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Death Metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically features fast tempos, low-tuned guitars, high-pitched screaming vocals, and heavily distorted guitar riffs. It emerged in the early 1980s in the United States and the United Kingdom, drawing influence from thrash metal and early black metal. Its lyrical themes often include death, horror, war, and the occult. Death metal has been a commercially successful genre, particularly in the early 21st century.

Death metal has its roots in the early 1980s, when bands such as Venom, Slayer, and Celtic Frost combined thrash metal and early black metal. These bands often drew from horror and science fiction films, and their lyrics often focused on topics such as death, war, and the occult. By the late 1980s, death metal had become one of the most popular extreme metal genres in the world. In the 1990s, death metal bands such as Death, Obituary, and Cannibal Corpse gained mainstream success, and death metal began to become more commercially viable. In the early 2000s, death metal bands such as Behemoth, Goatwhore, and The Black Dahlia Murder began to gain a following.

Today, death metal is one of the most popular extreme metal genres, and it continues to evolve and diversify. It is often divided into subgenres such as melodic death metal, technical death metal, and grindcore. Death metal is popular around the world, with bands from North America, Europe, and Asia all contributing to the genre.