would you consider this extreme

I honestly didn't but I still love it wholeheartedly

need to get into iron maiden more ngl

already had my metallica phase in HS

Death got way more plays on spotify than most of their peers tbh

during the time they were active they were less popular than a few bands like Deicide or Morbid Angel but now they have a lot more listeners and plays.

and checking now its actually really surprising to see Death have similar play counts as Cannibal Corpse or even a little more. Cannibal Corpse is the highest selling and most famous death metal band ever (and still active)

so Death's legacy is doing really well i think

yeah its absolutely extreme metal

its not the absolute heaviest death metal (still pretty melodic and progressive) but its extreme through the harsh vocals + crazy drums + distortion + riff heaviness

honestly 80% of what makes something 'extreme metal' is just the vocals being harsh. Chuck Schuldiner vocals are more intelligible than most death metal vocalists but its still all harsh screaming nonstop

never listened to their contemporaries before

Ig in HS I was mostly introduced to stuff like tool, alice in chains and a lil slayer

I kind of ignorantly just group things up

there's yelling but they're still intelligible

and yeah, like you said there's some melodies in here

like I usually consider stuff extreme when I legit cant tell what the hell they're saying

Morbid Angel is the other closest contender for GOAT death metal band i think

maybe a few others like Immolation or Suffocation

Cannibal Corpse is super iconic but theyre just alright for me, just consistently pretty good but never that good. also the edginess of the song titles/artwork/lyrics is so stupid lol

started writing this before I read your bit about being intelligible but yeah

it just appeared to me on the surface like it wasnt too heavy but im not the expert

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its also just the type of approach really. some types of 'extreme metal' arent as heavy as this but still have screaming, tons of double kick drums, speed, etc. like atmospheric black metal sometimes

'extreme metal' label is super broad anyway. but honestly if it has screaming and sounds farther off from what might be similar to dadrock, its probably extreme

and thrash is pretty much the borderline of extreme or non extreme

I'm sorry

the ones that sound like theyre barely even in the rock category anymore too

like Iron Maiden sounds somewhat similar to Chuck Berry still if you stretch it...but Death is definitely getting super far away from even being in that genre really

in terms of being thrash, right?

Dam i should've joined on the sesh cause now i got sidetracked and I don't even have time to game b4 work

No, it's okay, bmass.

@RVI ty ty

great album, appreciate the knowledge you've given me

I am a bit perplexed about where lines are drawn for certain genres, but we'll get there

yeah kinda, since thrash is the first one that broke away more from what "rock" is. like i say its kinda the borderline. and (almost) every extreme subgenre followed thrash.

also big reason why Metallica is one of the most important bands of the genre since theyre the first on the thrash metal scene

thrashiness is just one way to break away from rock tho, like you can also have a guy shrieking in the forest over barely discernible noise guitars. its not very thrashy but its not that rock really

or a guy gurgling over extremely slow loud music for 20 minutes

so which metal we doing next king