| 1 | [floatboxright: |
| 2 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 3 | + ThrashMetal |
| 4 | ] |
| 5 | [floatboxright: |
| 6 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 7 | + Early BlackMetal, HardcorePunk, {{Grindcore}}, GrooveMetal (modern releases) |
| 8 | ] |
| 9 | ->''"Death Metal was never meant to be pretty, baby!"'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''Michael Amott''' In the liner notes of the 2000 reissue of "Dark Recollections" by Carnage |
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| 12 | '''Death metal''', also known as "that genre [[MoralGuardian concerned parents]] hate", is a particularly notable subgenre of [[HeavyMetal metal]] that is typically abrasive and usually characterised by [[HarshVocals growled, roared]], or [[MetalScream shrieked vocals]], heavily downtuned guitars, and generally quite proficient musicianship utilising a variety of unusual techniques and instrumentation such as tremolo picking, palm muting, double kick blast beats, and complex, evolving song structures with frequently morphing time signatures played at quite tremendous speeds. Lyrics usually (though not always) focus on anger, hate, gore, and death, and some pretty gory album covers are not at all uncommon. |
| 13 | It is TheNewRockAndRoll; easily one of the most misunderstood musical genres since its own inception, its critics almost always characterise it as an [[SensoryAbuse unlistenable noise attack]], [[PublicMediumIgnorance ignorant of the genuine, if not universally endearing, musicianship involved]]. Special hate is often reserved for the distinct and distinctively named vocal style, commonly characterised as ugly, unmusical, or mere screaming, with an equal degree of ignorance as to the immense skill and physical fitness required to sing death vocals well (without quickly ruining one's voice), and the appropriateness of the vocal style when considering [[ItMakesSenseInContext the type of instrumentation and lyrics involved]]. Oh, [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark and hippies can't stand it]]. |
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| 15 | 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. |
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| 17 | Initially just an underground niche for the most extreme of metalheads, death metal only managed to gain recognition outside the underground thanks to some of the more popular and controversial bands, such as {{Music/Deicide}}, Music/CannibalCorpse and Music/MorbidAngel, who in the early 1990s were suddenly being noticed by livid moral guardians the world over. There was the brutality of the music itself, featuring extensive use of dissonance, atonality, syncopation, deep forays into the deranged realms of frequently shifting UncommonTime, and the general tendency to angrily take a hatchet to most of the other things that make pop music accessible and catchy (like simple melodies and rhythms); this, combined readily with the decidedly offensive (some might say [[DudeNotFunny antisocially so]]) thematics of the genre helped culture warriors and moral crusaders to froth up an image of terrible music that promoted [[{{Gorn}} violence]], [[SexIsEvil sex]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs sexual violence]], [[RockMeAsmodeus Satan]], and probably somehow drugs as well. This culminated in Cannibal Corpse being banned from performance in several countries. |
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| 19 | 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, {{Djent}} 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. |
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| 21 | For the hip hop equivalent, see {{Horrorcore}}. |
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| 23 | For the Creator/MarvelUK comic book character named after the subgenre, see ''ComicBook/DeathMetalMarvelComics''. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | !!Death metal scenes: |
| 26 | Multiple scenes with specific sounds have popped up over the years; for those wondering, the main ones are: |
| 27 | |
| 28 | * '''Florida''': Thrashy, riff-oriented material, frequently with a pronounced technical edge and virtuosic playing. Easily the most successful scene to the point where bands with that sound were relocating there back in the day (Cannibal Corpse, Angelcorpse, Malevolent Creation); notable native bands include Music/{{Death}}, Music/MorbidAngel, Music/{{Obituary}}, Music/{{Deicide}}, Music/{{Atheist}}, Monstrosity, Massacre, Music/HateEternal, Music/SixFeetUnder, Brutality, and Nocturnus. |
| 29 | * '''New York''': A mix between aggressive, grind and hardcore-influenced material that laid the template for brutal death, deathcore and doomy, dirgelike acts. Also includes bands from surrounding states, primarily NJ and PA, and has historically had some overlap with the New England scene due to geographical proximity (particularly the Upstate acts); notable bands include Music/{{Suffocation}}, Music/{{Immolation}}, Incantation, Music/{{Skinless}}, Music/{{Malignancy}}, Morpheus Descends, Dehumanized, Pyrexia, Internal Bleeding, Mortician, Music/WakingTheCadaver, Artificial Brain, Music/{{Cognitive}}, Funebrarum, Baphomet, Torturous Inception, Undeath, and Mortal Decay. |
| 30 | * '''California''': A mixture of brutal, riff-oriented material that eschews leads in favor of a massive sea of winding, interconnected riffs building off one another, and melodic proggy tech that carries heavy late-era Death influences, with many of the former bands gradually turning into the latter. Notable bands include Music/CattleDecapitation, Music/{{Autopsy}}, Music/DeedsOfFlesh, Music/{{Disgorge}}, Decrepit Birth, Music/{{Exhumed}}, Music/TheFaceless, Music/{{Arkaik}}, Music/SeveredSavior, Condemned, Music/{{Fallujah}}, The Zenith Passage, Odious Mortem, Necrot, and Brujeria[[note]]While often cited to be from Mexico due to their themes and the sheer amount of members either being from there or of Hispanic heritage, they were actually formed in Los Angeles.[[/note]]. |
| 31 | * '''Texas''': Raw and dirty brutal death metal with a distinctively fuzzy guitar tone (often aided by extended-range guitars) that frequently overlaps with slam (and most likely codified it) and tends to feature extremely fast blasting portions with a trebly snare tone (the "slam snare" sound). The Houston area also has a noticeable blackened death scene heavily influenced by both death/doom and bestial black metal, while various newer acts from the DFW area are heavily rooted in old-school death metal and hardcore and helped codify the "caveman" sound of the late 2010s. Notable bands include Music/{{Devourment}}, Necrovore, Viral Load (and Shawn Whitaker's projects in general), Creeping Death, Frozen Soul, Desecrate the Faith, Devour the Unborn, Imprecation, Blaspherian, Morbosidad, Texas Murder Crew, Sarcolytic, Stabbing, and Dobber Beverly's various projects, most notably Infernal Dominion and Malignant Altar. |
| 32 | * '''Midwest''': Similar to Texas, though less slammy and more blasty, with a similarly raw, ugly, and dirty aesthetic and comparable production values. Noteworthy acts include Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder, Music/{{Origin}}, Music/BrokenHope, Music/JungleRot, Unmerciful, Gorgasm, Putrid Pile, Embalmer, Nunslaughter, Brodequin, Gutrot (and Brian Forgue's projects in general), Music/{{Sanguisugabogg}}, 200 Stab Wounds, and Incinerate. |
| 33 | * '''New England''': Grindy, heavily hardcore-influenced brutal death metal, which oftentimes blurs the lines between death metal and deathcore (and may have been one of the birthplaces of the latter) and usually has a more casual and "urban" feel. More polished and technical acts are typically associated with Berklee, as many students find themselves playing in local acts. There is also some scene overlap with Quebec and New York (largely due to Despised Icon, Suffocation, Internal Bleeding, and Incantation having historically strong ties to the region), and depending on who you ask, eastern Upstate New York (mostly the Capital District and the southern part of the Adirondacks) may or may not be part of the scene. Notable bands include Music/{{Revocation}}, Music/TheRedChord, Vital Remains, Goratory, Music/{{Abnormality}}, Dysentery, Music/{{Sexcrement}}, Deadwater Drowning, Vomit Forth, and Scattered Remnants. |
| 34 | * '''Maryland''': Heavily grind and hardcore-influenced material (owing to DC's grindcore scene) that usually focuses on a heavy, often bouncy groove, usually with old-school sensibilities mixed with modern amenities. Notable acts include Music/DyingFetus, Music/MiseryIndex, Darkest Hour, Visceral Disgorge, Full of Hell, Noisem, Genocide Pact, and Wormhole. |
| 35 | * '''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 establishing]] [[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. |
| 36 | * '''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), Torsofuck, Adramelech, and Torture Killer. |
| 37 | * '''Poland''': Focuses more on the technical, thrashy side or the more atmospheric blackened edge of death metal. Notable bands include Music/{{Vader|Band}}, Music/{{Behemoth}} (starting with ''Satanica''), Music/{{Decapitated}}, Music/{{Hate|Band}}, Trauma, Lost Soul, and Yattering. |
| 38 | * '''Quebec''': Highly technical material with progressive leanings; earlier acts leaned towards a more brutal sound, while later acts moved towards a more melodic, spacy sound that often includes prominent fretless bass. Notable bands include Music/{{Gorguts}}, Music/{{Cryptopsy}}, Music/DespisedIcon, Music/{{Kataklysm}}, Music/BeneathTheMassacre, Neuraxis, Martyr, Quo Vadis, Augury, First Fragment, Chthe'ilist, and Beyond Creation. |
| 39 | * '''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. |
| 40 | * '''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. |
| 41 | * '''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, Abominator, and 8 Foot Sativa. |
| 42 | * '''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}}. There is also quite a bit of overlap with the Austrian scene; notable bands from there include Music/PungentStench, Thirdmoon, Music/{{Belphegor}}, Disastrous Murmur, Disharmonic Orchestra, and Mastic Scum. |
| 43 | * '''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|Band}}, Music/{{Kronos}}, Loudblast, Svart Crown, Death Decline, Massacra, and Arkhon Infaustus. |
| 44 | * '''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. |
| 45 | * '''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. |
