Brutal death metal is a subgenre of death metal which focuses more upon speed, and advanced playing technique in the genre of death metal.
Brutal death metal developed in the early 1990s, as an outgrowth of death metal. The first hints of brutal death came from the band Cannibal Corpse, formed in 1988, which began to push death metal into more extreme levels, shaping the sound of brutal death metal. It wasn't until 1991 that brutal death metal em...
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