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Rise of the Tyrant
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Former band of Angela Gossow, one of the first female singers to be in a successful extreme metal band.
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Arch Enemy
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With Oden on Our Side
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Swedish band often labelled as Viking metal Their lyrics are inspired by Norse mythology and history.
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Amon Amarth
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Piece of Time
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Jazz influenced technical death metal band from Florida. Other albums include 'Unquestionable Presence'.
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Atheist
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Slaughter of the Soul
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Swedish band who helped pioneer the 'Gothenburg Sound', featuring vocalist Tom Lindberg.
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At The Gates
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Severed Survival
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Influential California band featuring Chris Reifert, formerly of Death. Other albums include 'Mental Funeral' and 'Sh*tfun'.
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Autopsy
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The Satanist
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Controversy courting blackened death metal band from Poland, featuring frontman Nergal.
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Behemoth
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What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
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U.S. melodic death metal band whose former vocalist, Trevor Strnad, committed suicide in 2022, at the age of 41.
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The Black Dahlia Murder
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Nightmares Made Flesh
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Swedish death metal supergroup who has featured band members from Opeth, Katatonia and Paradise Lost.
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Bloodbath
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Those Once Loyal
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Prominent UK band whose early albums and artwork drew inspiration from the Warhammer 40K miniature war game.
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Bolt Thrower
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Hammer Smashed Face
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Band featuring George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher. They gained notoriety in the 90's for their gory album art and lyrics.
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Cannibal Corpse
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Heartwork
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UK band who were pioneers of grindcore & melodic death metal. Their lyrics led some to believe they were medical students.
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Carcass
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Bring Back the Plague
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US deathgrind band whose members were originally all vegan. Known for lyrical themes of animal rights & environmentalism.
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Cattle Decapitation
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Hate Crew Deathroll
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Finnish melodic death metal band featuring frontman Alexi Laiho, who passed away in 2020 as a result of alcohol abuse.
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Children of Bodom
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None So Vile
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Canadian technical death band once featuring vocalist Lord Worm, who left to become an English teacher.
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Cryptopsy
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Focus
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Florida band who were one of the 'Big Four' of technical death metal. They have since evolved into a prog rock/metal outfit.
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Cynic
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Fiction
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Swedish melodic death metal band who are one of the founding fathers of the Gothenburg scene.
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Dark Tranquillity
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Symbolic
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Highly influential band from Florida featuring Chuck Schuldiner, who passed away from brain cancer in 2001 at the age of 34.
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Death
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Winds of Creation
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Polish band whose tour bus collided with a truck in 2007, killing their drummer & leaving their vocalist paralyzed.
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Decapitated
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Once Upon The Cross
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Satanic Florida band featuring frontman Glen Benton, who has an upside down crucifix branded on his forehead.
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Deicide
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The Dethalbum
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Animated band who are the subject of Adult Swim's cartoon series Metalocalypse.
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Dethklok
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Conceived in Sewage
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Prominent 'slam' death metal band from Texas who broke up for several years due to singer Ruban Rosas's incarceration.
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Devourment
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Like an Everflowing Stream
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Another of the Swedish 'Big Four' who faced an obscenity charge in the UK for their 1991 song 'Skin Her Alive'.
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Dismember
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Storm of the Light's Bane
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Satanic Swedish black/death metal band of Jon Nödtveidt who was jailed for a 1997 murder & committed suicide in 2006.
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Dissection
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Wrong One to F**k With
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Offensively named US band featuring the dual vocal attack of John Gallagher & Sean Beasley.
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Dying Fetus
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Left Hand Path
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One of the Swedish 'Big Four' who invented the subgenre death 'n' roll with their 1993 album 'Wolverine Blues'.
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Entombed
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From Mars to Sirius
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French progressive death metal band known for their environmentalist and spiritual themes.
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Gojira
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Into the Grave
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Band featuring Ola Lindgren who is the only constant member, one of the 'Big Four' of Swedish death metal.
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Grave
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The Arrival
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Swedish melodic death metal band whose lyrical themes include aliens and abduction experiences.
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Hypocrisy
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Dawn of Possession
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US band formerly known as Rigor Mortis who are considered highly influential on the NYC death metal scene.
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Immolation
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Whoracle
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Band featuring vocalist Anders Fridén. Pioneers of the 'Gothenburg Sound', they are also considered influential on metalcore.
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In Flames
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Altars of Madness
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Florida death metal band who were one of the first to find commercial success, signing to a major label & receiving heavy rotation on MTV.
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Morbid Angel
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Harmony Corruption
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Pioneering UK grindcore band who went death metal later in their career, featuring vocalist Barney Greenway.
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Napalm Death
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Annihilation of the Wicked
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South Carolina band obsessed with Egyptian mythology.
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Nile
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Slowly We Rot
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Florida band featuring the brothers John and Donald Tardy.
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Obituary
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Consuming Impulse
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Dutch band known as one of Progressive Death Metal's 'Big Four'.
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Pestilence
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Seven Churches
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The first death metal band. Their singer was shot in a 1989 robbery & left paralyzed from the chest down, but continues to perform.
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Possessed
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Graveyard Classics
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Chris Barnes band after Cannibal Corpse, often the target of ridicule on social media.
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Six Feet Under
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Pierced From Within
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Highly influential NYC band once featuring vocalist Frank Mullen, who created death metal's guttural growled singing style.
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Suffocation
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Where No Life Dwells
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One of the 'Big Four' of Swedish death metal, and the first to use Viking themes in their lyrics.
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Unleashed
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Triumph Of Death
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Polish band whose name took inspiration from Star Wars.
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Vader
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