4:50 Hey! I took that picture! LOL - I wonder where did you get it from? It was taken with a crappy disposable Kodak in El Paso, April 08, 1990. I'm not seeking credit or anything like that, I just found it very cool to suddenly see my pic there. \m/
@@SpoderBlitz - it cost me a few bruises to take it, but I'm damn glad I was one of those few weird guys taking pictures in that pre-cellphones era. Thank you for making this video, Chuck deserves way more recognition than he'll ever get, but people like you are what real music needs to live on, so... really, thanks! Cheers!
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@@royalmarine1011 Nah, it initially goes lower then goes way higher once the singer damages their low range too much to use it properly. Take Corey Taylor. His screams on slipknots first album were fairly mid range for most people, his iowa screams were way lower and his vol. 3 screams(once he actually learnt to scream safely) went way higher because it allowed his low range to rest and recover
Definitely vocal damage. This happened with other vocalists like chris barnes and chino moreno. They had deep gutteral vocals and endedup going higher over the years
The Sound of Perseverance, is a truly timeless Masterpiece, ruined and devastated by the lamest, powerless shitty cat-like whining of late-period Chuck Schuldiner.
Unpopular opinion, it is the worst Death album. Not saying it’s bad, but out of all the album’s, it just felt like it lost some juice. The vocals don’t have the same power and emotion in the previous albums, although it’s maybe because Chuck hurt his vocal chords in his previous vocals. Personal favorite album is Leprosy, although Human comes close
@@nerdmysteria1406 I'll agree. An unpopular opinion. I have been a fan since Leprosy. That's the album that turned me onto Death. The sound to me and many others was the masterpiece of Deaths catalogue. Like the one listener replied. Hard to believe it's from 98. But we all have our own opinions.
As great as his vocals were on early albums, nothing will ever top his work on The Sound Of Perseverance to me. No one to this day has done better or more brutal sounding high-pitched growling. I know I've fucked up my throat more than once even trying to get that sound.
I’m glad he took that artistic risk to showcase his higher register. A lot of people don’t know he was a soprano. His vocal range was really something to behold, just another addition to his lyricism and composition skills.
Still their best album in my opinion, musically. There were always metal vocalists that I preferred to Chuck, but the music oh man, and then the lyrics that came later on ^^
The vocals in the sound of perseverance is so fucking killer! Those high fry screams are so hard to do, but Chuck had them down like crazy! Pain Killer cover is truly a banger imo
He still does (wears a Jimi Hendrix style headband nowadays). The dude has always been that way as far as I know. He is a huge nature/recreation marijuana supporter (as was Chuck). I recall seeing some early Sadus merch with that thing on the cover of their first album smoking a doobie.
@@filipnezak2084 nit on this demo version maybe on another bootleg, on this one and the reign of terror demo all the vocals are credited to Kam Lee that was one of the very first growlers that deserve more recognition i guess
Yeah, I'm 90% sure he had no clue there was technique (TBH nobody did back then) and was just screaming as hard as he could. And that really hurt his voice, forcing him to go higher and higher
Chuck is one of the few metal artist to blend deep Lyricism with badass instrumental prowess especially the Humans to Perseverance era, there’ll never be a Chuck Schuldiner one of a kind
On sounds, he followed the chords with his vocals ( which are also higher pitched), whereas on the earlier works he growled over the chords. The first album is my favorite.
I’m not into the higher register that he uses on this album, although I think it works on spirit crusher. Overall his vocals mainly corresponding with the exact cadence of the notes/chords is not my favorite. The scream bloody gore sound of fast , lower tones layered over the top vocals( for the most part) was wicked as hell and more aggressive.
Would love that somebody bring up his pick technique, absolutely flawless, accurate and demolishing alternate picking in phrases were normally anyone would use legato and pull off
Ikr? The first bridge riff in Pull the Plug is a bitch to alternate pick and I was just doing it legato a long time before I actually watched the live video and started crying 😂
Not that unpopular, most people's first favourite album when they get into Death is TSOP (in fact it may be Death's most popular album now, even surpassing Symbolic). It was my favourite at first because I was new to death metal and some of the other albums were too much for me to handle. I'm not sure what my favourite is anymore since it always changes but I think Human is probably their best album (if I were to look at it objectively).
