Quick Recommendation - Death Metal?

RE*AC*TOR

Ok, so I'm trying to convince someone that he has the ability to like death metal. I need to find an album that would fit within the death-metal sphere, but also be somewhat accessible to someone who tends to like more obviously melodic music.

pyramuid man

Sepultura?

I think are quite good.

Ph3n0m

Death - Symbolic
Pestilence - Spheres
Carcass - Heartwork
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Opeth - Sill Life


Get any of the above for starters

Rattlehead_ie

Carcass - Heartwork

Your Great, what a great album.

LightofDarkness

Early Soilwork, plus the Black Dahlia Murder seem to get people into it, saying it's the most original thing they;ve ever heard (as though they'd just forgotten about At The Gates completely :rolleyes: ). But definitely Death's Symbolic and SOund of Perseverance too. Just use melodic death to start, there's arse loads of them: Arch Enemy (Try Wages of Sin), Ablaze My Sorrow, Man Must Die(awesome band), Dark Tranquillity, Warbreed, Warblade, In FLames etc., you could try Necrophagist too, they're quite accessible (or The Shattering then too).

Ruaidhri

Think he is looking for something a little more melodic for a beginner. I would suggest some opeth ( deliverance / damnation ? ), possibly some Black Dahlia Murder ( yeah LightofDarkness, they rock! )

Who knows, maybe this dude is a closet death fan :P

The Song Thrush

I'd suggest Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper. They're a melodic band.

pbsuxok1znja4r

Possibly not strictly death metal here, but Faust Again are pretty decent. Generally speaking, I dislike 'death metal', but I find these guys fairly listenable.

Ramses

i think scar symmetry would be good for beginners - very melodic technical death metal.

Quillo

Kalmah - The Black waltz

Nightwish

Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll for melodic thrash.

BloodLust

At the gates-slaughter of the soul

Karl Hungus

Ph3n0m wrote:

Death - Symbolic
Pestilence - Spheres
Carcass - Heartwork
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Opeth - Sill Life


Get any of the above for starters

I don't think you can go wrong with that little lot.

It wasn't me!

I got into Carcass through Symphonies of the Sick, which these days I kinda rate joint tops with Necroticism, so it's a way in. Was hooked from the opening of Reek of Putrefaction.

Pugsley

Most of 'The Haunted' is fairly beginner friendly, as is the later 'Morbid Angel' material, and the Dark Tranquility album 'The Gallery' has to be heard, by everyone, no exceptions, so its as good a place as any to start.

Léan

Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Obituray - Cause Of Death
Possessed - Seven Churches
Suffocation - Human Waste

gline

morbid angel - Gateways To Annihilation, LOL, that is accessible

superconor

Whoracle by In Flames got me into the growl vocals. Or try the live album The Tokyo Showdown.

Drummo

Carcass - Heartwork
&
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

are 2 excellent suggestions. Brilliant!!!

I'd have to suggest Deicide - Deicide. In my opinion, it's the epitome of Death Metal: fast, heavy, hard and satanic but it's got some serious grooves that make it quite accessable.

Manolo Blahnik

Although there's nothing melodic about them, I think Decapitated are a great way to start off in relation to death

ThaMasta

Drummo wrote:

I'd have to suggest Deicide - Deicide. In my opinion, it's the epitome of Death Metal: fast, heavy, hard and satanic but it's got some serious grooves that make it quite accessable.

I 2nd that...get Uncle Glen to scare the **** out of Him/Her

Spoderman

Not that I've anything against Deicide, Morbid Angel & Decapitated....but I don't think they'd be the ones that I'd pick to advertise the more melodic side of Death Metal.

Pretty much most of the bands that seem to fit the bill would be Scandinavian

Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
In Flames - Whoracle / Clayman
The Haunted - Revolver
At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

Have to chuck in (pardon the 'chuck' pun)
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Carcass - Heartwork

kevin_de_big

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Ok, so I'm trying to convince someone that he has the ability to like death metal. I need to find an album that would fit within the death-metal sphere, but also be somewhat accessible to someone who tends to like more obviously melodic music.

well what does he listen to at the moment? if we can find a DM band that play in a relatively similiar vein we can probably acquaint him with the genre...