The inception of death metal

[corpse-paint]

Do you think that Death's debut Scream Bloody Core is the real inception of present death metal? If no, then whoelse's work is?

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Possesed's "Seven Churches" maybe..
after all this album was the main influence for more u.s. death metal bands (Morbid Angel for example)

 

[corpse-paint]

Then can Venom be considered the root of all today's extreme music? Then Hellhammer, Celtic Frost? And I was told that the band Bathory was the first one who lighted the flame of black metal, it that true?

 

[slayer81]

To me SBG is that presentation of death metal, but I´ve heard lot of seperating opinions about this...

 

[corpse-paint]

what are these seperate opinions? Would you share some of them with me?

 

[slayer81]

Originally posted by corpse-paint
what are these seperate opinions? Would you share some of them with me?

Well, like it was said before some people called " Possessed" instead of Death and once i read one post that someone said that Death isn`t even close to real deathmetal, but i don´t agree with that all!!! Death is deathmetal in my opinion!

 

[corpse-paint]

Seven Churches was released prior to Death's SBC so am I allowed to say that the present day death metal was in fact started with Seven Churches? Or you think this is just nonsence.

 

[The Wanderer]

Sodom's in the sign was gettin there with the extreme elements. possessed seven churches is pretty close to death metal. also, celtic frost and all that. its hard to say how it started.

 

[BRUTAL SENSATION]

What about Repulsion?.....those guys were higly influentual band...

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

Yes, I would say Possessed were the ones that started the movement, but Death raised the bar to another level with Scream Bloody Gore (IMO)

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

Who are you talking to?

 

[BTK]

IMO, Seven Churches was more trash, while Scream Bloddy Gore was more "death metal"....

 

[Extreme Deformity]

Oh come on! Don't get me wrong, Scream Bloody Gore is an awesome album, but it's pure Possessed worship.

Slaughter was awesome as well. Surrender or Die is great, and Strappado is even better.

 

[digitaldemon62]

venom influenced black metal from the beginning...not bathory...bathory was one of the earlier bands though which also influenced a lot of bands...but venom was first...

as for death metal...i don't know...so ha!

 

[squeemu]

So is the genre named Death metal after the band Death? I heard this before, but I wasn't sure if that was true.

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

So is the genre named Death metal after the band Death? I heard this before, but I wasn't sure if that was true.

Nope, there's a song in Possessed's album ''Seven Churches'' called Death Metal. That's problably where it came from.