However, they will surely give you a good insight into some of the best stuff in this genre, from bands coming from all the corners of the world. There are of course lots and lots more, so I had to make a lot of agonizing choices to present a selected bunch of records. So this is a list of a handful of great albums that this genre has to offer. Another characteristisc is Slam Death Metal is that the majority of these bands use deep gutturals and pig squeels.

It wasn’t until the mid 2000s though that a lot of bands rose up and started to slam around the globe. Using these type of riffs in more and more sections gave the songs a whole different feeling. Pioneering bands like Internal Bleeding and Devourment took those slams to a new level in the late 90’s. Suffocation used those so called “slams” in some of their breakdowns. Besides the love for full throttle blast beats, slam death metal bands also employ slower palm-muted riffs. I'm glad to help someone who's having the same problem that I once had.Slam Death Metal is a sub genre of Brutal Death Metal. There are loads more bands, but these are the ones I'm quite familiar with. Suffocation: Their stuff is very dark, but I couldn't help but recommend them since they're my fave death metal band.

Obscura: Technical death with a sense of melody. Nile: Oriental-sounding brutal death metal. Their first album is very gory, but the second isn't. Necrophagist: Amazing technical death metal. Malevolent Creation: Old-school death metal. It's a concept album that tells an epic story. Their first few albums have gory lyrics, but starting from Human, they began focusing on deeper stuff.Įdge Of Sanity: Check out their album Crimson. ALL their songs are about war.īrutality: Dark lyrics, but nothing to do with gore or satanism.ĭeath: The first death metal band. Very brutal.īolt Thrower: Probably the death metal band with the best lyrics. They're called Atheist, but they have nothing to do with religion.īenighted: They're a little gory, but not to explicitly. I'm also another guy who doesn't want satanic lyrics in his music, but I don't mind gore.īut here's everything non-satanic and non-gory I have listened to:Ītheist: DON'T read into the band's name.

I know that rules out quite a large chuck of the bands but if any of you guys could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. Also I'd prefer if they weren't satanic/anti-religious lyrics. Lyrics about war and such are also pretty cool in their own right.

I prefer my music with more meaningful or deep lyrics. Unfortunately though I'm not a huge fan of the gore centric lyrics. I'm looking to get into more death metal, particularly the Brutal Death Metal and Slam Death Metal sub-genres.

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