

"The Return Of The Beautiful" is an epic journey of such tumult and still the most underrated song in MDB's cannon. Lyrics in Latin, Morbid Angel riff breakouts ("The Forever People") but in like a dank cemetery and songs that tested your patience with fear. #8 - My Dying Bride - As The Flower WithersĮven more threatening than PL's debut, MDB's debut sounds disgustingly antediluvian. Every song is sharply bent and formed and Nick Holmes has perhaps never sounded more threatening.


The creative initiative PL took with this album that drew out the more sinister aspects of death metal and glorified them with measly production is sort of the first signal for bitter, dreary times ahead. "What’s going on here is respectably unglamorous and touched with shame, pitiless with a Neanderthal mindedness of cooking rats over an open fire because that’s all that’s available". I seem to be quoting MA reviewers today so here's Gutterscream This debut spawned so much for the subgenre. Nothing stands out, Everything stands out. This is a classic on how to meld the stinky worlds of Doom and Death. Not exactly suffocating but enveloping as all hell. Celtic Frost riffs slowed down is as apt as anything I've heard said about it. The production wasn't exactly my preferred thing but there's no denying the massive plod this thing staggers with. I had heard about this landmark of an album before I read his high praise but I'd never warmed to it (frozen to it?) just yet. Whatever happened to that curmudgeon of the board, droneriot? He went on a fair bit about this record and nothing pleased him very much.

Same rules as the thrash thread, limit to ten and explain a bit why. because 'tis the season and there's more than a handful of Doom/Death loving members on this board.