| 46 | * '''The Netherlands''': Being such a small country, The Netherlands boasts one of the biggest scenes out there. There's something for everyone with the emphasis on old school stuff (Asphyx, Sempiternal Deathreign, Pentacle, old Music/{{Pestilence}}) and REALLY brutal fare (Brutus, Disavowed, Pyaemia, Korpse). Other internationally known bands include Music/GodDethroned, Hail of Bullets, Houwitser, Music/SevereTorture and Sinister. There is also a good deal of overlap with Belgium (specifically Flanders); notable acts from the latter include Music/{{Aborted}}, Serial Butcher, and Emeth. |
| 47 | * '''Brazil''': Heavily riff-driven and often fairly technical, with a distinctively midpaced and groovy sound that often features stop-start and tribal motifs, as well as chaotic but often extremely flashy leadwork. Lighter acts tend to overlap with death/thrash. Notable acts include Music/{{Sepultura}}, Music/{{Krisiun}}, Music/{{Sarcofago}}, Nervosa, The Ordher, Torture Squad, Crypta, [=NervoChaos=], Claustrofobia, and Rebaelliun. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | !!Subgenres: |
| 50 | There are many different subgenres of death metal. Three of them (MelodicDeathMetal, TechnicalDeathMetal[[note]](four technically, but Progressive Death Metal and Technical Death Metal share the same page)[[/note]] and {{Deathcore}}) have their own entries. Here's a quick list of bands by basic subgenre: |
| 51 | |
| 52 | %% Bear in mind that some bands cross over into different subgenres at the same time. This is not an attempt to pigeonhole bands into different "cliques", which is what some have mistaken it for. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Old-School Death Metal]] |
| 57 | Pure, classic death metal. |
| 58 | ---- |
| 59 | [[index]] |
| 60 | * Music/AbysmalDawn (new band, old sound) |
| 61 | * Music/{{Adramelech}} |
| 62 | * Apophys |
| 63 | * Music/{{Atrocity}} (in their early days, but then went into GenreRoulette territory including GothicMetal, FolkMetal, IndustrialMetal and even EBM. Returned to death metal in the late 2010s.) |
| 64 | * Music/{{Asphyx}} (along with death/doom) |
| 65 | * Music/AtTheGates (first two albums; later became one of the pioneers of MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 66 | * Music/{{Autopsy}} |
| 67 | * Music/{{Avulsed}} |
| 68 | * Baest |
| 69 | * Music/{{Baphomet}} |
| 70 | * Music/{{Benediction}} |
| 71 | * Music/{{Bloodbath}} (new band, old style) |
| 72 | * Music/BloodIncantation (new band, old sound, mixed with PsychedelicRock) |
| 73 | * Music/BoltThrower (eventually) |
| 74 | * Music/BoneGnawer (new band, old style) |
| 75 | * Music/BrokenHope |
| 76 | * Music/{{Brutality}} |
| 77 | * Music/BurialInvocation |
| 78 | * Music/{{Cadaver}} |
| 79 | * Music/{{Cancer}} |
| 80 | * Music/CannabisCorpse (new band, old style) |
| 81 | * Music/CannibalCorpse (first album was death/thrash and other albums with Chris Barnes are brutal death; also undoubtedly the genre's most popular band) |
| 82 | * Music/{{Carnage}} |
| 83 | * Cenotaph (not to be confused with the Turkish brutal death act of the same name) |
| 84 | * Centinex |
| 85 | * Music/CerebralRot |
| 86 | * Music/{{Chaotian}} |
| 87 | * Music/TheChasm (along with ProgressiveMetal) |
| 88 | * Chthe'ilist (new band, old style) |
| 89 | * Music/{{Comecon}} (two-man project notable for having a different session vocalist for each album and programmed drums) |
| 90 | * Construct of Lethe |
| 91 | * Music/{{Convulse}} |
| 92 | * Music/{{Corpsessed}} |
| 93 | * Cruciamentum (new band, old style) |
| 94 | * Crypta (new band, old style) |
| 95 | * Music/CrypticHatred |
| 96 | * Music/DawnOfDemise (new band, old sound; fused with slam) |
| 97 | * Music/DeadCongregation |
| 98 | * Music/{{Death}} (later stuff is technical/progressive) |
| 99 | * Music/{{Debauchery}} (also death 'n' roll) |
| 100 | * Music/{{Deceased}} (unique in that they basically play death metal with traditional metal structures; also death/thrash) |
| 101 | * Music/{{Deicide}} |
| 102 | * Music/{{Demigod}} |
| 103 | * Music/{{Demilich}} (also avant-tech) |
| 104 | * Desecration |
| 105 | * Disincarnate |
| 106 | * Music/{{Dismember}} |
| 107 | * Music/EdgeOfSanity (early material; switched to their signature progressive death sound on their third album) |
| 108 | * Music/{{Electrocution}} |
| 109 | * Embalmer (borders on deathgrind at times) |
| 110 | * Music/{{Engulfed}} |
| 111 | * Music/{{Entombed}} |
| 112 | * Music/{{Entrails}} (started in the early days of Swedish death, but didn't release any material until the 2010s) |
| 113 | * Music/FaceDown (mixed with GrooveMetal; started as a roughly halfway split between the two styles and gradually leaned further into death metal with each album after) |
| 114 | * Music/{{Fetid}} |
| 115 | * Firespawn (supergroup featuring current and former members of Entombed, Unleashed, Necrophobic, and Dark Funeral) |
| 116 | * Fulci |
| 117 | * Funebrarum |
| 118 | * Furbowl (Johan Liiva's first band before Arch Enemy) |
| 119 | * Music/{{Garroted}} (new band, old style, also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 120 | * Music/GodMacabre |
| 121 | * Music/{{Gojira|Band}} (''very'' early material under the name Godzilla; became tech-death by their first album and shifted to straight prog-metal on ''Magma'') |
| 122 | * Music/{{Gorefest}} |
| 123 | * Music/{{Gorguts}} (early; shifted to technical/progressive/avant-garde for ''Obscura'' onwards) |
| 124 | * Music/{{Gosudar}} |
| 125 | * Gotsu-Totsu-Kotsu |
| 126 | * Grand Supreme Blood Court |
| 127 | * Music/{{Grave}} |
| 128 | * Music/TheGrotesquery (new band, old sound) |
| 129 | * Gruesome ([[Music/{{Exhumed}} Matt Harvey]] side project in the vein of ''Leprosy''-era Death) |
| 130 | * Music/HailOfBullets (same as Bloodbath - new band, old sound) |
| 131 | * [=HatePlow=] (short-lived side project of Malevolent Creation guitarist/frontman Phil Fasciana; sometimes borders on deathgrind) |
| 132 | * Music/HouseOfBlood |
| 133 | * Music/{{Hyperdontia}} |
| 134 | * Music/{{Hypocrisy}} (early) |
| 135 | * Hypoxia (new band, old style) |
| 136 | * Music/{{Illdisposed}} (later work is MelodicDeathMetal; returned to their early style starting ''With the Lost Souls on Our Side'') |
| 137 | * Music/{{Immolation}} |
| 138 | * Music/{{Impaled}} (also has some goregrind influence) |
| 139 | * Music/{{Incantation}} |
| 140 | * Music/IntestineBaalism (some overlap with melodic death) |
| 141 | * Music/JobForACowboy (''Genesis'' and ''Ruination''; everything after is technical/progressive death, and everything before is deathcore) |
| 142 | * Music/RoggaJohansson (most of his projects, with a few exceptions having more of a progressive and/or melodic bend) |
| 143 | * Music/JungleRot |
| 144 | * Music/{{Kaamos}} |
| 145 | * Music/{{Kataklysm}} (goes back and forth between this and MelodicDeathMetal; earlier material was brutal death) |
| 146 | * Music/KidCrusher |
| 147 | * Konkhra |
| 148 | * Music/{{Krypts}} |
| 149 | * Lago (some blackened death elements) |
| 150 | * Loudblast |
| 151 | * Music/{{Macabre}} (a case of GenreBusting that just barely qualifies, but qualifies nonetheless. Also a possible UrExample.) |
| 152 | * Music/{{Macaroni}} (arguably the most famous straight-up death metal band from Thailand) |
| 153 | * Music/MalevolentCreation |
| 154 | * Mammoth Grinder (mid-era; their early material was crust punk, and ''Cosmic Crypt'' is metalcore) |
| 155 | * Music/{{Massacre}} (except ''Promise'', which was GrooveMetal, and also incredibly poorly received) |
| 156 | * Music/{{Master}} (Also bordering on death/thrash; another potential UrExample, as they were formed in 1983) |
| 157 | * Music/{{Memoriam}} (new band, old style; best-known as [[Music/BoltThrower Karl Willetts's]] current band) |
| 158 | * Music/{{Misanthrope}} (along with TechnicalDeathMetal and AvantGardeMetal; started off firmly in the latter genre before gradually becoming more cohesive overtime while still remaining technical) |
| 159 | * Music/{{Miseration}} (new band, old style - best known as [[Music/ScarSymmetry Christian Alvestam's]] most famous current band; sometimes borders on brutal death) |
| 160 | * Music/{{Monstrosity}} (along with TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 161 | * Music/MorbidAngel |
| 162 | * Music/{{Morbific}} |
| 163 | * Music/{{Morgoth}} (switched to industrial metal on their third album before moving back to their old sound on their final record) |
| 164 | * Morta Skuld |
| 165 | * Mortem |
| 166 | * Music/ChristianMuenzner |
| 167 | * Music/{{Mortification}} (also Christian Metal; experimented with elements of many other subgenres of metal in the 90s, including groove metal and power metal) |
| 168 | * Music/{{Mykorrhiza}} (one of the very few bands to utilize clean(ish) vocals on more than a few occasions, also one of [[Music/{{Necrophobic}} Anders Strokirk's]] projects during his time away from his most famous band) |
| 169 | * Music/{{Necrophagia}} (another possible UrExample) |
| 170 | * Necrot (new band, old style) |
| 171 | * Nerlich (new band, old style) |
| 172 | * Music/{{Nihilist}} |
| 173 | * Music/{{Nocturnus}} (Well known as one of the first bands from this genre to incorporate ScienceFiction elements into their music, both in instrumental and lyrical terms. Also labeled as TechDeath) |
| 174 | * Nucleus (new band, old style) |
| 175 | * Music/{{Nunslaughter}} |
| 176 | * Music/{{Obituary}} |
| 177 | * Of Feather and Bone (''Bestial Hymns of Perversion'', earlier material is metalcore) |
| 178 | * Music/{{Oppressor}} (also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 179 | * The Ordher (some brutal death elements) |
| 180 | * Oxygen Destroyer |
| 181 | * Paganizer (best known as Rogga Johansson's longest-running and main band) |
| 182 | * Pessimist |
| 183 | * Music/{{Pestilence}} (before they shifted towards TechDeath; first album was death/thrash) |
| 184 | * Music/PhilTougas |
| 185 | * Music/{{Phobophilic}} |
| 186 | * Music/TheProjectHateMCMXCIX (mixed with IndustrialMetal) |
| 187 | * Music/PungentStench |
| 188 | * Music/{{Pyrithion}} (new band, old style; side project of Music/AsILayDying frontman Tim Lambesis) |
| 189 | * Music/TheResistance (new band, old style; short-lived supergroup featuring members of The Haunted, Grave, and In Flames - also debatably caveman death) |
| 190 | * Resurrection |
| 191 | * Seance |
| 192 | * Music/{{Sentenced}} (first album only) |
| 193 | * Sentient Horror |
| 194 | * Music/SkeletalRemains (new band, old sound) |
| 195 | * Music/ShubNiggurath |
| 196 | * Music/{{Sinister}} |
| 197 | * Music/SixFeetUnder |
| 198 | * Music/{{Solstice}} (not to be confused with the UK [[DoomMetal doom]] outfit of the same name. And possibly overlapping on death/thrash plus Rob Barrett was the guitarist/vocalist before joining Music/CannibalCorpse and Malevolent Creation) |
