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Dim Mak is a band featuring former Ripping Corpse members Scott Ruth and Shaune Kelley, bassist Scot Hornick, and drummer John Longstreth (ex-Origin, Skinless, Angelcorpse). The original incarnation of the band featured Ruth and Kelley alongside other Ripping Corpse members Dennis Carroll and Brandon Thomas (also of The Dying Light), and this version of the band released the albums Enter The Dragon and Intercepting Fist, two technically accomplished albums of metal fury that sounded quite original for a metal band at the time.

Thomas and Carroll left the band in 2002 and Dim Mak laid low for a few years until the recruitment of Hornick and Longstreth for 2006’s Knives of Ice, which may be their best album yet. Their sound is incredibly fast, which is typical of many death metal bands, but the guitar riffs are actually creative and memorable, without ever resorting to any At The Gates-styled cliches or breakdown-heavy garbage. The drumming is very blast-beat heavy, but the cymbal work and seamless tempo shifts help keep the songs from becoming too monotonous. The vocals never resort to low, mindless grunting, but retain a consistent, grating sound the whole time.
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  • Sculpy

    They're not that underrated. It's amazing how under-exposed they are however.

    8 Feb 5:41am Reply

  • fymek

    This band is criminally underrated. [2]

    24 Jan 12:58pm Reply

  • schizoid_man77

    This band is criminally underrated. Longstreth really shows his taste with this band.

    27 Sep 2012 Reply

  • fymek

    @standard_user - they were talking about Scott Ruth...

    20 May 2012 Reply

  • JavierGarciaCeb

    My favorite album is Enter The Dragon, and I have the original album, I don't know if it is out of print 'cause it was released for a small label called Dies Irae Productions.

    18 May 2012 Reply

  • standard_user

    Shaune Kelley is 43 years old what the hell are you talking about?

    30 Apr 2012 Reply

  • Hardt

    As much as I like Dim Mak, this new album REALLY disappointed me. It sounds so generic, you cant find the Dim Mak's touch and originality. An album to forget imho.

    7 Apr 2012 Reply

  • ukfswmart

    @NothingIsNot Have I heard the new record? You haven't looked at my charts, have you? ;) I'm still undecided on Capizzi. His phrasing is really unusual. I can hear bits of Mullen and Kyle Symons in his style, which is cool, but the record is so lyrically sparse in a number of places. I'm not familiar with what he's done before Dim Mak. The record on the whole is a little less frantic than I'd hoped, aside from the intro and verse riffs on Kutulu (and christ, I can't help but nod my head to them). For me, Knives of Ice is one of the greatest extreme metal albums of all time, and the new one largely seems to plod along by comparison - the drumming doesn't have the same urgency about it, for me. Anyway, armchair critique aside, the album still rips!

    10 Feb 2012 Reply

  • NothingIsNot

    @ukfswmart Yeah man, I know! Just out of interest, what do you think of Joe Capizzi the new vocalist? (I'm hoping you've heard the new record). I've heard a lot of bitchin' about his style, but personally I think he really stepped up and gave a great performance.

    6 Feb 2012 Reply

  • ukfswmart

    @NothingIsNot Woah, that's nuts. Makes his Dim Mak performances all the more impressive.

    5 Feb 2012 Reply

  • NothingIsNot

    @ukfswmart The comment I originally saw said he was 55. Makes sense though, just checked metal archives and his first metal release was 1983, and I'm pretty sure I read he was active before that in the punk scene.

    5 Feb 2012 Reply

  • ukfswmart

    @NothingIsNot Is it as much as 15 years? That'd mean he's in his mid-to-late 50s now, surely?

    2 Feb 2012 Reply

  • Ugly13

    The new record is excellent. [2]

    30 Jan 2012 Reply

  • NothingIsNot

    I've seen a comment from Shaune on a YouTube video that implied it was because of his age (IIRC he's about 15 years older than the other guys).

    12 Jan 2012 Reply

  • amagikarp

    Does anyone know why Scott Ruth quit?

    12 Jan 2012 Reply

  • NothingIsNot

    The new record is excellent. My album of the year for 2011.

    10 Jan 2012 Reply

  • UndeadVulture

    Great new album!

    16 Dec 2011 Reply

  • standard_user

    the only legitimate heirs to Morbid Angel IMO.

    12 Dec 2011 Reply

  • schizoid_man77

    New album is sick as hell. The riffs are so unique! Willowtip is really hitting it's stride with these groups.

    12 Dec 2011 Reply

  • Jimsonisolation

    Capizzi sounds nothing like him, lol.

    2 Dec 2011 Reply
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