Songs in order: 0:04 Death - Zombie ritual 0:26 Entombed - Living dead 0:51 Morbid Angel - Fall from grace 1:11 Unleashed - Dead forever 1:31 Cannibal Corpse - Scourge of iron 1:57 Grave - Deformed 2:22 Deicide - Lunatic of God’s creation 2:46 Dismember - Under a blood red sky 3:12 Morbid Angel - Suffocation 3:33 Grave - Morbid ascent 3:54 Cannibal Corpse - Priests of sodom 4:21 Unleashed - Blood of lies 4:42 Deicide - When Satan rules his world 5:05 Dismember - Fleshless 5:31 Death - Flattening of emotions 5:59 Entombed - Carnal leftovers I’m actually cool with the idea with a death metal big 4, especially seeing how there’s so many different scenes and styles across the world, but I’d personally change it from being like the grunge or thrash big 4’s where it’s a concrete list of the same 4 bands to being more subjective, like “Yeah, that’s MY big 4”, and then we’d get all of these interesting results from different people, and we’d also get a lot more of “Where’s MY favorite band?”, so it just gets chaotic My American big 4 would be Death-Obituary-Suffocation-Morbid Angel, and my Swedish big 4 would be Entombed-Grave-At the Gates-Unleashed
Sure but I would never dare to say Trey Azagthoth or Glen Benton riffs(if he made them, for sure hes the mastermind) are not. Everything what we hear here is legendary.
Hell's Unleashed is one of my favorits albums, although it's not "old school". Check it out, it's worth it. It's one of the less viking albums but it's really cool.
now the "underdogs", netherlands vs england, lots of great material there: sinister, asphyx, pestilence, thanatos, gorefest vs napalm death, carcass, cancer, benediction, bolt thrower.
God growing up in Tampa and in the scene it’s so funny to see how big they are outside of here. Shit I went to school with Glen Bentons son and he attended my buddies birthday party lmao.
I'm from Tampa FL. I got to see all those Florida death metal bands on more then one occasion. Late 80's early 90's. Probably seen Obituary the most. Obituary still does one off shows every so often. Since they live in the area. Of course, nothing lately.
I too am from the Tampa/St Pete area. The 80’s/90’s were a sick time to be here. So close to so many great bands! I remember on any given week being able to see Obituary, Deicide, Atheist, Death, Cynic, Cannibal Corpse, Massacre, etc. The list goes on and on. Speaking of Deicide, they will be playing a small club in New Port Richey in a few weeks with Butler’s new band Inhuman Condition. 🤘🏻
*insert meme of cat in suit reading the newpaper* I should listen to Grave. Anyways, I always find it kinda cool that my country (Sweden) is such a huge musical power house. We have just recently gotten to 10 million in population,and... I havent seen any recent number, but we used to be The worlds 3rd largest exporter of music. I mean sure, absolutley dwarfed by the US and The UK. But still! Pretty cool. And ofc just not metal, but many other genres as well.
Agree, but with the note that UK is a small player in Metal nowadays. Obviously if looking back at bands from 70's & 80's it is a giant. And yes they still play live etc. But bands with breakthrough after that(?) My top 70-80 albums of last year contain maybe 2 UK albums way down in the lists. Compared with 8(!) Swedish albums in top 20 within black/death. These lists are of course a matter of taste, but there is no chance UK can hold up the fight against Sweden in new Metal.
Pestilence, (old)Gorefest, Asphyx and God Dethroned VS Demilich, Adramelech, Demigod and (old) Amorphis? Hard to choose, lots of legendary others as well..
@Dödispää (Old) Sentenced, Convulse, Mordicus, Abhorrence, Excrement, Wings, Vomiturition, Scum, Depravity... kyllähän näitä riittää ja demo bändeistä nostasin viel sellasen nimen ku Garcharot
Might just be a weird thing to notice but the way you make the version of you that isn’t playing headbang and sometimes play along seems to stand out because no matter what we’re all bonded by metal in the end and metalheads support each other. Another sweet video dude!
I'm not too sure those presented are generally considered a 'big 4' either in the USA or Sweden...I'm not going to argue against The US selection (except maybe the tracks themselves). You Swedes should know better I'd think, because you have MANY more interesting bands. Even Opeth qualifies I'd think. Parts of Watershed surely, if nothing else.
