General psa for those of you that can't read: I am well aware of Uncle Slam and similar bands that utilized slam riffs before suffocation, the intention of this video is to showcase slam as it has evolved FROM LIEGE OF INVERACITY a riff which is widely recognized to have influenced the creation of slam in the form it exists in today, yes slam riffs existed before suffocation, but no, slam bands largely did not.
Yeah while Uncle Slam is essential in the history of the slam riff, the actual genre of slam only became a thing because of Liege. Don't know why people try to argue this.
Slam was a thing way before Suffocation. Suffo would tell you that themselves. Slam comes from slam dancing. A slam is a riff to get people to slam dance. When Uncle Slam and Gothic Slam and Son of Slam and Surf And Slam all used Slam in their name before Suffocation what do you think they were referring to? And if this Suffocation riff sounds familiar that’s because it was already used in a hit song by a band called Motley Crue in a song called Home Sweet Home. So there’s that…
Honestly Suffocation already maxed out how heavy a song can get. the first 4 songs off effigy did what every other band after tried doing for the past 33 years
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You're correct, but they aren't an entirely new element to hardcore. Suffocation was influenced by the New York hardcore scene that was, at the time they were writing and recording their earlier material, at a zenith in popularity and influence on heavy music - and if you listen to stuff like Judge or Madball or even the NY crossover thrash like Crumbsuckers, you can hear that these riff ideas had existing precedent in punk
@g3intel oh for sure, as a guy who got into hardcore after getting into metal I just tend to prefer the heavier stuff over the punk stuff. But there are hardcore "capital P" punk bands that I love
history repeated itself on every riff! LOL I just saw Snuffed on Sight, Corpse Pile, and Peelingflesh last night in what is actually the biggest slam show that has ever happened (outside of festivals). Super honored. Sold Out a thousand person space.
This revived so many memories from my childhood and being able to discover music I liked on my own. Slam was the most available and extreme thing to me at the time and I ate it up like crazy.
I don't know if you know but, in 1988 a band called Uncle Slam released an album titled "Say Uncle", on which the track "Weirdo man" contains the earliest known slam riff.
You guys need to stop saying that there was slam before Suffo...Uncle Slam is from '88, Metallica has a slam riff in "For whom the bell tolls" that starts at 0:57 (that was in '84), check that out. My point is that of course those kind of riffs existed before, but the first band who made it sound like real slam, were Suffocation in '91. The riff + the vocals + the overall sound, that is in Effigy. From there on, slam as we know it today was born. End of discussion
@@graysonjd5624 yea Internal Bleeding may have been the first slam band, I'm not saying that Suffocation was (they were just BDM) but slam started in Liege of Inveracity, that's what I was saying
honestly, a dozen bands could be included every year. but thanks for keeping it going! i wouldve included no zodiac because imo they are the most influential crossover slam that influenced the mid 2010s to 2020s of newer bands. i rarely see them get their flowers.
You remember that one band The Projects? They just disappeared, peeling flesh a while back actually made shirts of their album cover but with their logo. I guess they did it as a shout out.
Happy to see video about slam it's not a genre that is particularly talked about, you got yourself a new subscriber ! Also that new Torture album is amazing
Nice to see the homies in Wormhole on this list, you should check the guitarists (who are brothers) others bands. Sanjay is in Inferi, GreyLotus and Equipoise; Noni is in Flaahgra.
@@fatefatefate 10 years ago, actually. And I listen to pretty much every Sub-genre. Slam is a simple and fun genre and doesn't take itself too seriously.
dude i NEED that peeling flesh and snuffed on sight tone pls what pedals and stuff do you use pls help me out! Also do you recommend getting new strings after a new guitar?
All was done on a boss katana mkII using pedals available in boss tone studio, couldn't tell you exact settings bc I've already changed them around again lmao, and yes I definitely reccomend new strings
Im surprised theres no mention of 1988's Uncle Slam debut ( Say Uncle) album in the video, thats the actual origin why its called a Slam Riff. ( the band itself is more Thrash/Crossover)
@@skeven0 yeah, uncle slam is dope, but in terms of influence they don’t share nearly as much in the actual creation of the genre as suffocation. Say uncle definitely was an earlier example of a slam riff than liege of inveracity, but since suffocation is what really influenced all of the slam bands that came out in the 90’s the most it felt like a more fitting start for the genre. Hope that clears things up a bit👍
That makes no sense. Slam is short for slam dancing. A slam is a riff to get people to slam dance. Which is why Uncle Slam and Gothic Slam used it in the first place.