| 199 | * Music/SoulEmbraced ([[ChristianRock Christian Death Metal]], their last two albums featured heavy elements of AlternativeMetal and MeloDeath respectively) |
| 200 | * Music/{{Sulphurous}} |
| 201 | * Music/{{Superstition}} (new band, old style) |
| 202 | * Music/{{Taphos}} |
| 203 | * Music/TenMaskedMen (a cover band who turns pop songs into death metal) |
| 204 | * Music/TheseAreThey (new band, old style; side project of Novembers Doom vocalist Paul Kuhr) |
| 205 | * Music/ThyFinalPain (new band, old sound) |
| 206 | * Music/{{Tiamat}} (early) |
| 207 | * Tomb Mold (new band, old style) |
| 208 | * Music/TortureKiller (new band, old sound; notable for having [[Music/CannibalCorpse Chris]] [[Music/SixFeetUnder Barnes]] on vocals for one album) |
| 209 | * Trenchrot (new band, old sound) |
| 210 | * Music/{{Tribulation}} (new band, old style; although they only had this sound in their early demos and first album) |
| 211 | * Undeath (new band, old style) |
| 212 | * Music/{{Undergang}} |
| 213 | * Music/{{Unleashed}} |
| 214 | * Music/{{Vallenfyre}} |
| 215 | * Venom Prison (some hardcore and grindcore elements) |
| 216 | * Music/VitalRemains (one of the handful of bands that indulges in EpicRocking on a regular basis) |
| 217 | * Music/{{Vomitory}} |
| 218 | * Warfather |
| 219 | * Warp Chamber (new band, old style) |
| 220 | * Music/WitchVomit |
| 221 | [[/index]] |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Death/Thrash Metal]] |
| 225 | Death metal with a strong thrash influence. Many early death metal bands were rooted in thrash. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | [[index]] |
| 228 | * Music/AssortedHeap |
| 229 | * Music/{{Atheist}} (also TechnicalDeathMetal, possibly the UrExample of the latter.) |
| 230 | * Bacterial Husk |
| 231 | * Besieged |
| 232 | * Bio-Cancer |
| 233 | * Music/BlackBreath |
| 234 | * Music/{{Cancer}} |
| 235 | * Music/CannibalCorpse (on ''Eaten Back to Life'' and ''Red Before Black'', though they have some tracks in the genre on their other releases) |
| 236 | * Music/CavaleraConspiracy (new band, old style; formed by the Cavalera brothers as a continuation of the early Sepultura sound) |
| 237 | * Music/ChaosSynopsis |
| 238 | * Music/TheCrown |
| 239 | * Music/{{Criminal}} |
| 240 | * Music/DemolitionHammer |
| 241 | * Music/DeathByDawn (side project of Asphyx's Martin van Drunen) |
| 242 | * Music/DeathDecline |
| 243 | * Music/{{Deathchain}} |
| 244 | * Music/DenialFiend (new band, old sound) |
| 245 | * [[Music/DewScented Dew-Scented]] |
| 246 | * Dreaming Dead (''Funeral Twilight'', earlier material is melodic death metal) |
| 247 | * Enforced (''Kill Grid'', earlier material is crossover thrash) |
| 248 | * Music/{{Epidemic}} |
| 249 | * Music/{{Excruciator}} (new band playing an old sound) |
| 250 | * Music/{{Exhorder}} |
| 251 | * Music/{{Eyeconoclast}} (along with melodic death metal) |
| 252 | * Music/FlayedDisciple |
| 253 | * Fueled by Fire (''Trapped in Perdition'') |
| 254 | * Music/{{Ghoul}} (bit of a GenreBusting example, but this fits well enough) |
| 255 | * Grenouer (90s and 2000s material along with IndustrialMetal; eventually became straight-up AlternativeMetal with almost all extreme metal elements extinguished) |
| 256 | * Music/{{Grotesque}} |
| 257 | * Music/TheHaunted (also MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 258 | * Music/{{Hellwitch}} (also TechnicalDeathMetal, and another likely UrExample of that genre) |
| 259 | * Hemotoxin |
| 260 | * Music/{{Hypnosia}} |
| 261 | * Incubus (not the AlternativeRock group, obviously; later changed name to Opprobrium. Also [[ChristianRock Christian Metal]].) |
| 262 | * [[Music/InfernalMajesty Infernäl Mäjesty]] |
| 263 | * Music/{{Inhuman Condition}} |
| 264 | * Music/{{Insanity}} (possible UrExample) |
| 265 | * Music/{{Invocator}} (first album) |
| 266 | * Kalopsia |
| 267 | * [[Music/KingEvil King's-Evil]] |
| 268 | * Music/LegionOfTheDamned (new band, old sound) |
| 269 | * Music/LivingSacrifice (second and third albums with some traces on their fourth album, a [[ChristianMetal Christian]] example) |
| 270 | * Loudblast (first album only; switched to straight death metal afterwards) |
| 271 | * Madrost |
| 272 | * Music/{{Massacra}} |
| 273 | * Music/{{Master}} |
| 274 | * Music/{{Merciless}} |
| 275 | * Music/{{Molder}} |
| 276 | * Music/{{Morbid}} (Notable for having [[{{Music/Mayhem}} Dead]] as a vocalist.) |
| 277 | * Music/MorbidSaint |
| 278 | * Music/{{Mortification}} |
| 279 | * Nekromantheon |
| 280 | * Nervecell |
| 281 | * Nervosa (''Downfall of Mankind'' onward) |
| 282 | * Music/{{Noisem}} |
| 283 | * Music/{{Nonexist}} (also MelodicDeathMetal; known as one of two bands Johan Liiva joined after leaving Arch Enemy) |
| 284 | * Music/{{NumSkull}} |
| 285 | * Omnivore |
| 286 | * Music/OathOfCruelty |
| 287 | * Music/{{Ouroboros}} (Along with TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 288 | * Pentagram (Chilean band) |
| 289 | * Phylactery |
| 290 | * Music/{{Possessed}} (Possible TropeNamers of the entire death metal genre, and UrExample of Death / Thrash) |
| 291 | * Music/{{Protector}} |
| 292 | * Music/{{Revenant}} |
| 293 | * Music/{{Revocation}} (up until ''Teratogenesis''; also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 294 | * Music/RigorMortis |
| 295 | * Ripper |
| 296 | * Music/RippingCorpse |
| 297 | * Music/RitualCarnage |
| 298 | * Music/RumpelstiltskinGrinder (also MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 299 | * Sacred Sin (mixed with blackened death) |
| 300 | * Music/{{Sadus}} |
| 301 | * Sakrificer |
| 302 | * Scaphism |
| 303 | * Music/{{Schizophrenia}} |
| 304 | * Music/{{Sepultura}} (from ''Schizophrenia'' to ''Arise''; later became GrooveMetal with ''Chaos A.D.'', followed by a brief NuMetal jaunt with ''Roots'' and a return to their ''Chaos A.D.'' sound with ''Against'', ''Nation'', and ''Roorback''. Returned to the genre (with elements of their prior material) on ''Dante XXI'' and have stuck with it since.) |
| 305 | * Sewercide |
| 306 | * Music/{{Slaughter}} |
| 307 | * Music/{{Sodom}} (''Tapping the Vein'' only, ''extremely'' influential to the death metal genre as a whole) |
| 308 | * Music/{{Soulfly}} (''Dark Ages'' onward; earlier material is more NuMetal influenced) |
| 309 | * [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] (Also IndustrialMetal and ProgressiveMetal on their later albums) |
| 310 | * Suicidal Angels |
| 311 | * Music/{{Testament}} (''The Gathering'', and mixed with GrooveMetal on ''Demonic''; after ''The Gathering'' they mostly went back to straight thrash, though the occasional death/thrash song appears) |
| 312 | * Thanatos |
| 313 | * Music/TortureSquad |
| 314 | * Music/{{Tribulation}} (demos and ''The Horror'' only) |
| 315 | * Truth Corroded |
| 316 | * Music/{{Vader|Band}} |
| 317 | * Vampire |
| 318 | * Music/VengeanceRising (another ChristianMetal example) |
| 319 | * Vulcano |
| 320 | * Music/{{Warbringer}} |
| 321 | [[/index]] |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder:Melodic Death Metal]] |
| 325 | Death Metal with a greater emphasis on melody, along with a dose of PowerMetal or traditional HeavyMetal riffage. For more information, go [[MelodicDeathMetal here]]. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Brutal Death Metal]] |
| 329 | Death metal with more emphasis on brutality and speed, and less on melody. Often incorporates elements from grindcore (in particular, obviously, goregrind). |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | [[index]] |
| 332 | * Music/{{Abdicate}} |
| 333 | * Abhorrent Decimation |
| 334 | * Music/{{Abnormality}} (notable in that Mallika Sundaramurthy is one of the few frontwomen in a heavily male-dominated genre) |
| 335 | * Music/{{Aborted}} |
| 336 | * Abysmal Torment |
| 337 | * Ade (Mixed with FolkMetal) |
| 338 | * Music/{{Aeon}} |
| 339 | * Music/{{Afterbirth}} (possible UrExample, also AvantGardeMetal) |
| 340 | * Ahtme |
| 341 | * Music/{{Annihilated}} |
| 342 | * Music/{{Antropofagus}} |
| 343 | * Music/{{Arkaik}} |
| 344 | * Atoll |
| 345 | * Baalsebub |
| 346 | * Music/{{Beheaded}} (began to lean towards old-school death metal after Frank Calleja joined) |
| 347 | * Music/{{Beneath}} |
| 348 | * Music/{{Benighted}} (first two albums are black metal/blackened death) |
| 349 | * Music/BigEndBolt |
| 350 | * Music/{{Blasphemer}} |
| 351 | * Music/BloodRedThrone |
| 352 | * Music/{{Bloodtruth}} |
| 353 | * Music/BloodVomit |
| 354 | * Music/BrainDrill (also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 355 | * Brodequin |
| 356 | * Music/CankeredCorpse |
| 357 | * Carnal |
| 358 | * Cathexis |
| 359 | * Music/{{Cenotaph}} (not to be confused with the Mexican act of the same name) |
| 360 | * Music/CerebralBore (another female-fronted example until Simone Pluijmers quit) |
| 361 | * Christ Denied |
| 362 | * Music/{{Cognitive}} |
| 363 | * Continuum (''Designed Obsolescence'') |
| 364 | * Cordyceps |
| 365 | * Crepitation |
| 366 | * Cryogenic Defilemment |
| 367 | * Music/{{Cryptopsy}} (before turning to {{Deathcore}} with ''The Unspoken King'', though they returned to the genre with the self-titled) |
| 368 | * Music/{{Cytotoxin}} |
| 369 | * Music/TheDarkPrisonMassacre (also mixed with NuMetal and {{Deathcore}}, earlier material was slam) |
| 370 | * Music/DecrepitBirth (''...And Time Begins'' and ''Axis Mundi'') |
| 371 | * Music/DeedsOfFlesh |
| 372 | * Music/DefeatedSanity (Also Tech) |
| 373 | * Defiled |
| 374 | * Music/{{Dehumanized}} (one of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] along with Pyrexia, Internal Bleeding, and Suffocation.) |
| 375 | * Delusional Parasitosis |
| 376 | * Music/{{Deprecated}} (potential UrExample of slam, but the members themselves debate this) |
| 377 | * Desecrate the Faith |
| 378 | * Music/{{Desecravity}} |
| 379 | * Music/DespisedIcon (''Consumed by Your Poison'', also deathcore) |
| 380 | * Music/{{Devangelic}} |
| 381 | * Music/{{Disentomb}} |
| 382 | * Music/{{Disgorge}} |
| 383 | * Music/{{Disavowed}} |
| 384 | * Music/DjinnGhül (also IndustrialMetal and {{Deathcore}}) |
| 385 | * Music/DyingFetus (notable for their hard-hitting political lyrics; they're essentially the Music/RageAgainstTheMachine of death metal) |
| 386 | * Music/{{Dyscarnate}} |
| 387 | * Music/{{Element}} |
| 388 | * Emeth (also tech) |
| 389 | * Music/EuphoricDefilement |
| 390 | * Fecundation (Also tech) |
| 391 | * Music/FlayedDisciple |
| 392 | * Music/FleshConsumed |
| 393 | * Music/FleshgodApocalypse (mixed with SymphonicMetal, later switched to full-blown symphonic with death metal elements) |
| 394 | * Music/ForcedAsphyxiation |
| 395 | * Music/{{Goratory}} (semi-notorious as the band that just about every major death metal musician to hail from New England has played in at some point) |
