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Death metal.

DEATH METAL

Where speed metal and hardcore warned us of the apocalypse, death metal assumed it as society wailed on toward demise with a whimper and not any drastic warning-type motion. Civilization has become decadent and valueless, and escaping the cycle of rebellion death metal projects a world before the moralization of values, in which personal values can triumph. Death metal denies inherent value in tone and ideal, and deconstructs the overbearing sense of world and social bounds around us with primal music bearing complexity in texture and theme. The music and lifestyles of the death metal genre employ intuition and logic to replace deconstructed illusion with structuralist sensibility and a sensitivity toward existential value. Unlike most music which focuses on humanist or romantic themes, death metal articulates the lawless extremity of nature.

House recommendations: Morbid Angel, Slayer, Monstrosity, Cryptopsy, Suffocation, Therion and Vader.

Abomination
Acerbus
Adramelech
Amorphis
Ancient Rites
Asgard
Asphyx
At the Gates
Atheist
Atrocity
Autopsy
Baphomet
Cadaver
Capharnaum
Cartilage
Cenotaph
Ceremonium
Cryptopsy
dead horse
Death
Deathstrike
Deceased
Deeds of Flesh
Deicide
Demigod
Demilich
Deteriorate
Dismember
Entombed
Fleshcrawl
God Macabre
Gorguts
Grotesque
Gutted
Hate Eternal
Hetsheads
Hypocrisy
Immolation
Imprecation
Incantation
Infester
Intestine Baalism
Kataklysm
Kilcrops
Lepra
Luciferion
Magus
Martyr
Massacra
Massacre
Master
Molested
Monstrosity
Morbid Angel
Morpheus Descends
Mortem
Mortuary
Mythic
Necromass
Necrophobic
Nuclear Death
Num Skull
Obituary
Oppressor
Pessimist
Pestilence
Possessed
Pyrexia
Rigor Mortis
Rise
Revenant
Sadistic Intent
Seance
Sentenced
Sepultura
Sinister
Slayer
Suffocation
Thanatopsis
Therion
Torchure
Unanimated
Unleashed
Vader

B E S T   E V E R

1. Massacra - Final Holocaust
2. Deicide - Legion
3. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
4. Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
5. Sepultura - Morbid Visions
6. Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
7. Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity
8. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
9. Obituary - Cause of Death
10. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
11. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
12. Dismember - Like an Ever-Flowing Stream
13. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
14. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
15. Demilich - Nespithe
16. Asphyx - The Rack


Compilations
Sampler Volume I (JL America)
Deterioration of the Senses (Morbid Metal)
Book I: Induction (Hits Underground)

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