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Death Metal really is an acquired taste, I for one love it, but and as for the vocals, if you've listened to enough fo the stuff you find it really easy to understand, even stuff you haven't heard before, or maybe that's just me.samremnant
My biggest gripe with death metal is not so much the vocals, the lack of creativity of a lot of bands. I used to be into Cannibal Corpse (as a kid pretty much) and similar bands, until I realised they all sounded the same. The often cheesey lyrical themes also put me off. It seems that in most cases it's either about gore or pseudo-intellectual political crap (I'm looking at you, Napalm Death). Of course this doesn't apply to every band out there, but whenever someone recommends me a death metal band, it ends in disappointment.
I must say, though, that Darkthrone's Soulside Journey album is a very good death metal record.
Death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse are realitively simplistic, and thats not meant to be negative. They play straight forward, no frills death metal. But there are plenty of death metal bands which have at least mixed things up and introduced a new sound to the genre.
Indeed so, have you ever heard of the band Death? They're absolutely fantastic early death metal, it's quite drifferent to newer stuff, there's a lot more variation between songs than there is in a lot of death metal.
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