It no longer makes sense to speak of “heavy metal” because the genre has its own identity. It is metal music, and “heavy metal” is now the kind of stuff that people listened to after Boomer rock lost its oomph, probably ending with the first Metallica album.
Nor does it make sense to have metal diaries, listening parties, or coffee klatsches. We have metal listening raids where we swoop in, blast something at top volume, consume intoxicants, worship Lucifer and Dionysos, then abscond into the nocturnal void leaving a flaming ruin.
For our first metal listening raid, we revisit the classic of Tampa-styled metal, Massacre From Beyond (1991). Although many like to talk about the various Florida bands, most of them were not really from Florida, and the Tampa sound was all over the place.
However, if you wanted a definitive statement that was more metal than Death and more violent than that one great Obituary album, consider Massacre. With the rhythm section of Terry Butler and Bill Andrews that powered classic Death, the vocals of Kam Lee, and the imaginative elemental guitar work of Rick “Rozz” Delillo, this album packs a ton of power.
It is also a total hybrid. The heavy metal riffs sneak in and a few d-beat riffs, analogous to Carnage or Nihilist, worm their way into these songs, but so do pure death metal riffs which combine the grandeur of Black Sabbath with the leveling literalism of the Cro-Mags.
Staged like adventure horror movies or sci-fi epics, these songs unroll like forgotten subconscious journeys through subterranean passages between worlds, luring us in with compelling rhythms and then introducing a conflict that resolves into statements of grandeur and nothingness.
The production team of Colin Richardson and Scott Burns helps give this a burly full sound that rivals the famous HM-2 abuse over in Sweden, and like many great metal albums, this one seems to capture a moment in time where people came together with synergies that produced greatness and then disippated into the aether.
Tags: death metal, massacre
I haven’t heard this but I’m about to have
The oversaturated pink colors on the artwork here actually work strangely well to present an alternative, fucked up version of evil (as the HIV viruses are cumming inside you). Spin this one on pride months, and don’t forget to find a good remaster on p2p programs, it’s there.
Also on Amazon in FDR for twelve bucks
It’s ironic that the FDR version of this album has less dynamic range and more bass than the original 1991 cd.
Remasters are a tricky business. Many of them seem to be more EQ-ing than working from the source material. Stick the album in ProTools or Audacity, EQ it, and then compress the hell out of it. New produkt!
I hope HIV cums inside you for putting that image out there you subhuman [melanistic] fuck.
Ya this one fucking rules
One of the best meat and potatoes death metal albums. The cover artwork clearly depicts gremlins (i.e., HIV virions) traversing Chuck Schuldiner’s anal tract.
very few things are actually LOL but this is
Gremlins 2 had Slayer playing in the background in this scene, like Ace Ventura pet detective had Cannibal Corpse. I like both movies. (I know that Suffocation is better than CC btw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u49yh5h1tIw
A presencing of acausal energies in what was once the nexion of Chuck Schuldiner.
Bitch and moan, bitch and moan, bitch tits… well who fucking cares? The West is dead and the third world are saps.
I need to learn the arts of WuWei. It’s fun to stick at groups of people, with their skin pulled back across their forms with an application of heat or cold and effective salt, at protests those acting automatically, unthinking, and tossing a wrench into the works with a decent riot shout. I need to learn the arts of WuWei, patience, maintaining a presence, and using only the right amount of thinking before seeing the opportunity arise to take the stage and peel the layers off of the group, or not to and to go away. I suppose it’s effective to become a part of the crowd and to shout back at the crowd brain, the reflex causing a paralysis and an effect as the tearing of muscles and nerve damage in a sick body overtaxed.
Brett, what are your thoughts on the first Atrocity full length? I recently revisited it and found it to be better than I remembered.
Does anybody know if the Season of Mist Ildjarn reissues are remastered?
Excellent album. The EP that follows isn’t so great except the track “Provoked Accurser” which was recorded at the same session as the full-length (so more of the good stuff basically). If you rip your albums to MP3 then it works well to include that one on as a final bonus track.
I recalled something of this nature. Wonder if they could fit it in between tracks four and five.
I give the album 8.5 bug chasers out of 10. But still, anyone that hasn’t From Beyond yet is a total n00b.
In the same vein I think Malevolent Creation – Ten Commandments needs more love too, that record is badass as fukk!
MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS
This album hasn’t aged well. Those Death musicians simply weren’t very good writers.
It aged bad out of the gate tbh. It sounds like Pantera drying to make Vulgar Display of Power death metal
Pantera sounds like a special education class trying to use toilets in a European-made airplane.
You need Jew-Dawg’s What’s Heavier Than Pantera? shirt in your life.
I need to ship the remaining members of Pantera to Iran.
Bout three years late on that Di’Anno boomer
Oh totally man. It’s primitive and idiotic like some kind of bovine, like an angry livestock, like a… bull. Hunh. I guess I never thought of it that way. It’s like Phil Anselmo but twice as big fucking my wife while I’m in the chair and then feeding me creampies as I strain against my cock cage.
Brett might as well do a positive review on a similar work, which is Baphomet – Dead shall Inherit. Not an ‘ultra-classic’ like Dismember or Incantation, but still good enough to piss off mid-IQ trolls like you.
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‘and “heavy metal” is now the kind of stuff that people listened to after Boomer rock lost its oomph, probably ending with the first Metallica album.’
Don’t you mean the first Venom album?
Venom still sounds like Motley Crue to me.
The good heavy metal is good and true. It is not rock. The key to enjoying heavy metal is to skip the bad tracks; some of those aren’t even metal.
However, any metal enjoyer who doesn’t enjoy the best bangers of bands like Manowar, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest might be a poser.
Heavy metal sample to get in to the subgenre:
Manowar – Kill With Power
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Iron Maiden – The Trooper
Witching Hour, Black Metal, and Sons of Satan sound like Motley Crue? You know who thinks that? An idiot.
Metallica sounds more like Motley Crue than Venom. Hell Seek & Destroy (off that precious first album) might as well be on Shout At The Devil
Speaking of Metallica: I can’t believe I never noticed this until Dave Mustaine brought it up in an interview years ago, but when for whatever reason the conflict regarding “The Four Horsemen” and “Mechanix” reemerged he plainly stated that he ripped off “Detroit Rock City” for important elements of the song.
It’s both obviously true and probably unintentionally hilarious given all the fuss that resulted regarding plagiarism.
I stopped listening to heavy metal, speed metal and anything basically that isn’t fully evolved death/black metal (unless I’m stuck with a car radio), simply because there’s no reason to. Exceptions are the usual extreme prototypes such as the key components of Celtic Frost, Slayer, Sepultura, Rigor Mortis, Destruction, Sodom and even a bit of Dark Angel.
(I consider Possessed too evil and fleshed out to call them proto btw. In fact Seven Churches still beats a lot of tech-deaf and pseudo-kvlt crap nowadays in extremity and passion.)
You can talk about Iron Maiden and Sabbath and the good old days all day like a damn geezer/boomer (and I’m 42 btw), but that shit doesn’t mean anything anymore at this point. When you invent a Star Trek food replicator, why bother with pans and ovens anymore?
Because art is not utilitarian nor telelogical. That’s leftist-commispeak and you should be embarrassed assuming you aren’t one.
Who cares, are you gonna burn the witch at the stake? Listen to your faggot manowar for all I care, while I’m listening to Deicide.
Now listen here dipshit, what you and that guy are saying is what this site’s been doing since its inception. The entirety of the internet for that matter. The entirety of all kreation, namely “my shit’s better than yours! go cry to mommy!!!1”
Seriously anti-herd is a total faggot (and probably loves Slipknot and Limp Bizkit) and should have his throat slit and shat in. (I would say fucked, but that’s Corey Taylor faggotry)
Seriously, asswipes like you I used to skullfuck in prison. Go listen to Dio and Burzum and cry us a river you fake aryan white trash. In my reich I would put a Jew above you, because all you have is a keyboard (and you suck at that).
no one gives a shit sperg
I find it hard to listen to much of the heavy metal except for musical reasons (I like the melodies and structures) like with Judas Priest and Mercyful Fate. At this point, speed metal makes me want to kill people.
“Speed metal makes me want to kill people”
THATS THE POINT YOU MONGOLOID
No, I mean to make the repetitive downstrumming stop.
I generally agree, but Artillery – By Inheritance is still pretty cool.
Leave the 1980s in the 1980s
For about ten minutes
That’s the spirit. I’m just trying to wake up some kind of darwinistic evolution here that you’ve been preaching about all these years, and that is as Bruce Lee said it to discard the useless and retain the useful onward to a glorious kingdom.
