Mondo Bungle

as if I would have it any other way

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Mondo Bungle

also Coma Cluster Void's vocalist is Mike DiSalvo from Whisper Supremacy and And Then You'll Beg

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Dylstew

Harsh Noise.

Chula Vista

I blame detuned and 7 string guitars. They suck up too much of the drums sonic space.

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MicShazam

Mixing death metal is definitely a challenge, but some succeed big time, so I don't really feel like being too forgiving about thin drums. It's just a genre with a lot more bad albums than good.

Chula Vista

Not versed on death metal but, yeah... heavy can be done right.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

Just because it's a great album doesn't mean that it's heavy.

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MicShazam

An example of a probably quite good death metal album that sounds strangely flat:



I think they must have pulled an And Justice For All and turned the bass down to barely hearable levels. Sadly, unlike on that Metallica album, the guitars don't even sound very fat here. To me, heaviness is fairly closely tied to bass heavy grooving - not just aggressive, "evil sounding" playing.

In some sections of this Obituary album, I really can hear the bass very clearly though. It just has this flat, mid level tone that doesn't do much to beef up the lower end of the guitars. Took me a while to realize that's the problem more than low volume.

Frownland

Oh just stfu and listen to what's there. Sure it isn't perfect production, but it's not like it's mastered to the point of making any of the instruments inaudible.

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MicShazam

Dude I'm just explaining why it isn't what I would call super heavy. Didn't say it was bad. Plus I really care about how an album sounds, but that's another thing.