@Alf Lifethis stuff here is more like apples to oranges, or how would Americans describe it. Or apples to wrong apples. Problem being, they are pretty good at death. We, Europeans, tend to be into (more) melodic metal. Not to say I have something against 6 Feet Under (I love them) or Cannibal Corpse or Morbid Angel. Or Brujeria. Or Nile. I have nothing against Messugah (a europen counterpart) either. I think we're worlds apart. As are the continents:)
@Alf Life Don't agree about CoF. They're pretty good. As in 'good musically/arrangement wise, great production and visually impressive' But they are British, so they don't count:) None of the other bands are Swedish. CoB are (sorry, were, RIP Alexi Laiho) from Finland. Others are Norwegians. Mayhem was pretty impressive since and including 'The Grand Declaration of War'. Burzum and other shit like that just doesn't count:) I really cannot understand their 'cult' status. Be proud of Dissection (also, RIP) or Dark Tanquillity instead....
@@Damarenhide I do know better but was judging the riffs TheSuffocater selected to performed in the vid. Also I dont consider myself to represent Sweden in general, if I did I would probably not comment on this at all :)
@Alf Life Well. I bought my first Burzum album in 1993 (a tape), when they were actually unavailable here. A disappointment. Me just being 'true fan of true blackmetal'. Not knowing anything about composition or music then. I still have it, for better or worse. Darkthrone...(also) just does not offer anything musically. I have all their 3 'real albums', as tr00 kvlt blackmetal guys would say. I did not mention Dark Funeral at all. However, they are the best of your list, and Nils Fjellstrom is f-ing unbelievable. So much so that he is frequently seen on '[insert style] drum teacher is damn amazed' videos. Well, all of the former is besides the point. What I originally said: I'm not sure this particular European (or even the US) list is really representative of any 'big 4'. And I said nothing about the riffs played, which are played marvellously.
As an old-style death metal head, I really missed Edge of Sanity. Swano is equal to Chuck when it comes to genius. For old school death metal riffs, go for Benediction and Obituary :)
Indeed, Edge of Sanity should have been in there cuz we, the swedes still mention Edge of Sanity and old Hypocrisy when we talk death metal but we got lots of it: Darkified too is and still are underground.
@William Edward's Man, I need to get more experience with different pick ups. I've only owned a handful of guitars and once I got my first decent guitars pickups changed to emgs I couldn't stop.
I agree, even though they play death metal it was always polished and nice sounding, quite different from the other death metal bands as they sounded ugly and nasty.
Aiden Commandeur it’s just taste brother, honestly I never got into obituary, why? I don’t know, I’m not talking shit or anything but that’s just how it is. It took me around 15 years of listening to death metal to finally get into morbid angel. Domination was the first one that got my attention, then after listening to them for a while, it was the other albums that became my favorite. Music is a beautiful thing, maybe 10 years from now I’ll get into obituary, or maybe I’ll start listening to r&b lol
@@victormiranda4664 dude same with Morbid. I can’t believe it took me this long! But that’s why I love music, and how your opinion of it changes over time. I too started with Domination then instantly fell in love with Blessed. Now a proper fan! Formulas is just pure heaven
Jacob Wells Haa!! Formulas is my favorite. I do have to say that I saw them 3 times before I got into them (2 with David and once with Steve) and each time was a sick ass show. Then I got to see them a fourth time with Steve, by that time I was a fan already and they ended their set with nothing is not. It was satisfying.
Swedish bands have a greater feel of melody and narrative, makes their riffs more interesting imo. Like they can stand on their own without any other instruments.
There's something about the groove in Entombed that just elevates them for me. Nicke Andersson is a fucking genius. But great vid, I grew up in Stockholm during these years with Entombed (Nihilist), Dismember, Tiamat (Treblinka) and so on, marvelous times.
@@winterfrost99 Hahahaaaaa!! I knew someone would react like that! Anything with melody is disgusting for you 😂😂. That's the beauty of being human: everyone has different tastes! And btw: I do like heavier stuff aswell like: Slayer, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest etc. But it depends on what mood I'm in. Sometimes it's nice to relax your ears to melodic rock. Anyway keep on rockin'! Cheers!
Man, your guitar collection is sweet! I had the chance to buy a Willie Adler camo esp but I went with a razor back instead. Then I sold it because I wasn't a fan of the floydrose. Anyway, there's definitely a stylistic difference between US and Sweden. Seems like the sweeds are more about the trem picking.
As a proud red blooded american I have to say that Swedish death metal as a whole wins out for me. The scene has a special place in my heart, that said, Obituary, Death, Immolation, Morbid Angel and some others are always in my playlists.
This might be my favorite battle. I'm so glad I got to live my teen years during this era... I remember going to a concert almost every weekend to see these bands, and it was great that most of the time they would end up on Saturdays! those in San Diego will surely remember the shows at SOMA. Great memories... BTW my favorite death metal album is HUMAN from Death, I remember my jaw dropping the first time I listened to it and how I went through several tape copies of it because I would wear them out from playing them so much. RIP Chuck and Sean.
