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BEHEMOTH
ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL
Tour w/ Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid, Cannibal Corpse, Job For A Cowboy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel

07/30 London, ON London Music Hall not part of tour w/ God Forbid
07/31 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
08/01 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
08/02 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
08/03 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall not part of tour w/ Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, God Forbid
08/04 Boston, MA Comcast Center
08/06 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
08/07 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
08/08 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre
08/09 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
08/10 Spartanburg, SC Ground Zero not part of tour w/ Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, God Forbid
08/11 Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre
08/12 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheater
08/14 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
08/15 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center

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Metalhammer.de’s top 10 Death Metal Songs

1. Cannibal Corpse – ‘Hammer Smashed Face’ from Tomb Of The Mutilated
2. Arch Enemy – ‘We Will Rise’ (from Anthems Of Rebellion
3. Death – ‘Crystal Mountain’ from Symbolic
4. Amon Amarth – ‘Pursuit Of Vikings’ from Fate Of Norns
5. Vader – ‘Carnal’ from Black To The Blind 
6. Sepultura – ‘Arise’ from Arise 
7. Carcass – ‘Heartwork’ from Heartwork 
8. In Flames – ‘Only For The Weak’ from Clayman 
9. Kataklysm – ‘In Shadows And Dust’ from Shadows & Dust 
10. Behemoth – ‘Christians To The Lions’ from Thelema.6

And now for mine…and this wasn’t easy by any means.

Metal Martyr’s Top 10 (Favorite) Death Metal Songs

1. Death – Zero Tolerance from Symbolic. This is one of Death’s best records and was a great follow up to Individual Thought Patterns.
2. Carcass – Carneous Cacofinny from Necrotism: Descanting The Insalubrious. Sadly most people only know of the album Heartwork, which is a great album but so is Necrotism’ and Swan Song.
3. Morbid Angel – God Of Emptiness from Covenant. I’ve always loved David Vincent’s voice. While this song is not “brutally fast”, it’s a slow, heavy and evil sounding song that would probably give small children nightmares if played before bedtime.
4. Entombed – Hollowman from the Hollowman Ep and Wolverine Blues
5. Grave - …And Here I Die Satisfied from the Ep of the same name.
6. Malevolent Creation – Self Important Freak from Joe Black.
7. Cannibal Corpse – Stripped Raped & Strangled from The Bleeding. Typical Cannibal Corpse lyrics, but the guitar is what got me hooked.
8. Suffocation – Breeding The Spawn from Pierced From Within.
9. Bloodbath – Death Delirium from Resurrection Trough Carnage.
10. Obituary – The End Complete from The End Complete.

I could probably keep on going with this list all day. How can you narrow a list like this down to 10? It really had me looking back in to my collection and remembering a lot of great death metal songs, especially ones that never got enough credit or play. So what would you top ten look like?

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Zombi – Spirit Animal

Dir En Grey – A Knot Of DVD

Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague

Bodychoke – Cold River Songs

Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist (Unsigned)

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I’ve mentioned before that I was more of a fan of the old school Cannibal Corpse with Chris Barnes. The fact is that I obviously haven’t heard enough new Cannibal Corpse with George Fisher. I’ve heard couple of songs here and there but I haven’t sat down and listened to a full album of Cannibal Corpse since the 90’s. Oh how naive I can be!

The new Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague may not be anything really progressing for CC, but it’s a solid death metal album. Is it better than Kill? Honestly, after giving both albums a good listen, it’s about the same. I honestly think Cannibal Corpse is one of those bands that you can’t really see progress from album to album, but you can see progress over a period of time. The biggest problem with trying to look at progress with bands that have been around a long time is that you have to take production technology into consideration. Production in the early days of veteran extreme metal bands lacked. The mixing sucked and getting everything to blend well in the genre was difficult. These days it’s much easier to record and get a good polished sound on a death metal record.

While I still dig Chris Barnes, I’m liking George Fisher a lot more because of vocal clarity. Back in the days of Barnes, you knew he was saying some gory shit, but you could rarely understand most of what he was saying on most songs. What I have also noticed is that the bass guitar on older CC albums was much more punchy and evident. The guitars sound less cloudy on the newer albums and the solos make a huge difference. In other words, old school CC sounds like old school death metal and new CC sounds like modern Death metal. While the old school is still great in it’s own right, the new brings better sound quality that I appreciate.

I started out writing this as a review of Evisceration Plague but it just started turning in to a comparison of Cannibal Corpse of old and new. So I have a great new outlook on a band that I haven’t liked in years due to my own ignorance and stubbornness. If you want my take on Cannibal Corpse’ Evisceration Plague, then I say go get it if you’re a Cannibal Corpse fan of old or new. It’s not new, ground breaking death metal but it’s definitely worth a listen and praise. Still brutal, still heavy and still good enough to keep Cannibal Corpse relevant in a time when a million other shitty death metal/core bands are trying to take over the scene and knowing nothing about it. Their feet are still planted firmly in the blood, guts and gore that they’ve been singing about for the last 21 years.

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Evisceration Plague drops next week (February 3rd)Dates after the fold.

