The Pops. Menolak pantomim, mereka menjadi band pertama sejak tahun 1973 Siapa yang bermain musik secara live di acara. Iron Maiden adalah album yang diproduksi secara kasar, tetapi mencapai angka 4 dalam daftar album Inggris di bagian belakang dengan stints tur Judas Priest dan materi enduringly populer seperti Phantom Of The Opera. Membual pembunuh produksi yang lebih unggul dari album pertama, dan melihat Dennis Stratton digantikan oleh gitaris Adrian Smith (lahir 27 Februari 1957). Dalam bangun, Iron Maiden menjadi sangat populer di kalangan penggemar heavy metal, menginspirasi fanatik pengabdian, dibantu oleh manajer Rod Smallwood menggertak dan apokaliptik maskot Eddie (yang terakhir ini telah digambarkan di sampul Sanctuary berdiri di atas Perdana Menteri Margaret Thatcher's memenggal tubuh). Pelepasan Number Of The Beast itu penting bagi perkembangan band. Tanpa itu, Iron Maiden mungkin tidak akan pernah pergi menjadi sebuah kekuatan di arena logam berat. Album ini sukses yang spektakuler, suara band di puncak gelombang. Itu juga merupakan debut mantan prajurit infanteri dan vokalis baru Bruce Dickinson (l. Paul Bruce Dickinson, 7 Agustus 1958, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Inggris), menggantikan Paul Di'Anno (yang pergi ke depan Dianno, Paulus Di'Anno's Battlezone dan pembunuh). Mantan Samson, Bruce Dickinson lulusan sejarah membuat debutnya dengan Maiden hidup di 15 November 1981.

 Single seperti Run To The Hills dan The Number Of The Beast itu besar bagan hits Inggris, Iron Maiden meninggalkan NWOB mereka *. M. mitra dalam hal keberhasilan, seperti gerakan itu sendiri mulai berangsur-angsur habis. Piece Of Mind melanjutkan kesuksesan mereka dan menjadi hit besar di Inggris (angka 3) dan USA (angka 14). Clive Burr digantikan oleh Nicko McBrain pada sesi, sebelumnya drumer band metal perancis Trust, yang telah mendukung Maiden pada 1981 mereka tur Inggris (dia juga bermain di Streetwalkers). Piece Of Mind tidak berbeda dengan album sebelumnya, menampilkan twin-gitar kuat gigitan Murray dan Smith, dibarengi dengan vokal mengesankan garis dan suara yang cocok-meninju udara mereka dinamis. Satu persembahan, Flight of Icarus dan The Trooper, adalah instan hits, saat band melakukan tur dua besar, empat bulan Piece Dunia pesiar pada tahun 1983, dan Perbudakan Dunia rombongan, yang mencakup empat hal terjual tanggal di London's Hammersmith Odeon sebuah tahun kemudian. Dengan kedatangan Powerslave pada bulan November, beberapa kritikus menuduh Iron Maiden yang sesuai dengan diri dipaksakan menulis rumus, dan bermain aman dengan mencoba dan menguji gagasan. Tentu saja, tidak ada keberangkatan yang signifikan dari dua album sebelumnya, tapi tetap bahagia dikonsumsi oleh inti band pendukung, yang juga membeli dalam jumlah yang cukup untuk memastikan Inggris bagan hits untuk Aces Tinggi dan Dua Menit Untuk Midnight. Live Setelah Kematian adalah paket album ganda dari semua bahan paling dicintai, direkam secara live pada raksasa 11-bulan tur keliling dunia. Pada saat ini, Iron Maiden telah mengamankan posisi diri yang tak tergoyahkan dalam hirarki logam, popularitas mereka yang luas menjangkau seluruh benua. Somewhere In Time adalah sedikit keberangkatan: itu menampilkan lebih melodi dari sebelumnya, dan digembar-gemborkan penggunaan gitar synthesizer. Lagu mereka masih bersinar dan yang sekarang wajib hit single itu mudah dicapai dalam bentuk Wasted Years dan Stranger In A Strange Land. Mencapai Nomor 11 di Amerika Serikat, ini adalah satu juta lagi plus penjual. Sejak pertengahan tahun 80an telah Maiden pementasan spektakuler hidup semakin menunjukkan, dengan efek pencahayaan yang rumit dan set panggung. The Somewhere In Time tour (tujuh bulan) tidak terkecuali, memastikan mereka terus hidup terkenal sebagai band, yang telah menjadi dasar bagi banyak kesuksesan mereka. Masa aktif komparatif mendahului pelepasan Tujuh Anak Of A Seventh Son, yang sangat banyak di vena yang sama seperti pendahulunya. Sebuah album konsep, yang dipertahankan secara komersial tepi (memberikan band Inggris kedua mereka nomor 1 album) dan menghasilkan hit single di Dapatkah saya Play With Madness, yang ternyata sensitif The Evil That Men Do dan The peramal. Setelah dunia raksasa lain perjalanan melelahkan, band ini mengumumkan niat mereka untuk mengambil yang diterima dengan baik istirahat sekurang-kurangnya satu tahun. Spekulasi berlimpah bahwa hal ini menandai pembubaran band, diperburuk oleh Bruce Dickinson 's proyek solo, Tattooed Millionaire, bukunya, The Adventures of Tuhan iffy Boatrace, dan EMI Records' kebijakan merilis ulang Iron Maiden 's katalog tunggal dalam keseluruhan (di 12-inci). 

