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For example, this from Quade
"We learned that the bright blue friendly sky was balanced, yin/yang style, by a dark forboding ground. Since the ground snuffed the life it was/is death. Unsafe practices, as a group were termed black death. The exit count used by my 8-way teams and several others was Blue sky/ Black Death. Sport parachuting became Sport Death. While the Black Death thing was an insider thing which translated to Hey yall, lets avoid danger up there it later got adopted and/or banned by folks who did not and do not understand what it means.
So just as goodby means God be with you
Blue sky/black death is a salute to the sky/earth that means something like lovely up there/watch out. "
THere's loads of threads about it.
Is that the one with the bean bag frogs? If so, its not the trophy that counts, its the honour, and the fact that your team is without a doubt the coolest, vibeyest (?), downright nicest group of people in the comp. Which in my mind is what skydiving competitions are all about.Or am I mistaken again?
Is that the one with the bean bag frogs? If so, its not the trophy that counts, its the honour, and the fact that your team is without a doubt the coolest, vibeyest (?), downright nicest group of people in the comp. Which in my mind is what skydiving competitions are all about.Or am I mistaken again?
Actually, that's me quoting directly from Pat Works.
Pat Works, who I saw this weekend at Perris, has been in the sport for over 40 years. If anybody knows anything about the good ol' days and the origins of the phrase, it's him.
The most popular and influential bands in the genre, as well as the most historically significant ones. Not necessarily favorites or the best in the genre, but the ones that need to be talked about first.
At The Gates sprung up from the ashes of the significantly more aggressive Grotesque in 1990, and quickly pioneered their own sound that had some of the terror of the early Grotesque material but a hell of a lot more complicated songwriting and a much more melodic bent. The key distinction between the earlier stuff and the later albums is that the earliest material was written by Alf Svensson, a master of the bizarre with very different goals than the band would eventually move onto.
The early Finnish death metal scene was known for a lot of things, including the use of melody, but not many bands took it as far as Amorphis. Formed in the wake of the breakups of a minor thrash band called Violent Solution and Finnish death metal legends Abhorrence, Amorphis quickly went beyond the primitivism of their earliest material to explore non-standard rhythms, interesting song structures, and a sense of class that most death metal before or after has never been able to emulate. The Karelian Isthmus is sophisticated and doom-laden death metal full of killer melodies and harmonies without ever losing sight of death metal.
Septic Flesh are quite possibly the single most important death metal band to the Hellenic sound, and they are the only one from the original wave to break out of Greece. Even as early as 1991 they were already incorporating a heavy amount of synths into their sound, originally using them as an atmospheric enhancement rather than to carry songs as they would later on. Guitars were focused on an interplay of repetitive atmospheric riffs and gorgeous melodies, with a drum machine keeping the overall sound squarely in line with the rest of the early Greek scene.
No discussion about melodic extreme metal is complete without Dissection, a band who proved to be extremely influential both in death metal and black metal. While the band is nowadays associated more with the Melodic Black Metal sound, their early material including The Somberlain was considered to be within the Death Metal pantheon. This was at a time when melody in extreme metal was only just starting to become more prevalent, and the lines between Melodic Death Metal and Melodic Black Metal were still somewhat blurry.
This was particularly true for DT, whose early demos Trail of Life Decayed and A Moonclad Reflection combined the more frantic nature of technical death/thrash like Atheist with chromatic riffing that their national peers Eucharist and At The Gates were writing at the time. These ideas were further explored on their debut, Skydancer, an early melodic death metal effort that was certainly amateurish in its desire to sound innovative but had a certain regal aspect to it at the time of its release. Gorgeous harmonized riffs, (bad) poetical lyrics and female vocals were still fairly new in 1993 for DM, so it was certainly a very interesting record both then and now.
Hypocrisy is obviously well known nowadays for their very melodic-infused take on Death Metal with sci-fi themes. Yet at their outset they were just another Swedish Death Metal band trying to carve a niche within their national sound (Penetralia and Osculum Obscenum). This changed abruptly with the release of The Fourth Dimension, an album that marked the introduction of sci-fi themes and a new direction.
