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Originally Posted by Metal Connoisseur
Has there been any mention of Xibalba? Haven't gotten a chance to listen to their new album yet, but 2012's Hasta La Muerte was as heavy as anything released that year. The Greg Anderson collaboration definitely helped the low-end pop more than it would have had the band been on a label other than Southern Lord.
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Oooo, cool. Like deathcore/doom. Sort of highlights my problem with deathcore though. When it's bad, it's awful, but when it's good, it's cause it goes close enough to regular death metal that it might as well just be called death metal. And even the best stuff is still almost always inferior to the best that traditional death metal has to offer.
Eternal Lord was a band that's pretty much straight deathcore, but they can actually write a decent tune, incorporate melody without it being too cloying, and have a nice sludgy production. They weren't terribly original, and their vocalist is a bit weak, but other than that I don't have too many complaints about them. Too bad they only recorded one album.
I guess cause they were around before the deathcore craze took off,
Heaven Shall Burn manage to have a sound that's relatively unique. Sort of like more traditional metalcore with death metal/melodic death metal influences. They have a fantastic vocalist too. Whether they touch up his in studio or not, he still sounds amazing on record. Pretty bitchin' drummer too.