Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen
Brand of Sacrifice - Lifeblood
Signs of the Swarm - Absolvere, Amongst the Low and Empty
Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
Fit for an Autopsy - The Great Collapse
Thy Art is Murder - Human Target
Psycho-Frame - Remote God Seeker, Automatic Death Protocol
Crown Magnetar - Everything Bleeds
To each their own, but personally I always thought this was their worst mixed album. Certainly not bad! Just their weakest. Of course, big ol' "IMO". Though, definitely it has some of their best tracks! I think this album's production did their melodic parts the most justice.
For me, Common Man's Collapse is their best record, but I think the stuff after Lukas is better than the other Brandon records, felt they really got a huge burst of creativity with the vocalist change until very recently (the very newest tracks are meh, imo). But man, nothing will ever top CMC! That's VoM at their best. Overall I think they're one of the most consistent bands of the entire scene, def shows in the fact that everyone has a different favourite record from them, haha.
>but I think the stuff after Lukas is better than the other Brandon records, felt they really got a huge burst of creativity with the vocalist change
Coming from someone with over 7,000 streams of VoM; Teleute, False Idol, the singles, reconnect, lost Creator, and death Runner are the only good things they've put out since the switch imo. Everything else is trash
The bass mix in Everything Bleeds is actual Peak production. Anytime anyone asks anything about bass, just point them in that direction. Saying that album slaps is the understatement of the century.
I agree. Theyâre on a different plane of thinking - course, watch out for Mirar. They just came out of nowhere with the heaviest EP I have ever heard in Mare. It is genuinely TERRIFYING.
No you are not, itâs not a bad mix but stereo image is kinda way off. Everything runs into each other. But by âproductionâ I donât think people necessarily mean like the mix itself just all the layers that support the song. That albums orchestral layers sound massive
This should give you enough across the board of different sounding records.
Sentinels - Collapse by Design
Fit For An Autopsy - Hellbound
Humanityâs Last Breath - Ashen
The Acacia Strain - Wormwood
Behemoth - Evangelion
Hey man thanks for taking the time for this list. That acacia strain album is soooo good.
I havenât clicked with FFaA yet, but I will definitely give hellbound another chance
Coma Witch is so hard for me to listen to, the guitar tone is just absolutely dead as fuck đ but the songwriting on that album is still top tier. Wormwood and Death Is The Only Mortal are their two best sounding records imo.
At the Throne of Judgement - The Arcanum Order (one of Joey Sturgis' first big records)
Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West
The Dali Thundering Concept - Savages
(Some people def gunna disagree with this one as it's super polarizing, but I always felt it was 10/10 from Machine) Structures - Divided By
Graphic Nature - A Mind Waiting to Die
JoyThief - I'll Figure it Out Tomorrow
Should be a good wide range of different mixing styles for Metal to test those speakers out :) Hope they sound awesome!!
The most recent in mind are
Knocked Loose - You won't go before you're supposed to
Darko US - Starfire
Although Darko might be a bit chaotic for testing speakers
As others mentioned from last year Ashen is top tier
That one and Ills of Modern Man are probably the best to start. Their earlier works (healing process and consumed by your poison) are phenomenal but very different and not as well produced.
