Dismember

Band: Dismember
Genre: Death Metal
Album(s): Like An Everflowing Stream
Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ZCAarIVSI

Dismember is one of my absolute favorites of all time (I'll try to make this as unbiased as possible), and still that is not the reason why I put them on here, as their album "Like An Everflowing Stream" is a well-known classic by most metalheads.  Dismember play the style of death metal that emerged from Sweden, known as....well....Swedish death metal.  And in many ways, Dismember perfected this genre with their album "Like an..." with some of the most classic riffs to date.

Let me explain to you what Swedish death metal is in the most practical manner:  Take old school death metal, and gently sprinkle it with some grim, black metal melodies produced by tremolo picking, and on top of that add the sickened growls of legends such as Matti Karki.  Now all we have to do is further tune down the guitars, drop the quality of the production (to get that right atmosphere), and play some wicked death metal drums from hell (which of course doesn't mean much...but hell, I'm sure you'll understand it when you take a listen).  


Looking at the paragraph above, I feel like I actually made that sound kind of easy!  And of course one thing to realize is that the hardest part is to make it all sound good with original riffing & songwriting, which is where Dismember comes.  Please, take a listen and understand what I mean.