What are the different types and lists of death metal bands?

Death metal bands are cataloged across multiple categorized lists based on geography, subgenres, and fusion styles like melodic death metal and death-doom. These directories include groups that have played within death metal or its related subgenres at some point in their careers. Because of stylistic overlaps, many bands appear across multiple specific subgenre directories.

What we know

• Lists of death metal bands are organized into various subcategories, including regional scenes, Christian death metal, and fusion genres like blackened death metal and deathcore. [2]
• The comprehensive death metal band directories include groups that have played in the style or its fusion genres at any stage of their career. [4]
• Melodic death metal combines elements of death metal with the new wave of British heavy metal. [5]
• The term Gothenburg metal describes bands associated with the melodic death metal scene originating around Gothenburg, Sweden. [5]

Where to go next

• the bigger pictureWhat is melodic death metal?
• a case in pointWhich bands belong to Swedish death metal?
• compared withHow does death-doom differ from standard death metal?
• whereWhat defines the Gothenburg metal scene?
• whenWhen did early heavy metal bands form?
• an unexpected connectionHow do British heavy metal roots connect to Swedish melodic death metal?Melodic death metal explicitly combines death metal with the new wave of British heavy metal.

Sources

• [1]list of death metal bands (Wikidata Q2997771) · CC0 1.0
• [2]List of death metal bands · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [3]List of heavy metal bands · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [4]List of death metal bands, L–Z · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [5]List of melodic death metal bands · CC BY-SA 4.0