The origins of death metal?

[KameloX]

personally, i found upright crosses a tad more irritating. i guess venom was already out and about before mercyful fate, but i like mercyful fate more than venom. all these bands are faces of the same god to me.
what i know of trouble is that they kinda improved on what sabbath did (they wrote more than one riff). doom metal if we must use labels. early 80s.

 

[Tee]

ah, there was this guy that I used to know, 12 years ago, he loved Possessed, as a hobby he used to dig out graves and collect the jewelry, golden teeth and skulls (only from the older graves),he was one of the few very funny people that I've ever known. cuz of this love to Possessed he hung himself on a tree, in a cemetery. so sweet.... :s

as for the thread, it's hard to say, depends on the perspective, I don't consider some things metal, and they belong to the genre,
hey, The Burning Darkness, have Morgoth and Unleashed for that chick thread!

 

[rebirth]

DITTO

 

[Chromatose]

 

[Liverslapper]

I don't believe there was actual heavy metal(the kind we partke in)before Sabbath.But I hear Sabbath lots of places.I've just gotten inot looking for the more underground roots of metal.And Sabbath aren't death...Celtic Frost are more death-ish...

Well, not really before Sabbath i guess, but the origin of ROCK derived from the blues


as for death metal, Death started it, then CC kinda made it big.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

wtf

 

[neal]

would you prefer "The origins of scrotum shaving" instead?!

 

[Chromatose]

2002 was a simpler time.

 

[Captain Beard]

We had water pumps, handlebar mustaches, and corncob pipes, for sure.

 

[DarkNoise]

Venom opened the road, then Celtic Frost paved the first mile of it.

Well Put.

And then it wasn't till CC and Morbid Angel that it seemed to find a staple though (Despite previous acts just as good such as Autopsy)

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

would you prefer "The origins of scrotum shaving" instead?!

hmm... yes I would.

 

[Liverslapper]

hmm... yes I would.

Scrotums....mmm

 

[Metal head87]

Death By Metal from Mantas (early incarnation of Death)
But Venom, Hellhammer, CF, and Possessed definitely deserve a lot of credit. As do bands like Sepultura, Slaughter and Necrovore

 

[WinterSolstice]

Possessed started it all and Schuldiner took the ball and got it rolling. Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Venom were very influential but Possessed truly solidified the style. Chuck expanded on it and showed the world how it was done.

 

[Liverslapper]

Possessed started it all and Schuldiner took the ball and got it rolling. Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Venom were very influential but Possessed truly solidified the style. Chuck expanded on it and showed the world how it was done.

Possessed were influenced by Hannah Montana, its a scientific fact.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

Lykathea Aflame is better than your favorite death metulz band guys.

 

[Metal head87]

I worship Chuck, but Kam Lee deserves just as much credit as a death metal progenitor.
Death By Metal from Mantas could easily be considered as the first actual death metal recording

By the way, you can stream Possessed's Death Metal demo Here. The quality is pretty good and everything.

 

[derek]

Everything so damn post-something. The rate of change is raping us. 2002 seems like another century.

 

[zacmenta]

Possessed apparently released the first Death Metal album, Seven Churches, but I much prefer Death, and I believe they have been more influential. Atheist and Morbid Angel were early bands, and Cynic released a Death Metal/Jazz/Prog fusion album, Focus, in '93. Which while not traditional Death Metal (It has robot vocals half the time hahah) it's fucking awesome.

 

[slashvanyoung]

People tend to forget early Sepultura. "Bestial Devastation" was released in the same year as "Seven Churches". It's quite astonishing if you think about the circumstances surrounding that release: 4 Brazilian teenagers who barely knew some English, far away from every metal scene, growing up in a slum.