New Wave of Old School Death Metal Essential Albums w/ Andrew Lee of Ripped to Shreds

[@arthurporter131]

Blood Incantation, Tomb Mold, Gatecreeper, Undeath, Necrot, Ripped to Shreds, Malignant Altar, 200 Stab Wounds, Altars, Cerebral Rot, Mortiferum, Worm, Xibalba, Ulthar, Sedimentum, and sooooo many more awesome modern bands keeping death metal alive and thriving.

[@FalseNi9e]

All of those bands are essential

[@Terryu1180]

How about Mutilatred?

[@grantmartin6094]

Big Altars fan

[@zebraman1988]

😂😑

[@kirkkopalovaroitus4192]

guts from finland is insane great osdm!!!new album dacay is masterpiece!!

[@erikmathis4541]

Undeath??????? Lesions of a different kind. .They 100 percent need to be on here in essential modern

[@andrewbellavie795]

I just revisited that Undeath album this week, what a fucking ripper. Just brutal.

[@arthurporter131]

LEAKING SEEPING OUT OF MY FAAAAAACE

[@aneverflowingstream]

they blow every other band out of the water, they simultaneously have the old school thing going and have a unique original style

[@kalm420]

I seen them live twice. Solid fucking band live! 🤘

[@williamashworth8538]

@erikmathis4541 Agreed!

[@Ammerstol]

The pronunciation of Rippikoulu and Musta Seremonia sounded so funny :D But very cool that they were mentioned!

[@dope1258]

If Spicoli and Geddy Lee had a kid, you'd get Sam Dunn.

[@deadguy29]

Nice to see Black Breath mentioned, altough they were more of a crust-death banda. Great albums and great live shows.

[@russell2890]

black breath. one of abbath's favorite.

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

I hope those dudes can come back. I know their bassist passed away a few years back, but I really liked them.

[@Bigmay85]

2 1/2 hours of death metal...yes please!

[@stewartlichfield6409]

I feel like everyone forgot about the existence of Razorback Records - these guys were releasing awesome, old-school flavoured DM all throughout the early aughts. Frightmare's Bringing Back the Bloodshed, and Engorged's Where Monsters Dwell are both criminally overlooked. Also surprised to see Carcass didn't make the cut - sure, they're better known for their later stuff, but the influence of Symphonies alone looms large over the metal underground. See the last Pharmacist album.

[@andrewRTS]

love carcass and all the bands they influnced but i wouldn't call them an "old school death metal" band

[@stewartlichfield6409]

@@andrewRTS I dunno, man, they may not be an OSDM band but Symphonies is sure as hell an OSDM record; it predates both of Entombed and Incantation's debuts, and laid down conventions that helped shape the genre. Carcass moved on from it pretty quick, but I think it's still one of the most referenced blueprints in the whole canon of OSDM - the sepulchral tone, the splatter aesthetic, the winding, grinding song structures, the tri-vocal attack. Also, your new album, along with the last 2, is an absolute banger. Been spinning it non-stop since Friday.

[@andrewRTS]

@@stewartlichfield6409 thanks man! i consider symphonies to just be goregrind, especially since death metal bands basically never use pitchshifters on vocals. i don't think carcass "really" became death metal until heartwork or at least necroticism

[@princealigorna7468]

Glad to see Bolt Thrower as a proto. Certainly, they're probably the grooviest old-school DM band, and you hear that groove all over the OSDM revival. As for me, my favorite band in this style is Creeping Death. Great groovy riffs. Lyrics that are cool and different (one song is literally about knights killing dragons!). Blast furnace vocals that sit so far back in the mix they sound channeled through a psychhic medium. Breakdowns. They have it all, man

[@chuckpereda]

Does anybody have the whole final list? I wish they posted the tier list too in here, I'm short on time today :C.

[@elchicharron9503]

I noticed the change in 95 and quit paying attention to new metal. I still listen to the old stuff, and have been looking for new stuff I like. So far, Sons of Northern Darknesss is the newest thing I've heard that I really love.