I saw them live on tour when that was released and it was the first album I heard of theirs so it really stuck with me. After hearing their back catalogue it's really a shame he passed away because I loved where they were going with their sound.
Idk why but I always thought high screams sound a lot more brutal than low screams. Probably because it feels closer to someone getting murdered (to me at least). The vocals on Spirit Crusher are amazing.
I think his voice/vocal style peaked at Symbolic tbh. I still like his work on Sound of Perseverance but I feel Symbolic was a perfect balance of his vocals becoming slightly higher pitched but still keeping that classic death metal style to it that he originated.
Death is the only band I can think of that has evolved with each album and each album is a masterpiece. My favorite album go back and forth between "Human" and "Symbolic". Favorite voice is "Human". Least is "Sound of Perseverance". Was his high raspy voice because he couldn't do the lows any more or was it by choice? The intensity is still there. I like like his lower range better.
I Think he transitioned to the high screams, because he was getting bored of the low Death growl. At least thats what i read in the german Wikipedia article on the sound of perseversance
@@Мартин-ч4з the record is almost 24 years old and it still holds up, and stands out especially amongst most of what was coming out of death metal at the time. I think those vocals play a huge part in that.
Sometimes I forget Chuck was also singer because his guitar and we writing skills were so good. Riffs or Symbolic are for me the best written ever, Crystal Mountain has like 4 sick riffs. But as a singer that's impressive how high his vocals were on TSOP.
"What pain will it take" Oh. Well. I can still remember the bite of disappointment when I heard voice tone in the first words in Scavenger of human sorrow, right after I bought the long awaited album on its release day. Good album though. But as musically good as it may be, it will always lack a flavor of the anger you can feel in "Individual", to name only one. Side note: One of the biggest regrets in my life: I missed their concert in Paris (1995), because of a... train strike (no kidding, ha!)
I understand what you mean. I also prefer the old vocals, but I still dig the Sound of Perseverance vocals. In Chuck’s defense, The Sound of Perseverance was supposed to be a Control Denied album, which was supposed to differ from Death’s brutal sound. He wanted to explore his writing and playing style. He knew not everyone would be happy with it. I respect that.
I would have loved to hear TSOP with symbolic vocals. I remember being a bit turned off by TSOP vocals when I got the album and it was shocking when I got the live in LA DVD and heard high pitched Philosopher.
One of the things that makes Death unique is that the change in Chuck's vocals and his styles coincided with the change of styles in each album. For many metal bands, the singer losing the low, harsher end of their voice would compromise the band's sound. No album sounds the same, and his vocals have a lot to do with it.
The florida scene Back in the day was trying to figure out what the hell wat where they doing how to solve and find the sound but death (chuck) always knew from the beggining what was the path all along Maybe there are other bands that improbe over b over time but no other like death
4:50 Hey! I took that picture! LOL - I wonder where did you get it from? It was taken with a crappy disposable Kodak in El Paso, April 08, 1990.
I'm not seeking credit or anything like that, I just found it very cool to suddenly see my pic there.
\m/
I think you do deserve the credit, it's a pretty good photo. And as for how I found it, I just searched "Chuck Schuldiner 1990" on Google.
@@SpoderBlitz - it cost me a few bruises to take it, but I'm damn glad I was one of those few weird guys taking pictures in that pre-cellphones era.
Thank you for making this video, Chuck deserves way more recognition than he'll ever get, but people like you are what real music needs to live on, so... really, thanks!
Cheers!
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I wish I could resurrect chuck schuldiner
same bro, same
Skellital Disasembly. A zombie ritual is required
I'd trade him for Bieber in a heartbeat.
cloning is possible
Maybe it's better for him this way.