Anyone else remember going to Brass Tap in Tampa and literally Deicide, Morbid Angle, Death , and Cannibal Corpse was all on the same bill? God those 80-90s records recorded at morsesound were Iconic.
American riffs is lower and cleaner but I like it, Swedens is more dirty but love them too. I guess one perhaps have to go to the more experimental or progressive bands like Humanity’s last breath, Vildhjärta or Meshuggah to get those low tones?
Entombed, Dismember, Cannibal and Death are the best for me in this video, I prefer Morbid Angel over Death but the Death riffs you chose are great, especially Zombie Ritual.
Had to check Merciless out and man they're REALLY fuckin good! Thanks for mentioning! Love how much awesome stuff you find in youtube comments, like a goddam goldmine 🤘😤🤘
Great job as always., who ever is thumbing these videos down? Seriously get a life ya loser. Absolutely no reason to thumb these vids down. Very well done. An lot of time an effort gone into making them riffs spot on. 🔥🔥
Swedish dude here who grew up on the Gothenburg melodeath, rather than swedish DM. The only true Death Metal act I've ever gotten really into is Death. Flattening of Emotions is pinnacle Death Metal (sure, it's kind of Tech Death I guess, whatever). I have never heard extreme metal that rivals that kind of prowess in "the completeness of the artistry." The song title itself is really the most brutal song title I've heard. Since I heard Human by Death, no DM really impacts me the same way. I guess I'm kind of an outsider to DM, but to me it seems like Death is the band that produced the most amount of "Death Metal masterpieces." As in truly masterful riffage, melody, use of voice, song structure, emotional impact... The works. I mean, DM is really cool enough by being heavy and brutal, it's all good. I like it when it something more than that, I've only found it in Death. But I should probably look around more. So thanks America, especially for Death. Thanks Chuck - R.I.P.
The pros and main interests you described sure reflect what you grew up with, I can see why you like Death so much. But on average, for being death metal, there are a lot of bands that "do" the genre much better imo. You would definitely have plenty more bands to look for exploring the tech death and prog death areas
Goddamn those double kicks on that Deicide song are thicc as fuck, never really been big on Death Metal of any variation, but those 80’s & 90’s bands just had something about them.
How about British bands (Bolt Thrower/Benediction/Napalm Death/Carcass) vs American Big or Polish bands (Vader/Behemoth/Hate/Decapitated) vs American Big?
As much as I love Death, ima have to go with the Swedish DM side. You just can’t beat Left Hand Path and Like An Everflowing Stream. Either way great video! I would like to make a suggestion to do German Tech Death bands vs American Tech Death Bands!
For me i always prefered Deicide over Morbid Angel because of the overall production of the albums, Death is also my favorite. I know im gonna get heat but Morbid Angel was always the lesser of the big 4 for me, and this coming from someone who went to a Morbid Angel concert.
And Hedlund who created Unleashed later was on bass in Entombed demos. I reccomend you 1990 Left Hand Path, 1991 Clandestine and 1993 Wolverine Blues, that albums where their producer Skogsberg created that "bzzzzzzz" death metal sound typical for nordic death school
Coming from Norway, I love these videos. I hadn't listened to Death or Entombed in 30-something years (idk, fuck my math) you're REALLY on point. Morbid Angel, holy shit. That's a while ago.
Not necessarily, they also gave us power, folk and viking metal, which I find to be trash, US power metal is more gritty, Euro power metal and viking metal too are made to appeal to the LARPers and armchair historians(the crowd who only care about war history and get pissy about which sword is superior).
it's not that i disagree with the Swedish choice of bands but i can see clearly at the gates there in the corner all alone, sad and neglected. why don't you do a Lindberg special, anything the dude touches is gold, including the crust/punk/hc/industrial stuff.
yeah, that was awesome. I remember the first CD I owned was Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness in 1990. I think it had only been released the year before.
Songs in order:
0:04 Death - Zombie ritual
0:26 Entombed - Living dead
0:51 Morbid Angel - Fall from grace
1:11 Unleashed - Dead forever
1:31 Cannibal Corpse - Scourge of iron
1:57 Grave - Deformed
2:22 Deicide - Lunatic of God’s creation
2:46 Dismember - Under a blood red sky
3:12 Morbid Angel - Suffocation
3:33 Grave - Morbid ascent
3:54 Cannibal Corpse - Priests of sodom
4:21 Unleashed - Blood of lies
4:42 Deicide - When Satan rules his world
5:05 Dismember - Fleshless
5:31 Death - Flattening of emotions
5:59 Entombed - Carnal leftovers
I’m actually cool with the idea with a death metal big 4, especially seeing how there’s so many different scenes and styles across the world, but I’d personally change it from being like the grunge or thrash big 4’s where it’s a concrete list of the same 4 bands to being more subjective, like “Yeah, that’s MY big 4”, and then we’d get all of these interesting results from different people, and we’d also get a lot more of “Where’s MY favorite band?”, so it just gets chaotic
My American big 4 would be Death-Obituary-Suffocation-Morbid Angel, and my Swedish big 4 would be Entombed-Grave-At the Gates-Unleashed
Thanks mate ! Glad you are back 🤟🤟
Swap AtG with Edge of Sanity and i fully agree!🙃🤘
TheSuffocater ... how do you not have a list of how you got all these tones?!?! Or am I missing something?
