most influential death bands?

[LivingCadaver]

I'd like to know your top 5 or 10 whatever, of death metal bands you think were the most influent for the genre. yeah so basicly the bands you will put in your top HAVE to be death metal or death/thrash.

go!

 

[cookiecutter]

In no particular order:

Suffocation
At the Gates
Dying Fetus
Death
Entombed
Carcass

 

[Killbot]

In no particular order:

Suffocation
At the Gates
Dying Fetus
Death
Entombed
Carcass

Influential? nt rly.

 

[LivingCadaver]

how about Malevolant Creation, Cryptopsy, Atheist?

 

[Consuming Impulse]

Possessed (Most influential death band)
Death
Morbid Angel
Atheist
Cannibal Corpse

 

[dill_the_devil]

Death
Obituary
Cannibal Corpse
Morbid Angel
Suffocation

 

[Dän]

Bathory and Hellhammer for sure are on the list

 

[ohiogrinder]

Bathory and Hellhammer for sure are on the list

thats not death metal, thats black metal.

 

[Zephyrus]

Carcass
Suffocation
Morbid Angel
Dismember
Death

 

[LivingCadaver]

yea so Carcass, Morbid Angel and Possessed are probably the 3 most influential DM bands.

 

[Life Sucks]

Influential? nt rly.

That's what I was thinking. Dying Fetus basically just took the NYDM sound and made it even more hardcore-ish. Dying Fetus is almost like metalcore with blastbeats. Anyways, in terms of influential:

Suffocation (basically influenced the whole brutal death metal scene)
Morbid Angel (tons of bands have a clear Morbid Angel influence in their sound)
Death (influenced many 90s Tampa dm bands)
Entombed (influenced that old school Swedish dm sound)
At the Gates (huge influence on melodeath and unfortunately also metalcore)
Vader (they basically started "Polish" style dm, which does indeed have it's own distinct sound)
Immolation (influenced most dm with awkward/dissonant riffing)
Incantation (their doomy dm sounds influenced a good amount of bands)

 

[dEaThToFaLsEmEtAl34]

1.Morbid Angel
2.Cryptopsy
3.Death
4.Possessed
5.Carcass

 

[cookiecutter]

That's what I was thinking. Dying Fetus basically just took the NYDM sound and made it even more hardcore-ish. Dying Fetus is almost like metalcore with blastbeats. Anyways, in terms of influential

But there are so many brutal death bands that incorporate that sound now. A ton of bands from Japan as well as deathcore really take a lot of influence from Dying Fetus. Not as influential as other bands listed, but still quite influential in my opinion.

 

[Discovery]

1. Slayer
2. Celtic frost
3. Sodom
4. Morbid angel
5. Suffocation

First three are proto-death.

 

[Dän]

Bathory and Hellhammer for sure are on the list

Yeh i agree

 

[Xeroth]

Slayer
Cannibal Corpse
Bathory
Hellhammer
Obituary

 

[King Richard]

Slayer
Cannibal Corpse
Bathory
Hellhammer
Obituary

 

[Dän]

To be honest, I'd say that Hellhammer and Bathory had at least some influence on what came to be known as Death Metal. Back then the genre limits were not so defined. The aesthetic and imagery of both bands was no doubt pleasing to future Death Metal bands.

correct

 

[Mythos Inibri]

Celtic Frost
Slayer
Necrophagia
Possessed
Entombed

 

[Nico]

Why does everyone say Entombed? Surely Nihilist were far more influencial, particularly to those bands that went on to create that first wave of Swedish death metal.