Good albums, that pestilence albums slaps, I think obituaries sophomore album is better all around than slowly we rot, especially for beginners, but that's a good album too. Hell yeah
@@miguelangelmiranda8460 that album wasn't meant to be. It was suppose to be for Control denied but the record labled wanted death to make another album which chuck was fed up about
This is such a great series idea. I think you should cover all sorts of metal with this series (black metal, doom, sludge, post-metal), as well as stuff like a post-punk starter pack, shoegaze, proto-punk, country/alt-country, noise/industrial, post-rock, dream pop, hip-hop, grime, house. I'll watch any of your starter pack vids though even if they're genres I know really well.
Andrew Reed If you like this, you should check out the channel deep_cuts. The guy does a few videos like this one, and has a few for some of the genres you listed. Personalities are definitely different. The guy from deep_cuts tends to a bit more serious than Fantano, but still pretty enjoyable.
+Andrew Reed... its Trever! I go to watch fantano per usual, looked down at the comments and yours is the first comment I see. I was like wtf! Hope you see this haha
Doom, sludge, post-metal, Y E S (plus an extra vid for the ones that fit in all 3 that you couldnt quite decide which it was - theres so many like that)
Extreme metal is like alcohol. If your first contact with alcohol is vodka, of course you'll think "jesus christ people DRINK this?" If your first contact with extreme metal is Devourment, of course you'll think "jesus christ people LISTEN to this?" Overall a good starter pack. Decent to strong 7 on this one.
@@nnxva Although it may not sound like it thrash actually started extreme metal with it being much faster and heavier than it's competition around the time and considering that groove metal is basically thrash but groovy(At least Pantera's style) also being much heavier than their influences, therefore maybe being the lighter side of extreme metal pantera counts as thrash created extreme metal basically
My Starter Pack: Morbid Angel - Altar of Madness Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Possessed - Seven Churches Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream Entombed - Left Hand Path Carcass - Necroticism Descanting The Insalubrious Death - Leprosy Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Honestly theres no better band to get into death metal than Bolt Thrower. Their music tends to have more grooves and slower sections compared to your typical death metal and the song writing is generally anthemic and about war opposed to lyrics about gore and satanism which may be off putting to some.
@@MichaelSmith-rn2vk lol Johan is a sweetheart in person. 😁 met him at a Primus show. Haha we nerded out over them😅 And Totally agree that *Bolt Thrower* are another essential band for sure🤘 _The IVth Crusade_ is such a powerful record.
crewmate i actually believe Sony knew no one would watch this movie unironicaly, they knew people would go to see how bad it was, and that was their intention, to make a movie that everyone would watch, even the people who hate it
If that was their intention then it worked, me and my bois saw it yesterday and I confirm that the only other people in the theater were sophisticated memers.
For me it was The Sound of Perseverance by Death and now I'm listening to bands like Morbid Angel, Obituary, Aborted, Sulphur Aeon, TBDM, Exhumed, Cannibal and Cannabis Corpse. It's fucking nuts. I never thought I'd get into death metal, but here I am. I grew up on classic thrash and hip hop and classic rock. I mean damn.
Death Metal Starter Pack: Death - Symbolic Death - Human Death - The Sound of Perseverance Cryptopsy - None So Vile Gorguts - Obscura Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Atheist might be a bit technical and head spinny for a starter pack, but I do agree they are absolutely fantastic, and that album is a classic of techdeath.
Some facts for y'all needle droppers: Possessed album and the first Death album are usually said to be the first death metal albums. Also, one of the guitarists of Possessed went on to became the guitarist of Primus.
metal has sooooooo many subgenres.. thrash metal is usually higher tempo and fast riffs think slayer/metallica. black metal is like a subgenre of thrash i guess. its pretty hard to explain lol
Nathan666 thank you so much, I've been pretty isolated in terms of music as my mother would only allow me to listen to rap for 10 years... so I've been trying to open my choices now that I actually know there is other music
I remember being in an audio production class when I was getting into Death Metal. Teacher had a mic running through computer speakers (no actual sound system), and I almost blew the speakers out by doing a pig squeal. Sorry Mr.Glover, but you know it was sick
I think punk, industrial, and country starter packs could be interesting for a lot of your listeners. As for myself and what I've never been able to get into, maybe a jazz fusion starter pack? Nice picks for this starter pack by the way. I think you covered a good variety of sounds without making it unnecessarily comprehensive.
Symbolic got me started on death metal, 1000 Eyes and Empty Words are some of the powerful songs I've ever heard in the genre (of metal, not just death metal). Chuck Schuldiner should be up with Ozzy as far as guys who have the largest impact on the genre.
Bolt Thrower - Warmaster Death - Scream Bloody Gore, Human Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of The Mutilated Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness, Covenant Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Terrorizer - World Downfall Napalm Death - Scum Obituary - Cause of Death, Slowly We Rot Autopsy - Severed Survival Carcass - Swansong Cancer - Death Shall Rise Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
This is the kind of content I enjoy. Even though I knew every band in the thumb nail, I haven't listened to death metal in almost a year and I used to listen to death metal almost exclusively.
Left Hand Path, Like An Everflowing Stream and Dark Recollections are the 3 Swedeath albums I think anyone looking to see what the subgenre is all about need to hear first. But still, those are barely scratching the surface.
Great picks. Mental Funeral, The Bleeding, and Altars of Madness are definitely some of my all time favorite death metal albums. I would've picked a different Death album though, probably Human.
I really appreciate how you listen to & take death metal seriously just like any other genre you talk about. It’s my favorite genre & most people I know don’t understand it or understand why I like it. Anyway, I just wanted to mention Carcass’s second album Symphonies of Sickness & how big of an influence it is on the more underground side of the genre. It’s very grimy, nasty, & raw but to me it’s their best album, & for a lot of really great bands such as Undergang from Denmark, it was one of their biggest influences. For people who like the darker, nastier, really heavy stuff that album is a good listen.
