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Atari
Emeritus
January 20th 2024


28081 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I wasn’t aware of that inspiration behind Crystal Mountain… interesting! Bad neighbors are legit one of the worst things in life to deal with

botb
January 20th 2024


19806 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

SYMBOLIC ACTS

Demon of the Fall
January 20th 2024


39064 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Factual information in a Death thread will always be welcome

Interesting

Atari
Emeritus
January 20th 2024


28081 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah tbh Crystal Mountain is twice as good now

Frost15
January 20th 2024


4641 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Crystal Mountain is my fav track of the album and I always had shitty neighbours, so maybe there is some kind of synesthesia thing going on here haha

metalphil
February 20th 2024


1402 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Band literally inspired me to buy a new guitar and start playing again after a very long hiatus. Trying to learn/practice a few of my favorite Death songs now and it's honestly the most fun I've had in ages.

evilford
February 21st 2024


71524 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Neat

Frost15
February 21st 2024


4641 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Neat [2]

Crystal mountain is so fun to play... I just can't do tapping properly man...

DungeonBoy
February 21st 2024


10286 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

That's the only Death song I know how to play from start to finish. I know a ton of Death riffs, but there's something about playing the whole song that feels so good.

metalphil
February 21st 2024


1402 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yea I'm trying to learn Crystal Mountain and I agree it's just so fun to play some of the riffs there

DungeonBoy
February 21st 2024


10286 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

My favorite riff in that song to play is the "All the traps are set" little breakdown part, it feels so good. The solo is also manageable somehow. Takes a little practice and technique but one of the more doable of their discography

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
February 21st 2024


19057 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

wait you guys don't just repeat the symbolic riff until your fingers hurt????????

metalphil
February 22nd 2024


1402 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

lol



I went and looked up that little "breakdown" immediately after the solo in Low Life today. Such a simple yet sick sounding riff.



Getting that guitar tone that Chuck has on the guitar leads has been another challenge altogether though

JohnnyoftheWell
March 27th 2024


64287 Comments


t/t really do be one of those songs that slams a buncha spuriously related riffs against each other but it's all okay because they each repeat just enough to stick and the drums somehow knits the whole thing together

or maybe that's just dm for ya

Demon of the Fall
March 27th 2024


39064 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This makes simultaneously less / more sense than most DM and arguably (is it?) borrows heavily from tech thrash anyway

Maybe that’s why it works? Regardless, it remembers to be fun despite the technical chops and Chuck’s memorable vox / iconic lyrics hold things together at times, even when the instrumentation feels like it’s in danger of collapsing in on itself

Casavir
March 27th 2024


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"arguably (is it?) borrows heavily from tech thrash anyway"



I'd say that's pretty much what it is outright.

ShadowRemains
March 27th 2024


28667 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i haven't listened to this in awhile

i should change that

Casavir
March 27th 2024


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I think the bass work's somewhat overlooked on this given DiGiorgio's presence on the prior two albums, the basslines on Sacred Serenity are excellent.

Demon of the Fall
March 27th 2024


39064 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I didn’t want to rile the genre police Cas

JohnnyoftheWell
March 27th 2024


64287 Comments


Zero Tolerance is far too coherent to be a tech thrash song lol, but yes I do hear this elsewhere



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