![]() The band’s debut-frequently cited as death metal’s first proper LP-is propelled by a wrathful snarl and thrashing fast riffs with the kind of sinister sonic intent that gives credence to this band’s influence on metal bands yet to come. It’s easy to forget that Primus’ Larry Lalonde played with death metal pioneers Possessed, as atmosphere and groove are not what fueled the Bay Area Band. While we can’t claim to cover every last important band in the development of this ever-evolving form of metal, we trace the path from its earliest guttural bellows to its prog odysseys to UFOs, and various stops in between-deathgrind, prog death, brutal death, even deathcore-through 30 of its most essential albums. A surface level survey might not reveal it as such, but death metal is one of the most versatile forms of heavy music, and thanks in large part to a new renaissance of young American bands, its future looks very promising.Īs death metal’s first proper album turns 35 this year, we’re taking a look back at the history of death metal in North America, from the Bay Area to Tampa Bay, and from Montreal to Mexico City. There’s a form of death metal in every country, in every scene, and it’s as strong as its ever been, in large part because it keeps evolving. ![]() And with the incubation of these parallel inspirations, a new American art form was born: Death metal.Īs death metal evolved and made its way around the globe, other localities began to develop their own unique takes on the sound, be it the streamlined, buzzsaw guitars of Swedish death metal, or the Napalm Death-influenced violence of UK death. ![]() In the Bay Area, Possessed had taken the immediacy of thrash and made it more brutal, more dissonant, while in Florida, Death (formerly known as Mantas) had merged the aesthetics of horror with a more technical and intense metal hybrid that revealed new extremes in heavy metal. But in the 1980s in near-opposite corners of the country, a wholly American art form had begun to bubble up from fetid swamps, recognizing and reflecting the ugliness inherent in American society rather than upholding our ideals. ![]() The United States has a handful of unique art forms it can call its own-jazz and the serial superhero comic, to name a few that have held up well over the years. would be the point of origin for one of the most brutal forms of heavy metal. In hindsight, it makes perfect sense that the U.S. ![]()
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