The Sound Of Perseverance (studio album)
by Death (Metal)

The Sound Of Perseverance by Death (Metal)
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 2,668th   
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 166 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (52nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (464th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,668th)

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Death (Metal) bestography

The Sound Of Perseverance is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Death (Metal) on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Death (Metal) is Symbolic which is ranked number 1138 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,521.

Death (Metal) album bestography « Higher ranked (2,227th)
Human
This album (2,668th)
The Sound Of Perseverance
Lower ranked (3,502nd) »
Leprosy

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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The Sound Of Perseverance track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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The Sound Of Perseverance rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,668th | 1990s rank: 464th | 1998 rank: 52nd

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The Sound Of Perseverance ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 166 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.8/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.0.

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80/100
From 04/11/2022 16:41 | #284029
The song-writting is more disjointed than on Symbolic but it has a much more interesting sound.
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From 10/04/2020 10:10 | #258989
Most technical, ear crushing social commentary

Favorites:
+Scavenger of human sorrow
+Bite the pain
+Spirit crusher
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From 03/12/2018 09:35 | #210731
La culminación final al cambio de estilo que supuso la publicación de 'Human' en 1991. Se pasaba del Death Metal crudo sin ornamento a una música cada vez más pulida, donde las composiciones ganaban en complejidad a medida que Chuck Schuldiner se iba acercando sin ningún pudor al mundo del Metal progresivo. 'The Sound of Perseverance' representa la cumbre del estilo, el Death técnico no sería nada sin este disco, el último que firmó Chuck con Death antes del fatal cáncer que pondría fin a su vida tres años más tarde. La despedida perfecta a una carrera inmaculada y libre de pecado. Los cambios de ritmo son delirantes y la potencia con la que canta en este disco es digna de asombro, dejando atrás el estilo gutural propio del Death Metal en favor de una voz rasgada surgida desde lo más profundo del averno. Otra galaxia.
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80/100
From 06/19/2017 00:41 | #192868
This is a phenomenal metal album in my opinion! Frim the first 20 seconds of track one this album is pure shred, riff, and metal up the ass. It actually blew me away how much I liked this. My favorite artist is Megadeth and this album competes with their best in my opinion. Then you get to Voice of the Soul a beautiful piece that breaks up the heaviness. So so good... If you like metal you should love this album. Sure the vocals might not be for everyone but personally I thought the fit the music perfectly and wouldn't have it any other way. Rock solid.
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From 02/09/2014 12:32 | #102663
It's not bad. It's not exactly good either. Meh.
It gets incredibly boring really quickly.
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