![]() Listening to a song like "After My Prayers" all these years later still evokes a very specific and uneasy feeling. This is where they stood out from the pack. The tracks on this debut all brim with intense fury but there's a haunting eeriness in the atmospherics Immolation created. On 'Dawn of Possession' the quartet proved they had the musical chops to not only pull of their endless array of complex arrangements but also, and more importantly, weave together one of the most intriguing set of songs the genre has ever produced. Their arcane and dissonant take on death metal has always had a European bent to it. Have you ever been to Yonkers, NY? It's just like any other town hugging the northeastern coast but their pizza is out of the world great! Immolation is the last thing you would expect to come out of this Bronx suburb. Though the band would go on to make several great albums in their career, none have equaled the savage brilliance that is 'Left Hand Path.' Petrov's driving, sandpaper kissed vocals on tracks like "Revel in Flesh" and "The Truth Beyond" carries enough clarity in them to make out a sentence or two but for the most part, they push and pull just as hard as the drums do. Check out the way the opening riff on the title track cuts through Nicke Andersson's drums like a.well, you get the picture. Uffe Cederlund and Alex Hellid's twin guitar attack has often been described as the "buzz-saw sound" and with good reason. ![]() The raw energy of crusty punk bands like Amebix and Discharge coursed through their material and where most of their peers aimed for airtight precision, Entombed went for feel. For the time of its release, 'Left Hand Path' was radical and stubbornly abrasive in its aural presentation. But in 1990, a teenaged gang of misfits from Stockholm, calling themselves Entombed, came out with an album that would stun the underground community and change everything forever. These days, you can't walk into a metal show and not hear the influence Swedish death metal has had in the last 20 years. You'd be hard-pressed to find a debut album more essential than 'Effigy of the Forgotten.' On songs like "Liege of Inveracity" and "Seeds of the Suffering," guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Doug Cerrito drop one mind-twisting riff after the other combining the technicality of European thrash with the speed of death metal. Frank Mullen's vocals are gruff and always demoniacal while Mike Smith's snare drum and double bass work on the record has gone on to influence legions of trap kit abusers. Every facet of the band's approach worked and the players all stepped up to the plate with career making performances. ![]() Suffocation already had a respectable following in the tape trading community but no one was prepared for the Long Island, NY outfit to deliver a debut this utterly punishing. Suffocation – 'Effigy of the Forgotten' (1991)įrom the very first cymbal chokes to the ferocious guitar leads that close the album, 'Effigy of the Forgotten' is one of the most breathlessly relentless metal albums you'll hear anywhere. ![]()
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