The rules for inclusion were that a) the bands had to be specifically death metal (we love you, Rivers Of Nihil, but you’re your own weird beast), b) the bands had to be active, c) their first full-length albums had to have come out in 2010 or later, and d) they had to have at least one full studio LP out (sorry, Oxalate!). To celebrate this creative resurrection, we cataloged 50 bands who are championing the genre’s various foul and brutal niches right now. The album is notable in its different tone and quality from the bands 1987 debut, it is the first example of Scott Burns work heard on many of the death metal and grindcore albums of that era. 200 Stab Wounds Slave to the Scalpel (2021) We could go on and on about atonal and avant-garde works from the 2020s, but let’s shine a light on a band giving new energy to classic death. A new wave of crashing, creative, and most of all diverse death metal bands has crashed onto the scene in recent years, making the genre once more a place to find unique and insane talent. Leprosy is the second studio album by American death metal band Death, released on November 16, 1988, by Combat Records. But like any musical culture, the outlandish pioneers gave way to bands wanting to sound just like them, and so eventually death metal became a body of music with discernible and at times cliched boundaries.īut if the past 10 years have proved anything, it’s that death metal still has fertile soil in which to dig a shallow grave. When the art form officially broke off of thrash in the very late ’80s and swelled dangerously in the early ’90s, it was a strange and experimental genre, in some ways more resonant with the disgusting extremism of punk than metal’s sword-and-stone fantasy. 69: Marvin Gaye: I Want You (design by Ernie Barnes) All of Marvin Gaye’s cool album covers are works of art in a way, but Ernie Barnes’s ‘Sugar Shack,’ which graces the cover of I Want. Before it became the genre every non-metal fan uses to imitate what extreme music sounds like, death metal was beautifully weird.
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