#Thy Art is Murder

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The Aggression Sessions

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‼️ METAL DISCOURSE TIME ‼️

I hate when deathcore albums have like, polished digital art for album covers. It ruins the vibes so hard

when I listen to metal it’s for something dark and violent. The music sounds like a circle of hell. World of Warcraft ass art does not convey that lol

like here’s some examples

I’m sorry but none of this gets the vibes right. This doesn’t look brutal it looks like a T for teen video game. It’s too polished and colorful, there’s no suspense to any of it it’s so matter of fact. So much is happening there and you see all of it in painstaking detail. It doesn’t feel any more scary than an MCU movie

but you know what does look good as an album cover? PAINTINGS

paintings are usually so much less perfect, and therefore add some flaws, it feels human and adds to the aesthetic so much harder. Also they tend to give a vintage vibe which adds a near gothic amount of weight to it. like

This is so much sexier and feels so much spookier than digital art of a big monster or wtv. Oil paint and dark tones is just the perfect vibe for a metal albums I’m sorry.

to be clear also i don’t mean hate on any of the artists. Ppl who make that digital art have an ungodly amount of talent, I just don’t think it matches well w heavy music.

also I don’t even listen to all the bands I used lol

[darth-maya]

The song of the day is

Thy Art is Murder - Godlike

[gerardwayslegs]

⛧My name is Emma she/her

⛧I’m 15

⛧My favourite bands are My chemical romance (I saw them live) Pierce the veil, Freedom of fear, Motley crue, Exodus and Thy art is murder

⛧my interests are horror movies, fashion, video games and music

⛧i play bass (begginer) my favourite bassists are Mikey way, Nikki sixx, victoria de angelis and Cliff burton (rip)

⛧ill mainly post edits and pics on here maybe drawings

⛧happy to make moots!!

[cherrwysx-music]

♫ Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike ♫

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[the-shepherd-of-fire]

Thanks for the tag! @blowfishinthisup !

I was tagged to put a playlist of shuffle and post the first 10 songs that came up

This is from my metal playlist which has a whole load of differnet genres but oh well aha

Opeth - The Baying of the Hounds

Gojira - Blow Me Away You(niverse)

Orbit Culture - Open Eye

System of a Down - Radio/Video

Metallica - Moth into Flame

Fit for an Autopsy - Two Towers

After the Burial - Exit, Exist

Malevolence - Self Supremacy

Thy Art is Murder - Make America Hate Again

Ensiferum - Rum, Women, Victory

Nothing too obscure on this one but bangers all round, I tag @langdonsluxiouslocks @invincible-selfxmade-punk @b-etter @another-brick-inthewall @somethingsynysterrr and anyone else who wants to v join in :) ( no pressure obvs)

[moonangelxiii]

back on that metal shit

spotify link, youtube link (this ones got some p sick music videos ngl), and as always reblog if you think this goes hard 🤘

[littleteakitten]

Every day that a girl doesn't kiss me is a wasted day 😤

[andrewmannequin]

Suicide Silence - Green Monster

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I Was Wrong About Deathcore

Deathcore as a genre has gone through quite a transformation over the last 20 years, especially in its early years. Bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Veil Of Maya, All Shall Perish, Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, and Job For A Cowboy brought forth a style of metalcore that took death metal elements into the fold, creating a heavier and more menacing sound. Unfortunately, the metal community hated it, and deathcore was mocked incessantly by the metal community. I remember countless metal publications crapping all over the genre, like it was nothing, and many elitists would say it’s not “real metal,” which you also heard with metalcore, but look at how big both genres are now. In retrospect, those people that doubted the genre and mocked it, their comments haven’t aged well, because both of these genres are insanely huge. Deathcore, in particular, is doing well for itself, but it wasn’t always like that. You can say the same for metalcore as well, and I’ve got a piece in the works about that, but for now, let’s talk about deathcore, and where it’s been for the past decade and where it may potentially go in the future.