• 4/2 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
• 4/3 – Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theatre
• 4/4 – Tulsa, OK – The Marquee
• 4/6 – Salt Lake City, UT – Avalon
• 4/7 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
• 4/8 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
• 4/10 – Vancouver, BC – Croatian Cultural Center
• 4/11 – Kelowna, BC – Habitat
• 4/12 – Edmonton, AB – The Starlite
• 4/13 – Calgary, AB – McEwan Ballroom
• 4/14 – Regina, SK – Riddell
• 4/15 – Winnipeg, MB – The Garrick
• 4/17 – Minneapolis, MN – Station 4
• 4/18 – Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom
• 4/19 – Grand Rapids, MI – Intersection
• 4/21 – Montreal, QC – The Medley
• 4/22 – Ottawa, ON – Babylon
• 4/23 – Quebec City, QC – Le Capitole
• 4/24 – Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance
• 4/25 – Richmond, VA – Alley Katz
• 4/26 – Jacksonville, NC – Hooligan’s Music Hall
• 4/27 – Jacksonville, FL – Freebird Live

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Speaking of Cannibal Corpse, they have set a release date for their follow up to “Kill“. The new album, titled Evisceration Plague will drop on February 3rd, 2009. You can check out the track list below.

01. Priests of Sodom
02. Scalding Hail
03. To Decompose
04. A Cauldron of Hate
05. Beheading and Burning
06. Evidence in the Furnace
07. Carnivorous Swarm
08. Evisceration Plague
09. Shatter Their Bones
10. Carrion Sculpted Entity
11. Unnatural
12. Skewered From Ear to Eye

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• Frank Mullen – Suffocation
• Lars Göran Petrov – Entombed
• Paul Pavlovich – Assük
• David Vincent – Morbid Angel
• Mikael Akerfeldt – Opeth/ Bloodbath
• Antti Boman – Demilich
• John Tardy – Obituary
• Martin Van Duren – Hail Of Bullets
• Chuck Schuldiner – Death
• Thomas Lindburg – At The Gates

Check out my picks after the fold…

• Frank Mullen of Suffocation – Suffocation are one of the earlier pioneers of NYC Death Metal. While I haven’t heard much of the earlier stuff I really dig their last self titled effort on Relapse Records and I think the modern generation would probably dig this one as well. The production is much better and vocals have more clarity to them. This band kills live too!
• Lars Göran Petrov Of Entombed – Another very more clarified death metal voice, I’d have to pick Wolverine Blues as my Favorite, and the Hollowman EP comes in a close second. With all the other “deathcore” and death metal out there these days, this is one of the staple bands out of the overlooked death metal scene.
• David Vincent of Morbid Angel – I was fan as soon as I heard the doom ridden, creepiness of God Of Emptiness. The entire Covenant album is awesome as well as Blessed Are The Sick, Alters Of Madness and Domination. Domination doesn’t get as much credit as it should.
• Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth/Bloodbath – Even though I have only come to really know Opeth and Bloodbath in the past 6 or 8 months, I can’t get past the sound the Mikael’s voice. First you wouldn’t expect such a vicious sound to come from the same pipes that sing the beautiful melodies that you hear in the softer Opeth songs. I only have 2 Opeth CDs, but Blackwater Park is an amazing album and Bloodbath’s Resurrection Through Carnage and the recent Unblessing The Purity EP are about as brutal as they come. I need to get the new Fathomless Mastery CD. Maybe the merch table at tonight’s Opeth show will have it.
• John Tardy of Obituary – John Tardy had a different sound to his voice than most of the death metal vocalists when they came in to the scene. A unique range with clarity and the more they progressed the better he sounded…to me anyway. It wasn’t a low guttural voice that had to be done with mic directly to mouth in an inaudible tone. He has a voice that stands out and makes it look and sound effortless. Ever tried to imitate his voice? The End Complete is my pick as well but World Demise is a great album too.
• Chuck Schuldiner of Death – Chuck was another unique voice like John Tardy. Not only could Chuck sing with a different range of most Death Metal vocalists, he could rip on guitar as well. My album pick would be Symbolic but if you want a good mix check out Fate: The Best Of Death. Death had a melodic yet brutal sound to them with speed and breakdowns that were hard to top.
• Jeff Walker of Carcass – Once more a unique voice…at the time. Now every other deathcore band tried to sound like Jeff, but they have no friggin’ clue who he is or the legacy of Carcass. As you can see, clarity in vocals is a big thing for me. I like to understand what they are saying. It makes it much easier to sing along when you know the words. Carcass’s Heartwork is a great metal album as well as the slightly slower and often under-rated Swansong.
• Chris Barnes Of Six Feet Under/ ex-Cannibal Corspe – Okay, this is the exception to the clarity thing. Some songs you can catch a lot of the words from Chris Barnes and some not so much. Chris just has that deep guttural voice that sounds grim and evil. Six Feet Under’s Debut album, Haunted is a great example of Chris’s voice as it most Cannibal Corpse’s early albums but mostly The Bleeding in my opinion.
• Maurizio Iacono of Kataklysm – Maurizio has a great death metal voice. Deep, clear and powerful. Their latest release, Prevail, is a great example of Maurizio’s voice. If I said that all the others sounded as good I would be lying because I have yet to explore much more of Kataklysm’s work.

Honorable Mentions

• Jörgen Santöm formerly of Grave
• Tim King Formerly Of Oppressor
• Johnny Hedlund of Unleashed

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1. Entombed – Wolverine Blues
2. Carcass – Keep On Rotting IN The Free World
3. Amon Amarth – Ruins To My Memory
4. All That Remains – Chiron
5. Megadeth – 99 Ways To Die
6. Slipknot – Left Behind
7. Mushroomhead – Solitaire Unraveling
8. Cannibal Corpse – Make Them Suffer
9. Immortal – Call Of The Wintermoon
10. Grave – Soulless

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