I agree that a lot of the imagery and song titles surrounding Death Metal are ridiculous but when it started to push Thrash Metal to one side in the late 80's with it's complex time changes and heavier riffing, you could'nt help but be struck by it, if that was your genre of choice back then. Death and Obituary still remain the quintessential Death Metal bands for me.

I think Death Metal is a lot of fun. These lyrics from Entombed's "Full of Hell" always crack me up.

I've got a 24-lane highway
going straight thru my head
a peace of mind like a brainstorm
and thoughts that knocks me dead
I've got sympathy for the devil
and demon is in my vein
I'm organized chaos
but don't call me stupid I'm insane
At my worst I'm at my best
wide awake but let sanity rest
I'm full of hell
all kinds of hell.

...by the way, little good devil worshiping has done for them financially. lol

Ah, thank you, a good post.

My favorite Death Metal bands:

-Abysmal Dawn (Death Metal)
-Obscura (Technical Death Metal)
-Nile (Technical Death Metal)
-The Absence (Melodic Death Metal)
-Ignominious Incarceration (Technical Melodic Death Metal)
-Necrophagist (Technical Death Metal)
-Dark Lunacy (Symphonic Melodic Death Metal)
-Amon Amarth (Melodic Death Metal)
-Dying Fetus (Technical Brutal Death Metal)
-Psycroptic (Technical Brutal Death Metal)
-At the Gates (Melodic Death Metal)
-Haggard (Symphonic Death Metal)

I might post s'more later

Psycroptic are good musicians, but none of their songs are terribly memorable for me.

At The Gates
Suffocation
Nile

kalmah

one of the only death metal bands worth listening too.

at the gates
lake of tears
in flames( old)
napalm death

You'd probably dig other melodeath bands.

Gojira

Decapitated

Meshuggah

Morbid Angel

Death

Obituary

Dissected

Figured I'd narrow this down to a smaller list, and one that's in order:

Necrophagist
Abysmal Dawn
Nile
Obscura

Evocation, Obscura, Cesspool Of Vermin, Nile, Vader, Dying Fetus, Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, Cannibal Corpse...

Ok, here we go


My favorites;
Asphyx
Tribulation
Repulsion (Death/Grind, whatever I count them as both cuz they're just that good haha.)
Carcass
Autopsy (First two are amazing, Mental Funeral is one of my favorites ever.)
Possessed
Death
Atheist
Obituary
Krisiun
Pestilence
Entombed
Bolt Thrower
Nocturnus
Morbid Angel
Spawn of Possession
Malevolent Creation
Suffocation
Edge of Sanity
Theory in Practice

If I could only listen to 3 death metal bands, without a doubt:

1. Death
2. Nile
3. Bolt Thrower (Bias towards them being English) over Orbituary

DM aficionados should get their hands on anything by !T.O.O.H.! Recently defunct, but awesome.