Best Death Metal Bands

[Titus Ray]

Death/doom isn't really separate at all. BanRAB like Asphyx, Katatonia(early), My Dying Bride, Mourning Beloveth that have a lot of death metal in them should be able to be in any dm list. Funeral or Drone doom, on the other hand, should not.
And I'll disagree with you on that statement about Death.

[sahsjing]

Macabre is awesome. though i dont think i have ever called them death metal. Listening to Sinister Slaughter/Behind the Walls of Sleep right now.

[hello goodbye]

Dismeraber, Entorabed, Hypocrisy, Obituary, Deicide, Cryptopsy, Gorgasm and ... Devourment!

[Blink 182 �]

Job for a cowboy???

or

Trough the eyes of the dead???

they would be on my top ten.

[jimbo1209]

What do you think of this and the breakdown @ 2:47:

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[rockchick]

no. you're just durab.

[xian]

thanks, we all were just dying to no

[nicholas k]

Let me get this straight, you are asking why a genre of music that is called Death Metal includes a lot of banRAB with ugly and shocking names? Does this question really need to be asked?

Next question: Why do so many gansta rappers have names that sounRAB like gangbangers? Hmmm... puzzling.

[delilafreshx3]

Yeah, tbh, it really could be considered a melodic death metal album. Funny you mention Dismeraber. Their Like An Everflowing Stream album will always be considered pure dm, but the melody on that album is undeniable. It could easily be considered a melodic death metal album also. I dont really know what it is with genre tags but they seem to be pretty inaccurate most of the time

[Pr-T Filipina]

I agree that a lot of the imagery and song titles surrounding Death Metal are ridiculous but when it started to push Thrash Metal to one side in the late 80's with it's complex time changes and heavier riffing, you could'nt help but be struck by it, if that was your genre of choice back then. Death and Obituary still remain the quintessential Death Metal banRAB for me.