Use space or click to move on to the next slide. Affixes used the most in death metal: - (necro-) --- Relating to corpses. - (-philia) --- Desire or attraction to. - (-cide) --- To kill. - (-ectomy) --- Relating to surgical removal. - (putre- / putro-) --- Relating to rotting. - (hemo-) --- Relating to blood. - (-itis) --- Inflammation or sickness. - (-osis / -iasis) --- A diseased condition. - (-otomy) --- Relating to surgery. - (-rrhea) --- To flow (usually in a liquid form). - (phagia / phagy) --- To consume. Jargons associated with death metal: - Tremelo picking --- Fast and continuous picking on a single note to create a buzzing wall of noise. - Palm muting --- Muting a guitar when it was making sound to form a much more percussive riff. - Buzzsaw --- A type of guitar tone used frequently in Swedish death metal that sounds... well, like a buzzsaw. - Kvlt --- Authentic and underground music. - Poser --- Someone who poses as being a fan of the subgenre, when in reality, they aren't. - Moshing --- A close and energetic style of dancing in the venue involving near-hostile physical contact. - Headbanging --- Aggressively bobbing your head up and down to the beat of music. - Windmilling --- Violently spinning your head around to the beat of music. Often categorized as a version of headbanging and looks very fun with long hair. - Battle jackets --- A denim/leather jacket/vest with band patches, studs, and spikes. - Gatekeeping --- The process of preventing or challenging potential posers from entering the subgenre to keep it from being mainstream or seen as "poser territory". - Elitist --- A strict gatekeeper (definition for that seen above). Subgenres and microgenres: - Old-school death metal (OSDM) - Brutal death metal (BDM) - Technical death metal (tech-death / tech-deth) - Melodic death metal (melodeath) - Symphonic death metal - Deathgrind (DG) - Goregrind - P*rnogrind - Dissonant death metal (dissodeath) - Slam death metal (slam) - Slamming brutal death metal (SBDM) - Deathcore (DC) - Blackened death metal - Death 'n' roll - Death-doom - Progressive death metal (prog death) - Industrial death metal - Death groove metal (death groove) - Caveman death metal - War metal - Deathrash - New York death metal (NYDM) - Swedish death metal (SDM) - Florida death metal (FDM) Important bands: - Death - Cannibal Corpse - Suffocation - Obituary - Morbid Angel - Pestilence - Atheist - Autopsy - Cryptopsy - Bolt Thrower - Possessed - Deicide - Entombed - Carcass - Immolation - Incantation - At The Gates - Dark Tranquillity - Children of Bodom - Dying Fetus - Necrophagist - Cattle Decapitation
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