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Lists of death metal bands can be found at: List of death metal bands, !–K, for bands beginning with !-9 through K; List of death metal bands, L–Z, ...
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, featuring double kick and blast beat techniques; minor keys or atonality; abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes; and chromatic chord progressions. [3]
This is a list of United States Death Metal (USDM) bands that were originally formed in the United States. Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Formed out of what would become the Florida death metal scene, Death is considered to be among the most influential bands in heavy metal music and a pioneering force in death metal. The band's 1987 debut album, Scream Bloody Gore, has been widely regarded as one of the first death metal records, alongside the first records from Possessed and ...
Thanatos is a Dutch extreme metal band. With a history dating back to 1984, they are the oldest death metal band from the Netherlands. Their second album, Realm of Ecstasy (some album covers show Realm of Ecstacy), received positive marks from Dutch music magazine Oor and various international magazines for its solid compositions and challenging arrangements. [1]
Possessed is an American death metal band, [1] [2] [3] originally formed in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area. [4] [5]Noted for their fast style of playing and Jeff Becerra's growled vocals, they are often called the first band in the death metal genre, [6] and paved the way for the 1980s Bay Area thrash metal scene, along with Metallica, Exodus, Testament and Death Angel.
The Swedish death metal scene's earliest originators were influenced more by punk rock, especially the D-beat and hardcore punk scene, than they were metal bands. [2] [3] The most influential of these bands upon the burgeoning Swedish extreme metal scene was Gothenburg's Anti Cimex. [4]
In the late 1960s, a number of bands began pushing the limits of blues rock into a new genre which would be called heavy metal. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1981, [ 3 ] three of the "Big Four" thrash metal bands emerged ( Metallica , [ 4 ] Slayer [ 5 ] and Anthrax ), [ 5 ] to be joined on the scene in 1983 by Megadeth .