The older he goes the higher he sings interesting, gotta love Chuck
That's vocal damage for you
@@demonguysayshi2666 normally works the other way
@@royalmarine1011
Nah, it initially goes lower then goes way higher once the singer damages their low range too much to use it properly. Take Corey Taylor. His screams on slipknots first album were fairly mid range for most people, his iowa screams were way lower and his vol. 3 screams(once he actually learnt to scream safely) went way higher because it allowed his low range to rest and recover
@@demonguysayshi2666 Corey's volume 3 scream was the worst of the 3 lmao
Definitely vocal damage. This happened with other vocalists like chris barnes and chino moreno. They had deep gutteral vocals and endedup going higher over the years
The Sound of Perseverance, is a truly timeless Masterpiece. Im still in awe of it 22 years later.
The sound on it is like no other. Hard to believe it's from 98
The Sound of Perseverance, is a truly timeless Masterpiece, ruined and devastated by the lamest, powerless shitty cat-like whining of late-period Chuck Schuldiner.
@@ДмитроКазанцев ha! Umm? Ok!
Unpopular opinion, it is the worst Death album. Not saying it’s bad, but out of all the album’s, it just felt like it lost some juice. The vocals don’t have the same power and emotion in the previous albums, although it’s maybe because Chuck hurt his vocal chords in his previous vocals. Personal favorite album is Leprosy, although Human comes close
@@nerdmysteria1406 I'll agree. An unpopular opinion. I have been a fan since Leprosy. That's the album that turned me onto Death. The sound to me and many others was the masterpiece of Deaths catalogue. Like the one listener replied. Hard to believe it's from 98. But we all have our own opinions.
Death is still my favourite death metal band. Each album is a masterpiece that has its own charm and atmosphere.
Too!
@lukesfx yes👍
necro ! i like you soung too
@lukesfx so true
Favorite metal band, they transcend death metal. They're better than Slayer for God's sake
I love his vocals during 86-87 , during the scream bloody gore era, my favourite, so fucking brutal
Agree. Thats my fav Death album. Its so gore, brutal and raw.
To me his best vocal faze was on Human and Individual thought patterns. It was the perfect mix of growls and screams.
Agreed
Those two albums are basically the riff style of Sound of Perseverance with the vocals of Spiritual Healing, its perfect imo.
That one and Human have the best vocals to me too. Symbolic is my fav song writing wise
I wished chuck did an album with his clean vocals you hear on some demos . He had a killer metal voice
Control denieds demos have chuck singing clean power metal vocals. Apparently he was also gonna be the backup vocalist while still ply guitar.
Symbolic is such a great album. One of the best in metal.
@Jose Quintanilla id hardly call it weak it was one of the highest rated releases of that year
@Jose Quintanilla no way, that album still has killer tracks. 1000 Eyes, Empty Words, Misanthrope, Crystal Mountain all bangers
@josequintanilla2833wtf? Are you okay?
@josequintanilla2833 Without judgedment? Perennial quest? Zero tolerance? the album is all bangers, what do you mean?
Death covered Judas Priest's Painkiller. I had no idea Chuck could hit that fucking high. Unfuckingreal.
As great as his vocals were on early albums, nothing will ever top his work on The Sound Of Perseverance to me. No one to this day has done better or more brutal sounding high-pitched growling. I know I've fucked up my throat more than once even trying to get that sound.
SPI RIT CRUSSSHEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I’m glad he took that artistic risk to showcase his higher register. A lot of people don’t know he was a soprano. His vocal range was really something to behold, just another addition to his lyricism and composition skills.
@@dinobellstien6342his talking voice was very baritonish to me
I have always loved his 1998 voice, sounds more like a monster to me.
ITP vocals don’t get enough love, blend of the badass vocals from leprosy and spiritual healing with what would come on symbolic
True
Still their best album in my opinion, musically. There were always metal vocalists that I preferred to Chuck, but the music oh man, and then the lyrics that came later on ^^
Plus dat bass doh. 😬
Symbolic is my favorite Death album and his vocals on that are perfection. The change in his vocals for TSoP took a little bit to get used to.
The best song for me is Crystal mountain 🤘💞
They suck ass. Idk why there was such a sudden change
You're right. The first time I heard TSoF sounded a little strange to me, because of the change of voice.
@@igorkasprowicz8721 Misanthrope!
Symbolic the best of them all by far! Period!
