gorguts considered dead

4:27. -autothrall Review by blacktheripper USER March 22nd, 2013 | 772 replies. The lyrics are exceptional too, because the themes reach beyond the blunt brutality and hate of religion demonstrated by many contemporary bands of the genre. Last thing I want to say is, despite this coming across as a negative review; I think this album is good, just not great. Considered Dead… Haemotological Allergy: 3. Hematological Allergy: Perhaps the sickest track on the album...whats more disturbing than being allergic to your own blood? Top Lyrics of 2009. Considered Dead is an album that many will want to return to upon first listening to uncover all the majestic moments they missed upon their first listen whilst attempting to soak everything in. Ensuing eardrum grinders like the title track and "Bodily Corrupted" aren't as immediately successful, but hardly disappoint in the long run, either; and with frequent bright spots continuing to surface throughout the disc (check out the particularly melodic instrumental "Waste of Mortality," the word-inventing "Rottenatomy," and monstrous closer "Inoculated Life," featuring a guest guitar solo from Death legend James Murphy), it's easy to see why Gorguts were considered sure-fire candidates to lead death metal into a bright future. It took me a couple times to get excited enough to give it a listen, and boy was I wrong about this album. The band has experienced numerous lineup changes and musical transformations since their inception, with founding guitarist/vocalist Luc Lemay being … One has to wonder if French Canadians Gorguts didn't actually intend to name their debut … 'Considered Dead' Album Cover. Just listen to Stiff and Cold and Disincarnated and I guarantee you will be humming the extremely “catchy” riffs for hours to come. It says something about the obvious potential of the band at that stage, as well as the influence of their record label, that on this, their debut offering, they were able to secure to extreme metal legends to do guest performances. In the process, they have…. Waste of Mortality 8. 9/10. Gorguts would release better albums than Considered Dead, but when I put it into the context of 1991, I consider it to be an underrated gem and compellingly entertaining stuff! It's really not bad or anything, just kind of... there. [Note: Considered Dead was later remastered, reissued, and paired with its successor The Erosion of Sanity as part of Roadrunner's Two From the Vault series, in 2004. Gorguts is a technical death metal band. Hematological Allergy (Ft. Chris Barnes) 10. 0 Comment Share Colored Sands Gorguts. Considered Dead My favourite tracks are probably Stiff and Cold, Disincarnated and Inoculated Life (mainly because of James Murphy’s solo). Gorguts were never going to come out with something as bold as Obscura for their first release, and to expect that would be naive. © 2021 Official Gorguts. It was even influential in its own way, judging by Disincarnate's album. It's simple, really, gore + guts = Gorguts, an accumulation of subversive but blunt instruments that might very represent the first noteworthy Canadian death metal act (assuming we aren't counting the cult thrash brutes Slaughter). Inoculated Life Unlike many bands in extreme metal, Gorguts make use of only one guitarist and good lord can that one man riff. Released 8 October 1991 on R/C (catalog no. Gorguts. Gorguts are a technical death metal/avant-garde metal band that formed in 1989 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. This is usually something about death or disease or decomposing bodies, the lyrics don’t really stand out but hey, it’s Old School Death Metal where it was about being as disgusting as possible, and the lack of initiative in the lyrical themes is more than made up for by the instrumentation. Despite what anybody tries to tell you, Considered Dead has none of the idiosyncrasies that would make Gorguts their own special brand. GORGUTS - Considered Dead, Erosion Of Sanity Reissue Details Available. GORGUTS Considered Dead ratings distribution 3.36 (40 ratings) Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music (22%) Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection (22%) Good, but non-essential (40%) Collectors/fans only (15%) Poor. 3. Or at least old-school death metal as defined by pioneering efforts like Beneath the Remains and Arise from Brazilians Sepultura: hyperfast, very technical, ultrabrutal, but also characterized by healthy injections of melodic guitar harmonies and slower doom sections. Credits. Hematological Allergy Inoculated Life (Ft. James Murphy (Guitarist)) SORRY DIGITAL IS NOT AVAILABLE What stops the album from being completely derivative is that this is still Gorguts we're talking about. Luc Lemay's vocals are a mixed bag here - on one hand his vocal patterns are exceptional (that one near the end of "Disincarnated" is super-fun: "ONLYINCARNATIONCANNOWBRINGMEBACKTO MAAAAN-KIND"), but his tone of voice is still ridiculously irritating. Item Information. Still, there were not a hell of a lot of albums quite like this one during those times. The album features complex riffs and multi-layered dissonant harmonies and have influenced several other progressive death metal artists. Rapturous Grief: 8. The vocals are all powerfully delivered and if you listen carefully you can even hear what he is on about. Innoculated Life: Being born dead Burns. