Your way in
Brutal death metal 1991
Built for density and weight: dissonant riffing, low guttural vocals and crushing breakdowns.
- Heaviness
- 10
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 2
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 200-300 bpm
- Song length
- 2.5-4 min
- Written about
- Violence, Body horror, Misanthropy, Deliberate transgression
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Brutal death metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Normal How long should a song be? | up to 4 min | 96% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 99% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 2 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, length 1 out of 3. Brutal death metal ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Entombed, Left Hand Path 1990
Entombed - Left Hand Path. The first twenty seconds explain the entire Swedish sound.
- 2The one to put on first
Suffocation, Effigy of the Forgotten 1991
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten. The genre's absolute reference point.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Death metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Brutal death metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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War metal / bestial 99%
Black and death metal reduced to noise, speed and bullet belts. The least legible branch of metal there is.
4 steps from Brutal death metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into War metal / bestial -
Groove metal 92%
Thrash slowed to a groove that hits you in the chest: syncopated riffs, mid-tempo drums, barked vocals.
4 steps from Brutal death metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Groove metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 3.
- Normal put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Progressive rock, Krautrock, Acid rock. Worth 1 of 3.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.