"Greta Thunberg will be doing death metal only from now on and we are all for it!

Greta Thunberg will be doing death metal only from now on and we are all for it!

Metal Hammerby Alice Pattillo

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg responded to the viral death metal mashup video of her UN speech

"How death metal has changed since the late '80s

How death metal has changed since the late '80s

Metal Hammer

Suffocation discuss the past and present of death metal

"AI generates non-stop stream of death metal

AI generates non-stop stream of death metal

The Social Software Weblog 

There's a limit to the volume of death metal humans can reproduce -- their fingers and vocal chords can only handle so much. Thanks to technology, however, you'll never have to go short. CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski recently launched a YouTube channel t...

"Death Metal Drummer In New Zealand Charged Over Multiple Church Fires

Death Metal Drummer In New Zealand Charged Over Multiple Church Fires

Metal Injection by Robert Pasbani  

Just a few months after a movie was made about the Norwegian black metal scene, which also chronicles the church...

"Death metal attracts sharks as it mimics "struggling fish"

Death metal attracts sharks as it mimics "struggling fish"

Boing Boing by Rusty Blazenhoff  

TIL: Sharks are attracted to the sound of death metal. Apparently, the "dense tones" of it mimics the "low frequencies of struggling fish." (Damn.)

Death Metal Grandma

"Remembering Chuck Schuldiner: The godfather of death metal

Remembering Chuck Schuldiner: The godfather of death metal

Metal Hammer by Dave Everley  /

Twenty years on from Death’s final album, The Sound Of Perseverance, we remember visionary musician Chuck Schuldiner – the man who pioneered a genre and was taken too soon

"Scientists study the psychology of death metal

Scientists study the psychology of death metal

Boing Boing by David Pescovitz  /

Psychology professor William Forde Thompson of Australia's Macquarie University and his colleagues have published a series of scientific papers about the appeal of death metal. The scientists were surprised to learn that death metal fans aren't particularly angry or violent people and actually in a happy place whilst head-banging to the likes of Morbid Angel (above) and Cannibal Corpse (below). The research reminds me of how my dad was always so surprised at my love for goth music even though I was a generally happy teen. From Scientific American:

"Headbanging Insect is The Smallest Death Metal Fan Alive

Headbanging Insect is The Smallest Death Metal Fan Alive

Metal Injection by Robert Pasbani  /

Over the last few days, this video of two rabble rousers putting an earbud by an insect only to have...

Satan explains HTML using DEATH METAL

"BEHEMOTH To Go On Hiatus While Nergal Works On Solo Record

BEHEMOTH To Go On Hiatus While Nergal Works On Solo Record

 Metal Injection by Greg Kennelty

According to Nergal, "...there's no new record in sight, to be honest."

"12 death metal cat videos

12 death metal cat videos

 Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

These heavy metal cats are occasionally joined by heavy metal dogs and lemurs. That kitty mosh pit looks serious. Read the rest

"Opeth Akerfeldt confused by modern metal

Opeth Akerfeldt confused by modern metal

Metal Hammer 

Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt says he's "too old" to understand what metal means these days.

"College Student Writes Death Metal Song About Heart Disease For Class Project

College Student Writes Death Metal Song About Heart Disease For Class Project

 Metal Injection by Greg Kennelty  

YOUR BLOOD FLOWS! THROUGH YOUR ATRIA! WITH TURBULENT FLOOOOOOOOOOOW.

"Best Death Metal Album Covers

Best Death Metal Album Covers

 About.com Heavy Metal

Perhaps nowhere is a striking cover image more important than in death metal. Countless metal musicians say that what drew them to death metal - or what initially repelled them but piqued their curiosity - was the cover art for bands like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. Death metal bands are still trying to one-up each other with explicit and grisly images from slaughterhouses or crime scenes. Check out Justin M. Norton's gallery of the goriest and most memorable death metal album covers. Warning, this one is not for the faint of heart!

"Volvo Goes Death Metal

Volvo Goes Death Metal

Car company commissions famed death metal artist to re-imagine their new car design

"The linguistics of Death Metal, and how to translate common English phrases into the Dark Lord's Tongue

The linguistics of Death Metal, and how to translate common English phrases into the Dark Lord's Tongue

The Black Metal band "Code." Photo: Shutterstock.

"Essential Death Metal Albums

Essential Death Metal Albums

When it comes to extreme metal, death metal is one of the most popular genres. Over the years it has evolved and splintered into numerous subgenres. Exploring death metal for those new to the genre could be a daunting task. What should I listen to first? What bands represent the best the genre has to offer? To answer some of those questions, we've come up with a list of 10 albums, a primer of sorts designed to expose new death metal fans to some of the genre's classic releases. Of course, a list of essential death metal albums could easily number 100, or even 1000, but you can't go wrong with these 10

"Best Death Albums

Best Death Albums:


The Death To All tour is going on now, paying tribute to the influential band and its late founder Chuck Schuldiner. The tour lineup includes guitarist Paul Masvidal, bassist Steve Di Giorgio, and drummer Sean Reinert, plus guest vocalist/guitarist Max Phelps of Cynic/Exist.  In their nearly 15 year existence, Death released a string of great albums. Here are our choices for their top five.
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