DEATH METAL

Where speed metal and hardcore warned us of the apocalypse, death metal assumed it as society wailed on toward demise with a whimper and not any drastic warning-type motion. Civilization has become decadent and valueless, and escaping the cycle of rebellion death metal projects a world before the moralization of values, in which personal values can triumph. Death metal denies inherent value in tone and ideal, and deconstructs the overbearing sense of world and social bounds around us with primal music bearing complexity in texture and theme. The music and lifestyles of the death metal genre employ intuition and logic to replace deconstructed illusion with structuralist sensibility and a sensitivity toward existential value. Unlike most music which focuses on humanist or romantic themes, death metal articulates the lawless extremity of nature.

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

B E S T   E V E R 1. Massacra - Final Holocaust 2. Deicide - Legion 3. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick 4. Therion - Beyond Sanctorum 5. Sepultura - Morbid Visions 6. Incantation - Onward to Golgotha 7. Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity 8. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence 9. Obituary - Cause of Death 10. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten 11. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence 12. Dismember - Like an Ever-Flowing Stream 13. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus 14. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours 15. Demilich - Nespithe 16. Asphyx - The Rack C O M P I L A T I O N S Projections of a Stained Mind (C.B.R. Records) Harmony Dies Vol. 1 (Slayer Magazine) Pantalgia (MBR Records) Live Death: Vol 1 (Restless) Sampler Volume I (JL America) Deterioration of the Senses (Morbid Metal) Book I: Induction (Hits Underground) Reviews have mp3 sound samples for each album, coverscan, tracklist and label contact information.