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Videos are great dude. Chuck has inspired me more than anything since dime. Im 42 and listened to mostly maiden during the beginning of the pandemic. Now I'm stuck in a Death trap and perfectly happy. Sacred serenity is my favorite solo. Kicks in like a mofo. Instantly makes me want to grab a guitar and push myself. Thanks for this video. So freaking awesome 😎
Symbolic is my favorite album from Death. Hoglan and Schuldiner were an unstoppable force. Sound of Perseverance is my 2nd fave. That was the golden era for the band.
I agree. The sickest stuff is on Symbolic. But I am also a fan of Andy LaRoque, who played on the "Individual Thought Patterns" album with Hoglan. DiGiorgio on bass. Chuck always got the best musicians.
Richard Christy was/is still an absolute monster on the kit. His drumming on this album is top fucking notch. When I want to show people some crazy drumming, I choose from this album. It is very unfortunate that I will never be able to hear them live.
It sounds like even if self-taught, Chuck got into theory and once youve learned even the E-minor scale across the guitar neck, you can start writing some really melodic, tasty stuff
Hatfield ain't worthy to polish the metaphorical musical boots of Chuck. No hate I love James ,but Chuck was a literal walking talking God in comparison!
@@nbkawtgnobody couldn't agree more.. Hetfield is obviously pretty Godly *but* he's a _Demigod_ if we're putting him up there with Chuck. Chuck's like a *Great Old One* if we're gonna be honest. Just a completely different league all together ❤ 🤘🤘 *RIP Chuck!* 🤘🤘
The wisdom in his lyrics is staggering. His message is timeless especially from Human on, truly a shining light for impressionable young men like myself at the time. Chuck subtly instilled some powerful philosophical nuggets in our young minds. His skill at writing riffs that serve a larger song picture was definitely a cut above the rest. Most bands can spell words and say some elaborately technical statements but it’s another to write words that create complete intelligent emotionally poetic statements. This songwriting brilliance was evident on SBG and the development carried through on following albums is analogous to the evolution of man. His star burned brightly during his time here. An energy this powerful unfortunately has a finite life span in this dimension…
I really appreciate what you do on here Shred. I’ve been playing guitar for over 10 years but didn’t start taking it seriously until a couple years ago. Whenever I lose faith in my ability your videos help me get back to playing, whether it be the way you explain things or the musically relatable topics you discuss, I always find myself going back to guitar after watching your videos, even if I’m in a tough spot when it comes to my playing or how I feel about my playing
As much as I prefer modern death metal bands and how far the genre has progressed in terms of heaviness, you just can't deny Chuck. He was an absolute master of a composer.
I bet you don't know the absolute summit of that progress. Check out: Parricide - Kingdom of Downfall. Likely the most creative (brutal) death metal album to date.
@@thesabbath483 Oh yeah. I also love their demos without Jeff from 1991, it was pretty sick, too bad they did not release an album with that lineup, but then the comeback album with Jeff was also amazing.
@@archangelofcoffee922 He was not being humble, he was just telling the truth, Possessed did it first. Jeff Beccera said it himself, Chuck was actually pissed at the fans for sucking his balls saying that he made Death Metal, when Possessed did. That pisses me off too.
@@archangelofcoffee922 Yeah, Venom, Mercyful Fate, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer and many other bands were influence for death and black metal for sure.
@@umi6817 I meant it as whole, not inside death metal subgenre. If we consider Death the best death metal band ever, it should have been more popular as it is the best band of a fair metal subgenre.
My favorite band of all time. Chuck is my main inspiration for guitar. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be playing guitar today. Truly a hero to many musicians I'd say.
Chuck is a top 10 personality in metal history, a real genius. My favourite album is Sound of Perseverance, no weak song and the greatest instrumental of all time "Voice of the Soul"
Death is still and forever be my favorite band, wish I could of seen them live at least once… me and my buddie been playing death songs since 2016 and gave some locals a show so we definitely keeping the spirit of chuck/death alive 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I was inspired to check out Death after I heard the tapping intro from Evil Dead in a Loudwire video, and then I checked out more songs from Scream Bloody Gore, and I was hooked, to the point where I've heard almost their whole discography. It never gets old, and they never made an album that disappointed me. I think the best Death song is either this, A Moment of Clarity, Evil Dead, or Spiritual Healing! In fact, it's almost a waste of time trying to pick a 'best' song because I love so many of them! You just can't go wrong with Death! I'm even a big fan on Control Denied. I feel like CD is super underrated. The Fragile Art of Existence is an outstanding album, with awesome riffs, beautiful solos, Steve Digiorgio's incredible bass playing, and more of Richard Christy's signature crazy drumming. Songs like Consumed, Breaking The Broken, and When The Link Becomes Missing blow me away every time. I'll always love Chuck's work. The era of Symbolic and TSoP is definitely my favorite era of Death. Great video! Rip Chuck. \M/
Dude, THANK YOU for doing a video on *Death!* Absolutely *Solid* Discography throughout. Just all complete masterpieces.. a _"Great Old One"_ of Metal for sure. 🥲 *RIP Chuck.* 🤘❤
Yeah, DEATH is one of my all-time favorite bands. I saw them back when they toured with Hammerfall. Chuck always got the best musicians to work with. Legends. He is certainly one of my main guitar influences. Funny thing: Chuck used a DiMarzio X2N bridge pickup in his guitars. I also have an X2N in my MiJ Ibanez RG. Michael Romeo also uses the X2N.
