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Suffocation

Death metal
Death metal

Suffocation is a Death metal act. Their sound grew out of Roadrunner Records, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Sepultura and Deicide. Those roots explain a lot about how Suffocation arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Cryptopsy, Morbid Angel, Nile, Malevolent Creation and Internal Bleeding, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Relapse Records, Whitechapel, Blasphemy Made Flesh, Sunami and Through the Eyes of the Dead, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 43 connections around Suffocation, reaching back through Roadrunner Records and forward to Relapse Records. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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SuffocationRoadrunner RecordsMorbid AngelNapalm DeathSepulturaDeicideDeathDestructionMetallicaRelapse RecordsWhitechapelBlasphemy Made FleshSunamiThrough the Eyes of …Deeds of FleshDevilDriverCryptopsyMorbid AngelNileMalevolent CreationInternal BleedingHate EternalMonstrositySinister

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Suffocation connections

Suffocation grew out of Roadrunner Records, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death and Sepultura, shares an orbit with Cryptopsy, Morbid Angel, Nile and Malevolent Creation, went on to shape Relapse Records, Whitechapel, Blasphemy Made Flesh and Sunami. 43 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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Roots21

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