Another one I'd add on this list is 'Nocturnal' by The Black Dahlia Murder. Extremely melodic, a great entry point for Death Metal, it's what got me into it.
Incantation-Onward to Golgotha Entombed-Left-Hand Path Convulse- A World Without God Dismember-Like An Everflowing Stream Morta Skull- Dying Remains Sentenced-Shadows of the Past
Sark Sar and to continue off of this list: Tension, Sea of Shit, Apeshitter, Limbs, Hirs, Syntax, Ether Binge, Yacopse, Chulo, Crossed Out, Magnum Force, Sordo, pizzahifive, xbrainiax, Chainsaw Squid, etc.. Nails are a bunch of divas, they got mad at a friend who set up a fest because they didnt get their damn pb&j sandwiches right. #boycottnails
This series is soooo good! Please keep doing it because this allows people who have little to zero knowledge of a genre to have a solid starting point for exploring it. I'm a big death metal listener and I still enjoyed this video as hell. Definitely gonna check out every video you'll make of this series, and I hope you'll make some of genres I don't know of! Black Metal would be cool tho
My picks 1.) Suffocation - Pierced From Within 2.) Cryptopsy - None So Vile 3.) Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated 4.) Deicide - Legion 5.) Gorguts - Obscura
agent uranus Fuck yeah dude, those are some solid picks. Especially None So Vile and Obscura. Though, I don't know if that would be appropriate for people just starting out in the genre.
Swap out Tomb Of The Mutilated and Legion for Spawn of Possession's Incurso and Necrophagist's Onset Of Putrifaction and you have the official top 5 tech death albums.
Nail on the head dude. I'm a massive death metal fan, and this has summed up an entry into the genre perfectly. Looking forward to your future suggestions!
It isn’t overtly edgy, it’s an album about serial killers, most of the songs are pretty tasteful on the bleeding considering cannibal corpse’s other subject matter.
Josh Barnacle got you fam gang gang dance - saint dymphna A.R. Kane - 69 Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - 28 Portishead - Third Juana Molina - Un Día random ones that(besides maybe the gang gang dance album) I doubt needle would talk about if he did the vid
I started in 1993 at 13 years old. My starter pack consisted of new releases I found in local shops: Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity Suffocation - Breeding the Spawn Morbid Angel - Covenant Deicide - Legion Death - Individual Thought Patterns Sepultura - Chaos AD I then ordered Death Is Just The Beginning... Vol 3, which opened me up to Dissection. I then shifted more to the black metals.
I got into Death Metal through Melodic Death Metal. So I would say start with Melodic Death Metal first if you aren't use to the more extreme metal sound.
Early In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates are pretty much recommended for anyone who wants to know what MDM is. Also, Carcass's "Heartwork", also listed in this video.
I wouldn't recommend melodic death metal bands to newcomers. Some of them are actually more dissonant and noisy than regular death metal. As a big fan of suffocation, cryptopsy, gorguts, etc I hate most melodic bands. I've never liked the at the gates or in flames style DM. Most early death metal is a better place to start. Bands like Possessed, early sepultura, Death, and Morbid angel serve as really good gateways from thrash bands like metallica and slayer into heavier music.
Some of my personal picks (other than these) would be: Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Cynic - Focus Cryptopsy - None so Vile Obituary - Cause of Death Entombed - Left Hand Path Though it's really hard to pick these, so much excellent DM records were released around the 90s
Best Death Metal Albums of all Time (imo): Cryptopsy - None So Vile Immolation - Close To A World Below Suffocation - Pierced From Within Incantation - Onwards to Golgotha Death - Symbolic/Human/whole discography tbh Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Atheist - Unquestionable Prescence
While I like the list that you made, I feel that some of the selections maybe aren't the best for a "starter pack". I feel that a lot of people in the comments are also recommending albums that aren't good for a newcomer to the genre. For most people, Albums like "The Bleeding" and "Altars of Madness" are gonna be completely unlistenable right off the bat. I think you need to approach DM from the more melodic/riff oriented side. For people new to DM/extreme metal in general I usually recommend Symbolic, Heartwork, Slaughter of the Soul, and Like an Ever Flowing Stream. I also feel like this list was very centered around American death metal and there is so much good European (mostly British/Swedish) death metal. The fact that there are no swedish DM bands on this list is kind of odd to me, especially since I personally found those bands much more approachable than the Florida death metal bands.
Solid starter group, although I'd maybe replace The Bleeding with Obituary's Cause of Death, or even Cryptopsy's None So Vile. Also how about an experimental rock starter pack?
I don't think he does for the most part. Maybe Tool and early Mastodon, but he rips on any band like Periphery and just refrains from commenting on bands like Animals as Leaders.
great picks DEAthony METano, each one representing a different branch of the complex genre which is death metal autopsy for the proto death/doom approach cannibal corpse for standard meat and potatoes as you say death metal carcass for melodeath ( though i think necroticism is an all around better record even if it isnt as representative of melodeath) death of course for the prog/tech approach (no death metal list is complete without death anyway) morbid angel for the early, still heavily thrash influenced death metal definitely an essential the only one i don't agree with so much is possessed, even if they were precursors i think there were better picks : bolt thrower for example for some grinddeath (napalm death couldve been a good pick as well) or some of the scandinavian death metal bands (entombed, dismember, at the gates...) as we've only got american bands at the moment (aside from carcass) and the scandinavian sound is very much an essential part of death metal if you picked 7 churches as a transition between thrash and death, a starting point for getting into death metal, i think reign in blood would've been a better pick. Slayer remains of course a thrash band but nonetheless, no other american thrash band is quite so dark (when compared to overkill, testament, metallica, anthrax... slayer is infinitely more extreme) that way with slayer and morbid angel, you get a full transition from thrash to death, slayer being thrash with a bit of death and morbid a death band with traces of thrash. Still a great vid enjoyed watching it :D i would like to see a starter pack for getting into jazz, grindcore or black metal
I'd agree with @Mr. Magic, and I'd add Refused, the Descendents, older AFI (before Sing the Sorrow), and then Fugazi. I think that'd be a nice start to some of the different sounds in punk. My personal favorites are Minor Threat, 7 Seconds, and Cinderblock though, if you want a more personal addition.