The Grave Morbid Ascent riff is the sickest of all. Imo.
Indeed! Big 4 should be your personal preference!
This isn't about winning our loosing. It's about showing that metal fucking rules no matter where you're from.
totally agree
Absolutely!
Especially if your from Tampa lol
Hell yeah !!! Best comment ever man. YOU sir, get it.
exactly 🤘🏼
These twins should start a band.
Usa wins by a clear margin
NGL. USA al the way
The grand dude knows how to multiply himself😀
The Death Metal Nelson Twins!!!!
I like the fact that they seem very supportive of each other 🤣
Scourge of Iron doesn’t get enough love. That track is a banger.
Definitely
Actually my favourite CC track
I'm from the United States but damn you got to love that swedish buzzsaw tone. Nothing beats it
it's beefy
Love them all !!!
You’re a great guitarist!
Same
Me too \m/
Nice video man!!! Fuckin' Death "N" Roll!!! yeah
Me too. Please songs from PROTECTOR ;)
Death takes the cake. Chucks riffs are legendary.
I agree, other American bands here are no slouch either. One of the rare instances when the riff battle is clearly lopsided.
Death is in my opinion the best american death metal band ever!
So underrated band
Sure but I would never dare to say Trey Azagthoth or Glen Benton riffs(if he made them, for sure hes the mastermind) are not. Everything what we hear here is legendary.
@@abepacana2274 Wha ?? Death is underated ?? maybe in snowflake generation who grow up in FB times etc but not in "old" metal heads.
Swedish bands got that thiCC tone and groove
yeah, love those crunchy guitars
The HM-2 pedal! The sound of Swedish Death Metal.
@@TheMorganRose Or the HM-300 if you’re cheap like me.
Thats why i listen to such metal
All I heard was the sound of a broken radio, nothing else 🤔
🤭
Never really got into UNLEASHED. I guess i'll be getting into Unleashed ASAP.
strarted listening to them about 2 months ago, and now its my daily banger. vape on mate
Holy shit it's Nick 😳😳
last album is very good, great guitar work
Hell's Unleashed is one of my favorits albums, although it's not "old school". Check it out, it's worth it. It's one of the less viking albums but it's really cool.
Huh, fancy seeing you here! Now you are my idol ❤
now the "underdogs", netherlands vs england, lots of great material there: sinister, asphyx, pestilence, thanatos, gorefest vs napalm death, carcass, cancer, benediction, bolt thrower.
OMG YES YES YES!
Sinister!
@@rikard1414 Exactly!
You had me at Carcass.
asphyx is great!
What I learned from this video: I need to purchase some Grave and some Unleashed albums.
Damn, death riffs are too much for the others
Brutal, right?
melodic xd....and technical
So true
Overrated. Stop fanboying posers.
^look out we gotta a "real metalhead" over here..wait
God growing up in Tampa and in the scene it’s so funny to see how big they are outside of here. Shit I went to school with Glen Bentons son and he attended my buddies birthday party lmao.
I'm from Tampa FL. I got to see all those Florida death metal bands on more then one occasion. Late 80's early 90's. Probably seen Obituary the most. Obituary still does one off shows every so often. Since they live in the area. Of course, nothing lately.
Monstrosity rules!!
I hate You😭😭😭😭... From The creadle of Death Metal...🔪🪓🤘🤘🪓🔪
Lived in Florida before but no on Tampa however I used to take trips there, it was fun in the 90’s
The drummer to the band I am in used to hang out with the drummer from Obituary. Did you ever see Gnaw?
I too am from the Tampa/St Pete area. The 80’s/90’s were a sick time to be here. So close to so many great bands! I remember on any given week being able to see Obituary, Deicide, Atheist, Death, Cynic, Cannibal Corpse, Massacre, etc. The list goes on and on.
Speaking of Deicide, they will be playing a small club in New Port Richey in a few weeks with Butler’s new band Inhuman Condition. 🤘🏻
*insert meme of cat in suit reading the newpaper*
I should listen to Grave.