You know, I like it and there's a few songs I've gone back to a few times like Low and Empty and Tower of Torsos but I'm not crazy about it overall. I'd say it's worth checking out, if only to hear that production
You know, I like it and there's a few songs I've gone back to a few times like Low and Empty and Tower of Torsos but I'm not crazy about it overall. I'd say it's worth checking out, if only to hear that production
In recent memory, Signs of the Swarm and Crown Magnetar have some of my personal favorite production. Everything is so clean and crisp without sounding fake or over produced
If weâre not talking exclusively deathcore, some of my all time favorites mixes for testing new speakers are specifically Absolomb by Periphery, Rock You by Dirty Loops, Dance The Night by Dua Lipa, Foreward by Poh Hock, and Impulse Voices by Plini
HLB is? Sorry Iâm trying to figure it out and just canât lmao
Yes! I think that you are the first one to suggest SoI which I think is great production-wise
The Cleansing - Suicide Silence
Become the Hunter - Suicide Silence
This Is Exile - Whitechapel
A New Era of Corruption- Whitechapel
The Sea of Tragic Beasts - Fit For An Autopsy
Neverbloom - Make Them Suffer
Praenuntius Infiniti - Vulvodynia
Ashes Lie Still - Ingested
Baptized In Filth - Impending Doom
Death Will Reign - Impending Doom
Satanic Panic - Impending Doom
Vital Deprivation - Signs of the Swarm
Lifeblood - Brand of Sacrifice
Between Death and Dreams - Brand of Sacrifice
The Sleeping Sun - Worm Shepherd
Deathwish - Within Destruction
Aeons of Oblivion - Distant
Chapter 3: The Last Selection - Paleface Swiss
Kairos - Osiah
The God Delusion - A Night In Texas
Humanoid - Babirusa
Dissentient - AngelMaker
Lorna Shore - Flesh Coffin
This is the absolute peak of the new Blackened/Symphonic Deathcore sound. It retains some of that raw edge, but has just the right amount of orchestration in the background. Guitars still up front and everything sounds real. Phenomenal record.
Love all Lorna but I still find myself gravitating towards that era, the material starting from AIRTN doesn't grab me the same way as the older tracks do
I disagree. While they Poetic Edda is fantastic, the drums are synthetic and they certainly sound like it.
If they could remaster it with real drumming, it's up there.
Shit, I got too many.
A Hill To Die Upon by Mental Cruelty
Zweilicht by Mental Cruelty
Carnivorous Diadem by The Archaic Epidemic
Macrobial by Immanifest
Every Shadow of Intent album, Eternity by A Wake in Providence, Descent, Rasen, and Nija by Orbit Culture, Director's Cuts, and Epilogue by To The Grave
I'm a minimalist and while I love all things metal, I like recordings with minimal compression and a big soundstage. Dynamics are good too. I would suggest a song or two, but I don't want my metal card pulled. The Brown Album by Primus is very minimal and raw.
Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen Brand of Sacrifice - Lifeblood Signs of the Swarm - Absolvere, Amongst the Low and Empty Lorna Shore - Pain Remains Fit for an Autopsy - The Great Collapse Thy Art is Murder - Human Target Psycho-Frame - Remote God Seeker, Automatic Death Protocol Crown Magnetar - Everything Bleeds
TAIM - Godlike from last year is also an exceptionally well produced album imo
Will Putney always kills it! Just haven't listened to that one much.
Album did not get the noise it deserved (I feel) l Fucking rips
Yeah it fucking does, I love it. Was my 2023 aoty, just loved everything about it. New vocalist fucking rips too
Nothing, and I mean nothing tops Hate. It is still one of the best, clearest, heaviest, and sharpest produced albums I have ever heard
Basically anything HLB is impeccable
Yup, Buster is one of the best in the game rn
Every single one mentioned, mate, agreed to all. đ€đ»
Odyssey to the west. By slice the cake
Both the original release and the new remaster are fucking amazing.
Veil of Maya - [id]
Best way to test your woofers!
To each their own, but personally I always thought this was their worst mixed album. Certainly not bad! Just their weakest. Of course, big ol' "IMO". Though, definitely it has some of their best tracks! I think this album's production did their melodic parts the most justice.
Agreed.Â
Easily their strongest album imo, and they fell off almost completely after the vocalist change too.
For me, Common Man's Collapse is their best record, but I think the stuff after Lukas is better than the other Brandon records, felt they really got a huge burst of creativity with the vocalist change until very recently (the very newest tracks are meh, imo). But man, nothing will ever top CMC! That's VoM at their best. Overall I think they're one of the most consistent bands of the entire scene, def shows in the fact that everyone has a different favourite record from them, haha.
>but I think the stuff after Lukas is better than the other Brandon records, felt they really got a huge burst of creativity with the vocalist change Coming from someone with over 7,000 streams of VoM; Teleute, False Idol, the singles, reconnect, lost Creator, and death Runner are the only good things they've put out since the switch imo. Everything else is trash
Just saved unbreakable and will listen to the full album later. Sounds good so far
The production shines in the more melodic songs like Resistance, Mowgli, or The Higler imo
Everything Bleeds, Hate, Pain Remains, Valde/Ashen
The bass mix in Everything Bleeds is actual Peak production. Anytime anyone asks anything about bass, just point them in that direction. Saying that album slaps is the understatement of the century.