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1991 Vinyl release of Considered Dead on Discogs. The eventual decline of the movement was still two to three years away, so Gorguts picked exactly the right time to burst onto the scene in this way. The Gorguts line-up was made up of Luc Lemay, the only band member present on all their releases, and Sylvain Marcoux on guitars, Eric Giguere on bass and Stephane Provencher on drums. But the catchy riffs are few and far between and the solos are drab and uninteresting for the most part, except for the last track “Inoculated life”, now that’s a sick solo. Some of the riffs fly by in a forgettable murky blur. November 9, 2006, 14 years ago. All the guitar parts on the album are very rhythmical, which is great, but it’s really Gorguts sense for weird harmonies that set them apart from their contemporaries. Check out the bass solo at the start of Rottenatomy and you’ll know what I’m on about when I say that Eric Giguere means business. It was their debut and they still were figuring out their aesthetic/purpose. Nonetheless, it fits this particular album just fine. Although deep, of course, his voice presents a somewhat more darkened atmosphere, in a sense, the “aftershock” of his voice sounds that of a person shrieking in utter agony. 4. 1. Find Gorguts discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. Hematological Allergy (Ft. Chris Barnes) 10. The vocal performance on Considered Dead ranks up there among the finest in its genre, in my opinion. The lead guitar dominates the sound while being supported by the vocalist who creates powerful moods with his growls and screams, following a clear rhythm that's beautifully composed, fitting exactly with the story told by the lyrics. Gorguts - Considered Dead review: A truly breathtaking experience that few could hope to topple; this boasts fun and creative riffing and intense drumming along with the vocals of Satan himself. Waste of Mortality This piece of art is surely the work of some very talented musicians that are entitled to a lot more recognition then they currently receive, as one of the influences of the technical death metal genre, these guys have come a long way to help ensure the precision of heavy music as we know it. First and foremost the sound production features a balanced sound, everything is clearly audible. Considered Dead 5. Timeghoul essentially took this release and improved everything that's wrong or unsatisfactory about it, so you might as well just go listen to them. Rottenatomy: Lost in a jungle, falling prey to traps before you finally die Behind the Boards: Scott Burns Apple Music Metal Albums You May Also Like. Dan Seagrave. After listening to countless different death metal albums this one... is an exception. Available with an Apple Music subscription. Luc Lemay really knows how to “document” his guitar parts, with the utter picking of a very pissed off wilder beast attempting to catch and eat its kill. It’s not a technical masterpiece and it’s not so gross and disgusting or catchy and fun to stand out on its own in any way… Genres: Death Metal. These guys are the best at what they do. Sadly, the band's record company, Roadrunner, felt otherwise, inexplicably dropping Gorguts after just one more album, and consigning them to a long ramble through the underground metal wilderness before eventually resurfacing, almost unrecognizable, as a death-jazz outfit five years later. It is very rare on this release that the drum patterns will stay the same for more than a few measures and yet it doesn't feel disjointed, nor does it ever really let up in intensity. For those of you who are self-congratulatory connoisseurs of death metal, Gorguts was breaking new ground before you saw hammered smashed face on Ace Ventura for the first time. 8. It’s a wonder Gorguts even bothered to get James Murphy in to do a solo when they are graced with two highly proficient guitarists. Perhaps the boundary pushing nature of those later albums is really to blame for the somewhat mixed reception for the album I see sometimes. Considered Dead, released in 1991 on Roadrunner Records, a label that, along with Earache Records, helped to break death metal as a viable musical genre, was an impressive release that showed a ton of promise for this