This is an introduction to the music genre of death metal, it includes the history and artists.

2. Death Metal is an extreme form of heavy metal that was
born from the influence of thrash bands like Slayer and
Venom in the 1980′s.
Death metal would take the speed of thrash and
bring it a few steps further concentrating more on
heavier guitar distortion, double-bass blast beat
drumming, various abrupt tempo changes, and
the creation of deep vocals.
Death metal took the lyrical themes of metal
in a sinister direction. Songs include the
subjects of hyper-violence, horror, murder,
Satanism, mysticism, anti-religion, and
politics. There is some argument about where
the term death metal came from, but the
majority of fans believe it came from the 1984
demo of the band Possessed, which contained

3. By the late 80′s and early 90′s death metal had grown a
huge cult following and many record labels began to
snatch up as many bands as they could. This mass
signing of bands caused death metal to reach its peak in
1993. Some bands have had some commercial success
and remain popular to this day, but for the most part
death metal failed to breakthrough into the
mainstream. This is what many true metal fans find
appealing about the genre. The peak in 1993 would
lead to the creation a few new death metal subgenres
that would help to diversify it and bring death metal to
a wider audience.

4. Death Metal Bands
• Dying fetus
• Grave
• LIK
• Possessed
• Postmortem
• Deicide
• Torture Division
• Bloodbath
• Vomitory