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2 unusual facts about Death Metal


Exit Paradise

The album features clear Death metal influences, as marked by the use of distorted guitars and the change in Carl Fulli's vocal style.

The Treasures Within

The Treasures Within is the second album by Swedish death/thrash metal band Merciless.


28 Days Later: The Soundtrack Album

The song was covered by British Death Metal band The Rotted on their album Get Dead Or Die Trying, and indie developer James Silva for the Xbox Live Arcade game The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, in a Guitar Hero style mini-game segment where the protagonists play guitar solos.

Adolfo Constanzo

Brujería, a death metal band whose lyrics focus on Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex and drug smuggling, put a picture of a severed head (later nicknamed Coco Loco) in their album Matando Güeros.

Blood for Death

Blood for Death is the second demo release by death metal band Winterwolf (now known as Deathchain).

Brahmavidya: Transcendental I

Brahmavidya: Transcendental I is the fifth studio album by Singaporean death metal band Rudra.

Cranial Impalement

Cranial Impalement is the debut studio album by American death metal band Disgorge.

Cult of Death

Cult of Death is the third studio release by death/thrash metal band Deathchain.

Dan Biggin

Dan Biggin/Danny B is a guitarist and bassist performing with Chilean thrash band Criminal, Chilean death metal band Pentagram Chile and also involved in his own side projects Takoma Star (punk rock) and Flight 19 (instrumental – avant garde).

Dan Swanö

Swanö has also released a solo progressive death metal album entitled Moontower, on which he showcases his multi-instrumental talent, playing all instruments (guitar, bass, drums, keyboard) as well as providing all the vocal work.

Darkthrone

They were a death metal band by the name of Black Death whose members were Gylve Nagell, Ivar Enger, and Anders Risberget.

Daveyboyz

David's popular video sketch 'Death Metal Vicar', which features two vicars performing an Easter church service in the style of a death metal song, has also been included in the latest Rude Tube episode of the new worldwide series release.

Deadmeat Disciples

Deadmeat Disciples is the first studio release by death metal band Deathchain.

Death... Will Come Your Way

Will Come Your Way is the first demo release by death metal band Winterwolf (now named Deathchain).

Deathbound

However, their third album We Deserve Much Worse, saw the band drop the death metal elements of their music in favour of a faster-paced grindcore style.

Deathrash Assault

Deathrash Assault is the second studio release by death metal band Deathchain.

Diminishing Between Worlds

Diminishing Between Worlds is the second studio album by American death metal band Decrepit Birth.

Five Across the Eyes

Five Across the Eyes is the second album by Danish death metal band Iniquity released in 1999 through Mighty Music.

Gone Postal

Gone Postal is a four-piece Icelandic death metal band from Kópavogur, Iceland, founded in 2007 by Haukur Hannes and Nökkvi G. Gylfason.

Hatebeak

Hatebeak is a death metal band, formed by Blake Harrison, Mark Sloan, and Waldo, a 21-year-old Congo African Grey Parrot.

Hibernus Mortis

Taking influence from a variety of sources, musically the band took inspiration from the old-school death metal bands like Incantation, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Death, Dismember, Immolation, Entombed, Obituary, Vader and Suffocation just to name a few.

Horsecore: An Unrelated Story That's Time Consuming

Horsecore: An Unrelated Story That's Time Consuming is the independently released debut album by the Houston, Texas based death/thrash metal band Dead Horse.

Jean Delville

Swedish Thrash Metal band Hexenhaus used this painting for the cover of their album A Tribute to Insanity (1988), while American death metal group Morbid Angel used this painting also for the cover of their second album, Blessed Are the Sick (1991).

Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion

Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion is the third and final album by avant-garde progressive death metal band Pan.Thy.Monium released in 1996.

Loudblast

In 1991 they recorded the album "Disincarnate" in Morrisound Recording studios in Tampa, Florida, and the result was a pure death metal album.

Magane

This combines black metal, death metal and thrash metal elements with traditional Japanese influences, not only musically but also lyrically, especially with references to gods in Japanese mythology such as Izanagi and Izanami, and also the Japanese version of Hell known as Yomi.

Matt Bachand

He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also a backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall.

Misanthropic Carnage

Misanthropic Carnage is a studio album released the by the death metal band Severe Torture in 2002.

Northern Hyperblast Live

Northern Hyperblast Live is a live album by Canadian death metal band Kataklysm.

On the Wings of Phoenix

On the wings of Phoenix is the second full length studio album by French death metal band, Symbyosis.

Parallels of Infinite Torture

Parallels of Infinite Torture is the fourth studio album by American death metal band Disgorge.

