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It's funny because Cannibal Corpse is like right at the front of what many people belive is THE most extreme side of metal...but well, Cannibal Corpse is the most successfull of them...they've been overtaking by many, many bands since then. CC may have spawned the brutal Death metal stuff....but that's it.
 
SixesAlltheway said:
It's funny because Cannibal Corpse is like right at the front of what many people belive is THE most extreme side of metal...but well, Cannibal Corpse is the most successfull of them...they've been overtaking by many, many bands since then. CC may have spawned the brutal Death metal stuff....but that's it.
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Grindcore has reached way more extreme levels. CC can be fun, I actually have Tomb of the Mutilated in my archive. But I can't stand the pornogrind, goregrind stuff. Goregrind probably the most extreme genre out there. You can't understand the lyrics, which are even more extreme than stuff CC does, the music is basically consisted of instrument bashing at a rapid pace and album artworks are mostly smashed internal organs and stuff.
 
Yeah, well, Tomb of The Mutilated is a Death Metal classic, as is most of the early CC stuff..... but other bands took inspiration from it and developed upon it into a mix of the genres you see today. Bands likes Carcass and Napalm Death also contributed to this, Carcass' Necrotism: Descanting The Insalubrious, which provides a very clinical approach in many of the songs and the fast and aggressive styler of Napalm Death inspired other bands into just getting even more clinical, even more brutal and heavy....As you see in today's genres of goregrind, deathgrind etc
 
But hey, in the end that is what metal has always been about....outdoing the next band. Look at Slayer for example...if you care to dig deep there's a lot of bands as good as or well, IMO, even better than Slayer....still Slayer kept their image with the war imagery, the satanic stuff (all bogus of course) just to be the most extreme band.it's shock factor nothing more, ..And it's still like that today In a way....be more extreme than the next band...
 
Hmm, I'm not sure that can be said about all kinds of metal. What you said, Sixes, reminds me of a stereotypical view of Metal: all about the extremity and noise.

PS! You do not have to dig deep to find bands that are better than Slayer :P.
 
Saapanael said:
Hmm, I'm not sure that can be said about all kinds of metal. What you said, Sixes, reminds me of a stereotypical view of Metal: all about the extremity and noise.

PS! You do not have to dig deep to find bands that are better than Slayer :p.
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No that's not true. What I said really only makes sense if you look at it from that time...as in.....How did the metal scene look like in the early 80s...I used Slayer as a blueprint of how they looked back in the early 80s and how they managed to stay on top of the masses of other thrash metal bands by having a clear focused image...

Of course since the 80s there's many bands better than Slayer...but AT THE TIME, in the 80s, there were many great thrash bands like Slayer...but perhaps they didn't have the same marketing...so they failed.
 
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Saapanael said:
stereotypical view of Metal: all about the extremity and noise.
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OK, but I would like to point this out...in he early 80s...when extreme metal..like Slayer, Metallica, etc was new..Extremity and Noise WAS a feature that MADE a band! The more raw and metal the better." this is not something I'm making up :D
 
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