| 396 | * Gorevent |
| 397 | * Music/{{Gorgasm}} |
| 398 | * Gutrot |
| 399 | * Music/GutturalSecrete |
| 400 | * Music/HateEternal |
| 401 | * Music/HideousDivinity |
| 402 | * Music/HourOfPenance |
| 403 | * Music/{{Incinerate}} |
| 404 | * Music/InfernalRevulsion |
| 405 | * Infuriate |
| 406 | * Ingurgitate |
| 407 | * Iniquitous Deeds |
| 408 | * Iniquitous Savagery |
| 409 | * Music/{{Iniquity}} |
| 410 | * InternalBleeding (TropeCodifier along with Dehumanized, Pyrexia, and Suffocation. Also arguably the UrExample of slam; while Suffocation and Pyrexia were making use of slam breaks before Internal Bleeding was even around, they were one of the first bands to make them a central element of their music.) |
| 411 | * Music/InternalSuffering |
| 412 | * Music/IntestinalDisgorge (strong overlap with goregrind and noisegrind) |
| 413 | * Music/IntestinalNoose (A strange new variant with a brutal sound and fluffy lyrics) |
| 414 | * Music/{{Inveracity}} |
| 415 | * Jasad |
| 416 | * Music/{{Kataklysm}} (up until ''In the Arms of Devastation'', which ended a ''very'' gradual move away from it starting with Sylvain Houde's departure, though elements of it still pop up every so often) |
| 417 | * Music/{{Katalepsy}} (''Autopsychosis'' and onward) |
| 418 | * Music/TheKennedyVeil (first two albums) |
| 419 | * Music/{{Krisiun}} (modern material, their older material was more straight death metal) |
| 420 | * Music/{{Kronos}} |
| 421 | * Liturgy (not to be confused with the experimental black metal act of the same name, but changed their name to Liturgy A.D. for their 2015 reunion because of this) |
| 422 | * Music/LogicOfDenial |
| 423 | * Music/{{Magwi}} |
| 424 | * Music/{{Malignancy}} (along with TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 425 | * Music/TheMonolithDeathcult |
| 426 | * Music/MortalDecay (also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 427 | * Music/{{Mortician}} |
| 428 | * Music/{{Mucopus}} |
| 429 | * Murder Made God |
| 430 | * Mutilated |
| 431 | * Necroptic Engorgement |
| 432 | * Nidorous |
| 433 | * Music/{{Nile}} (along with TechnicalDeathMetal and, on some of their songs, death/doom) |
| 434 | * Obsolete Mankind |
| 435 | * Music/OdiousMortem |
| 436 | * Music/{{Omnihility}} |
| 437 | * Omnipotent Hysteria |
| 438 | * Onicectomy |
| 439 | * Music/{{Origin}} |
| 440 | * Music/{{Panzerchrist}} (mixed with BlackMetal) |
| 441 | * Music/ParasiticExtirpation |
| 442 | * Music/{{Putridity}} |
| 443 | * Music/{{Pyaemia}} |
| 444 | * Music/{{Pyrexia}} (TropeCodifier along with Suffocation, Dehumanized, and Internal Bleeding, was DeathMetal mixed with GrooveMetal for their mid-era material) |
| 445 | * Relics of Humanity |
| 446 | * Music/{{Sanguisugabogg}} |
| 447 | * Music/{{Saprogenic}} |
| 448 | * Sarcolytic (also blackened death) |
| 449 | * Scattered Remnants |
| 450 | * Music/{{Sepsism}} |
| 451 | * Music/SeptycalGorge |
| 452 | * Serial Butcher |
| 453 | * Music/SevereTorture |
| 454 | * Music/SeveredSavior |
| 455 | * Music/{{Sickening}} |
| 456 | * Music/{{Skinless}} |
| 457 | * Music/SnuffedOnSight (also HardcorePunk) |
| 458 | * Splattered (''Carnivortex'', originally slam) |
| 459 | * Stabbing |
| 460 | * Music/{{Suffocation}} (UrExample and TropeCodifier; also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 461 | * Suicidal Causticity |
| 462 | * Music/TexasMurderCrew |
| 463 | * Music/TornTheFuckApart |
| 464 | * Music/TorturousInception (later material borders on deathcore) |
| 465 | * Music/{{Unbirth}} |
| 466 | * Unbreakable Hatred |
| 467 | * Music/UnfathomableRuination |
| 468 | * Music/{{Unmerciful}} |
| 469 | * Music/{{Vile}} (also MelodicDeathMetal on ''Metamorphosis'') |
| 470 | * Virulency |
| 471 | * Visceral Disgorge |
| 472 | * Music/VisionsOfAnnihilation |
| 473 | * Music/VomitRemnants |
| 474 | * Music/VomitTheSoul |
| 475 | * Music/{{Wormed}} |
| 476 | * Xenomorphic Contamination |
| 477 | [[/index]] |
| 478 | [[/folder]] |
| 479 | |
| 480 | [[folder:Technical Death Metal]] |
| 481 | Essentially what happens when a death metal band starts to increase the technical musicianship borrowed from {{Jazz}}, ClassicalMusic, and/or ProgressiveRock[=/=]ProgressiveMetal. For more information, go [[TechnicalDeathMetal here]]. |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:Slam Death Metal]] |
| 485 | Seen mainly as a progression of brutal death with subtle but noticeable hip-hop influences and a generally heightened focus on heavily syncopated, mosh-oriented rhythms, slam death metal is characterised by gurgling vocals, extended breakdowns, and grooves. Sometimes considered to be "proto-deathcore"; there is also a certain overlap between slam death metal and deathcore when it comes to the more extreme bands in the latter subgenre, which is why Waking the Cadaver, Disfiguring the Goddess, Vulvodynia, and Ingested are on this list. |
| 486 | ---- |
| 487 | [[index]] |
| 488 | * [[Music/SevenHTarget 7 H. Target]] |
| 489 | * Music/{{Abnormity}} |
| 490 | * Music/AbominablePutridity |
| 491 | * Music/{{Acrania}} (also deathcore) |
| 492 | * Acranius (major beatdown hardcore overlap) |
| 493 | * Afterbirth (one of the earliest slam bands; notable overlap with prog/tech death from their 2013 reunion to present) |
| 494 | * Analepsy |
| 495 | * Annotations of an Autopsy (''World of Sludge'', also deathcore; their early material was deathcore, ''II: The Reign of Darkness'' was death metal with prominent deathcore elements, and ''Dark Days'' was beatdown hardcore) |
| 496 | * Atoll |
| 497 | * Music/BluntForceTrauma (Specifically the Japanese band; there are a few other bands also called "Blunt Force Trauma".) |
| 498 | * Music/CerebralEffusion |
| 499 | * Music/{{Cephalotripsy}} |
| 500 | * Music/CerebralIncubation |
| 501 | * Music/{{Condemned}} |
| 502 | * Music/{{Crepitation}} |
| 503 | * Music/CryogenicDefilement |
| 504 | * Music/TheDarkPrisonMassacre (written as 暗狱戮尸 in Chinese, later material is [[GenreMashup an odd blend of brutal death metal, nu metal, and deathcore]]) |
| 505 | * Music/DawnOfDemise (overlaps with old-school death metal) |
| 506 | * Music/DehumanizingItatrainWorship |
| 507 | * Music/{{Despondency}} |
| 508 | * Devour the Unborn |
| 509 | * Music/{{Devourment}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 510 | * Music/DisfiguringTheGoddess (major deathcore overlap) |
| 511 | * Music/{{Disgorge}} (USA) (More of a prototype example; the fine line between original BDM and Slam) |
| 512 | * Drain of Impurity |
| 513 | * Music/{{Dripping}} (also deathgrind) |
| 514 | * Music/{{DynamiteAbortion}} |
| 515 | * Music/{{Dysentery}} (also beatdown hardcore) |
| 516 | * Music/EmbrionicDeath (A technical UrExample as they were releasing slammy demos back in the early 90s, but they never made an official album.) |
| 517 | * Music/EngutturalmentCephaloslamectomy (an AffectionateParody of the genre from a lyrical and thematic standpoint, but the music is totally serious) |
| 518 | * Music/{{Epicardiectomy}} |
| 519 | * Music/{{Enmity}} |
| 520 | * Music/ExterminationDismemberment (some deathcore elements) |
| 521 | * Music/FightTheDemiurge |
| 522 | * Music/{{Goemagot}} |
| 523 | * Gravitational Distortion |
| 524 | * Music/{{Ingested}} (major overlap with deathcore depending on the album; ''The Surreption'', ''The Level Above Human'', ''Call of the Void'', and ''Where Only Gods May Tread'' have extremely prominent deathcore elements, while their other releases have more subtle elements of it) |
| 525 | * Inherit Disease |
| 526 | * Internal Devour (some deathcore overlap) |
| 527 | * Music/{{Katalepsy}} (pre-''Autopsychosis''; they moved on to a NYDM style since) |
| 528 | * Kill Everything |
| 529 | * Korpse |
| 530 | * Music/{{Kraanium}} |
| 531 | * Music/{{Methwitch}} (major deathcore overlap, also deathgrind as well as NuMetal starting with ''Indwell''; notable in that it's a one-man band) |
| 532 | * [=NecroticGoreBeast=] |
| 533 | * Nekroi Theoi (also blackened/dissonant death metal) |
| 534 | * No Zodiac (major beatdown hardcore overlap) |
| 535 | * Organectomy |
| 536 | * Parasitic Ejaculation |
| 537 | * The Partisan Turbine (also deathcore and deathgrind) |
| 538 | * Party Cannon (the band with [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/party-cannon the best]] logo in all of death metal) |
| 539 | * Music/{{Pathology}} |
| 540 | * Music/ProstituteDisfigurement |
| 541 | * Music/PutridPile |
| 542 | * Rendered Helpless |
| 543 | * Music/{{Sexcrement}} (early, later moved towards death 'n roll) |
| 544 | * Music/ShortBusPileUp |
| 545 | * Music/SoilsOfFate |
| 546 | * Splattered Entrails |
| 547 | * Splattered (''Guttural Species'', eventually became brutal death) |
| 548 | * Stillbirth (also deathcore) |
| 549 | * Torsofuck (also goregrind) |
| 550 | * Music/{{Vulvodynia}} (started out as slamming deathcore, eventually became a slam/deathcore/tech hybrid) |
| 551 | * Music/WacoJesus |
| 552 | * Music/WakingTheCadaver (first album was {{Deathcore}}) |
| 553 | * Wormhole (also tech) |
| 554 | [[/index]] |
| 555 | [[/folder]] |
| 556 | |
| 557 | [[folder:Blackened Death Metal]] |
| 558 | Death metal with influences from BlackMetal. Sometimes confused for a straight-up fusion of death and black metal. Some later acts also overlap with post-metal; the label "dissonant death metal" has gained traction in the 2010s to describe the latter, which often overlaps with technical death metal and/or technical black metal. |
| 559 | ---- |
| 560 | [[index]] |
| 561 | * Abyssal |
| 562 | * Acheron |
| 563 | * Music/{{Akercocke}} (mixed with ProgressiveMetal and GothicMetal) |
| 564 | * Music/AnaalNathrakh (An extreme example bordering on HarshNoise, also [[{{Grindcore}} Deathgrind]] and IndustrialMetal) |
| 565 | * Music/{{Angelcorpse}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 566 | * Arkhon Infaustus |
| 567 | * Auroch (''Taman Shud'' onward, earlier material was death/thrash) |
| 568 | * Music/{{Azarath}} |
| 569 | * Music/{{Behemoth}} (TropeCodifier; fell under this genre on ''Satanica'' and ''Thelema.6''; later became Death Metal starting with ''Zos Kia Cultus'') |
| 570 | * Music/{{Belphegor}} |
| 571 | * Music/{{Benighted}} (first two albums) |
| 572 | * Music/BeyondTerrorBeyondGrace (''Nadir'' onward; everything before that was deathgrind) |
| 573 | * Music/BlackCurse |
| 574 | * [[Music/{{Bolzer}} Bölzer]] |
| 575 | * Music/CattleDecapitation (''The Anthropocene Extinction'' onward) |
| 576 | * Music/{{Chthonic}} (combined with Taiwanese folk music) |
| 577 | * Civerous |
| 578 | * Music/{{Convulsing}} (Also dissonant tech) |
| 579 | * Music/CrimsonMoonlight (a Christian example) |
| 580 | * Music/DesolateShrine |
| 581 | * Departe |
