History AwesomeMusic / DeathMetal

* Frozen Soul are like a modern day Chris Barnes era Music/CannibalCorpse, as if Bolt Thrower had incorporated slam riffs into their music. They have that nasty, wretched death metal sound from the 90s that makes the music so fucking good! ''[[https://youtu.be/MV_j95zF5EE Glacial Domination]]'' is a banger from start to finish.

* Pick a Music/{{Gojira}} song. ''Any'' Gojira song.

** Beheaded's album ''[[https://youtu.be/TqDbeO6dUy0 Perpetual Mockery]]'' is absolutely incredible from start to finish. One of the standout songs from the album (Void of Empathy) [[https://youtu.be/eTql2nlA5r0 just happens to be one of the most beautiful death metal songs ever made.]]

* Frozen Soul are basically like a modern day Chris Barnes era Music/CannibalCorpse. Their music sounds like if Bolt Thrower had incorporated slam riffs into their music. They have that nasty, wretched death metal sound from the 90s that just makes the music so fucking good! [[https://youtu.be/MV_j95zF5EE Glacial Domination is a banger from start to finish]].
* Gruesome is the PERFECT tribute to 80s death metal. They actually do sound like the music Music/Death would make if Chuck Schuldiner was still alive. [[https://youtu.be/Qg2Ui285VD8 Savage Land]] is the essential OSDM tribute album.

** Beheaded's album ''[[https://youtu.be/TqDbeO6dUy0 Perpetual Mockery]]'' is absolutely incredible from start to finish. %% One of the standout songs from the album [[https://youtu.be/eTql2nlA5r0 just happens to be one of the most beautiful death metal songs ever made.]] %% But what's it called?

* Music/{{Wintersun}}'s self titled debut album is full of this. Some of the highlights on the album include [[https://youtu.be/c_Sa0ky4z_s Sleeping Stars]] [[https://youtu.be/cvQ4eF_j0aY Beyond the Dark Sun]] and [[https://youtu.be/W4NDS0VUooc?list=PL21C438B2B60BF40A Battles Against Time]]
* There are some kickass underground death metal bands that are definitely worth checking out. Beheaded is a good example of an underground death metal band, and their album [[https://youtu.be/TqDbeO6dUy0 Perpetual Mockery]] is absolutely incredible from start to finish. One of the standout songs from the album [[https://youtu.be/eTql2nlA5r0 just happens to be one of the most beautiful death metal songs ever made]]
** Another good example is Assimilation. [[https://youtu.be/b59duNQChsc The Laws of Power]] has an amazing old school death metal sound. If you like OSDM, you might enjoy this album.
** Let's not forget Seance. [[https://youtu.be/R9ozfrLjbac Fornever Laid to Rest]] is an underrated classic.

* There are some kickass underground death metal bands that are definitely worth checking out. Beheaded is a good example of an underground death metal band, and their album [[https://youtu.be/TqDbeO6dUy0 Perpetual Mockery]] is absolutely incredible from start to finish. One of the standout songs from the album [[https://youtu.be/eTql2nlA5r0 also just happens to be one of the most beautiful death metal songs ever made]]

* There are some kickass underground death metal bands that are definitely worth checking out. Beheaded is a good example of an underground death metal band, and their album [[https://youtu.be/TqDbeO6dUy0 Perpetual Mockery]] is absolutely incredible from start to finish. One of the standout songs from the album [[https://youtu.be/eTql2nlA5r0 is also just happens to be one of the most beautiful death metal songs ever made]]

* There are some kickass underground death metal bands that are definitely worth checking out. Beheaded is a good example of an underground death metal band, and their album [[https://youtu.be/TqDbeO6dUy0 Perpetual Mockery]] is absolutely incredible from start to finish. One of the standout songs from the album [[https://youtu.be/eTql2nlA5r0 is also one of the most beautiful death metal songs ever made]]

Evil takes its form
Inside crystal mountain
Commandments are reborn

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

* Classic Swedish band At The Gates has their iconic album ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614OdhFLUUU Slaughter of the Soul]]''. It's hard hitting yet melodic with one of the most glorious guitar tones in MelodicDeathMetal (created with a boss HM-2 and Metal Zone through a valve amp). Here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URhmC865SGI the title track.]]
* The Black Dahlia Murder takes melodic death metal and amps up the heaviness with their relentless drumming and chainsaw-tone guitars. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhBn8R60D0 "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse"]] shows off the band's talent at creating blazing fast and intense melodeath while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23CrDGW1RM "I Will Return"]] provides the listener with one hell of a glorious ending solo that caps off this song on a beautiful note.

* The Black Dahlia Murder takes melodic death metal and amps up the heaviness with their relentless drumming and chainsaw-tone guitars. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhBn8R60D0&ab_channel=jhallpk What A Horrible Night to Have a Curse]] shows off the band's talent at creating blazing fast and intense melodeath while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23CrDGW1RM&ab_channel=jhallpk I Will Return]] provides the listener with one hell of a glorious ending solo that caps off this song on a beautiful note.