Anyways, I always find it kinda cool that my country (Sweden) is such a huge musical power house. We have just recently gotten to 10 million in population,and... I havent seen any recent number, but we used to be The worlds 3rd largest exporter of music. I mean sure, absolutley dwarfed by the US and The UK. But still! Pretty cool. And ofc just not metal, but many other genres as well.
🇺🇸 🤘 🇸🇪
Swedish metal is the best metal! 🤘🤘🇸🇪
Agree, but with the note that UK is a small player in Metal nowadays. Obviously if looking back at bands from 70's & 80's it is a giant. And yes they still play live etc. But bands with breakthrough after that(?) My top 70-80 albums of last year contain maybe 2 UK albums way down in the lists. Compared with 8(!) Swedish albums in top 20 within black/death. These lists are of course a matter of taste, but there is no chance UK can hold up the fight against Sweden in new Metal.
Good to see Scourge Of Iron on this list, easily the best song cannibal corpse has made in the past 10-15 years imo
Song absolutely crushes
Scourge of Iron is really underappreciated! Always been one of my favourite cannibal corpse songs
My favorite cannibal song
I love this song but Rabid also rocks
Great video!!
Hey Simon ! Glad you like this one ! Huge fan of your channel, used a lot of your guitar lessons for my own videos ! Greets from germany !!
Dutch vs Finnish death metal next?
Pestilence, (old)Gorefest, Asphyx and God Dethroned VS Demilich, Adramelech, Demigod and (old) Amorphis? Hard to choose, lots of legendary others as well..
@@ShapeshifteRTheRadiusGameCat Great list!
@Dödispää (Old) Sentenced, Convulse, Mordicus, Abhorrence, Excrement, Wings, Vomiturition, Scum, Depravity... kyllähän näitä riittää ja demo bändeistä nostasin viel sellasen nimen ku Garcharot
Might just be a weird thing to notice but the way you make the version of you that isn’t playing headbang and sometimes play along seems to stand out because no matter what we’re all bonded by metal in the end and metalheads support each other. Another sweet video dude!
Word !!
As a swede it hurts to say that riff wise America wins. Sweden has Entombed though, you can't beat that 😁. Nice guitar work!
I'm not too sure those presented are generally considered a 'big 4' either in the USA or Sweden...I'm not going to argue against The US selection (except maybe the tracks themselves). You Swedes should know better I'd think, because you have MANY more interesting bands. Even Opeth qualifies I'd think. Parts of Watershed surely, if nothing else.
@Alf Lifethis stuff here is more like apples to oranges, or how would Americans describe it. Or apples to wrong apples. Problem being, they are pretty good at death. We, Europeans, tend to be into (more) melodic metal. Not to say I have something against 6 Feet Under (I love them) or Cannibal Corpse or Morbid Angel. Or Brujeria. Or Nile. I have nothing against Messugah (a europen counterpart) either. I think we're worlds apart. As are the continents:)
@Alf Life Don't agree about CoF. They're pretty good. As in 'good musically/arrangement wise, great production and visually impressive' But they are British, so they don't count:) None of the other bands are Swedish. CoB are (sorry, were, RIP Alexi Laiho) from Finland. Others are Norwegians. Mayhem was pretty impressive since and including 'The Grand Declaration of War'. Burzum and other shit like that just doesn't count:) I really cannot understand their 'cult' status. Be proud of Dissection (also, RIP) or Dark Tanquillity instead....
@@Damarenhide I do know better but was judging the riffs TheSuffocater selected to performed in the vid. Also I dont consider myself to represent Sweden in general, if I did I would probably not comment on this at all :)
@Alf Life Well. I bought my first Burzum album in 1993 (a tape), when they were actually unavailable here. A disappointment. Me just being 'true fan of true blackmetal'. Not knowing anything about composition or music then. I still have it, for better or worse. Darkthrone...(also) just does not offer anything musically. I have all their 3 'real albums', as tr00 kvlt blackmetal guys would say. I did not mention Dark Funeral at all. However, they are the best of your list, and Nils Fjellstrom is f-ing unbelievable. So much so that he is frequently seen on '[insert style] drum teacher is damn amazed' videos. Well, all of the former is besides the point. What I originally said: I'm not sure this particular European (or even the US) list is really representative of any 'big 4'. And I said nothing about the riffs played, which are played marvellously.
As an old-style death metal head, I really missed Edge of Sanity. Swano is equal to Chuck when it comes to genius. For old school death metal riffs, go for Benediction and Obituary :)
Indeed! Edge of Sanity and Swano should have more recognition. His contribution with Bloodbath was flawless as well
Edge of sanity is my first Death metal album... Purgatory Afterglow FTW!
