This is not true

Ok, when did Left Hand Path come out? When did Like An Ever Flowing Stream Come out? When did Altars of Madness come out? When did Carnage come out? When did Effigy of the FOrgotten come out? Etc. etc. etc.

It really depends on what one considers "old school" death metal.

One thought line attributes the early work of bands like Death and Obituary in the early 90's..... BUT -

Bands like Possessed and Necrophagia were playing DM back in the mid 80s

And I know Scream Bloody Gore came out in 87, but that is late 80s as I stated above

death was 80s dude

altars was 89 man

"that is late 80s as I stated above"
well obv he didnt mean early 80's...

incubus>

Lol guys I've been jamming all the albums mentioned in this thread for years, im just saying, REAL old school dm is 83-87, the second wave kicked off soon after that which is what most sputnikkers seem to picture as "osdm"... Altars of madness was the first true second wave dm album

And kill, mike browning's incubus > other dm incubus > other incubus

fuck waves wheres the loudblast

human would be considered second wave?

So, you have been kicking out to mainly demo tapes of the bands before their debut LPs came about. Which is no problem, but I really think death metal found it's sound and true form by 1987. First wave before then, I can see it, but I think it really didn't get it's true title 'til the late 80s.

mike brownings incubus? another one of his demos? gota check

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

@steelerected

Album Rating: 4.0

fuck

who is mike borrowings

I would say true to that Viper. Human was a change in the DM format.

Looking back on it, especially as a fan, one would think that all the goodness that was coming from bands like Deicide, Death, MA and others was all over the place, but it wasn't. Even in the early 90's the retail stores (Strawberries, Record Town, Sam Goody) didn't carry those bands. We traded tapes with friends, or bought them out of the back of indie magazines....

Bro tons of full length dm albums were released in the 80s

mike borrowings