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unusual facts about extreme metal



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.

Corpse paint

In the 1980s, Hellhammer, Venom, Death SS and King Diamond of Mercyful Fate (who used corpse paint as early as 1978 in his band Black Rose) were the first extreme metal groups to use corpse paint.

Dave Pybus

Dave Pybus (born 4 June 1970 in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, England) is an extreme metal musician, best known as the former bass player of Cradle of Filth.

Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood

British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth covered "Death Comes Ripping" for their 1999 release From the Cradle to Enslave.

Nefarious Realm

Nefarious Realm is a metal, hardcore, and extreme music-themed website and media company, founded by Matt Darcy in early 2006.

Terrorizer

After disbanding, its members gained recognition by playing in influential extreme metal bands, such as Morbid Angel (David Vincent, Pete Sandoval), Napalm Death (Jesse Pintado) and Nausea (Oscar Garcia, Alfred "Garvey" Estrada).

Zen of Screaming

The Zen of Screaming is an instructional DVD by Melissa Cross, a vocal coach whose speciality is "unclean" vocal techniques such as growled or screamed found in extreme metal and other styles of music.


see also

20 Years

20 Years of Noise 1985–2005, a compilation album of the Italian Extreme Metal band Necrodeath

Contemplations

Mere Contemplations, an album by extreme metal band Enslavement of Beauty from Norway

Great White North

Great White North Records, an extreme metal record label based in Sainte-Julie, Quebec

HD 122563

As the most extreme metal-poor star known, HD 122563's composition was crucial in constraining theories for galactic chemical evolution; in particular, its composition peculiarities provided signposts for understanding the accumulation of heavy elements by stellar nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy.

Necrophagist

Necrophagist was a headlining act for The Summer Slaughter Tour in 2007, which featured a wide variety of other extreme metal bands including Decapitated, Arsis, The Faceless, Cephalic Carnage, As Blood Runs Black, and Cattle Decapitation.

North from Here

Prior the release of North From Here the band had developed their playing skills further and established a more personal sound, drawing influence from a number of extreme metal bands including Atheist, Nocturnus, Bathory and the first release (Soulside Journey) by Darkthrone, but also rock bands such as Faith No More and Primus.

Sear Bliss

The first demo named The Pagan Winter was released in May and the atmospheric black metal music of Sear Bliss got to European extreme metal record labels.

Seizures in Barren Praise

Seizures in Barren Praise is the second full length album by extreme metal band, Trap Them.