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Heavy Metal Dumpster Diving 8 - Cianide - The Dying Truth


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Cianide - The Dying Truth - Yay or Nay?  

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  1. 1. Cianide - The Dying Truth - Yay or Nay?

    • Classic
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    • Good but not exceptional
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    • Meh
      2
    • Poor but with odd redeeming quality
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    • Z grade turdburger
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Two dumpster dives in a day.  Can't say I don't give you value!

Cianide are a Chicago based death metal band that started waaaay back in 1988 and are still around today.  This particular album is their debut released in 1992 at the height of the death metal trend.  This is some sludgy doomy death metal with a few Celtic Frost vibes and a snare sound that might be considered an acquired taste.

 

 

 

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Hardly a dumpster dive, I mean every metalhead worth his horns knows Cianide, don't they? Not my favorite American death metal band by any means, but they're solid, you pretty much know what you're gonna get with a Cianide album. I've seen them live and they delivered exactly what I would have expected. They epitomize that middle of the road, meat and potatoes death/doom sound that many modern metalheads seem to find tedious. Their debut is probably more well known, but I prefer their 1994 sophomore, A Descent Into Hell. But I'll admit they're not a band I reach for very often. Don't think I've listened to any Cianide albums in the last year or two until tonight. Once again I find myself wishing for a voting option somewhere in between meh and good. Push comes to shove I guess I'll have to go with meh. Ask me again next week maybe I'd choose good. Can't imagine anyone weighing in to say they find them truly exceptional. But you never know.

A Descent Into Hell, 1994

 

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Never heard of them and I've been listening to death metal since the late 1990s.

I agree it's pretty solid stuff, if not spectacular!

Next time I'll add a new voting option just for you! 😊

 

edit: Just checking out that second album you posted which is good but I think I prefer the first one as it's more raw.

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Well they're not as extreme or violent sounding as a lot of the classic 90's US death metal bands, particularly the NY and Florida breeds. I guess a lot of the midwestern bands tended to me more run-of-the-mill or nondescript meat and potatoes like Jungle Rot, Cardiac Arrest, Morta Skuld or Gutted...so it's quite possible they just got lost in the sauce as they say when it came to American death metal exports. I'd bet they have a much bigger following in the midwestern USA than they do in Tasmania or even Europe.

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On 2/9/2023 at 3:42 AM, Dead1 said:

Two dumpster dives in a day.  Can't say I don't give you value!

Cianide are a Chicago based death metal band that started waaaay back in 1988 and are still around today.  This particular album is their debut released in 1992 at the height of the death metal trend.  This is some sludgy doomy death metal with a few Celtic Frost vibes and a snare sound that might be considered an acquired taste.

 

 

 

"I went dumpster diving twice today. I always deliver value, don't I?" What is dumpster diving, and why does the speaker feel that they give value by doing it twice in one day?

 
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On 2/8/2023 at 9:42 PM, Dead1 said:

Two dumpster dives in a day.  Can't say I don't give you value!

Cianide are a Chicago based death metal band that started waaaay back in 1988 and are still around today.  This particular album is their debut released in 1992 at the height of the death metal trend.  This is some sludgy doomy death metal with a few Celtic Frost vibes and a snare sound that might be considered an acquired taste.

 

 

I don’t know this album but it reminds me of this one👇🏻

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