DEATH METAL

Death metal uses tremolo strummed power chords in phrasal riffs, creating an internal dialogue of melody to project a narrative which takes us from a starting point through internal conflict to an ending radically removed from the start. This often complex music relies heavily on chromatic scales and solos that resemble sonic sculpture more than a reliance on scales or harmony, and use "modal stripes" or repeated interval patterns (such as a half interval followed by a whole) to maintain a mood. Inherently structuralist, death metal can be recognized by its "post-human" perspective, seeing the world through biology, history, warfare and mythology instead of the "I/me/mine" viewpoint of a modern society.
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 Centinex Ceremonium Ceremony Cryptopsy dead horse Death Deathstrike Deceased Deeds of Flesh Deicide Demigod Demilich Deteriorate

Dismember Divine Eve 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 Necrophiliac Necrophobic Nihilist 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 Uncanny Unleashed Vader Winterwolf

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