Piotr Wiwczarek

Piotr Wiwczarek (born 22 October 1965 in Poland in Olsztyn), also known as Peter, (ex nickname Behemoth) is a Polish guitarist and vocalist who is the frontman for the death metal band Vader.

Punky Brüster – Cooked on Phonics

Cooked on Phonics tells the story of a fictitious death metal band from south-central Poland called Cryptic Coroner that sells out their metal look and sound to become a commercial punk rock band called Punky Brüster (the band's name is a pun on the 80's U.S. television series Punky Brewster).

Serenadium

Serenadium is the first full-length release by Danish death metal band Iniquity released in 1996.

Skin the Living

Skin the Living is the first demo by American death metal band Jungle Rot.

Spiritually Uncontrolled Art

Spiritually Uncontrolled Art is an EP by the Swedish death metal band Liers in Wait.

Supreme Vehemence

Supreme Vehemence is the final album by Japanese death metal band Vomit Remnants.

Sylvain Houde

Sylvain Houde was the singer and lyricist of the Canadian death metal band Kataklysm.

Tension Prophecy

Tension Prophecy is a technical brutal Death Metal band from Tehran, Iran, formed by Behnam, Mohammad, and Arash M in 2008.

Terror Regime

Terror Regime is the seventh studio album by American death metal band Jungle Rot, released through Victory Records on March 19, 2013.

The Thoughts from Which I Hide

The Thoughts from Which I Hide is the first album by death metal band Vehemence.

Ultratumba

Ultratumba (translation: "Life After Death") is the name of a compilation released by Spanish grind/death band Machetazo in 2006 on Spanish label Living Dead Society.

Waking the Cadaver

On August 10, 2010, Waking The Cadaver released their second full length album titled as Beyond Cops. Beyond God. Waking the Cadaver supported tours for death metal bands such as Napalm Death and Immolation.

Zaraza

Formed in Montreal, Canada, in early 1993, Zaraza was born out of a meeting between newly arrived Polish immigrant Jacek (The DoomHammer) and local Montreal industrial/noise artist Grzegorz Haus ov Doom, with the object of fully integrating the extremes of doom/death metal with industrial.


see also

A Taste for Blood

It was originally released in 2002 and later re-released as a split-CD with the Dutch death metal band Severe Torture.

Ansur

Ansur is a progressive extreme metal trio from Drammen, Norway with elements from both black and death metal, and 1970s progressive rock as well as other genres.

Archeon

Made of Hate, a Polish melodic death metal band (transformed from the band Archeon).

Ashtavakra

The fourteenth and last track of the 2009 album Brahmavidya: Transcendental I by the Singaporean Death Metal band Rudra is named Majestic Ashtavakra after Ashtavakra.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti

His grandson, Ravi Bhadriraju was the lead guitarist in famous death metal band, Job for a Cowboy.

Big Dumb Face

Wes Borland set the project to the side once he quit Limp Bizkit in 2001 to start up progressive metal outfit Eat the Day, but once Eat the Day fell through and Borland briefly rejoined Limp Bizkit in late 2004, Borland recorded and wrote a new Big Dumb Face thrash/death metal song called "Darkness Becomes", which was available on Borland's website, but now is available on the Big Dumb Face website.

Carlos E. Vela

Musically, he is mostly influenced by drummers Bobby Jarzombek, Vinnie Paul and Phil Collins and by bands like Necrophagist, Spastic Ink, Bottled Science and Megadeth defining his style as mixture between Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal, Death Metal and Progressive Rock.

Daysend

In 1995, Bilbija had formed a death metal band called Deadspawn and with the eventual line-up of himself plus Dave Micallef (vocals, guitar), Bob Latsombath (bass) and Wayne Morris (drums), that group had released an album on Warhead Records in 1999 before eventually splitting up when Micallef left in mid-2001.

Dead Unburied

Dead Unburied is an album by the Swedish death metal band Paganizer.

Dreaming with the Dead

"Dreaming with the Dead" is the full-length studio debut by death metal band Ripping Corpse, released in 1991.

Dreams of the Carrion Kind

Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic gave the album 4.5 stars of 5 calling it "state-of-the-art death metal in the eyes of most enthusiasts of the genre."

Erik Andersson

Erik Andersson (drummer), drummer for Swedish progressive death metal band Godgory

Fall of the Despised

Fall of the Despised is a studio album released by the brutal death metal band Severe Torture in 2005.

Feasting on Blood

Feasting on Blood is the debut album by the brutal death metal band Severe Torture, released by Hammerheart Records on October 9, 2000.

Final Holocaust

Final Holocaust is the debut album by the French death metal band Massacra.

Hammer Smashed Face

An abridged version of the song "Hammer Smashed Face" appeared in the film, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, while Jim Carrey was present at a death metal concert featuring Cannibal Corpse.