| 582 | * Music/{{Dissection}} (First two albums only, on ''Reinkaos'' they switched to MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 583 | * Enfold Darkness (also melodic death) |
| 584 | * Music/{{Extol}} (A [[ChristianMetal Christian]] example - also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 585 | * Fossilization |
| 586 | * Music/FrostLikeAshes (another [[ChristianMetal Christian]] example) |
| 587 | * Gloria Morti |
| 588 | * Music/{{Goatwhore}} |
| 589 | * Music/GodDethroned |
| 590 | * Music/GraveMiasma |
| 591 | * Music/HammerOfDawn |
| 592 | * Music/{{Hate|Band}} |
| 593 | * Music/{{Hath}} (a GenreBusting example, but one of the more accurate labels) |
| 594 | * Music/{{Hierophant}} (''Mass Grave'' onward, their earlier material is blackened sludge/hardcore) |
| 595 | * Music/HideousDivinity (''Adveniens'' onward, also brutal death) |
| 596 | * Hissing |
| 597 | * Music/ImpaledNazarene |
| 598 | * Music/{{Invultation}} |
| 599 | * Music/{{Katatonia}} (Their early death/doom material was significantly influenced by black metal.) |
| 600 | * The Kennedy Veil (''Imperium'') |
| 601 | * Keres |
| 602 | * Music/LecherousNocturne (along with TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 603 | * Left Cross |
| 604 | * Lvcifyre |
| 605 | * Mindscar (mixed with {{Metalcore}}) |
| 606 | * Music/{{Necrodeath}} |
| 607 | * Music/{{Necrophobic}} (co[=-=]TropeMaker) |
| 608 | * Music/{{Nightfell}} |
| 609 | * Music/{{Nightmarer}} (GenreBusting example with prominent deathcore and mathcore elements) |
| 610 | * Noctambulist (some deathcore elements) |
| 611 | * Music/{{Oathean}} (a rather [[MelodicDeathMetal melodic]] example, with [[FolkMetal folk]] influences) |
| 612 | * Of Feather and Bone (''Bestial Hymns of Perversion'', earlier material is metalcore) |
| 613 | * Music/{{Panzerchrist}} |
| 614 | * Perdition Temple |
| 615 | * Phobocosm |
| 616 | * Music/{{Portal|Band}} |
| 617 | * Rudra (mixed with FolkMetal) |
| 618 | * Music/{{Sacramentum}} (last two albums; earlier stuff is Melodic Black Metal) |
| 619 | * Sacred Sin (fused with death/thrash) |
| 620 | * Sadistik Exekution (co[=-=]TropeMaker) |
| 621 | * [[Music/{{Sarcofago}} Sarcófago]] (possible UrExample) |
| 622 | * Music/{{Seputus}} (also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 623 | * Sinsaenum (supergroup featuring [[Music/{{Slipknot}} Joey Jordison]], Attila Cishar, and Loudblast frontman Stephane Buriez; also GrooveMetal) |
| 624 | * Suffering Hour |
| 625 | * Sulphur Aeon |
| 626 | * Svart Crown (also GrooveMetal circa ''Wolves Among the Ashes'') |
| 627 | * Music/{{Teitanblood}} |
| 628 | * Thou Art Lord |
| 629 | * Trivax (notable as Iran's most famous metal export, though they are now based out of the UK) |
| 630 | * Music/ValeOfPnath (''Accursed'') |
| 631 | * Vitriol |
| 632 | * Vulnere |
| 633 | * Wake (''Devouring Ruin'' onward, earlier material is grindcore) |
| 634 | * Werewolves |
| 635 | * Whore of Bethlehem |
| 636 | * Withered |
| 637 | * Zhrine |
| 638 | * Music/{{Zyklon}} |
| 639 | [[/index]] |
| 640 | [[/folder]] |
| 641 | |
| 642 | [[folder:Death[=/=]Doom or Doom[=/=]Death]] |
| 643 | Death metal fused with DoomMetal. The GothicMetal genre evolved from this, as did the Doom subgenre "funeral doom". There are two main styles: “melodic death/doom”, which features both clean and harsh vocals, slower paces and focuses on creating a dreary mood by utilizing guitar effects and non-standard instruments, and a riff-focused one, which retains old-school death metal distorted guitar playstyle, double-kick drumming, blast-beats, tempo swings, and growls, and integrates doom metal's hefty, down-tuned sound. |
| 644 | [[index]] |
| 645 | * [[Music/TheEleventhHour The 11th Hour]] |
| 646 | * 1914 (also blackened death) |
| 647 | * Music/AcidWitch (also death & roll) |
| 648 | * Music/AltarOfBetelgeuse (a more stoner metal-influenced example) |
| 649 | * Music/{{Amorphis}} (early, and borderline at that) |
| 650 | * Music/{{Anathema|Band}} (early) |
| 651 | * Anatomia |
| 652 | * Music/{{Asphyx}} (though much closer to straight death metal than most, especially in recent albums) |
| 653 | * Music/{{Ataraxy}} |
| 654 | * Music/{{Autopsy}} |
| 655 | * Music/BeyondDawn (early) |
| 656 | * Music/{{Catacombs}} |
| 657 | * Music/CelestialSeason |
| 658 | * Music/CelticFrost (on ''Monotheist'' only, mixed with GothicMetal) |
| 659 | * Music/{{Cianide}} |
| 660 | * Music/{{Coffins}} (mixed with StonerMetal, debatable UrExample of caveman death metal) |
| 661 | * Cóndor |
| 662 | * Music/{{Crucifier}} |
| 663 | * Music/DaylightDies |
| 664 | * Music/DeadCongregation |
| 665 | * Music/{{Delirium}} |
| 666 | * Music/{{Demenzia}} |
| 667 | * Music/DepressedMode (second album has been described as "symphonic death/doom"; first album was funeral doom) |
| 668 | * [[Music/{{Derketa}} Derkéta]] (generally considered to be the first all-female death metal band, formed in 1988; finally released their first full-length album in 2012, after a long string of demos, [=EPs=], and splits) |
| 669 | * Music/{{Disbelief}} ([[GenreBusting not quite technically]], but it's the easiest way to describe them) |
| 670 | * Music/{{Disembowelment}} (the inspiration for funeral doom, alongside Thergothon and Skepticism) |
| 671 | * Music/DirEnGrey (later works, overlaps with {{Deathcore}} and [[GenreBusting experimental metal]]) |
| 672 | * Music/{{Disma}} |
| 673 | * Music/DraggedIntoSunlight (mixed with {{grindcore}} and BlackMetal) |
| 674 | * Music/DreamDeath (possible TropeMaker / UrExample) |
| 675 | * Music/{{Encoffination}} (leans close to funeral doom) |
| 676 | * Music/{{Evoken}} (also funeral doom) |
| 677 | * Eye of Solitude (later material is funeral doom) |
| 678 | * Music/ForestStream |
| 679 | * Music/TheGathering (early) |
| 680 | * Hamferð (some overlap with funeral doom) |
| 681 | * Music/HoodedMenace (2010s material borders on funeral doom) |
| 682 | * Ilsa (some sludge elements) |
| 683 | * Music/{{Incantation}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 684 | * Music/{{Inverloch}} (SpiritualSuccessor to Disembowelment) |
| 685 | * Music/{{Katatonia}} (early) |
| 686 | * Krypts |
| 687 | * Malignant Altar |
| 688 | * Music/MarDeGrises |
| 689 | * Music/{{Morgion}} |
| 690 | * Music/MorpheusDescends |
| 691 | * Music/MortalIncarnation |
| 692 | * Music/{{Mortiferum}} |
| 693 | * Music/MourningBeloveth |
| 694 | * Music/MyDyingBride (mostly on their first album, with patches afterwards. Later the [[TropeMaker trope makers]] of Main/GothicMetal) |
| 695 | * Music/MySilentWake |
| 696 | * Music/{{Mythic}} (a rare all-female example; shares some of its membership with Derkéta) |
| 697 | * Music/{{Necare}} |
| 698 | * Music/{{Nile}} (while this isn't their primary style, they usually have at least one song fitting into it on each release, and sometimes two or three. Mixed with Brutal and TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 699 | * Music/NovembersDoom |
| 700 | * Novembre (also gothic metal) |
| 701 | * Music/OceansOfSlumber (a female-fronted example, also progressive metal) |
| 702 | * October Tide (some gothic elements) |
| 703 | * Music/OfficiumTriste |
| 704 | * Music/OrphanedLand (early) |
| 705 | * Outer Heaven (''Diabolus Vobiscum''; their first demo was Entombedcore, and ''Realms of Eternal Decay'' was more of a straightforward death metal/hardcore release) |
| 706 | * Music/ParadiseLost (early, returned to the style again with ''The Plague Within'') |
| 707 | * Music/{{Paramaecium}} |
| 708 | * Music/PrimitiveMan (strong overlap with sludge metal, noise, and BlackMetal) |
| 709 | * Music/{{Rapture}} |
| 710 | * Music/{{Runemagick}} |
| 711 | * Music/{{Salem}} |
| 712 | * Music/{{Saturnus}} |
| 713 | * Music/{{Sedimentum}} |
| 714 | * Music/SempiternalDeathreign |
| 715 | * Music/{{Septicflesh}} (also SymphonicMetal and GothicMetal) |
| 716 | * Music/SerpentinePath |
| 717 | * Slimelord |
| 718 | * Music/SpectralVoice |
| 719 | * Music/SwallowTheSun |
| 720 | * Music/{{Tchornobog}} (also blackened death; bit of a GenreBusting example, but death/doom is probably the most accurate label) |
| 721 | * Music/TheatreOfTragedy (first two albums) |
| 722 | * [[Music/ThorrsHammer Thorr's Hammer]] |
| 723 | * Triptykon ([[GenreBusting vaguely]], but this is one of the easier labels to stick them to) |
| 724 | * Music/{{Uncoffined}} |
| 725 | * Music/{{Unholy}} |
| 726 | * Music/{{Winter}} |
| 727 | * Worm (something of a GenreBusting example mixing this, black metal, funeral doom, and traditional heavy metal, but this is one of the more accurate labels) |
| 728 | [[/index]] |
| 729 | [[/folder]] |
| 730 | |
| 731 | [[folder:Deathgrind]] |
| 732 | Death Metal + {{Grindcore}}. A potentially confusing subgenre, considering how similar the two genres are already to the average person. There is also some overlap with deathcore due to many early acts in the genre being rooted in deathgrind. |
| 733 | ---- |
| 734 | [[index]] |
| 735 | * Abaddon Incarnate (first album was brutal death) |
| 736 | * Music/{{Aborted}} (mixed with brutal death) |
| 737 | * Music/AnimalsKillingPeople (mixed with brutal death) |
| 738 | * Music/{{Animosity}} |
| 739 | * Music/{{Benighted}} (also brutal death) |
| 740 | * Music/TheBerzerker |
| 741 | * Music/BeyondTerrorBeyondGrace (everything up to ''Nadir'', where they changed to blackened death) |
| 742 | * Music/BoltThrower (early) |
| 743 | * Music/BrutalTruth |
| 744 | * Music/{{Carcass}} (early) |
| 745 | * Music/CattleDecapitation (also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 746 | * Music/CephalicCarnage (also TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 747 | * Circle of Dead Children |
| 748 | * Music/{{Columns}} |
| 749 | * Music/TheCountyMedicalExaminers |
| 750 | * Music/{{Covenance}} |
| 751 | * Cretin |
| 752 | * Music/{{Disgorge}} (Mexico) |
| 753 | * Music/{{Exhumed}} (fully switched to Death Metal with ''Anatomy is Destiny''; returned to the style with ''Horror'') |
| 754 | * Music/{{Fluids}} (also brutal death) |
| 755 | * Full of Hell (starting with the Nails split and ''Trumpeting Ecstasy'') |
| 756 | * Music/{{Impetigo}} (early) |
| 757 | * Implosive Disgorgence (also deathcore) |
| 758 | * Insect Warfare |
| 759 | * Jarhead Fertilizer (early material was powerviolence) |
| 760 | * Music/KingParrot (also ThrashMetal) |
| 761 | * Music/LockUp |
| 762 | * Music/MiseryIndex |
| 763 | * Music/{{Mortician}} |
| 764 | * Music/{{MurderConstruct}} |
| 765 | * Music/NapalmDeath (since ''Harmony Corruption'') |
| 766 | * No/Mas |
| 767 | * The Partisan Turbine (also slam and deathcore) |
| 768 | * Music/PigDestroyer |
| 769 | * Music/TheRedChord (also TechnicalDeathMetal and an UrExample for deathcore) |
| 770 | * Music/{{Regurgitate}} |
| 771 | * Music/{{Repulsion}} |
