Damn dude, let the man speak without interrupting every three seconds.

Athenar reminds me of death from family guy sometimes

Would love a podcast with Fenriz and Athenar. Their knowledge of the underground metal scene is probably unmatched.

I just wanna listen to Motörhead and drink beer with Athenar.

Athenar seems like a really nice dude

Just let the guest talk, man! Great vid tho.

NEXT: J-dawg interviews Chris Barnes.

Old school Death Metal probably Altars of Madness for me. In 1989 or 90 I first heard the cassette....and my jaw was on the floor. Songs still really hold up today also. If I went to an MA concert and they played nothing but that entire first album, Id be happy af.

I like Athenar.

Awesome interview J-Dawg. Hoping you get Paul or Brian or Roy from Embalmer soon and maybe even make it an hr long video!

Athenar is a funny dude. Every time I see a video of him he's always got some funny stuff to say. Seems like a cool guy.

Now do a similar interview with King down in his basement abode, I wanna see lots of vinyl in milk crate and empty beer cans/bottles on the floor, with Bulldozer's Day of Wrath playing - not too loud, we still need to hear the lingo god damn it.🤘🏻

I went out and bought an Athenar brand microwave; all popcorn buttons!

Thanks Athenar, thanks j dawg for the interview \m/

Deicide is definitely the greatest DM album, but oh man, how I love Legion. Also, Butchered by CC is my favorite from them and definitely worth buying.

The original yellow Goat 🐐 album cover art

Mental Funeral was the first Autopsy album I bought, on the cover art alone, and it’s still my favorite to this day. In my top 5 favorite death metal albums ever, in fact. Severed Survival is one of my least favorite from the band’s catalog.

Athenar be like 'I can't see fuckin shit outta this thang'

not being able to hear anything cause of grave digger playing in the background has got to be the best thing about athenar

Athenar is unchallenged. His musical knowledge and diversity is vast. And remember kids, even brutal death metal can trace it's origins back to the blues and classical.

Talking of Youngstown, Ohio.. Athenar bought a WARFARE 7" off me when his old band BOULDER played at the 2nd STONER HANDS OF DOOM fest held at the Nyabinghi venue back in 2000. I remember he wasn't sure if he already had that 7" , but he still bought it. Good taste, Sir.

so many bands I never heard of getting into DM at 16 in 1996 I am still finding bands in 2023 and I am 44! First 3 bands I heard were Deicide ST, Cannibal Corpse the bleeding, and Immolation here in after. completely altered my music tastes.

I saw Midnight with Mercyful Fate in Cinncinatti. Nice interview!

GRAVE DIGGER rules and so does Athenar. Awesome interview. \m/

The host talks more than the guest. Let your guest finish his sentences, man.

In the NY area, Mental Funeral and In the Grip were really popular when they were released.

As I re-watch this, my poooooooser azz loves that Athenar has CAN, but no Cannibal. I am a fan of both. And a fan of Athenar -- he's a friend of friends of mine and a very down-to-earth MENSCH of a human.

I feel like nobody ever mentions Necrophagia. Their Death is Fun album came out in 84. They never get their due.

Athenar is always cool in interviews. We need a part 2!

Brah, Aethnar's collection is amazing but does he own Lubricator by Steel Dragon on vinyl? Possibly the greatest heavy metal record ever?

Left Hand Path Cause of Death Altars of madness Scream Bloody Gore (Check out an album called The Force by Onslaught, the first song Let there be death is incredible.)

I agree with him about Jeff's vocals - Jeff sounds like a tormented being which escaped hell to play metal

Rip this hell was one of my fave tracks from the early 2010’s. Satanic Royalty 😈

I always hated that alternate cover of Apocalyptic Raids too. I never understood why they reissued that album with a different cover.

Which Grave Digger song was that he was playing at the end of the video?

There was poooooooser and conoe, but why didn't JDawg clean up the DyingFetus fan base with his automatic weapons?

