History Main / DeathMetal

* Music/{{Hearse}} (known for being one of ex-Music/ArchEnemy vocalist Johan Liiva's later projects; though they are not strictly this, sometimes dabbling in straight death metal and melodeath)

* '''Australasia''': Usually dissonant and technical, with lots of black metal and post-metal influence, while more conventionally technical acts tend to have a more jazzy and playful feel. Notable bands include Music/{{Psycroptic}}, [=StarGazer=], Music/{{Ulcerate}}, Music/{{Disentomb}}, Sadistik Exekution, The Amenta, Music/{{Portal|Band}}, Departe, Alarum, Convulsing, Organectomy, Music/{{Mortification}}, Blood Duster, and Abominator.

* Music/{{Anathema}} (early)

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Part of the genre's appeal to metalheads.

* '''Colombia''': An underground scene with a small, but dedicated community; a blender of technical brutal death metal, grindcore, and slam, Basically being as heavy as possible while using technical musicianship to as a way to improve upon the heaviness rather than melody, Notable bands include Music/InternalSuffering, Carnivore Diprosopus, Amputated Genitals, Mindly Rotten, Ancient Necropsy, and Animals Killing People[[note]]while they did form in the US and are based out of there, founding drummer and mainman Wilson Rairan and current bassist Maca Buritica are originally from Colombia, and their sound is in line with the rest of the Colombian brutal death scene[[/note]] There is also a bit of overlap with their neighboring country Peru; notable groups from there include Mortem, Anal Vomit, Goat Semen, Crimson Death, and Hadez.

* '''Colombia''': An underground scene with a small, but dedicated community; a blender of technical brutal death metal, grindcore, and slam, Basically being as heavy as possible while using technical musicianship to as a way to improve upon the heaviness rather than melody, Notable bands include Music/InternalSuffering, Carnivore Diprosopus, Amputated Genitals, Mindly Rotten, Ancient Necropsy, and Animals Killing People[[note]]while they did form in the US and are based out of there, founding drummer and mainman Wilson Rairan and current bassist Maca Buritica are originally from Colombia, and their sound is in line with the rest of the Colombian brutal death scene[[/note]]

* '''Russia''': Very big on slow, but rock-bottom heavy slam, though some of them have begun to move in a more technical direction with prominent Dying Fetus influences. Notable bands include Music/{{Katalepsy}}, Music/AbominablePutridity, Abnormity, 7 H. Target, and Big End Bolt.

* '''Sweden''': Raw, punkish material with a darkly melodic undertone and frequent doom influences, as well as a trademark "chainsaw" guitar tone. Some acts also helped give birth to death 'n roll by way of infusing their music with hard rock elements. [[Music/InFlames Three]] [[Music/AtTheGates certain]] [[Music/DarkTranquillity bands]] from Gothenburg partly eschewed brutality in favor of melody, thus [[TropeMaker creating]] and [[TropeCodifier estabilishing]] [[MelodicDeathMetal a more melodic approach to death metal.]] Notable bands include Music/{{Entombed}}, Music/{{Dismember}}, Grave, Music/{{Unleashed}}, Music/{{Bloodbath}}, Edge of Sanity, Music/{{Aeon}}, Vomitory, Soreption, Entrails, Lik, Music/{{Necrophobic}}, Unanimated, God Macabre, and Carnage.

* '''Poland''': Focuses more on the technical, thrashy side or the more atmospheric blackened edge of death metal. Notable bands include Music/{{Vader}}, Music/{{Behemoth}} (starting with ''Satanica''), Music/{{Decapitated}}, Music/{{Hate|Band}}, Trauma, Lost Soul, and Yattering.

* Music/{{Vader}}

* '''Greece''': Darkly melodic, often gothic-influenced material with a focus on atmosphere and melancholy. Some bands have prominent symphonic elements or a more brutal death infused sound. Notable bands include Music/{{Septicflesh}}, Nightfall, Obsecration, Inveracity, On Thorns I Lay, Horrified, Nightrage[[note]]Although they reside in Sweden with a good majority of their lineup over the years having been from there, they were formed in Thessaloniki, and their guitarist and only constant member Marios Iliopoulos is Greek.[[/note]], and Dead Congregation.

* '''Greece''': Darkly melodic, often gothic-influenced material with a focus on atmosphere and melancholy. Some bands have prominent symphonic elements or a more brutal death infused sound. Notable bands include Music/{{Septicflesh}}, Nightfall, Obsecration, Inveracity, On Thorns I Lay, Horrified, Nightrage, and Dead Congregation.

