5th anniversary

Doctor J

http://www.emptywords.org/NEWS.htm

Morf

sadly missed . ..

Ancient1

Hard to believe it's been five years. RIP Chuck.

Karl Hungus

What exactly can one say? Chuck's music made an incredible impact on me, and probably millions of others. His influence is incredible.

Ph3n0m

Karl Hungus wrote:

What exactly can one say? Chuck's music made an incredible impact on me, and probably millions of others. His influence is incredible.

To be honest I often wondered why people held the tribute gigs for Dimebag Darrell - when, in my opinion, Chuck and Death were so much more of an influence then Pantera ever were

dr.bollocko

I dunno man. Pantera defined an incredible sound for a generation. Dimebag's riffs are incredible, they wrote heavy with melodies and released incredible albums. Vulgar? Cowboys? remember? Plus with Dimebag's trademark headstock and range of rock guitars and self tabs, he is definitely the long lost über guitarist here, even moreso than the chuckster.

Doctor J

Trademark headstock? You mean the Dean headstock? That was around long before Dime started playing. He didn't design the ML shape either, he just played it. The masses took to Pantera in a way they never did Death, but then again, Death were far more extreme, less straighforward. Two great bands, two tragic anniversaries.

Ph3n0m

dr.bollocko wrote:

I dunno man. Pantera defined an incredible sound for a generation. Dimebag's riffs are incredible, they wrote heavy with melodies and released incredible albums. Vulgar? Cowboys? remember? Plus with Dimebag's trademark headstock and range of rock guitars and self tabs, he is definitely the long lost über guitarist here, even moreso than the chuckster.

I do remember - but for me, I just think Death put out, overall, far better quality music then Pantera ever did. THis is not a knock on Pantera - still have fond memories meeting them in HMV years ago

Alucard II

why the **** are we comparing? they were both legends in their own right, i dont see why everyone has to pit them against each other. they came from different backgrounds, had different styles, played different music, and influenced different musicians. and they're BOTH sadly missed.
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Pyr0

Doctor J wrote:

The masses took to Pantera in a way they never did Death, but then again, Death were far more extreme, less straighforward. Two great bands, two tragic anniversaries.

Couldn't have put it better

R.I.P Chuck

SouperComputer

Never really listened to Death TBH. I rememeber hearing them a couple of times on the Jk show back in the 90's and thought it was pretty savage (A visit to Chuck's website today confirmed this), but never got any of their albums. Some wicked riffs in there!

I'm adding Death to my Amazon shopping list. What album should I start with folks?

^ How cool does that sound!

It wasn't me!

"The Sound of Perseverance" and "Human" would be my personal votes.

Morf

I love "individual thought patterns" and "human". Check out control denied "the fragile art of existence" too

Pugsley

Chuck will definately be missed, "Voice of the soul" is one of the most moving piece's of music ever written, cant fault the whole "The sound of perseverance" album really, and everything they released had some excellent music behind them.

Doctor J

SouperComputer wrote:

I'm adding Death to my Amazon shopping list. What album should I start with folks?

^ How cool does that sound!

Human is probably the pivotal point in their career. After that things got less brutal, more technical, prior to it the music was more raw and straightfoward but still amazing (think of any band pioneering a different genre).

Start with Human and work from there. Personally, I have Human at the top of the pile with Leprosy, Spiritual Healing (so dreadfully underrated) and Symbolic fighting it out for second-most-listened-to, but you can't really go wrong with any of them tbh.

SouperComputer

Cheers folks, looks like whatever I get I'm on a winner anyway.

Death for Christmas, has a ring to it no?