This was an awesome interview

Dudes got rolling stones mono box set dude knows his tunes 🤘🎵

Athenar is a pretty awesome dude

Since some people mentioned the worst cover of all time. I nominate Poison Idea- Feel The Darkness as the greatest. Jerry A’s hand holding a gun to Tiny Tim’s head in a tastefully done black and white photo

Asphyx Last One on Earth is probably in consideration for my best Death Metal albums.

Great channel, with great dudes with exceptional taste that almost never veers from my own There is no other channel that goes as hard and deep into the extreme as this one The greatest tho as most personal views are is very subjective And what are the standards for "greatest" Tho I agree with your conclusions

This is my favorite interview of yours by far, J-Dawg 😆 Athenar is always entertaining! Midnight and Whitespade 🤘 J-Dawg on Rauta-mode, goddamn it!!

YES MORE INTERVIEWS

Severed Survival is awesome and up there, but for me its a tie between Symphonies Of Sickness and Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

Athenar is the man.🔥☠🔥

Saw Midnight live with Mayhem. They were awesome!

?????? QUESTION: Dawg and Devils: Do you own (or have heard) the Carcass live bootleg LP 'Notingham Rock City 11-14-89' ????? Just a few songs on each side and an interview, but I thought the art was cool as SH*T!! It has a compilation of art from other albums, including 'Chronic Corpora Infest', 'Mol3sting the D3capitated', and 'Tales Of N3crophilia'.

Respect Athenar. Love Judas priest. Justin manifested kreator into playing a special old school set

Love Autopsy ! Always have, always will

Anyone else notice this poser didn't even know that DF was 4th generation dm? 🤔

Nice. Grave digger rules. That picture disc wall is sick too

This video comes with a 100% no pink panties guarantee!!!!

So J-Dawg do you consider the 1st Bathory record to be black metal? I'm a bit surprised that you don't consider Venom to be the 1st wave of black metal. (Mayhem etc. is the 2nd wave)

Midnight is the shit! Have a bunch of their vinyl. Several copies of some albums. Met him a few times back in the day when he was in Boulder. There’s gotta be more parts to this interview right?

I'm a 55 year old metal head, purchased Venom's Black Metal way back in 82' from an independent store called Central Station records here in Melbourne Australia so i have been into this stuff for a long time, i remember meeting a guy back in 91' at a gig, he said to me, "have you heard the latest Autopsy, it's the best death metal album of all time" he was of course talking about Mental Funeral.

I saw Midnight in Detroit, they kick ass!

JDawg .. you forgot to say... " What's heavier than panteribble "

Thank you for this hell's he'd bangers Justin midnight have all your records all the best

The first 3 CC are pretty much mandatory if you're and DM fan ;) I don't know about the 'BEST' DM album is but one of my all time favorite DM albums is Necrophagia - Holocausto de la Morte. But I do miss the 1980s... motorhead / venom / hellhammer/ sodom/ destruction ....crossover , HC punk and metal was all aggressive... the (88-89) 1990s really changed everything. I was 20 in '91 and liked 'Mental Funeral' when it came out and still like it haha Love the low fi production.

Dark Angel darkness descends \,,/

Athenar: "The 90s. The Lean Years of Metal." Well said. Never heard anyone refer to those metal years like that. Awesome interview Dawg!

My poser encounter story: Went to my nearest record store and a guy working there had a Mercyful Fate tour shirt on and he had a spikey mohawk and tattoo sleeves. I asked him if he went to the Atlanta show and he said yeah. I said it sucks they weren’t playing 90’s tracks on that tour and he got quiet and acted like he didn’t want to talk. He then claimed they played eight encores and when I questioned him, he said he had to help customers.

I happen to be wearing a Gravedigger shirt at the moment.

What Grave Digger is it?

Sick metal room. Midnight rules!

Did anyone else catch that weird look Athenar gave J-Dawg in the beginning ?

well back in the day in the late 70's and early 80's here in south texas where mexican radio ruled the sound waves (thank God for Columbia house) and where the catholic church had a say so on what you could listen to, bands like kiss, black sabbath, iron maiden, rush, scorpions, judas priest, Led zeppelin, ac-dc and even boston were considered devil music..... and when the movie Heavy Metal came out that's when we started calling this type of music.... heavy metal in my area..... now its just classic rock.... Killer interview....