Immortal Suffering's "Eternal Damnation" demo from 1995 as well. Also, Slam roots can be found in Mortician's "Brutally Mutilated" demo; as well as Rahmer's vocal stylings along with Frank Mullen's. Also, Damonacy's "Therapeutic Morbidity" from 1992 also feature some of the slam style songwriting.
@@cloud_3nv I actually had a bunch of different tones for this video, no exact science to it, just played with the knobs until the tone matched the original recording relatively. In terms of gear used it was all done on a boss katana using effects and pedal available in boss tone studio. Hope this helps!
@tommyisnot1 nice, thanks. I'll mess around with that in mind. I never tried slam because I rarely tune lower than c#, but I never noticed how many bands tune the same or higher than that!
General psa for those of you that can't read: I am well aware of Uncle Slam and similar bands that utilized slam riffs before suffocation, the intention of this video is to showcase slam as it has evolved FROM LIEGE OF INVERACITY a riff which is widely recognized to have influenced the creation of slam in the form it exists in today, yes slam riffs existed before suffocation, but no, slam bands largely did not.
I looked up this Uncle Slam and they just seem like an average 90s thrash band, dunno if they even used slam riffs.
@@Bacon_Cakez they did in one song called weirdo man, but yeah my point is by and large they share very little with the sound of slam or its evolution
Yeah while Uncle Slam is essential in the history of the slam riff, the actual genre of slam only became a thing because of Liege. Don't know why people try to argue this.
Slam was a thing way before Suffocation. Suffo would tell you that themselves.
Slam comes from slam dancing. A slam is a riff to get people to slam dance.
When Uncle Slam and Gothic Slam and Son of Slam and Surf And Slam all used Slam in their name before Suffocation what do you think they were referring to?
And if this Suffocation riff sounds familiar that’s because it was already used in a hit song by a band called Motley Crue in a song called Home Sweet Home. So there’s that…
How and when did it become a thing?
bro!!! thanks for the inclusion, seriously badass. played it exactly right. appreciate you!!! 🙏⛽️
Yooooo thank you so much. Huge fan lol, much love 🫡
y'alls riff SLAPPED
Saw you guys live in Portland somewhat recently, vocalist had to cut me in line to shit before the set, whole show fuckin slapped
Love u guys
Hide your catalytic convertors
Slam is just transferring Guitar Hero skills to an actual guitar
And I love it
Not gonna lie I was ready to kill in the first part 😂
@@WatchingTv-f1uI mean, the "and I love it" part doesn't change the meaning of the initial sentence
@@neolbioldeybut it adds context.
god tier algorithm pull
Absolutely correct.
First video on RUclips ever talking about slam that mentions actual old school slam beyond devourment lol
Sick pfp
@@eternaldecay7157 thank you!
fr there’s some rare shit in here
hi rhese
@ hello donald
Honestly Suffocation already maxed out how heavy a song can get. the first 4 songs off effigy did what every other band after tried doing for the past 33 years
Suffo isnt the heaviest band but that’s a never ending argument
Brutality These walls..
you gotta listen to more music...
@@spitgorge2021 I do like more bands and even a few slam bands. but anytime i go back to effigy I realize that Suffo did it perfectly the first time.