Amazing coincendence that I just started watching you a few months ago and now you make a full length video about my favourite. RIP Chuck Schuldiner, RIP Scott Clendenin, RIP Sean Reinert.
I was able to see Death live in Chile 🇨🇱 back in 1998…opening band was Canibal Corpse… They were touring Sounds of Perseverance… I was totally blown away by the quality of their sound …it was like listening to a cd with headphones on …Definitely Chuck was a perfectionist and a genius …but at the same time, really humble and charismatic 🤟🏼🤘🏼
My favorite song of Sounds of Perseverance is Moment of Clarity…I think is more simple than the others and I think is about Chuck dreams and goals, in music and life …. Probably at that time he knew, the end was close … Some of the songs for Sounds Of Perseverance were demo before, for Control Denied, The Fragile Art of Existence…but were recorded as Death in the end … Listen to Control Denied …great side project…👍🏼🤘🏼
I was and still am a HUGE FAN of Death!! Probably since I was 17. I like the material written when Gene Hoglan was in the lin-up. I always enjoyed Death because it's unpredictable and has a progressive/jazz element to Chuck's music. You never knew where the journey would take you. Speaking of progressive, Scott - have you heard of/checked out Earthside? I've been getting into them lately.
Reference "since I was 17". I mean, for all we know you were 17 any time between 1987, when Death's first full length album was released (Scream Bloody Gore), and up to...you turned 18 last weekend. So, you first discovered or, first heard of them when?
@@m.c.ruckus2032 ya that probably wasn't that clear lol. Well, I'm turning 46 this year, born 1976. I think I might even have been 14 when I first start listening to Death. I was instantly hooked. As a teen I grew up listening to Anthrax, Testament, Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura and so on. Lots of thrash metal. I'm pretty sure the first time I truly discovered Death was from their music video, Lack of Comprehension from Human. Love that album by the way. I was in grade 9, 14 then. RIP Sean. I was shocked when I learned of his passing. Very young. Such a shame. Human had an awesome line-up.
I love the format of the video. With your reaction in real time panned to the left, the performance on the lower left and the highlighted theory concepts in bold text on the upper right. Great job! 💪
Thank you for including so much theory in this! Death’s work is without a doubt just as worthy of in-depth analysis as Beethoven or Bach. Hats of bro keep this up.
Can still remember hearing Death for the first time in around 2004. It was voice of the soul and the solos soared out of this world. The more you delve into this band the more you know that it was on a whole other artistic level. You have songs like Perrenial Quest that I save up to listen to when I'm at my lowest points and it always gets me back to functioning level. You have a thousand eyes that was predicting the future rather accurately, I don't think they had social media when he wrote that. There's flesh and the power it holds and it's about the porn industry. It was extreme music with extreme topics and that's what makes Chuck a legend.
The backdrop says Dynamo. The concert name. Pantera was also there. You can see Phil in the background too the left watching and rocking out to Death in some of the videos of this concert
Death literally doesn’t have a bad album. I personally listen to Leprosy, Spiritual Healing, and Human the most, but their final album is a monstrous achievement; very interesting and complex moments.
I was at this gig! So happy to have seen them live. I actually met Chuck after the gig. Fresh of stage, still taking time to take a picture! He and Sean are greatly missed... Thankfully we still have Gene, Richard and Steve!
Death quickly became one of my favourite bands. I think Individual Thought Patterns is my favourite record, along with Human or Symbolic. I cannot really choose one specific song. It could be either Overactive Imagination, The Flesh And Power It Holds or Without Judgement ... or many many more.
This track was one of the first metal songs I ever tried to learn along with Trapped in a Corner, purely because I loved that quintal harmony sound that Chuck used all over his music. It sounds like a Sus9 chord to me? The Sound of Perseverance and Individual Thought Patterns are two of my favourite metal albums of all time. I just recently learned Scavengers of Human Sorrow over the last few months, I noticed the song modulates all over the place and has those quintal harmonies throughout the track. Would love to see a breakdown of the scales and get your take on its composition oh Lord Shred Master Scott \m/ Love your videos bro...