The vocals in the sound of perseverance is so fucking killer! Those high fry screams are so hard to do, but Chuck had them down like crazy! Pain Killer cover is truly a banger imo
Would 've been interesting to include his cover of pain killer. It shows how far he can push his voice.
Imo, chuck sounded most legendary in Leprosy actually
straight truth,
yep!
@nils nilsson same here
For me too, and his voice on Spiritual Healing...his new voice and way of singing on last two albums I don't like at all..
Agreed
R.I.P. Chuck. Gone, but never forgotten
Tim Hart HE IS ALIVE, BUT IN CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN WHERE HE IS WAITING TO FIGHT AND WIN AGAINST CHUCK NORRIS WITH A STAND OF HIS HAIR
The older he gets, the better he sounds! Amazing spirit!
Truly 🤘
40 y/o is not old
I think the improving sound quality helped a lot.
@@georgeb9285 The key word is OLDER, not old
His vocals got worse imo
Чак великий музыкант! С детства слушаю его музыку, очень круто! Вечная память!
The voice on Leprosy is second to none, the brutality expressed in music, still my favorite album
Great video. The evolution of his voice is one of my favorite things about this band.
Thank you!
His vocals on "Spiritual healing" are the best he delivered, can't say I like his style on their last album, though
Individual Thought Patterns era Steve looks like a hippie
He still does (wears a Jimi Hendrix style headband nowadays). The dude has always been that way as far as I know. He is a huge nature/recreation marijuana supporter (as was Chuck). I recall seeing some early Sadus merch with that thing on the cover of their first album smoking a doobie.
@@archangelofcoffee922 no he doesnt now. Have you seen that video of him looking like a freakin metal body builder weaty viking
@@archangelofcoffee922 Steve's nickname on his forum was HippieOfDoom 🤘 SADUS and DEATH crush!!!
It wasn't Chuck Schuldiner in vocals in 1984, it was Kam Lee, schuldiner started making vocals in 1985 after lee's departure
Yes, but Chuck actually was on vocals for just one track on that demo. Track is called "Power of Darkness".
@@filipnezak2084 nit on this demo version maybe on another bootleg, on this one and the reign of terror demo all the vocals are credited to Kam Lee that was one of the very first growlers that deserve more recognition i guess
@@l.i.v.v4835 O.K. You're obviously correct. I don't know much about those first Death demos.
@@filipnezak2084 no disrespect to chuck ;), his vocal range is more on the Possessed style
@@l.i.v.v4835 Of course 🤘
Interesting how His voice began had low as hell to high as hell. As if he literally was ascending higher and higher with each album
Yeah, I'm 90% sure he had no clue there was technique (TBH nobody did back then) and was just screaming as hard as he could. And that really hurt his voice, forcing him to go higher and higher
@@demonguysayshi2666 sometimes pain forces one to go higher and higher
@@demonguysayshi2666 It was his choice to do it so. It makes sense because the higher it gets, the more difficult it becomes to sing in any style.
@@demonguysayshi2666
You don't sing Painkiller if your voice is fucked up
Chuck is one of the few metal artist to blend deep Lyricism with badass instrumental prowess especially the Humans to Perseverance era, there’ll never be a Chuck Schuldiner one of a kind
Spiritual healing vocals are absolutely ferocious 🤘
His vocals and guitar work both have perfected a lot.
I love you Chuck
One in a 7billion...
Guitar and vocals brutually nailed it...
A lot of people don't like the Perseverance era vocals but I think that was his prime
"Inflicting wounds with a cross turned dagger" gets me so pumped when I hear those lyrics...
The symbolic vocals are so amazing
He is a genious, he pass away so early....
Giada autieri HE IS NOT DEAD! HE IS IN CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN WAITING TO KILL CHUCK NORRIS WITH A STRAND OF HIS HAIR
Tfw when you realize that riff you wrote sounds just like a death riff you haven't even heard yet
Massive shame we were never able to get more work with his vocal style on Sound of Perseverance. The higher pitched vocals were super unique.
