Thursday Three: Keyboard Death
Death metal and keyboards are natural enemies, but sometimes they can come together in interesting ways. I thought this playlist would be easy to compile, but finding real death metal with keyboards is tougher than it seems. Tampa’s Nocturnus is the obvious first step and I went with “Gridzone” from their highly underrated “Thresholds” album. But where do you go from there? It very quickly devolves into two camps: cheesy wanking over melodic “death metal” (i.e.: Children of Bodom…