Very well done sir. I too discovered the late, great Chuck Schuldiner and Death- a year ago. Lol. I'm 54. So this older-but-not-old-dawg has learned some new tricks. Namely I'm into heavier music than I ever have been before. Extreme metal/death metal was just "not my cup of tea" solely because I didn't like "extreme vocals/'cookie monster' style." That was my ignorance . I had immediately fallen in love with the "Heartwork" album by Carcass in the 90s (musically) but I couldn't "get" Jeff Walker's vocals. Well thanks to my discovery last year of Death I have increasingly become enamored with melodic death metal(mdm) and technical/progressive death metal Indeed, as a guitarist and metal nut from WAY BACK I now think Insominum, Dark Tranquility, Mors Principium Est, Soilwork, Gatecreeper, Machine Head, Be'lakor, Allegaeon, et al are just astounding. I've long since learned to like that style "growling" and ironically enough the almighty, incomparable Carcass is my favorite HEAVY METAL band and Jeff Walker is my favorite singer of that style. The older I get the heavier shit I gravitate towards. I used to tell friends that Carcass makes the Metallidudes sound like hard rock practically. Lol. If you want to make me REALLY happy Shred will you tackle one of Carcass's masterpieces like "Heartwork" in the future? You play guitar. You know the astounding musicianship that these bands possess. "Heart Like A Grave" by Insomnium is just beautiful. 95% of Dark Tranquility's work is mind-blowing. It just blows my mind how my shortsighted views and intolerance for harsh vocals had closed me off from this incredibly diversified and amazing musical landscape. I'm sure I'm not the only one that is about three decades late to the party. Crank it up!
Death is my favorite band by miles. It's the perfect mix of all the stuff I love about music. So many amazing musicians took part in this band. Some of which still are going strong today like gene hoglan who now plays for testament (or did until Dave Lombardo in 2022). Badass band and to me you can not top this within the Death metal catagory. Yes I've heard cannibal corpse, I've heard disection, malevolent creation, infant annihilator, obituary, autopsy, etc... I could go on but point is there is a reason this band is heralded vs any of those other guys and it's not just cause they started Death metal(yes I know about possessed). The riffs, the vocals, the drums, the bass, the phrygian scale solos, the thought provoking lyrics especially in symbolic... Holy fuck. The men of this band were absolutely geniuses. If chuck didn't die, I could only imagine what would of come of control denied... Probably eventually leading back to him reforming Death after 2000-2010 era, had he survived, but who knows... Just speculation...
Great performance, great show! I was there, 🤘🤘🤘🤘at the Dynamo metal fest 1998. So long agooo now. RIP Chuck and Scott! We missed out on so much great metal because they died so young. 😪
I've always been a huge fan of James Murphy, which is how I first learned of Death (Spiritual Healing). That band was absolutely ground breaking. That was definitely not the best death metal song, imo, but it was great!
Scream Bloody Gore will always be my favorite death metal album couldn't stop playing it summer of 87 had the big 15 inch woofer's boom box in the back seat and blew up the streets of Detroit with it !!
For me it's gotta be both Spirit Crusher and Crystal Mountain. Both songs are respectively influential, as they should be for various reasons. Even the way they structured their songs had influence from the legendary Iron Maiden, as well as one other group to the best of my recent knowledge from another video covering how Death wrote and recorded their songs.
Death is one of my top 10 favorite metal bands. Chuck didn’t like to put music into sub genres but, he was a major part of the first in his. I was turned on to Death by the Human album. Never left my tape player for at least 6 months. To many songs to say which is my favorite. Have all their albums.
I remember hearing death for the first time it was flesh and the power it holds and it just kicked my ass so hard and it sucked me into death metal. You should go over some gojira too if you haven't yet!
I love voice of the soul, it was the first song I ever heard by Death sadly only about 10 years ago, found out the whole album rocks harder than anything I’d ever heard so I checked out all their music, except for Control Denied which I only just heard of last week now that I think of it…
He didn’t invent Death metal but he was among the creators. What made Chuck stand out was his riffs(as you said). He created memorable melodic riffs in a heavy and fast context better than anyone at that time. His music touched me at a very young age and still to this day is my number one. I’ll never forget the shock of hearing of his passing when I was just starting to emulate his playing style. For me it was like the Kennedy assassination. I couldn’t move.
Ever since I discovered these guys in '98. Death has been my favorite death metal band of all time! Such virtuosity and my favorite albums shift all over every time I listen to a Death album! Chuck was a compositional genius!
Because they added melodies to the intensity of the band it made them amazing. Because early death metal bands very heavy and hard. Carcass, napalm etc very difficult for beginners. But death was still heavy but also approachable and gradually introducing someone into that very hard style.
I was 16 in 1991 & ate up aaaaaall those iconic old school death metal albums it was spectacular. As a long time percussionist now it's no wonder it remains Chuck Schuldiner & his journey & evolution of music sit at the very top for me. Human set itself apart from everything else going on around it.
When I saw the thumbnail say the father of death metal. I didn't see the picture yet, and I thought to myself, if he isn't talking about Chuck, I'm clicking the Don't Recommend Channel button. I really enjoy your content because you know your stuff. I have a degree in music, and it's great to see someone applying music theory principles to metal music. I couldn't stand the high horse music students who thought music theory couldn't possibly apply to anything but classical. I am a metal vocalist, but I actually apply vocal techniques I learned from my classical training. I also took linguistics classes in order to learn where in the mouth and throat every sound is made. It all makes me a more effective singer. If you can't sing Hatebreed, followed by Les Miserables, you're not singing in a healthy way.