| 772 | * Music/RottenSound (also could be considered a UrExample of Entombedcore thanks to their prominent Swedish death metal and crust influences) |
| 773 | * Music/{{Septage}} |
| 774 | * Shroud (also brutal death) |
| 775 | * Soilent Green (mixed with sludge metal) |
| 776 | * Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky (also deathcore) |
| 777 | * Music/{{Tentacles}} |
| 778 | * Music/{{Terrorizer}} |
| 779 | * Theories |
| 780 | * Vermin Womb |
| 781 | * Vomit Forth |
| 782 | * Music/JohnZorn: Highly eclectical and impossible to pigeonhole artist, mostly active in jazz, though his gigantic catalogue has tried out various genres and styles throughout the years. |
| 783 | ** ''Music/{{Radio}}'' (1993) |
| 784 | [[/index]] |
| 785 | [[/folder]] |
| 786 | |
| 787 | [[folder:Deathcore]] |
| 788 | Death Metal mixed with HardcorePunk or {{Metalcore}}. Because of its nature, it's the subgenre most prone to GenreBusting and GenreMashup with other genres. For more information, go [[{{Deathcore}} here]]. |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | [[folder:Death 'n' Roll]] |
| 792 | Death Metal mixed with strong elements of HardRock and/or TraditionalHeavyMetal. Popular in the mid-to-late 1990s, and often overlaps with lighter metal subgenres. |
| 793 | [[index]] |
| 794 | * Acid Witch |
| 795 | * Music/BirdsOfPrey (also SludgeMetal) |
| 796 | * Music/{{Blackshine}} (along with ThrashMetal; one of Music/{{Necrophobic}} singer Anders Strokirk's bands away from the group) |
| 797 | * Music/BloodDuster (fused with stoner rock) |
| 798 | * Music/TheCumshots |
| 799 | * Death Breath |
| 800 | * Music/{{Debauchery}} (started off as straight DeathMetal, but began incorporating hard rock elements in their music starting with their fourth album and have since made this their signature style, though they do have the occasional song or two per album that goes back to their roots) |
| 801 | * Dellamorte (founding Music/ScarSymmetry guitarist Jonas Kjellgren's first band) |
| 802 | * Music/{{Doomriders}} (something of a GenreBusting example, but this is the label most consistently applied to them) |
| 803 | * Music/{{Entombed}} (TropeCodifier; became this starting with ''Wolverine Blues'' before shifting back to straight death metal with ''Morning Star'') |
| 804 | * Music/{{Gorefest}} |
| 805 | * Music/{{Hearse}} (known for being one of ex-Music/{{Arch Enemy|Band}} vocalist Johan Liiva's later projects; though they are not strictly this, sometimes dabbling in straight death metal and melodeath) |
| 806 | * Music/{{Mortification}} (experimented with this from ''Envision Evangeline'' through ''Relentless'') |
| 807 | * Music/{{Phazm}} |
| 808 | * Music/PungentStench (occasionally - ''Club Mondo Bizarre'' featured prominent elements of it and their final album ''Smut Kingdom'' dives headfirst into the genre) |
| 809 | * Music/{{Scum}} (overlaps with MelodicDeathMetal and PsychedelicRock) |
| 810 | * Music/{{Sexcrement}} (later material) |
| 811 | * Music/SixFeetUnder (dabbles in this from time to time, mainly on ''Warpath'') |
| 812 | * Unmoored (first album only - switched to progressive death metal afterwards) |
| 813 | * VHS |
| 814 | * Xysma |
| 815 | [[/folder]] |
| 816 | |
| 817 | [[folder:Caveman Death Metal]] |
| 818 | 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 (sometimes also nu metal, as exemplified by Sanguisugabogg, Bodybox, and Gates to Hell), 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. |
| 819 | ---- |
| 820 | [[index]] |
| 821 | * 200 Stab Wounds |
| 822 | * Acephalix |
| 823 | * Bodybox (also beatdown hardcore and brutal death metal) |
| 824 | * Bonginator |
| 825 | * Celestial Sanctuary |
| 826 | * Cerebral Rot |
| 827 | * Creeping Death |
| 828 | * Fetid |
| 829 | * Frozen Soul |
| 830 | * Fuming Mouth (also Entombedcore) |
| 831 | * Music/{{Gatecreeper}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 832 | * Gates to Hell |
| 833 | * Genocide Pact |
| 834 | * Graveview (some beatdown hardcore elements) |
| 835 | * Kruelty (mixed with death-doom) |
| 836 | * Music/MammothGrinder (mid-era material, a potential UrExample) |
| 837 | * Mourned (originally beatdown hardcore) |
| 838 | * Outer Heaven (''Realms of Eternal Decay'', they started out as metalcore before briefly becoming death/doom) |
| 839 | * Phrenelith |
| 840 | * Music/{{Sanguisugabogg}} (not a musical TropeCodifier, but codified the meme culture associated with the genre) |
| 841 | * Scorched |
| 842 | * Terminal Nation (also beatdown hardcore) |
| 843 | * Tombstoner (some beatdown elements) |
| 844 | * Torn in Half |
| 845 | * Tribal Gaze |
| 846 | * Music/{{Undergang}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 847 | * Music/{{Vastum}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 848 | * Xibalba (''Tierra y Libertad'' onward, also beatdown hardcore; earlier material is beatdown) |
| 849 | [[/folder]] |
| 850 | ---- |
| 851 | !!The death metal genre provides examples of: |
| 852 | * SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/DeathMetal Plenty]]. |
| 853 | * BigFun: Death metal is filled with {{Gonk}}y or overweight artists for whatever reason, so much that this is the usual physical stereotype people associate with artists in (and sometimes, by extension, fans of) the genre. |
| 854 | * CarefulWithThatAxe: Occasionally, vocalists will complement their grunts with high-pitched screeches. [[Music/CannibalCorpse Chris]] [[Music/SixFeetUnder Barnes]] and [[Music/{{Deicide}} Glen Benton]] (who popularized this approach) are the most prominent examples. |
| 855 | * CartoonishSupervillainy: Many bands go so overboard with their depravity that it wraps around into being ridiculous. |
| 856 | * CatharsisFactor: One of death metal's reasons of being, much like with GangstaRap and PunkRock. |
| 857 | * ChristianRock: As unbelievable as it may sound, there's quite a few death metal bands with Christian-themed lyrics. The most well-known are Mortification, Soul Embraced, Crimson Moonlight, and Extol. |
| 858 | * ColdBloodedTorture: It would be easier to list the death metal bands bands who did ''not'' do a song about this trope. |
| 859 | * CreepyAwesome: Pretty much death metal's bread and butter. While most people would find this genre as NightmareFuel in musical form, its fans instead appreciate the musicians' tremendous musical prowess and, in general, the pure adrenaline the music can give. |
| 860 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Death metal was possibly intended as the D&E version of thrash metal, which was already the D&E version of traditional/speed metal. |
| 861 | ** [[MindScrew Which was the D&E version of hard rock, which was the D&E version of classic rock, which was the D&E version of 60s pop which was the D&E version of 50s easy-listening witch was D&E version of ambient music]]... Extreme metal in all its forms is about as dark as it gets within metal. |
| 862 | ** BloodierAndGorier: '''YES.''' |
| 863 | * DesignStudentsOrgasm: If a death metal album cover art isn't a contemptible one, it's usually going to be this. |
| 864 | * DoingItForTheArt: Maybe not quite as much as BlackMetal, but DeathMetal musicians spend hours upon hours learning to play their instruments incredibly proficiently and fast, with very little prospects of commercial success. All the while, they're all but written off by both mainstream and alternative music news sources, and ignored as incomprehensible garbage by the average person, [[PublicMediumIgnorance most of which haven't even actually tried the music]]. The fandom is ''very'' loyal though. |
| 865 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The earliest death metal bands can more accurately described as very hard thrash metal. The music isn't quite as aggressive and technically demanding as is common for the modern death metal and the vocals generally tend to be raspy shouts and snarls instead of the deep bellow that is the signature of the genre. |
| 866 | * EpicRiff: Being the most riff-driven style of metal along with ThrashMetal, this is a given. |
| 867 | * FandomRivalry: The death metal fandom is sometimes at odds with the BlackMetal fandom. |
| 868 | ** The various subgenres sometimes have this, too. For example, brutal vs. melodic, and all other fandoms vs. slam. Within slam, traditional slam fans versus slam/deathcore fans; while some more traditional slam fans ''may'' give Ingested and possibly Vulvodynia a pass, bring up Signs of the Swarm, Within Destruction, Human Error, or anything else that sounds like them and get ready to run. |
| 869 | * '''''FanDisservice''''': Any album cover that features anything sexual is bound to be this. |
| 870 | ** Some bands even added a healthy dose of {{Hentai}} while adding sexual themes. H-Death Metal or H-Deathgrind are ''extremely'' rare, [[RuleThirtyFour but they do exist.]] However, when they do incorporate hentai, it's '''''not at all''''' hot. |
| 871 | * ForTheEvulz: Usually the motivation of {{Gorn}}-themed lyrics. |
| 872 | * {{Gorn}}: Possibly the most common lyrical theme, although bands that sing about other subjects are pretty easy to find. |
| 873 | ** CruelAndUnusualDeath: Death Metal abounds with this. Done by the most evil people upon innocents, though the occasional AssholeVictim or KarmicDeath also pops up. |
| 874 | * HarshVocals: The main vocal style of the genre. |
| 875 | * HorribleHistoryMetal: Not always the case, but this can pop up now and then, especially if the band is covering a very nasty period. |
| 876 | * HumansAreBastards[=/=]MisanthropeSupreme[=/=]StrawNihilist: If the [[https://www.metal-archives.com/ Metal Archives]] website lists "misanthropy" and/or "nihilism" among a given band's lyrical themes, expect generous doses of these. |
| 877 | * IndecipherableLyrics: Almost a DeadUnicornTrope in death metal's case considering the large number of vocalists in the genre who attempt to tempter their HarshVocals with clear enunciation of the lyrics. Although death metal in general is perhaps unfairly pegged with this trope due to PublicMediumIgnorance, in the brutal/slam death metal subgenre it is actually widely the norm, with vocals being present mostly for the purpose of accenting the music with a guttural texture, rather than to convey a coherent lyrical theme. In the case of death metal bands which actually ''do'' fall under this trope, vocal performances rendering exceptionally obscene lyrics indecipherable can be beneficial for the purpose of GettingCrapPastTheRadar (e.g. Chris Barnes-era Cannibal Corpse, Vehemence's lyrically vile ''God Was Created''). |
| 878 | * ItMakesSenseInContext: The genre's [[HarshVocals main vocal style]]. It cops a lot of flack from non-fans of the genre, but if you consider the musical and lyrical context in which it's used, it usually starts to make a bit more sense. |
