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Guest review by
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This is it. Finally, after more than 10 years of waiting, we have got It. The one, the only the true thrash metal album. Death have had six releases, have made some drastic changes in their style and have achieved it finally.
Despite being labeled as the fathers of death metal, only their first album is truly death metal, mainly due to vocal abilities of main-man Chuck Schuldiner, who was never really a death vocal. His singing has steadily and gradually evolved into more and more shrieking, until now on this album we hear him really screaming. Not many people came to terms with it and have accepted, but it is what thrash metal is all about. Its most distinct feature are the vocals and Chuck has shown what thrash vocals should sound like. Screaming, aggressive, full of feeling, coming right from the heart. True thrash metal that is.
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| published 15.09.2003 | Comments (27)
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Guest review by
K†ulu
Rating:
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I'm not going to start this review with whining about how unfortunate we are for having lost Chuck Schuldiner back in 2001 and The Sound Of Perseverance being the last Death album. Chuck was a great musician indeed, but fate was too cruel to him, and he passed away. The legacy in form of his music though is with us, so let's talk about it.
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| published 06.07.2008 | Comments (22)
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Guest review by
metaniac
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9.9
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What started off from Individual Thought Patterns and continued through Symbolic as a slight progressive-thrash deviation for Death casts its full blown dominance in The Sound Of Perseverance. Just before Chuck goes out with his plans on Control Denied, this album comes out.
It is very hard to single out highlight songs from an album with so many exquisite technical creations, nevertheless, "Scavenger OF Human Sorrow", "Spirit Crusher", "Voice Of the Soul", "Bite the Pain", "A Moment Of Clarity" stand out among the tracks. Listening to the whole album from beginning to the end is a downright MUST and also a request.
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| published 28.10.2010 | Comments (18)
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Guest review by
Hermann Langke
Rating:
9.3
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What better name for a metal band? Especially one concentrating so fixedly on the snuffing out of life? The sonic blood-curdling career of mainman Chuck Schuldiner is one of the most celebrated in the development of death metal as a thrash sub-genre. Death were the daddies of this hack 'n' slay brand of guitar violence, and anyone with even the vaguest wish to count themselves as practitioners of extreme noise, from Carcass to Deicide, from Obituary to Cannibal Corpse, would count Schuldiner's unholy racket as a major influence.
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Written by Unhealer on 24.02.2013 at 17:33
Written by Illog1cal on 24.02.2013 at 15:44
The songwriting on this album is not good at all. Take 'Flesh and the Power it Holds' for example: the song begins with one whole section of riffs and then onto this break in the song where all the guitar solos come in, once that is finished you have that whole section of riffs and also lyrics again before the break until the end of the song. Its repetitive, pointless and the song has no purpose, it goes nowhere. 'Symbolic' and some of 'Individual Thought Patterns' suffered from this type of dull cyclical songwriting too, but not to this extent.
How is that song structure cyclical? Your explanation makes it look quite simpler that it actually is, even if it's pretty basic really. How would you expect a song structure to be so it's not "repetitive and pointless"? I bet lots of songs you like have a similar structure actually.
Its fine to repeat small sections of the song, but not to replicate a whole 2 and a half minutes exactly as it was played earlier on in the song, at least mix up the order of the riffs so that its not so painfully easy to predict. Yes, there probably are a lot of songs that I listen to that have a similar structure, but those songs probably have much more interesting riffs to begin with and the song would be half as long, these riffs are plain low power chord chugging most of the time, where are the great riffs that were present in Leprosy or Spiritual Healing?
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Written by Illog1cal on 24.02.2013 at 15:44
The songwriting on this album is not good at all. Take 'Flesh and the Power it Holds' for example: the song begins with one whole section of riffs and then onto this break in the song where all the guitar solos come in, once that is finished you have that whole section of riffs and also lyrics again before the break until the end of the song. Its repetitive, pointless and the song has no purpose, it goes nowhere. 'Symbolic' and some of 'Individual Thought Patterns' suffered from this type of dull cyclical songwriting too, but not to this extent.
The songwriting is extremely sub par, but the icing on the cake (assuming this is a shit cake with shitty icing) are Chuck's vocals. I loved them on the first two albums, and they were alright after that. But his screams on this are cringe-worthy. I think Marcel once described them as being Donald Duck on helium, and I'd say that's a perfectly accurate description.
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Written by Illog1cal on 24.02.2013 at 18:42
where are the great riffs that were present in Leprosy or Spiritual Healing?
Exactly and also on Scream Bloody Gore.
TSOP is really by far Death's weakest album for me.
EDIT: now quoted properly 
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Written by Alex Lemon on 24.02.2013 at 19:01
I think Marcel once described them as being Donald Duck on helium, and I'd say that's a perfectly accurate description.
I did indeed and still do it on a regular basis. Chuck's vocals were never strong, also not on the earlist albums and demo's but he really got terrible later on in his career.
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.02.2013 at 19:05
I did indeed and still do it on a regular basis. Chuck's vocals were never strong, also not on the earlist albums and demo's but he really got terrible later on in his career.
I've always thought his vocals fit better on their first two albums. Nothing spectacular, but they were at least good.
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Written by Alex Lemon on 24.02.2013 at 19:09
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.02.2013 at 19:05
I did indeed and still do it on a regular basis. Chuck's vocals were never strong, also not on the earlist albums and demo's but he really got terrible later on in his career.
I've always thought his vocals fit better on their first two albums. Nothing spectacular, but they were at least good.
