Death Metal has roots in Sweden. The excitement for Death Metal spread and by the late 1980's, many bands were created. Some of the most notable bands include Slayer, Kreator, Celtic Frost, and Venom.
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There are a lot of death metal bands. Starting back in the early eighties.
Death Metal was popular around 1990-1995. With bands like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. Cannibal Corpse and Deicide drew much controversial backlash from religious conservative groups with releasing explicit album covers to obscene lyrics and content. Death Metal's popularity has risen throughout the 2000's especially since more legitamite versions of death metal have started to become popular, Death Metal's popularity is at Its best right now, especially with the dominant Melodic Death Metal hybrid subgenre.
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Zyklon is Blackened Death Metal, and is Atheist
In the united states.
The 1980s was the era of hair metal bands and post-punk music. The 1980s also saw the birth of goth and New Wave music.
Slipknot Slipknot are not 'death metal' they are nu metal. You want a 'death metal' band look into ABACABB, Nile or Job for a Cowboy. Also try The Black Dahlia Murder they are Melodic death metal.
Try Wicked Wisdom
The lines can be a bit vague at time. Death Metal was derived from Thrash - it basically took Thrash, and stripped it down even further to its most basic elements. Early Death Metal bands (Possessed, Incubus - the band now known as Opprobrium, pre-Arise era Sepultura, Graf Spee, etc.) were still Thrash bands at their core. In the 1990s, Death Metal sought to further the gap between Thrash bands and themselves, and turned to Hardcore Punk and its derivatives (Powerviolence, Crust Punk, Grindcore, etc.) for influence - this is especially apparent with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, later Morbid Angel albums, Deicide, etc. Thus, your more modern Death Metal bands tend to be quite distinguishable from Thrash bands, whereas earlier Death Metal bands drew a much finer line.
No real statistics on this, not to mention numbers would be skewed based on what the perceptions of Death Metal are by various people... for example, a lot of the purists (myself included) tend to exclude these Gothenburg/"Melodeath" bands, which tend to be derived more from Speed and Power Metal, and don't have much - if any - commonality with Death Metal bands. For a rough estimate you can go over to Metal Archives and search by genre.
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