Questionable production: amazing results

[Juggz]

  Ah man, that terrible crack-of-thunder snare is the making of Leprosy, it makes the album

[Born of Fire]

Ah lads ye couldn't have Leprosy sounding any other way than it does. Very much a product of it's time and fantastically blurring the lines between death and thrash.

Hypocrisy are a band that absolutely fall into the questionable production category but so many of those earlier albums still sound savage even though something feels a bit amiss in the sound

[Ifreann]

5 pages in and nobody has mentioned Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction yet?  It definitely has to be up there,  the band themselves hated the production and blamed the engineer but the sound is so raw and primitive I can't imagine it sounding any different. it's not hard to see how its often credited for creating Goregrind. 

[Carnage]

Shit album though.

[Anton Arcane]

Shit album though.

The unpopular truth.

[Anton Arcane]

I've been thinking about the lo fi black metal albums. At this stage are they really questionable productions? I would have thought it was the norm by now.

[Eoin McLove]

It's more of an aesthetic decision than a lack of ability when it comes to raw BM.

[Bürggermeister]

Stumbled across this recently, a remix of the stems available for Blackened. It's worth a listen as, instead of just turning the bass up far too loud as every other video I've watched does, he mixes it in a way which is sympathetic to the original sound but also a far better mix in general. The best that song has ever sounded, I put it to yizzers. No excuse at all for those cunts not doing this as part of the super ultra deluxe box set a few years ago. Newsted was and is a beast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK1nQp1Hb_0


And what he did and why, if you're into that kind of thing (which I am    )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZE22amj1uU

[Mooncat]

Stumbled across this recently, a remix of the stems available for Blackened. It's worth a listen as, instead of just turning the bass up far too loud as every other video I've watched does, he mixes it in a way which is sympathetic to the original sound but also a far better mix in general. The best that song has ever sounded, I put it to yizzers. No excuse at all for those cunts not doing this as part of the super ultra deluxe box set a few years ago. Newsted was and is a beast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK1nQp1Hb_0


And what he did and why, if you're into that kind of thing (which I am    )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZE22amj1uU

Really enjoyed that vid, thanks! Never realized Jason's bass playing was so ferocious!

[astfgyl]

You sort of have to admire the absolutely stonewall resistance that they've shown in never ever under any circumstances allowing the album to be mixed with bass in it in any official capacity. They're fucking determined

[Pentagrimes]

I fucking love Reek, grew up with it and can't imagine it with "proper" production. Absolutely blew my fucking mind when it came out. Funnily enough I watched some guy do a "ten iconic gridncore riffs" type video last night, and he played "Carbonized Eyesockets"  I realised in the 35 or whatever years I've been listening to that album, it was the first time I'd actually ben able to make out the riff.

"Fallen Angel" is the same for me as well, it just sounds so evil to me even now.

This is definitely another old childhood favourite which rivals it for the combination of awful production and sheer sloppiness, but is just as endearing to me
https://youtu.be/kZbEqWkwS8k?si=3DWe5H4h3lx2XMkj

To be fair though, the vocals are indefensible.

"Dawn Of Possession" is another album i've heard people gripe over the production of for years, I think it sounds perfect.

[Mithrandir]

Wha! If I was releasing death metal I'd want it to sound like Dawn of Possession!

Maybe not an overall production thing but the fucked up drums on Dance of December Souls and Reflections of the Solstice make those records. But that might be for another thread..

[Sworntothecans]

Divine Intervention has the misfortune of not having Andy Wallace involved with it.

[Eoin McLove]

Wha! If I was releasing death metal I'd want it to sound like Dawn of Possession!

Maybe not an overall production thing but the fucked up drums on Dance of December Souls and Reflections of the Solstice make those records. But that might be for another thread..

The production on Dance and Reflections is certainly a big part of the appeal. Same for Drawing Down the Moon. The levels are all over the gaff.

[ijnjnijnilijbibbjknkjbjkk]

Great 3 examples and ill throw in the obvious Filosofem too.