* '''Germany''': Mostly highly intricate tech-death garnered with neoclassical and jazz elements in the vein of Cynic, sometimes crossed over with extremely abrasive brutal/slam death not dissimilar to the Texas and NY styles. Notable bands include Atrocity, Assorted Heap, Morgoth, Music/DefeatedSanity, Music/{{Necrophagist}}, Music/{{Cytotoxin}}, Disbelief, Fleshcrawl, and Music/{{Obscura}}.

* Loudblast

* '''Finland''': Dark and doomy material with a focus on creepy atmospheric sections and occasional bits of eerie melody. Notable bands include Amorphis (early material), Music/{{Demilich}}, Demigod, Convulse, Hooded Menace, Krypts, Solothus, Lantern, Corpsessed, Gorephilia, Sentenced (early material), and Adramelech.

* '''France''': Generally on the more technical side of the spectrum, sometimes with a quirky feel, though blackened elements are also common. Notable bands include Music/{{Benighted}}, Music/{{Gorod}}, Music/{{Gojira}}, Music/{{Kronos}}, Loudblast, Svart Crown, Death Decline, Massacra, and Arkhon Infaustus.

* Music/{{Gojira}} (''very'' early material under the name Godzilla; became tech-death by their first album and shifted to straight prog-metal on ''Magma'')

* UrExample: While there are plenty of contenders for the title of "first proper death metal act", Mantas, Possessed, and Necrophagia are all safe bets, though it's certainly debatable if any of them actually were death metal or just very raw, dirty thrash. Other bands that proved particularly influential with early acts include Slayer, Venom, Celtic Frost, Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Dark Angel, Bathory, Sepultura, Sarcofago, Hellhammer, and The Accused, though none of them (aside from Sodom circa ''Tapping the Vein''[[note]] Sarcofago, Sepultura, and Celtic Frost are often affiliated with the genre, but are not considered full-fledged examples.[[/note]]) have ever been death metal.

* UrExample: While there are plenty of contenders for the title of "first proper death metal act", Mantas, Possessed, and Necrophagia are all safe bets, though it's certainly debatable if any of them actually were death metal or just very raw, dirty thrash. Other bands that proved particularly influential with early acts include Slayer, Venom, Celtic Frost, Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Dark Angel, Bathory, Sepultura, Sarcofago, Hellhammer, and The Accused, though none of them (aside from Sodom circa ''Tapping the Vein'') have ever been death metal.

* '''Poland''': Focuses more on the technical, thrashy side or the more atmospheric blackened edge of death metal. Notable bands include Music/{{Vader}}, Music/{{Behemoth}} (starting with ''Satanica''), Music/{{Decapitated}}, Music/{{Hate}}, Trauma, Lost Soul, and Yattering.

* '''France''': Generally on the more technical side of the spectrum, sometimes with a quirky WidgetSeries feel, though blackened elements are also common. Notable bands include Music/{{Benighted}}, Music/{{Gorod}}, Music/{{Gojira}}, Music/{{Kronos}}, Loudblast, Svart Crown, Death Decline, Massacra, and Arkhon Infaustus.

Since then, the genre has mostly remained underground, with a devoted but relatively modest following, stellar critical acclaim and a thoroughly international scene (for example, did you know Botswana has a thriving death metal scene?); however a few bands have had a large amount of recognition, as have a couple of subgenres. The genre's influence has also been felt in many other genres, including GothicMetal, GrooveMetal, NuMetal, and {{Metalcore}}. These, and several other forms of more traditional or popular metal have developed a harder, more abrasive sound, with harsher vocals and heavier distortion in response to the pioneering sounds of Death Metal, while retaining more accessible or conventional song structures and motifs.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20L0msLsM Strapping Young Lad - Detox]] (death/thrash metal)

An offshoot of modern OSDM that emerged in the mid-2010s, caveman death metal (named for the "caveman riffs only" MemeticMutation that accompanied many of the earlier acts) is characterized by a "chainsaw" guitar tone, heavy grooves, and extremely prominent hardcore elements, and many of the acts are heavily associated with the hardcore scene, if not outright spawned from it. The genre is heavily tied to 20 Buck Spin and Maggot Stomp Records, as well as (to a much lesser degree) A389 Recordings (and, by extent, Relapse Records, who took in the old A389 roster after the label closed) and Holy Mountain Printing, who handles merchandise for many acts in the genre.

* Music/{{Soulfly}} (''Dark Ages'' onward; earlier material is NuMetal)