What is DEATH METAL?

So i've decided to make a few posts on Metal music sub-genres. Many people think there's just METAL, that this is just one genre and of'course they think Metallica is heavy as shit and it's also the only band they know.

So first sub-genre i'm going to introduce to you all is Death Metal.

Death metal belongs to the Extreme Metal term that covers a bunch of extreme styles such as death metal, grindcore, doom metal, black metal etc.

Well let's start with Death Metal now.

WHAT IS DEATH METAL:
Death Metal was influenced by other genres such as Thrash Metal, First Wave Of Black Metal and Hardcore Punk.
It is tipically known for its aggressive growling vocals, low tuned and heavily distorted guitars and very fast and powerfull drumming with a lot of fast double bass techniques and blast beats.
Lyrical theme in Death Metal is of'course anti-religon, horror, occultism, rape, torture, mutilation etc.

QUICK HISTORY ON DEATH METAL:
It started in the mid 1980s with the bands like Venom, Celtic Frost and Possessed but those bands were just the main influence to the pioneers of death metal which are Death, Obituary and Morbid Angel while Possessed is concidered to be the first Death Metal band.

While Possessed are concidered to be thefirst Death Metal band, a band called Death are widley concidered to be the godfathers of Death Metal. Founded by a guitarist and vocalist called Chuck Schuldiner in 1983 they started and influenced so many bands such as Morbid Angel, Massacre, Atheist, Obituary, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse etc. but i might be making a post about Death (band) itself some other day so let this be it for now.

EVOLUTION:
While the genre evolved it created a lot of sub-genres such as Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Goregrind, Deathcore, Blackened Death Metal and so on and so on.
So as we see Death Metal is responsible for a bunch of other sub-genres and helped create many really great bands.

DEATH METAL NOWDAYS:
Since the 1980s there are so many bands dedicated to Death Metal i'd probably need 24 hours just to write all of them down but the most famous one is definitely a band called Cannibal Corpse.
Cannibal Corpse were formed in December in 1988 and they since then released 13 studio albums.
The band is widely known for its controversial material like songs such as Fucked With A Knife, I Cum Blood, Hammer Smahed Face, Butchered At Birth etc. and the horrific but so damn cool album covers.
There are of'course a lot of modern death metal band worth checking out such as Gorguts, Dying Fetus, Cattle Decapitation, Nile, Necrophagist, Misery Index, Revocation, Sunless, Artificial Brain ... and of'course some old school death metal masters like Grave, Incantation, Skinless, Carcass, Exhumed, Entombed, Malevolent Creation, Sinister...

Conclusion:
While the Death Metal genre became really popular and had grown a huge cult following, the mass band signing by record labels made death metal reach its peak in 1993 but very few band managed to make a comercial success but for the most part Death Metal failed to go mainstream and kind of remained an underground genre.

Hope you enjoyed reading! I'll be making more posts like this one in the coming days.