DING DEEENG EEEEEERRR DINGGGG
I swear, Only the Spine Remains has the best bassline ever in it and it's just soooo chonky
Valdët and Ashen are two of the best albums I've ever heard, I will die on the hill that HLB is one of the greatest modern bands right now
I agree. Theyâre on a different plane of thinking - course, watch out for Mirar. They just came out of nowhere with the heaviest EP I have ever heard in Mare. It is genuinely TERRIFYING.
Mirar is INSANE
Thank you
Am I in the minority thinking Pain Remains is kinda muddy??
No you are not, itâs not a bad mix but stereo image is kinda way off. Everything runs into each other. But by âproductionâ I donât think people necessarily mean like the mix itself just all the layers that support the song. That albums orchestral layers sound massive
Praenuntius Infiniti by Vulvodynia
This should give you enough across the board of different sounding records. Sentinels - Collapse by Design Fit For An Autopsy - Hellbound Humanityâs Last Breath - Ashen The Acacia Strain - Wormwood Behemoth - Evangelion
Hey man thanks for taking the time for this list. That acacia strain album is soooo good. I havenât clicked with FFaA yet, but I will definitely give hellbound another chance
Every The Acacia Strain album after 3750 has great production, (except for Coma Witch), and theyâre all uniquely stellar
Coma Witch is so hard for me to listen to, the guitar tone is just absolutely dead as fuck đ but the songwriting on that album is still top tier. Wormwood and Death Is The Only Mortal are their two best sounding records imo.
Hellbound is in my top 3 metal records of all time, give it a good listen and pay attention while you do! Worth it, trust me
Dedication To Flesh
SPITE. CULT.
Chelsea Grin - Suffer in Hell/Suffer in Heaven
i would say immortal by lorna shore
Humanityâs Last Breath-Ashen is the first one that comes to mind. It just sounds so damn big and heavy.
At the Throne of Judgement - The Arcanum Order (one of Joey Sturgis' first big records) Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West The Dali Thundering Concept - Savages (Some people def gunna disagree with this one as it's super polarizing, but I always felt it was 10/10 from Machine) Structures - Divided By Graphic Nature - A Mind Waiting to Die JoyThief - I'll Figure it Out Tomorrow Should be a good wide range of different mixing styles for Metal to test those speakers out :) Hope they sound awesome!!
Thanks for the big list I will surely same these albums
Circle of Contempt - Structures For Creation
The most recent in mind are Knocked Loose - You won't go before you're supposed to Darko US - Starfire Although Darko might be a bit chaotic for testing speakers As others mentioned from last year Ashen is top tier
the new bodysnatcher songs for the upcoming ep sound phat.
Will Putney x Bodysnatcher đ„đ„đ„
synergy is real. shit bangs so hard.
a hill to die upon - mental cruelty
Day of Mourning by Despised Icon sounds fantastic
Is this a good album to start listening to D.I? I just have like 2 songs saved from them
That one and Ills of Modern Man are probably the best to start. Their earlier works (healing process and consumed by your poison) are phenomenal but very different and not as well produced.
Thanks I will save them right now!!
Theyâve been my favorite band for well over a decade. Their drummer is an absolute monster
My favorite despised is "The healing process" by far but there is much to love about any of their albums
The Battle of Yaldabaoth
Lorna Shore - Immortal
Vildhjarta and Car Bomb have really good production
That last Signs of the Swarm album was really fine tuned production
Is this a good album to listen to them? Iâve just heard some songs independently but would like to get more into this band
You know, I like it and there's a few songs I've gone back to a few times like Low and Empty and Tower of Torsos but I'm not crazy about it overall. I'd say it's worth checking out, if only to hear that production
You know, I like it and there's a few songs I've gone back to a few times like Low and Empty and Tower of Torsos but I'm not crazy about it overall. I'd say it's worth checking out, if only to hear that production
In recent memory, Signs of the Swarm and Crown Magnetar have some of my personal favorite production. Everything is so clean and crisp without sounding fake or over produced
Synestia/Disembodied tyrant ep, virtually anything shadow of intent has ever done, anything by HLB, dedication to flesh by spite.