[@spiritofthetallhills2037]

man you are a turbo oldhead lmao but more power to you to each their own

[@elchicharron9503]

@@spiritofthetallhills2037 I like what I like, what can I do? Looking for advice though, I like the strong songwriting, hooks, and simplicity of earlier extreme metal. I'm starting to sound like my mom in 92 when our band practiced in the basement. "There's no music, it just sounds like an earthquake."

[@irishtexan100]

200 Stab Wounds is also an excellent NOSDM band.

[@Death_Metal_Head]

They're amazing live.

[@RockyRMR]

200 Stab Wounds? More like 200 bands I’d rather listen to.

[@cons.records]

@@RockyRMR More like 200 reasons you're wrong

[@Death_Metal_Head]

@@RockyRMR Nobody thinks you're cool. 200 Stab Wounds are incredible and everyone knows that.

[@jessewilliams8655]

@@RockyRMR more like 200 bitches you’re not getting

[@zebraman1988]

1:19:34 - what disorder is that?

[@billcowan5539]

Baest is another Awesome Death Metal band🤘🤘

[@rsolsjo]

Yeah can't mention Bloodbath without mentioning Baest.

[@Brutaldeathkingpin]

This new wave is everything I wanted deathcore to be when I heard animosity and job for a cowboy as a kid then the nu metal influences started kicking in

[@jacobk9479]

10000%

[@XlouietheflyX]

Coffins was one of the first of this new wave and brought back the feel of Autopsy, Asphyx, Benediction, Cianide, and bands like that

[@johnbhoy1888]

real old school death metal ,you cant beat it ,luckely i was there and seen all the old school bands at the start of there careers.

[@princealigorna7468]

I consider them more death-doom than OSDM

[@whitenoise4537]

@@johnbhoy1888 All of them?

[@aaroninlatin]

New Ripped to Shreds is amazing. I’ve been listening to it on repeat.

[@Hideousspawn13]

So I got into Tomb Mold with everyone when Manor came out but when I heard Primordial Malignity I was blown away. I love that album

[@black_pig_iron]

i agree i like all their material but primordial is far and away the best

[@andrewbellavie795]

20 Buck Spin was a visionary label for the new wave of OSDM

[@leannasty]

100%

[@vhausman]

Would love to see the final list!! Hard to see because of the resolution. Thank you!

[@MrBlasturbator]

Corpsessed and Gorephilia are two of my more recent OSDM favorites. Definitely contenders for Modern Essential bands imo.

[@DeathSpellXVI]

Hell yeah dude, they rip.

[@kirkkopalovaroitus4192]

check out guts-decay album!!!best dm album from finland is masterpiece!!!!

[@christianwallin4993]

I miss that band logo chart you were doing in the beginning. What happened to that?

[@mercyfulnate]

Hell yeah! I was wondering if these were ever going to get added to YT. I could never make the Twitch streams and having them edited down is great

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

Hail of Bullets was a really good band Martin Van Drunen was in too. On Divine Winds is a really good war themed record.

[@kvltizt]

All of their albums are great! Just chunky death riffs for days.

[@MrDraehl]

Glad Andrew brought up the Tribulation - Formulas of Death inspired variant. My favorite niche by far- especially the aforementioned, Morbid Chron & Venenum. Love that OSDM + psychedelic mix. Blood Incantation arguably draws from that bit too- especially Hidden History.

[@andrewbellavie795]

Thank you Sam for defending Bloodbath. They had a hand in the modern OSDM revival because they brought that older HM2 sound to a new generation and, I am speaking of Resurrection Through Carnage here, wrote less technical songs with slowed down motifs. In the 2000s tech death and brutal death were the big stars so I really think Bloodbath were instrumental in bringing OSDM back on a commercial level.

[@BrettVaughn]

Straight up!!!