Death is far and away my favourite Death Metal band, though I prefer Individual Thought Patterns. Also, no At The Gates or early In Flames for Melodeath? You could do one for Power Metal, it's pretty simple: Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1. Done.
Death got so ridiculously good when Human came together. The band setup was godlike from there on out. ITP is an incredible release, it sounds so deliciously jazzy and experimental at times. The fretless bass work, Gene on drums, and good grief the riffs and solos. I love Mentally Blind, Overactive Imagination, Nothing Is Everything, Trapped In a Corner, I could go on and on about Death for hours.
Agreed, Human is when they blasted through the "ceiling" of Death Metal and showed everyone that all the different melodies and tempo shifts could sound even more brutal than what everyone else was doing. Also agreed, no At the Gates mention is criminal. I LOVE Carcass and love Heartwork as much as anything, but At the Gates needed to be in there first.
>Suggesting Keeper of the Seven Keys pt.1 is the best Helloween record. >tfw you know that The Heloween EP & Walls of Jericho are actually the best releases Helloween ever did.......
Coke The Ayy Lmao I disagree there, though they're pretty great records. Anyway, as far as Power Metal is concerned, Keeper is certainly the album that created the blueprint used in the following decades, so for a Power Metal list I think it's an essential to include.
Fuck yessssss. Great starter pack! Heartwork was a life-changing album for me. I'm more of a melodeath person from the get go, but Carcass's early grind work all the way to Heartwork was just so fucking awesome for me as a teenager. Carcass and Death are definitely my go-to's with the occasional Morbid Angel in there.
The channel Deep Cuts has made a number of these types of videos already. If you want more videos like this one, go check out his channel. He also does artist discography retrospectives as well, which are all very well done.
Nice video! I remember when I started Death Metal and the bands weren't exactly the same as your "starter pack". I started death metal with 2 main bands at first: Vader (De Profundis) and Malevolent Creation (Stilborn and Will to kill). Then came all the Swedish death bands first with the melodies so easily enjoyable (Entombed, Dismember, At The Gates, Gates of Ishtar, The Haunted although it's more melodeath/thrash than straight death) and US bands (Malevolent Creation and Morbid Angel being the first ones, Dying Fetus!!!! but also very dark bands such as Incantation and Mortician)! Oh and I forget my true love... the band I saw 17 times live yet and the band I will see 17 times 17 times more if I could... Napalm Death!
and not that I want to create problems but I never understood the idolization of Death. I mean they did great DM albums and Chuck was a hell of a guitar player and composer but when they published Human, other bands were doing the same more or less at the same time and everywhere in the world. Let's not forget that at that time these bands weren't as represented as they are today and usually people listened to albums months after their release. Monstrosity got out Imperial Doom, Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick!!!!, Vader - The Ultimate Incantation, Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption, Carcass - Necrotism!!!!, etc etc
Kind of hard to talk about Aggrotech,Dark Electro,Electro-Industrial,Dark Ambient,Noise Ambient, Avant-Garde,Power Electronics,Harsh Noise,Power Noise/Rhythmic Noise ect in 1 video. It`s gonna be a very long video.
While all these bands are great, I still can’t believe Melon didn’t show any love to Obituary. I know so many hardcore kids, myself included, that fell in love with death metal and bands like Obituary, and Gatecreeper. It’s all about the groove with those guys, and their most recent and upcoming albums (Self Titled and Dying of Everything) are just as good as classic albums like Cause of Death. Death metal is alive and well, and there are so many good new bands now too.
Everyone should start and finish with Death. Chuck Schuldiner was always innovating and diversifying their sound. He really pioneered the genre and he changed the band lineup with basically every album because he was so determined. They are the best Death Metal band in my opinion.
It could be argued that Carcass was just as innovative and diverse if not more. To act like Death is the end all be all of death metal is a bit shortsighted imo. There’s tons of great bands and albums from that generation.
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"Morbidly curious about death metal" was clever
Dutchfool MORBID angel!! How'd I miss that!?
Just wanted to say, no joke, I definitely enjoy content like this and I hope you do more
Beta Leftist no
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agreed. love this type of series and i'd particularly love to see videos like this of more metal genres.
Death’s entire discography is a must. Chuck invented multiple sub genres with each album release.
Rip Chuck, we´ll bite the pain and keep the legacy.
You forgot Green Day
MoreCowbellStudios LOL
MoreCowbellStudios my chemical romance is the greatest band of the decade
I hope this is sarcasm
*Blood on the Dance Floor
Clay Norris fucking hilarious amirite
wheres imagine dragons?
true underground death metal!
Fuck that shitty ass band
Cal loves his imagy dragys
My favorite death metal band
Dragons are so metal.
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Obituary - SLowly We Rot
Atheist - Piece Of Time
Asphyx - Last One on Earth
Good albums, that pestilence albums slaps, I think obituaries sophomore album is better all around than slowly we rot, especially for beginners, but that's a good album too. Hell yeah
When I read Death then Pestilence, I thought you were listing the four horsemen of Death Metal.
