History Main / DeathMetal

The style evolved from ThrashMetal in the eighties, with some bands influential on the genre (thrash or otherwise) including Music/{{Slayer}}, Music/{{Venom}}, Music/CelticFrost and Music/{{Kreator}}. The first band to get acknowledged for playing death metal was the thrash band Possessed, with their landmark album ''Seven Churches''. While Possessed may have been the TropeNamer (they even had a song named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hadGUw2tpk "Death Metal"]]), the {{Trope Maker}}s, and according to some sources the {{Ur Example}}s, were {{Music/Death}}, who released their first album, ''Scream Bloody Gore'', in 1987. They replaced the overt thrash influences of Possessed with an at-the-time unparalleled fusion of brutality and technicality, solidifying the genre.

* Music/CavaleraConspiracy (new band, old style; formed by the Cavalera brothers as a continuation of the early Sepultura sound)

* Music/{{Wormed}}

* '''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, Big End Bolt, Grenouer, and Fetal Decay.
* '''Japan''': A mix of slammy brutal death and crusty, grimy, often hardcore-influenced material, possibly with a QuirkyWork feel. Notable acts include Vomit Remnants, Coffins, Kruelty, Infernal Revulsion, Intestine Baalism, Gorevent, Defiled, Desecravity, and Anatomia.

* '''United Kingdom''': Generally a mixture of death metal with black metal, grindcore and/or deathcore, usually with a pronounced "urban" feel. Notable acts include Music/{{Carcass}}, Music/NapalmDeath (mostly ''Harmony Corruption'', but they have been an ''extremely'' major influence as a whole), Music/BoltThrower, Cancer, Benediction, Music/AnaalNathrakh, Music/{{Ingested}}, Venom Prison, Music/UnfathomableRuination, Man Must Die, Dyscarnate, Party Cannon, and Cerebral Bore.
* '''Italy''': Generally involves extremely fast, blast-heavy brutal death with occasional blackened death, melodic death and/or tech death influences. Notable bands include Music/HourOfPenance, Music/FleshgodApocalypse, Septycal Gorge, Putridity, Music/HideousDivinity, Bloodtruth, and Antropofagus.

* Music/{{Mr Bungle}} (Yes THAT Mr. Bungle. After their first demo they moved onto their signature style; the 2020 rerecording of ''The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny'' best showcases this.)

* '''Greece''': Mostly heavily atmospheric and darkly melodic material often with prominent gothic and symphonic influences, with some of the more underground bands taking on a more technical and/or brutal direction. Notable bands include Music/{{Septicflesh}}, On Thorns I Lay, Nightfall, Obsecration, Inveracity, Dead Congregation, and Nightrage[[note]]Although they've been based in Sweden for most of their career and have a sound in line with the Gothenburg melodeath scene, their guitarist and only constant member Marios Iliopoulos is from Greece and over half of their non-Swedish members over the years have also been Greek[[/note]].