Heavy metal branch
Death metal
Heavy metal › Death metal
- Emerged
- 1985
- Origin
- Florida / Sweden
- Subgenres
- 10
Guttural vocals, low tunings, blast beats and tremolo picking. Thrash pushed past the limit of legibility, with two founding schools: Florida and Stockholm.
- Heaviness
- 10
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 4
Key acts
- Death
- Morbid Angel
- Cannibal Corpse
- Entombed
Branches into
- Blackened death metal
- Brutal death metal
- Deathcore
- Death-doom
- Deathgrind
- Death 'n' roll
- Melodic death metal
- Old school death metal
- Technical death metal