I’ve expressed before that I’m just not into the genre anymore, but I’ve recently spent some time with a handful of albums, both from bands I know and bands I don’t, and I’ve come to the realization that I was wrong about the quality of the genre over the last few years. That’s not to say I’m a diehard fan now, but I wanted to write this piece to explain how I went from loving the genre as a teenager to not being much of a fan in my late 20s, only to enjoy it more now at 30. It seems like things like this go full circle, because I was the same way with metalcore as well, and only up until about five or six years ago, I didn’t really listen to a lot for the longest time. I loved deathcore in high school, partially because it was the “heaviest” music I had ever heard, at least at the time. I had already been a fan of metalcore, but deathcore was even heavier. The genre reached its peak in the early 2010s with the second coming of the genre, and that included Carnifex, Whitechapel, Thy Art Is Murder, and a lot of other bands. Those bands were already around, but they only ended up getting bigger. After a certain point, however, I saw the genre start to turn to how heavy and “brutal” a band could get, instead of writing good songs.

One of my biggest issues with heavier music that I run into a lot, depending on the genre, is that bands never know how to write a cohesive song, and instead, they want to be as heavy and brutal as possible, as well as cram as many riffs and breakdowns as possible. Bonus points if the vocalist sounds like a garbage disposal as well. I see this in progressive metal a lot, too, where the bands play as intricately and technical as possible, but they can’t make a catchy or accessible song worth a damn. There was a point where I thought musicianship was more important, but I don’t think so these days. These days, I’m more into listening to catchy and accessible stuff that has something to go back to, versus something that sounds impressive. Sure, you can play your instruments well, but why should I care if I don’t have anything to go back to? Deathcore has been going in that direction recently, being that bands are starting to be more accessible and memorable, versus trying to be as heavy and brutal as possible.

Lorna Shore’s latest record, Pain Remains, is a good example of that, but at the same time, that album is a good example of being over the top and overblown. Pain Remains is at an 11 constantly with its brand of symphonic and blackened deathcore, and while the album does try to get heavy and brutal, there is a lot of variety in both the musicianship and vocals. I reviewed that album a couple of years ago, and my biggest issue with it was how intense and over the top it was, but I don’t think it bothers me as much now, because I just needed to sink my teeth more into it. I didn’t spend enough time with it, and I see the album’s importance now, but I will admit that it’s a very overwhelming album at times, because it throws a lot at you. It throws a lot of different things, though, and that’s a good thing. Relistening to that album recently made me dive back into the genre for a bit, including the new Carnifex album from last year, Necromanteum. I liked that album a lot when it came out, despite it being pretty similar to what they’ve been doing, but Carnifex is a good example of a deathcore band that has more going for them than just being brutal and heavy. They utilize symphonics as well, and black metal riffery, so there’s more or less a good amount of variety on the album.

I’ve listened to a handful of other things, including the new Drown In Sulphur album, Dark Secrets Of The Soul, and I will say that blackened deathcore has become the new trend of the genre, aside from being brutal and heavy, but it all depends on the band’s ability to execute it. Like with all trends, it’ll fade, and the next new thing will come, but it looks like bands trying to be as brutal as possible is the thing of the past and the blackened deathcore sound is what’s big, so I’m looking at the genre with some optimism again, and I’m enjoying some of what I’m hearing. Another great album I’ve been into is the debut Ov Sulfur album, The Burden Ov Faith, in which the band tackles symphonic and blackened deathcore, along with some metalcore and hard rock influence by including clean vocals on the majority of the record.

It’s not that I don’t like bands being really heavy and brutal, it’s that I don’t care for it when that itself is the gimmick. There’s nothing with merely doing that, and sounding like that, but I want there to be more at this point in time. Maybe 20 years ago, it was new and fresh, but now it’s boring and played out, so I’m happy to see a band like Lorna Shore really do something with that. Other bands are following suit, and who knows where the genre will go in the next few years, especially when this trend dies down, but if this is where the the genre is now, I could get into this. Deathcore may not reach the same heights it did ten years ago, but times change, and it’s great to see some newer bands carrying the torch for any certain style of music.

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Logo of the Day

Thy Art is Murder

Deathcore

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♫ Fit For An Autopsy & Thy Art Is Murder & Malevolence - The Aggression Sessions split  ♫