| 879 | * ItsPopularNowItSucks: As with BlackMetal (though possibly to a lesser degree), the fandom of death metal sometimes displays this attitude with regards to some bands. |
| 880 | * LeadBassist: Type B and C examples are everywhere, and there are also quite a few Type A and Type D examples due to the technical skill that is frequently required to play the genre; of these, [[Music/CannibalCorpse Alex Webster]], [[Music/{{Origin}} Mike Flores]], [[Music/BoltThrower Jo Bench]], [[Music/{{Death}} Steve DiGiorgio]], [[Music/BloodRedThrone Erlend Caspersen]], and [[Music/{{Suffocation}} Derek Boyer]] are particularly famous. |
| 881 | * LeadDrummer: Also tends to happen quite a lot, due to the technical skill required of death metal drummers. [[Music/MorbidAngel Pete Sandoval]], [[Music/{{Suffocation}} Mike Smith]], [[Music/{{Nile}} George Kollias]], [[Music/{{Cryptopsy}} Flo Mounier]], [[Music/HateEternal Derek Roddy]] and [[Music/{{Origin}} John Longstreth]] are particularly prominent examples. |
| 882 | * LeadSingerPlaysLeadGuitar: It's common for DeathMetal singers to be guitarists themselves. As such, they are usually resposnisble for writing many riffs, licks, and guitar solos. Examples include [[Music/{{Death}} Chuck Schuldiner]], [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]] and [[Music/{{Nile}} Karl Sanders]]. |
| 883 | * LoudnessWar: Not a problem with older releases in the genre (unless they've been "remastered"), but this plagues modern releases. It's almost impossible to find a modern death metal album that isn't ''horribly'' brickwalled, with generous doses of clipping on top. May be a case of StylisticSuck, and is unfortunately encouraged (indirectly or not) by some fans and critics.[[note]]in the case of the latter, The Metal Observer is particularly bad about this, praising the production work of known War criminals like Erik Rutan and Jason Suecof[[/note]]. There are some producers fighting this trend, however, with Colin Marston being the most visible example. |
| 884 | ** This is such a prevalent problem in the genre that one of the redirects for this trope is DeafMetal. |
| 885 | * MeanCharacterNiceActor: Many death metal musicians are actually very friendly when not playing. Ask venue employees, and they will always, without fail, tell you that death metal acts and crowds are some of the nicest, most orderly, and most polite musicians and patrons that they regularly encounter. There's also a ''very'' good practical reason for being a nice person in death metal; as a niche genre where even the mainstream acts are still very much in touch with the underground, being a jerk won't get you very far. If you're rude to fans, act like an asshole on tour or (if you're a headliner) treat your supports badly, bring drama wherever you go, screw people over, or make poor showings on social media, the word will get out, and if you always walk around with a "what have you done for me lately?" attitude or kiss ass to the important people while being a dick to everyone else, one of those small acts who you blew off will always be friends with a big act and will tell them exactly how you treat your fellow bands who aren't big fish. |
| 886 | * MetalScream: Relatively prevalent in the music, and often of the type 2 variety (brutal and slam death take this to its extremes), though it's not uncommon for vocals to lean towards type 3. Type 1 is fairly uncommon, but vocalists who utilize it do exist, examples being [[Music/{{Cryptopsy}} Mike DiSalvo]], [[Music/{{Aborted}} Sven de Caluwe]], [[Music/TheHaunted Marco Aro]], and [[Music/{{Decapitated}} Rafal Piotrowski]]. |
| 887 | * MisogynySong: A common theme of Brutal and especially Slam Death Metal lyrics. They began to pop up with early Music/CannibalCorpse and was later popularized by bands such as Devourment, Waking The Cadaver and Waco Jesus, though it's likely that they want to troll the general public than actually promote misogyny. Unsurprisingly, [[Music/AbominablePutridity some]] [[Music/DirEnGrey bands]] have gained notoriety for this at one point or another. |
| 888 | * MotorMouth: It is common for death metal vocalists to speed up their vocal work to catch up to the already fast instrumentation, often coming close to SingingSimlish. |
| 889 | * MurderBallad: Too many to count. |
| 890 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A ''lot'' of death metal bands have very intimidating names. |
| 891 | * '''''NightmareFuel'''''[=/=]'''''NauseaFuel''''': Death metal is a ''massive'' sucker for these two tropes, be it the imagery, the sound, or the lyrics. Of course, there are some bands that try to avoid abusing these two tropes, noteworthy examples being Atheist and Gojira. And of course, at times the aesthetic may get to the point that some bands straight-up cross into {{Narm}} territory. |
| 892 | * PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: A good number of slam and deathcore bands sport an inner-city fashion sense and aesthetic; while the origin of this isn't precisely known, it seems likely that it came from the more "urban" styles of Internal Bleeding, Dehumanized, and Dying Fetus, all of whom had very prominent NYHC influences. Fans of more conventional death metal aesthetics would often use the epithet "wigger slam" to describe such acts. |
| 893 | * ProtestSong: If it's even remotely politically-tinged, it'll usually be this. |
| 894 | * PublicMediumIgnorance: "Death Metal... Is that like Music/{{Slipknot}} or something?"[[note]] Slipknot are actually GrooveMetal and/or NuMetal, though they were (and still are) influenced by death metal. Their heaviest songs (e.g. "The Heretic Anthem", "Gematria") showcase this best.[[/note]] This confusion is a bit of a BerserkButton for many. |
| 895 | ** Also common is people thinking death metal is noise. As in, disorganized, non-rhythmic, non-melodic noise with indecipherable screaming. '''[[HarshNoise That also exists]]''', but it's nothing like death metal. |
| 896 | ** As stated above, the genre is also widely claimed to be TheNewRockAndRoll, despite the diabolical themes commonly associated with the genre being far, far more common in [[BlackMetal another genre of metal]]. |
| 897 | * RatedMForManly: Oh ''yes.'' |
| 898 | * RedOniBlueOni: MelodicDeathMetal is the Red to TechnicalDeathMetal's blue, but melodeath also happens to be the blue to Brutal/Slam's red. |
| 899 | * ReligionRantSong: Songs attacking religion are very common in the genre, to the point where some bands (Immolation up to ''Shadows In The Light'' and Hour of Penance, just to name two) make it their sole lyrical focus. |
| 900 | * '''RevolvingDoorBand''': If you're wondering why the trope is in bold, it's because this is really common for death metal bands to have more former members than songs... |
| 901 | ** IAmTheBand: ...but there's usually at least one guy who was there from the start. Key word, usually. [[labelnote:*]]Music/{{Katalepsy}}, Music/CattleDecapitation, and Music/HourOfPenance are ''just a few'' death metal bands with no original members left. Music/{{Devourment}} also had no original member left until their original drummer rejoined in 2014.[[/labelnote]] |
| 902 | * RockMeAsmodeus: While it is nowhere near as ubiquitous here as in BlackMetal, there are still plenty of bands for whom this is a lyrical focus. The most famous may be Music/{{Incantation}} and Music/{{Deicide}}. |
| 903 | * RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: Thanks to its twisted, macabre imagery, death metal falls squarely in the Romantic side of the scale. Prog-death and tech-death, however, skew more towards Enlightenment. |
| 904 | * RuleOfCool: Along with RuleOfScary, many bands are formed with this in mind. |
| 905 | * ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Generally inverted, many death metal artists showcase an everyday casual look, which comes across as more "normal" (save for the hair and, occasionally, the beards) than the styles worn by non-death metal artists. Many of them also appear approachable, though their music and lyrics indicate otherwise. |
| 906 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: A lot of death metal lyrics and song titles feature scientific/medical jargon and other gibberish-sounding words, which is no surprise considering the [[{{Gorn}} lyrical]] and [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence aesthetic]] themes associated with the genre. |
| 907 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Usually ''very'' far on the cynical end. |
| 908 | * StylisticSuck: Death metal is often stereotyped as representing the pinnacle of pure shock value and impenetrable musicianship in HeavyMetal, with bands one-upping each other on who can make the most brutal songs, the most grisly lyrics, and the most contemptible cover art, but this tends to be zigzagged as death metal also requires its musicians to exhibit a great deal of endurance and proficiency in instrument playing, not to mention the degree of vocal talent required to pull off HarshVocals ''safely and consistently'' over a career that can span years, if not decades. There do exist bands within death metal that put out deliberately harsh, unrelenting, and offensive music for the sake of it, but they only represent a small portion of what the genre has to offer. |
| 909 | * TrollingCreator : Many of the artists that write the misogynistic {{Gorn}} lyrics are moreso this than not. |
| 910 | * TropeMakers: Death. It's unclear whether they were the first death metal band (because they were around at roughly the same time as Possessed, Master and Necrophagia), but they are generally agreed to have properly established death metal as a genre with ''Scream Bloody Gore''. |
| 911 | * TropeNamers: Generally either Possessed (with the song "Death Metal" off ''Seven Churches'') or Death (their style apparently being dubbed "Death's metal" in their early days, before death metal really took off as a genre). |
| 912 | * TropeCodifier: Cannibal Corpse in the public eye; metalheads are more likely to cite Morbid Angel, Obituary, or Deicide as such. For the genre as a whole: |
| 913 | ** Old School Death Metal: Death, Deicide, and Morbid Angel |
| 914 | ** Brutal Death Metal: Suffocation, Pyrexia, Deeds of Flesh, and Cryptopsy |
| 915 | ** Slam Death Metal: Devourment |
| 916 | ** Death/Doom Metal: Music/{{Autopsy}} and Music/{{Incantation}} |
| 917 | ** Blackened Death Metal: Necrophobic and Angelcorpse |
| 918 | ** Death 'n' Roll: Entombed, Gorefest, and Pungent Stench |
| 919 | ** Caveman Death Metal: Gatecreeper, Undergang, and Vastum |
| 920 | ** Deathgrind: Terrorizer, Napalm Death, and Brutal Truth |
| 921 | ** TechnicalDeathMetal: Atheist, Nocturnus, Death, and Suffocation |
