Metal 101

[sc00ts]

"In all seriousness, I don't want to talk about the "invention" of heavy metal because it was such a gradual transition from rock...but if we're throwing The Who's name around, why not mention The Kinks? Or Golden Earring? Hey, might as well mention the Stones since that's where Tho Who's guitar windmilling was derived from. Why not go back to the '40's when the electric guitar was invented?"

this is essentially how i feel too. genres/styles don't just spring up in a vacuum, it's all built upon something earlier. i think it's useful to try to discern a genres most essential elements, but it's also real easy to lose your way and start looking too far afield to really be relevant.

also, i'll be on the look out for gun, not familiar with them.

[sc00ts]

CROSS BOARD POSTING!

khiijol posted this on Sep 11th, 2005 at 11:20:44 am

death metal 201:

1. formative bands (1984 - 1987)
... a. possessed
... b. master/deathstrike
... c. slaughter
... d. mantas/death
... e. terminal death
... f. savage death
... g. samhain (den)
... h. devastation (il)
... i. morbid angel
... j. warhammer

2. south american (1985 - 1987)
... a. sepultura
... b. vulcano
... c. holocausto
... d. dorsal atlantica
... e. pentagram (chi)
... f. reencarnacion

3. swedish
... a. early (1985 - 1987)
...... i. mefisto
...... ii. obscurity
...... iii. corpse
... b. "mid" period (1988 - 1991)
...... i. nihilist/entombed
...... ii. dismember
...... iii. grotesque
...... iv. grave
...... v. unleashed
...... vi. megaslaughter
... c. melo-death (1993 - )
...... i. at the gates
...... ii. edge of sanity

4. florida (1986 - 1992)
... a. massacre
... b. autopsy
... c. obituary
... d. malevolent creation
... e. atheist
... f. amon/deicide
... g. monstrosity

5. non-swedish scandinavian (1990 - 1993)
... a. funebre
... b. demilich
... c. demigod
... d. darkthrone

6. the netherlands (1988 - 1992)
... a. pestilence
... b. asphyx
... c. korsakov
... d. sempiternal deathreign

7. eastern europe (1987 - 1991)
... a. vader
... b. egzekuthor
... c. slashing death
... d. separator
... e. prosector
... f. merciless death

8. doom/death
... a. winter
... b. skepticism
... c. thergothon
... d. disembowelment
... e. my dying bride
... f. necro schizma

9. "brutal" death metal (1994 - )
... a. suffocation
... b. incantation
... c. cenotaph (mex)
... d. cryptopsy
... e. deeds of flesh
... f. disgorge (mex)

[sc00ts]

mithrandir posted this on Sep 11th, 2005 at 04:40:02 pm

Black Metal 201:
Chapter 1
1)Beginnings First Wave/First Generation approx (80-85/86-ish):
a)Venom
b)Bathory
c)Hellhammer/Celtic Frost
d)Mercyful Fate
e) Germany:
i: Sodom
ii: Destruction
iii: Kreator
f)Possessed
g) lesser knowns/obscruities:
i:Samhain
ii: Voor
iii:Onslaught
iv: NME
v: Exorcist
vi; Bulldozer
vii: Poison
h)maybe not quite BM, but deserve a mention:
Deathstrike/Master
War Cry
old Running Wild
Pentagram (US)
Pile Driver
Warhammer(UK)
Retro Satan
Death SS
Mantas(Death)

Chapter 2 "The Demo Years AKA the Tape trading years!"
Missing Link Black Metal between 1st and 2nd Wave approx (85/86-88/89-ish)
(lot of Black/Death-vice versa type bands, before the subgenres of Black and Death Metal become more distinct by the late 80s/early 90s)
Sarcofago
old Sepultura
Vulcano
old Morbid Angel
Necrovore
Necrophagia
The Unsane
Ripping Corpse
Mayhem (nor)
Death
Minotaur
Protector
Necrodeath
Schizo
Messiah
Coven(US/WA)
Mutilator
Holocausto
Chakal
Mefisto
Obscurity
Darkness
Pentagram(chi)
Incubus
NunSlaughter
Goatlord
Sabbat(Jap)
Slaughter Lord
Morbid
Sacrifice
Slaughter
Necrofago(Bestial War)
Messiah Death
Desecration (US/CA)
Natas
Vomit
Necropolis(US/CA)
Amon(Deicide)
Cabal(Jap)
FCDN Tormentor
Severe Warning
Damien(US)
Legion of Death
Azagthoth(UK)
Wargod
Chrionics(den)
Outrage(ger)
Sacred Death
Xecutioner
Torture(US)
Tempter
Dr Shrinker
Fatal
Nuclear Death
Ravage
Deceased
R.A.V.A.G.E.
Vastator
Anschluss
Necrosis
Necromancer
Necrobutcher
Megathrash
Nuclear Hell
Ritual(Bra)
Kripta
Morthal
Obessos
Leviaethan(Bra)
Slaughterhammer
Preacher
etc. etc...

Chapter 3 "The Dark War Has Just Begun!"
pre-Second Wave or very beginning Second Wave stuff approx (89-91):
1) Western Europe
a) Scandinavia
i:Norway
Mayhem
Thorns
Abhorrent/ThyAbhorrent
ii: Sweden
Grotesque
Treblinka
Abruptum
iii: Finland
Beherit
Unholy
iv: Other Essentials
Bestial Summoning
Ancient Rites
Samael
Necro Schizma
Mordor
2) Eastern Europe
a) Greece
i: Rotting Christ
ii: Varathron
iii: Necromantia
b) Czech
Master's Hammer
Root
Torr
Tudor
c) Others
Tormentor
Mortuary Drape
Monumentum
3)N. America
Blasphemy
Von
Profanatica
Sathanas
4)Other Essentials (S.American, Japan, East Asia, etc)
Sabbat(Jap)
Abhorer
Death Yell
Hadez
Expulser
etc...

[Hell Bent For Karate Mullets]

That's interesting. What board is this from?

[sc00ts]

secret record collector board

[OneEye]

My favorite study is the Demo/tape trading years. I have some old tapes like Death and Necrophagia and Voivod demos. A cool flyer promoting Death's demo. Collecting old shit like that back then was a lot of fun.