Dan the man🤘
Obituary has the best death metal riffs, hands down.
Indeed, Edge of Sanity should have been in there cuz we, the swedes still mention Edge of Sanity and old Hypocrisy when we talk death metal but we got lots of it: Darkified too is and still are underground.
When it comes to Death Metal, the U.S is king imo. All good bands tho.
Florida in particular
Sehr gut! 🤘🏼
Pls more "UNLEASHED", they've got many tasty riffs!🤘🏼
This is sick bro awesome job 🤘🏻🤘🏻🔥🔥
Man, you have so many awesome guitars!
With some pedals ofc
@William Edward's dude, EMG 81 85 4life.
@William Edward's Man, I need to get more experience with different pick ups. I've only owned a handful of guitars and once I got my first decent guitars pickups changed to emgs I couldn't stop.
Death's sound really stands out amongst other dm bands. Much more emphasis on melody. That's why they were the best.
I agree, even though they play death metal it was always polished and nice sounding, quite different from the other death metal bands as they sounded ugly and nasty.
Aiden Commandeur it’s just taste brother, honestly I never got into obituary, why? I don’t know, I’m not talking shit or anything but that’s just how it is. It took me around 15 years of listening to death metal to finally get into morbid angel. Domination was the first one that got my attention, then after listening to them for a while, it was the other albums that became my favorite. Music is a beautiful thing, maybe 10 years from now I’ll get into obituary, or maybe I’ll start listening to r&b lol
@@victormiranda4664 dude same with Morbid. I can’t believe it took me this long! But that’s why I love music, and how your opinion of it changes over time.
I too started with Domination then instantly fell in love with Blessed. Now a proper fan!
Formulas is just pure heaven
Jacob Wells Haa!! Formulas is my favorite. I do have to say that I saw them 3 times before I got into them (2 with David and once with Steve) and each time was a sick ass show. Then I got to see them a fourth time with Steve, by that time I was a fan already and they ended their set with nothing is not. It was satisfying.
That is why Death isnt death metal. No brutality whatsoever. Its the precursor to swedish death metal.
Boss HM2 ALL THE THINGS!!!!
finally a "vs" video where its the 2 sides not being cringe by fake cringing!!!!!
How many Death metal riffs want in this video ?
TheSuffocater: Yes
Lol 😀
Swedish bands have a greater feel of melody and narrative, makes their riffs more interesting imo. Like they can stand on their own without any other instruments.
Nope
Death has that same thing I feel. Chuck was an exceptional music composer.
Agreed
America WON again.
@@MetalHeart8787 imo Sweden is better
Death metal is just too damn good
Morbid angel got me into Death metal still my favorite to this day
Killer riffs, great bands, and awesome execution.
Keep up the good job !
Lunatic of God's Creation intro riff is one of the best riffs out there.
There's something about the groove in Entombed that just elevates them for me. Nicke Andersson is a fucking genius.
But great vid, I grew up in Stockholm during these years with Entombed (Nihilist), Dismember, Tiamat (Treblinka) and so on, marvelous times.
Tell us something about that times
The real winners here are the fans
Now do: Dokken, Mötley Crue, Skid Row and Guns N' Roses
Vs:
Europe, Hammerfall, Yngie Malmsteen and Candlemass 😁😁
🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@winterfrost99 Hahahaaaaa!!
I knew someone would react like that! Anything with melody is disgusting for you 😂😂.
That's the beauty of being human: everyone has different tastes!
And btw: I do like heavier stuff aswell like: Slayer, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest etc.
But it depends on what mood I'm in. Sometimes it's nice to relax your ears to melodic rock.
Anyway keep on rockin'!
Cheers!
Yeah but Candlemass are doom gods...I’ll have me some Demon’s Gate
@@mrmaxaxl Maybe his reaction was only related to Dokken.
Would make sense. That's what rancid kitchy camp cunts cause. 😂
Man, your guitar collection is sweet! I had the chance to buy a Willie Adler camo esp but I went with a razor back instead. Then I sold it because I wasn't a fan of the floydrose. Anyway, there's definitely a stylistic difference between US and Sweden. Seems like the sweeds are more about the trem picking.
Trem picking sounds fuckin rad, so I gotta say, the swedes might be onto something
Вылечила музыка похмелье!
Волшебно!))кайф))
As a proud red blooded american I have to say that Swedish death metal as a whole wins out for me. The scene has a special place in my heart, that said, Obituary, Death, Immolation, Morbid Angel and some others are always in my playlists.
Death metal forever!👍
Indecent And Obsene is the perfect death metal record
My all time favorite.
It sounds like the drums were actually played by someone. I appreciate that.
Thanks , great you noticed that. The drums are aranged to the original recording, hit by hit , so no click. Gives this natural vibe !
