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- Rammstein, "Mein Teil" Considering their penchant for making disturbing videos, how the hell could Rammstein not be on here? While the video for "Du Hast" is certainly a trip, "Mein Teil" is practically its own warped fever dream.
- Queens of the Stone Age, "Sick, Sick, Sick" The best Queens of the Stone Age songs make the listener feel a little uncomfortable, and frontman Josh Homme's voice is already sinister-sounding.
- The Cure, "Lullaby" The Cure were for sure one of the oddest goth acts to emerge from the 1980s. But even though original emo Robert Smith sang more about heartbreak than horror, the idea behind "Lullaby" is a lot creepier than the rest of Disintegration.
- Tool, "Schism" Tool songs are so illustrative on their own they don't even need music videos. Yet, thanks to guitarist Adam Jones' auteur streak, we get to avoid sleep with the images from "Schism" forever etched into our brains.
Death Metal Extreme Metal Compilation. We've got here some of our most favourite extreme metal that influenced our music , incl. Death Metal , Death Core , Grindcore , Melodic Death Metal ,...
- Thy Art Is Murder
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Decapitated
- Entombed
- Bolt Thrower
- Amon Amarth
- Vader
- Autopsy
- Nile
- Gojira
As relative new kids on the death metal block, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Sydney, Australia’s Thy Art Is Murder are influenced by the modern genre. Formed in 2006 and pulling from the likes of Decapitated, Gojira and Behemoth, their extreme deathcore is a hit in their homeland and has taken them on tours around the world, proving death metal is...
Often criticised for not looking death metal enough, Michigan’s The Black Dahlia Murder nevertheless draw influences from all the right places. Their melodic death metal showcases more traditional characteristics typified by bands such as Carcass and Morbid Angel. One of the most prolific death metal bands of the modern era.
Poland’s Decapitated were formed around guitarist and main songwriter Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka and his brother, drummer Witold “Vitek” Kiełtyka in their teens, in 1996. Tragically, Vitek was killed in a tour bus crash in November 2007. After a period of grieving, Vogg reformed the band in 2009 and their technical death metal continues to be among the...
Incorporating garage rock influences into their sound, Stockholm, Sweden’s Entombed pioneered a death metal subgenre that came to be known as death’n’roll. It’s best exemplified on the 1993 classic Wolverine Blues, and is a sound that has been drawn from in recent years by the likes of Black Breath and Trap Them.
Coventry, UK’s Bolt Thrower gained attention from legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel when he received a copy of their second demo. Perhaps one of the most enduring bands from the death metal scene, they released eight albums over 18 years, but finally disbanded after the sudden death of drummer Martin Kearns in 2015.
These melodic death metallers formed in Tumba, Sweden, in 1992 from the ashes of Scum. They eventually caught the attention of the mainstream media with the release of their seventh album, Twilight Of The Thunder God, in 2008. Their Norse-influenced metal remains a favourite of heavy music fans across the world.
Polish metallers Vader formed in 1983, and yet only released their debut album, The Ultimate Incantation, nine years later. Having run the gamut from heavy metal, through thrash and speed metal before settling on a death metal sound, they were once described to Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme as “the Eagles of death metal”. And a band was born...
Formed in the Bay Area of California, Autopsy were hugely influential in taking death metal to its doomy depths. They made an impression on other genre greats such as Deicide, Gorefest, Cannibal Corpse and Entombed, with their second album, Mental Funeral, cited as being particularly influential.
Hailing from Greenville, North Carolina, Nile bring Middle Eastern mysticism to death metal with themes inspired by Ancient Egypt. Mainman Karl Sanders leads a seemingly revolving-door line-up of supporting musicians, and yet has consistently delivered brutal technical death metal since 1993.
French metallers Gojira have put a progressive spin on the death metal genre and updated it for the 21st Century. At odds with the gory themes of earlier death metal bands, however, they deliver themes of spirituality and environmentalism, inspired by the scenic beauty surrounding their hometown of Bayonne.
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These Are The Best 10 Debut Albums From Classic North American Death Metal Bands, According To You