They were generic and that's pretty much it. Typical growls where the music made up for them greatly, just like almost all death metal. Just like in this case.
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Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 19:33
They were generic and that's pretty much it, typical growls where the music made up for them greatly. Just like in this case.
Except in this case, along with the vocals being much much worse, the song composition makes up for nothing, and actually worsens the problem 
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Lit. - 24.02.2013 at 19:41
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Written by Alex Lemon on 24.02.2013 at 19:37
Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 19:33
They were generic and that's pretty much it, typical growls where the music made up for them greatly. Just like in this case.
Except in this case, along with the vocals being much much worse, the song composition makes up for nothing, and actually worsens the problem
I think you must be confusing this record with Symbolic. 
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Written by Illog1cal on 24.02.2013 at 18:42
Its fine to repeat small sections of the song, but not to replicate a whole 2 and a half minutes exactly as it was played earlier on in the song, at least mix up the order of the riffs so that its not so painfully easy to predict. Yes, there probably are a lot of songs that I listen to that have a similar structure, but those songs probably have much more interesting riffs to begin with and the song would be half as long, these riffs are plain low power chord chugging most of the time, where are the great riffs that were present in Leprosy or Spiritual Healing?
I think the riffs on the first albums are very innocent, those of a songwriter who has yet a lot of ways to explore. And if this record consist of plain low power chords then at least it's not the chromatic one note tremolo riffing that predominates on the records you mentioned And I'm not complaining about either of them, I love all the albums they've released except Scream Bloody Gore which I have yet to buy. It's just that Chuck's later compositions have the jazzy touch on them, I find them a bit more interesting.
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Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 19:41
I think you must be confusing this record with Symbolic.
I am sure he isn't because TSOP is Death´s worse album by far and also Symbolic at least still had a semblance of death metal on it whereas TSOP is devoid of any death metal whatsoever 
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Lit. - 24.02.2013 at 19:52
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.02.2013 at 19:44
Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 19:41
I think you must be confusing this record with Symbolic.
I am sure he isn't because TSOP is Death´s worse album by far and also Symbolic at least still had a semblance of death metal on it whereas TSOP is devoid of any death metal whatsoever
Death metal =/= good music
Most of the time at least. Such is the case with Symbolic.
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Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 19:41
I think you must be confusing this record with Symbolic.
What Marcel said. This is basically a tech-y thrash metal album.... with Donald Duck on vocals. It's really not surprising that I dislike this, seeing as I dislike most thrash metal.
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Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 19:52
Death metal =/= good music
Most of the time at least. Such is the case with Symbolic.
Death were at their peak when they played pure death metal. Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy are by far their best closely followed by Spiritual Healing.
Modern day death metal and brutal death metal is generally crap but old school death metal rules supreme. Tiamat, Sentenced, Entombed, for example, were at their peak when they played old school death metal.
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Written by Alex Lemon on 24.02.2013 at 19:52
What Marcel said. This is basically a tech-y thrash metal album.... with Donald Duck on vocals. It's really not surprising that I dislike this, seeing as I dislike most thrash metal.
mmm this has nothing to do with thrash metal Or else I would have enjoyed it a lot more. What we get here some sort of extremish techy proggy wankery. But failing in all departments.
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.02.2013 at 19:57
mmm this has nothing to do with thrash metal Or else I would have enjoyed it a lot more. What we get here some sort of extremish techy proggy wankery. But failing in all departments.
Last time I listened to this was a few months ago, and I don't really want to submit myself to torture simply to classify this, but I vaguely remember this being thrash influenced. However it certainly is techy, wankery, and fails in all departments . If I'm every feeling masochistic I'll give this a whirl again to test your classification.
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Lit. - 24.02.2013 at 20:04
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.02.2013 at 19:56
Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 19:52
Death metal =/= good music
Most of the time at least. Such is the case with Symbolic.
Death were at their peak when they played pure death metal. Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy are by far their best closely followed by Spiritual Healing.
Modern day death metal and brutal death metal is generally crap but old school death metal rules supreme. Tiamat, Sentenced, Entombed, for example, were at their peak when they played old school death metal.
I'm with you on all points here. Death's early works are far better, and most MDM and BDM suck. OSDM is freaking dope.
I'm just saying, even if they're both crap, TSOP > Symbolic.
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Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 20:04
I'm just saying, even if they're both crap, TSOP > Symbolic.
and there I totally disagree. Symbolic is still enjoyable whereas TSOP is pure torture to my ears
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Lit. - 24.02.2013 at 20:16
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.02.2013 at 20:06
Written by Lit. on 24.02.2013 at 20:04
I'm just saying, even if they're both crap, TSOP > Symbolic.
and there I totally disagree. Symbolic is still enjoyable whereas TSOP is pure torture to my ears
...And vice-versa for yours truly.
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I dislike both Symbolic and TSOP.
I really don't enjoy any Death album,. but SBG is probably my favourite.
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The weakest death album to me. the voice a la cradle of filth, and the sound production, are horrendous
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The album would be better without the vocals, and yes it is one of the most relevant aspects when i rata an album, if not so i would have been a huge venom fan
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mz - 10.05.2013 at 00:27
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I know that the vox are not prefect, but they work for me, I do not know why. Chucks vocal on symbolic are far more terrible than this.
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All Death albums would be better without Chuck's vocals if you ask me. Probably one of the worst sounding vocalists I've ever heard.
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Good Album, but not as good as People make it out to be. I still prefer their first 4 Albums.
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