23 Facts About Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

Melodic death metal combines death metal elements with those of the new wave of British heavy metal.

Originally called Mantas, Death metal was formed in 1983 by Chuck Schuldiner, Kam Lee, and Rick Rozz.

Death metal spread to Sweden in the late 1980s, flourishing with pioneers such as Carnage, God Macabre, Entombed, Dismember, Grave and Unleashed.

British band Napalm Death became increasingly associated with death metal, in particular, on their 1990 album Harmony Corruption.

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Fenriz of Darkthrone has noted that Norwegian black metal musicians were "fed up with the whole death metal scene" at the time.

Setup most frequently used within the death metal genre is two guitarists, a bass player, a vocalist, and a drummer often using "hyper double-bass blast beats".

Death metal is known for its abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes.

Death metal growling is mistakenly thought to be a form of screaming using the lowest vocal register known as vocal fry, however vocal fry is actually a form of overtone screaming, and while growling can be performed this way by experienced vocalists who use the fry screaming technique, "true" death growling is in fact created by an altogether different technique.

Blackened death metal is commonly death metal that incorporates musical, lyrical or ideological elements of black metal, such as an increased use of tremolo picking, anti-Christian or Satanic lyrical themes and chord progressions similar to those used in black metal.

Blackened death metal bands are more likely to wear corpse paint and suits of armour, than bands from other styles of death metal.

Examples of blackened death metal bands are Belphegor, Behemoth, Akercocke, and Sacramentum.

Melodic black-death is a genre of extreme metal that describes the style created when melodic death metal bands began being inspired by black metal and European romanticism.

However, unlike most other black Death metal, this take on the genre would incorporate an increased sense of melody and narrative.

War metal is an aggressive, cacophonous and chaotic subgenre of blackened death metal, described by Rock Hard journalist Wolf-Rudiger Muhlmann as "rabid" and "hammering".

War Death metal bands include Blasphemy, Archgoat, Impiety, In Battle, Beherit, Crimson Thorn, Bestial Warlust, and Zyklon-B.

Brutal death metal is a subgenre of death metal that privileges heaviness, speed, and complex rhythms over other aspects, such as melody and timbres.

Death metal-doom was pioneered by bands such as Winter, Disembowelment, Paradise Lost, Autopsy, Anathema, and My Dying Bride.

Industrial death metal is a genre of death metal that adds elements of industrial music.

Old school death metal is a style of death metal characterized by its slower and simpler song structures, less focused on the technical aspects of its composition and employing less usage of blast beats.

Slam death metal is a microgenre that evolved from the 1990s New York death metal scene, incorporating elements of hardcore punk.

Symphonic death metal is a genre of death metal that add elements of classical music.

Bands described as symphonic death metal include Fleshgod Apocalypse, Septicflesh, Necronomicon, and Children of Bodom.