have you already listened to the new ulcerate?

nope.

is it bad tech/brutal metal?

to be honest i dont know how to describe it its just ****in awesome, really atmospheric

people say deathspell omega + gorguts + immolation + post-rock + some other bands or something

whats Aborted's best album??

cuz i got their 2001 disc today

How about Korog? They aren't top notch but since you said "anything you guys think has stood above mediocrity".

Best Death Metal albums so far this year (kind of in order):

Ulcerate – Everything is Fire (idk)
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Oracles (technical brutal classical)
Despondency - Revelation IV (Rise of the Nemesis) (technical slamming brutal)
Revolting - Dreadful Pleasures (old school, kinda swedish)
Psoriasis - Lethal Injection (french brutal - kinda like gorod but not as good)
Tribulation - The Horror (old school)
General Surgery - Corpus in Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism (goregrind)
Egemony - Baptism of the Unborn (italian brutal)
Fondlecorpse - Creaturegore (old school goregrind)
Centaurus-A - Side Effects Expected (german technical)
Trepalium - XIII (french jazzy groovy technical)

take ur pick i guess, ulcerate is well above the rest though

IMO Aborted's best was [I]Goremaggedon,[/I] followed by [I]The Archaic Abbatoir [/I]and their recent stuff was kinda lame.

Cocaine: Have you heard the new Obscura? also Hacksaw To The Throat is pretty sick

ill check both out, i havent heard obscura but i remember thinking HTTT were just okay

Wastlands is better than Tear My Eyes Out when it comes to HTTT but they are both damn good

Abominat. No full length or anything...just Myspace them...awesome Suffo worship.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;17154089]I have the oddest urge for relatively modern sounding death metal. Of course there's a catch: I don't mind it sounding disappointingly sweet, but by no means do I want some chug dominated sweep fest. IDK. Just anything you guys think has stood above mediocrity.[/QUOTE]

Ulcerate - Of Fracture And Failure (there's a new one out but I haven't heard it)

Obscura - Cosmogenesis

Hacksaw To The Throat - Wastelands

Gory Blister - Skymorphosis (more of an old school sound however)

no to gory blister, if iw anted to hear a band try and sound like death i'd listen to death

[QUOTE=Cocaine;17154099]nope.

is it bad tech/brutal metal?[/QUOTE]
its like immolation with post-metal influences

listen to the new one its better than the old, not saying the older one is bad

Ulcerate rule.

Get some Nominon, tyler.

Hacksaw To The Throat are amazing!

[quote=Cocaine]Kind of an open-ended request, but can anyone recommend me really dark sounding music, does not have to be metal-based. Looking for stuff with identifiable song structures, meaning traditional frameworks. Maybe something with folk, pop or electronic touches.[/quote]
Die Verbannten Kinder Evas - Dusk and Void Become Alive

And I wouldn't waste my time with Obscura if I were you. You'd definitely like Tribulation though.

i have a craving for something extremely ****ing heavy
halp guise

define heavy?

i dunno how to define it.
http://www.myspace.com/timetoburnband
something like the beginning of "Nayeli"

Look no further than Narjahanam.

Are you just punching your keyboard to make these posts or are these actually real bands?

as real as the matrix or god

All of the above.

Anybody got some metal thats similar to Dio's Holy Diver album? That I don't know also... I'm in the mode for beastly Dio-like vocals.

how about you get more dio albums that might work

i have two of their older albums, one has drem in the name, forgot the other one.

just get heaven and hell and mob rules by black sabbath, some say dehumanizer is worth getting too but im not huge on it.

hmm ill check it out

Best Neurosis album?

panopticon