DEATH METAL Collection Update - October 2024 (Vanhelgd, Fulci, Obscene)

[@Metalofmadness96]

The putridarium full length is sick you gotta listen to that one and the new coffin rot as well as scumripper that full length is awesome as well

[@ExplosiveAction]

The new Coffin Rot is excellent!

[@chriswheeler7746]

I've always been a fan of Vanhelgd !! Great band, especially Temple of Phobos!! Have to get THIS one 🤘

[@ExplosiveAction]

They are savage!

[@VacuousDepths]

Totally agree on Night Hag. They stepped up into a rad way with this in production and writing. Shit is heavy.

[@ExplosiveAction]

Yeah the Burial split is far superior. My speakers confirm

[@AberratorDeath]

Enjoyed your review and impressions. You had some very accurate insights!

[@ExplosiveAction]

Hey thanks guys! It's a great release, really enjoying it

[@tobyfingland8149]

Great video as always, been loving the Obscene and Fulci albums

[@ExplosiveAction]

Both great! The Fulci barely leaves my turntable

[@tobyfingland8149]

@@ExplosiveAction It certainly covers both your music and movie loves so i can see why

[@bobovv6060]

Awesome reviews Simon. You got me into Jades last one which was superb, so will check out this split.

[@ExplosiveAction]

Excellent, glad you got into Jade!

[@mendicantmedia]

Cheers for the mention mate and agree about the 2 Night Hag splits. I don’t know Jade at all so will check them out

[@mendicantmedia]

ps: I still don't get much from Fulci but will try again just for you

[@ExplosiveAction]

Jade rule as do Fulci, but man are they different lol

[@bloodbathstrider]

Thankyou for the introduction to Night Hag . They sound amazing .

[@ExplosiveAction]

Awesome!

[@jometal]

Hello from France , good bands!!!😉🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@Metalminersmusic]

Some heavy hitters. Great stack!

[@ExplosiveAction]

@@Metalminersmusic cheers!

[@cristianosorio2517]

Hi Simon!!! More cool death metal haul/update and i think you made an excellent video sharing your thoughts about those great releases, also nice to see bands from different parts of the world that i think adds a new flavour to the genre..... and those artworks are awesome too like the last two records. cheers and be well

[@spencergrady5501]

Woo, Fulci. Love that album. Love Adversarial too.

[@ExplosiveAction]

Both killer!

[@hanzo3188]

It's the pull of the labyrinth that keeps us going Simon...🤘

[@ExplosiveAction]

Hell yeah

[@johnhynes8721]

Fulci record is great stuff and you are right that there are some catchy riffs mixed in with the brutal DM. I though it was interesting that they titled the first instrumental "A Blade in The Dark" as in the Lamberto Bava film. FWIW, I liked "Exhumed Information" quite a bit, but I do enjoy some synthwave and of course horror scores. I can understand why some would be disappointed however, since it does take up the entire B side and the three longest songs on the album are the instrumentals.

[@ExplosiveAction]

I'm not writing that album off, as I haven't heard it, but as it was such a pain to obtain anyway it's just been falling out of carts whenever I do orders!

[@edmundsackbauer2284]

Vanhelgd and Cryptic Brood are both fantastic. I believe Cryptic Brood have a new full length out these days if I am not mistaken?

[@rogerkjorvik]

Great update Simon. Vanhelgd rules, should be way more popular than they are, excellent artwork as well. Have heard that Obscene album yet, do loke the band. Fulci is a band that never have clicked with me, don't know why...... Night Hag/Burial and Jade/Sanctuarium are two fantastic splits. Phenocryst another great one there. Cheers. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@ExplosiveAction]

Cheers mate! Fulci isn't for everyone I guess!

[@MelanieLovesDeathMetal]

All the Fulci albums were just reissued. Might find some in your local shops I think they pressed a lot. I snagged them through Iron Fortress.

[@ExplosiveAction]

That's good to know. Were they from the original label or 20BS pick them up? The problem has been getting stuff locally from that label

[@MrLando0]

Jade is fantastic, love that combo of chants and gutterals. Fulci rips- I saw NY Ripper for the first time recently, such a good, sleazy movie. Suffice to say, I'm a fan of Duck Face Killings. I don't mind the rap verse either.

[@ExplosiveAction]

Yeah I can tolerate the little rap bit, but I wouldn't hate if it wasn't there haha. Jade are something quite special.

[@JC-lu4se]

I've just discovered Jade. Getting this one and the 2022 release both from good old Blacksound. Hopefully they'll arrive soon. Good to see bands adding more atmosphere to the usual "meat and potatoes" death metal.

[@ExplosiveAction]

Yeah Jade are superb. I just snagged their first album from the Dark Descent sale

[@JC-lu4se]

@@ExplosiveAction I just checked with DD. They have 2 copies left but it's $92 with postage for an EP. Pass. See if I can get it locally somehow.

[@ExplosiveAction]

The 33% off sale was helpful, plus make sure you pick the last shipping option that is hugely cheaper than usps. I got six cds and that LP for AU$100 to my door

[@JC-lu4se]

@@ExplosiveAction That's good value. I'll check again but man I will not pay more for postage than what I did for the LP. A certain mob in Singapore do that all the time.

