Demiurge
Well-Known Member
A lot of modern "br00tal" music, including 99% of modern death metal just doesn't have that sort of shambling, ramshackle vibe that the old bands had. Morbid Angel are for instance super fuckin' evil sounding on "Covenant" because they are focused on actual atmospheric songwriting instead of just being brutal, like so many bands are these days.
Very well said. Atmosphere has been totally abandoned nowadays, save for a few bands, and it totally kills the music. Unless I want to have nightmares about being hunted-down and eaten by a horde of brick-wall studio compressors or Pro Tools plugins, over-produced crap does little to nothing for me.
If the content of the music is supposed to be sinister or menacing, the production needs to match. Kind of an aural "mise en scene" so to speak.