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Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Building from the musical structure of thrash metal, death metal emerged during the mid 1980s. It...
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Brutal death metal
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...
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Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses very slow tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much 'thicker' or 'heavier' sound than other metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and...
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Goregrind
Goregrind is a musical genre influenced by grindcore and death metal. As the name suggests, goregrind can be seen as a sub-genre of grindcore or death metal. According to Matthew Harvey,
Despite the early impact of albums such as Repulsion's...
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Melodic death metal
Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal which combines the melody of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) with the intensity of death metal. The genre is also known as Gothenburg metal, a reference to...
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Avant garde metal
Avant-garde metal, experimental metal, or art metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative, avant-garde elements, large-scale experimentation, and the use of non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures....
Technical death metal
Technical death metal (sometimes called tech death) is a subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. As death metal bands evolved, some experimented with elements from a variety of genres. As a result of such...
Dark metal
Dark metal is a subjective term used to describe metal bands from various genres that have combined traits from gothic metal, doom metal, black metal as well as some symphonic elements, synthesizer use, acoustic guitar experimentation and/or...
Deathcore
Deathcore is an amalgamation of two musical styles: metalcore and death metal.
Deathcore is heavily influenced by modern death metal in its speed, heaviness, and approach to chromatic, heavily palm muted riffing and dissonance. Traditional growls,...
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Blackened death metal
Blackened death metal is a style of extreme metal that mixes elements of black metal and death metal. During the mid 1980s, bands such as Hellhammer and Celtic Frost straddled the still-vague genres of thrash metal, black metal and death metal. It...
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Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of death/doom...
Deathrash
Deathrash, also known as death thrash, is a thrash metal/death metal crossover. The genre is defined by its thrash metal picking patterns, death metal tempos, and deathrash vocals, which are a cross between the hardcore punk influenced vocals of...
Deathgrind
Deathgrind (also known as death-grind or death/grind) is a musical genre that mixes death metal and grindcore. The genre, along with pornogrind, is related to the goregrind subgenre. Zero Tolerance described deathgrind as "grindcore and brutal death...
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Swedecore
Swedecore (also known as Gothencore and melodic deathcore) is a nickname for the most common style of metalcore music today, combining the melodies and guitar harmonies of melodic death metal bands such as In Flames and At the Gates with the...
