Death metal
Death metal is a genre. Defining acts include Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse, Opeth, Death and Immortal, and their records are the quickest way into the sound. Death metal grew out of Thrash metal, extreme metal, symphonic metal, viking metal and Crossover thrash. It sits close to Doom metal, deathrash, dark metal, Black metal and atmospheric death metal, scenes that trade players, venues and ideas with it. Its influence carried into blackened death metal, gothic death-doom, melodic death metal, deathgrind and Swedish death metal, which took the template somewhere else. The chart currently maps 31 connections around Death metal. Open any neighbouring band or genre to trace where Death metal came from and where it led.
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Death metal connections
Death metal grew out of Thrash metal, extreme metal, symphonic metal and viking metal, shares an orbit with Doom metal, deathrash, dark metal and Black metal, went on to shape blackened death metal, gothic death-doom, melodic death metal and deathgrind. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
What influenced Death metal
Sounds and acts that shaped Death metal.
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What Death metal shaped
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- blackened death metalgenre
- gothic death-doomgenre
- melodic death metalgenre
- deathgrindgenre
- Swedish death metalgenre
- old school death metalgenre
- deathcoregenre
- brutal death metalgenre
- atmospheric death metalgenre
- progressive death metalgenre
- technical death metalgenre
- Florida death metalgenre
- Scandinavian death metalgenre
- Christian death metalgenre
- New York death metalgenre
- deathrashgenre
- symphonic death metalgenre
- death 'n' rollgenre
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