Death Metal

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Death Metal Bands on Metal(z):

Aborted Akercocke Alchemist AmoralAmorphis Anata Arkona Arsis AtheistBehemoth Belphegor Beneath The Massacre BloodbathBrutal Truth Cannibal Corpse Carcass Cephalic Carnage Cryptopsy Daath Darkane Daylight DiesDeadborn Death Deathstars Decapitated DeceasedDeicide Demiricous Demolition Hammer DevianDisbelief Dismember Distorted Divine Heresy Dying Fetus Enemy Is Us Entombed Exhumed Exmortem Fear Factory Goatwhore Gojira Gorefest GraveHackneyed Hacride Hate Eternal Hollow Corp. HumanHypocrisy Iced Earth Immolation Impending DoomInsision Job For A Cowboy KataklysmKatatonia Krisiun Legion Of The Damned Meshuggah Misery Index Morbid Angel Morgoth My Dying Bride Napalm Death Necrophobic Nile Novembers Doom NovembreObituary Occult One Man Army And The Undead QuarOpeth Origin Orphaned Land Pig DestroyerResurrection Sacram Sentenced SepulturaSirenia Six Feet Under Six Reasons To KillSkinless Soilent Green Strapping Young Lad SuffocationThe Amenta The Berzerker The Burning The DestroThe Machete Through The Eyes of the Dead Vader Vital Remains Whitechapel Wykked Wytch Year Of Desolation

Death Metal Bands

1. Akercocke Buy: CDs
2. Amon Amarth Buy: CDs || DVDs
3. Amorphis Buy: CDs || DVDs
4. Arch Enemy Buy: CDs || DVDs
5. At The Gates Buy: CDs
6. Atrocity Buy: CDs
   
7. Behemoth Buy: CDs || DVDs
8. Belphegor Buy: CDs || DVDs
9. The Black Dahlia Murder Buy: CDs
10. Bolt Thrower Buy: CDs
    
11. Cannibal Corpse Buy: CDs || DVDs
12. Carcass Buy: CDs || DVDs
13. Celtic Frost Buy: CDs
    
14. Cephalic Carnage Buy: CDs
15. Cryptopsy Buy: CDs
16. Daylight Dies Buy: CDs
    
17. Dark Tranquility Buy: CDs
18. Darkane Buy: CDs
19. Darkest Hour Buy: CDs || DVDs
    
20. Death Buy: CDs || DVDs
21. Deicide Buy: CDs || DVDs
22. Devildriver Buy: CDs
23. Disarmonia Mundi Buy: CDs
24. Dissection Buy: CDs||DVDs
25. Divine Heresy Buy: CDs
    
26. Dying Fetus Buy: CDs
    
27. Entombed Buy: CDs || DVDs
    
28. Gojira Buy: CDs
29. Hypocrisy Buy: CDs || DVDs
    
30. In Flames Buy: CDs || DVDs
31. Infernal Poetry Buy: CDs
    
32. Job For A Cowboy Buy: CDs
    
33. Kataklysm Buy: CDs || DVDs
34. Krisiun Buy: CDs || DVDs
35. Naglfar Buy: CDs
36. Morbid Angel Buy: CDs
37. Morgoth Buy: CDs
    
38. My Dying Bride Buy: CDs || DVDs
39. Napalm Death Buy: CDs || DVDs
40. Nile Buy: CDs
41. Norther Buy: CDs
42. Novembers Doom Buy: CDs
43. Obituary Buy: CDs || DVDs
44. Opera IX Buy: CDs
    
45. Opeth Buy: CDs || DVDs
46. Pestilence Buy: CDs
47. Pungent Stench Buy: CDs
48. (NEW!) Quo Vadis Buy: CDs
49. Scar Symmetry Buy: CDs
    
50. Sentenced Buy: CDs
51. Six Feet Under Buy: CDs || DVDs
    
52. Soilwork Buy: CDs || DVDs
53. Suffocation Buy: CDs
54. Swallow The Sun Buy: CDs
55. Vader Buy: CDs || DVDs
56. Wintersun Buy: CDs
57. Zyklon Buy: CDs || DVDs
    

Death Metal Description

Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s.

Commonly recognized characteristics include usually violent or dark lyrics which focus on death as a nihilistic metaphor (although lately more philosophy-based lyrics, such as those of later Death have become popular as well), chromatic progressions and a narrative or "story telling" song structure such that there is not a verse-chorus cycle as much as an ongoing development of themes and motifs. It is usually identified by downtuned rhythm guitars, fast percussion, and dynamic intensity. "Blast beats" are frequently used to add to the ferocity of the modern music. The vocals are commonly low gurgles named death grunt, growl, or death growl. This kind of vocalising is distorted by use of the throat and guts, unlike traditional singing techniques which discourages this technique. Some people consider it similar to the overtone style of singing. Music journalist Chad Bowar notes that, because of the similarity of the vocals to those of the Muppet character, the style is sometimes described as "Cookie monster vocals".

Death metal's subject matter usually addresses more nihilistic themes than any other genre (alongside black metal), usually using metaphors of a gruesome nature to represent a larger concept. The genre was founded as the branch of metal praising 'death.' The focus on mortality along with the extreme nature of the music (as well as Possessed's "Death Metal") likely inspired the naming of this genre.

Death metal is occasionally known for abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and extremely fast and complex guitar and drumwork, although this is not always the case. Bands of this genre frequently utilize downtuned and distorted guitars, a downtuned, sometimes distorted bass guitar, a drum set (almost universally using two bass drums or a double bass drum pedal). Although this is the standard setup, bands have been known to incorporate other instruments such as keyboards. Death metal is very physically demanding of its musicians, especially in its more "technical" forms.

There are two widely-based theories on the origin of the term "death metal." The first being the title of the Possessed song Death Metal, which was featured on their 1985 debut album Seven Churches (an album widely regarded as the first death metal album, predating Morbid Angel's and Death's works), and a song made famous on the underground tape-trading circuit shortly before. The other is that the name of death metal pioneers Death was made into the genre's name, where their 1987 debut album Scream Bloody Gore made death metal a more recognised style of music. Their simplistic name has said to have been adopted into the genre's title. A third theory emerged in 2003 when the late Thomas 'Quorthon' Forsberg of black metal band Bathory claimed in an interview with the British journalist Joel McIver that he had invented the term 'death metal' as far back as 1984, even though his band never pursued a death metal approach.