My exposure to music wasn’t shy of anything abnormal, but I will digress because yes my musical taste is anything of the ordinary. I think what first got me into heavy music was nothing other than POD, Payable on Death. They were my actual first exposure to heavy music. And I liked it, because they knew the balance of having hip hop incorporated into metal music. And it didn’t seem gimmicky. It was an expression of hate reflected by the fact that, yes ALL people can enjoy and make music together unified. That’s besides the point, but my sister and myself did indeed get into a car accident while listening to “bullet the blue sky”, and that was one hell of a scenario.
Anyways back to the music. I started to get into this hard and angry kinds of sounds, because for me it was a
reflection of the hate that I had for myself and my body because my dad belligerently made it first focus that the end of the world was neigh! and Armageddon is coming and you better have your shit straight because its going to be a miserable and painful experience. This reverberated echoes of my dad using a sledgehammer to a Pearl Jam cassette tape, while we have our friends over to watch the madness.
I got so entirely caught up in so much hate and frustration because of this benevolence and domestic barbaric excuse for an eternity scared me shitless.
And this was when I learned about Zao, Living Sacrifice and Embodyment. This kind of noise intrigued me. And without derailment or detail I got pushed in full force to hardcore and metal, thrash death and black metal. There was unequivocally a stalemate and I made it my passion to worship this music. I think one of my first favorites was Overcome, they made the most angry and hate filled music with a message about God and living like Christ.
This of course brings me to the development of the newly named band Indwelling who played a very straight forward barbaric and chaotic Death Metal. All the while retaining that same groove and harmony of their hardcore roots.
From this rabbit trail I will have nestled myself at the holy grail of all Christian death metal and that is the earliest incarnation of the behemoth known to man as Embodyment. This was some of the most disgusting and vitriol rage ever expressed and be it lyrics that glorify the theistic Christ.
I remember personally dissecting that CD because of the horrid sound samples on the track Apocalypse of the Suffering, it was an actual account of some real demonic shit. All together this, was my unequivocal all together tried and true royal stamp of approval being the most raw and real death metal all the while having this Christian pretext made it my absolute favorite and treasured possession growing up. So yes my own personal opinion this is the epitome of Christian death metal. All of their contents from the earliest demos is on the 1993-1996 CD.
(This is my attempt to translate my articles to Ukrainian, please feel free to let me know of any errors, I would be glad to fix mistakes to better accurately show the content in Ukrainian.)
I was unaware of Caustic Wound prior to this year, so I was thoroughly excited when I found out this band shares distinct similarities to other compatriots, because they unironically share members, most notably; Mortiferum and Cerebreal Rot! but the list goes far and beyond that. Now with the confusing seething of members and similar sounds is out of the way, we can divulge truly into this massacre of a listen. Something from the start that is distinctly unique to themselves is the bizarre gutturals, and that shit is creepily done. Gives you the idea of some kind of maniac chasing you around and butchering people.
Nope, my brother didn’t exist for the first four years of my life (he’s the younger one) and my parents already had a 2600 when I was born, so the influence was there right out of the gate. When we moved from the city I was born in to where we currently reside (Fairfax, VA, roughly 1986 or 1987), I did meet neighbors and make friends with people that owned both the Sega Master System and Nintendo Entertainment System, and both would have a huge influence on me. The NES in particular, as it was the more common of the two around here. (edited)
Hate” is a strong word. That said, I do not like the game very much. I find the framerate inconsistent and choppy, the gameplay unresponsive, the jump arc irritatingly tall, and the visuals generally ugly. Keep in mind I was raised on smooth, polished arcade fighting games, like Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat II, Primal Rage, Killer Instinct 1 and 2, Virtua Fighter, among others. By the time I got around to playing Way of the Warrior, it was already one of the goofiest things in the genre (Shadow: War of Succession aside). Maybe one of these days I’ll put more time into it and it’ll finally “click”, but I doubt it.
