The Modern Wave of Death Metal
 

A lot of bands are doing some super cool and original things pertaining to death metal. And a lot of those bands started out as standard old school dm worship, before diving into all kinds of unique progressiveness. They began incorporating elements of progressive and psychedelia, and they've all done it their own way.

Horrendous's second album shows a peculiar and melodic style. It's eccentricities are subtle and hard to pin down exactly what it is making it standout


Tribulation are something great. Their debut was an extremely badass death metal ripper, into Formulas of Death, where they jam it out hella tough and act as a psychedelic death metal jam band


Onto Children of the Night, another shift in style. Death metal incorporating gothic/deathrock sounding overtones


More psych death metal coolness from Morbus Chron. Somewhat sparse vocals but gnar jams

First off, never heard of any of these guys. So kudos again for several new recommendations.

Horrendous - Ecdysis: this was a very solid 8/10 on my first listen. The guitar tone was almost warm. I've only heard a few others records that conjure the phrase 'happy death metal' and Horrendous is definitely one of them. You can bet that I'll be checking out The Chills and Anareta in short order.

Tribulation - The Formulas of Death: I'm always taken aback by how much I enjoy death n' roll. On paper it's a slower, less aggressive version of music I love - but as groups like Kvelertak have demonstrated, paper counts for nothing. I'm sure there is a better direct analog to this record, but I couldn't get "Ulvetid" out of my head while listening to this. Maybe it's the intermittent d-beats or the still intelligible overbite of the vocalist. Whatever, this was added to my liked videos; will be coming back to it. Didn't hear too much a of psychedelic tinge to the music. Perhaps we have different thresholds. I'd append the progressive tag to them for sure.

Excited to get to the other two recs later today. My library hasn't been seriously updated since 2012ish, but I'll see if I have any tunes to add to the thread.

Ulcerate definitely belong on this list.

that's kinda surprising

The last time I was actively looking for new music was 2011 or so, so maybe that's part of it? Been coasting on a large library since then. Part of the reason I decided to stick around was a bunch of stuff I didn't recognize in the rec threads.

I enjoyed the last Tribulation album. I could never really get into Ulcerate, something about overtly technical death metal fails to register with me.

I don't really think of them as overtly technical, they're usually so atmospheric. I don't know what you've heard, but if you're up for giving them another chance, I'd really recommend checking out their album Vermis.

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