I love how his metal fans and rap fans never cross paths in the comment section lol
I’m a rap fan (as you can tell by my Kanye pfp)
@@KendrickMegaFan no
@@KendrickMegaFan go listen to REAL talent poser and not ghetto rap music
@@stromboliman8132 ur either 13, wear skull T shirts and hate your parents, or you’re 43, divorced, and live in a trailer park
@@KendrickMegaFan I believe in something called TALENT not autotune and program drums
Honestly I think Death have a flawless discography
Their last one was way too power metal influenced for me, but the rest is lit af
I would agree with this, if sound of perseverance didn't exist
Couldn’t agree more dude. Death is one of those rare bands that never put out a bad album
@@miguelangelmiranda8460 that album wasn't meant to be. It was suppose to be for Control denied but the record labled wanted death to make another album which chuck was fed up about
First three good, everything else after is shit
1:39 Autopsy - Mental Funeral (1991)
3:03 Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding (1994)
5:29 Carcass - Heartwork (1993)
8:11 Death - Symbolic (1995)
10:30 Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989)
13:00 Possessed - Seven Churches (1985)
This is such a great series idea. I think you should cover all sorts of metal with this series (black metal, doom, sludge, post-metal), as well as stuff like a post-punk starter pack, shoegaze, proto-punk, country/alt-country, noise/industrial, post-rock, dream pop, hip-hop, grime, house. I'll watch any of your starter pack vids though even if they're genres I know really well.
Andrew Reed If you like this, you should check out the channel deep_cuts. The guy does a few videos like this one, and has a few for some of the genres you listed. Personalities are definitely different. The guy from deep_cuts tends to a bit more serious than Fantano, but still pretty enjoyable.
Andrew Reed noise/industrial and post-punk would be amazing!
+Tyler Baker I was just going to suggest deep_cuts.
+Andrew Reed... its Trever! I go to watch fantano per usual, looked down at the comments and yours is the first comment I see. I was like wtf! Hope you see this haha
Doom, sludge, post-metal, Y E S (plus an extra vid for the ones that fit in all 3 that you couldnt quite decide which it was - theres so many like that)
Extreme metal is like alcohol.
If your first contact with alcohol is vodka, of course you'll think "jesus christ people DRINK this?"
If your first contact with extreme metal is Devourment, of course you'll think "jesus christ people LISTEN to this?"
Overall a good starter pack. Decent to strong 7 on this one.
that naked dude album tho
@@PubeHairForestFire Yes.
Is it weird that my introduction into extreme metal is(Other than Pantera and maybe Nu-Metal) Havohej? and I liked extreme metal then?
@@tonypepporoni1271 pantera isnt extreme metal
@@nnxva Although it may not sound like it thrash actually started extreme metal with it being much faster and heavier than it's competition around the time and considering that groove metal is basically thrash but groovy(At least Pantera's style) also being much heavier than their influences, therefore maybe being the lighter side of extreme metal pantera counts as thrash created extreme metal basically
this series belongs on theneedledrop tbh
he should have answered "oh shit, I'm sorry"
Especially since they're such good size and all
@@Laceye91 my daddy taught me
theneedledrop is for reviews and top 10s. Not random videos about muisic.
My Starter Pack:
Morbid Angel - Altar of Madness
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Possessed - Seven Churches
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Carcass - Necroticism Descanting The Insalubrious
Death - Leprosy
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
rafaeldefault what about Malevolent Creation Retribution and Deicide self title album
I love both. but i dont think they are entry albums for the genre.
vader
yes consuming impulse!!!!
Where is SUFFOCATION - Effigy Of The Forgotten
Honestly theres no better band to get into death metal than Bolt Thrower. Their music tends to have more grooves and slower sections compared to your typical death metal and the song writing is generally anthemic and about war opposed to lyrics about gore and satanism which may be off putting to some.
2 years late, Bolt Thrower is THE best band of all time
Amon Amarth? I guess they're more melodic death metal but still, discovered them through some power metal bands and haven't looked back
@@MichaelSmith-rn2vk lol Johan is a sweetheart in person. 😁 met him at a Primus show. Haha we nerded out over them😅
And Totally agree that *Bolt Thrower* are another essential band for sure🤘 _The IVth Crusade_ is such a powerful record.
@@seriousbismuth2173 I would love to see them live someday! Sucks when you live in America though lol
If gore and satanism ain't your jam neither is death metal, largely
Review the emoji movie soundtrack
I expect a ByeByeMan effect on this. People will make it a success because of all the fuzz
crewmate i actually believe Sony knew no one would watch this movie unironicaly, they knew people would go to see how bad it was, and that was their intention, to make a movie that everyone would watch, even the people who hate it
If that was their intention then it worked, me and my bois saw it yesterday and I confirm that the only other people in the theater were sophisticated memers.
Dana Lewis Berry "sophisticated" is a strong word, buddy.
"Everything is -awesome- neaaatoooo!"
I'd say Left Hand Path by Entombed is a great starting place as well, that was one of the albums that convinced me I liked death metal.
Dong Dong Will Never Die Love the pfp, wearing leviathan right now
For me it was The Sound of Perseverance by Death and now I'm listening to bands like Morbid Angel, Obituary, Aborted, Sulphur Aeon, TBDM, Exhumed, Cannibal and Cannabis Corpse. It's fucking nuts. I never thought I'd get into death metal, but here I am. I grew up on classic thrash and hip hop and classic rock. I mean damn.
Entombed are awesome. They should be on some list somewhere for sure.