young band from Quebec.As the band was still developing their style, the out … That’s the reason this is my favourite Gorguts album out of the ones I have heard: they used their imagination and instrumental skills whilst retaining brutality and all the other qualities that make Old School Death Metal so enjoyable. Notes. They returned in 1993 with their second album "The Erosion of Sanity" which proved to be more technical and experimental than their debut. Release Date: 1991 | Tracklist. Considered Dead Gorguts. $35.00 . Yes, their solos are not as complex or theorised as Murphy’s but they still give the guitarists chance to show of their fret board skills. I could name a handful of albums that sound like total trash compared to this one, but I won't. A lot of the tremolo riffs here are pretty vanilla and simplistic - they're catchy, but only a few of them have memorable or clever melodies, so a lot of times they feel uncomfortably close to filler. Gorguts: Considered Dead (remaster) Here it is, the debut from one of Canada's best kept death metal secrets. But when death metal began to blister and boil out of Florida, how would they respond to that? This is a classic. remove. On the surface, Considered Dead seems to tick all of the right boxes. Lyrics to 'Considered Dead' by Gorguts. Dan Seagrave artwork! Billboard Hot 100. Musically, it's essentially a release that clings 100% to American death metal - you can hear parts of early Deicide and Morbid Angel in the fast and vaguely thrash-influenced tremolo riffage, along with a bit of the slower, more brutal, more contorting parts that Suffocation were doing at the time. Considered Dead. Disincarnated: Leaving your body, and wishing to become human again Most of the enjoyment lies in the gestating skill of the musicians, and of course that Morrisound production. The drums are awesome, not too muddy yet not too shallow. The bass itself is nice, though I wish it were a tad bit more prominent; It can get drowned in the mix a bit. 2. It reminds me of a skateboarder making fun of death metal vocals while stoned off his ass, growling every word with the inflection of "DUUUUUUUDE" and "BROOOOO" and "MAAAAAAAAN". Lyrics to 'Considered Dead' by Gorguts. It's purely fiction but captures and keeps the listeners attention throughout its 4:29 duration. 9. Regardless of that, Considered Dead remains a notable, if not exactly groundbreaking example of death metal's glory days. Prints. 2. Features Song Lyrics for Gorguts's Considered Dead album. They provide an extremely solid backbone to the whole album. The bass drums have a really chunky sound and they are always perfectly timed so you get really heavy beats. Long out of print, Gorguts' first two albums, 1991's Considered Dead and 1993's The Erosion of Sanity, are re-released on one disc.These two albums bear little resemblance -- other than the gravel gargling vocals of Luc Lemay-- to the band that returned in the late '90s with the towering triumph of Obscura.Without the shadow of their latter-day classic, though, these albums would still be highly regarded and still stand … Details about Gorguts "Considered Dead" 1991, CD + OBI strip. 3 viewed per hour. You can be anywhere and hear Gorguts playing and be able to easily identify Luc’s trademark “shrieking growl” with little to no difficulty or confusion what so ever. Bodily Corrupted They released their first demo, ...And Then Comes Lividity, in 1990 which led them to be signed to Roadrunner Records. Then Cannibal Corpse and now Six Feet Under vocalist Chris Barnes provides brutal backing vocals on three tracks and guitar virtuoso James Murphy (Obituary, Testament, Death) plays an epic guitar solo on album closer Inoculated Life. At the time of its release, it seemed to illuminate a certain presence that was not really common within the underground. He is able to hold his own with his voice, and thus help push along the utter brilliance that is made through this band’s memorable and classic tunes. Stiff And Cold is a good example of how frequent the riff changes are on Considered Dead, switching between some constant picking riffs to power chords that could not be better placed. Hematological Allergy is the one song on here in which Marcoux gives a brief glimpse into the future of the band with its intricate structure and wildly contrasting tempos. Waste Of Mortality: An amazing instrumental, really sets an eerie mood for someone who may waste their days here on Earth Top Lyrics of 2011. For some, that might actually be the deal breaker, but I find that albums sounding specifically like this one, Death's 1987-1990 catalog or Obituary circa 1989-90 are not too easy to locate. I think the confusion of this album can be appealing to a degree; But in the end this is just a launching pad to the greatness that was to come. 5. Yes, this has that 'Florida' sound to