Flashmobba
02.03.25 | please and Frank you |
NexCeleris
02.03.25 | Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | nevermore - dead heart in a dead world
gorguts - from wisdom to hate
cannibal corpse - the bleeding
horrendous - ontological mysterium
obliteration - nekropsalms
morbid angel - covenant
autopsy - mental funeral
diabolical masquerade - nightwork
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Dedes
02.03.25 | Dream Unending-Tide Turns Eternal
Clean but cavernous as hell
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AlexKzillion
02.03.25 | never noticed until this morning but dream theater - train of thought |
Jurtz
02.03.25 | SUFFOCATION - PIERCED FROM WITHIN |
KjSwantko
02.03.25 | Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World [2] |
83Bumakis
02.03.25 | Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma (remixed/remastered version) |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | dead heart might be the best produced metal album ever tbh. it sounds good on basically any hardware from dogshit earbuds to full hifi |
YoYoMancuso
02.03.25 | That Ad Nauseam album Nex mentioned is basically the gold standard. Those dudes are unbelievably meticulous about their production quality |
TheSonomaDude
02.03.25 | 5 and 8 have always been my go-to choices, so nice
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse |
JokineAugustus
02.03.25 | Zao - Liberate. That atmosphere has never been replicated on any other metalcore albums I can think of. |
SomeCallMeTim
02.03.25 | Pink by Boris is the correctest answer |
JokineAugustus
02.03.25 | @Hyperion I actually think From Wisdom is their weakest production wise. Erosion would be my pick. |
SomeCallMeTim
02.03.25 | @Jokine 100%. Still my favorite record by them but the mixing is admittedly a low point in comparison to their other records |
AlexKzillion
02.03.25 | slipknot - iowa |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | nah the production on from wisdom is amazing it’s so organic and wide open. the drum kit sounds amazing and the mix is extremely well balanced and uncompressed. Colin marston’s entire production career is trying to make a metal album sound as good as that one. |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | which is ironic because colored sands has one of the worst production jobs I’ve ever heard. |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.03.25 | mayhem - henhouse recordings |
SomeCallMeTim
02.03.25 | "it’s so organic and wide open"
the kick drum sounds like tupperware
also calling Colored Sands the worst you've ever heard is pretty disingenuous and over the top, you know there's hella worse sounds than that |
StormChaser
02.03.25 | I second Nex's rec, by far the best production I've heard in a while
Also pick any Gorguts album all of them are damn fine in the production department |
ShadowRemains
02.03.25 | blood incantation - starspawn
funebrarum - the sleep of morbid dreams
incantation - onward to golgotha
dead congregation - graves of the archangels
malignant altar - realms of exquisite morbidity
faceless burial - speciation
rippikoulu - musta seremonia
electric wizard - come my fanatics.../dopethrone
black sabbath - master of reality
sacramentum - far away from the sun
undergang - indhendet af doden |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | “the kick drum sounds like tupperware”
the kick sounds like what an actual kick drum sounds like.
and it’s not disingenuous at all I think that album is actively ruined by the production job. ive never even listened to the whole thing because I can’t make it more than 2 tracks in without having to turn it off. |
SomeCallMeTim
02.03.25 | no kick drum sounds like that raw but ok |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | agreed to disagree I guess. |
Christbait
02.03.25 | That Gorguts album sounds like shit. Especially when you compare it to Nevermore's Dead Heart. What considerations are being given as to what constitutes "amazing production" and how are arriving at contradictions? If Dead Heart represents the "best produced metal album ever", if that's your basis of comparison, then that Gorguts album shouldn't even be sniffing this list. |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | the criteria is that i like it bozo |
Christbait
02.03.25 | The great music discussion I come to this dogshit site for. |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | wouldn’t be a bad thing if you didnt |
Bazman
02.03.25 | Devin Townsend - Terria |
OwMySnauze
02.03.25 | Periphery I |
NexCeleris
02.03.25 | Wow, this turned into a powder keg. Feels like we're just an F-bomb away from rekindling the 2000s Sput energy.