On sounds, he followed the chords with his vocals ( which are also higher pitched), whereas on the earlier works he growled over the chords. The first album is my favorite.
exactly! same \m/
It really was a drastic change in sound. But these high vocals are mean as hell, I don't get why so many people dislike them :/
PTR Koulou Exactly! I love them
I’m not into the higher register that he uses on this album, although I think it works on spirit crusher. Overall his vocals mainly corresponding with the exact cadence of the notes/chords is not my favorite. The scream bloody gore sound of fast , lower tones layered over the top vocals( for the most part) was wicked as hell and more aggressive.
Same. Scream Bloody Gore is my fav Death album.
Would love that somebody bring up his pick technique, absolutely flawless, accurate and demolishing alternate picking in phrases were normally anyone would use legato and pull off
Ikr? The first bridge riff in Pull the Plug is a bitch to alternate pick and I was just doing it legato a long time before I actually watched the live video and started crying 😂
@@jeremybishop1623 same here
Deadass don't alternate pick most death songs, I just downpick them
Literally nobody
Zombies in black ops 2: 5:12
HAAHHAHA THATS SO ACCURATE ITS AMAZING
So zoombies of black ops sound like an ice cubes comercial 🤨🤨....makes sense
i think this is an unpopular opinion but SOP is my favourite death album.
Kobe Wilson makes two of us brother
Not that unpopular, most people's first favourite album when they get into Death is TSOP (in fact it may be Death's most popular album now, even surpassing Symbolic). It was my favourite at first because I was new to death metal and some of the other albums were too much for me to handle. I'm not sure what my favourite is anymore since it always changes but I think Human is probably their best album (if I were to look at it objectively).
That’s actually a popular opinion
I saw them live on tour when that was released and it was the first album I heard of theirs so it really stuck with me. After hearing their back catalogue it's really a shame he passed away because I loved where they were going with their sound.
Spiritual healing for me, despite the muddy production.
Chuck was too good for this world RIP
One of the true great musical losses in the world. He was the Death Metal's Mozart.
Idk why but I always thought high screams sound a lot more brutal than low screams. Probably because it feels closer to someone getting murdered (to me at least). The vocals on Spirit Crusher are amazing.
His voice in Human is brutal. Not my favorite album, but my favorite Chuck's vocals.
I think his voice/vocal style peaked at Symbolic tbh. I still like his work on Sound of Perseverance but I feel Symbolic was a perfect balance of his vocals becoming slightly higher pitched but still keeping that classic death metal style to it that he originated.
I absolutely love the "the sound of perseverance" era 🤘
listening to death and its hard to imagine anybody else vocals in the songs..... chucks voice makes sense for his songs..
madness
That's why listening to Controlled Denied had me wishing for Chuck to stay on as vocalist..
3:04 one of my fav Chuck's screams of all time
Just now noticed that The Sound of Perserverence's logo is the first one not to have the ghoul head on it.
Oooo
That's because Chuck ascended from a Ghoul to a Lich.
Its crazy how much confidence he found in his voice for Leprosy, masterpiece... even though all the albums are masterpieces.
Someone get the dragonballs and resurrect him!!
Chuck preferred the cleaner/less growly vocals and wanted to make music with a regular singer, and I think I prefer his later vocals as well
He did have another band called Control Denied. They released one album in 1999, called The Fragile Art of Existence.
Even to this day he had one of the best guttural vocals ever…
Thanks for using Defensive Personalities for the Spiritual Healing example. Fucking love that song! RIP Chuck Schuldiner 🤘
2:15 Best version of the Zombie Ritual.❤
RIP Chuck. I love you. 💔 along with Layne Staley he was one of my heroes.😢
Death metal doesn't get any better than Human.
This is tough. I do think Leprosy is the most brutal but I love the Symbolic style
Chuck was so awesome. His music and legacy will live forever.
If the Zombie Ritual Demo vocals got into actual album version I would love it even more
The only death metal vocals tha sound genuinely frightening
I feel so empty without you ..... miss you
Dude was all-in with just a single stage guitar!!! That's metal!!!
Death is the only band I can think of that has evolved with each album and each album is a masterpiece. My favorite album go back and forth between "Human" and "Symbolic". Favorite voice is "Human". Least is "Sound of Perseverance". Was his high raspy voice because he couldn't do the lows any more or was it by choice? The intensity is still there. I like like his lower range better.
