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| Hammer Smashed Face | Band featuring George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher. They gained notoriety in the 90's for their gory album art and lyrics. | Cannibal Corpse | 95%
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| Symbolic | Highly influential band from Florida featuring Chuck Schuldiner, who passed away from brain cancer in 2001 at the age of 34. | Death | 94%
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| Altars of Madness | Florida death metal band who were one of the first to find commercial success, signing to a major label & receiving heavy rotation on MTV. | Morbid Angel | 76%
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| Heartwork | UK band who were pioneers of grindcore & melodic death metal. Their lyrics led some to believe they were medical students. | Carcass | 75%
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| Slowly We Rot | Florida band featuring the brothers John and Donald Tardy. | Obituary | 73%
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| Left Hand Path | One of the Swedish 'Big Four' who invented the subgenre death 'n' roll with their 1993 album 'Wolverine Blues'. | Entombed | 72%
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| Once Upon The Cross | Satanic Florida band featuring frontman Glen Benton, who has an upside down crucifix branded on his forehead. | Deicide | 69%
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| Seven Churches | The first death metal band. Their singer was shot in a 1989 robbery & left paralyzed from the chest down, but continues to perform. | Possessed | 69%
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| From Mars to Sirius | French progressive death metal band known for their environmentalist and spiritual themes. | Gojira | 67%
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| With Oden on Our Side | Swedish band often labelled as Viking metal Their lyrics are inspired by Norse mythology and history. | Amon Amarth | 66%
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| None So Vile | Canadian technical death band once featuring vocalist Lord Worm, who left to become an English teacher. | Cryptopsy | 66%
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| The Satanist | Controversy courting blackened death metal band from Poland, featuring frontman Nergal. | Behemoth | 64%
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| Slaughter of the Soul | Swedish band who helped pioneer the 'Gothenburg Sound', featuring vocalist Tom Lindberg. | At The Gates | 62%
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| Hate Crew Deathroll | Finnish melodic death metal band featuring frontman Alexi Laiho, who passed away in 2020 as a result of alcohol abuse. | Children of Bodom | 62%
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| Harmony Corruption | Pioneering UK grindcore band who went death metal later in their career, featuring vocalist Barney Greenway. | Napalm Death | 60%
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| Annihilation of the Wicked | South Carolina band obsessed with Egyptian mythology. | Nile | 59%
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| Those Once Loyal | Prominent UK band whose early albums and artwork drew inspiration from the Warhammer 40K miniature war game. | Bolt Thrower | 58%
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| Bring Back the Plague | US deathgrind band whose members were originally all vegan. Known for lyrical themes of animal rights & environmentalism. | Cattle Decapitation | 57%
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| Whoracle | Band featuring vocalist Anders Fridén. Pioneers of the 'Gothenburg Sound', they are also considered influential on metalcore. | In Flames | 56%
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| Rise of the Tyrant | Former band of Angela Gossow, one of the first female singers to be in a successful extreme metal band. | Arch Enemy | 55%
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| Graveyard Classics | Chris Barnes band after Cannibal Corpse, often the target of ridicule on social media. | Six Feet Under | 54%
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| Pierced From Within | Highly influential NYC band once featuring vocalist Frank Mullen, who created death metal's guttural growled singing style. | Suffocation | 54%
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| Wrong One to F**k With | Offensively named US band featuring the dual vocal attack of John Gallagher & Sean Beasley. | Dying Fetus | 53%
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| Storm of the Light's Bane | Satanic Swedish black/death metal band of Jon Nödtveidt who was jailed for a 1997 murder & committed suicide in 2006. | Dissection | 50%
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| Piece of Time | Jazz influenced technical death metal band from Florida. Other albums include 'Unquestionable Presence'. | Atheist | 49%
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| Triumph Of Death | Polish band whose name took inspiration from Star Wars. | Vader | 49%
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| Into the Grave | Band featuring Ola Lindgren who is the only constant member, one of the 'Big Four' of Swedish death metal. | Grave | 48%
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| Severed Survival | Influential California band featuring Chris Reifert, formerly of Death. Other albums include 'Mental Funeral' and 'Sh*tfun'. | Autopsy | 47%
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| The Dethalbum | Animated band who are the subject of Adult Swim's cartoon series Metalocalypse. | Dethklok | 47%
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| Like an Everflowing Stream | Another of the Swedish 'Big Four' who faced an obscenity charge in the UK for their 1991 song 'Skin Her Alive'. | Dismember | 45%
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| Nightmares Made Flesh | Swedish death metal supergroup who has featured band members from Opeth, Katatonia and Paradise Lost. | Bloodbath | 43%
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| What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse | U.S. melodic death metal band whose former vocalist, Trevor Strnad, committed suicide in 2022, at the age of 41. | The Black Dahlia Murder | 43%
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| Winds of Creation | Polish band whose tour bus collided with a truck in 2007, killing their drummer & leaving their vocalist paralyzed. | Decapitated | 41%
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| Focus | Florida band who were one of the 'Big Four' of technical death metal. They have since evolved into a prog rock/metal outfit. | Cynic | 39%
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| Dawn of Possession | US band formerly known as Rigor Mortis who are considered highly influential on the NYC death metal scene. | Immolation | 39%
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| Consuming Impulse | Dutch band known as one of Progressive Death Metal's 'Big Four'. | Pestilence | 38%
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| Fiction | Swedish melodic death metal band who are one of the founding fathers of the Gothenburg scene. | Dark Tranquillity | 35%
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| Where No Life Dwells | One of the 'Big Four' of Swedish death metal, and the first to use Viking themes in their lyrics. | Unleashed | 34%
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| The Arrival | Swedish melodic death metal band whose lyrical themes include aliens and abduction experiences. | Hypocrisy | 28%
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| Conceived in Sewage | Prominent 'slam' death metal band from Texas who broke up for several years due to singer Ruban Rosas's incarceration. | Devourment | 26%
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