      Setelah cukup kekosongan, berita dari band muncul lagi. Steve Harris merasa bahwa arah mengejar pada dua album terakhir telah diambil sejauh mungkin, dan kembali ke gaya lama direncanakan. Bahagia dengan rencana permainan ini, Adrian Smith meninggalkan digantikan oleh Janick Gers (l. Hartlepool, Lancashire, Inggris), gitaris sebelumnya dengan Roh Putih dan Ian Gillan (dia juga menyumbang kepada Bruce Dickinson's solo release). Hidup menunjukkan juga diperkecil dengan kembali ke tempat-tempat yang jauh lebih kecil. Tidak ada Doa For The Dying itu memang lebih mirip periode pertengahan Iron Maiden, dan diduga diterima dengan baik, besar membawa Inggris Kudus hit single dengan Asap dan Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter. Yang terakhir, yang sebelumnya dirilis pada tahun 1989 di soundtrack A Nightmare On Elm Street 5, sudah mendapat penghargaan Golden Raspberry Award untuk Song Terburuk tahun itu. Namun demikian, hal itu memberi Iron Maiden Inggris pertama mereka pernah nomor 1. Wajib diikuti tur dunia. Walaupun dinyatakan sebagai setan di Chili, 1992 juga melihat band debut di nomor 1 di tangga lagu Inggris dengan Ketakutan Of The Dark, yang dihuni satu keberhasilan besar lain di Be Quick Or Be Dead (nomor 2). Namun, Bruce Dickinson 's angsa-lagu dengan band, yang mengundang demo rekaman dari vokalis baru setelah vokalis pengumuman bahwa dia akan pergi saat mengikuti tur pertunangan. Akhirnya Nya Penggantinya adalah Blaze Bayley (b. 1963, Birmingham, West Midlands, Inggris) dari Wolfsbane. Album debutnya adalah The X-Factor, dan pada hidup ini dan pada pertunjukan (yang mereka hanya kembali pada bulan November 1995), ia dengan mudah membuktikan berharga. Ini adalah tugas yang menakutkan, karena harus belajar Maiden 's seluruh katalog dan menang atas pengikut Dickinson patriotik. Adrian Smith muncul kembali dalam band baru, Psycho Melati, pada tahun 1996. Bulan Februari 1999 diumumkan bahwa Bruce Dickinson dan Adrian Smith telah bergabung dengan band, memulihkan 80s klasik line-up. Untuk kegembiraan besar pengikut setia mereka yang sangat baik album baru tidak lama dalam mengikuti.

