But like any musical culture, the outlandish pioneers gave way to bands wanting to sound just like them, and so eventually death metal became a body of music with discernible and at times cliched boundaries.īut if the past 10 years have proved anything, it’s that death metal still has fertile soil in which to dig a shallow grave. When the art form officially broke off of thrash in the very late ’80s and swelled dangerously in the early ’90s, it was a strange and experimental genre, in some ways more resonant with the disgusting extremism of punk than metal’s sword-and-stone fantasy. Before it became the genre every non-metal fan uses to imitate what extreme music sounds like, death metal was beautifully weird.
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