[@ExplosiveAction]

@JC-lu4se agreed - that's why their DirectLink post is so good. Its a fraction of the price. Think I paid $25 post for all that

[@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine]

You've basically said what i think about that Fulci album.

[@ExplosiveAction]

It thuds well!

[@jeremyevans8601]

Antediluvian are siiiiiiick. A match up with Adversarial sounds tasty as

[@ExplosiveAction]

Yeah they compliment each other well

[@johnhynes8721]

@@ExplosiveAction Speaking of Canadian black/death metal, I am sure you know that Mitochondrion has their first new record in 13 years! coming out next month.

[@ExplosiveAction]

@@johnhynes8721 yep I did know, haven't given it a listen yet. Gotta be in the right mood for their chaos similar to ulcerate

[@johnhynes8721]

@@ExplosiveAction I cant pronounce Antediluvian either or spell it for that matter.

[@claytonbjork5687]

Mixed formats are good updates....you have been a busy boy with you collection lately

[@ExplosiveAction]

Haha I have a bit

[@claytonbjork5687]

@@ExplosiveAction well not really,it's a small collection you have there...only a few albums and DVDs,you could fit it all in one suitcase and move house quite easily 😂😂

[@ExplosiveAction]

@claytonbjork5687 last time I moved house was 2014 and the collection was smaller. Still painful to move lol

[@claytonbjork5687]

@@ExplosiveAction I think you'd better just stay put...my collection is 10 times smaller than yours at a guess and it's still even a pain in the arse to move it from house to house

[@TheLassenman]

My latest vinyls was 1 Orbit Culture and 2 Kreator vinyls.

[@ExplosiveAction]

Can't say I've heard of the first band but you can't go wrong with early Kreator!

[@rivarox07]

“Good efficient butchery “ I’ve heard that before on a lord gore album .

[@ExplosiveAction]

That makes complete sense.

[@mendicantmedia]

Stuck it up her joy trail

[@rivarox07]

A cannibal is someone that eats someone else’s flesh,yeah! So what do you call someone that eats his own flesh?

[@Ohio.Gozaimasu]

Duck Face Killings, huh? Why isn't Cameron Diaz's face on the cover?

[@ExplosiveAction]

Boom tish!

[@entroponetics]

Okay but Vanhelgd is more black metal to my ears.

[@ExplosiveAction]

Really?! I hear death metal with elements of black and doom

[@entroponetics]

@@ExplosiveAction it's like 70-30

[@ExplosiveAction]

In favour of the death metal side, surely!

[@entroponetics]

@@ExplosiveAction nein

[@ExplosiveAction]

@@entroponetics we are listening to different Vanhelgds lol

[@DawnPossession]

😮 like and share the video everyone

[@theycantallbezodiac]

The rap track on Fulci is awful

[@ExplosiveAction]

I can tolerate it but it's not a favourite

[@Metalofmadness96]

​@ExplosiveAction the guy from trollcave is in Cauterized Torso and Crucification as well both amazing bands

[@jeremyfaulkner1048]

Easily the most overrated album of the year. The album title, the song titles, the artwork…gimmicky in the extreme. The music is ok without being great. Kinda typical of that soulless, sterile, OSDM revival sound. Rant over lol

[@ExplosiveAction]

@@jeremyfaulkner1048 I can't deny they have a gimmick, nor that it's pretty basic stuff, but god damn does it work for me.

[@aryanazih8867]

It is really, really, extremely hard to enjoy the metal music nowadays. I personally am so cemented in 2000 to 2010 that lots of great metals they were all true and authentic, at least to a great extent. New generation? No chance, not only I don't understand them but also they are tons of similar bands [ sonically]. Meanwhile labeling music is something I never do anymore, so long as it is hardcore, it is enjoyable for sure Three great thrash albums are as follows: trauma (awakening), Blind illusion ( wrath of the god), and newly Nasty Savage (jeopardy room) That's it for me

[@ExplosiveAction]

Unusual to find someone cemented in 2000-2010! It's usually people that won't go past 80s or early 90s. There are a lot more bands these days and many share similarities, but the same could be said for early 2000s "Angelcorpse/Krisiun" style bands which seemed to be plentiful at the time, plus of course all those brutal death metal bands on Unique Leader circa 2005 that literally sounded exactly the same as eachother lol

[@aryanazih8867]

@ExplosiveAction maybe I should have been more elaborate on this to get my point cross. By 2000-2020, I meant the emergence of great bands predominantly swedish ones. Then they kinda faded away, but their legacy still goes on for sure. I love classics 80ths to 90ths. However, there was a peak of fertile called melodic Swedish death metal back in the 2000

[@ExplosiveAction]

Interesting, because for me, melodic swedish death metal turned rapidly into mallcore / metalcore by 2001 or so and only recovered in the last few years with bands like Majesties and Dungeon Serpent. After In Flames Colony, Soilwork's Chainheart Machine and Intestine Baalism Anatomy of the Beast it mostly got watered down to pop music for the "melodic death metal" bands sounding like weaker versions of Slaughter of the Soul. There were excellent 2000s era swedish death metal that were "melodic" (like Anata), but that's not really the same sub-genre. The mid-late 90s melodic swedish metal was killer, even the obscure bands. Stuff like Sacrilege The Fifth Season is underrated as hell.