Oh man, Death, Symbolic and The sound of Perseverance are by far one of my favorite albums on all metal, and helped me adquire that taste for melodic and technical death metal, it can be brutal, yet refined and meaningful. Spirit Crusher speaks to me very fondly, im not that good with english, so i can't quite understand the lyrics, even less since it's not a clear voice, but the melody itself talks to me and transmit emotions. I'm not a guitarrist, im a bass player, who got more in depth since last year, Steve DiGiorgio is one of my favorite bass players and someone i look into, in terms of musicianship
Getting into Death in high school & thinking this is the best it'll ever get lol. Now in my 40s & hearing so many other bands & tons of black metal I still go back to Death often enough. R.I.P Chuck you will love on in our ears forever ✊
Such a huuuuge death fan. This man didnt know theory but he ripped the shit out of his guitar. You sir have gained my sub. A man who appreciates DEATH is a good man indeed.
Richard Christy is such an amazing drummer. If you solo out his drumming on TSOP and the control denied album you can really hear his technicality. One of my favorites in metal
For me, suffocations "pierced from within" is the greatest death metal song ever. But you can't really go wrong with anything off deaths "symbolic" album. Those two (pierced.. and symbolic) LPs haven't aged one bit, as compared to most of mid 90s death metal.
Chuck and the lead singer of possession chilled alot and some how the genre it’s self was coined love being from Florida 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿awesome job Shred!!!
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Hmm, did I misinterpret you or are you unaware of the classic “Dynamo open air” festival in Eindhoven? 😳😅
Videos are great dude. Chuck has inspired me more than anything since dime. Im 42 and listened to mostly maiden during the beginning of the pandemic. Now I'm stuck in a Death trap and perfectly happy. Sacred serenity is my favorite solo. Kicks in like a mofo. Instantly makes me want to grab a guitar and push myself. Thanks for this video. So freaking awesome 😎
Literally one of the few acts in Metal to never have a bad album.
Slipknot
@@cliffemall0404last year album was a bit disappointing tho
@@ositazamoas a Slipknot fanboy, i sadly agree
@@cliffemall0404any nu metal is ass
@@cliffemall0404Their current music sucks, I was a fan before but I stick with Slipknot before joey came out
Richard Christy such a beast of a drummer, so under rated. Death wrote some killer music.
HUGELY underrated!!!💯🍻
I've always thought the same thing. He's amazing on scavenger of human sorrow.
This was Sean Rienhart??? Rip
@@josueguillen5053 it's Richard Christy in the video on drums. He was drummer in death from 97-01
Hes not underrated,but he dont play anymore in a band I guess
Symbolic is my favorite album from Death. Hoglan and Schuldiner were an unstoppable force. Sound of Perseverance is my 2nd fave. That was the golden era for the band.
Misanthrope such a good song
"The Atomic Clock". Awesome drummer. Whether it's Dark Angel or SYL, everything that man touches is class!
"the Philosopher"
I agree. The sickest stuff is on Symbolic. But I am also a fan of Andy LaRoque, who played on the "Individual Thought Patterns" album with Hoglan. DiGiorgio on bass. Chuck always got the best musicians.
"Misanthropic maniacs" by Elvis Hitler is a good song too.
I hadn’t heard of Death until I bought a used Ibanez RGD that had Death, Carcass, and Obituary stickers on it.
Put Entombed in the list and you have my personal "big four"
Thank the old owner
Do you still have this guitar? Some of my favorites right there
Richard Christy was/is still an absolute monster on the kit. His drumming on this album is top fucking notch. When I want to show people some crazy drumming, I choose from this album. It is very unfortunate that I will never be able to hear them live.
You just want a lick of this peach colored hair...this Kansan hair!
I believe that he was completely self-taught but much like Mustaine, just had the ear for it
It's true. My 2 favourite guitarists ever.
It sounds like even if self-taught, Chuck got into theory and once youve learned even the E-minor scale across the guitar neck, you can start writing some really melodic, tasty stuff
He did attend classical guitar classes when he was a child though.
Its not just about ear..its about pure talent
Chuck was definitely one of the main inspirations for me picking up a guitar to begin with.
Up there with Hetfield & Mustaine for sure, a monstrous riff master and pioneer. No need for makeup or gimmicks, RIP Chuck
Hatfield ain't worthy to polish the metaphorical musical boots of Chuck. No hate I love James ,but Chuck was a literal walking talking God in comparison!
@@nbkawtgnobody have you ever heard the great het speak
@@nbkawtgnobody couldn't agree more.. Hetfield is obviously pretty Godly *but* he's a _Demigod_ if we're putting him up there with Chuck. Chuck's like a *Great Old One* if we're gonna be honest. Just a completely different league all together ❤
🤘🤘 *RIP Chuck!* 🤘🤘
Don't want to take nothing from Chuck, he was one of the coolest humans to walk this earth...but imagine him with a Hetfield power stance....Jeezz
how are you going to compare hetfield with chuck hahaha hetfield is very low
Got into Death this last year and I absolutely love them and most of their songs. I'm sure others will grow on me
Probably not... Curl up with your motionless in white album child. Give up. Now.