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DISCOGRAPHY :

Albums :

  1. Iron Maiden 
  2. Killers
  3. The Number Of The Beast 
  4. Piece Of Mind 
  5. Powerslave
  6. Live After Death 
  7. Somewhere In Time 
  8. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 
  9. No Prayer For The Dying
  10. Fear Of The Dark
  11. Live At Donington
  12. A Real DEAD One 
  13. A Real LIVE One
  14. The X Factor 
  15. Virtual XI
  16. Maiden Hell!
  17. Brave New World
  18. Rock In Rio
  19. Dance Of Death
  20. Death On The Road
  21. A Matter Of Life And Death
  22. The Final Frontier
  23. En Vivo!
  24. Powerslave

Rabu, 06 April 2011

Cryptopsy


       Formed in Canada, 1992, the band started out with the name Necrosis but soon changed it to Cryptopsy. The first and only demo was called "Ungentle Exhumation" and was released in the following year. In 1994 their first full-length was released, "Blasphemy Made Flesh", and it gained them succes and a good reputation in the underground. In 1996 they released the classic "None So Vile" which was a huge succes and surpassed other bands in terms of brutality. Sadly, Lord Worm left the band after the release. Michael DiSalvo (Infestation) later joined the band and he was the perfect replacement. After an impressive live show at the Milwaukee Metal Festival the band were signed to Century Media Records.

With a new frontman and a record deal, the band recorded "Whisper Supremacy" which was released in 1998. They went on tours around the world and sales were up to 50,000 copies. Cryptopsy was becoming bigger and bigger and more live shows where played including the Dynamo Festival in Holland and several shows in Japan.

After a wealth of tours the band returned to the studio and recorded "And Then You'll Beg" which was released in 2000. In August 2001, vocalist Michael DiSalvo was replaced by Martin Lacroix.

In 2003 they released the live album, "None So Live", which was the last to feature Martin Lacroix as he left the band shortly after. His replacement was none other than the original vocalist, Lord Worm.



DISCOGRAPHY :

Albums :

  1. Ungentle Exhumation               ( 1993 )
  2. Blasphemy Made Flesh            ( 1994 )
  3. None So Vile                             ( 1996 )
  4. Whisper Supremacy                  ( 1998 )
  5. And Then You'll Beg                 ( 2000 )
  6. None So Live                            ( 2003 )
  7. Once Was Not                          ( 2005 )
  8. The Unspoken King                  ( 2008 )
  9. Cryptopsy                                 ( 2012 )

Videos :
  1.  Trois-Rivières Metalfest IV     ( 2005 )
























































Jumat, 01 April 2011






Decrepit Birth is a technical death metal band from Santa Cruz, California, USA, signed to Nuclear Blast. They have released three studio albums through Unique Leader Records and a demo independently. All of their studio albums feature artwork by renowned fantasy artist Dan Seagrave. Their latest album, Polarity, was released on July 27, 2010.




Prelude to the Apocalypse Single, 2002

...And Time Begins Full-length, 2003

2006 Promo Demo, 2006

Diminishing Between Worlds Full-length, 2008

Test Demo, 2008
Polarity Full-length, 2010


Dying Fetus is an American death metal band from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Formed in 1991, the group is known for their outspoken political views, and for being one of the few death metal bands who follow a political nature. Earlier lyrics showcased the common death metal trait of explicit violence as its main theme. Constant line-up changes throughout the years have left John Gallagher the only remaining original member. The band's sound is characterized by blast beats, complex riffing and heavy metal slams.



Bathe in Entrails (1993)
Infatuation with Malevolence (1994)
Infatuation with Malevolence (1995)

Purification Through Violence (1996)

Killing on Adrenaline (1998)

Grotesque Impalement (2000)

Destroy the Opposition (2000)

Deep Red / Dying Fetus (2002)
Killing on Live (2002)
Stop at Nothing (2003)

War of Attrition (2007)

Killing on Adrenaline (2008)
Descend into Depravity (2009)

Infatuation With Malevolence (Reissue) (2011)

Rabu, 30 Maret 2011


The original crushing grind/death mixture from New York, Suffocation fused the predominant rhythmic styles of death and speed metal with grindcore song constructions to start a new subgenre of music.
flag of the United States Suffocation - Human Waste(1991)
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten (1991)
Suffocation - Breeding the Spawn (1993)
Suffocation - Pierced From Within (1995)
Suffocation - Despise the Sun (1998)
Suffocation - The Close of a Chapter (2007)

