![]() Brutal, in the strongest sense of the word, and designed for those who feasted on the sounds of hell made flesh, Incarnate is possibly the most timeless album on this list , as ferocious and unpredictable now as it was in 1992. Veering dangerously close to total pandemonium, Necrosanct fashioned a death metal album that made up in violence what it lacked in finesse. Proof that the UK did have bands that could deliver the filthiest sound of purist evil imaginable, Necrosanct’s Incarnate still sounds shockingly abrasive today. ![]() Instead, these eccentric pioneers were determinedly unconventional perpetually hovering on the periphery of being a full-blown technical death metal outfit without fully committing to the cause.īy 1992, death metal had taken hold and the sub-genres own limited trappings were already beginning to reveal themselves….a fact that makes Hate and Despise all the more surprising considering Lemming Project were already toying with death metal’s foundations and building their own paean to extremity and experimentalism. Nor was it as shockingly heavy as Obituary, Deicide or Cannibal Corpse. ![]() ![]() Of course, Hate and Despise was recognisably death metal (with an abundance of chugging riffs)) but it was certainly not in the same cauterized vein as Swedish trend-setters Entombed, Dismember etc. It’s fair to say that Lemming Project’s obscurity can be attributed to their being ‘ahead of their time’. Infused with a multitude of tempo changes and a schizophrenic demeanour, Germany’s Lemming Project lived up to their oddball name on their second album, Hate and Despise. Lemming Project – Hate and Despise (1992) With concepts as complex as their compositions, these avant-garde, progressive death metallers seemed to throw every single idea into the mix, culminating in a bewildering experience that managed to be both beautiful and brutal in the same breath.īasically, Dark Heresy sounded like an unholy union between Carcassand Testimony Of The Ancients-era Pestilence (by way of 70’s jazz-fusion perfectionists The Mahavishnu Orchestra!), with their approach to songwriting proving difficult to pin down while ensuring that Abstract Principles Taken To Their Logical Extremes remains an utterly unique experience! Like the death metal version of fellow countrymen Sabbat, these anti-Christian pagans from the UK were a complete anomaly in their respective genre but, sadly, Dark Heresy’s lasting legacy boils down to just this one album. Presented in alphabetical order as opposed to any sort of ranking….Īmboss – Those Who Have Lost The Right to Exist (1993)Īnother progressively-minded cult masterpiece lost to the annals of time, Amboss’ Those Who Have Lost The Right to Exist positively overflowed with ideas – with relatively straight-forward death metal aggression jostling impressively with Amboss‘ off-kilter sensibility.Įlements of this bewildering beast recalled the avant-garde nature of Celtic Frost’s Into the Pandemonium and with siren-like female backing vocals working their way into the mix – alongside levels of ambience, acoustic intros and a tenacity for turning the tables on expectation – Those Who Have Lost The Right to Exist was certainly good enough to make waves in the scene.įans of obscure cult oddities, which reveal a myriad of unexpected surprises, should relish this release for the ahead-of-the-curve curio hindsight has revealed it to be!ĭark Heresy – Abstract Principles Taken to Their Logical Extremes (1995) These 6 death metal obscurities demand to be heard! Leave your Deicide, Suffocation, Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse albums at the door.
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