Check out Control Denied
@Jordan Taylor I already have and I actually like their album
@@ma5terwarfare I'm glad you already found it. It's a great album
@Jordan Taylor indeed it is \m/
The wisdom in his lyrics is staggering. His message is timeless especially from Human on, truly a shining light for impressionable young men like myself at the time. Chuck subtly instilled some powerful philosophical nuggets in our young minds. His skill at writing riffs that serve a larger song picture was definitely a cut above the rest. Most bands can spell words and say some elaborately technical statements but it’s another to write words that create complete intelligent emotionally poetic statements. This songwriting brilliance was evident on SBG and the development carried through on following albums is analogous to the evolution of man. His star burned brightly during his time here. An energy this powerful unfortunately has a finite life span in this dimension…
He certainly burned white heat. We need more like him.
SBG? Sweet baby gang?
Brilliantly put. Great stuff.
The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long
Chuck was fantastic, Sound of Perseverance is a masterpiece among his other masterpieces.
The flesh and the power holds is still my favorite jam from this band
I really appreciate what you do on here Shred. I’ve been playing guitar for over 10 years but didn’t start taking it seriously until a couple years ago. Whenever I lose faith in my ability your videos help me get back to playing, whether it be the way you explain things or the musically relatable topics you discuss, I always find myself going back to guitar after watching your videos, even if I’m in a tough spot when it comes to my playing or how I feel about my playing
I've discovered Death relatively late, way past my high school years, but I'm glad I did. Chuck was a music genius.
As much as I prefer modern death metal bands and how far the genre has progressed in terms of heaviness, you just can't deny Chuck. He was an absolute master of a composer.
I bet you don't know the absolute summit of that progress. Check out: Parricide - Kingdom of Downfall. Likely the most creative (brutal) death metal album to date.
Possessed Seven Churches is the first death metal album probably, I know that Chuck released demos and stuff before 1985, and those were great too.
Jeff was already working on it in 1979
@@thesabbath483 Oh yeah. I also love their demos without Jeff from 1991, it was pretty sick, too bad they did not release an album with that lineup, but then the comeback album with Jeff was also amazing.
Chuck himself was pretty humble and always stated that Possessed was the first in his eye. "Those guys or Venom" as he would put it.
@@archangelofcoffee922 He was not being humble, he was just telling the truth, Possessed did it first. Jeff Beccera said it himself, Chuck was actually pissed at the fans for sucking his balls saying that he made Death Metal, when Possessed did. That pisses me off too.
@@archangelofcoffee922 Yeah, Venom, Mercyful Fate, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer and many other bands were influence for death and black metal for sure.
I remember how jaw dropping Death was when i listened to it for the first time. A very unique and underrated band in metal history
"underrated"... they are constantly considered one of the greatest death metal bands ever
@@umi6817 I meant it as whole, not inside death metal subgenre. If we consider Death the best death metal band ever, it should have been more popular as it is the best band of a fair metal subgenre.
Spiritual healing was my first and favorite death record. But i love them all. Love this performance, awesome to see you cover it shredmaster. 🤘
So blessed to have seen Death in multiple lineups in clubs. Life altering experience
Big Leagues guitar, there!
Death & Chuck Schuldiner work can't be ignored in Metal!
My favorite band of all time. Chuck is my main inspiration for guitar. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be playing guitar today. Truly a hero to many musicians I'd say.
Chuck is literally my idol... an artist, and im proud of that.
Chuck is a top 10 personality in metal history, a real genius. My favourite album is Sound of Perseverance, no weak song and the greatest instrumental of all time "Voice of the Soul"
I’ve been dying for you cover this song, this always gives me a go when I’m practicing it on bass
Death is still and forever be my favorite band, wish I could of seen them live at least once… me and my buddie been playing death songs since 2016 and gave some locals a show so we definitely keeping the spirit of chuck/death alive 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I was inspired to check out Death after I heard the tapping intro from Evil Dead in a Loudwire video, and then I checked out more songs from Scream Bloody Gore, and I was hooked, to the point where I've heard almost their whole discography. It never gets old, and they never made an album that disappointed me.
I think the best Death song is either this, A Moment of Clarity, Evil Dead, or Spiritual Healing! In fact, it's almost a waste of time trying to pick a 'best' song because I love so many of them! You just can't go wrong with Death! I'm even a big fan on Control Denied. I feel like CD is super underrated. The Fragile Art of Existence is an outstanding album, with awesome riffs, beautiful solos, Steve Digiorgio's incredible bass playing, and more of Richard Christy's signature crazy drumming. Songs like Consumed, Breaking The Broken, and When The Link Becomes Missing blow me away every time. I'll always love Chuck's work. The era of Symbolic and TSoP is definitely my favorite era of Death. Great video! Rip Chuck. \M/
Scream Bloody Gore is almost punk rock w guitar solos.
That's a compliment.