Human Waste



Relapse                                                                                                              1991
Production: Somewhere in tone between a garage and a late eighties do-it-yourself studio, the production here captures all instruments but drops some of the bulk of the sound in favor of more indistinct, powerfully fluid sounds.
Review: A glimpse into the formation of death metal comes from the experience of seeing this fusion of grindcore and simple death metal unfold into its rhythmic promise of complexity mated with its unswerving ability to bring death metal's nihilistic blast of chromatic power chords into a stream at once both obsessed with its default valuelessness and its building romance of architectural, energetic, fearless response to the void of life. Suffocation meld the emotions of hardcore and extreme avantgarde metal into a contexture of intricate conflicting structures through absorption of both to the ultimate abstract at the same time they are rendered incarnate in pummeling, concrete, functional rhythms.
Guttural vocals base their power on the rhythm they gain from recursion and iambic synchronicity, chugging into drumbeats fashioned from primal divisions of the human sense of time. Over that shuddering waves of power chords and arpeggios build multiplicative structures from the simple directions of nihilistic chromatic music, taking it from literal riffs in the tempos of human motion to vast mysticisms of scientifically derived, directed thought process; like most death metal, any power or beauty is so buried in the abstract that aesthetics fail to describe, but like most punk music, the living pulse infuses all of the music with a breathing relevance that few can deny.


Tracklist: 1. Infecting the Crypts
2. Synthetically Revived
3. Mass Obliteration
4. Catatonia
5. Jesus Wept
6. Human Waste
Length: 23:14
                                                                             suffocation human waste death metal
                                                                                 Copyright © 1991 Relapse
One of the first bands to break apart song structures with blast beats and layered rhythms, Suffocation massacre their song structures with deconstructionist reliance upon bridge passages which link recombinant mutable riffs into cyclic architectural turnarounds. Lead guitar is the deadly serious satire of rock n roll that brings apart the ludicrousness of the scale into an obscurity-affirming chaotic, noisy swirl, but does not serve as a unifier so much as an accelerator to these rapid and insanely ambitious complex riff collages. From speed metal comes the chugging, muffled-strum power chord arpeggio constructions and from basic death metal the ripping single note or chord melodies, but from punk music comes the energetic tempo ride that grips each song to itself with bonds of compelling urgency.
Originators and still induplicable, Suffocation bashed out the beginnings of death metal's most visible style, the "New York" combination of blasting grindcore beats and metallic textures through the course of complex and unrelentingly savage songs. On this their demo and first (EP) release, careful listening brings about a renewed appreciation for death metal in substance and ideology, as one can see the authentic development of its paradigm of articulation from the promising but unresolved roots of its ancestry.

Effigy of the Forgotten



Roadrunner                                                                                                                                      1991
Production: Intense bass-possession holds this release and captures all of the power chord might of Suffocation with intensity and distinction, although sometimes lacking in tone. Drums are lucid and present in the soundstream.
Review: In one of the most intense incarnations of death metal Suffocation take the rhythmic relentlessness of hardcore beats and put them into speed metal structures expanded with the complexity of techno and hip-hop breakbeats and overlaid, counterpoint structures. All in its own conception, this release takes the multiple languages of music and unifies them in a surprisingly simple but evocative thundering chorus of death metal.
New York style metal takes the percussion edge of hardcore and power metal and adds it into the muffled-strum muted chordblast of older style death metal bands and simpler speed metal acts. With the deep-throated chalky rant of vocals synchronized to the offbeats of strobing, violent, cyclic riffs, the main feature of this style is the ritualistic marching beats of its verses and the blasting mayhem of its choruses. Fills are expert, precision percussion nailing complex and innovative patterns to the mark for enunciation of the resolution to each ambitious and architectural phrase.
Tracklist: 1. Liege of inveracity
2. Effigy of the forgotten
3. Infecting the crypts
4. Seeds of the suffering
5. Habitual infamy
6. Reincremation
7. Mass obliteration
8. Involuntary slaughter
9. Jesus wept
Length: 37:27
suffocation effigy of the forgotten a death metal classic from 1991
Copyright © 1991 Roadrunner
To facilitate the structural support within these complex and multidirectional riffs, Suffocation use many strum techniques with fast scale patterns to hold riffs in place and then slide them into the omnipotent rhythms. Like thrash, each song starts on a simple contrarian rhythm and works it through its positions until concluding with an iteration of its power; like speed metal, each song follows a narrative structure with frequent variations and modulations of idea; like death metal it is architecture of correlated intricacy from the notes of every riff to the subliminal rhythms behind the erratic, epileptic, insectoid guitar solos.
For death metal at the time this release demonstrated the future of iterated percussive interpretation of song themes, and pointed toward future use of rhythm where death and grind's monotonous tonal structures had become limited as containers. Its innovation and spirit have earned it a place among the classics as an undisputed invention and advancement to the genre.

