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Sub-genres of extreme metal.
Byline: Sean Piccoli
So-called extreme metal is like any genre of music in giving rise to sub-genres with their own rules and customs, the boundaries of which can confuse the horrified onlooker and even the committed fan. Here's a primer.
Thrash metal: Vehement singing and precise playing through violent stops and sprints are the attributes of thrash, a sound that marked metal's evolution in the early 1980s from heavy metal such as Black Sabbath into the realm of extreme. American bands Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and Metallica showed the way. The bands owed some of their snarling cynicism to punk. But unlike punkers they insisted on a technical, acrobatic skill that meant guitars, basses and drums could all move at bewildering speed in perfect lockstep. Long hair and long solos were sanctioned, but optional. Slayer's 1986 album, "Reign in Blood," arguably remains thrash metal's most alarming, antisocial and inspired work.
Death metal: Thrashlike proficiency, descents into sludge, guttural vocalizing, down-tuned guitars and a morbid turn of lyric _ is it any surprise this scary cocktail was born in Florida? Gulf Coast bands Death and Obituary, among others, introduced death metal to a waiting world. Bands such as Germany's Kreator ...
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