Even if that were 100% true you can still get infinite variations of the heaviest shit, the more the merrier to maul
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0:10 Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity (1991)
0:33 Hyborian - Temple (1992)
1:14 Afterbirth - Rebirth (1993)
2:02 Internal Bleeding - Annointed in Servitude (1994)
2:26 Necrocide - Vomit Forth Blood (1995)
3:04 Repudilation - Fall of Oppresion (1996)
3:33 Disfigured - Defuse (1997)
3:50 Sintury - Disgoring the Dead (1998)
4:17 Vomit Remnants - Decomposed of Structure (1999)
4:49 Devourment - Babykiller (2000)
5:19 Cerebral Hemorrhage - Remnants of the Final Solution (2001)
5:49 Dripping - Escape Into Orbital Infinity (2002)
6:22 Soils of Fatte - Omerta (2003)
6:41 Digested Flesh - The Answer to Infection (2004)
7:07 Disconformity - Atonic Epilepsy (2005)
7:28 Cephalotripsy - Sanguinary Misogynistic Execration (2006)
7:44 Katalepsy - Gialo (2007)
8:22 Kraanium - Human Flesh Devoured (2008)
8:44 Awaiting the Autopsy - Baseball Bat Lobotomy (2009)
9:07 Waking the Cadaver - Reign Supreme (2010)
9:38 Visceral Disgorge - Necroprophagia (2011)
9:59 Abominable Putridity - The Last Communion (2012)
10:27 Guttural Disgorge - Eyes of the Cyclops (2013)
10:51 Vulvodynia - Pollsmoor (2014)
11:12 Analepsy - Viral Disease (2015)
11:30 Wormhole - Genesis Chamber (2016)
11:58 Cerebral Incubation - Gargling Gelatinous Menstruation (2017)
12:15 Extermination Dismemberment - Omnivore (2018)
12:55 Necroticgorebeast - Autoerotic Rectal Prolapse (2019)
13:18 Corpse Pile - Every Dog Gets Put Down (2020)
13:47 PeelingFlesh - Bathtub Execution (2021)
14:29 Snuffed on Sight - Dummy (2022)
14:57 Torture - Blinding Ignorance (2023)
15:21 Boltcutter - Drain Cleaner Enema (2024)
scattered remnants inherent perversion has a sickk slam in the title track
This an AMAZING creation! Thank you for doing this!! 🔨🔨✌
Its Guttural Slug, not Guttural Disgorge. Thanks for the list though
Thanks
Big green shark spotted, beach is closed
Thanks for including us man, great video!
Ofc! Thanks so much brother🙏
Damn man thank you. So many good bands without anybrain cells
Im so glad I was a teen in the 80s and not having to look back on what had been done before. I got to enjoy metal as it was made. Priceless
Must be nice! My generation was given dubstep lol
the x on his hand showing he went to a concert under 21 is the cherry on top
real shit, support your local music scene🙏
Amazing what just a riff can do, Suffo rules, and Effigy too.
Thank you for including Dripping, so many great slams
Bro I swear they are so underrated and have been listening to Dripping for YEARSSSSSSSSS. Its crazy how many people haven’t heard of them lol
Dripping walked so infectious jelqing could run
@@cestoda seems like an insult to Dripping tbh
@@johnstamos75 Dripping is exponentially better than infectious jelqing i’m just playin
Not only did it change metal, but metalcore and hardcore. Pretty much most current "hardcore" bands are 50% slams.
All the GOOD hardcore bands lol
@@AlexanderKeuschYou assume hardcore is good
@@AlexanderKeusch HARD DISAGREE! any hardcore band trying to shoehorn in a slam riff and death metal vocals is a bad hardcore band.
You're correct, but they aren't an entirely new element to hardcore. Suffocation was influenced by the New York hardcore scene that was, at the time they were writing and recording their earlier material, at a zenith in popularity and influence on heavy music - and if you listen to stuff like Judge or Madball or even the NY crossover thrash like Crumbsuckers, you can hear that these riff ideas had existing precedent in punk
@g3intel oh for sure, as a guy who got into hardcore after getting into metal I just tend to prefer the heavier stuff over the punk stuff. But there are hardcore "capital P" punk bands that I love
Sick video dude! Must have taken forever to get all those riffs packed into one video!
ngl, amazing video, 🎉🎉🎉🎉
history repeated itself on every riff! LOL I just saw Snuffed on Sight, Corpse Pile, and Peelingflesh last night in what is actually the biggest slam show that has ever happened (outside of festivals). Super honored. Sold Out a thousand person space.
@@MuscalityInObscurity awesome live bands Fr, I’ve been lucky enough to see all 3 separately over the last year🙏
This might be the coolest video I've seen this year. Thank you so much for giving me access to bands I normally wouldn't listen to.
Crazy how all these bands had the same vocalist
It’s so interesting how Iohn Gallagher mentioned Sepultura on Arise having breakdowns as one of his influences.
Breakdowns have been around since the beginning of music.
snuffed on sight is actually my favorite I'm so happy you included them
I can smell that video. Gj bro
Thanks for showing more underground 90s bands.
Salute for playing Disconformity!!
we watched the genre grow and we watched bro grow. your technique from beginning to end is phenomenal
Sick video bro. great songs
Thanks brother, appreciate it🙏
This revived so many memories from my childhood and being able to discover music I liked on my own. Slam was the most available and extreme thing to me at the time and I ate it up like crazy.
