History Music / TheBlackDahliaMurder

* BrilliantButLazy: It's what got David Lock fired, according to Strnad.
** TheyJustDidntCare: This, meanwhile, is what got Zach Gibson fired, as he was [[DreadfulMusician sloppy as hell]] and straight-up knew and didn't care. They replaced him with one of the finest drummers in modern American metal.

** For specific songs, the title track off ''Miasma'' is a hard 9, "Into The Everblack" from ''Everblack'', and "Climatic Degradation" and "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse", both from ''Nocturnal, are a hard 10, and "A Vulgar Picture" from ''Miasma'' is a '''soft 11.'''[[note]]They managed to creep up to that level with [[TheScrappy Zach Gibson]] on drums.[[/note]]

** For specific songs, the title track off ''Miasma'' is a hard 9, "Into The Everblack" from ''Everblack'' is a hard 10, and "A Vulgar Picture" from ''Miasma'' is a soft 11 [[note]]They managed to creep up to that level with [[TheScrappy Zach Gibson]] on drums.[[/note]]

For the third album, they toured alongside with Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Aeon}}, The Red Chord, Goatwhore and The Abscense in 2007, and again in 2008 with Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood, Music/HateEternal, and Music/DecrepitBirth, followed by another alongside Brain Drill and Animosity. John K has left the band and was replaced by Ryan Knight of {{Music/Arsis}} fame during the beginning of 2009

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Standard/solid 9 for ''Unhallowed'', an '''EXTREMELY''' hard 9 for ''Miasma'' and a solid/hard 10 starting with ''Nocturnal''. ''Everblack'' gets ''even nearer'' to level 11 due to the brutal death influences.

** TheyJustDidntCare: This, meanwhile, is what got Zach Gibson fired, as he was sloppy as hell and straight-up knew and didn't care.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Standard/solid 9 for ''Unhallowed'', an '''EXTREMELY''' hard 9 for ''Miasma'' and a solid/hard 10 bordering on 11 starting with ''Nocturnal''. ''Everblack'' gets ''even nearer'' to level 11 due to the brutal death influences.

* OneOfUs: Despite their genre of choice, they're quite fond of Brutal Death Metal music, and Strnad is also a big fan of horror movies and literature.

* ThrowItIn: Normally you'd think that the music videos for their songs would be high-budget horror mini-movies. [[spoiler: Their music videos, most of the time, focus on the band members's free time while touring.]]

* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted: the band members appear to be nice, fun-loving metalheads, but their music is dark, brutal and extremely crushing.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: ''Miasma'' means noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Standard/solid 9 for ''Unhallowed'', an '''EXTREMELY''' hard 9 for ''Miasma'' and a solid/hard 10 bordering on 11 starting with ''Nocturnal'', moreso on ''Everblack'' due to Brutal Death influences.

* ShoutOut: "What A Horrible Night to Have a Curse" to {{Castlevania}}, "Raped in Hatred by Vines of Thorn" to EvilDead.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 9 for ''Unhallowed'', very hard 9 for ''Miasma'' and a solid/hard 10 starting with ''Nocturnal'', moreso on ''Everblack'' due to Brutal Death influences.

* Sampling: ''Unhallowed'' made good use of this.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Everblack'' featured prominent brutal death influences, which can probably be owed to the presence of Max Lavelle.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 9 for ''Unhallowed'', very hard 9 for ''Miasma'' and a solid/hard 10 starting with ''Nocturnal'', sometimes even bordering on level 11.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 9 for their early releases, 10 starting with ''Nocturnal''.

* MelodicDeathMetal: Probably one of the heaviest bands in the genre.

* Shannon Lucas - drums (2007 - 2012)

* Unhallowed (2003)
* Miasma (2005)
* Nocturnal (2007)
* Deflorate (2009)
* Ritual (2011)
* Everblack (2013)

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Hard 9/Soft 10.

Members:

Notable Past Members:

Discography:

* RevolvingDoorBand

For the third album, they toured alongside with Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Aeon}}, The Red Chord, Goatwhore and The Abscense in 2007, and again in 2008 with Music/3InchesOfBlood, Music/HateEternal, and Music/DecrepitBirth, followed by another alongside Brain Drill and Animosity. John K has left the band and was replaced by Ryan Knight of {{Music/Arsis}} fame during the beginning of 2009

* Ryan Knight – lead guitar (2009–present)

Notable Past Member:

* MeaningfulName: Their name is taken from the infamous 1947 Hollywood murder, never solved, of a young woman named Elizabeth Short who was cut in half at the torso, given a Glasgow smile, and drained of her blood.

* BrilliantButLazy: It's what got David Lock fired, according to Strand.

** TheLeader: Esbach
** TheLancer: Strand

* MelodicDeathMetal

* OneOfUs: Despite their genre of choice, they're quite fond of Brutal Death Metal music.

In February 2011, The Black Dahlia Murder completed the songwriting process for the their fifth studio album,entitled Ritual. It was released on June 21, 2011 in North America. The band supported Amon Amarth on their May 2011 European tour, as well as headlined the 2011 Summer Slaughter tour, both in support of Ritual. All was going well until Shannon Lucas announced that he was leaving to pursue other career paths, with Alan filling in as support before joining full-time.

* DarkerAndEdiger: This could be said both musically and lyrically.

For the third album, they toured alongside with Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Aeon}}, The Red Chord, and

** TheLeader: Strand
** TheLancer: Eschbach