/r/Deathmetal
Death metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Descended originally from thrash, it often employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Death metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Descended originally from thrash, it often employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
This is a place for news, reviews, videos and discussion of your favorite death metal bands.
Allowed: Death metal song posts, news, interviews, interesting videos, discussion, reviews, and anything else related to death metal. You can self promote, but ONLY if you've participated in our community before. Follow the sitewide rules on spamming and self promotion. Bans will be handed out for those who only use the sub to self promote.
Not allowed: Not death metal (deathcore goes in /r/deathcore, melodeath goes in /r/melodicdeathmetal, grindcore goes in /r/grindkvlt, etc), image posts, shitposting, memes, song teasers, short album teasers. No low effort polls or beginner recommendation threads. Personal song covers/bedroom covers go in other subreddits, as do questions about guitars, amps, drums, etc; this isn't /r/metalmusicians. Homophobic & racist slurs are not permitted. Links to illegal downloads of albums is an instant ban. If you post a stupid homemade cover of a TV show or movie theme, you will be banned. Technical death metal goes in /r/technicaldeathmetal, progressive death metal goes in /r/progdeathmetal or /r/progmetal, and brutal death metal goes in /r/brutaldeathmetal or /r/slammetal. Merch/media sales go in /r/metaltrade.
Please don't post songs with stupid titles; Artist - Song Name is great, thank you.
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Bands over 150,000 Last FM listeners are not allowed to be posted unless you're posting a new release (limit one week from the song/album dropping). Covers of these bands are also not allowed.
Do not post a song that's been posted within the last six months or a band that's been posted within the last two weeks; new releases are exempt from the two week rule for fourteen days after the release drops, but not from the six month one.
Check out our Wiki for related subreddits, more information about death metal, useful posts, and more! Don't forget to hit up /r/metal!
Please check the wiki before asking for recommendations. There's a good chance that your question has been very comprehensibly answered already.
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Winds of Winter - DIMERS ( Video Premiere on December 5th at 6 PM (CET). Don’t miss it! ) Genre: Melodic Death / Black Metal
We’re thrilled to announce the release of our self-made music video! The premiere will take place on December 5, 2024, at 6:00 PM (CET) on YouTube.
DIMERS is the first single from our upcoming EP, dropping this December. Get ready for powerful riffs, intense melodies, and the raw energy you’ve come to love from Winds of Winter.
Pre-save now and embrace the darkness: https://save-it.cc/artistfy/9wJDikI3
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Fx9vulEC1gAYuSrzMxqgA?si=9QdALC3vS5eY_kV91AhQvw
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Facelifter-Bethlem (Netherlands,2016)
Very underrated Dutch band. Very groovy and energetic with a unique sound. Too bad they only released this ep.
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Cannabis Corpse - Immortal Pipes LIVE in Detroit, Michigan. 4/15/2019.
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Immortal Fate - Beautiful (USA, 2000)
19:28 UTC
Mortal Remains - Crawl [ FULL DEMO 1990 ] UK Death Metal
18:37 UTC
Groove-oriented avant garde death metal?
Searching for groove-oriented avant garde death metal - like, the groovy heaviness of Meshuggah or Car Bomb meets the forward thinkingness of Ad Nauseam or Imperial Triumphant.
Any recommendations? Cheers!
15:09 UTC
Weekly Discussion / Recommendation Thread
Welcome to the weekly discussion thread at /r/deathmetal! By popular request, we have decided to host a weekly discussion thread as a catch-all for community discussion, recommendation hunting, and just about anything that would go in a normal text thread. Have a question? Post it here. Want to talk about how great the new Immolation is? New to death metal and seeking advice, but too lazy to go through /r/deathmetal/wiki? Here's your place!
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Infertile Crescent - Loathsome Birth
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Inhumanity - Pyrexia
04:40 UTC
Torment - Die Alone
23:21 UTC
Knoll - Mereward
23:08 UTC
Broken Hope - The Bowels Of Repugnance (Full Album)
22:50 UTC
Scabbard - Čas zabíjet - 2024 - Czechia
18:16 UTC
Derek Roddy - The Beast Blasts
16:20 UTC
Altar - Hypochristianity (Netherlands, 1994)
13:09 UTC
Festergore - Constellation of Endless Blight (US, 2024) Full Album!
19:44 UTC
Breaking the Great Narcissist - Soreption
19:07 UTC
Pissgrave - Funeral Inversion
17:12 UTC
Songs/albums/bands similar to Cannibal Corpse - From Skin To Liquid. Addicted to this song, is there any songs/bands similar to it ? love the melodic grooves. Isis (the band) and at the gates kind feels similar, do you guys have any reccomendations
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Fluids - Dosed (2024)
Split with Wharflurch. Out December 13th on Gurgling Gore.
22:30 UTC
Blaspherian - Infernal Warriors of Death (2011 Full Album - FFO: Immolation, Incantation)
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Slugathor - Journey into Oblivion
19:19 UTC
Feral Forms (IT) - Through Demonic Spell LP (2024)
18:21 UTC
Dead Infection - After Accident (Poland, 1993)
18:11 UTC
Temple Nightside - Contagion of Heresy (2020)
19:43 UTC
Altars - "Paramnesia"
16:37 UTC
Ulcerate - To See Death Just Once (from the album "Cutting the Throat of God", 2024). What is your death metal album of the year so far? Mine is decidedly this one.
22:40 UTC
Cavalera - Morbid Visions
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