Album Rating: 4.0

I hate over technical stuff but man the riffs and atmosphere on this thing is so good

Album Rating: 5.0

Its not flashy technicality like First Fragment but it serves a clear songwriting purpose and I absolutely adore that about ulcerate.

Album Rating: 5.0

just listened to this in full again and Dissolved Orders might just be the best song ever made.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, I enjoy that the guitar playing is more chord and arpeggio based and much less about busy runs. I love how bands like this are generally more subtle with their technicality.

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah, dissonant tech is generally much more satisfying (sans a few notable exceptions)… even then, anything with atmo/post vibes is gonna get me going more than the flashy bollocks

Album Rating: 2.5

Tech death is my 3rd least favorite subgenre behind melodeath and power metal. Also Dissolved Orders is easily the best track here yeah.

Album Rating: 4.5

Melodeath owns

Album Rating: 2.5

To each their own. I'd rather eat a bag of Mike Tyson's shit than listen to bands like Omnium Gatherum, Kalmah, Amorphis, etc.

Album Rating: 5.0

lol Why Mike specifically? And I don’t listen to melodeath a ton, but there are some gems in the genre. I can’t get into it when it feels way too clean and I don’t get any of the grit that I want from death metal though.

Album Rating: 4.5

Omnium Gatherum rules, Kalmah's cool, Amorphis has a borderline classic, idk

Album Rating: 2.5

I'm a big fan and he was honestly the first person I thought of lmao. And you hit the nail on the head. Melodeath to me is like non-alcoholic beer. It's death metal without the punch. I don't need flutes, strings, sappy leads, keyboards, cleans, or any of that other dumb crap in my death metal. There are a few bands I like but it's mostly insufferable.

Album Rating: 4.0

the worst are power, groove, djent, thrash & then melodeath…

(plus probably some other shit I forget about)

Album Rating: 5.0

I’ve honestly been getting in to prog and avant thrash quite a bit lately, a little more crossover too. I have a lot of reverence for thrash cause it‘s basically hardcore punk’s first cousin and directly contributed majorly to dm, bm, and grind. I like maybe 2 power metal albums though. And the only groove shit I ever really enjoyed a lot was Pantera, the genre never really drew me in with anything.

Album Rating: 5.0

Thrash rules tho agreed

Album Rating: 2.5

love me some thrash as well

Album Rating: 4.5

"It's death metal without the punch. I don't need flutes, strings, sappy leads, keyboards, cleans, or any of that other dumb crap in my death metal."

quite the opposite for me i feel the barebones "traditional death metal" vibe gets samey and uninteresting after a while and i need more. whether its progressive song structures, emotional lead guitar passages, cleans to make hearing 50 minutes of straight growls at more or less the same tone feel less monotonous, strings/keyboards to add extra atmosphere. i get people aren't necessarily going to it for variety but for me as a listener, the repetitive feeling of "constant brutality" doesn't work very well.

this takes tech death and dissodeath and adds a haunting atmosphere and that for me is the draw.

Album Rating: 5.0

"the worst are power, groove, djent, thrash & then melodeath…"



i love all of these

surprised you didnt mention nu metal lel

Album Rating: 5.0

ok might be a stretch to say i love djent

Everything is awesome.

Well except metalcore.

There’s some metalcore! A lot of shit too. Crunkcore, however, ewwwwww