[@andrewbellavie795]

@Dragon Ball fans can't read well that's an informed opinion

[@biorythmicshifter]

I remember when I was trying to learn the Death song Open Casket when I was is high school. This is pre-internet era I’m talkin, no YT to watch videos and see how this shit was done. It was hearing only a handful of bands that were doing something unbelievably heavy and no one liked that type of music at that time. It wasn’t a popular thing to like metal much less death metal when I was in school so no peer guitar players in my hick town in Florida (go figure) would touch this evil shit. I had no f’n clue about down tuning, I just learned to tune a guitar in standard. My brain didn’t wrap around the fact you could lower the tuning for lower notes, I was happy to play a power chord. When I tried learning that Death song I couldn’t figure out the riffs because of the tuning, I literally thought they were gods conjuring sounds from their instruments no other humans could…It was like seeing a magic trick. It f’d with my head until the day I figured the trick out. It was also funny to look back at myself getting pissed when trying to learn Hotel California without the capo. Kids now don’t have a clue about the struggle…memories.

[@dumb_and_found_dead1390]

Maul is a pretty sick band, they signed to 20 Buck Spin pretty recently, one of my favorite bands at the moment (also I had the pleasure of meeting them and they are super nice guys)

[@grillchirre]

I hope they mentioned Outer Heaven. They're massively underrated imo.

[@Chef_Deth]

Sick…sick band was fortunate to see them live twice and they are definitely criminally underrated…seen them and tomb mold together live in Kentucky of all places it was killerrrrrr

[@kalm420]

Nile took Death Metal to whole awesome level. And still kicking ass.

[@metalpractor5150]

Possessed influences are greatly heard on blessed are the sick from Morbid. The riffs and arrangements on seven churches set the standard so high for killer fast vocals with intonation, along with memorable and diabolical soundscapes. Even the new carcass borrows the repeating maniacal runs. Early pestilence had this vocal riff balance as well as Sam pointed out and I don’t think the song structure has ever been so strong for the later projects.

[@forever_underground]

Andrew actually has some insightful opinions and Blayne is just a rambling goof. This was a hard watch.

[@alex_flamer]

Yes he was kinda overdoing it. Also I wish they could silence that guitar sound whenever they get a new sub or donation or whatever. It's louder than when they talk.

[@Goryptor]

Do you guys know Snet - Folivor? Quite a recent thing, from the Czech Republic. I can guarantee you won't get more 1991 than that, including the VHS video clip!!!

[@jedikye]

Omg you got Andrew Lee!

[@nickDOTbloc]

where the fuck is skeletal remains

[@looseleaf8721]

I agree although I could see how someone could say their a little too thrashy

[@tylercraig5633]

Cerebral Rot’s “Cessation of Life” demo is some of the absolute best death metal this past decade! Phobophillic is definitely gonna be a GREAT band coming up in the future. Their debut album from a month or so ago is amazing!

[@RockyRMR]

Phobophilic 100% 🤘

[@leannasty]

I like Phobophillic too - they're solid, but I don't know if I see them going down as one of the greats (I could be wrong). Cerebral Rot are fucking fantastic.

[@SummoningSnakez]

I have never wanted to punch 2 people so bad in my entire life. I mean, yeah. I mean.....

[@MaaZeus]

Surprised to see a lack of Grave Miasma. Their first EP was released at 2009 and it is nothing short of amazing. Their first proper album at 2013 was very good to. Not influental enough or simply forgotten? 🤔

[@agrisalonderis4051]

Grave Miasma is golden

[@RockyRMR]

Their posers. They only mention bands that payola.

[@MaaZeus]

@@RockyRMR Yeah I am sure Dead Congregation paid them real well for their legend status. 😆

[@RockyRMR]

@@MaaZeus You’re a funny girl. Also, a poser.

[@RockyRMR]

@@MaaZeus Also, it was Andrew that mention DC. Not Blake or Sam.