FWtH sounds fine. Probably wouldn't highlight it as an exemplary prod job, but it's also far from 'sounding like shit'. Agree that Colored Sands wasn't Marston's finest hour. One of the worst ever, though? Tougher Than Nails have set the bar way too high. |
Ocean of Noise
02.03.25 | Anything Dan Swano has ever produced. A master of atmosphere and organic textures |
Hyperion1001
02.03.25 | swanos best work is that diabolical masquerade album i named in my first comment. it’s basically everything you just said.
although he’s gotten lazy recently and just uses the same sample pack for drum replacements on every album. |
Hawks
02.03.25 | Too many to name I'm not even gonna attempt. |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.03.25 | good prod sucks balls |
ShadowRemains
02.03.25 | criteria is pretty simple
1) is not brickwalled to hell
2) fits the musical style
3) drum-kit sounds good
4) all instruments are at least somewhat audible and are well-balanced |
chemicalmarriage
02.03.25 | Nexs knowledge in this genre is second to none from checking his extensive lists and recs, so if it were me I'd take his advice |
NexCeleris
02.03.25 | Don't think this was about dm, which is all I know. Never heard Nevermore. Appreciate the kind words, although Park would chase me off for my vanilla taste if he were around.
Maintain that, of all the extreme metal releases I've heard, Ad Nauseam's III is the one that comes closest to perfection. |
budgie
02.04.25 | i really love the production on remission & melissa |
climactic
02.04.25 | someone needs to expand on the colored sands slander |
Flashmobba
02.04.25 | omg a fight in my thread? awwwwye |
rockarollacola
02.04.25 | Say what you will about the Black Album, but that album has one of the greatest production jobs ever. The snare sound alone gives me a boner. |
chemicalmarriage
02.04.25 | "i really love the production on remission & melissa"
Lmao I feel attacked |
Flashmobba
02.04.25 | colored sands makes me feel like I’m getting roofied and force-fed cocaine at the same time |
climactic
02.04.25 | gotta shout out K ballou for nails-abandon all life, iconic |
SuzyC
02.04.25 | I agree with some of those listed, but if I were to make a list of those in my opinion it would probably be much longer. Hmm, I might actually do this one day. |
budgie
02.04.25 | why come u feel attacked |
chemicalmarriage
02.04.25 | validate me stranger |
Dwap
02.04.25 | Ghost Reveries |
budgie
02.04.25 | i ran out of tapatio halfway thru my sweet potato. this is the most terrible thing that has ever happened to me
this is probably the most terrible thing that has ever happened to anyone |
chemicalmarriage
02.04.25 | Thoughts and prayers |
JokineAugustus
02.05.25 | Extol - Undeceived |
JokineAugustus
02.05.25 | "it’s so organic and wide open"
Erosion fits that description way more
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ToSmokMuzyki
02.05.25 | >i ran out of tapatio halfway thru my sweet potato
skill issue
entirely your fault
go cry in a corner |
budgie
02.05.25 | 😢😢😢😖😖😖😖😖😖😖 |
Flashmobba
02.05.25 | please don’t massacre my thread
digging the nevermore recommendation by the way, exactly the kind of production I’m talking about |
budgie
02.05.25 | whats the best pasta shape im feelin pasta tonight
i havent had rondelles in a while or is it rotelles |
Flashmobba
02.05.25 | budgie pasta |
Galbador
02.05.25 | Tagliatelle |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.05.25 | like every converge record and pretty much anything Kurt Ballou gets his hands on tbh, and agree with the “all gorguts” take too |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.05.25 | And budge eat some manicotti for me |
Flashmobba
02.05.25 | i absolutely despise converge and most metalcore sorry guys |
budgie
02.05.25 | tagliatelle is for sure a tier 1 shape |
StormChaser
02.05.25 | I always thought Kurt Ballou sounds like such a friendly bison |
evilford
02.05.25 | Gorguts - from wisdom to hate |
budgie
02.05.25 | gorguts ive never heard of that pasta shape befo what it look like |
Spec
02.05.25 | Misery Signals - Controller
Strapping Young Lad - Alien |
budgie
02.05.25 | omg its spec !!!!!!!! !!!! |
Scheumke
02.05.25 | Modern rec: Disillusion - Ayam. That Jens Bogren mix is delicious. |
Donchivo
02.05.25 | Best crunchy Guitar sound in Death metal: Bolt Thrower - Mercenary. Soooo thick!! |
budgie
02.05.25 | i love mercenary but thats not a crunchy guitar thats a scooped guitar!!!@!!!!!!!!! important !!!!!! !!!!! |
Donchivo
02.05.25 | Haha no idea what you refer to by scooped? Care to elaborate? |
budgie
02.05.25 | if you look at a parametric EQ with the middle frequencies zeroed out it looks "scooped"
crunchy tone is with lots of mids (think kill em all), scooped tone is no mids (think master of puppets) |
Donchivo
02.05.25 | ahh understand, hmm still this is sooo thick and has many layers. So for me that is what I associated with crunchy, but yeah it is mostly strong on bass and treble |