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Death Metal Bands

Can you guess the names of these prominent death metal bands from the clues provided?
Bands are in alphabetical order.
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Last updated: March 15, 2024
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Rise of the Tyrant
Former band of Angela Gossow, one of the first female singers to be in a successful extreme metal band.
Arch Enemy
With Oden on Our Side
Swedish band often labelled as Viking metal Their lyrics are inspired by Norse mythology and history.
Amon Amarth
Piece of Time
Jazz influenced technical death metal band from Florida. Other albums include 'Unquestionable Presence'.
Atheist
Slaughter of the Soul
Swedish band who helped pioneer the 'Gothenburg Sound', featuring vocalist Tom Lindberg.
At The Gates
Severed Survival
Influential California band featuring Chris Reifert, formerly of Death. Other albums include 'Mental Funeral' and 'Sh*tfun'.
Autopsy
The Satanist
Controversy courting blackened death metal band from Poland, featuring frontman Nergal.
Behemoth
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
U.S. melodic death metal band whose former vocalist, Trevor Strnad, committed suicide in 2022, at the age of 41.
The Black Dahlia Murder
Nightmares Made Flesh
Swedish death metal supergroup who has featured band members from Opeth, Katatonia and Paradise Lost.
Bloodbath
Those Once Loyal
Prominent UK band whose early albums and artwork drew inspiration from the Warhammer 40K miniature war game.
Bolt Thrower
Hammer Smashed Face
Band featuring George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher. They gained notoriety in the 90's for their gory album art and lyrics.
Cannibal Corpse
Heartwork
UK band who were pioneers of grindcore & melodic death metal. Their lyrics led some to believe they were medical students.
Carcass
Bring Back the Plague
US deathgrind band whose members were originally all vegan. Known for lyrical themes of animal rights & environmentalism.
Cattle Decapitation
Hate Crew Deathroll
Finnish melodic death metal band featuring frontman Alexi Laiho, who passed away in 2020 as a result of alcohol abuse.
Children of Bodom
None So Vile
Canadian technical death band once featuring vocalist Lord Worm, who left to become an English teacher.
Cryptopsy
Focus
Florida band who were one of the 'Big Four' of technical death metal. They have since evolved into a prog rock/metal outfit.
Cynic
Fiction
Swedish melodic death metal band who are one of the founding fathers of the Gothenburg scene.
Dark Tranquillity
Symbolic
Highly influential band from Florida featuring Chuck Schuldiner, who passed away from brain cancer in 2001 at the age of 34.
Death
Winds of Creation
Polish band whose tour bus collided with a truck in 2007, killing their drummer & leaving their vocalist paralyzed.
Decapitated
Once Upon The Cross
Satanic Florida band featuring frontman Glen Benton, who has an upside down crucifix branded on his forehead.
Deicide
The Dethalbum
Animated band who are the subject of Adult Swim's cartoon series Metalocalypse.
Dethklok
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Conceived in Sewage
Prominent 'slam' death metal band from Texas who broke up for several years due to singer Ruban Rosas's incarceration.
Devourment
Like an Everflowing Stream
Another of the Swedish 'Big Four' who faced an obscenity charge in the UK for their 1991 song 'Skin Her Alive'.
Dismember
Storm of the Light's Bane
Satanic Swedish black/death metal band of Jon Nödtveidt who was jailed for a 1997 murder & committed suicide in 2006.
Dissection
Wrong One to F**k With
Offensively named US band featuring the dual vocal attack of John Gallagher & Sean Beasley.
Dying Fetus
Left Hand Path
One of the Swedish 'Big Four' who invented the subgenre death 'n' roll with their 1993 album 'Wolverine Blues'.
Entombed
From Mars to Sirius
French progressive death metal band known for their environmentalist and spiritual themes.
Gojira
Into the Grave
Band featuring Ola Lindgren who is the only constant member, one of the 'Big Four' of Swedish death metal.
Grave
The Arrival
Swedish melodic death metal band whose lyrical themes include aliens and abduction experiences.
Hypocrisy
Dawn of Possession
US band formerly known as Rigor Mortis who are considered highly influential on the NYC death metal scene.
Immolation
Whoracle
Band featuring vocalist Anders Fridén. Pioneers of the 'Gothenburg Sound', they are also considered influential on metalcore.
In Flames
Altars of Madness
Florida death metal band who were one of the first to find commercial success, signing to a major label & receiving heavy rotation on MTV.
Morbid Angel
Harmony Corruption
Pioneering UK grindcore band who went death metal later in their career, featuring vocalist Barney Greenway.
Napalm Death
Annihilation of the Wicked
South Carolina band obsessed with Egyptian mythology.
Nile
Slowly We Rot
Florida band featuring the brothers John and Donald Tardy.
Obituary
Consuming Impulse
Dutch band known as one of Progressive Death Metal's 'Big Four'.
Pestilence
Seven Churches
The first death metal band. Their singer was shot in a 1989 robbery & left paralyzed from the chest down, but continues to perform.
Possessed
Graveyard Classics
Chris Barnes band after Cannibal Corpse, often the target of ridicule on social media.
Six Feet Under
Pierced From Within
Highly influential NYC band once featuring vocalist Frank Mullen, who created death metal's guttural growled singing style.
Suffocation
Where No Life Dwells
One of the 'Big Four' of Swedish death metal, and the first to use Viking themes in their lyrics.
Unleashed
Triumph Of Death
Polish band whose name took inspiration from Star Wars.
Vader
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