I Think he transitioned to the high screams, because he was getting bored of the low Death growl.
At least thats what i read in the german Wikipedia article on the sound of perseversance
@@Мартин-ч4з the record is almost 24 years old and it still holds up, and stands out especially amongst most of what was coming out of death metal at the time. I think those vocals play a huge part in that.
Chuck = metal god
In a world of Kungfu, Bruce Lee is the perfect icon of Mixed Martial Arts. So does Chuck Schuldiner in a history of Metal...
#Childee#FoXeS
CHUCK WOULD DESTROY BRUCE LEE IN A FIGHT
@@nickDOTbloc Hahaha what?
All beautiful and all awesome, wish he was still alive...
The voice of the Spiritual healing is as if the demon himself were singing a bestiality of voice that to this day I have not come across any similar
HUMAN era was his prime. Very powerful and deeper tone.
Absolutely loved HUMAN
One just gotta love that Chuck 🤘🏻🖤
Chuck Schuldiner always be the godfather of death metal!
Sometimes I forget Chuck was also singer because his guitar and we writing skills were so good. Riffs or Symbolic are for me the best written ever, Crystal Mountain has like 4 sick riffs.
But as a singer that's impressive how high his vocals were on TSOP.
Luckily i was able buy this demo in the 80s and i listen to this great band today too. May Cuck rest in peace.
Just the Painkiller cover is enough to know that he had an impressive and powerful voice.
RIP Chuck. Your legacy is gold.
O pai do death metal grande Chuck schuldiner🤘🤘👏👏😭
Ele pode ter difundido o estilo mas o pai do DEATH METAL
Se chama *POSSESSED*
O JEFF BECERRA NO BLIZZARD ...já fazia quase o que era o *POSSESSED*
00:38' April 4 2020
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I won't like it so to keep it this way
Death is the master of death metal forever
6:21 is that 'Phantom Of The Opera" Maiden's riff?
It's not, it just uses similar frets (4, 5, 7)
Voice and guitar play evolution of Chuck
Best screams in metal history
1988 was best Chuck voice.
In Chuck we trust, in Death we enjoy
SoP his final form..was awesome.
Death Spiritual Healing is perfection.
You're mostly hearing Kam Lee on the demos
So good.
This is great! Thank you👍
Ok this is the videos I wanted over the years ...84 to 2001 wat super music indeed father of death metal ❤️❤️❤️wish he were here
"What pain will it take"
Oh. Well.
I can still remember the bite of disappointment when I heard voice tone in the first words in Scavenger of human sorrow, right after I bought the long awaited album on its release day.
Good album though. But as musically good as it may be, it will always lack a flavor of the anger you can feel in "Individual", to name only one.
Side note: One of the biggest regrets in my life: I missed their concert in Paris (1995), because of a... train strike (no kidding, ha!)
I understand what you mean. I also prefer the old vocals, but I still dig the Sound of Perseverance vocals. In Chuck’s defense, The Sound of Perseverance was supposed to be a Control Denied album, which was supposed to differ from Death’s brutal sound.
He wanted to explore his writing and playing style. He knew not everyone would be happy with it. I respect that.
Symbolic the best of them all by far! Period!
Imponente e immortale
My favorite is definitely the Leprosy vocals
1986 is so brutal
\,,,/ MUCH RESPECT!!!
I like all his periods, all his ways to sing but I rather 1998 with The Sound of Perseverance.
I would have loved to hear TSOP with symbolic vocals. I remember being a bit turned off by TSOP vocals when I got the album and it was shocking when I got the live in LA DVD and heard high pitched Philosopher.
KING CHUCK 🖤🤘🏻🖤
One of the things that makes Death unique is that the change in Chuck's vocals and his styles coincided with the change of styles in each album. For many metal bands, the singer losing the low, harsher end of their voice would compromise the band's sound. No album sounds the same, and his vocals have a lot to do with it.
The florida scene Back in the day was trying to figure out what the hell wat where they doing how to solve and find the sound but death (chuck) always knew from the beggining what was the path all along
Maybe there are other bands that improbe over b over time but no other like death
Ever heard of Athiest? Sounds like Death but more progressive