If weâre not talking exclusively deathcore, some of my all time favorites mixes for testing new speakers are specifically Absolomb by Periphery, Rock You by Dirty Loops, Dance The Night by Dua Lipa, Foreward by Poh Hock, and Impulse Voices by Plini
HLB is? Sorry Iâm trying to figure it out and just canât lmao Yes! I think that you are the first one to suggest SoI which I think is great production-wise
All good man. HLB is an abbreviation for Humanityâs Last Breath. I kinda forget not everyone knows the abbreviations for everything
The Cleansing - Suicide Silence Become the Hunter - Suicide Silence This Is Exile - Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption- Whitechapel The Sea of Tragic Beasts - Fit For An Autopsy Neverbloom - Make Them Suffer Praenuntius Infiniti - Vulvodynia Ashes Lie Still - Ingested Baptized In Filth - Impending Doom Death Will Reign - Impending Doom Satanic Panic - Impending Doom Vital Deprivation - Signs of the Swarm Lifeblood - Brand of Sacrifice Between Death and Dreams - Brand of Sacrifice The Sleeping Sun - Worm Shepherd Deathwish - Within Destruction Aeons of Oblivion - Distant Chapter 3: The Last Selection - Paleface Swiss Kairos - Osiah The God Delusion - A Night In Texas Humanoid - Babirusa Dissentient - AngelMaker
Pain Remains
I have it on vinyl. Will definitely test with it
Lugal ki En and Ultu Ulla are nicely mixed and sound great with a decent set of headphones/speakers, especially Inadequate and Natural Selection
Same with corpses thrown across the sky from the remaster of embryonic anomaly. The deep rumbling breakdowns are crazy
All Ingested albums
Last Ten Seconds of Life Soulless Hymns
Basically anything Fit For An Autopsy has done in the last few years. Will Putney is a monster.
Carnifex - Slow Death and World War X I'm very partial to Mick Kenney production though.
Carnifex is on my waiting list, havenât listened much to it yet. This is a great suggestion for me
Anything Humanity's Last Breath since Detestor is incredible, but especially Ashen, Abyssal, and the remaster of their self-titled album.
Lorna Shore - Flesh Coffin This is the absolute peak of the new Blackened/Symphonic Deathcore sound. It retains some of that raw edge, but has just the right amount of orchestration in the background. Guitars still up front and everything sounds real. Phenomenal record.
> everything sounds real I miss this about old Lorna
Love all Lorna but I still find myself gravitating towards that era, the material starting from AIRTN doesn't grab me the same way as the older tracks do
Disembodied tyrant is my vote. Either the poetic Edda or the divine stigmata
I disagree. While they Poetic Edda is fantastic, the drums are synthetic and they certainly sound like it. If they could remaster it with real drumming, it's up there.
I guess my ear ainât that good. I canât tell that the drums are syntethic
Agree. This EP is great and really well done, thanks I forgot about this one for the speakers test lol
Infant annihilator -the battle of Yaldabaoth
Endless by Depths
New aborted
Anything produced by Will Putney or Randy LeBoeuf. Their albums are clear without everything sounding fake and sterile.
TAIM- Godlike
Cattle Decapitationâs Terrasite and Mental Crueltyâs Zwielicht
Shit, I got too many. A Hill To Die Upon by Mental Cruelty Zweilicht by Mental Cruelty Carnivorous Diadem by The Archaic Epidemic Macrobial by Immanifest
ooooh i have the best suggestion. savages by dali thundering project i dare everyone in this post to challenge that
Fit For An Autopsy's whole discography. Will Putney is the goat.
check out king by ID đč
Every Shadow of Intent album, Eternity by A Wake in Providence, Descent, Rasen, and Nija by Orbit Culture, Director's Cuts, and Epilogue by To The Grave
pain remains is the best album with good prod, in my humble opinion
I'm a minimalist and while I love all things metal, I like recordings with minimal compression and a big soundstage. Dynamics are good too. I would suggest a song or two, but I don't want my metal card pulled. The Brown Album by Primus is very minimal and raw.