it, so much so that it was even recorded at Morrisound with Scott Burns. You will feel it in each song, but certain solos it becomes more evident. What I love about the bass is that it's not overpowering, yet still holds its own presence against the others. Colored Sands 2013 From Wisdom To Hate 2001 Pleiades' Dust 2016 Obscura 1998 The Erosion of Sanity 1993 Featured On. Following on from their somewhat Sadus-esque death/thrash demos, the Canadians found themselves at the acclaimed Morrissound studios in Florida recording their debut full length, with one Scott Burns producing. Disincarnated Considered Dead is a death metal music album recording by GORGUTS released in 1991 on CD, LP/Vinyl and/or cassette. Discography: Considered Dead, The Erosion of Sanity, Obscura, From Wisdom to Hate, Colored Sands.. Considered dead by GORGUTS, released 08 March 2019 1. If there's one thing that everybody thinks is cooler than that guy who loves Gorguts, it's the super-snobby elitist whose tastes are so refined that he refuses to like anything the band released past The Erosion of Sanity and praises the band's first two albums as a true, untainted triumph of the avant-garde. Taken on its own merits, Considered Dead is really quite good. If you enjoy that very dark, fat but processed sounding guitar tone with the inclusion of its thinner, surgical melodic sparks, then Considered Dead is really a given. Rottenatomy (Ft. Chris Barnes) 6. My only complaint about this album is the drumming, it's too plain in my opinion. Tracklisting: Many of these guys would later be influenced by Gorguts, and thus following loosely in their footsteps in an attempt to make greatly composed heavy music. Vision Divine "When All The Heroes Are Dead" 2019, CD jewel case. 3. I must admit, I got this album in the "Two From The Vault" Roadrunner series, and hadn't heard it prior to this release. Stiff and Cold Considered Dead remains a notable, if not exactly groundbreaking example of death metal's glory days. I think a lot of good death metal has the ability to be simultaneously mind-numbing yet engaging, especially with dizzying technicality involved. Listen free to Gorguts – Considered Dead (...and Then Comes Lividity, Stiff And Cold and more). It's a death metal album that could've been released by any one of hundreds of bands at the time, and the band who chose to release it has very little bearing on how it actually sounds. 9. With a guest appearance by Cannibal Corpse's Chris Barnes on the tracks "Bodily Corrputed," and "Hematological Allergy," as well as a guest solo by the legendary James Murphy on "Innoculate life," this is a must have piece of death metal history. There’s nothing wrong with that but I just prefer it a bit more down to earth. We then tear into "Stiff And Cold," the albums first heavy track. Considered Dead. In 1990/91 the Floridian death metal scene was arguably at its peak. The band has had a monumental impact on the scene with their willingness to experiment with progressive song structures and interesting jazz elements in their music. GORGUTS was then signed to Roadrunner Records and released their debut album "Considered Dead" in 1991. Stiff and Cold Lyrics. The Art of Sombre Ecstasy: 9. Considered Dead is a music studio album recording by GORGUTS (Tech/Extreme Prog Metal/Progressive Rock) released in 1991 on cd, lp / vinyl and/or cassette. remove. $8.45. A Gorguts album is one best heard in its entirety than trying to single out individual tracks from it. Disincarnated 04:27 Show lyrics (loading lyrics...) 4. Hell, Chris Barnes and James Murphy even make guest appearances on the album, so it's pretty clear what the Canadians were trying to achieve with this record. 4:27. Luc also performed vocals on the album and the accoustic guitar on ...And Then Comes Lividity and Waste of Mortality. Everyone has to start somewhere. The songwriting alternates back and forth between its slow parts and fast parts to a fault; considering that all the slow parts sound like each other, and all the fast parts sound like each other (and yes, this also becomes a problem in later Gorguts) it's unfortunately easy to get tired of the whole concept by the time the album is over. Gorguts added an album Apr 10, 2015 at 10:24 AM. Gorguts has solidified its presence in the death metal universe upon giving birth to the well known and now classic “Considered Dead”. This fact alone just makes me love the drums on this album. Website by Musivore ... Home; News; Tour; Discography; Biography; Videos; Gallery; Store Gorguts - Demo Antology Album Lyrics; 1. Nothing on this album really pushes the boundaries of extreme music as their later works would, but songs such as Rottenatomy have such incredibly dynamic tempos that it was obvious what direction the band would take on their next release. 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