Fuck this album hits hard now without L.G
Definitely
Death Metal Starter Pack:
Death - Symbolic
Death - Human
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Gorguts - Obscura
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Atheist might be a bit technical and head spinny for a starter pack, but I do agree they are absolutely fantastic, and that album is a classic of techdeath.
Cool you’re from RYM too? Lololololol
add some bolt thrower and gojira and im in
the worst death albums nice
@@nico-us8ji y r they the wrst
gregorian chants starter pack
how about Death Metal + Gregorian chants
diSEMBOWELMENT - Your Prophetic Throne of Ivory
Hercules Brofister thank you for melting my brain sir
I don't mean to dwell, but I cant help myself....when I feel the vibe, and taste a memory of a time in life when years seemed to stand still.
I think Death's whole discography is probably a really good starter pack for people who want to start listening death metal.
I like this new starter pack thingy. Good work melon boi
Melon Starter Pack:
Watermelon
Canteloupe
Anthony Fantano
Honeydew
lemon
thicc vegan smoothies
I would really like to see a thrash metal and hardcore punk starter pack.
DaCaptn1 thrash yes! That would be wonderful
done
Well half of it.
Thrash
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
Artillery - By Inheritance
...
You're welcome
chito No Sepultura?
Chuck Schuldiner is daddy
Was*
@@zepeabutftw Why are you hurting me this way
@@troloosauhund8747 because it's all a dream. Death wasn't a band, just a figment of your imagination. Just let it go man
man. Such a shame he's not here anymore.
@Autistic Dolphin54 ..thanks gus.
Some facts for y'all needle droppers: Possessed album and the first Death album are usually said to be the first death metal albums. Also, one of the guitarists of Possessed went on to became the guitarist of Primus.
Jazz music starter pack
Dimension Omega lol kidding
I dont think you could have one jazz starter pack youd need it broken up into bebop, hardbop, fusion, free jazz, ect
dunno about that, some things straddle genres too much
liam clarke What kind?
Would be a lot easier if you specified like instead of just plain jazz maybe free jazz or swing or jazz fusion
Not a meme comment. Thanks melon for recommending some good shit mane.
Do a black metal video.
thrash metal too!
Daniel Hernandez2 you don't have to, but can you explain the differences
metal has sooooooo many subgenres.. thrash metal is usually higher tempo and fast riffs think slayer/metallica. black metal is like a subgenre of thrash i guess. its pretty hard to explain lol
black metal is usually more atmospheric/ominous (a "darker" sound i guess)... little to no song structure
Nathan666 thank you so much, I've been pretty isolated in terms of music as my mother would only allow me to listen to rap for 10 years... so I've been trying to open my choices now that I actually know there is other music
I remember being in an audio production class when I was getting into Death Metal.
Teacher had a mic running through computer speakers (no actual sound system), and I almost blew the speakers out by doing a pig squeal.
Sorry Mr.Glover, but you know it was sick
Lithuanian throat singing starter pack
Mongolian throat singing is definitely higher up
Tibetan Monk Chant Starter Pack
They don't do that in Lithuania though, that's Mongolia.
The Lithuanian kind is super underground
do a melon starter pack where you recommend some melons to people who aren't familiar to the fruit
I think punk, industrial, and country starter packs could be interesting for a lot of your listeners. As for myself and what I've never been able to get into, maybe a jazz fusion starter pack?
Nice picks for this starter pack by the way. I think you covered a good variety of sounds without making it unnecessarily comprehensive.
Malkav65
for jazz fusion look up
electric octopus
Soft machine
Mahavishnu orchestra
Etc
Symbolic got me started on death metal, 1000 Eyes and Empty Words are some of the powerful songs I've ever heard in the genre (of metal, not just death metal). Chuck Schuldiner should be up with Ozzy as far as guys who have the largest impact on the genre.
Bolt Thrower - Warmaster
Death - Scream Bloody Gore, Human
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of The Mutilated
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness, Covenant
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Napalm Death - Scum
Obituary - Cause of Death, Slowly We Rot
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Carcass - Swansong
Cancer - Death Shall Rise
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
This is the kind of content I enjoy. Even though I knew every band in the thumb nail, I haven't listened to death metal in almost a year and I used to listen to death metal almost exclusively.
No Swedish death metal? I think Entombed, Dismember or Unleashed are a good starter.
Left Hand Path, Like An Everflowing Stream and Dark Recollections are the 3 Swedeath albums I think anyone looking to see what the subgenre is all about need to hear first. But still, those are barely scratching the surface.
Yes!! Left Hand Path was one of my first fav albums in this genre :)
Yeah Entombed is a good starter band I think
@@ScoopMeisterGeneral and Where No Life Dwells too!
INTO THE GRAVE TOO MAN C’MON
Great picks. Mental Funeral, The Bleeding, and Altars of Madness are definitely some of my all time favorite death metal albums. I would've picked a different Death album though, probably Human.
I really appreciate how you listen to & take death metal seriously just like any other genre you talk about. It’s my favorite genre & most people I know don’t understand it or understand why I like it. Anyway, I just wanted to mention Carcass’s second album Symphonies of Sickness & how big of an influence it is on the more underground side of the genre. It’s very grimy, nasty, & raw but to me it’s their best album, & for a lot of really great bands such as Undergang from Denmark, it was one of their biggest influences. For people who like the darker, nastier, really heavy stuff that album is a good listen.
Another one I'd add on this list is 'Nocturnal' by The Black Dahlia Murder.
Extremely melodic, a great entry point for Death Metal, it's what got me into it.
Death is one of my favorite bands of all time. Both their traditional gory DM and later prog-Death albums are absolutely fantastic.
Incantation-Onward to Golgotha
Entombed-Left-Hand Path
Convulse- A World Without God
Dismember-Like An Everflowing Stream
Morta Skull- Dying Remains
Sentenced-Shadows of the Past
Great though they are, I probably wouldn't put Incantation on a 'starter pack' list.
