Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, featuring double kick and blast beat techniques; minor keys or atonality; abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes; and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may include slasher film-style violence, political conflict, religion, nature, philosophy, true crime and science fiction.
Meshuggah is a Swedish extreme metal band formed in Umeå in 1987. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist Jens Kidman, guitarists Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström, drummer Tomas Haake and bassist Dick Lövgren. Since its formation, the band has released nine studio albums, six EPs and eight music videos. Their latest studio album, Immutable, was released in April 2022 via Atomic Fire Records.
Autopsy is an American death metal band formed in Contra Costa County, California in 1987 by Chris Reifert and Eric Cutler. The group disbanded in 1995 and reunited in 2009.
Destroy Erase Improve is the second studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. It was released on 12 May 1995 by Nuclear Blast. This is the first studio album to feature rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström and the final to feature bassist Peter Nordin, as he left the band during the supporting tour due to vertigo.
Gorefest was a Dutch death metal band from Goes in Zeeland. It was founded in 1989 by Jan-Chris de Koeijer, Frank Harthoorn, Alex van Schaik and Marc Hoogendoorn.
Boudewijn Vincent Bonebakker was born and raised in the town of Goes but moved to Breda at the age of 18. He is best known as the guitarist of Gorefest.
Edward R. Warby is a Dutch musician, best known as the drummer for death metal band Gorefest and progressive rock/metal project Ayreon.
Black Winter Day is a split EP by Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis with Dutch death metal band Gorefest, released in 1995. The track "Black Winter Day" is one of the band's best-known songs and continues to be a crowd favourite in live performances to this very day.
Elegy are a Dutch power metal band, founded in 1986 in Eindhoven. Their music is characterized by the fusion of power and progressive metal, which made them the pioneers of the 'progressive power metal' subgenre. The band was plagued by a continuing changing roster, which counts in the current line-up only one founding member. Elegy have currently suspended any recording or live activity.
Avulsed is a Spanish death metal band, formed in August 1991 in Madrid by Dave Rotten.
Death 'n' roll is the subgenre of death metal music that incorporates hard rock-inspired elements to the overall sound. The achieved effect is that of death metal's trademark combination of growled vocals and highly distorted detuned guitar riffing with elements reminiscent of 1970s hard rock and heavy metal. Notable examples include Entombed, Gorefest, Carcass, Six Feet Under, Pungent Stench and the Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience.
Rise to Ruin is the seventh and final studio album by Dutch death metal band Gorefest. It was released in 2007 through Nuclear Blast. The album was released on 25 September 2007 in the US.
La Muerte is the sixth studio album by Dutch death metal band Gorefest. It was Recorded in July 2005 at Excess Studios in Rotterdam, Holland, Netherlands. Mixed in August 2005 at Antfarm Studio in Aarhus, Denmark. Produced by Gorefes released in 2005 via Nuclear Blast. It was also released by Night of the Vinyl Dead in May 2006 as a double black vinyl with a colour insert, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.
Chapter 13 is the fifth studio album released by Dutch death metal band Gorefest. It was released in 1998.
Soul Survivor is the fourth studio album by Dutch death metal band Gorefest, released in 1996 via Nuclear Blast.
False is the second studio album by Dutch death metal band Gorefest. It was released in 1992 via Nuclear Blast.
Mindloss is the first studio album by Dutch death metal band Gorefest. It was released in 1991 by the small Dutch label Foundation 2000 Records and reissued by Nuclear Blast in 1993. It was reissued again in 2005 as a double-CD with the "Tangled in Gore" and "Horrors in a Retarded Mind" demos on disc two. The album was released in the US in 1992 by Pavement Music.
Hail of Bullets was a Dutch old school death metal supergroup from Rotterdam. The band's lyrical content deals with the Second World War, and is based upon the research of vocalist Martin van Drunen, who has been described as the band's "resident historian". The band has released three albums via Metal Blade Records.
Warmaster is a Dutch old school death metal band from Gouda. The band's lyrical content deals with World War II.
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