Hi guys first post, and I figured I'd better do it here. All of you that never heard of "slam" death, I envy you. I wished the day had never come when this bullshit subgenre crossed my ears. I still hate it, always will hate it, because it's as unneeded as most other subgenres. Lemme tell you all something. I have seen it all, I was there when Possessed came out, when Mantis (Death) first came out, I was around at the inception of death metal, and back then it was so simple. There was speed metal, Thrash, Black, and Death Metal (it was brand new).
While it evolved, bands started to become more inventive, adding the time changes (which is what breakdowns were called) which everyone nowadays (noobs) want to call slam. Name any early death metal act, they all had these time changes, Cancer, Morbid Angel, Entombed, Deicide, Pestilence, Atheist, NEVER, I repeat NEVER were these referred to as "SLAM". Now, any band that has "break downs" in it is called Slam Death Metal, they aren't, it doesn't exist, it never existed until people came along that didn't know the history of death metal. Death Metal was influenced by EVERYTHING, speed, thrash, hardcore (which was hardcore punk back then), black, all the heavy genres. Now the bands they claim are influenced by hardcore are called "Deathcore".
Let me explain something, early DM was considered "underground" and was not very marketable, nowadays they are willing to do anything to market music, so they add the "core" labels on it, it's for marketing. I.E. Deathcore, and Metalcore, both which are basic examples of classis metal genres, but called something else. After 30 years they know you cannot market the name Death Metal, so they changed the name to Deathcore, which is basically what your shitty, generic, slam death is. Slam death is a recent unneeded invention, it's a label for generic, untalented death metal, which is exactly what Deathcore is. We need more subgenres like we need a second sphincter. It's just not needed. To someone who has been around to see it all, things like this have burned me out, I have almost stopped listening to it because of the way subgenres and cross-labelling have fucking ruined it. I see a lot of people just getting into death metal, and I realize they may not know the history of it, don't rely on Wikipedia to be accurate or your friend who has listened to it for 5 years.
Go back to the beginning, learn it's history, and stop making up labels that take away from the awe of the death metal genre. I have seen the new Pathology, the new Inherit Disease both come out this year and were labelled "slamming brutal death metal". It pisses me the fuck off. These bands are doing the same damn thing 99% of death metal acts have been doing since the beginning, people who market the music are just thinking up different things to call it to dumb down the newbie kids and get their money. Don't fall for it. Stop with the fucking subgenres already.
Thanks.