Loved this video homie and exposing me to the older bands
Abominable Putridity is the pinnacle of groove IMO, but Analepsy and Acranius come damn close. great video!
Acranius is underrated AF
Agreed on Acranius is great
Fresh off attending a concert and you recorded a riff that’s awesome
Finally, thanks for such incredible awareness of the genre and its history🤘🏻🔨🤘🏻
THE GREATEST GENRE
Lol definitely up there
Slam is the most unoriginal metal genre ever
@@truemenentoflife1721 classic brutal death is so much better
old school brutal death is better
@@Inherent_perversion normal death metal is better than brutal death metal
now THIS is the kind of history they should be teaching in schools 😤
sick stuff brother. love that you included Torture
They're old shit is crazy
I don't know if you know but, in 1988 a band called Uncle Slam released an album titled "Say Uncle", on which the track "Weirdo man" contains the earliest known slam riff.
i do know, i chose suffocation for a start just because they had much greater influence on the development of the genre
You guys need to stop saying that there was slam before Suffo...Uncle Slam is from '88, Metallica has a slam riff in "For whom the bell tolls" that starts at 0:57 (that was in '84), check that out.
My point is that of course those kind of riffs existed before, but the first band who made it sound like real slam, were Suffocation in '91. The riff + the vocals + the overall sound, that is in Effigy.
From there on, slam as we know it today was born.
End of discussion
@@pumerodimodena6933The first “slam” band in name was Internal Bleeding, they created the title.
@@graysonjd5624 yea Internal Bleeding may have been the first slam band, I'm not saying that Suffocation was (they were just BDM) but slam started in Liege of Inveracity, that's what I was saying
Slam was around way before Uncle Slam which is why Uncle Slam used the word slam in their name. Just like Gothic Slam and Son Of Slam.
So awesome to see disfigured on this. I saw them maybe 5 times on Long Island with internal bleeding. Such good memories.
Algorithm 👏👏👏
Bombastic video bro👊
honestly, a dozen bands could be included every year. but thanks for keeping it going! i wouldve included no zodiac because imo they are the most influential crossover slam that influenced the mid 2010s to 2020s of newer bands. i rarely see them get their flowers.
No zodiac is so sick. Not sure how I forgot about them tbh
You remember that one band The Projects? They just disappeared, peeling flesh a while back actually made shirts of their album cover but with their logo. I guess they did it as a shout out.
Fuckin awesome video. Most of these comps are just the studio tracks but I love that you’re playing them. Keep it up man!! Subbed!
Happy to see video about slam it's not a genre that is particularly talked about, you got yourself a new subscriber !
Also that new Torture album is amazing
this is a good video and youtube should be thankful
Great incluson of Hyborian and other underrated and unknown bands, nice playing
Yung Gravy plays slam now? Sick
Someone sign this man
nice! you included Afterbirth
When you wanna play slam but you can't wake up your roomie
Nice to see the homies in Wormhole on this list, you should check the guitarists (who are brothers) others bands. Sanjay is in Inferi, GreyLotus and Equipoise; Noni is in Flaahgra.
inferi is super cool, had no idea they had any relation to wormhole
absolutely fantastic video. thank you.
Thanks for helping me find some sick bands 🤘
Sick video bro
honestly i really like the way modern slam is going with bands like peeling flesh and snuffed on sight, so fucking heavy and brutal
Great work, dude ! Keep up the heavy sound 🤘
What is it about the 'slow palm muted riff' stuff that gets us hyperfocused on the music?
the brain just naturally likes groove. it's really not that complicated, that's literally it
Boltcutter album covers looks like they went to Master P and asked for a cover design.
Cheers brother 🔥
Glad to see Slam getting the love it deserves lol
It definitely is the most fun genre.
More like most boring. Lmao. Did you just find this stuff a week ago?
@@fatefatefate
10 years ago, actually.
And I listen to pretty much every Sub-genre.
Slam is a simple and fun genre and doesn't take itself too seriously.
@@WafflyTerror True, slam is just dumb fun
Pizza thrash is dumb fun. This is caveman having turns on banging sticks
same thing
I never expected to see necrocide mentioned lol
Sick vid bro!
Putting Boltcutter damn, great taste !
