Death Metal

[jrgen]

I love death metal. Probably my favourite metal genre.

Favourite bands include: (in alphabetical order and if nothing else is specified, it's regular death metal)

Aborted (grindcore/death)
Aeon
Amon Amarth (melodic death)
Anata (technical death)
At the Gates (melodic death)
Atheist (jazzy thrash/death)
Atrocity (lots of stuff)
Behemoth (the later material is death)
Bloodbath (Swedish death)
Brujeria (grindcore/death)
Carnage (Swedish death)
Chthonic (black metal/melodic death metal/Taiwanese folk)
Cynic (progressive/jazzy death)
Dan Swanö (prgressive death)
Dark Suns (progressive rock/death)
Dark Tranquillity (melodic death)
Death (old school death/post-thrash)
Deicide (generally pretty dull, but some stuff is cool, like Legion)
Demonoid (death/thrash)
Deranged (brutal death) (Plainfield Cemetary is one of the most brutal albums ever created)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (good experimental death/new random crap)
Dismember (Swedish death)
Dorn (symphonic/gothic death)
Edge of Sanity (progressive death)
Eisblut
Eisenvater (death metal/doom metal/grindcore)
Eisregen (some deathish material)
Entombed (Swedish death/death 'n roll)
Exhale (death/grindcore)
God Among Insects (brutal death)
Grave (Swedish death) (Into the Grave and all their demo material was probably the most brutal of its time)
Haggard (classical music/folk music/symphonic death/thrash)
Hollenthon (symphonic death)
Hypocrisy (death/melodic death)
Infestdead
Insision (brutal death)
Intestine Baalism (melodic death) (unusually brutal for the genre)
Killaman
Kimaera (melodic doom/death)
Kranium (folk/traditional metal with death vocals)
Luciferion
Morbid Angel
Mortician (really bad, but also kind of fun)
Murder Corporation (brutal/Swedish death)
Necrophagist (technical death)
Nihilist (Swedish death)
Nile (technical/brutal death)
Oathean (folk/melodic death)
Opeth (progressive death)
Orphaned Land (doom/death/progressive death/Arabic and Hebrew folk)
Pan.Thy.Monium (experimental progressive death)
Pandemonium (melodic doom/death)
Pavor (technical death)
Rebaelliun
Ribspreader (Swedish death)
Rudra (Indian folk/death)
Runemagick (doom/death)
Skyfire (melodic death)
Soils of Fate (brutal death)
Sordid (brutal death)
Spawn of Possession (technical/brutal death) (mainly technical)
Stabwound (brutal death)
Suffocation
The Amenta (industrial death)
The Firstbord (Nepalese/Indian folk/death)
The Project Hate MCMXCIX (industrial death)
Theory in Practice (technical death)
Therion (early material was experminental death)
Totenmond (doom/death/punk)
Uncanny (Swedish death)
Unleashed (Swedish death)
Unmoored (progressive death)
Vader (thrash/death)
Visceral Bleeding (brutal death)
Wombbath (brutal death)
Vomitory (brutal death)
Wormed (experimental brutal death)

Note: Swedish death is not the same as melodic death/gothenburg metal.