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Cannibal Corpse playing live, the five piece line-up on a dark stage under white light.

Is Cannibal Corpse Death Metal, or Something Else by Now?

Rafael Quintero · Sep 7, 2026

Autopsy, the death metal band whose 1989 Severed Survival logo the article opens on, photographed in 2023. Photo: Nancy Reifert, courtesy of Secret Service Publicity, via Blabbermouth.

The Death Metal Logo: Why You Cannot Read Any of Them

Rafael Quintero · Aug 24, 2026

Disentomb on stage

The Heaviest Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Aug 14, 2026

Obituary band portrait

Mosh Pits, Circle Pits and the Wall of Death

Rafael Quintero · Aug 11, 2026

Katalepsy band photo outdoors

Russian and Eastern European Death Metal

Andrzej Sawicki · Aug 1, 2026

Entombed performing live on stage

The Best Death Metal Albums of the 1990s

Rafael Quintero · Jun 28, 2026

Incantation performing live on stage

The Heaviest Death Metal Albums Ever Recorded

Rafael Quintero · May 31, 2026

Demilich on stage

The Best Death Metal Debut Albums

Rafael Quintero · May 16, 2026

Autopsy performing live on stage

The Culture: Tapes, Zines, Artwork and the Line You Could Not Cross

Rafael Quintero · May 2, 2026

Breeding the Spawn, Covenant and With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness

The Most Influential Death Metal Albums

Rafael Quintero · May 2, 2026

The members of Internal Bleeding

Brutal Slam: Where the Two Words Stopped Meaning the Same Thing

Rafael Quintero · Apr 14, 2026

Deicide's debut on top of Death's Symbolic and Obituary's The End Complete

The Essential Death Metal Albums

Rafael Quintero · Apr 11, 2026

Morgoth performing live on stage

German Death Metal Bands

Andrzej Sawicki · Apr 8, 2026

Unleashed, Johnny Hedlund at the front, in a band portrait

The Death Metal Bands You Need to Know

Rafael Quintero · Mar 21, 2026

Katalepsy on stage

Slam Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Mar 20, 2026

Origin in a band portrait

Technical Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Mar 18, 2026

Carcass's Heartwork, Atheist's Unquestionable Presence and At the Gates' Slaughter of the Soul

Death Metal Subgenres Explained

Rafael Quintero · Feb 28, 2026

Skinless on stage

What Is Slam Death Metal?

Rafael Quintero · Feb 24, 2026

Hate Eternal, Erik Rutan in the middle, against a painted wall

Brutal Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Jan 31, 2026

Dying Fetus on stage on the From Womb to Waste tour in 2012

Brutal Death Metal Explained

Rafael Quintero · Jan 6, 2026