Used to write software for reading QR Codes, and it was a fascinating process, dealing with increasingly bad customer images. They’re pretty resilient though!

Does Sympathy count? Technical Death Metal that absolutely slays.

I remember first listening to this album back in ~99, and man I couldn’t even process its greatness. Love it. I remember reading, seemingly a million years years ago, that a follow up album was still in the works, but it’s been 26 years now… I’ll huff some more copium I guess.

Absolute banger classic.

Are there any other death metal bands with a vocal delivery similar to Archspire?

While I still enjoy the latter & more recent material, I absolutely love the DEI / None era Meshuggah the best. I wonder what bands have similar styles to it - basically a mix of polymetric melodic jazzy thrash’ish. I should take a trip to the Metal Archives and go dumpster diving.

I always wonder what fun & awesome output Chuck would have continued to make if he were still here. Obligatory - Fuck Cancer.

I don’t have the source with me, but I recall a paper about listening to various languages under different signal/ noise thresholds. If I recall correctly, languages like German that have multiple declensions were about to better able to parse noisy samples because of the redundant information. Sorry for not having the source off hand though.

The Onion had it true: https://www.theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062

Crystal Mountain will always hold a place in my heart (although the rest of the album is fantastic, naturally). RIP Chuck.