Talk:Vital Remains

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Stub and continuous vandalism[edit]

Too much vandalism is happening on this page, either pointless or obscene. So i edited bits and pieces out that were edited as stupid jokes. also, this article shouldn't really be a stub, as Vital Remains is a well known death metal band, so can someone help me out and try and find some more reliable information on Vital Remains? thanks 2 any1 who can help out. Okram 09 (talk) 12:08, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

++++ Addition to the comment below+++

I was there listening to "Let Us Pray" when it first came out on a "Grindcore Records" (is no longer around) release and I notice that the influances listed are the same ones "black metal" uses to say what brought about that genre of music but I seem to remember a heavy "Morbid Angel" influance durring that time. In fact the band thanks them and says as much about the influance from Morbid Angel in a few interviews which I will look for the scource if they are even online as I had read these interviews in fanzines before black metal and death metal were so well known by so many and people had to make their own metal zines to support these genre.

vandalism[edit]

Just letting you guys know i edited some parts out of this page because some loser vandalised this page by changing the album titles to anti-semetic names, as well as glen benton's name. so yer i just made the necessary ajustments, and other users make sure this doesnt happen again. this site should be more strict on stuff like this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Okram 09 (talk • contribs) 04:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question About Genre[edit]

According to the article, it says the band is blackened death metal. However, according to several other sources[1] [2] [3] [4], it states that they are plain death metal. Could someone please verify this? --Insineratehymn^{(talk • contribs)} 23:58, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The only album I know is Dechristianize and that's a dm album. No bm at all. Maybe they changed their style to dm (since Glen Benton is part of the band?), their earlier style might be more bm orientated. If that's the case, the genre description in the album pages should be edited. Could someone please comment on this?

Here is an interview where Tony Lazaro says "Yeah, I know! (Laugh) You know how people can be if you change your style completely. There has been black metal influences in our music".[5]

And many of their influences (as the article and the article at AllMusic states) are first wave of black metal bands.

Emmaneul ^(Talk) 12:16, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Needs a complete rewrite[edit]

This article really needs a comprehensive re-doing! It doesn't flow well at all and it seems like people have been cutting and pasting all over the place (which would correspond with the allegations of vandalism I guess)...

The 'Band History' needs re-writing for a start! Also, being a fan of Vital Remains' older work, I think there should be more about the early years of the band (before their change of style and inclusion of Benton which sky-rocketed their popularity), atm two sentences basically cover an entire decade's worth of their existence!! So if anyone else with links + extensive knowledge on this band could help out? Skulduggery88 (talk) 21:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok well i decided to go ahead and try and clean up the article a little bit, removed some pretty obviously (and badly) pasted stuff from allmusic and basically put the band history in chronological order, which always helps. But it still need A LOT of work!!! Skulduggery88 (talk) 01:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

brutal death metal?[edit]

Does anyone think that the band's current style would fit into the brutal death metal sub-genre? There is definitely a difference in style/sound between their first 3 releases and releases following (and including) Dawn of the Apocalypse imo. Anyone agree? If so under the band genre, brutal death metal could be added under Death Metal? I've mentioned that Dawn of the Apocalypse has a more brutal death metal sound than their previous releases anyway. Whether it is a valid genre/sub-genre or even if their sound now contains increased elements of the sub-genre is up for debate! So feel free to discuss... Skulduggery88 (talk) 14:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced material[edit]

"After speaking to Tony Lazaro at Summer Slaughter in Toronto, Ontario. He informed me of a 2010 holiday release for the new album" - Devin McQueen, Lead Guitarist of Slaughter Of Sumeria

Any reliable sources?--Torchwood Who? (talk) 08:42, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I already put a source for that in the article. llama lom (talk) 15:47, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]