When anyone outside of the culture thinks of death metal they see the stereotyped bands like Cannibal Corpse, who are brutal beyond imagination. Arsis was the band to introduce me to the more melodic-stylings of death metal. Out of all the first death metal albums I listened to, this was the first to make me think “I really like this album.” Everything about this album makes it practically a perfect death metal album: it’s heavy in the places it’s supposed to be heavy and catchy in the places it’s supposed to be catchy. Or better, they create something even more iniquitous. As we all know Morbid Angel hasn’t exactly fallen into this category lately, I just hope with their newer material they fall back into their roots. This is an album where – no matter how many times I listen to it – my bones rattle and my hairs stick straight up. I have my own little list of go-to death metal albums, this is one of them. Their sound is so deep and guttural, it doesn’t even sound human – and no album represents this style better than their debut Altars of Madness. But how many of these bands sound like pure evil? Well, that’s what appealed to me about Morbid Angel. There are several adjectives I can give to death metal bands: brutal, annihilating, destructive, etc. I know this band is gonna perpetuate as one of the modern iconic death metal bands, and I’m glad to know I followed them throughout their career. As time grew I became an even bigger Black Dahlia Murder fan this band would inevitably make my list of Top 5 Favorite Death Metal Bands. I still find myself constantly listening to this album, whether it was me not wanting to listen to my teachers when I was younger…and I listen to this album for the same purpose of not listening to anyone or anything else. Regardless, this album has obviously stuck with me throughout the years. It almost seemed like this album just appeared on my iPod back in the day of its 2005 release. I’m honestly not sure how I got into this band. I hope ten is a good number to narrow it down. So I feel it’s appropriate to commemorate the bands and their albums that introduced me to this insane subculture. Hey, I could be in yoga pants drinking Starbucks – but I’m not because I get much more enjoyment out of headbanging to Carcass. Death metal didn’t just teach me the difference between bands such as Decrepit Birth and Aborted, but it taught me how it feels to be involved in a culture with similar ground. But lo and behold, this belligerent grunting that is commonly called death metal made me immerse into a world where “Kill the Christian” actually has meaning. Formerly being just an oddball with a high intellect and the need to yell at the world, I never felt much of a place of belonging. And just doing that little bit has changed the way I think of myself. Even members of Entombed-now split into rival factions-continue to lace their old-school death metal with thundering power grooves.It’s been roughly seven years that I’ve distinguished myself as a death metal fan. Today, the death 'n’ roll tradition is carried on by the likes of Doomriders, Death Breath, and others who don’t necessarily play death 'n’ roll exclusively. Later practitioners like Six Feet Under (U.S.), Gorefest (Holland), and Blackstar (UK) helped bring this infectious outcropping of extreme music worldwide, retaining death metal’s basic building blocks-heavily distorted and often detuned guitars, guttural vocals, blast beats, lyrics reveling in gore-but infusing the style with a righteous dose of classic-rock swing.
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First associated with Entombed’s ferocious 1993 album Wolverine Blues-which saw the renowned Swedish band embracing their lifelong love of Kiss and incorporating thick rock grooves into their furious death metal onslaught-death 'n’ roll began as a largely Scandinavian phenomenon. As death metal began splintering into a hundred subgenres, only one emphasized its foundational relationship with rock 'n’ roll.