THANK YOU this rocks!!!!
i love slam
goated music taste brody 👌
Damn you really covered some super underground bands
Torture is such a sick band
So many other slams before suffocation. Suffocation had the first slam in a death metal context
Freaking Katalepsy man! 😍🤘
Snuffed, Peeling Flesh and Torture ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼
Fulci genetic zombification has some awesome riffs as well
Dripping is absolutely revolutionary even in present day
dude i NEED that peeling flesh and snuffed on sight tone pls what pedals and stuff do you use pls help me out! Also do you recommend getting new strings after a new guitar?
All was done on a boss katana mkII using pedals available in boss tone studio, couldn't tell you exact settings bc I've already changed them around again lmao, and yes I definitely reccomend new strings
@@tommyisnot1 thank you brother bless u and ur family
New strings go a long way for getting a good guitar tone
dude the tone is amazing how did u get it?
GUTTURAL SLUG MENTIONED THAT WAS MY FIRST SLAM BAND IN 7TH GRADE 🔥🔥🔥
Great video - also, clean that room
Tf u talkin' bout?
Uncle slam started the wave suffocation focused and perfected the wave
And why did Uncle Slam use the word Slam in their name? Because Slam was already a well established thing at that time.
But thanks for your comment.
@@fredsmith5925 name 5 slam bands before 1988
First define exactly what Slam is…
Yo didn't know Necroticgorebeast were in here, that's amazing they're local to me
Is that the same 7 string that John from Mortal Decay used to play?
believe so, if not its a very similar model, not many guitars ever went with that headstock lmao
crazy to see bolt cutter on here. love to see how far they have come.
Good vid !
SICK MAN!
Slamtastical!
Long island internal bleeding babyyy
dope video
CORPSE PILE MENTIONED
Im surprised theres no mention of 1988's Uncle Slam debut ( Say Uncle) album in the video, thats the actual origin why its called a Slam Riff. ( the band itself is more Thrash/Crossover)
@@skeven0 yeah, uncle slam is dope, but in terms of influence they don’t share nearly as much in the actual creation of the genre as suffocation. Say uncle definitely was an earlier example of a slam riff than liege of inveracity, but since suffocation is what really influenced all of the slam bands that came out in the 90’s the most it felt like a more fitting start for the genre. Hope that clears things up a bit👍
That makes no sense. Slam is short for slam dancing. A slam is a riff to get people to slam dance. Which is why Uncle Slam and Gothic Slam used it in the first place.
Suffocation didn’t influence all those bands in the 1990s. This Suffocation stuff started in the RUclips internet era.
JPDMCOVERありがとう！
From C standard to Drop A
There're plenty of B standards in there. Drop tuning's wack as hell.
insane!
I would only recommend editing out where you reach for the keyboard after every riff. Otherwise, this ripped and you covered a lot of ground.
Sick
No party cannon :(
that was legitimately the first thing i thought when i finished the video lmao, i honestly just forgot 😭
Party cannon boring 😅
Bloodclot from fresno also had similar riffs cheers
@@jjjjh959 will have to check them out. Cheers brother🙏
How come Uncle Slam never gets any love?
Or Gothic Slam? Or Son Of Slam?
12:15 was pretty nutsss
But the next question is, what bands did Suffocation evolve from?
OSDM bands
Naplalm Death and Autopsy. This riff,,,piano part of Home Sweet Home.
Dripping MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Immortal Suffering's "Eternal Damnation" demo from 1995 as well.
Also, Slam roots can be found in Mortician's "Brutally Mutilated" demo; as well as Rahmer's vocal stylings along with Frank Mullen's. Also, Damonacy's "Therapeutic Morbidity" from 1992 also feature some of the slam style songwriting.
Okay but in all seriousness, all the Waking the Cadaver records after Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler are really good
@@neolbioldey they don’t have a bad album imo, although I do totally agree their newer records are better
@@tommyisnot1 what I don't get is how they were lumped in with the deathcore scene when they seemed quite slam from the start
@@neolbioldey right??
Great video! How did you dial in your tone?
@@cloud_3nv I actually had a bunch of different tones for this video, no exact science to it, just played with the knobs until the tone matched the original recording relatively. In terms of gear used it was all done on a boss katana using effects and pedal available in boss tone studio. Hope this helps!
@tommyisnot1 nice, thanks. I'll mess around with that in mind. I never tried slam because I rarely tune lower than c#, but I never noticed how many bands tune the same or higher than that!
Death - See Through Dreams
interesting how those last two look more like rap albums put out on no limit or 90s cash money.
HAMMEERRSSSS 🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