Zero Tolerance!!!!!!!!!best just best.
are you sleeping??...
oh Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner why you die?you are ingenious

I'm not a Death fan to say so (I don't like all their albums, the earlier one's I almost can't listen to) but here are my favourites in order: Crystal Mountain, 10000 Eyes, Empty Words, Symbolic, Without Judgement, Misanthrope, Zero Tolerance and Perennial Quest with the end.

So that pretty much sums it up.

Yawn

Chuck Vocals annoy the piss out of me, the riffing is cool and all, but not THAT cool.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 01.08.2012 at 01:42

Chuck Vocals annoy the piss out of me, the riffing is cool and all, but not THAT cool.

Basically how I feel about it. I probably need to revise my scores though.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 01.08.2012 at 01:42

Chuck Vocals annoy the piss out of me, the riffing is cool and all, but not THAT cool.

Well, the high pitched voice wasn't an all-time-thing. I know many enjoy their first stuff and dislike the later mostly because of the vocals.

I love this masterpiece

Written by X-Ray Rod on 01.08.2012 at 11:20
Well, the high pitched voice wasn't an all-time-thing. I know many enjoy their first stuff and dislike the later mostly because of the vocals.

I like Death's last two albums very much, though I have to admit I'd like them even more if the vocals were more "classic Chuck". "Individual Thought Patterns" was the last album to contain those classic vocals. The vocals on "Symbolic" were like a mix between his older style vocals and the higher pitched vocals that were on TSOP. And on TSOP the vocals were fully in the high pitched style that you could hear starting to come through on the previous album. I don't hate the high pitched vocals by any means, and they are certainly not bad enough to make me dislike the last two albums, but they are definitely the weak spot on those albums. If those albums contained Chuck's old voice, they would definitely sound quite a bit better than they actually do.

Highest level of technicality mixed with metal spirit. Chuck was a genius. No word about this masterpiece. 11/10. Could be one of the best album of all time, no matter about the music style. For sure, a reference in metal.

Very good album, but just a little bit overrated. Human, Spiritual Healing and Leprosy are better in my opinion.

This is actually closer to being a Power Metal album with all the power chords, the over the top soaring solos, dramatic screams, traditional song structures. It is a very inoffensive Death metal album, it is a Power Metal album but with screaming instead of clean vocals and a down-tuned clean but chug-worthy guitar tone. I quite like a lot of it because even though it is repetitive there are some stand out moments and overall songs that are too great to pass on, you have: 'Symbolic', 'Empty Words', the classic anthem 'Crystal Mountain', and 'Misanthrope' which was decent.

Written by Guest on 07.01.2013 at 13:47

This is actually closer to being a Power Metal album with all the power chords, the over the top soaring solos, dramatic screams, traditional song structures. It is a very inoffensive Death metal album, it is a Power Metal album but with screaming instead of clean vocals and a down-tuned clean but chug-worthy guitar tone. I quite like a lot of it because even though it is repetitive there are some stand out moments and overall songs that are too great to pass on, you have: 'Symbolic', 'Empty Words', the classic anthem 'Crystal Mountain', and 'Misanthrope' which was decent.

At this point I wouldn't call it death metal at all... Just progressive metal. Same for the next one.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 07.01.2013 at 21:44

Written by Guest on 07.01.2013 at 13:47

This is actually closer to being a Power Metal album with all the power chords, the over the top soaring solos, dramatic screams, traditional song structures. It is a very inoffensive Death metal album, it is a Power Metal album but with screaming instead of clean vocals and a down-tuned clean but chug-worthy guitar tone. I quite like a lot of it because even though it is repetitive there are some stand out moments and overall songs that are too great to pass on, you have: 'Symbolic', 'Empty Words', the classic anthem 'Crystal Mountain', and 'Misanthrope' which was decent.

At this point I wouldn't call it death metal at all... Just progressive metal. Same for the next one.

Its not progressive, if it was progressive songs like 'Without Judgement' would not have two sections at the beginning of the song and then a middle 'spaced out' part and then the same two sections at the beginning repeated again to finish. This is a very simple song structure, its nowhere near progressive and neither are most of the other songs.

Let's agree to disagree then. Just because it doesn't have an extremely difficult structure it doesn't mean that is' not progressive.

One thing is for sure: This ain't death and neither the last album.

Fucking great.

For me 3rd Death album, after SoP and Human.

I'm not very much into death but I really love this album.

My favourite Death album and one of my all-time favourite metal albums. Not a single song that is not great to my ears.

If i had to narrow down my favorite metal albums ever, this album is one that i can define as a true metal record. It sounds so ahead of its time and the mix of catchy and atmospheric riffs is unbelieveably good. Chuck schuldiner is truly the metal wizard

Mi album favorito de Death y de todas, no me canso de escucharlo, excelente bateria

Written by Xygtrag on 20.10.2015 at 23:25

Mi album favorito de Death y de todas, no me canso de escucharlo, excelente bateria

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A masterpiece, perfect album.

Wow

As close to perfection as anyone has ever come

I've never listened to this - and I love Spiritual Healing

Best death metal album of all time, I dont have any doubts that is listed in one of the first places about the greatest metal albums, the speed, the progression, the vocals, everything here is perfect.

Reappreciating this one more now. Musically outstanding.

Liked this one a lot more than TSoP, it's just a better album overall, with far better songwriting, catchier riffs and even the vocals are better. Good album this, excited to listen to it again sometime soon.

This album is magical... I feel like it's hard to fully appreciate it. To me the thing that stands out are definitely the lyrics. Every song deals with something that can hit you. And they are not easy to understand.
Generally, every song feels polished to perfection. Every song is filled with content, awesome on every end.
However, it does feel boring for me sometimes. It's a lot to swallow, and if you're not mindful about it, it gets boring easily. It's just hard to enjoy. But when you do, it's epic as fuck.
And it contains absolute masterpieces such as "Symbolic" or "Crystal Mountain".
It's magical. It's weird. It takes you on a journey. Not even the album, but every song on its own.

Also, I wanna point out how these are the absolute best track titles I've ever seen. They capture the spirit of the album perfectly.

Written by Metren on 10.05.2018 at 02:23

Liked this one a lot more than TSoP, it's just a better album overall, with far better songwriting, catchier riffs and even the vocals are better. Good album this, excited to listen to it again sometime soon.

Probably my fave of Chuck's work. Love the raw older stuff, but this encapsulated everything - the technical progress made - but still has a vastly superior vibe to ITP or the meh album that followed.