And if that’s labelled as “leftist pogress”, then surely I have exposed the dickless fake elitist soy boys orbiting this section. I rest my case.
Building on this, we have to look at the best of what death/black metal did and carry on from there, not regress into trying to rehash the past, whether the 1970s past or 1980s-1990s death metal glory days.
Excellent trolling, 9/10 for effort. Anyone with an IQ above 130 can see what he’s doing. He’s weeding out the trash. The art of trolling entails you’re evoking strong reactions, and the fact that some here are acting like emotional hooligans by taking the bait proves they’re inept to enter any form of political arena, and are nothing more then tthe basement dwelling, shit-in-the-bucket WoW playing inbreds they’re parotting against.
Let me tell you how trolling is done from now on. Don’t bot-spam nonsense like “kill muh [sandal-wearers], dem [melanistic]scum fuck the [New World Mongolians] lololol” – I reckon some of you are better than that right? Find a weak link in a group, get serious and act like you’re one of them. Continue on and strike like a spider when you have them in your web until you get an explosion of tearful human failure, and you’ve won. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. I can’t believe I even have to explain this to you retards.
At this point, all you have to do is post Palestinian, Mexican, and Ukraine flags and the crowd goes wild.
if you spent more time stretching you’d be able to suck your own dick
I don’t have a dick. I have two rectums!
streeeeetch
Saw these guys a few weeks ago. Rad show.
I made certain [melanistic] discoveries when studying the Bible in it’s original languages (Hebrew and Koine Greek) since Anal Rapist mentioned it a while back: and there’s a massive difference between it and modern Christianity, I mean almost entirely opposite:
– The Antichrist is not a person, it’s a system (so much for the boogie-man mentality)
– Satan works for God, because a contrast between good vs evil is needed.
– There is no afterlife (heaven or hell), just resurrection in a new earth for everyone. Every nation in their own seperate place.
– The entire religion contained and law keeping stuff is for Jews only, no outsiders allowed.
– Again, the whole thing is so Jew-only that a non-Jew trying to keep The Law is worthy of death (enter modern Christianity)
– Almost everything in the book of revelation is symbolic. There’s no literal end of the world, just cycles and end of eras.
And the amazement goes on and on.
If we are going to drive the final stake in the heart of the fear-mongering modern McDonalds Christianity, we’re going to do it with showcasting the fact that writers of the original Bible never intended pagan-heathens like us have a place in it. Kill the Christian, but leave the Jew alone, and problem is solved.
Its still got the toxic dualism, thinking in terms of good and evil instead of what works versus all the other stupid delusional shit people want.
It’s not really dualism, because that assumes there’s a war between light and dark, and that means God is stupid, and the devil is equal.
Look at it this way, the whole point is, in order to appreciate the good, you have to go through pain. That’s all it is, not some cosmic battle between the good guy and the bad guy as they show in Hollywood. That’s Gnosticism – and believe it or not, as brilliant as the Greeks were, they were also responsible for a lot of terrible ideas (anal sex being one of them, despite my ironic name).
Personally I don’t care how you get rid of Christianity, as long as you get rid of it I’m happy. We’ll all be happy.
Kites are contaminated and contaminating spiritual abominations, and they have many more centuries ahead of themselves to apply the selection required for them to be satisfied with themselves and to stop contaminating other sources of spirits. goD Zirself said so, Zir’s not going to cause another (failed genocide) attempt at killing and destroying all mud men golem people with the Babylonian plagiarized Flood Event, but Zhe is going to allow us to be gods and so finish off the rest of these abominating mud men golem people once and for all, and without having to resort to fornication with donkies on lonely ships among divers waters.
Who doesn’t like meat and potatoes?
I don’t like this album at all, but I respect it.
Awesome songs, but I always thought the cover art colour was weird using pink, and the studio production seemed too thin. The demo tapes sound like they were smothering you, but the album sounded like it was meant for speed metal or something, not heavy, hamfisted death metal.
I am glad I got to see them in concert in 1992. Of course, the trendy kids left after Grave played and missed a great set by Massacre.
> heavy, hamfisted death metal
This is what I seek, thank
You for placing it so well into words
Which like turds and nerds
Are slippery, sticky things.