Death Metal

[Devourment]

Brutal, technical, melodic [even though it is not considered to be connected with DM], extreme, blackened & progressive death metal are all welcome to be talked about here aswell.

*I can't be bothered with all that "Just call it death metal, there's no point in all these genres.." and such. I've never heard more rubbish than somehting like that.

So putting aside that rabble who here on this forum listens to death metal / any of the fused genres / subgenres above? & what do you most like about it?

Also:
What are your favourite bands of this genre? Or the ones you enjoy listening / headbanging to most?
Any particular musicians from DM you really like?
Are you thinking of getting into a DM band?
Are you in a DM band?

Here are a few bands I really like from the above subgenres of DM:

[*=Favourites]

*Malavolent Creation
Hate Eternal
Insision
Bloodbath
*Cannibal Corpse
*Death
Nile
*Decapitated
*Cryptopsy
Ackercocke
*At the Gates
Children of Bodom
Arch Enemy
Behemoth
Decide
*Immolation
Necrophagist
Six Feet Under
Suffocation

I don't mind people who don't like DM coming in here & putting their opinion in the thread as to why they don't like it, but only if you back up your opinion. No point in having an opinion if you can't back it up...

[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.

[Ramza Beoulve]

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)
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 (prgressive 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)

Yup, it is also my opinion

[Venom]

Out of the Death metal Genre I only like Morbid Angel and Death.

[Crushed Hope]

Opeth (progressive death)

Commonly made mistake. Opeth is progressive metal with harsh vocals, hardly any other death metal influence aside from that.

Amazing subgenre of metal, certainly the most physically demanding. I absolutely love Stargazer mostly. Best band from the style.

I tend to prefer black metal though.

[Bloodline666]

To me, the death metal bands that really stand out are Arch Enemy and Children Of Bodom. Melodic Death Metal really stands out from Death Metal as a whole, which is why it's my favorite form of Death Metal.

I also like Six Feet Under, Cannibal Corpse, and Morbid Angel.

[Kappy]

Yeah. Opeth are Doom Metal. Apparently.

Anyway, I don't like strict Death Metal, although Black Metal is good. Dimmu Borgir are amazing. How can a fat guy drum so fast?

[jrgen]

Commonly made mistake. Opeth is progressive metal with harsh vocals, hardly any other death metal influence aside from that.

I hear clear death metal influences on the Deliverance album and they are there on most albums, just not as prominently. I am perfectly aware of what death metal is, I am well acquainted with Opeth's music and I certainly did not write "progressive death" by mistake.

[Mythra]

I like Children of Bodom alot. Not really sure what else I listen to that would be considered death metal, I usually don't pay attention to genre's. I just listen to it and if it sounds good, all the better

[jrgen]

Children of Bodom is not death metal.

[Paro]

I love Death Metal.

Vital Remains
Six Feet Under
Deicide
Amon Amarth

the list goes on and on...

[Captain Maxx Power]

I do a killer Death Grunt, I should front a Death Metal band.

[Mythra]

Children of Bodom is not death metal.

My bad, told ya I really don't pay attention to genres . I just try listening to it and if I like it then I get into it. Genres just really matter that much to me.

[Crushed Hope]

Commonly made mistake. Opeth is progressive metal with harsh vocals, hardly any other death metal influence aside from that.

I hear clear death metal influences on the Deliverance album and they are there on most albums, just not as prominently. I am perfectly aware of what death metal is, I am well acquainted with Opeth's music and I certainly did not write "progressive death" by mistake.

Progressive death still is wrong. They are progressive metal with harsh vocals. Even ask the UM people about it.

To me, the death metal bands that really stand out are Arch Enemy and Children Of Bodom. Melodic Death Metal really stands out from Death Metal as a whole, which is why it's my favorite form of Death Metal.

Yeah, as stated before CoB isn't death metal, however Arch Enemy isn't death metal either. Melodic Death as you are refering to it is called melo-death, and is closer in relation to power metal than death metal. True melodic death metal is death metal bands with more apparant melodies than typical death metal, i.e. Stargazer, Kronos, Anata, etc.

[BardTard]

I make my neighbors and my sims listen to death metal, cus it's that good.