Death metal

For the Dismember album, see Death Metal (album). For the Helloween/Hellhammer/Running Wild/Dark Avenger split album, see Death Metal (split album). For the comic book character, see Death Metal (comics).
Death metal
Stylistic origins Thrash metal[1], early black metal[2]
Cultural origins Mid 1980s, United States (particularly Florida)
Typical instruments Vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums
Mainstream popularity Underground in 1980s, gradual rise until peaking at small to medium in early to mid 1990s
Subgenres
Melodic death metal, technical death metal
Fusion genres
Deathcore, blackened death metal, death/doom, goregrind, deathgrind, death 'n' roll
Regional scenes
Florida, New York, Sweden, United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan, Poland
Other topics
Extreme metal, death growl, blast beat, list of death metal bands
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Building from the musical structure of thrash metal, death metal emerged during the mid 1980s.[2] It was mainly inspired by thrash metal acts like Slayer,[3][4] Kreator[5] and Celtic Frost.[6] Along with the band Death and its frontman Chuck Schuldiner (who is often referred to as "the father of death metal")[7][8][9], bands like Possessed[10], Obituary and Morbid Angel are often considered pioneers of the genre.[11] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, death metal gained more media attention as popular record labels like Earache and Roadrunner began to sign death metal bands at a rapid rate.[12] Since then, death metal has diversified, spawning a rich variety of subgenres.[13]

Vocals and lyrics
Death metal vocals are often guttural roars, grunts, snarls, and low gurgles colloquially known as death growls. The style is sometimes referred to as Cookie Monster vocals, tongue-in-cheek, because of the similarity with the popular Sesame Street character of the same name.[16] Although often criticized, death growls serve the aesthetic purpose of matching death metal's violent lyrical content.[17]
The lyrical themes of death metal often invoke slasher film-stylized violence,[18] but may also extend to topics like Satanism, anti-religion, Occultism, mysticism, philosophy and social commentary.[19][20] However, few death metal musicians actively practice occultism, mysticism, or Satanism. Although violence may be explored in various other genres as well, death metal elaborates on the details of extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape and necrophilia. Sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris commented this apparent glamorization of violence may be attributed to a "fascination" with the human body that all people share to some degree, a fascination which mixes desire and disgust.[21] Heavy metal author Gavin Baddeley also stated there does seem to be a connection between "how acquainted one is with their own mortality" and "how much they crave images of death and violence" via the media.[22] Additionally, contributing artists to the genre often defend death metal as little more than an extreme form of art and entertainment, similar to horror films in the motion picture industry.[2] This rationalization has brought such musicians under fire from activists internationally, who claim that this is often lost on a large number of adolescents, who are left with the glamorization of such violence without social context or awareness of why such imagery is stimulating.[2]
According to Alex Webster, bassist of Cannibal Corpse, "The gory lyrics are probably not, as much as people say, [what's keeping us] from being mainstream. Like, 'Death metal would never go into the mainstream because the lyrics are too gory?' I think it's really the music, because violent entertainment is totally mainstream."[23]

Early history (before 1991)

[edit]Emergence

"Death Metal"

Music sample of Possessed's "Death Metal" from the album Seven Churches (1985).
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British heavy metal band Venom crystallized the elements of what later became known as thrash metal, death metal and black metal, with their 1981 album Welcome to Hell.[30] Their dark, blistering sound, harsh vocals, and macabre, proudly Satanic imagery proved a major inspiration for extreme metal bands.[31] Another highly influential band, Slayer, formed in 1981. Although the band was a thrash metal act, Slayer's music was more violent than their thrash contemporaries Metallica, Megadeth and Exodus.[32] Their breakneck speed and instrumental prowess combined with lyrics about death, violence, war and Satanism won Slayer a rabid cult following.[33] According to Allmusic, Slayer's third album Reign in Blood "inspired the entire death metal genre".[34] and had a big impact on the genre leaders.[32]


Chuck Schuldiner (1967–2001) of Death, widely recognized as "the father of death metal".[35]
Possessed, a band that formed in the San Francisco Bay Area during 1983, was attributed by Allmusic as having a Slayer influence on their 1985 album, Seven Churches.[36] Although Possessed's brand of metal resembled Slayer's fast and Satanic thrash metal style, they are often cited as the "first" death metal band.[37] This is largely because of the grunted vocals which set the stage for death metal's breakaway from thrash metal.[36] The 1984 demo Death Metal and 1985 album Seven Churches are regarded as their most influential material.
Not long after the dawn of Possessed, a second influential metal band was formed in Florida: Death. Death, originally called Mantas, was formed during 1983 by Chuck Schuldiner, Kam Lee, and Rick Rozz. In 1984 they released their first demo entitled Death by Metal, followed by several more. The tapes circulated through the tape trader world, quickly establishing the band's name. With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene. Fast, dark minor-key riffs and fierce solos were complemented with fast drumming, creating a style that would catch on in tape trading circles.[38][39] Subsequently, Schuldiner has been "widely recognized as the Father of Death Metal".[40]
Along with Possessed and Death, other pioneers of death metal in the United States include Autopsy, Necrophagia, Master, Morbid Angel, Massacre, Atheist, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse.
An early death metal album, Season of the Dead, was released by Necrophagia in 1987. That same year saw the release of Death's Scream Bloody Gore, which some writers consider the genre's first "proper" release.[41]

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Chapel of ghouls

Klasicna prozivka crkve,sa primesama satanizma ili kao revolta ili kao vere u njega,to nisam sigurna.

Bleed for devil

Come to me, lord of filth
Hear my cries princes of nightmares
Touch us with your morbid lips
Let us taste your foulness

Bleed for the devil
Impious mortal lives
Feel the enticing power
Fill the chasm of your soul

Fill the air with the smell of death
Grace us with your magick
Fill the night with the stench of evil
I summon forth the beast

Cold look in his eyes
He holds the gleaming knife
Girl cries as he cuts away the
Strips of flesh


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flert sa djavolom

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Evil Minds grievous sins
Pagan lives have no place for law
Twisted worship exhume the dead
Minds unite for evil cause
Death corrodes the book once strong
Evil lourd destroys his foes
Plague has spread throughout the land
Revelations have begun.

Call of evil's mastermind
Christians flock to the beast
Burning crosses burn souls

Exterminate the altar of laws
Atrocities of a new reich
Holy war and holocaust
God weeps and turns his back
The time is right to destroy the world

Damnation
Fill the world with plague
Force of devastation
Tyranny from above

Churning of cities lust so profane
Driving the will to destroy

Crippling powers I'm forced to partake unholy rituals
Crimes of a world barely alive
Melting debauchery
Ashes to ashes, so must I be
Lost in this misery
There's nothing left here for me
I know of no other way
Even death cannot change my ways
I'm first in the line
To hell we shall go

Call of evil's mastermind
Christians flock to the beast
Burning crosses burn souls
Time is right to destroy the world