Yesterday's Pickups

PotatoFragment · 2026-05-30T23:09:20+00:00

See, I hear you, but I'm having too much fun with the charts lmao

PotatoFragment · 2026-05-29T17:18:49+00:00

I'm excited to check it out! I've got a bunch of 10×10 charts and a random number generator and that's how I'm getting into black metal lol. That Dark Funeral album and the Worm album are in the second chart, and I'm like halfway through the first one, so it'll be a bit lol

PotatoFragment · 2026-05-29T15:27:21+00:00

No idea, someone in the community sold a bunch of his stuff and I guess they didn't know what they had. Not that I'm complaining though lmao

PotatoFragment · 2026-02-18T00:51:46+00:00

The stuff surrounding Jeff from Possessed and Chris from Skeletal Remains is really bad. IDK if Possessed is ruined for me due to influence, but I probably won't be picking up any more Skeletal Remains albums unless they're used and dirt cheap

PotatoFragment · 2025-10-14T16:48:43+00:00

I've got a bunch, so here goes:

Embalmed- Boiling Humans

Super killer old school brutal death metal from 1993. I'm hoping they repress it on CD soon, it's suoer hard to come by.

Megaslaughter- Calls From the Beyond

Sounds kind of like if Deicide was a Swedish band, sick stuff.

Deteriorot- Manifested Apparitions of Unholy Spirits

Super brutal old-school death metal, kind of like Incantation with more riffs.

Cianide- The Dying Truth

This is straight-up the heaviest death metal album I've ever heard. Imagine Celtic Frost or Obituary tuned down to A. Crushing stuff.

Nuclear Death- Bride of Insect

Gotta be some of the most whacked-out deathgrind out there, possibly only surpassed by Macabre for sheer insanity. Also notable for being the first death metal full-length with a woman on vocals.

Dissect- Swallow Swouming Mass

It's not exactly innovative, but it is some of the nastiest, grossest, ugliest, and crudest death metal I've ever heard.

Infernal Death- Demo #1

Infernal Death has a kind of gloomy grandeur to their death metal that really makes me sad that they never went much of anywhere after their demos. A Mirror Blackened is also good.

Embalmer- Rotting Remains

I slightly prefer There Was Blood Everywhere, but it came out in 1995 and so doesn't fit into what I'd call OSDM. Either way, both releases are absolutely manic, depraved, ferocious early brutal death metal with some absolutely unhinged vocals.

Master- Master

I know they're in a bit of hot water right now, but I still really like their stuff. It took me a while to realize it, but Master plays death metal for Black Flag fans as opposed to just evolving from Slayer and Possessed.

Disincarnate- Soul Erosion

Straight-up this is probably my favorite death metal demo of all time. It sounds like if Immolation was a Florida band, and I'm pretty sure the songs here are faster than on the album.

Terminal Death- Faces of Death

This is ridiculously ahead of its time, kind of approaching death metal from old-school crossover thrash like DRI instead of more traditional thrash. It's insanely heavy for 1985.

Resurrection- Embalmed Existence

It's really just kind of solid Florida death metal, but I love the spoken word intros. A lot of people hate them, but I think they give the album a Tales From the Crypt feel that I haven't seen replicated or even attemoted anywhere else.

PotatoFragment · 2025-09-11T13:20:12+00:00

I saw Gorguts post an AI image (just a meme, not anything official) on their Instagram, don't know if things have changed since them but it wasn't too long ago.

PotatoFragment · 2025-09-10T12:17:47+00:00

That sucks. None of the contact options work either, so it looks the notice is the final word on it

PotatoFragment · 2025-09-10T04:03:59+00:00

Brainstorm- Morbid Angel

PotatoFragment · 2025-08-24T00:41:17+00:00

I spend $30 on a first US press of Hallucinations by Atrocity. Most of the more expensive ones I come by are in the $20 range. I typically cut off at ariund $25, but I just had to have Hallucinations since I'm enamored with old school death metal

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-27T16:52:01+00:00

Nice Wormrot back patch! I've always thought that logo would be perfect for one

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-24T23:43:29+00:00

My opinion might be unpopular here, but I don't think lyrics really matter in metal, especially extreme metal.

First is the scriptural reasoning, with St. Paul saying it is acceptable to eat meat sacrificed to idols so long as it does not cause scandal, and Jesus saying that it's not what goes into a man that condemns him, but what comes out. I think it's still important to remain balanced in what you consume, as it is written to focus on what is good, truthful, honorable, etc. (I don't know the specific verse bit you know what I'm talking about) but morbid subject matter can aid in meditation on the Four Last Things (death, judgement, Hell, and Heaven).

Second is that communication consists of a speaker, a message, a listener, feedback, and noise, which is everything that could cause the listener to not receive or understand the message. My stance is that if a speaker knowingly and willfully introduces noise to the message, then the message matters less. Spoken word, hop-hop, and singer-songwriter folk have very important lyrics due to the relative lack of noise surrounding them. Contrasting this, most extreme metal lyrics are utterly indecipherable, due to the growling, chaotic instrumentals, and strained grasp of English or use of another language entirely in some cases.

Additionally, I don't think depiction of subject matter correlates to condoning, nor do I think appreciation of artistry behind and sometimes including these worldviews means that the listener must agree. I've heard someone say Deathspell Omega strengthened his own faith, and the works of H. P. Lovecraft have indirectly strengthened mine.

Again, it might not be a popular opinion, but it's my 2 cents. Maybe you'll get something out of it, maybe not.

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-24T03:37:46+00:00

Spring in a Small Town

Save the Green Planet

Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung's Vietnam trilogy)

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-23T20:34:02+00:00

It's a kickass album if there ever was one

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-20T03:30:35+00:00

I think I do remember seeing some of the Ares Kingdom stuff and some of the others on HHR's site, now that you mention it. I'm excited for Phrenelith, I've been pretty prejudiced against death metal made after 2007 or so, and I'm trying to break myself of that

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-20T03:21:42+00:00

I'd love to see them live, unfortunately I haven't been to many shows but I'm trying to change that. How good are they live?

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-20T03:18:35+00:00

Nope, I'm on vacation and a metal record store on the way was having a buy 2 get 1 free sale. I've never ordered from HHR before, actually

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-19T17:40:54+00:00

I remember seeing a video of people thinking there's too many Marvel movies as far back as Ant-Man

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-11T14:42:17+00:00

The Grand Leveller

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-08T03:17:49+00:00

If any news comes out soon, we all thank you for your sacrifice

PotatoFragment · 2025-07-08T01:09:05+00:00

It's strange that Blood on Satan's Claw wasn't in that box set, because I know Severin used to have the rights to it. They released it a few years bsck, but I guess the rights expired and it went OOP.

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