THE WORST DEATH METAL SONG EVER?
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00pm by Axl RosenbergOur friend Sergeant D at Metal Inquisition has taken it upon himself to make a bold claim: that Six Feet Under’s “Amerika the Brutal” is the worst death metal song of all-time. The Sarge writes:
I’m a huge fan of Loveline (only the radio show, the TV show was awful). One of the hosts, Adam Carolla, came up with the term “stangry,” which describes someone who is simultaneously stupid and angry. I really can’t think of a better term for Chris Barnes, as his whole post-Cannibal career has that kind of directionless, inarticulate anger directed at SOMEONE who is responsible for, well, all the bad stuff in the world. He reminds me of an old, half-blind moose who gets shot in the leg by a bowhunter and just runs around smashing into stuff, bellowing at the top of his lungs and lashing out at whatever is around him in an attempt to get back at whoever made him feel this pain and rage.
I hate Six Feet Under as much as the next Cannibal Corpse fan, but I’m not sure I can get behind Mr. D on this particular issue. I mean, hasn’t he ever heard that band with the triangle? I feel like I get twenty demos from unsigned death metal bands a week that are almost all worse than anything Chris Barnes and company have ever made or could ever make. There are some real amateurs out there.
Head over to Metal Inquisition to read more of Sergeant D’s analysis, then come back here to let us know what you think.
-AR
Hard to pick a “worst”, most death metal is garbage anyway
agreed….except black dahlia murder…they’re doing something right…
ahahaha, really, Black Dahlia Murder? Please tell me i’m just not getting the sarcasm.
No, he’s right. The black dahlia murder are definitely doing something right.
That’s a joke, right?
I don’t get it…
They’re still not all that Death Metal.
I’m a fan of theirs, by the way.
Thats totally an opinion. Most death metal is fucking brutal and amazing. That would be my response. But as both statements are pointless except to those respective people who agree with us, I’m going to have to call you an idiot, and myself an idiot for responding.
Yeah, there is a lot of pretty awesome death metal out there. And there is also a lot of bullshit too. But to say most death metal is garbage is wrong. There is a lot of really interesting, new and exciting things coming out of death metal lately. It’s a great time to be a death metal fan! And my two cents on the issue…Six Feet Under SUCKS.
Terrible terrible band.
Haha, somehow I knew this would be about Six Feet Under just from the headline.
YES!!!!!! This band is the worst band ever. The song is garbage, the video looks like some high school audio video club project, and it blows some serious nuts!!!!!!!
It’s pretty awful, however I doubt Sergeant D could write anything better.
Why should that matter?
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Not only is it bad, the lyrics are ridiculously bad. A 16 year old stoner “anarchist” could come up with something better.
oh come on its not that bad…I’ve heard a few billion songs that were worse
That song seems more like death metal lite.
Six feet under has its moments. I’ve often considered warpath one of the greatest death metal albums of all time. however Amerika the brutal is a terrible song. but not even in the top 100 worst death metal songs.
i agree, when they do simple they do simple good. but sometimes they try too hard and only produce shit
The song is pretty bad, but the video is like a hundred times worse.
They are among the worst of the worst, but the jokes on us. Chris Barnes still does extremely well considering the amount of effort he puts into these releases.
They is always worse, but the newer SFU materiel is pretty brutal. Not in a good way.
To be fair, when that song came out.. god, I can’t think of another death metal song that made me laugh nearly as hard as this one did.
Kind of like being the dag-nastiest shit stain in Meadowlands’ piss troughs.
Horrible video, juvenile lyrics, and he sounds like shit! Corpsegrinder is easily the better vocalist
No way. Cumdrinker is a WoW nerd who sounds like a horse being raped.
I liked the part when she puked
love sfu. metalsucks is losing out.
I think you could any Six Feet Under song down as the worst death metal song ever. Six Feet Under are just horrible. Chris Barnes should have stuck with Cannibal Corpse.
It wasn’t his choice. The boys kicked him out… justifiably
This is actually one of their better songs in my opinion. Though that’s not saying much.
Actually, anything from either one of their covers albums is much, much worse.
Old news to be perfectly honest. SFU are infinitely worse than any of the countless DM bands throwing demos out there, and this is SFU’s worst song. Then again, Chris Barnes has always been a shitty vocalist. I’d rather listen to Brokencyde than SFU, because at least listening to Brokencyde in a room with lots of people creates massive laughter (I’ve actually done this quite recently–very funny results). SFU just makes people sad.
But just put on some Immortal to wash all of it away.
there are 1000s of worse death metal songs. this song would be a lot better without chris barnes` garbage throat voice on top of it. also, how is this song really death metal? take away the voice, and it sounds like a Terror or madball song…i guess sub genre names are obsolete..
WHAT A FUCKING GREAT VIDEO. Seriously, people.
Agree! I love it! Song is also great!
Yes, that song sucks and the fact that Chris Barnes keeps using that stupid vibrato/rotary effect is just retarded.
Who’s “that band with the triangle”? Cuz I’m pretty sure Six Feet Under is the biggest disgrace there is to death metal.
I’ll challenge you Axl. I think that having talent is selling out and those ultra-raw demos keep the greedy record labels away from ever touching them. Amateurism is the essence of real metal. You’re just a poser who isn’t kvlt enough. Oh, and Ziltiod was eaten by a walrus. I’ve been possessed by his ghost.
yea i was wondering wat happened to you zilty
that vid was just like the song,trash
Agreed, looks like they made it on a Commodore 64 during an LSD binge. It was prolly cool, but you had to be there.
I can’t tell if that video is intentionly hilariously bad…or just hilariously bad.
someone explain this to me. Death metal is about killing and maiming, raping, etc,.. and im down with that. Thats why i listen to it. Where does a death metal band get off making an anti-war song that to me seems to be trying to send a serious message. War is the actual embodiment of death metal. You dont actually want to rape someone, but i dont want any feelings in my metal. Am i completely off base or what?
I love how this guy was trying to make a video that was preachy and political and instead it was just incredibly hilarious. The criticism was too. Damn that sucks being an awful band in an awful genre.
Here is an automatic fail in my book making a death metal band that uses that violent imagery for a reverse preachy political view. Yeah Cattle Decapitation that is pretty much why you are gay. Gojira you are off the hook for being awesome.
Death metal could not possibly get much suckier allready without reversing it’s core concept and making it even more senseless then it allready was.
Both music and video sucked. Bad.
well imo all new death metal is boring
80’s death metal is where its at
some really underground bands today capture the 80’s sound but that doesn’t make up for the poor excuse of death metal today.
the only new death metal band to check out is cattle decap and tbdm is okay
Definitely not the #1 worst dm song but its up there..
I sold this CD back to the store after hearing this song. True story.
Still better than anything Cannibal Corpse made with Fisher.