A to Z Blogging Challenge: D is for Death Metal

A to Z Blogging Challenge

D is for Death Metal

by

Wanda Psycho

Death metal is a musical genre which focuses on dark and sometimes violent imagery. It generally utilizes aggressive, growling vocal stylings and loud, distorted guitar riffs.

Certain bands that fall into the death metal category may also be categorized as black metal, doom metal, or thrash metal. 

Black metal, death metal, and thrash metal were all influenced by the British extreme metal band Venom. The American metal band Slayer was particularly influential in the death and thrash metal camps. Of course one cannot talk about death metal without mentioning Death, which formed in Florida in 1983. 

There are too many great death metal bands to mention all of them in a short piece such as this one. 

Death metal subgenres include deathcore, Death/Doom, blackened death metal, Death and Roll, Goregrind, Deathgrind, technical Death metal, melodic Death metal, and Pornogrind.

I leave you with Death to wrap up this entry. Rest in peace, Chuck Schuldiner.

~Wanda~