History Music / DyingFetus

* DevelopmentHell: Subverted with ''Wrong One to Fuck With''. Yes, there will be a five-year gap between ''Reign Supreme'' and ''Wrong One to Fuck With'' but it's not due to an arduous or trying creative process, just a ''lot'' of touring and the band deliberately taking their time with it.

* BaldOfAwesome: John Gallagher.

* OlderThanTheyLook: John Gallagher is in his late forties and hasn't visibly aged very much at all since the early 2000s. The same is true for Trey Williams, who, despite being in his mid-thirties, still looks like he's in his twenties.

* OlderThanTheyLook: John Gallagher is in his early forties and hasn't visibly aged very much at all since the early 2000s. The same is true for Trey Williams, who, despite being in his mid-thirties, still looks like he's in his twenties.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A very solid 10.

* VocalEvolution: John Gallagher's vocals used to be slightly higher and more gurgly and his phrasing used to have more of a hardcore feel; as the years went on, his voice smoothed out and became deeper, and his phrasing became somewhat more rap-esque.

Dying Fetus is an American technical/brutal death outfit from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Characterized by a mix of spastic technical sections, mid-paced, heavily NYHC-influenced pit riffs, and a dual-vocal approach, Dying Fetus has become one of the most prominent faces of American death metal, having proved highly influential to both their fellow death metal acts and to the [[{{Deathcore}} deathcore]] genre as a whole. They have also gained a reputation as some of the premiere road warriors in metal, with the moments that they're not on tour being few and far between.

* RapMetal: Certainly not a full-fledged example by any means, but Gallagher is a big fan of hip-hop and mixes in elements of the genre here and there (his vocals tend to have a rap-like flow, and a good deal of their grooves seem to have been influenced by hip-hop beats).

This band provides examples of the following tropes:

* SpecialGuest: Talley has made an entire career out of this. If there's a band who is currently without a drummer and needs one for live or studio session work, there's a very high chance that Talley will fill the spot (just don't expect him to stay).

* RockTrio: Since 2007. They initially decided to try and find a replacement for Mike Kimball but quickly abandoned this and opted to continue on as a trio.

* EpicRocking: "Procreate the Malformed" is the longest at 7:05; other than that, there's "Abandon All Hope" (6:22) and "Raping the System" (6:11).

* DevelopmentHell: Subverted with the new album. Yes, there will be a five-year gap between ''Reign Supreme'' and the new album, but it's not due to an arduous or trying creative process, just a ''lot'' of touring.

* RefugeInVulgarity: Their name, which Gallagher admitted was an attempt to be as offensive as possible. He chalks it up to their being a bunch of teenaged shitheads at the time.

* CoverVersion: A fair amount. "[[NapalmDeath Scum'', ''Unchallenged Hate]]", "Judgment Day" (Integrity), "Streaks of Blood" (Baphomet), "Bringing Back the Glory" (Next Step Up), "Twisted Truth" (Pestilence), "Fade into Obscurity" (Dehumanized), "[[Music/BrokenHope Gorehog]]", "[[Music/BoltThrower Unleashed Upon Mankind]]", "[[CannibalCorpse Born in a Casket]]"... they've covered a lot of stuff.

* MetalScream: John Gallagher has an ''extremely'' distinctive grunt that, while exceptionally low, sounds more like a bark and less like a gurgle, while Beasley sports a higher howling rasp.

* RockTrio: Since 2007. They initially decided to try and find a replacement for Mike Kimball but decided to continue on as a trio.

* SpecialGuest: Talley has made an entire career out of this. If there's a band who is currently without a drummer and needs one for live or studio session work, there's a very high chance that Talley will fill the spot.

* {{Deathcore}}: Not themselves, no, but they helped lay down the foundation for the genre as a whole.

* SopranoAndGravel: Sort of. Clean vocals are nowhere to be found and would be very out of place, but Beasley (and Netherton, by extent) contrasts Gallagher's extremely low grunts with his somewhat higher vocals, which are fairly reminiscent of the Tampa Bay Area sound.

* TropeMaker: For Baltimore-style death metal; while they weren't the first band from that area to gain prominence, they did lay the groundwork for the heavily NYHC-influenced brand of death metal as played by Misery Index, Criminal Element, Covenance, Severed Head, Fuck U All, and other Baltimore-area death metal outfits.

* NoExportForYou: Generally averted, as most of their bonus tracks have showed up on domestic releases at some point or another; "Reduced to Slavery", however, was a straight example until the 2010 rerelease of ''Grotesque Impalement'', where it was added along with a few unreleased tracks.

* OneOfUs: Trey's love for video games is quite well known.

* PromotedFanboy: Trey. He even acknowledged in an interview that going from playing in Covenance (a token "perpetual local opener" act from Baltimore that had a short Canadian tour as the highest point of their career) to playing in Dying Fetus was the single biggest career-related leap that he had ever taken and that when Sean asked him if he wanted to join, he needed a few days to think it over just because of how major a change it was.

* OlderThanTheyLook: John Gallagher is in his early forties and hasn't visibly aged very much at all since the early 2000s.

* TakeThat: "Kill Your Mother, Rape Your Dog" is actually one of these against the mainstream music industry, and even goes so far as to specifically name the Spice Girls, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews and REM.

* PromotedFanboy: Trey.