Athenar makes music i can fully Get Behind!!!

Hell ya interviews brah 👺🤘🏻🤘🏻👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺

Thats some expensive picture discs to put up on the wall, lol.

Damn they made him put on a shirt

I seen Mortician in 99 in Arlington Texas probably 20 people there. Great fucking show

Athenar is on point with Severed Survival

The 10th ringwraith was let go for not sounding scary enough.

Put POSERS on a Short 🚌's with Lift Kits!!! Lmfao 😀 Saw Midnight twice!!! We're Killer!!! 😎 👍

ironically to me the best death metal album (if i only allowed to pick one) is "harmony corruption" the only complete death metal album of napalm death.

I could never understand why shitfun by Autopsy gets dumped on, I like the shitfun release

Severed Survival definitely was a huge influence on the Death Metal scene, but I really think Suffocation is the biggest influence on the semi modern scene. But currently Entombed , Grave, and Nirvana 2000 probably are the biggest influence with all the retro Stockholm Death Metal bands

CC ... don't understand the hype around them. athenar reminds me of the guy from Persekutor

Music is like food, if you like vegetables more than steak then that’s your choice. There’s no right or wrong answer. If you don’t like Cannibal Corpse, it doesn’t mean they’re a bad band at all. “You don’t like eating sushi?” “You’re a pooooooooser! Lol! Slayer! 🤘

“Seltic Frost” or “Keltic Frost”?? I hear people calling them either or. Which one is it?

Most of the people say that the song "Black Sabbath" by BLACK SABBATH is doom, not for me because that song was way ahead of it time due to the occult lyricism and the heavy and dark riffs (the "Devil's Tritone"), so, for me, that song is the beggining of Blackened Metal (not black metal).

Aw man. No CC? Sheeeeiiiiiit. Ah well. Old school Grave Digger. Badass shit

This is excellent...

I never buy my metal or any music. Torrent everything (being broke is a good reason). anyway respect to this guy for admitting CC isnt worth buying He's right too about the first wave, second wave, third wave BS being just that. BS. And the subgenres function as rules for artists. Mostly as restrictions.

ANGEL WITCH ANGEL WITCH ANGEL WITCH

Hell yea!!!! Good shit J Dawg!!! 🤘

Grave Digger 🤘🏻

Grave Digger is great

They must have not listened to Gore Obsessed, that album is hard

Emtombed - Left Hand Path (for me..)

The only CC album I was ever able to play all the way thru without turning off and/or becoming completely bored of (zoning out), is probably... Butchered At Birth. Idky? But it is what it is. As for best death metal album of all-time? Depends on the subgenre we're talking about... since many death metal bands don't even sound anything alike. You can't compare a slam band with a melodic death band nor to a old school band. This is why Venom doesn't work when you argue "best black metal band / album" considering they barely sound like anything compared to a Gorgoroth or a Wolfchant (for example).

Awesome!!! 😀 😎 👍

FILM BATTLE: Event Horizon (1997) Vs. Battlefield Earth (2000)

So if Athenar does not have any children, then why the fuck is all his cool shit in the fuckin' basement?!

I hated the second cover they did for Autopsy - Severed Survival

Shitfun is awesome!

I got into Metallica in 1988. I was 13. I've been INTENSELY devouring metal since then. I had never heard of mask boy here. I have every single album, EP and DVD that Cannibal Corpse has released. They're fucking KILLER. Every single album kicks ass (some more than others). So, you don't have any CC in your collection? Ooh! Such a badass. You sound like a hipster. "They're popular so I don't like them. I like more underground shit. I'm so cool!" 🤣 Bet you haven't heard of Reverorum Ib Malacht. EDIT: I had listened to several Midnight songs from various albums. I'm listening again. It's not terrible but it's definitely not special at all. Pretty generic and boring. *shrug*

This guy won’t shut up long enough for the people he interviews a chance to talk. I couldn’t get past the 3 min mark before I moved on.