History AwesomeMusic / DeathMetal

** ''Hammer Smashed Face'' is one of the biggest Death Metal songs for a reason.

* Electrocution was a short-lived Italian Death/Thrash nobody group that came and dropped ''Inside the Unreal'' and called it a career, at least until they reformed in recent years after the Internet gave them a new fanbase. With songs like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufItX04CM68 Premature Burial]], it's hard not to see why.

* Electrocution was a short-lived Italian nobody group that came and dropped ''Inside the Unreal'' and called it a career, at least until they reformed in recent years after the Internet gave them a new fanbase. With songs like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufItX04CM68 Premature Burial]], it's hard not to see why.

* Everything made by extreme prog metal band Music/{{Opeth}} is bound to become absolutely epic. ''In all possible senses''. Here's an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nPCtYnMzLA example]]

* Everything made by extreme prog metal band {{Opeth}} is bound to become absolutely epic. ''In all possible senses''. Here's an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nPCtYnMzLA example]]

* {{Decapitated}}'s "A Poem About an Old Prison Man". They turned a poem by UsefulNotes/CharlesManson into death metal perfection.

* Literally every song by {{Behemoth}} ever (pioneer of [[BlackMetal Blackened]] [[TechnicalDeathMetal Death Metal]]). However, "Chant for Ezkaton 2000" deserves a mention, specially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYW7PI0Rn6A the live version]] that is considerably downtuned WAY below the studio version. The studio version is awesome on its own, but when played live and downtuned, the EarWorm riff sounds [[TearJerker absolutely beautiful]].

* Anything and everything by {{Obituary}}, one of the pioneers of the entire genre. Just a few examples:

[[MetalHead Some people]] love it, [[TheEveryman some people]] hate it... But hey, death metal is basically DarkerAndEdgier thrash metal. IT HAS TO HAVE AWESOME TUNES.

** Their latest effort, ''A Skeletal Domain'' has been hailed since their best since ''Gallery of Suicide'', and rightfully so! The album has a spookier, darker tone to it than usual, which sounds really rad.

* The band Bloodbath was formed for one reason and one reason only: to pay homage to classic Swedish death metal. How could you go wrong with a supergroup featuring (or had featured) members from Opeth, Katatonia, Edge of Sanity, Hypocrisy, and Paradise Lost? ''It is glorious''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khn1KG6QcMg They're amazing,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhWKhjNCQ4 to say]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcpXWOwHcoE the very]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSv2byt5o6Y least]].

* Six Feet Under may be a polarizing band, but just try to deny the awesomeness of their albums ''Undead'' and ''Unborn''. There's a reason even some of their haters like them both.

* Demilich are legendary in the metal underground for a reason. Large numbers of bands have tried to emulate this group. All of them have failed. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_8XfamXcmw Here's a link to their stuff on YouTube]], or you can just [[http://www.anentity.com/demilich/download.php download their stuff from their site]]. If you're in need of a specific song recommendation, "The Putrefying Road in the Nineteenth Extremity" is probably their "catchiest" song.

[[MetalHead Some people]] love it, [[Everyman some people]] hate it... But hey, death metal is basically DarkerAndEdgier thrash metal. IT HAS TO HAVE AWESOME TUNES.

[[MetalHead Some people]] love it, [[MoralGuardians some people]] hate it... But hey, death metal is basically DarkerAndEdgier thrash metal. IT HAS TO HAVE AWESOME TUNES.

** "Selkies" is their biggest song for a reason!
** ''All 64 minutes'' of ''Colors''. Just too epic for words to describe.

** ''Obfuscation''. The music never lets up for all of the nearly 10 minutes that encompasses this song, with two brilliant guitar solos.

* Literally every song by {{Behemoth}} ever (pioneer of [[BlackMetal Blackened]] [[TechnicalDeathMetal Death Metal]]). However, "Chant for Ezkaton 2000" deserves a mention, specially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYW7PI0Rn6A the live version]] that is considerably downtuned WAY below the studio version. The studio version is awesome on its own, but when played live and downtuned, the EarWorm riff sounds [[TearJerker absolutely beautiful]].

* Literally every song by {{Behemoth}} ever. However, "Chant for Ezkaton 2000" deserves a mention, specially the live version that is considerably downtuned WAY below the studio version. The studio version is awesome on its own, but when played live and downtuned, the EarWorm riff sounds [[TearJerker absolutely beautiful]].

** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBEUTntgMOI I]]''. All twenty-one minutes of it. This could be thought of as ''Catch-Thirtythree''[='s=] little brother, but by no means should it be dismissed as a lesser work; it is every bit as intense and rewarding.
*** If the scream at around one minute into the song doesn't get you all pumped up, you simply don't like extreme metal.
* Everything made by extreme prog metal band {{Opeth}} is bound to become absolutely epic. ''In all possible senses ''. Here's an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nPCtYnMzLA example]]
** THEEEEEEEEEEE GRAAAAAAAAAAAND COOOOONJURRRRAAAAAAATIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

** "Roboturner deserves its own page, from the FirstNoteNightmare to the final bass fade out.

** ''The Bleeding'', and ''Bloodthirst''.
* You just ''can't'' complete this page without mentioning Music/{{Atheist}} at least once. All of their songs are downright epic in some way or another, but that's due to be expected from the most respected TechnicalDeathMetal band of all time. '''OF ALL TIME!'''

** ''Entity'', their most recent album, is even better, as it has all the compositional strengths of ''Antithesis'' with a whole lot more variation and a production that not only fixes the main problem with ''Antithesis'' (overly muddy production), but manages to have some actual breathing room as opposed to your typical [[LoudnessWar obnoxiously brickwalled]] Suecof/Otero/Rutan/Morabito shitfest.

* [=Vader=] is Poland's biggest act for a reason.

* Revocation blends techdeath with thrash metal to make some of the best extreme metal in the current decade.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JFosCClvNQ One Shot One Kill]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEW70UJIpfA In the Trenches]]
* Augury, especially "Oversee The Rebirth", the last song of the second album, ''Fragmentary Evidence''.

** The band's new album, ''Colored Sands'', continues their winning streak. After a leak of the album to the internet their record company put the whole thing up for streaming on Spotify. Listen to it [[http://open.spotify.com/album/1qhgbP27HYf4iCiLbquXys here]].

Oh DeathMetal, the best case of LoveItOrHateIt in music...

* Six Feet Under may be a polarizing band, but just try to deny the awesomeness of their two latest albums ''Undead'' and ''Unborn''. There's a reason even some of their haters like them both.