Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, double kick and/or blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and multiple tempo changes.
Building from the musical structure of thrash metal and early black metal, death metal emerged during the mid-1980s.[1] Metal bands such as Slayer,[2][3] Kreator,[4] Celtic Frost,[5] and Venom were very important influences to the crafting of the genre.[1] Possessed[6] and Death,[7][8][9] along with bands such as Obituary, Carcass, Deicide, Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel are often considered pioneers of the genre.[10] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, death metal gained more media attention as popular genre niche record labels like Combat, Earache and Roadrunner began to sign death metal bands at a rapid rate.[11] Since then, death metal has diversified, spawning a variety of subgenres.[12]
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- ↑ Joel McIver Extreme Metal, 2000, Omnibus Press pg.14 ISBN 88-7333-005-3
- ↑ The greatest metal band for Mtv
- ↑ Joel McIver Extreme Metal, 2000, Omnibus Press pg.100 ISBN 88-7333-005-3
- ↑ Joel McIver Extreme Metal, 2000, Omnibus Press pg.55 ISBN 88-7333-005-3
- ↑ Rivadavia, E. Possessed: Biography, allmusic, (Retrieved August 13, 2008)
- ↑ allmusic ((( Death > Biography )))
- ↑ Metal Rules Interview with Chuck Schuldiner
- ↑ The Best Of NAMM 2008: Jimmy Page, Satriani Models Among The Highlights | News @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
- ↑ Morbid Angel page @ Allmusic "Formed in 1984 in Florida, Morbid Angel (along with Death) would also help spearhead an eventual death metal movement in their home state"
- ↑ Is Metal Still Alive? WATT Magazine, Written by: Robert Heeg, Published: April 1993
- ↑ Silver Dragon Records "During the 1990s death metal diversified influencing many subgenres"
