Death Metal

What makes you think they're using 7 strings? I imagine they're just using regular 6 strings tuned to B, like they have on all (as far as I can recall) their releases.

That main riff has a very quarter note feel, especially when it's over the double bass, which sounds a bit like left, right, left, right marching I guess.
 
7 strings are standard B tuning. The point isn't the number of strings. Just that the low tuning adds that thick umph to their riffs is all I meant. And I guessed 7 string, which is in B standard if you dont drop more, so I still had the tuning right. I thought I was tone deaf. Ha.
 
Maybe it is sort of a "marching cadence" feel. Hadn't made the connection. I can just see it overlayed with videos from WWII. I'm talking about the riff behind the line "Death and the Labyrinth", but it pops up at other points, not just behind that line.
 
7 strings are standard B tuning. The point isn't the number of strings. Just that the low tuning adds that thick umph to their riffs is all I meant. And I guessed 7 string, which is in B standard if you dont drop more, so I still had the tuning right. I thought I was tone deaf. Ha.


More to do with the production than anything. Could easily make a guitar tuned to B sound really shitty and thin.
 
I couldn't stand the new Tribulation, but I'm a picky fuck. Which also means I'll be saving money tomorrow when I see them with Cannibal Corpse.
 
New Funerus:
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-death

New Eternal Solstice track!

https://crownofviserys.wordpress.co...exclusive-track-stream-from-eternal-solstice/

New Convulse is a horrid piece of crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKU64lf-ml8

New Unleashed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUJWq865ps

Also, Sweden's Feral announced a new album. Morfin is recording as well. Crocell has a new album coming out called Prophet's Breath. Excommunion is releasing one called Thronosis. Poland's best tech death band, Lost Soul, is finishing up an album titled Atlantis.
 
I love this minimalist heavy as fuck occult type shit, the last 2 minutes is perfection. Any recs on anything similar?

 
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Temple Nightside, Vassafor, Grave Miasma, Cruciamentum, Ritual Necromancy, Antediluvian, Impetuous Ritual, Encoffination... Every death metal band from down under that isn't Stargazer.
 
Encoffination is probably the closest thing you are going to get as far as I know. The blackened death scene has been exploring that aesthetic quite a bit these days, but not quite with the minimalism and thickness in tone that you desire. Or more doomy stuff like Burning Witch's Crippled Lucifer, but that's more doom than it is death.

Im not exactly sure how I feel about that new Tribulation track. It seems like a more simplified version of the same sound they had on The Formulas of Death, except with perhaps a bit more songwriting focus. I dont really see it as a significant progression from their last album, and more as a continuation of the same vibe they found when writing Formulas. I hear a lot of repeated vibes and notably similar riffs, making me think they are trying to re-write their last album and release a final draft. This is based on just one song, so maybe the rest of the album has more to offer, but at the moment my expectations are disappointingly mediocre, especially since I thought Formulas was just a notch above decent to begin with. These guys are better when they harness their aggression, but it looks like that time has quickly come and gone after The Horror.
 
did yall know infinitum obscure broke up? shame, i wasn't exactly very into them but they seemed to be gradually coming into their own and the last album suggested an interesting future for them. guess not.