| 922 | ** MelodicDeathMetal: In Flames, At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, and Carcass |
| 923 | ** {{Deathcore}}: The Red Chord, Despised Icon, and All Shall Perish |
| 924 | * TheUnintelligible: Thanks to the genre's focus on HarshVocals, death metal vocalists are embodiments of this trope by default. Some examples are worse thanks to foreign-language or [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish badly-written]] [[GratuitousEnglish English]] lyrics, which may or may not be combined with the liberal use of MotorMouth as the main vocal delivery. |
| 925 | ** Though, considering the usual lyrical themes, this might be a good thing. YMMV, of course... some folks enjoy the grossness. |
| 926 | ** As a rule, band logos are designed in a particular style of font with overlapping, branch-like letters, which you will have to take long close looks at in order to pick out their shapes until you're a seasoned metalhead. |
| 927 | * 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. |
| 928 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: Many death metal bands use multiple layers of vocals to achieve an even more demonic sound. Deicide, Nile, and Behemoth in particular have elevated this to an art form. |
| 929 | * VillainBasedFranchise: This is how many bands see themselves. |
| 930 | * VillainSong: Another common theme in death metal lyrics, and the villains they sing about are usually ''really'' awful people. |
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| 932 | [[folder:Examples of death metal songs (from all subgenres without specific pages)]] |
| 933 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAfXPVVnPc Abominable Putridity - A Massacre in the North]] (slam death metal) |
| 934 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVQHvPLaLJg Acid Witch - I Hate Halloween]] (death & roll) |
| 935 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZmnXrLs9w Anaal Nathrakh - The Age of Starlight Ends]] (blackened death metal) |
| 936 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gKrraNlQPc Analepsy - Apocalyptic Premonition]] (slam death metal) |
| 937 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAmUBf0rhk0 Angelcorpse - Sons of Vengeance]] (blackened death metal) |
| 938 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwJbA4c16UQ Asphyx - Minefield]] (death/doom metal) |
| 939 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmCmvsooIs Autopsy - In the Grip of Winter]] (death/doom metal) |
| 940 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQO7H6x_08 Backyard Cannibalism - Dissection of Brutalized Victims]] (slam death metal) |
| 941 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAYFdElib_w Behemoth - Horns ov Baphomet]] (blackened death metal) |
| 942 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTCK4D0IiJY Bitchsectomy - Torn the Fuck Apart]] (brutal death metal) |
| 943 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0vlQQLPV0o Blister Germinal - The Sculpture]] (brutal death metal) |
| 944 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaGz0wwLppk Bolt Thrower - World Eater]] (old-school death metal) |
| 945 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2a8hhm4OPs Brutal Truth - Birth of Ignorance]] (deathgrind) |
| 946 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZ76hHlzQs Cannibal Corpse - The Spine Splitter]] (old-school death metal) |
| 947 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn4QjKcik8U Cattle Decapitation - Forced Gender Reassignment]] (deathgrind) |
| 948 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9DyHwJYgs Cephalic Carnage - Rehab]] (deathgrind) |
| 949 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fqnyI37W0 Cerebral Incubation - Gargling Gelatinous Menstruation]] (slam death metal) |
| 950 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwGJ0KOHWCk Cerebral Rot - Repulsive Infestation of Cadaver]] (caveman death metal) |
| 951 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYno3ToXTho Coffins - The Frozen Styx]] (death/doom metal) |
| 952 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=397L7ntjE5E Cognizant - Solipsism]] (deathgrind) |
| 953 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMcaX2jpGBE Creeping Death - Ripping Through Flesh]] (caveman death metal) |
| 954 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRR5HNN478 Cryptopsy - White Worms]] (brutal death metal) |
| 955 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL9hCvvJEgY Death Decline - Useless Sacrifice]] (death/thrash metal) |
| 956 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY2PqWykwhM Deeds of Flesh - Empyrean]] (brutal death metal) |
| 957 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qeztnUvics Deicide - Serpents of the Light]] (old-school death metal) |
| 958 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlQlahzLZRA Demolition Hammer - Carnivorous Obsession]] (death/thrash metal) |
| 959 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD81dcgmpxo Devourment - Dysmorphic Autophagia]] (slam death metal) |
| 960 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Jjy3Zy7kk Dying Fetus - Your Treachery Will Die With You]] (brutal death metal) |
| 961 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK3YWMolrIU Dysentery - Led to Terminal Ignorance]] (slam death metal) |
| 962 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lnBmNJgRWs Entombed - Wolverine Blues]] (death & roll) |
| 963 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctvH8hRtTQE Fracturus - Dissolve]] (industrial death metal) |
| 964 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtzpegCztV0 Frozen Soul - Encased in Ice]] (caveman death metal) |
| 965 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob6y1mmILfc Full of Hell - Burning Myrrh]] (deathgrind) |
| 966 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM2MFE1KwkA Gorefest - When the Dead Walk the Earth]] (death & roll) |
| 967 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9jqGIUuEk Hooded Menace - Vortex Machine]] (death/doom metal) |
| 968 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8bViLeR9wc Immolation - No Jesus, No Beast]] (old-school death metal) |
| 969 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjsV4QGUMz4 Incantation - Christening the Afterbirth]] (death/doom metal) |
| 970 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4o9yapFehY Iniquity - Encysted and Dormant]] (brutal death metal) |
| 971 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srbs_q7K0CI Infernal Majesty - Overlord]] (death/thrash metal) |
| 972 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIZXVKHY5_A Internal Bleeding - Anointed in Servitude]] (brutal death metal) |
| 973 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXohcJVuAPY Malevolent Creation - Iced]] (old-school death metal) |
| 974 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNY8LKLYASk Morbid Angel - Rapture]] (old-school death metal) |
| 975 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cof_MxMyYQo Napalm Death - Diktat]] (deathgrind) |
| 976 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbLzL8akcX4 Necrophobic - Tsar Bomba]] (blackened death metal) |
| 977 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtCV5Yb-pSo Num Skull - Kiss Me, Kill Me]] (death/thrash metal) |
| 978 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kUIbLetpNs October Tide - Swarm]] (death/doom metal) |
| 979 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6lptkkIQKE Organectomy - The Agony of Godhood]] (slam death metal) |
| 980 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZy1cVH8NjU Origin - Portal]] (brutal death metal) |
| 981 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5pdpHWdpx4 Outer Heaven - Vortex of Thought]] (caveman death metal) |
| 982 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG3ra5ccJJ4 The Partisan Turbine - BFG]] (deathgrind) |
| 983 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCniN-d3xE Pathology - Code Injection]] (slam death metal) |
| 984 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YmCHc_Qts Phazm - Love Me Rotten (Love Me True)]] (death & roll) |
| 985 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L83FENybR4 Phobocosm - Tidal Scourge]] (blackened death metal) |
| 986 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYNOHRi-b0M Pungent Stench - Splatterday Night Fever]] (death & roll) |
| 987 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvgDgrKF0E Putridity - The Bone Sculpture]] (brutal death metal) |
| 988 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8WVY7QAWLI Revocation - Communion]] (death/thrash metal) |
| 989 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPiyqUUG1bs Sadus - Undead]] (death/thrash metal) |
| 990 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpa-uO34zDY Sanguisugabogg - Succulent Decedent]] (caveman death metal) |
| 991 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Z8Ww1EmMk Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells]] (death/thrash metal) |
| 992 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZeBfGm6SyM Sexcrement - Botched Boob Job]] (death & roll) |
| 993 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98VLlof9NTI Sinister - Diabolical Summoning]] (old-school death metal) |
| 994 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20L0msLsM Strapping Young Lad - Detox]] (industrial death metal) |
| 995 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRnKdpkvbrg Suffocation - Thrones of Blood]] (brutal death metal) |
| 996 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q1GVYKIONs Svart Crown - Transsubstantiation]] (blackened death metal) |
| 997 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG-menlRlAg Terrorizer - Fear of Napalm]] (deathgrind) |
| 998 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an1m9SM9P-s Undergang - Efter Obduktionen]] (caveman death metal) |
| 999 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLc-lR3N71o Vastum - Reveries in Autophagia]] (caveman death metal) |
| 1000 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIWjV23-ohw VHS - Rooting for the Villain]] (death & roll) |
| 1001 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44e2ij_XE18 Vitriol - I Drown Nightly]] (blackened death metal) |
| 1002 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJqFe36gSgw Warbringer - Severed Reality]] (death/thrash metal) |
| 1003 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck_hgD22EWs Winter - Into Darkness]] (death/doom metal) |
| 1004 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbspi8pmxQQ Withered - My Leathery Rind]] (blackened death metal) |
| 1005 | [[/folder]] |
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