i'll leave most of it alone because i know you've been listening to metal for long enough that you're going to be set with your opinions about the classics, but
no one left them behind. there are
still bands that try to emulate the tortured screams that he did on those, and the "voice cracking" is because he's practically vomiting his lung out, it adds to the atmosphere imo.
I didn't think much of Swallowed. I think it's that bit too slow without having the atmosphere to carry it. It kind of made me feel uneasy, but not in the good challenging way, more in a 'I wish this music was better composed' kind of way. Still the vocals were a lot better than the Hellhammer track you linked, but I think it ties into what I mentioned about the pioneers not always perfecting it. They TGW may have started that vocal style, but others took it further and got it right.
I tried getting into Obliteration last year, but again I'm not sure what it was, but I just felt nothing listening to them. But agian with the vocals, there's more power, more of a feeling of control, definately improving on the forumula. This track isn't bad as it goes, definitely prefer it to the stuff I heard on last years album.
It's interesting how subjective things are. What you see as adding to atmosphere I see as amateurish and I feel like it actually takes me 'out of the zone' when listening and spoils the atmosphere somewhat.
It's not like I'm new to harsher styles of vocal either, you only have to listen to the Wodensthrone track at the top of the previous page. I'm still pretty young at 23, but I've been listening to harsh vocals for a good 10 years now, everything from the shrieks of Burzum to the guttural rumblings of Skepticism, and every dodgy slavic blackened folk metal band in between haha But I find it's about feel, power, emotion, atmosphere, melody, pitch, rhythm, and a certain unquantifiable appropriateness. And the Hellhammer vocals just didn't hold up for me. However much of an iconoclast that might make me
i realized i namedropped corpsessed as my album of the year but didn't link it. if you're into finnish death metal at all then listen. finnish dm hasn't sounded this sincere since world without god imo.
[video=youtube;b_eWjXCBDVM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_eWjXCBDVM[/video]
My knowledge of the Finnish Scene is pretty lacking. Well Finnish death metal anyway (I've a list as long as my arm from other genres). It's pretty limited to Convulse, Demilich, and Winterwolf. Winterwolf are my favourite of the three, but are far more evocative of the Carnage/Dismember/Entombed school of Swedeath, than any sort of Finnish sound.
Quite digging the Corpsessed track, might have to track it down and give the album a go.
