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| | Name | Death metal | | Stylistic origins | Thrash metal, early black metal | | Cultural origins | Mid 1980s, United States (particularly Florida) | | Typical instruments | Vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums | | Mainstream popularity | Underground in 1980s, gradual rise until peaking at small to moderate in early 1990s. Increasing diversity and legitimacy since 2000s. | | Subgenres | Melodic death metal, technical death metal | | Subgenre list | List of death metal genres | | Fusion genres | Deathcore, blackened death metal, death/doom, deathgrind, death 'n' roll | | Regional scenes | Florida, New York, Sweden, United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan, Poland | | Other topics | Extreme metal, death growl, blast beat, list of death metal bands |
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Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Building from the musical structure of thrash metal and early black metal, death metal emerged during the mid 1980s. Metal acts such as Slayer, Kreator, Celtic Frost, and Venom were very important influences to the crafting of the genre. Possessed and Death, along with bands such as Obituary, Carcass, Deicide, Suffocation and Morbid Angel are often considered pioneers of the genre. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, death metal gained more media attention as popular genre niche record labels like Combat, Earache and Roadrunner began to sign death metal bands at a rapid rate. Since then, death metal has diversified, spawning a variety of subgenres.
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