Owen wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 3:13 pm My wife who is very much not a death metal person (she's more of a thrash, nwobhm, doom, type fan), heard "Lack of Comprehension" and was immediately pulled in and got very interested in Death. So Death may gateway in more death metal into her diet. I am going to sprinkle in some Napalm Death around and see what happens.

Death rules. I love the early stuff, mid-period is not quite as good, but still pretty great. After that I like some tracks here and there.

Good, good track

penningtron wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:12 am "Do you mean the white guys playing black metal or the black guys playing white metal?" -Faiz

A bit of a stretch but it still makes me laugh.

I keep seeing this thread thinking it's about the other band named Death, who are NC.

This band named Death is not my thing.

Never got into them much in my metal days, but they’re not crap, especially Human.

A friend of mine and I used to watch Telemundo a lot when we were teenagers, mostly for the shapely latinas on the verge of spilling out of their slight dresses. One time we were watching a mundane talk show, and the announcer said “Por favor bienvenido…Death!” They probably played something off of Spiritual Healing, because it was around the time it came out. We thought it was the greatest thing ever.

I have just done a 4.5 album run on youtube because of this thread. Hot dog they were good!

I was playing "Trapped in a Corner" on guitar last night. RIP, Chuck. The universe got fucking robbed.

I can't get past the Muppety vocals and anemic production

Not crap. Only really listen to the first 2 with any regularity, Leprosy in particular which was the first "true" death metal album I heard back in early 89 or so (no, neither early Napalm Death/Carcass nor jurassic Celtic Frost/Possessed stuff counts IMO).

Morbid Angel and Autopsy meant far more to me though as far as US death metal from that era goes and I still like their best albums a lot more than Death though I'd be the first to admit that Death has a stronger, more consistent discography... The albums after Human are just not really my thing even if I can recognize the quality and Spiritual Healing was a massive disappointment upon release and it sounds too transitional today... Human captured what Chuck was going for in that era much better and yes, it's due to the Cynic guys and-when audible-Steve di giorigo.

I also agree with Bernardo regarding the song-structures though I should mention that Scream bloody gore took a different approach with two verse/chorus sections before the breaks and solos; it was on Leprosy (well, bulk of it) that Chuck discovered the formula he would use almost without exceptions afterwards

They had a strange habit of advancing awkwardly on one album only to fully realise what they were doing on the next; consequently I really dig Leprosy, Human and Symbolic and think the rest are a bit of a mess. Interesting, intriguing, but a mess. Barnardo's critique of Spiritual Healing is spot on, IMO.

I often feel the leading lights of the scene generally did a better job of mastering the territory Chuck would first explore; but such is the fate of the innovator (see also Celtic Frost).

But N.C. Easy N.C.

Celtic Frost is forever N.C. even with some lackluster records. One of my all-time favorites off the strength of the first three.