At its inception, death/doom was a genre that took strongly from Hellhammer and Celtic Frost as evidenced by the early works of Paradise Lost, Sempiternal Deathreign, Delirium, and a mountain of others. However, Katatonia was instrumental in drenching the subgenre with a much more melodic flair. The end result was two albums, Dance of December Souls and Brave Murder Day, that retained the hopeless and bleak nature of the sound while giving it a melodic flair. Regardless of the musical path they later took, both albums remain important staples of this small genre.
Influential and possibly popular bands in their own right, but not trend setters, venue fillers, or legends outside of their niche. As before, this is based as much as possible on objective metrics and not on how much the bands rule.
A Canorous Quintet are known nowadays for serving as a springboard for Fredrik Andersson who went on to drum for Amon Amarth for many years. Yet A Canorous Quintet deserved much more attention for their 90s output, a band that combined fast and rapid percussion with melodic death metal that had a sullen and mournful tone.
Formed in Toyko in 1991 under the name Euthanasia, the closest comparison to early Intestine Baalism is definitely Dismember; long-form tremolo riffs, brutal vocals, and an unrelenting pace are delivered with the characteristic fury of the Swedish, and the use of chainsaw distortion (either an HM2 or a clone) solidifies the comparisons. Unlike the Swedes, however, Intestine Baalism mostly bring in melody on An Anatomy of the Beast by doing entire melodic sections that are distinct from the death metal ones, almost as a sort of macabre verse-chorus song structure in which gorgeous leads and atmospheric breaks take the place of some of the choruses. The way that the band offsets these sections is incredibly well done, and the songwriting is superb; while on paper the whole thing reads as being potentially ineffective, Intestine Baalism brought their best material and made it work.
Over time, a lot of the ratio of In Flames to Dismember would swap, and the melodies would become increasingly saccharine and similar to what some countrymen were doing. Their best material, and most fitting for the scope of this primer, remains the first album and demo.
A sister band to Septic Flesh and one that never obtained the same level of fame, Horrified was nevertheless as essential to the Hellenic sound as Septic Flesh by crafting a very unique and atmospheric take on Death Metal best represented by their early demos/EPs (Prophecy of Gore, Eternal Gore) and their first full length, In the Garden of Unearthly Delights. Lovers of Hellenic Death Metal or those looking to get started would not do themselves a disservice by checking out this band.
Merciless are the greatest Swedish death/thrash band to ever exist. Though they were better known for their insane partying early on in the Swedish scene and were playing too regressive a style when they were active to achieve the popularity of other local innovators, Merciless has in later years achieved cult status as one of the greats.
In spite of the band name, Molested played extremely twisted, unique, and melodic death metal rather than something that could be called brutal death or any of the other genres that come to mind. One of the authors of this article already wrote a longer review of Blod-Draum, so there will not be a full section on them here. In short, Molested released a blistering and sophisticated death metal assault that should appeal to all fans of heavy music willing to give them a proper chance.
If asked what the best intersection of quality and longevity in death metal is, the answer should be easy. Deceased formed in 1984, before death metal even really existed, and has been going strong ever since. Though they started off as a much rougher death/thrash band more akin to Ripping Corpse or a more morbid Rigor Mortis, by their second album Deceased was starting to add in copious amounts of heavy metal influence. By the third, Fearless Undead Machines, the transformation to their current sound was complete.
Some extra notes: frontman King Fowley loves heavy metal so much that he has a side project titled October 31 which he fronts that sounds more or less like Deceased without the crazy drumming and heavier riffage, and Deceased was the first band to ever sign to Relapse Records.
Though The Chasm has never been similar sonically to any of the other bands listed in this article (excepting in their earlier years Cenotaph and, squinting a bit, Deceased), they need to at least be mentioned. Starting off as a unique and bizarre form of nearly progressive death metal in Mexico in 1992 when Daniel Corchado quit Cenotaph, The Chasm quickly developed a signature sound characterized by increasingly long instrumental sections, a ton of heavy metal influence, and insane technical guitar playing. Guitars play different riffs entirely as often as they come together in harmony or unison, and the songwriting has over the years only gotten more complex and interesting.
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