Breeding the Spawn



Roadrunner                                                                                                                                      1993
Production: Reasonably representative, but not enough clarity or bass to guitars in the mix, resulting in a washed-out trebbly sound. For this reason most fans rejected this release, causing great damage to an otherwise excellent album.
Review: Highly-rhythmic and easily combative, Suffocation's second album builds on the legacy of their first with more emphasis on the bearing weight of repeated changing rhythm than the percussion of repetition, which because of its rhythmic nature has a certain degree of repetition not experienced here. In many ways, this album served as a precursor to some of the experiments in hypnotic metal that came after death metal's obsession with "technicality."
Often using sliding, entirely motion-oriented riffs to direct their tunes, Suffocation are as capricious as nature herself and so direct immediate onslaught toward any idea, even that of onslaught itself. As such it would be easy to get buried in the complexity were it not for a masterful sense of rhythm which guides each song toward its conclusion. Behind that rhythm is a Slayer-derived sense of melody which enables the band to work with few open intervals and still give hints of breadth to harmonic space in simple gestures of motion that refuse to strictly harmonize.
Tracklist: 1. Beginning of Sorrow
2. Breeding the Spawn
3. Epitaph of the Credulous
4. Marital Decimation
5. Prelude to Repulsion
6. Anomalistic Offerings
7. Ornament of Decrepancy
8. Ignorant Deprivation
Length: 35:52
suffocation breeding the spawn on roadrunner records copyright 1993
Copyright © 1993 Roadrunner
The highly dissonant nature of this approach is downplayed because of the rhythmic intensity and narrowness of harmonic focus toward the conclusions of most of the more intensely thrashing material, but the emergence of melody brings a profound conclusion to each song. As always the guttural vocal expansion of vocalist Mullen is crippling and corrosive. With the overall emphasis on brutality no musicality is lost: the predominant element in this album's evolution, becoming more prominent toward the end of the disc, is its tendency toward doom metal with slow and drawn-out riffs in the Morbid Angel style, but even darker, more forebodingly abstract. And although you can barely hear it, there is highly creative lead work from Cerrito and Hobbs sparsely distributed through these songs.
A recursive percussionism of apocalyptic negativity, Suffocation brings a great vitality to existence with these insurgent anthems to chaos and power, and through its use of savage aggression and brutal minimalism encourages independent thinking in a nihilistic world.

Pierced From Within



Roadrunner                                                                                                                                      1995
Production: Reasonable, bassy, flat.
Review: In death metal history, Suffocation stands unique for fusing the technical with the percussive and brutal older styles of death metal as well as for being emulated more than any other band.
Older death metal used simple structures and repetitive, percussive beats ending in extremely recognizable resolutions to sound heavy and dark, but was shunned by metal audiences as too rudimentary and redundant.
Suffocation integrated the heavier styles of death metal with the muffled strumming and downstroke rhythms of speed metal as did many bands innovating New York style death metal, but then integrated more complex rhythms with a variety of influences and bizarre, mocking lead guitar.
Tracklist: 1. Pierced from within
2. Thrones of blood
3. Depths of depravity
4. Suspended in tribulation
5. Torn into enthrallment
6. The invoking
7. Synthetically revived
8. Brood of hatred
9. Breeding the spawn
Length: 45:29
suffocation pierced from within
Copyright © 1995 Roadrunner
A typical song would begin with slamming, pummeling beats under sections of riffs and then break into the fast strumming chorus riffs of death metal, with chords flowing together from distortion and speed. This beginning would modulate into the unpredictable -- a punk- like strut beat, a walking jazz bassline, or a structural bridging to define the song. Each song brought forth its own struggles and torment both musically and lyrically, at odds with itself and the world.
With Pierced From Within, Suffocation have returned from the abyss of popularity after their brilliant second album, Breeding the Spawn, was ignored by fans either for its lack of bass-heavy production (made famous by Suffocation's first album, Effigy of the Forgotten) or for the fans' pompous attitudes about death metal.
Where Breeding the Spawn was focused and cohesive, Pierced From Within expands to include divergent styles and musical metaphors. Thunderously heavy and rigorously artistic, it surpasses expectations and suprises consistently.

