Death metal is a form of heavy metal music which emerged in the US and Canada during the 1980s with bands like Death, Morbid Angel, Suffocation and Cannibal Corpse.
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During the 1990s, death metal grew in many directions, spawning a rich variety of subgenres, including the following:
- 'Symphonic' or 'melodic' death metal, where harmonies and melodies are much more present in the guitarwork. This subgenre is mostly associated with Sweden, especially in Gothenburg, as well as Norway and Finland (see Scandinavian death metal).
- 'Grind' metal (grindcore) is basically an even more extreme variant of death metal. Like death metal itself, this subgenre spawned in the US.
- 'Technical' death metal is a narrow, but influential subgenre where musical complexity and skill is the main focus. It is represented by bands like Cynic, Atheist, Theory in Practice and eventually the originators of death metal themselves, Death.
Other notable death metal bands:
- Amorphis (Finland)
- At the Gates (Sweden)
- Anathema (UK)
- Autopsy (USA)
- Benediction (UK)
- Cannibal Corpse (USA)
- Carcass (UK)
- Coroner (Switzerland)
- Cryptopsy (Canada)
- Death (USA)
- Decapitated (Poland)
- Dying Fetus (USA)
- Edge of Sanity (Sweden)
- Entombed (Sweden)
- Gorguts (Canada)
- Harakiri (USA)
- Hypocrisy (Sweden)
- Katatonia (Sweden)
- Immolation (USA)
- In Flames (Sweden)
- Malevolent Creation (USA)
- Monstrosity (USA)
- Morbid Angel (USA)
- Mortician (USA)
- Myrkskog (Norway)
- Nile (USA)
- Obituary (USA)
- Opeth (Sweden)
- Regurgitate (Sweden)
- Salem (Israel)
- Sinister (Netherlands)
- Substance for God (Israel)
- Suffocation (USA)
- Syllogism
- Vader (Poland)
- Zeni Geva (Japan)
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