The discography of Death consists of seven studio albums and four live albums. Death was an American death metal band formed in 1983. The band's founder, Chuck Schuldiner, is considered "a pioneering force in death metal". The band ceased to exist after Schuldiner died of brain cancer in 2001, though it remains an enduring death metal brand. As of 2008, Death had sold over 2 million albums worldwide, with over 500,000 copies sold by December 2009 in the U.S. alone making them the top-selling dea
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Death was an American death metal band formed in Altamonte Springs, Florida in 1984 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner. Death is considered to be among the most influential bands in heavy metal and a pioneering force in the extreme metal subgenre of death metal. Their debut album, Scream Bloody Gore, has been widely regarded as the first death metal record. Death had a revolving lineup, with Schuldiner being the sole consistent member. The group's style also progressed, from the raw soun
- 1984–1996, 1998–2001
- Altamonte Springs, Florida, U.S.
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Death is an American rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in 1971 by brothers Bobby, David, and Dannis Hackney. The trio started out as a funk band but switched to rock after seeing a concert by The Who. Seeing Alice Cooper play was also an inspiration. Music critic Peter Margasak retrospectively wrote that David "pushed the group in a hard-rock direction that presaged punk, and while this certainly didn't help them find a following in the mid-70s, today it makes them look like
In 1964, the three young Hackney brothers were sat down by their father to witness The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. The following day, David found a discarded guitar in an alley and set about learning to play. Brothers Bobby and Dannis soon followed suit and
In 1975, Death recorded seven songs written by David and Bobby at Detroit's United Sound Studios with engineer Jim Vitt. According to the Hackney family, Columbia Records president Clive Davis funded the recording sessions but implored the band to change its name to something mor
Copies of the "Politicians in My Eyes" 7", and the story of Death continued to circulate in collector's circles, with some copies going up to the cost of $800 due to their extreme rarity; one source of them was Don Schwenk, a friend of the Hackneys who was originally commissioned
In 2010, their song "Freakin' Out" was used in an episode of the television program How I Met Your Mother entitled "False Positive", as well as the Ash Vs. Evil Dead episode "The Killer of Killers". In 2011, their song "You're A Prisoner" was used in the film Kill the Irishman. An independent documentary film about the band titled A Band Called Death, directed by Jeff Howlett and Mark Covino, was released in 2012. In 2014, the band's song "Politicians In My Eyes", was featured in the surf docume
- Bobby Hackney Sr., Dannis Hackney, Bobbie Duncan
- Proto-punk, punk rock, garage rock, funk (early)
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Murder by Death is an American five-piece indie rock band from Bloomington, Indiana. Their name is derived from the 1976 Robert Moore film of the same name. Murder by Death released its first studio album in 2002, and has since released seven more studio albums. The band's current lineup consists of two founding members, Adam Turla and Sarah Balliet. Balliet plays cello for the band, an instrument that has been present consistently throughout the band's evolution. Murder by Death's 2012 album Bi
Murder by Death was formed in 2000 in Bloomington, Indiana, by guitarist Adam Turla, cellist Sarah Balliet, percussionist Alexander Schrodt, keyboardist Vincent Edwards, and bassist Matt Armstrong. One of the group's first shows was at the Channing-Murray Foundation's cafe The Re
While still performing under the name Little Joe Gould, the band headed out on an 11-date tour stretching from California to Louisiana with the Chicago-based band Volta Do Mar. On this tour the band honed the songs for their debut album, which was recorded in several Chicago stud
Pianist Vincent Edwards left the band in 2004 in order to return to academia. Cellist Sarah Balliet added keyboard duties to her cello playing. More touring was followed by a stint back at school, during which time the band wrote their third album, In Bocca Al Lupo, which was rel
Murder by Death plays a range of music including instrumentals, rock and alt.country. The band uses cello to create a gothic sound with occasional Western references. The band often arranges themes such as whiskey and the Devil into concept albums. For example, the band's second album, Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?, describes a story in which the Devil wages war against a small village in Mexico.
- Adam Turla, Sarah Balliet, Dagan Thogerson, David Fountain, Tyler Morse, Emma Tiemann
- Indie rock, indie folk
- 2000–present
- Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Commandment, Death Rituals, and Graveyard Classics 3 (2007–2010) Six Feet Under toured for the majority of 2006 before hitting the studios to record their next album, Commandment, which was released on April 17, 2007. The album works within the band's formula. According to music critic Chad Bowar, the album has "catchy death metal songs...
- 1993–present
- Chris Barnes, Ray Suhy, Marco Pitruzzella, Jeff Hughell, Jack Owen
- Death metal
- Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Death Angel is an American thrash metal band from Daly City, California, initially active from 1982 to 1991 and again since 2001.Death Angel has released nine studio albums, two demo tapes, one box set and two live albums.
- Dark Theory (1982)
- Thrash metal, funk metal
- 1982–1991, 2001–present
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S.
Studio albums Futility (2004) The Hinderers (2007) The Concealers (2009) Dååth (2010)
- 2003–present
- Roadrunner, Century Media
- Industrial death metal, groove metal
- Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
The band released the Sexy Death God album in 1994, the double-live set Amen in 1995, the Nostradamus-themed Prophecies in 1996, and Pornographic Messiah in 1998. In 2000, Christian Death added drummer Will Sarginson and toured Europe with Britain's Cradle of Filth in support of the Born Again Anti Christian album.
The album received strong reviews and was the band's highest-charting album, peaking at No. 12 on the Norwegian charts. In early 2008 Ordo Ad Chao won a Spellemannprisen , an award from the largest and oldest of Norway's music awards shows, for Best Metal Album of 2007.
- 1984–1993, 1994–present
- Season of Mist, Deathlike Silence, Century Media, Misanthropy, Necropolis
- Black metal
- Oslo, Norway