Dude, THANK YOU for doing a video on *Death!* Absolutely *Solid* Discography throughout. Just all complete masterpieces.. a _"Great Old One"_ of Metal for sure. 🥲
*RIP Chuck.* 🤘❤
Yeah, DEATH is one of my all-time favorite bands. I saw them back when they toured with Hammerfall. Chuck always got the best musicians to work with. Legends. He is certainly one of my main guitar influences. Funny thing: Chuck used a DiMarzio X2N bridge pickup in his guitars. I also have an X2N in my MiJ Ibanez RG. Michael Romeo also uses the X2N.
I just got a good deal on a Jackson Warrior, which is a similar body shape to Chuck's stealth. Definitely putting an X2N in it soon!
@@BlazinLow305 Nice! I have an old BC Rich Ironbird from 1986.
Amazing coincendence that I just started watching you a few months ago and now you make a full length video about my favourite. RIP Chuck Schuldiner, RIP Scott Clendenin, RIP Sean Reinert.
Fantastic vid and band; I absolutely love “The Philosopher”. Ever review any Athiest?
I was able to see Death live in Chile 🇨🇱 back in 1998…opening band was Canibal Corpse…
They were touring Sounds of Perseverance… I was totally blown away by the quality of their sound …it was like listening to a cd with headphones on …Definitely Chuck was a perfectionist and a genius …but at the same time, really humble and charismatic 🤟🏼🤘🏼
My favorite song of Sounds of Perseverance is Moment of Clarity…I think is more simple than the others and I think is about Chuck dreams and goals, in music and life …. Probably at that time he knew, the end was close …
Some of the songs for Sounds Of Perseverance were demo before, for Control Denied, The Fragile Art of Existence…but were recorded as Death in the end …
Listen to Control Denied …great side project…👍🏼🤘🏼
Nací en 2001 por la chucha :( no lo alcancé a ver
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I was and still am a HUGE FAN of Death!! Probably since I was 17. I like the material written when Gene Hoglan was in the lin-up. I always enjoyed Death because it's unpredictable and has a progressive/jazz element to Chuck's music. You never knew where the journey would take you. Speaking of progressive, Scott - have you heard of/checked out Earthside? I've been getting into them lately.
Reference "since I was 17". I mean, for all we know you were 17 any time between 1987, when Death's first full length album was released (Scream Bloody Gore), and up to...you turned 18 last weekend. So, you first discovered or, first heard of them when?
@@m.c.ruckus2032 ya that probably wasn't that clear lol. Well, I'm turning 46 this year, born 1976. I think I might even have been 14 when I first start listening to Death. I was instantly hooked. As a teen I grew up listening to Anthrax, Testament, Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura and so on. Lots of thrash metal.
I'm pretty sure the first time I truly discovered Death was from their music video, Lack of Comprehension from Human. Love that album by the way. I was in grade 9, 14 then. RIP Sean. I was shocked when I learned of his passing. Very young. Such a shame. Human had an awesome line-up.
Thanks for reviewing my favorite band shred
I first heard Death in the early 90s. Leprosy.
Instantly hooked. Chuck Schuldiner is the reason i play guitar at all.
I love the format of the video. With your reaction in real time panned to the left, the performance on the lower left and the highlighted theory concepts in bold text on the upper right. Great job! 💪
Was waiting for this video. I hope to see more on the channel
Thank you for including so much theory in this! Death’s work is without a doubt just as worthy of in-depth analysis as Beethoven or Bach. Hats of bro keep this up.
More Death reaction/analysis please. I really love these videos!
Can still remember hearing Death for the first time in around 2004. It was voice of the soul and the solos soared out of this world. The more you delve into this band the more you know that it was on a whole other artistic level. You have songs like Perrenial Quest that I save up to listen to when I'm at my lowest points and it always gets me back to functioning level. You have a thousand eyes that was predicting the future rather accurately, I don't think they had social media when he wrote that. There's flesh and the power it holds and it's about the porn industry. It was extreme music with extreme topics and that's what makes Chuck a legend.
The backdrop says Dynamo. The concert name. Pantera was also there. You can see Phil in the background too the left watching and rocking out to Death in some of the videos of this concert
First heard Death in 1989 Leprosy on cassette & in 2022 I STILL get full body goosebumps from his music. Love you Chuck🤘❤️
Death literally doesn’t have a bad album. I personally listen to Leprosy, Spiritual Healing, and Human the most, but their final album is a monstrous achievement; very interesting and complex moments.
I was at this gig! So happy to have seen them live. I actually met Chuck after the gig. Fresh of stage, still taking time to take a picture! He and Sean are greatly missed... Thankfully we still have Gene, Richard and Steve!
Death quickly became one of my favourite bands. I think Individual Thought Patterns is my favourite record, along with Human or Symbolic. I cannot really choose one specific song. It could be either Overactive Imagination, The Flesh And Power It Holds or Without Judgement ... or many many more.
The best thing about death is their riffs sound awesome without the distortion and all songs have a multitude of techniques etched
Thanks, Shred! Great analysis!