This might be my favorite battle. I'm so glad I got to live my teen years during this era... I remember going to a concert almost every weekend to see these bands, and it was great that most of the time they would end up on Saturdays! those in San Diego will surely remember the shows at SOMA. Great memories... BTW my favorite death metal album is HUMAN from Death, I remember my jaw dropping the first time I listened to it and how I went through several tape copies of it because I would wear them out from playing them so much. RIP Chuck and Sean.
Thanks for your great comment ! This is the soundtrack of our youth 🤟
Amen brother! We were doing the exact same thing on the other side of the US here in Buffalo, NY. Great to hear from another metalhead.
@@paulbrown9311 Good times indeed, cheers! 🤘
Anyone else remember going to Brass Tap in Tampa and literally Deicide, Morbid Angle, Death , and Cannibal Corpse was all on the same bill? God those 80-90s records recorded at morsesound were Iconic.
Brass mug? Don't recall a brass tap but haven't lived in tampa in a minute. Last show I saw there was with the absence at the crowbar
@@-SinisterSixT6- yeah the brass mug. Sorry stoned tbh.
American riffs is lower and cleaner but I like it, Swedens is more dirty but love them too. I guess one perhaps have to go to the more experimental or progressive bands like Humanity’s last breath, Vildhjärta or Meshuggah to get those low tones?
Entombed, Dismember, Cannibal and Death are the best for me in this video, I prefer Morbid Angel over Death but the Death riffs you chose are great, especially Zombie Ritual.
To omit Obituary from the American big 4 is an abomination.....
Sweet that Grave gets some attention, they often get overlooked nowadays.
Then we have Merciless as well, the two first albums are really good.
Had to check Merciless out and man they're REALLY fuckin good! Thanks for mentioning! Love how much awesome stuff you find in youtube comments, like a goddam goldmine 🤘😤🤘
Burton C. Bell what are you doing here? Return to "Fear Factory". We need the new album with your vocals.
Best of the best! To Asgard we fly -> The spirit will never die! Jai, danke Suffocater wir höchste Zeit für einen Stufenhaarschnitt - lol
Great job as always., who ever is thumbing these videos down? Seriously get a life ya loser. Absolutely no reason to thumb these vids down. Very well done. An lot of time an effort gone into making them riffs spot on. 🔥🔥
Thanks a lot James !!
Swedish dude here who grew up on the Gothenburg melodeath, rather than swedish DM.
The only true Death Metal act I've ever gotten really into is Death. Flattening of Emotions is pinnacle Death Metal (sure, it's kind of Tech Death I guess, whatever). I have never heard extreme metal that rivals that kind of prowess in "the completeness of the artistry." The song title itself is really the most brutal song title I've heard.
Since I heard Human by Death, no DM really impacts me the same way. I guess I'm kind of an outsider to DM, but to me it seems like Death is the band that produced the most amount of "Death Metal masterpieces." As in truly masterful riffage, melody, use of voice, song structure, emotional impact... The works.
I mean, DM is really cool enough by being heavy and brutal, it's all good. I like it when it something more than that, I've only found it in Death. But I should probably look around more.
So thanks America, especially for Death. Thanks Chuck - R.I.P.
The pros and main interests you described sure reflect what you grew up with, I can see why you like Death so much. But on average, for being death metal, there are a lot of bands that "do" the genre much better imo. You would definitely have plenty more bands to look for exploring the tech death and prog death areas
Thank you for featuring Unleashed. .Such an underated band!
1.31 Cannibal Corpse îs the Best , for me!!!
GRAVE!!! \m/ Def my fav Swedish DM Band
death was a total different breed of death metal, RIP Chuck
The late Chuck Schuldiner made our DEATH METAL happen once again all of your performance on all accounts is brutal and true
It should be Obituary instead of CC come on 😖
Swedish death metal and No Hypocrisy?😮😮😮
That's the big four of swedish death metal
@@galosniper7010 That dipends who you ask, i would chose Hypocrisy before Grave 😁
Edge of Sanity is underrated too!
@@ShapeshifteRTheRadiusGameCat I agree 👍
Ma préférence , depuis toujours : SWEDISH DEATH METAL!
Goddamn those double kicks on that Deicide song are thicc as fuck, never really been big on Death Metal of any variation, but those 80’s & 90’s bands just had something about them.
How about British bands (Bolt Thrower/Benediction/Napalm Death/Carcass) vs American Big or Polish bands (Vader/Behemoth/Hate/Decapitated) vs American Big?
Morbid Angel 🤘
Morbid Angel - Leonardo
Death - Donatello
Cannibal Corpse - Raphael
Decide - Michelangelo
Is it Pat O'brien's signature B.C Rich?