Upvote for Convulse and Morta Skull
FUCK YESSS! Now we need a grindcore or maybe a thrash starter pack. love hearing you talk about metal, melon
Andrew Louis Hell yea!!! Thrash ftw!!! Fuck grindcore sorry but that is not my genre
i said the same thing until i heard nails. nails are fucking phenomenal. now i love grindcore :)
Nails is great. And nate, you should check out some more powerviolence/grindcore acts like Ground, Sex Prisoner, Gets Worse, Joy, or Weekend Nachos ;)
Sark Sar and to continue off of this list: Tension, Sea of Shit, Apeshitter, Limbs, Hirs, Syntax, Ether Binge, Yacopse, Chulo, Crossed Out, Magnum Force, Sordo, pizzahifive, xbrainiax, Chainsaw Squid, etc.. Nails are a bunch of divas, they got mad at a friend who set up a fest because they didnt get their damn pb&j sandwiches right. #boycottnails
Idk anything that sounds like Cattle Decap is nails on a chalkboard for me
This series is soooo good! Please keep doing it because this allows people who have little to zero knowledge of a genre to have a solid starting point for exploring it. I'm a big death metal listener and I still enjoyed this video as hell. Definitely gonna check out every video you'll make of this series, and I hope you'll make some of genres I don't know of!
Black Metal would be cool tho
My picks
1.) Suffocation - Pierced From Within
2.) Cryptopsy - None So Vile
3.) Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
4.) Deicide - Legion
5.) Gorguts - Obscura
agent uranus Fuck yeah dude, those are some solid picks. Especially None So Vile and Obscura. Though, I don't know if that would be appropriate for people just starting out in the genre.
Swap out Tomb Of The Mutilated and Legion for Spawn of Possession's Incurso and Necrophagist's Onset Of Putrifaction and you have the official top 5 tech death albums.
I think deicide self titled is a better starter album
Top 3 picks are spot on, especially Suffocation and Cannibal Corpse.
agent uranus A lot of people say Effigy is their best but Pierced From Within is their best to me.
Nail on the head dude. I'm a massive death metal fan, and this has summed up an entry into the genre perfectly. Looking forward to your future suggestions!
Autopsy - Melon Funeral
Xxxtentacion is death metal correct?
lol
Joey Timlin is just a joke bruh
oh... i feel autistic
i'm autistic and I knew this was a joke right off the fucking bat!
wow your cool
Cannibal corpse album: There’s a song in here called “fucked with a knife” exact same album: “it’s not overtly edgy”
Thing is if you look at their other stuff or other bands like them... it gets so much worse
They go a lil too far in my opinion the artwork of butcherd for example makes me want to avoid them even tho i like their music soundwise
It isn’t overtly edgy, it’s an album about serial killers, most of the songs are pretty tasteful on the bleeding considering cannibal corpse’s other subject matter.
Thank you for doing this. More people need to give this genre a chance. It has so much to offer.
Sound cloud rapper starter pack
Ian Vanya all you need is djstankbooty soundcloud.com/ymadotexe
politikz
got u ;) soundcloud.com/natevera
First get a lobotomy
need that experimental pop starter pack
BLUEBERRY
BOAT
Josh Barnacle got you fam
gang gang dance - saint dymphna
A.R. Kane - 69
Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - 28
Portishead - Third
Juana Molina - Un Día
random ones that(besides maybe the gang gang dance album) I doubt needle would talk about if he did the vid
I started in 1993 at 13 years old. My starter pack consisted of new releases I found in local shops:
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Suffocation - Breeding the Spawn
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Deicide - Legion
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Sepultura - Chaos AD
I then ordered Death Is Just The Beginning... Vol 3, which opened me up to Dissection. I then shifted more to the black metals.
I got into Death Metal through Melodic Death Metal. So I would say start with Melodic Death Metal first if you aren't use to the more extreme metal sound.
Or you can also start with Thrash Metal.
Early In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates are pretty much recommended for anyone who wants to know what MDM is. Also, Carcass's "Heartwork", also listed in this video.
The Black Dahlia Murder was my gateway
this is exactly what i did. been saying this is the best way to get into death metal!!
I wouldn't recommend melodic death metal bands to newcomers. Some of them are actually more dissonant and noisy than regular death metal. As a big fan of suffocation, cryptopsy, gorguts, etc I hate most melodic bands. I've never liked the at the gates or in flames style DM. Most early death metal is a better place to start. Bands like Possessed, early sepultura, Death, and Morbid angel serve as really good gateways from thrash bands like metallica and slayer into heavier music.
Some of my personal picks (other than these) would be:
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Cynic - Focus
Cryptopsy - None so Vile
Obituary - Cause of Death
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Though it's really hard to pick these, so much excellent DM records were released around the 90s
White on yellow background.
Sean Pritchard A crime against humanity for sure.
Isn't this Anthony's whole brand? White on pale yellow?
Best Death Metal Albums of all Time (imo):
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Immolation - Close To A World Below
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Incantation - Onwards to Golgotha
Death - Symbolic/Human/whole discography tbh
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Atheist - Unquestionable Prescence
Needs some bolt thrower my friend
Agree but None So Vile and Cryptopsy in general is really brutal to start out with if you take that to consideration
@@lambsauce9404 I don't think he meant albums new to death metal should check out.
Morbid angel is what got me into death metal. Love that band.
