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
Even if that were 100% true you can still get infinite variations of the heaviest shit, the more the merrier to maul O. .O \/ ____________ ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆ | | |🩸🦵🏻🫁🫀🧠🩸| ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆ 🩸🩸🩸 🩸🩸 🩸 🩸🩸 🩸🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Make sure yall check out Weirdo Man by Uncle Slam. They were the first to do the whole slam riff thing before it was slam. Suffocation's riff is my fav tho!
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.
Are you deleting comments? Internal Bleeding claims that their Innvo tape came out in 1992 but this I Slam You Perish interview with bass player Brian H. who played on that tape proves otherwise….. “I must say that Internal Bleeding is the best band I've ever played in. 👉🏻I started working with them in early 1993.👈🏻”
I was there when they recorded it in the basement of a pizza place in Mineola, NY in the fall of 1992. The band lies about their timeline because they can’t claim to be in the mix of early death metal when they were late coming out. The Suffo album came out in October 1991, which is why Internal Bleeding says their tape came out in “early 91.” A two minute google search and everything they said goes up in smoke.
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.
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
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
Big green shark spotted, beach is closed
Thanks for including us man, great video!
Ofc! Thanks so much brother🙏
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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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
Damn man thank you. So many good bands without anybrain cells
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
Amazing what just a riff can do, Suffo rules, and Effigy too.
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🙏
Crazy how all these bands had the same vocalist
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
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.
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🙏
I can smell that video. Gj bro
Thanks for showing more underground 90s bands.
snuffed on sight is actually my favorite I'm so happy you included them
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.
Salute for playing Disconformity!!
Sick video bro. great songs
Thanks brother, appreciate it🙏
Finally, thanks for such incredible awareness of the genre and its history🤘🏻🔨🤘🏻
we watched the genre grow and we watched bro grow. your technique from beginning to end is phenomenal
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.
Fresh off attending a concert and you recorded a riff that’s awesome
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
now THIS is the kind of history they should be teaching in schools 😤
Yung Gravy plays slam now? Sick
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
So awesome to see disfigured on this. I saw them maybe 5 times on Long Island with internal bleeding. Such good memories.
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.
sick stuff brother. love that you included Torture
They're old shit is crazy
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!
this is a good video and youtube should be thankful
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
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
@@Shartmaster72 normal death metal is better than brutal death metal
Thanks for helping me find some sick bands 🤘
nice! you included Afterbirth
absolutely fantastic video. thank you.
Great work, dude ! Keep up the heavy sound 🤘
Great incluson of Hyborian and other underrated and unknown bands, nice playing
honestly i really like the way modern slam is going with bands like peeling flesh and snuffed on sight, so fucking heavy and brutal
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.
@@alispeihie5447 True, slam is just dumb fun
Pizza thrash is dumb fun. This is caveman having turns on banging sticks
same thing
Dripping is absolutely revolutionary even in present day
Sick video bro
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
Damn you really covered some super underground bands
How come Uncle Slam never gets any love?
Or Gothic Slam? Or Son Of Slam?
I never expected to see necrocide mentioned lol
Putting Boltcutter damn, great taste !
Would love to have seen stuff from Disgorging the Dead by Sintury. It's a fantastic album.
I literally did lmao😅
goated music taste brody 👌
Fulci genetic zombification has some awesome riffs as well
Sick vid bro!
THANK YOU this rocks!!!!
Yo didn't know Necroticgorebeast were in here, that's amazing they're local to me
GUTTURAL SLUG MENTIONED THAT WAS MY FIRST SLAM BAND IN 7TH GRADE 🔥🔥🔥
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.
crazy to see bolt cutter on here. love to see how far they have come.
No party cannon :(
that was legitimately the first thing i thought when i finished the video lmao, i honestly just forgot 😭
Party cannon boring 😅
CORPSE PILE MENTIONED
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…
From C standard to Drop A
There're plenty of B standards in there. Drop tuning's wack as hell.
dude the tone is amazing how did u get it?
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
Make sure yall check out Weirdo Man by Uncle Slam. They were the first to do the whole slam riff thing before it was slam. Suffocation's riff is my fav tho!
That makes no sense. They used the word slam in their name to play off the whole slam scene which was thriving long before they were around.
Great video - also, clean that room
Tf u talkin' bout?
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 MAN!
Torture is such a sick band
Bloodclot from fresno also had similar riffs cheers
@@jjjjh959 will have to check them out. Cheers brother🙏
Boltcutter album covers looks like they went to Master P and asked for a cover design.
Good vid !
Fake! No infectious jelquing. Jk haha great video!
Snuffed, Peeling Flesh and Torture ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼
x marks the spot
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.
Live Slam, i remember Indonesian bands was crushing it
Dripping MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥🔥
interesting how those last two look more like rap albums put out on no limit or 90s cash money.
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.
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??
12:15 was pretty nutsss
Repudilation is the only band that compares to suffocation in slam imo
HUMAN WASTE IS AN ALBUM
CHANGE MY MIND
No it’s not.
JPDMCOVERありがとう！
Not really my thing but I get why folks enjoy it.
dope video
Slamtastical!
insane!
Nice video!
You and I have similar taste
Are you deleting comments?
Internal Bleeding claims that their Innvo tape came out in 1992 but this I Slam You Perish interview with bass player Brian H. who played on that tape proves otherwise…..
“I must say that Internal Bleeding is the best band I've ever played in. 👉🏻I started working with them in early 1993.👈🏻”
no, im not, the one dollar demo by internal bleeding came out in december '91, do your research before running your mouth
I was there when they recorded it in the basement of a pizza place in Mineola, NY in the fall of 1992. The band lies about their timeline because they can’t claim to be in the mix of early death metal when they were late coming out. The Suffo album came out in October 1991, which is why Internal Bleeding says their tape came out in “early 91.” A two minute google search and everything they said goes up in smoke.
Death - See Through Dreams
Toad noises intensify 🐸
too many good slam bands these days to include them all
Genre peaked with Dripping
CORPSEFUCKINGPILE LETS GO
HAMMEERRSSSS 🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