[@Samoan_Metalhead]

Andrew Lee knows his Metal. This translates into his songwriting 🤘🏾

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

Well Freakin Done Bangertv!! 🤘🏽😈

[@patrickphilip777]

Revel in Flesh is my favorite. And for OSDM played in the more recent decades. It kicks ass

[@alex_flamer]

I don't know why Brent keeps saying the bands are getting "mainstream." Yes more and more people are finding out about them, but none of these bands are mainstream. They're not getting radio airplay, charting songs, award nominations, or RIAA certified albums that sell thousands/millions of copies. The mainstream is completely unaware of the existence of these bands, and even if you only listen to rock stations, you still will never know about these bands. You gotta really be into the underground and extreme metal in order to know who these bands are, so I just disagree with his usage of the word "mainstream."

[@kingofscots]

He's a hipster.

[@kingofscots]

@@noself7889 nonsense

[@ruicoelho404]

Undeath and Ulthar

[@conciousnessm]

Why never mentions of oldschool Kataklysm or Massacre? Why?

[@MrJoshItIs]

Outre-Tombe, Creeping Death, Necrot, Cerebral Rot,

[@slipknotfan_555]

Whats wrong with the water in Canada???

[@deathmetal0073]

Not having 200 Stab Wounds, Undeath, Frozen Soul, and Sanguisugabog in Essential is a travesty imo. Also not having suffocation and cannibal corpse in proto…

[@alex_flamer]

The younger bands should all go into the Essential listening section. The Legend section should be reserved for the older bands as a way to draw a direct line from where the influence on the younger bands is coming from.

[@deathmetal0073]

@@alex_flamer true

[@RockyRMR]

Yeah no mention of either of them in proto wtf?

[@NeverSpeak6]

Frozen Soul and Sanguissugabogg weren’t popular at all until the movement had already taken off? 200 stab wounds and Undeath came even later.

[@henrywalton5967]

The only NWOSDM band I seem to enjoy is Blood Incantation, probably because they sound somewhat original.

[@jessewilliams8655]

Maggot stomp is the leader in this style every single band on that label is so good

[@dk4569]

They definitely been lacking lately, most of the stuff they put out is just hardcore bands making death metal now

[@buttermybuns9529]

Ehhhh.

[@MetalRush666]

Not what they used to be but some good ones

[@jessewilliams8655]

@@dk4569 I honestly like hardcore/DM crossovers like mongral

[@dk4569]

@@jessewilliams8655 ehh they're ok but the whole trend of it became stale really quickly. Nobody kept innovating bands just kept copying one after another

[@DarthPizza777]

I wanted to thank you guys for your videos. I lean so much from them 🤘

[@borisdevilboon8064]

I know im a smooth brain, but why is Gruesome not discussed or mentioned ? Are they really not part of the new wave old school of death metal ? Or do they harber some controversy im OOTL on ?

[@kingofscots]

Cos they didn't influence anybody. They're already a carbon coy of Death that influenced everybody.

[@saltpeter7429]

Love Gruesome. Fun music, throwback to the better days...

[@forlorncorns]

Good video. Anyone have the list? It's hard to see the albums due to the resolution.

[@infinidominion]

They should put that in the description

[@christianwallin4993]

It was better when they were doing that big band logo chart.

[@NLphilipNL]

Yes please

[@pooscootedpaper]

Cerebral Rot's Excretion of Mortality should be up there!

[@rockkiall]

Sorry rando, but is there a HD rip of that list I can see?

[@HamaChanCutter]

Fleshrot and Tribal Gaze are some really good Texas NWOSDM bands. And what about Cryptworm?

[@MetalRush666]

Mortician has been a full band since 03-04. Playing live made all the difference. Heaviest band on the planet.

[@Samoan_Metalhead]

What is Morticians drums live like? Mortician is heavy AF 🤘🏾

[@tylercraig5633]

Saw them at Maryland Deathfest this past summer. Can confirm! Fucking amazing show!

[@MetalRush666]

@Lance Rogoschensky enlighten me

[@RockyRMR]

@Lance Rogoschensky I agree. However, so far as bands as popular as Mortician, yes, they are the heaviest.