It´s a Kerry King signature, just gave it a new colour !!
@@TheSuffocater is there a floyd rose on it?
It's like the Death Metal Olympics.
The American side sounds like they all derived from Slayer
because they do
The swedes all sound like they derived from venom, hell hammer, and bathory.
North Americans * U.S are not America for complete.
American death metal is pretty much just Slayer and Possessed with growling.
European death metal is Kreator and Bolt Thrower with growling.
@@jackclayton5620dog... Slayer is derived from Venom.... all extreme metal is derived from Venom
Call me an old fart but I still think that early 90's were the best time for Death Metal.
Word !!
I like how both plays both parts and has both characters root each other on or enjoy the music of the other person. Showing metals wholesomeness
I always forget entombed us sweed
Suffocation still the kings tho
+ Immolation and Incantation
We need a Cannibal Corpse vs Cannabis Corpse riff battle.
Thats a great idea !
Thanks for the reminder to go out and buy some Morbid Angel, finally.
You forgot Obituary but Oh well 🤷♂️.
Like there's no other Swedish DM bands... :-P
Old swedish death metal arghhhhh
american death is way more creative
As much as I love Death, ima have to go with the Swedish DM side. You just can’t beat Left Hand Path and Like An Everflowing Stream. Either way great video! I would like to make a suggestion to do German Tech Death bands vs American Tech Death Bands!
if he plays stabwound.. we all know whos gonna win that battle anyway...
Death >>>> All other bands ever
If Burton C Bell and James May have a baby together.
Amazing riffage!
Very good
Deicide is my absolute favourite. Lunatic of Gods creation is one of the most evil riffs ever
Legendary fuckin song!
For me i always prefered Deicide over Morbid Angel because of the overall production of the albums, Death is also my favorite. I know im gonna get heat but Morbid Angel was always the lesser of the big 4 for me, and this coming from someone who went to a Morbid Angel concert.
Swedish, amazing riffs
Death is a completely different league when it comes to composition, catchiness, melody and everything else.
Fanboy.
@@vonbl3 antifan lol
It's not about being in a different league, it was Chuck's style. The majority of top early death metal bands had their own distinct style.
And the winner is.....
MORBID ANGEL
Yup
Killer job! I love playing "Guess the Song" with these.
*god i hate Swedish guitar tone*
Damn, had never heard of Entombed before. Every riff from them was bad ass, I gotta check them out!
Kek they are basics of swedish 90s death metal. Early albums were bomb and kickass
And Hedlund who created Unleashed later was on bass in Entombed demos. I reccomend you 1990 Left Hand Path, 1991 Clandestine and 1993 Wolverine Blues, that albums where their producer Skogsberg created that "bzzzzzzz" death metal sound typical for nordic death school
Where is Opeth?
Sweden loves the snare on the back beat, punkier sounding chord progressions, dirtier grooves...
it shows how close early dm was to the hardcore scene back then.
Coming from Norway, I love these videos. I hadn't listened to Death or Entombed in 30-something years (idk, fuck my math) you're REALLY on point. Morbid Angel, holy shit. That's a while ago.
My american big 4 : death , massacre ,deicide, suffocation
My swedish big 4 : Dismember , at the gates , desultory, bloodbath
the scourge of iron riff never fails to impress me
I say this as an American, Eurometal will win 9 out of 10 times.
Nah...depends on the band.
In this genre it's close. Seems the swedes really stepped up the death metal/black metal game
As European, I must say my preference goes to the Florida scene... But it's kinda of pointless, many great death bands all around the world...
Not necessarily, they also gave us power, folk and viking metal, which I find to be trash, US power metal is more gritty, Euro power metal and viking metal too are made to appeal to the LARPers and armchair historians(the crowd who only care about war history and get pissy about which sword is superior).
should do a video of Bolt Thrower vs the rest
Have you checked our Bolt Thrower collab cover ?😎
@@TheSuffocater just watched it now...awesome
it's not that i disagree with the Swedish choice of bands but i can see clearly at the gates there in the corner all alone, sad and neglected. why don't you do a Lindberg special, anything the dude touches is gold, including the crust/punk/hc/industrial stuff.
At The Gates is part of the gotemburg trio with In Flames and Dark Tranquility
Dismember, the noisiest of all the Swedish death metal bands of whose records I still possess a copy. Ahhh. (I added an extra H)
Every band considered, Sweden takes this one in my opinion. The Swedish death metal sound is just so heavy and crunchy, BUT Death is still the best
yeah, that was awesome. I remember the first CD I owned was Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness in 1990. I think it had only been released the year before.
Satan Spawn, the Suffo-cater