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""Death Metal"" is a sub-genre of [[Heavy Metal]]. The genre is typically characterized by the use of heavily distorted guitars, harsh vocals that are low-pitched and/or growled, morbid lyrics, exceptionally fast-paced rhythms and melodies, frequent blast beats on drums, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
==Death Metal==
Death metal has been met with considerable hostility from society, mainly because of the socially unattractive themes, imagery, and stage personae surrounding many bands. It is typically seen as an underground form of music, in part because of its aggressive nature, and because the musicians often choose to remain obscure.
==Musical Style==
Death metal is known for its abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, as well as extremely fast and complex guitar and drumwork. Death metal may include chromatic chord progressions and a varied song structure, rarely employing the standard verse-chorus arrangement. These compositions tend to emphasize an ongoing development of themes and motifs.
The main controversy in death metal, however, is over it's vocals and lyrics.
===Vocals===
Death metal vocals are often guttural roars, grunts, snarls, and low gurgles referred to as death growls.
===Lyrics===
Death metal's lyrical themes typically invoke Z-grade movie violence, and may also extend to contain themes of [[Satanism]], criticism of [[religion]], [[Occult]]ism, [[rebellion]], and various anti-[[Christian]] sentiments.
==Bands==
The two death metal bands which have by far recieved the most mainstream success are [[Cannibal Corpse]] and [[Dethklok]].
===Cannibal Corpse===
[[Cannibal Corpse]] prides itself on overtly [[violent]] and [[sex]]ual songs and album [[art]]work as nothing more than an [[murder|extreme form of over-the-top entertainment]].
Some of [[Cannibal Corpse]]'s song titles include "Hammer-Smashed Face", "Rotted Body Landslide," "Born In A [[Casket]]," "Every Bone Broken," and "Rancid Amputation."
They were banned from displaying the cover art or lyrics of and playing any of the songs from their first 3 albums in Germany until 2006 because "A woman saw someone wearing one of our shirts, I think she is a [[homeschooling|schoolteacher]], and she just caused this big stink about it. So we can’t play anything from the first three records. And it really sucks because kids come up and they want us to play all the old songs — and we would — but they know the deal."- George Fisher, Cannibal Corpse vocalist.
"All our songs are [[Edgar Allen Poe|short stories]] that, if anyone would so choose they could convert it into a [[horror movie]]. Really, that's all it is. We like gruesome, scary movies, and we want the lyrics to be like that. Yeah, it's about killing people [...] And [[Christian|anyone who gets upset about it]] is ridiculous" -George Fisher.
===Dethklok===
Dethklok is a decidedly anti-[[Christian]] band, and has at times experimented with [[Satanism]] and the [[Occult]].
Dethklok even has its own [[cartoon]] series airing at around 2:00 AM on [[Sunday]]s. The series called [[Metalocalypse]], it is extremely gory and [[Satan]]ic, and is highly inappropriate for [[children]].
Dethklok's lyrics, however, are considerably more toned down than those of [[Cannibal Corpse]]. And they sometimes use verse-chorus arrangement in their songs.
==List of Death Metal Bands==
* 3 Inches of Blood
* Behexen
* Cannibal Corpse
* Death
* Deathchain
* Deathclock
* Death To All
* Deicide
* Desert Rain
* Dethklok
* Devourment
* Hatebreed
* Gothzilla
* GWAR
* Immolition
* Megasus
* Necrophobic
* Planet Piss
* Rob Zombie
* Santourum
* Six Feet Under
* Skitsystem
* Slayer
* Slipknot
* Spacum
* Strapping Young Lad
* Suicide Silence
* Taranchula
* White Zombie
* Vader
===Sea Also===
[[Black Metal]]
==Death Metal==
Death metal has been met with considerable hostility from society, mainly because of the socially unattractive themes, imagery, and stage personae surrounding many bands. It is typically seen as an underground form of music, in part because of its aggressive nature, and because the musicians often choose to remain obscure.
==Musical Style==
Death metal is known for its abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, as well as extremely fast and complex guitar and drumwork. Death metal may include chromatic chord progressions and a varied song structure, rarely employing the standard verse-chorus arrangement. These compositions tend to emphasize an ongoing development of themes and motifs.
The main controversy in death metal, however, is over it's vocals and lyrics.
===Vocals===
Death metal vocals are often guttural roars, grunts, snarls, and low gurgles referred to as death growls.
===Lyrics===
Death metal's lyrical themes typically invoke Z-grade movie violence, and may also extend to contain themes of [[Satanism]], criticism of [[religion]], [[Occult]]ism, [[rebellion]], and various anti-[[Christian]] sentiments.
==Bands==
The two death metal bands which have by far recieved the most mainstream success are [[Cannibal Corpse]] and [[Dethklok]].
===Cannibal Corpse===
[[Cannibal Corpse]] prides itself on overtly [[violent]] and [[sex]]ual songs and album [[art]]work as nothing more than an [[murder|extreme form of over-the-top entertainment]].
Some of [[Cannibal Corpse]]'s song titles include "Hammer-Smashed Face", "Rotted Body Landslide," "Born In A [[Casket]]," "Every Bone Broken," and "Rancid Amputation."
They were banned from displaying the cover art or lyrics of and playing any of the songs from their first 3 albums in Germany until 2006 because "A woman saw someone wearing one of our shirts, I think she is a [[homeschooling|schoolteacher]], and she just caused this big stink about it. So we can’t play anything from the first three records. And it really sucks because kids come up and they want us to play all the old songs — and we would — but they know the deal."- George Fisher, Cannibal Corpse vocalist.
"All our songs are [[Edgar Allen Poe|short stories]] that, if anyone would so choose they could convert it into a [[horror movie]]. Really, that's all it is. We like gruesome, scary movies, and we want the lyrics to be like that. Yeah, it's about killing people [...] And [[Christian|anyone who gets upset about it]] is ridiculous" -George Fisher.
===Dethklok===
Dethklok is a decidedly anti-[[Christian]] band, and has at times experimented with [[Satanism]] and the [[Occult]].
Dethklok even has its own [[cartoon]] series airing at around 2:00 AM on [[Sunday]]s. The series called [[Metalocalypse]], it is extremely gory and [[Satan]]ic, and is highly inappropriate for [[children]].
Dethklok's lyrics, however, are considerably more toned down than those of [[Cannibal Corpse]]. And they sometimes use verse-chorus arrangement in their songs.
==List of Death Metal Bands==
* 3 Inches of Blood
* Behexen
* Cannibal Corpse
* Death
* Deathchain
* Deathclock
* Death To All
* Deicide
* Desert Rain
* Dethklok
* Devourment
* Hatebreed
* Gothzilla
* GWAR
* Immolition
* Megasus
* Necrophobic
* Planet Piss
* Rob Zombie
* Santourum
* Six Feet Under
* Skitsystem
* Slayer
* Slipknot
* Spacum
* Strapping Young Lad
* Suicide Silence
* Taranchula
* White Zombie
* Vader
===Sea Also===
[[Black Metal]]