I'm glad someone broke this song down like you did....definitely looking for more
Thank u so much SHRED for doing this reaction. Pls do more of death stuffs but the studio versions not lives🤘🏻 again thank you brotha
The sound of perseverance un a mixture of epic melodies and unspected measurement... Simply a visionary way to compose....
what a day... i have watched every of your video and waited for any video on Death or CHuck since I started subscribing
This track was one of the first metal songs I ever tried to learn along with Trapped in a Corner, purely because I loved that quintal harmony sound that Chuck used all over his music. It sounds like a Sus9 chord to me? The Sound of Perseverance and Individual Thought Patterns are two of my favourite metal albums of all time.
I just recently learned Scavengers of Human Sorrow over the last few months, I noticed the song modulates all over the place and has those quintal harmonies throughout the track.
Would love to see a breakdown of the scales and get your take on its composition oh Lord Shred Master Scott \m/
Love your videos bro...
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Very well done sir. I too discovered the late, great Chuck Schuldiner and Death- a year ago. Lol. I'm 54. So this older-but-not-old-dawg has learned some new tricks. Namely I'm into heavier music than I ever have been before. Extreme metal/death metal was just "not my cup of tea" solely because I didn't like "extreme vocals/'cookie monster' style."
That was my ignorance . I had immediately fallen in love with the "Heartwork" album by Carcass in the 90s (musically) but I couldn't "get" Jeff Walker's vocals.
Well thanks to my discovery last year of Death I have increasingly become enamored with melodic death metal(mdm) and technical/progressive death metal
Indeed, as a guitarist and metal nut from WAY BACK I now think Insominum, Dark Tranquility, Mors Principium Est, Soilwork, Gatecreeper, Machine Head, Be'lakor, Allegaeon, et al are just astounding. I've long since learned to like that style "growling" and ironically enough the almighty, incomparable Carcass is my favorite HEAVY METAL band and Jeff Walker is my favorite singer of that style. The older I get the heavier shit I gravitate towards.
I used to tell friends that Carcass makes the Metallidudes sound like hard rock practically. Lol.
If you want to make me REALLY happy Shred will you tackle one of Carcass's masterpieces like "Heartwork" in the future?
You play guitar. You know the astounding musicianship that these bands possess.
"Heart Like A Grave" by Insomnium is just beautiful.
95% of Dark Tranquility's work is mind-blowing.
It just blows my mind how my shortsighted views and intolerance for harsh vocals had closed me off from this incredibly diversified and amazing musical landscape. I'm sure I'm not the only one that is about three decades late to the party. Crank it up!
Richard Christie on the drums.
Thanks for covering some Death! Undeniable legends... RIP Chuck
Been learning this song recently, loved hearing more about the compositional elements of it
I have heard that whole performance a hundred times or more, it still hits hard.
Death is my favorite band by miles. It's the perfect mix of all the stuff I love about music. So many amazing musicians took part in this band. Some of which still are going strong today like gene hoglan who now plays for testament (or did until Dave Lombardo in 2022). Badass band and to me you can not top this within the Death metal catagory. Yes I've heard cannibal corpse, I've heard disection, malevolent creation, infant annihilator, obituary, autopsy, etc... I could go on but point is there is a reason this band is heralded vs any of those other guys and it's not just cause they started Death metal(yes I know about possessed). The riffs, the vocals, the drums, the bass, the phrygian scale solos, the thought provoking lyrics especially in symbolic... Holy fuck. The men of this band were absolutely geniuses. If chuck didn't die, I could only imagine what would of come of control denied... Probably eventually leading back to him reforming Death after 2000-2010 era, had he survived, but who knows... Just speculation...
R.I.P Chuck...gone but NEVER forgotten
Great performance, great show! I was there, 🤘🤘🤘🤘at the Dynamo metal fest 1998. So long agooo now. RIP Chuck and Scott! We missed out on so much great metal because they died so young. 😪
My favorite band! thank you for the video
I've always been a huge fan of James Murphy, which is how I first learned of Death (Spiritual Healing). That band was absolutely ground breaking.
That was definitely not the best death metal song, imo, but it was great!
Scream Bloody Gore will always be my favorite death metal album couldn't stop playing it summer of 87 had the big 15 inch woofer's boom box in the back seat and blew up the streets of Detroit with it !!
For me it's gotta be both Spirit Crusher and Crystal Mountain. Both songs are respectively influential, as they should be for various reasons. Even the way they structured their songs had influence from the legendary Iron Maiden, as well as one other group to the best of my recent knowledge from another video covering how Death wrote and recorded their songs.
Thank you Shred for keeping Chuck's legacy alive. Let the Metal flow🤘🏻💀
Legit one of the best metal bands of all time. Melodic deathmetal pioneers.
I remember buying The album leprosy as a kid just because of the artwork I never heard their music before but when I popped in the tape I was hooked
I just discovered Death a few weeks ago and now I'm angry I haven't discovered them years ago.
Death is one of my top 10 favorite metal bands. Chuck didn’t like to put music into sub genres but, he was a major part of the first in his. I was turned on to Death by the Human album. Never left my tape player for at least 6 months. To many songs to say which is my favorite. Have all their albums.
