Because I feel so bad about that Soilwork song, here’s some Deicide to help you forget.
This is “Empowered By Blasphemy” from Deicide’s newest record To Hell With God. Ah, Deicide, so reliable. I love you.
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Because I do love you all so very, very much and want to let you know on this beautiful, false holiday, I’ve prepared a little mix for you to enjoy. I was originally just going to post a Carcass video and be done with it, but that felt a little cheap so I spent the last hour and a half preparing a heart warming Valentine’s Day mix for all my readers.
1. Acid Bath “Paegan Love Song”
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2. Anal Cunt “In My Heart There’s a Star Named After You”
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3. Neaera “Definition of Love”
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4. Pig Destroyer “Girl in the Slayer Jacket”
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5. Network “Love on the Lips of a Whore”
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6. Agents of Oblivion “Dead Girl”
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7. Gwar “Rock N’ Roll Never Felt So Good”
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8. Converge “Heartless”
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9. Pantera “This Love”
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10. The Red Chord “Love on the Concrete”
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11. Carcass “No Love Lost”
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12. Biohazard “Love Denied”
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13. As I Lay Dying “Empty Hearts”
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14. Pro-Pain “Make War (Not Love)”
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15. Slayer “Love To Hate”
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16. Cannibal Corpse “Infinite Misery”
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17. Agoraphobic Nosebleed “The Newlyweds Are Raped”
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18. Unearth “Black Hearts Now Reign”
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19. The Hope Conspiracy “Defiant Hearts”
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20. Morbid Angel “Nothing But Fear”
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21. Emperor “Ensorcelled By Khaos”
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22. Celeste “Il y aura des femmes à remercier et de la chair à embrocher”
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23. Killswitch Engage “My Last Serenade”
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24. Deicide “Till Death Do Us Part”
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25. DMX Crew “You Can’t Hide Your Love (Hidden Love Mix)”
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There you have it! 25 unrelenting tracks of pure Valentine’s Day LOVE.
And in case you want to download the whole thing and listen to it at home, at work, in the car, at the gym, while making love, in jail, on a spaceship, while fighting orcs, or anywhere else you need a Valentine’s Day soundtrack, you can get it here: Valumtime’s Day 2011
Holy shit.
Here’s some totally awesome classic footage of Deicide (then known as Amon) performing “Sacrificial Suicide” on super shitty Florida public access television. And check the killer David Vincent cameo. This is pure Death Metal history, kiddies, and you should pay attention.
For your reference, here’s the album version of the song they’re playing from Deicide’s 1990 self-titled debut.
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Today I learned about a genre of metal called “New Old School Death Metal” or NOSDM. While I think the resurgence of old school style Death Metal is awesome, I’m a little surprised by it. Had it really gone anywhere? I was always of the opinion that since its inception, there have been dudes playing Death Metal the same way. Sure, the bands change and the members of the bands change, but hasn’t there always been a core of old school Death going on somewhere?
Did I miss out on something? Was I too busy listening to Old Old School Death Metal (OOSDM) records to notice?
Did Death Metal change so much that we’re experiencing a revival of the classic form much in the same manner as thrash suddenly became huge again about three years ago? Do we refer to Municipal Waste and Toxic Holocaust as “New Old School Thrash Metal” or NOSTM? Are all these labels really necessary? If we didn’t call these new DM bands NOSDM, but just plain called them Death Metal, would it be so hard to understand? Would it be wrong?
Let’s posit that Death Metal in its traditional form peaked about 1994, to be superseded by the Swedish style that dominated the later 90s and early 00s. (No, nü-metal doesn’t fucking count.) The earliest known uses of the term “Death Metal” were found somewhere around 1984, giving Death Metal a 10 year run. Now, if a style falls out of favor but does not disappear completely, can we really call its resurgence by a new name? Composers wrote Baroque music for 160 years. It’s not like when Baroque first showed up, went through a wave of initial popularity, decreased slightly in public opinion, and then showed up again they called it New Old School Baroque Music (NOSBM), did they?
The whole thing, and really the extreme fragmentation of metal subgenres in general, seems pretty silly to me.
And, because I am such a caring person, I won’t let you go without some examples.
Let’s do a chronological survey of some of my favorite Death Metal, shall we?
1987′s “Beyond the Unholy Grave” – Death
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1987′s “Bleed for the Devil” – Morbid Angel
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1989′s “Sacrificial Suicide” – Deicide
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1990′s “Burden of Evil” – Monstrosity
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1991′s “Jesus Wept” – Suffocation
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1992′s “Hammer Smashed Face” – Cannibal Corpse
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1993′s “Preacher of Sodomy” – Broken Hope
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1994′s “Born Headless” – Cryptopsy
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1995′s “Nothing But Fear” – Morbid Angel
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1996′s “Permanently Disfigured” – Dying Fetus
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1997′s “Save To The Cross” – Deicide
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1998′s “Flame To The Surface” – Cryptopsy
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1999′s “Blowtorch Slaughter” – Cannibal Corpse
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2000′s “Christians To The Lions” – Behemoth
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2001′s “Blind The Vision That Shatters” – Neuraxis
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2002′s “Dead Sea Scroll Deception” – Lock Up
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2003′s “History Is Rotten” – Misery Index
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2004′s “Sensual Sickness” – Decapitated
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2005′s “The Victorious Reign” – Hate Eternal
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2006′s “The Crawl Inside Me Uninvited” – Coldworker
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2007′s “Rebirth In Blood” – Blood Red Throne
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2008′s “Slaughtering The Will To Live” – Bloodbath
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2009′s “Carrion Sculpted Entity” – Cannibal Corpse
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Sorry, for some reason I don’t have any Death Metal from 1988 on my iPod right now. I’ll fix that oversight when I get home tonight.
Now, listen to the bands on an article by Decibel Magazine about NOSDM. It seems to me that besides some basic evolution in the quality of the productions, that Death Metal has been alive an well since at least 1987. So, do we need this new label at all? Can we not just keep calling it Death Metal? Do we need OOSDM, MEOSDM (Mid-Era Old School Death Metal), and NOSDM? What happens when NOSDM becomes Old New Old School Death Metal (ONOSDM)?
For the initiated and uninitiated out there who take the time to read and listen to this, what do you think? Comment away.
