![]() ![]() The rules for inclusion were that a) the bands had to be specifically death metal (we love you, Rivers Of Nihil, but you’re your own weird beast), b) the bands had to be active, c) their first full-length albums had to have come out in 2010 or later, and d) they had to have at least one full studio LP out (sorry, Oxalate!). To celebrate this creative resurrection, we cataloged 50 bands who are championing the genre’s various foul and brutal niches right now. They emerged in 2017 and the following year released Serpent’s Curse, a soundtrack to the white worm emerging from the bottomless pit. In this case, we know that the zombies and vomit are art because the the. Heads for the Dead are a band who take the concept of serpentine, horror-infused death metal set forth by Necrophagia and give it an updated injection. This also contains zombies and vomit, which are sometimes art. It’s a well-known fact in the art world, that if the name of a painting contains the word ‘art’, then it is most definitely 100 art. A new wave of crashing, creative, and most of all diverse death metal bands has crashed onto the scene in recent years, making the genre once more a place to find unique and insane talent. I particularly like this cover because it contains the word ‘art’. For our ready-made Death metal album cover artwork, these are sold as-is with no revisions. But like any musical culture, the outlandish pioneers gave way to bands wanting to sound just like them, and so eventually death metal became a body of music with discernible and at times cliched boundaries.īut if the past 10 years have proved anything, it’s that death metal still has fertile soil in which to dig a shallow grave. The album cover is blunt and the detail of human faces submerged in cow fecal matter might get you to hack up your last meal. When the art form officially broke off of thrash in the very late ’80s and swelled dangerously in the early ’90s, it was a strange and experimental genre, in some ways more resonant with the disgusting extremism of punk than metal’s sword-and-stone fantasy. ![]() ![]() But it is also a grisly, stranger-than-fiction comedy drama about murder. Before it became the genre every non-metal fan uses to imitate what extreme music sounds like, death metal was beautifully weird. Jonas Åkerlund’s new film, Lords of Chaos, is a rock’n’roll biopic, with all the wigs and gigs that that implies. ![]()
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