Wish I was around when this happened, Dynamo was such a great festival literally on a 10 minute drive from my house. Rip Dynamo and Rip to Chuck
I remember hearing death for the first time it was flesh and the power it holds and it just kicked my ass so hard and it sucked me into death metal. You should go over some gojira too if you haven't yet!
Agree
It is so cool you are covering a Death song.
I love this video!!! Thank you Shred!!! Schuldiner is my idol!
Would love to see you do more Death. Chuck was an absolute monster and a genius. Maybe “the philosopher”
This is a band I never get sick of.
More on death please so good explaining parts of chucks composition
I love voice of the soul, it was the first song I ever heard by Death sadly only about 10 years ago, found out the whole album rocks harder than anything I’d ever heard so I checked out all their music, except for Control Denied which I only just heard of last week now that I think of it…
He didn’t invent Death metal but he was among the creators. What made Chuck stand out was his riffs(as you said). He created memorable melodic riffs in a heavy and fast context better than anyone at that time. His music touched me at a very young age and still to this day is my number one. I’ll never forget the shock of hearing of his passing when I was just starting to emulate his playing style. For me it was like the Kennedy assassination. I couldn’t move.
Ever since I discovered these guys in '98. Death has been my favorite death metal band of all time! Such virtuosity and my favorite albums shift all over every time I listen to a Death album! Chuck was a compositional genius!
Because they added melodies to the intensity of the band it made them amazing. Because early death metal bands very heavy and hard. Carcass, napalm etc very difficult for beginners. But death was still heavy but also approachable and gradually introducing someone into that very hard style.
I was 16 in 1991 & ate up aaaaaall those iconic old school death metal albums it was spectacular. As a long time percussionist now it's no wonder it remains Chuck Schuldiner & his journey & evolution of music sit at the very top for me. Human set itself apart from everything else going on around it.
Man you gotta do Voice of the Soul, I'd love to see you on that!
When I saw the thumbnail say the father of death metal. I didn't see the picture yet, and I thought to myself, if he isn't talking about Chuck, I'm clicking the Don't Recommend Channel button. I really enjoy your content because you know your stuff. I have a degree in music, and it's great to see someone applying music theory principles to metal music. I couldn't stand the high horse music students who thought music theory couldn't possibly apply to anything but classical. I am a metal vocalist, but I actually apply vocal techniques I learned from my classical training. I also took linguistics classes in order to learn where in the mouth and throat every sound is made. It all makes me a more effective singer. If you can't sing Hatebreed, followed by Les Miserables, you're not singing in a healthy way.
Oh man, Death, Symbolic and The sound of Perseverance are by far one of my favorite albums on all metal, and helped me adquire that taste for melodic and technical death metal, it can be brutal, yet refined and meaningful.
Spirit Crusher speaks to me very fondly, im not that good with english, so i can't quite understand the lyrics, even less since it's not a clear voice, but the melody itself talks to me and transmit emotions.
I'm not a guitarrist, im a bass player, who got more in depth since last year, Steve DiGiorgio is one of my favorite bass players and someone i look into, in terms of musicianship
Do more death stuff man, they're so sick
Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam!
Requiescant in Pace Chuck. His passing was a major shock.
RIP Chuck and Scott. Killer riffs and basslines
Death had a huge influence on me growing up. Holds a place in my heart forever
Yes, yes its my favorite. Cool part about Chuck's riffs is they sound just as good without distortion or on acoustic. Chuck's riffs are why I play.
Getting into Death in high school & thinking this is the best it'll ever get lol. Now in my 40s & hearing so many other bands & tons of black metal I still go back to Death often enough. R.I.P Chuck you will love on in our ears forever ✊
That was very well written and the drummer is incredible.
The lead singers voice reminds me of Children Of Bodom.
Such a huuuuge death fan. This man didnt know theory but he ripped the shit out of his guitar. You sir have gained my sub. A man who appreciates DEATH is a good man indeed.
The background says "Dynamo", the name of the fest. Amazing video 🤘
Richard Christy is such an amazing drummer. If you solo out his drumming on TSOP and the control denied album you can really hear his technicality. One of my favorites in metal
I love it when Chuck and Death get the appreciation and respect he/they deserve.
I wore out my Death cassettes. Literally, with my Walkman and a lot of AA batteries. Yup, been shredding for a while.
1:25 Awesome Wappy Juice!
For me, suffocations "pierced from within" is the greatest death metal song ever. But you can't really go wrong with anything off deaths "symbolic" album. Those two (pierced.. and symbolic) LPs haven't aged one bit, as compared to most of mid 90s death metal.
I think another amazing LP that haven't aged nothing is Tomb Of the Mutilated by Cannibal Corpse
Live in LA came out shortly after his death, most of the more well known songs including spirit crusher was on that DVD
Chuck and the lead singer of possession chilled alot and some how the genre it’s self was coined love being from Florida 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿awesome job Shred!!!
The other guitar player is Shannon Hamm. He also played in Chucks side project Control Denied.