Never thought that I would see Fantano doing a Death Metal video, im just so happy dude
While I like the list that you made, I feel that some of the selections maybe aren't the best for a "starter pack". I feel that a lot of people in the comments are also recommending albums that aren't good for a newcomer to the genre. For most people, Albums like "The Bleeding" and "Altars of Madness" are gonna be completely unlistenable right off the bat. I think you need to approach DM from the more melodic/riff oriented side. For people new to DM/extreme metal in general I usually recommend Symbolic, Heartwork, Slaughter of the Soul, and Like an Ever Flowing Stream. I also feel like this list was very centered around American death metal and there is so much good European (mostly British/Swedish) death metal. The fact that there are no swedish DM bands on this list is kind of odd to me, especially since I personally found those bands much more approachable than the Florida death metal bands.
You definitely have to do a Punk starter pack since you seem to have a lot of good knowledge on the genre.
Solid starter group, although I'd maybe replace The Bleeding with Obituary's Cause of Death, or even Cryptopsy's None So Vile.
Also how about an experimental rock starter pack?
I think None so vile is probably a little too dense to be a starter band.
ozthesoundchaser id replace it with Suffocations Effigy of Forgotten
Unquestionable Presence by Atheist.
Left hand path anyone?
FINALLY melon makes a vid about death metal. Great list too for starters
Can't forget Bolt Thrower! Good list though man
Bolt throwers first few albums go hard man, great band
I hope you keep doing these starter pack videos 🙏🏻 they’ve helped me discover so much more music than I already would’ve
Death Melon
Great vid Anthony! How about a jazz starter pack?
You should do one on Prog metal or Underground Hip Hop
BenBam dream theater, mastodon, Trivium boom done
Does Fantano even like prog metal?
I don't think he does for the most part. Maybe Tool and early Mastodon, but he rips on any band like Periphery and just refrains from commenting on bands like Animals as Leaders.
CStubbsSubs trivium? The fuck lmao
great picks DEAthony METano, each one representing a different branch of the complex genre which is death metal
autopsy for the proto death/doom approach
cannibal corpse for standard meat and potatoes as you say death metal
carcass for melodeath ( though i think necroticism is an all around better record even if it isnt as representative of melodeath)
death of course for the prog/tech approach (no death metal list is complete without death anyway)
morbid angel for the early, still heavily thrash influenced death metal definitely an essential
the only one i don't agree with so much is possessed, even if they were precursors i think there were better picks : bolt thrower for example for some grinddeath (napalm death couldve been a good pick as well) or some of the scandinavian death metal bands (entombed, dismember, at the gates...) as we've only got american bands at the moment (aside from carcass) and the scandinavian sound is very much an essential part of death metal
if you picked 7 churches as a transition between thrash and death, a starting point for getting into death metal, i think reign in blood would've been a better pick. Slayer remains of course a thrash band but nonetheless, no other american thrash band is quite so dark (when compared to overkill, testament, metallica, anthrax... slayer is infinitely more extreme) that way with slayer and morbid angel, you get a full transition from thrash to death, slayer being thrash with a bit of death and morbid a death band with traces of thrash.
Still a great vid enjoyed watching it :D i would like to see a starter pack for getting into jazz, grindcore or black metal
Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness is probably the best death metal album
It's a fuckin masterpiece.
Treys guitar playing is literally unreal. Definitely my number 1
Now I prefer Formulas Fatal to the Flesh lol
Fuck yeah dude.
Mankind’s highest achievement
cal chuchesta starter pack
80's New wave starter pack, British punk starter pack and experimental electronic starter pack 😎
vaporware starter pack next
thanks babe
Glad you picked the BEST Cannibal Corse album
Death is the best Death Metal band, there's really no better Death Metal band. Symbolic is the best Death Metal album imo.
Nate Landherr Human album of death
I rarely find a band in the genre that even comes close for me.
Symbolic is a great album, but my favorite death metal album is twilight of the thunder god.
@@Top10Dylan That's melo-death to be fair but still great album
@@alexconnor3368 so is symbolic tho.
Could you do a punk starter pack, really only know The Ramones and Sex Pistols
If you like them I'd check out buzzcocks and The Clash :)
why can't you just google "best punk bands" or some shit. ps dead kennedys are one of the best
I'd agree with @Mr. Magic, and I'd add Refused, the Descendents, older AFI (before Sing the Sorrow), and then Fugazi. I think that'd be a nice start to some of the different sounds in punk. My personal favorites are Minor Threat, 7 Seconds, and Cinderblock though, if you want a more personal addition.
Bad Religion too
knightkoala suicidal tendencies and municipal waste if you're into metal
Buckethead Worst to Best. Get on it Fantoin
Death is far and away my favourite Death Metal band, though I prefer Individual Thought Patterns. Also, no At The Gates or early In Flames for Melodeath?
You could do one for Power Metal, it's pretty simple:
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1.
Done.
Death got so ridiculously good when Human came together. The band setup was godlike from there on out. ITP is an incredible release, it sounds so deliciously jazzy and experimental at times. The fretless bass work, Gene on drums, and good grief the riffs and solos. I love Mentally Blind, Overactive Imagination, Nothing Is Everything, Trapped In a Corner, I could go on and on about Death for hours.
Agreed, Human is when they blasted through the "ceiling" of Death Metal and showed everyone that all the different melodies and tempo shifts could sound even more brutal than what everyone else was doing.
Also agreed, no At the Gates mention is criminal. I LOVE Carcass and love Heartwork as much as anything, but At the Gates needed to be in there first.
>Suggesting Keeper of the Seven Keys pt.1 is the best Helloween record.
>tfw you know that The Heloween EP & Walls of Jericho are actually the best releases Helloween ever did.......
Thanks man for the recommendation.
Coke The Ayy Lmao I disagree there, though they're pretty great records. Anyway, as far as Power Metal is concerned, Keeper is certainly the album that created the blueprint used in the following decades, so for a Power Metal list I think it's an essential to include.
