![]() One look at the cover of this record, and it’s gory and gruesome enough to fit in with those bands. These guys would fit pretty well in the early 90s death metal scene, including Death, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Immolation, Incantation, Cryptopsy, and many more, but that’s not a bad thing. What’s interesting about this album is that 200 Stab Wounds, by all definitions, is kind of a generic band. If I would have heard this record when it came out, it would have been on my list, because it’s absolutely fantastic in every single way, but there’s a bit of a caveat here. 200 Stab Wounds is apart of this new wave of old school death metal that’s been gaining a lot of traction within the last four years, give or take, and they themselves have been getting a lot of buzz since their debut dropped in the last few months of 2021. With that said, that’s all to preface of what’s to come within the following review of Ohio death metal band 200 Stab Wounds’ debut record, 2021′s Slave To The Scalpel. An Unexpected Reality ended up being one of my favorite albums of 2021, because of how unexpected, pun intended, it really was, and how death metal can go in weird and interesting directions, versus making the same Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, or Incantation clones. ![]() He said that he listened to a podcast with some vocalists of some newer death metal bands making waves, including The Black Dahlia Murder, Undeath, and Gatecreeper, and it made him “physically ill.” Gatecreeper’s last album, the surprise drop of 2021′s An Unexpected Reality, really showed that this band can go in very interesting and unpredictable directions, ultimately releasing an 18-minute furious blast of hardcore-laden death metal, but the last 10 minutes of it is a death-doom track. Vocalist Chase Mason was on the podcast that Barnes was referencing. ![]() A good example of a young band that’s doing really cool things in the scene is Gatecreeper. With that said, death metal is in a very great place, as so many young bands are rising in the ranks, definitely on their way to being the next Cannibal Corpse. Barnes is very much of the “elitist” mind, and while no one really uses the term “elitist” anymore, the point of him (along with many other likeminded fans and musicians) being so old-fashioned and stuck in the 80s and 90s is telling of how a lot of heavy metal fans think. Former frontman of longstanding death metal band Cannibal Corpse, as well as the current frontman of the inferior Six Feet Under, Chris Barnes said recently that he “despises what the genre has become,” and pretty much everyone jumped at him for it.
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