* Classic Swedish band At The Gates has their iconic album, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614OdhFLUUU "Slaughter of the Soul"]]. It's hard hitting yet melodic with one of the most glorious guitar tones in MelodicDeathMetal (created with a boss HM-2 and Metal Zone through a valve amp). Here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URhmC865SGI the title track.]]

* Macabre are one of the pioneering bands of both DeathMetal and {{Grindcore}}, having been formed in 1984, so they deserve some mention here. With a discography dedicated to the crimes of RealLife {{Serial Killer}}s, their output is not only quite high on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness, but they also add a touch of whimsy here and there. Check out [[https://youtu.be/GQv1-mqcGZM Ed Gein]], [[https://youtu.be/HHYhG805eKA Vampire of Düsseldorf]], or for some DarkComedy, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUxb139X-N4 their own twist on the Ooompa Loompas' theme]].

* Nile. A few songs stand out, like "Sarcophagus", "Von unaussprechlichen Kulten" and "I Whisper In the Ear of the Dead", but there are many others.

** The riff in "By the Light" will not leave your head, but it's so simple and awesome that you won't want it too.

* Literally every song by Music/{{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]].

** The riff in "By the Light" [[EarWorm will not leave your head]], but it's so simple and awesome that you won't want it too.

** ''King of Those Who Know'' is easily one of the best songs in their discography especially the ending.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEVpLzX6Jw The Empty Throne]] from ''The Negation'' also deserves particular mention.

* Music/{{Death}} are regarded as the genre's founding fathers for good reason, and their last four albums - ''Human'', ''Individual Thought Patterns'', ''Symbolic'', and ''The Sound of Perseverance'' - are justifiably regarded as the point where technical and progressive death metal got their starts. With these albums, Schuldiner and company set a standard that very few bands since have matched. Have a listen to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpfz5Vnr-_A Flesh and the Power It Holds]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3OPOYG6XIQ Voice of the Soul]]" from ''The Sound of Perseverance'', or "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQwfYuIrQF8 Perennial Quest]]" from ''Symbolic''.
** Their earlier work also deserves mention here, as these albums were the ones that started the transition from thrash metal to full on death metal, and they still hold up well into the 21st century. See "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_duhhVa-dk8 Pull the Plug]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFyZvw84T3g Leprosy]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrbT-LjfZDc Left to Die]]" from ''Leprosy'', along with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0oa4lVaZI Zombie Ritual]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coKuNZsZtMU Denial of Life]]" from their debut, ''Scream Bloody Gore''.

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* Classic Swedish band, At The Gates, has their iconic album, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614OdhFLUUU "Slaughter of the Soul"]]. It's hard hitting yet melodic with one of the most glorious guitar tones in MelodicDeathMetal(created with a boss HM-2 and Metal Zone through a valve amp). Here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URhmC865SGI the title track]]

* Meshuggah: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkrjE4QRsys "Rational Gaze"]]. Also 3:06-onward of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmVzqjycA-o "Straws Pulled at Random"]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIXFKsghS6s MIND-SIGNAL TRANSMISSION, PEAKED, DISTORTED, BENT! UN-RE-STRAINED!!]] "Closed Eye Visuals" is awesome.
** No mention of ''Nothing'' would be complete without [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB9c0rOm3q4 "Spasm"]]. Coming out of left field with the lowest frequencies their strings of steel have ever unleashed, massaging the inside of your skull; Tomas's robotic, almost seductive sounding vocals; the steady peal of high palm-muted notes sounding like a Sega Genesis serenading a lover at Carnegie Hall. It's strangely beautiful, hypnotic, even serene...[[LastNoteNightmare then the final measures unexpectedly shift in pitch, the elements now dissonant and clashing]]; a not-so-gentle reminder that this is still fucking ''Meshuggah'' you're listening to.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc "Bleed"]]. Every moment of it.
** The album ''Catch Thirtythree''. The whole thing. 13 tracks. 45 minutes. One song. Pure awesome. Special mentions to certain tracks on it are:
*** When the rhythm guitars come back in during "The Paradoxical Spiral". Pure groove/doom evilness.
*** The guitar solo in "Entrapment". While not a super technical solo, it just manages to sound so completely alien that it pushes it into deliberate UncannyValley territory. Also that bend at the end of the song.
*** "Mind's Mirrors." The pitch shifted, robotic sounding vocals manage to sound both beautiful yet ominous at the same time, the lyrics are incredibly trippy, and the outro leading up to the next track is great.
*** "In Death is Death", which is just... awesome.
*** Finally, "Sum". Everything from 1:00 on is perfect. Especially Jens' screams.
** "Combustion" is a fucking ''insane'' song.
** What makes "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" so awesome is the use of UncommonTime throughout the song. The entire song shifts a lot between time signatures, but it gives still the listener an illusion that the song is written in CommonTime. And not to mention... THAT KICK-ASS RIFF!
** "[[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 Music/{{Opeth}} is bound to become absolutely epic. ''In all possible senses''. Here's an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nPCtYnMzLA example.]]

* Everything BetweenTheBuriedAndMe have done since ''Alaska''.

* CannibalCorpse's entire ''Gore Obsessed'' album is pure awesome death metal.