[@ruicoelho404]

Artificial Brain was mentioned. I love Andrew m/

[@MadMan-ch7yw]

is this live?

[@obidamnkenobi]

The way Sam says "ASS-phyx" gets me every time 😂

[@RockyRMR]

He’s too Canadian and, yes, there is such a thing.

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

Gotta throw out there, Brad Zorgdrager, was a BOG and Gatecreeper intro-supporter, prob, before everyone. Much respect ✊🏿

[@PorscheJon]

Okay. I agree that portal is not osdm. But I do not understand the hate for them. They are supposed to be abrasive and dizzying. It's diabolical portal metal. They are unique. Truly a one of a kind band.

[@whitenoise4537]

The hate is because to many of us whatever they're playing it's not even music. And you know, the stupid beekeeper suits.

[@XHEADTOWALLX]

​@@whitenoise4537they sound exactly like Obscura era Gorguts which gets praised.

[@theoryofeverything44]

Why can't Sam Dunn say the words - "New York Death Metal?" For real, you guys talk about Florida and Sweden alot while neglecting places like New York and Finland. It wouldn't seem so strange to add essential bands like Mortiferum and Spectral Voice if you had more classic Finnish bands on this list. These categories are mixed up too, like Funebrarum should be in the same category as Dead Cong, Tomb Mold should be with Blood Incantation. The last 2 sections need work overall. Frozen Soul and Sanguisugabogg are influential because of their demos, not the underwhelming full lengths listed here. Needs work but good effort. Andrew rules 🍻🤘

[@Moonfreeze]

Interesting watch! Am gonna check out Ripped to Shreds for sure. Hyperdontia and Blood Incantation are my faves!

[@ccgenoa1]

Somebody please post the final list here

[@AlienInvasionDefenceSystem]

Hans Kim?

[@tonyeckman4822]

Holy shit! A Venenum reference. Now that's cool and rather obscure. I fucking love that band. Tony F. Corpse (Post Mortem Superstar)

[@Fauxleroid]

Autopsy slow sloppiness is where everyone needs to get back to. Over technical metal just bores me now. Same as modern production. I just hate it.

[@ChaosandComics]

Bloodbath is definitely on the list. Crazy talk. Not melodeath at all

[@metalcontent]

I say it once, I say it again, Jubian is the best metal album of 2022

[@rolkinn]

please tell me Blayne is using the Morbid Visions art book as a mouse pad

[@markvserik]

I think Disma - Towards the Megalith could have been in the legend section.

[@rafaelurrea2385]

If only they werent nazis

[@markvserik]

@@rafaelurrea2385 Yeah there is that :( isn't it just Pillard or all of them?

[@rafaelurrea2385]

@@markvserik back in the day it was just Pillard, but a couple of years ago they accepted him back and also were booked for an alt right festival, just as he got back

[@LorriSanga]

Y'all need to ease up with the notification sounds. We really don't give a fuck if someone has just given a high 5. Great content!!

[@Protometal66]

I can't even finish watching it because of the notification sound.

[@MadMan-ch7yw]

early 90's amazing

[@shroudbass]

Fuckin hell!! Seeing the “Day of Death” in October on 1990 in Buffalo NY was ABSOLUTELY incredible…. Autopsy, Cannibal Corpse, Immolation, Suffocation… just look it up online. Super legendary show. I bought the Immolation demo the Luc Lemay drew the cover of…. Just the greatest. Disharmonic Orchestra was a surprise appearance. Just can’t beat that fest.

[@Intermentor]

I tried, tried and tried to like Mortician haha..Hard band to like. Most say I prefer bands inspired by Asphyx, Entombed, Bolt Thrower, Autopsy and Obituary

[@Jon-vn9sn]

I do NOT agree about that quick dismissal of Carcass. Symphonies is such an obvious influence on this topic. I can see why you’d want to lump them in to the “influenced all death metal” category, but Carcass is a bit different. Each album functioned as its own influence and can be taken out of context from the rest of their catalogue. Symphonies is as slimy, gross and knuckle draggy as any of the stuff considered here and to ignore that albums influence is just lunacy.