Despise the Sun



Vulture                                                                                                                                               1998
Production: Reasonable, bassy, flat.
Review: Constructed from the same elements of abstract structure and compelling rhythm that made Suffocation a deathmetal standard, "Despise the Sun" sees the band comfortable enough in their style to develop it to a muscular prime in which it pits its own themes against one another in a vast internal conflict represented as rhythmic warfare.
With more fast strumming than previous albums, and less reliance upon the chanting-rhythm muffled strumming that was "heavy" then, this is a savage example of pounding death metal that utilizes contrapuntal structures in a recursive pattern to produce its effect. A major theme contrasts a challenger, and the two each split into their component parts, which prowl in the form of unseen riffs to return for structural elucidation. The refinements in style can best be seen in the final track, a remake of "Catatonia" from the band's first EP.
Tracklist: 1. Funeral Inception
2. Devoid of Truth
3. Despise the Sun
4. Bloodchurn
5. Catatonia
Length: 16:34
suffocation despise the sun on vulture records 1998
Copyright © 1998 Vulture
Highly percussive from its continued use of heavy downstroking and variable expectancy rhythm, where the pattern of a chord's appearance in a tempo structure is defined by a strict structuralism of the whole complex enough to permit surprises. Engaging, energetic and insightful, this music tears along with no letup in intensity. Accompaniment by the guttural bass blast of vocals punctuates the riffing with a voice of power and reason.
Tearing itself apart as it builds, "Despise the Sun" is nonetheless a powerful testament to artistic process as well as death metal design, and its conflict if taken literally projects a hidden reality embedded within the justifications of human survival. Whatever the abstract interpretation, however, the textural existence that is this music contains both the complexity to be interesting and the brutality to mystify.

The Close of a Chapter



Relapse                                                                                                                                          2007
Production: Loud, clear and thick for a live album, with some noise artifacts creating squeal effects at odd times.
Tracklist:
1. Infecting the Crypts (6:42) mp3 sample
2. Thrones of Blood (6:04)
3. Surgery of Impalement (5:23)
4. Catatonia (6:00)
5. Liege of Inveracity (5:17) mp3 sample
6. Despise the Sun (4:13)
7. Subconsciously Enslaved (4:56)
8. Immortally Condemned (6:55)
9. Effigy of the Forgotten (4:33)
10. Tomes of Acrimony (5:29)
11. Breeding the Spawn (5:36) mp3 sample
12. Pierced from Within (7:48)
13. Funeral Inception (4:22)
Length: 73:18
Suffocation - The Close of a Chapter: Death Metal 2007 Relapse
Copyright © 2007 Relapse
Having ceased as a band as death metal ran into stagnation, Suffocation returned in 2002 with a new line-up and a new outloook, which was to be more like the recent hardcore hybrids and simultaneously, to play up the band's reputation as technical masters. On this live album we hear the result through its interpretation of older songs. These are simultaneously played with more groove but less awareness of the small organic differences in rhythm that made them hang together; riffs either swing or are exactly on the beat, with little variation between. The result avoids the fear of all metal live albums, which is a mechanical sound, and replaces it with a seemingly uncoordinated one. Newer interpretations of guitar solos give them jazzier rhythms and more recognizably scale-based runs, and the increased texture of drumming with riffs at a slightly slower pace removes the frenetic claustrophobia that defined this band's earlier work. However, that was what made them stand out artistically and while every note is played to technical correctness here, the resulting inability to see the mood of these songs renders them sterile and obedient.

 
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