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Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 3 2007, 04:40 AM

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/wiki/index.php/Death_-_Human_Review

Posted by: swingline Dec 3 2007, 04:55 AM

Great review I love Death and especially this album. Chuck is AMAZING!!! Good Job!

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Dec 3 2007, 01:56 PM

Nice review. You're gonna kill me for this but here is my order of favourites from best to worst. Worst still being incredible by the way. 1. Spiritual Healing 2. Symbolic 3. Sounds of Perseverance 4. Scream Bloody Gore 5. Individual Thought Patterns 6. Human and 7. Leprosy. I was never the biggest fan of Human but it is still an incredible album. I just don't listen to it anywhere near as much as the others. Vacant Planets is my favourite song on the album just for the tapping section and solo

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 3 2007, 03:44 PM

All of Death's albums are still amazing, Spiritual Healing is a fantastic album!

Posted by: VinceG Dec 3 2007, 05:24 PM

Great review Uncreator. Spot on as usual.

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 3 2007, 10:17 PM

Well you convinced me

Posted by: steve25 Dec 4 2007, 01:12 AM

Good review, but not my style of metal.

Posted by: VinceG Dec 4 2007, 01:48 AM

I was wondering about Chuck's brain tumor once. I was joking to myself that he "got" from making the best headbangable riffs ever created. You bang your head so much listening to Death that it causes brain cancer.

















dont hurt me Uncreator

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 4 2007, 02:04 AM

I know you mean no true harm by it, and your a fellow Death Fan, so i cant.

By the way, i want to post this, this video, in all honestly, made me cry so hard i almost died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5dStxI7zk4

Posted by: VinceG Dec 4 2007, 02:12 AM

Wow, never saw that video before. Thanks for posting this. I know how you feel man. I try not to think about his death so much. My only wish was to see Death live but sadly, I was too young to know who Death was.

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 4 2007, 02:14 AM

Yeah same with me, Heard of death when i was 13/14, he died when i was 12

Posted by: VinceG Dec 4 2007, 02:15 AM

I wonder what that dance is called. Looks funny.

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 4 2007, 02:20 AM

Are you reffering to the avatar?

its an inside joke with Me, Andrew, Tony, And MickeM.


By the way, take a look at there avatars

Posted by: VinceG Dec 4 2007, 02:42 AM

No not that. The dance Chuck kept doing in the video. He's bouncing up and down doing some sort of robotic thing with his arm.

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Dec 4 2007, 02:47 AM

He will forever be missed. An inspiration for me of course. There cover of Painkiller was incredible I thought also. One of the best covers I ever heard. The scream at the start

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 4 2007, 04:04 AM

Yeah i noticed that, he kept doing it with what im assuming are his family members.

Posted by: Owen Dec 4 2007, 08:34 PM

Bit disappointed by this actually, I got it and was willing it to be so much better, but I've listened to so much stuff similar to this I felt a bit underwhelmed, like I'd caught on late and missed the main attraction.

Still, RIP Chuck.

Posted by: Toni Suominen Dec 28 2007, 01:01 AM

Great review, Death rules!!

Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 28 2007, 01:18 AM

Nice review, wow 10/10 , ill check some of their stuff, but ive never been fond of Death Metal

Posted by: SLASH91 Dec 28 2007, 01:23 AM

Cause of the vocals, right? I found that the more you listen to vocals like that the more you will aquire a taste for them. Several months ago I couldn't stand any screaming or growling, but now I really love it. Still can't take the sensless yelling that lots of hardcore bands use, though...

Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 28 2007, 02:03 AM

yeah, cause of the vocals. and Guess what, i just checked the link provided by Uncreator to check out the song and i just couldn't stand the vocals, i had to close the window

I see what you mean, but im not sure if i want to get used to them ...

Posted by: SLASH91 Dec 28 2007, 03:39 AM

Thats how I felt at first, I mean they seriously made me want to put a bullet through my head. But I think it really just clicked with me a couple weeks ago when I heard a Nile song. Get used to them dude; your missing out on a ton of awesome music if you don't

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 28 2007, 03:46 AM

I remember when i went through this stage, when i first heard Death metal about 5 or 6 years ago, my first thought was "I WISH I WAS DEAD!!!"

But seriously, after listening to it for awhile, you begin to realize why it is so good, why people love it so much, just give it a try.

Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 28 2007, 03:50 AM

yeah i mean, i know some got really awesome riff and kickass solos but the vocals drive me crazy!! I hope i can get used to it... or how about Instrumental Death Metal

Posted by: fkalich Dec 28 2007, 04:09 AM

I guess I could develop also develop a taste for cat vomit if I worked on it. I know my dog considers it delicious.

maybe its just me, but listening to some guys spout sophomoric lyrics about how depressing life is, in a harsh growl, is not my cup of tea. Perhaps a frontal lobotomy would help me understand.

The guitar of some of these bands can really be decent. I will grant that.

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 28 2007, 04:32 AM

Are you talking about Death Metal or Hardcore?

Posted by: VinceG Dec 28 2007, 04:43 AM

^^ Sounds like someone got confused on whats "hardcore" (trendy music of today) and death metal.

For the people that doesn't like death metal, its really understandable. Most people never liked it at first. Its an extreme form of music. Best thing to do is to try and get used to the vocals by finding a band you like musically. If that never happened then move along to another genre.

Death is actually the easiest band to start out in death metal because Chuck's voice is not really deep like Erik Lindmark (Deeds Of Flesh) or Frank Mullen (Suffocation) or even Corpesgrinder (Cannibal Corpse).

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 28 2007, 04:45 AM

Opeth seems to be the band of choice for people to ease themselves into nowadays, i think thats a good place to start because Mikael Akerfeldt mixes clean vocals as well

Posted by: VinceG Dec 28 2007, 04:47 AM

Yea, I could agree with Opeth. Now that I think about it, Opeth has been getting some fresh fans for the last year or two. I've been seeing them being mentioned more and more on some non metal forums.

Posted by: SLASH91 Dec 28 2007, 02:08 PM

Oh, I thought that hardcore was the stuff where they just scream the entire time. Not in a death metal way, where you can still understand it, or at least I can most of the time; but just senslessly screaming, with no rhyme or reason. Could you please tell me wat genres I have mixed up

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 28 2007, 02:15 PM

What people call "Hardcore" now, with the senseless screaming shouldnt really rightfully be called Hardcore.

The term Hardcore goes back to the late 70's, im gonna say 1976, because thats when Black Flag formed (or atleast i think it is), when bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, and Bad Brains formed to create Hardcore Punk, which later became just "Hardcore".

Thats what Hardcore really is, or atleast to me.

Posted by: VinceG Dec 30 2007, 07:49 AM

Yep, Hardcore Punks rising fame was in the late 70's early 80's. Bands like MDC, Wasted Youth, The Exploited etc. Yes on most things, Hardcore does sound like nonsense yelling but it suites the music right for the angsty Reagan's youth of the 80's. It has that play as fast as you can kind of attitude that prolonged the birth of crossover and thrash.

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Jan 3 2008, 03:10 PM

Enjoy instrumental Death Metal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUuskF7sYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgTS8_F74Xk

Posted by: The Uncreator Jan 3 2008, 04:08 PM

Voice of the soul is too beautiful!

Posted by: VinceG Jan 3 2008, 09:26 PM

Heres an instrumental tech death band. Sleep Terror

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=5102355

Posted by: The Uncreator Jan 3 2008, 10:08 PM

Sleep Terror is good, awesome riffs and some mindblowing solo's!

Posted by: Owen Jan 4 2008, 12:23 AM

Instrumental death metal?

Thats no good!

No!

What we really want is that throat scraping, larynx wrenching, grinding growl from the bowels of hell!

Yes!

So we can cram our selfs into tin can sized spaces and flail our head and arms wildly, so what about the RSI, so what about that litre of Guiness you just drank, so what about the vocalists churning repitoire of satanic screeches! We live for the violence of the pit, the stench of body odour as we slam ourselves together in the wall of death as the music comes crashing down on our very souls!

Or alternatively you could just take a chill pill and listen to some of the blluuuues brother.

Posted by: SLASH91 Jan 4 2008, 12:28 AM

Yeah, instrumental metal does sound kind of boring....

Like those smileys, Owen

Posted by: The Uncreator Jan 4 2008, 12:28 AM

Owen you baffle me

Posted by: Owen Jan 4 2008, 12:33 AM

Glad I did, I had so much fun writing it.

Posted by: VinceG Jan 4 2008, 09:14 AM

haha Owen, you make me laugh and your post sounds very metal.

Horns up to you brother \m/

Posted by: The Uncreator Jan 4 2008, 03:53 PM

Its lacking a few dragons and demons though.