[@kronictonic]

Yeah dude I love carcass and certainly the early stuff belongs here

[@jondubb35]

The late 80s to the mid 90s wave of old school death metal, the pioneers, are far more memorable than the late 90s and early 2000s. Became super formulaic by the late 90s. Boring.

[@infinidominion]

88-93 is golden, there's some outliers but really that's it

[@jondubb35]

@@infinidominion Yep. As with all longstanding music genres, there’s always outliers….

[@michaeleisenhauer8897]

EVIL INCARNATE for serious Old School Death Metal

[@ClaudioSilveira]

Where is Crypta?

[@rsolsjo]

Was listening to Skeletal Remains and got the band Werewolves recommended to me. Absolutely insane!

[@shroudbass]

Dammit Sam!! Altars of Madness was one of my favorites from that time… after Blessed are the Sick - (meh.) I saw Morbid Angel, Revenant, Ripping Corpse, Cannibal Corpse and damn…I forget what other 2 bands were on that bill off hand. You and I had a lot of the same faves, Sam. You rock, bud.

[@chad6668]

Check out Fatal Sacrament. New England Death Metal. Influenced by OSDM, Brutal death metal, grindcore and death grind

[@XlouietheflyX]

Innumerable Forms kick arse and are from the punk scene

[@doomtank666]

Does nobody like Grave anymore? That band was. Massive influence for me at a younger age.

[@dirtybeard70_Alivein85]

Celtic frost obituary entombed the godz

[@gwts1171]

Andrew is in 37 bands and they're all great!

[@dandan-sl3fc]

Kill em All, Reign in Blood and 90's Biohazard

[@blackhawk24994]

Horrendous is pretty dope too!

[@frankschmidt2303]

Vagus Death metal from Stockholm Sweden 🤘

[@GaryGrim666]

"If they can get huge off of four songs and twenty t-shirt designs then more power to them, you know?" Hahahaha!

[@Chef_Deth]

Ripped to Shreds rulessss….the bleeding and festivals of atonement should be on the legends

[@kingofscots]

I really looked forward to this. Had to turn off after an hour as it's clear Blayne is outclassed and outgunned. When mentioning Carcass era of Symphonies and influencing melodic death metal; clearly never heard the record. Buffoon!

[@marksmith1428]

Frozen Soul...

[@MMasterDE]

Also, definitely, Bloodbath is missing 😅

[@MMasterDE]

And maybe Mortiferum? If not too doomy?

[@MadMan-ch7yw]

a ton of all those

[@Lumporz]

You should check out Vorum.

[@rsSloth]

BAEST

[@pantheonlr4423]

Check us out 🤘🤘

[@pppl6664]

What about Repugnant "Epitome of Torture"

[@serapheum]

Chuck made U do it! \m/

[@VictorNickel]

Omg I love Batlord!

[@drk2736]

I always thought "New Wave of Old School Death Metal" was a bit of a misnomer. I thought Autopsy, Bolt Thrower and Incantation were fairly good choices for proto-NWOOSDM, but since when is old school death metal primarily defined by Autopsy, Bolt Thrower and Incantation?! I agree that Death and the Altars of Madness should be omitted from the "proto-" for NWOOSDM, but how can they be omitted from a list of bands/albums that define old school death metal?! I feel like Death or Altars of Madness are closer to whatever one might consider as standard old school death metal than Autopsy, Bolt Thrower or Incantation. I think Autopsy, Bolt Thrower and Incantation' s sound is fairly distinctive even when one considers exclusively old school death metal. Perhaps NWOOSDM needs to be renamed, although the term is probably too well-established for that.

[@drk2736]

It occurs to me now that as is often the case this style is best defined by listing what it is not: nothing too technical/progressive or melodic, not as slow as death-doom and not as heavy as brutal death either.