I Ejaculate Fire

"I Ejaculate Fire" is a song by virtual death metal band Dethklok, taken from Dethalbum III.

I'm on Drugs

It contains the title track, "I'm On Drugs" and the death metal version of "Candy" by Ten Masked Men, who won the XFM covers competition.

In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead

In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead is the debut album by the Swedish death metal band Unanimated.

Jeff Walker

Jeffrey Walker (born 1969), British musician in grindcore/death metal band Carcass

Johan Nunez

It was announced in June 2013 that he and Nightrage singer Antony Hämäläinen would be leaving the band to form a new Modern Death Metal band called Meridian Dawn.

Juan 'Punchy' Gonzalez

Punchy is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local Chapter 321 and has worked with a range of artists from Broadway to Norwegian Death Metal acts.

Kafir

The song "Kafir" by American technical death metal band Nile from their sixth album Those Whom the Gods Detest uses as subject matter the violent attitudes that Muslim extremists have toward Kafirs.

Kittie

Also in 2006, vocalist Morgan Lander provided vocals on the song "It Turns to Rust", from the album In the Arms of Devastation, by the Canadian death metal band Kataklysm.

Knowing

The Knowing, an album by the doom/death metal band Novembers Doom

Korneuburg

Helmuth Lehner (born 1968), singer and guitarist of the blackened death metal band Belphegor

Maruta

Maruta (band), a grindcore/death metal band from Florida, signed to Willowtip Records

Meant to Suffer

Meant to Suffer is the first demo released by the Swedish Brutal Death Metal band Insision.

Michael Weikath

In 1984, the band had signed a deal with Noise Records and recorded two songs for a Noise compilation record called Death Metal.

Necrophagia

The group was assembled in Wellsville, Ohio, in 1983 and is credited as being one of the very first musical groups to be classified within the death metal genre.

No Divine Rapture

No Divine Rapture is an album by the Swedish death metal band Paganizer.

Peter Theobalds

He was originally guitarist for a multitude of underground bands including Xerox Girls (pop punk - 1992), Photographing Girls (psychedelic pop/rock - 1992-4), Three Days By Camel (Instrumental/experimental 1993-4), Salem Orchid (death/black/psychedelic metal 1994 - precursor to Akercocke) and eventually turned bassist with indie rock band Fosca and latterly British progressive death metal band Akercocke from 1997-2007 with whom he recorded four full length studio albums.

Prior Park Landscape Garden

A picture of the Palladian bridge located in the Prior Park Landscape Garden is used as the cover art for the progressive death metal band Opeth's second album Morningrise.

Rock Palace

Artists: Frosted Glass (SPb), Xe-None (Siberia), Cattle Extermination (SPb), Devilish Distance (death metal, Samara), Moray Eel (Moscow), Perimeter (SPb), Stardown (SPb), Vergeltung (Moscow), Master (Moscow), O.X. (Pushkin), Dismember (Sweden), Fall of the Leave (Finland), Grave (Sweden), Trol Gnet Ell (SPb), Swallow the Sun (Finland) .

Stephanie Opal Weinstein

During her time with Anselmo, Weinstein joined several of his side projects including Viking Crown, the unreleased Body and Blood, and the death metal band Necrophagia.

Taneli Jarva

In the beginning of his career with Sentenced he used high-pitched growling vocals serving the purpose of their Death Metal music, on the albums North from Here and the EP The Trooper (Iron Maiden Cover).

Techxetra

The Indian death metal band Bhayanak Maut performed and judged the finals of Metanoia 2011.

The Justice of Suffering

The Justice of Suffering is a doom metal song from the Finnish death metal band, Swallow the Sun features the vocals of Jonas Renkse of Katatonia during the chorus.

Thomas Karlsson

Karlsson is the lead vocalist of the symphonic death metal band Shadowseeds along with fellow Dragon Rouge member Tommie Eriksson, who also was Therion's guitarist and drummer.

Thrill Kill

American death metal band Dying Fetus also had songs incorporated into the game, but were not recorded exclusively for Thrill Kill.

Tommy Talamanca

In 2011, Talamanca and Dutch fretless bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling (former member of Pestilence and Obscura) announced that they formed a new project named 'Nufutic', that will incorporate a wide range of music, including a fusion of Death Metal, jazz fusion, flamenco, etc.

Unbound

Unbound, formerly the name of Deathbound, a four-piece death metal band from Vaasa, Finland

Used and Abused

Used & Abused In Live We Trust a DVD release by Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames

Willowtip Records

In mid-2007, Willowtip entered into a partnership with Dutch death metal record label Neurotic Records to distribute their previously unavailable releases in North America.