An extreme subgenre featuring heavily distorted guitar, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and dark, often violent lyrical themes. Emerged from thrash metal in the mid-1980s in Florida.
Death MetalHeavy Metal
Amon Amarth
Sweden · est. 1992
Death MetalHeavy Metal
Arch Enemy
Sweden · est. 1996
Death Metal
Blood Incantation
Death Metal
Blood Red Throne
Groove MetalThrash Metal
Cavalera Conspiracy
Death Metal
Crypta
Death Metal
Deicide
Thrash MetalDeath Metal
Esodic
Death Metal
Gatecreeper
Progressive MetalDeath Metal
Opeth
Sweden · est. 1989
Death Metal
Profanation
Death Metal
Severe Torture
Death Metal
Sinsaenum
Death Metal
Six Feet Under
Death Metal
Skaphos
Thrash MetalDeath Metal
Slayer
United States · est. 1981
Sludge MetalDeath Metal
Soilent Green
Death Metal
Tempt Fate