Even if i didn't really care for this specific Starter Pack i think the idea is absolutely great. Please do more.
Grindcore starter park would be amazing dude, love getting recommendations from you
Ah yes, the genre with the brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Drumms, the EYEUEYEUEYEUEY Vocals and 7 second songs. That would be a great list
Solid list. I'd add Obituary "Cause Of Death" for its groove and Entombed "Left Hand Path" for its trademark guitar sound.
Do one with black metal solo bands! So many great ones
Roak Brownmiller
Thats not the same thing.
Roak Brownmiller Thanks for the info! I'll look into that. I'm curious what his picks would be
Black metal is not for sharing.
Marduk and Darkthrone. that is all
Black Metal or Doom Metal starter pack?
PHD x MANIAC Doom metal is very easy to get into. Its not loud, fast or distorted.
You obviously haven't listened to funeral and drone doom
a lot of doom combines sludge and growled vocals
Doom is not too distorted? Okay, keep believing that mate.
Thanks for the help everyone!
Glad you mentioned Death any of their albums are great!!
Fuck yessssss. Great starter pack! Heartwork was a life-changing album for me. I'm more of a melodeath person from the get go, but Carcass's early grind work all the way to Heartwork was just so fucking awesome for me as a teenager. Carcass and Death are definitely my go-to's with the occasional Morbid Angel in there.
This is a great move, especially starting with death metal. Shoegaze next please.
The channel Deep Cuts has made a number of these types of videos already. If you want more videos like this one, go check out his channel. He also does artist discography retrospectives as well, which are all very well done.
he's made videos just like this before as well
Big shoutout to Oliver
Gen M yeah but do he do metal bandz
Gen M Anthony is basically ripping off the Olive.
no obituary's cause of death album??? wtf
That would have been a good addition, or Slowly We Rot.
Dan Autopsy's already got that slow grooving death metal sound covered
Nice video! I remember when I started Death Metal and the bands weren't exactly the same as your "starter pack". I started death metal with 2 main bands at first: Vader (De Profundis) and Malevolent Creation (Stilborn and Will to kill). Then came all the Swedish death bands first with the melodies so easily enjoyable (Entombed, Dismember, At The Gates, Gates of Ishtar, The Haunted although it's more melodeath/thrash than straight death) and US bands (Malevolent Creation and Morbid Angel being the first ones, Dying Fetus!!!! but also very dark bands such as Incantation and Mortician)! Oh and I forget my true love... the band I saw 17 times live yet and the band I will see 17 times 17 times more if I could... Napalm Death!
and not that I want to create problems but I never understood the idolization of Death. I mean they did great DM albums and Chuck was a hell of a guitar player and composer but when they published Human, other bands were doing the same more or less at the same time and everywhere in the world. Let's not forget that at that time these bands weren't as represented as they are today and usually people listened to albums months after their release. Monstrosity got out Imperial Doom, Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick!!!!, Vader - The Ultimate Incantation, Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption, Carcass - Necrotism!!!!, etc etc
Enjoying the variety of content coming out of your channels. Don't see myself unsubing too soon. Keep it up, Melon.
Industrial starter pack
This!
Kind of hard to talk about Aggrotech,Dark Electro,Electro-Industrial,Dark Ambient,Noise Ambient,
Avant-Garde,Power Electronics,Harsh Noise,Power Noise/Rhythmic Noise ect in 1 video. It`s gonna be a very long video.
While all these bands are great, I still can’t believe Melon didn’t show any love to Obituary. I know so many hardcore kids, myself included, that fell in love with death metal and bands like Obituary, and Gatecreeper. It’s all about the groove with those guys, and their most recent and upcoming albums (Self Titled and Dying of Everything) are just as good as classic albums like Cause of Death. Death metal is alive and well, and there are so many good new bands now too.
Jazz fusion/math rock starter? Or review CHON pls. Thx melon
He's already mentioned them in a YUNOREVIEW. Don't think he cares for them.
racer24t that's unfortunate. He did mention he was sick in the video. Maybe he wasn't thinking str8. Thx m8
Everyone should start and finish with Death. Chuck Schuldiner was always innovating and diversifying their sound. He really pioneered the genre and he changed the band lineup with basically every album because he was so determined. They are the best Death Metal band in my opinion.
It could be argued that Carcass was just as innovative and diverse if not more. To act like Death is the end all be all of death metal is a bit shortsighted imo. There’s tons of great bands and albums from that generation.
Good video bro, carcass and necrophagist got me into death metal
Death: Leprosy
Opeth: Still Life
Gojira: The Way of all Flesh
Arch Enemy: Doomsday Machine
Still Life, Opeth's best work.
Normie pop fans in the comments starter pack.
AF 3H 17 MBAD! Lana Del ray,
Kendrick lamar, drake, future, some random experimental electro-pop bullshit "band" I've never heard of, Ibibio sound machine,
And everybody's favorite..... WEEZER
Rihanna, Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Future, and Kanye West should do the trick.
"I tried to listen to Katy Perry but is was so unaccessable"
tibtib fifi more like "Katy Perry is so weird, I can't handle it"
AF 3H 17 MBAD! I'm a pop fan but am I considered a "normie" pop fan if I listen to frank Sinatra, nat king cole, and daft punk for my pop?
Shoegaze starter pack please
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
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That's it.
deep cuts made a vid on it
I was gonna say that too. Deep cuts is one the best TH-cam channels for starter pack genres and music guides to someones discography
@@grs10051997 Souvlaki
Entombed or Dismember should qualify for this list, probably Bolt Thrower as well. But very solid non the less, and very entertaining listen.
I don't see why this kind of video won't fit in the main channel. But cool series, I will be looking forward for more.