Now, slam on and be awesome everyone… and never forget the roots of this music we all love so much! It's important. Sure, Ozzy and Maiden blew my mind as a youngster, but death metal is – and will always be – the most influential style of music to ever grace our shitty existence. This stuff – this time – defined who I am today. But, most importantly, this little romp back in time has allowed me to express how much of an impact these trailblazing bands had on me. To this day, I remain great friends with many of the bands mentioned. I'm just a guy that was around when this shit was birthed from the feculent, deliciously rotting orifice of brutal death metal. In the end, I don't profess to know everything that's going on – there is just way too much. Finding that ultimate breakdown/slam is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, but when you do come across it, man, it's like a hammer to the fucking cranium! Here are 15 newer brutal metal acts making waves in Japan today. By doing so, it starts to lose feeling – what it is that made this music so special to begin with. Influenced by the godfathers of the scene from the ’90s such as Coffins and Butcher ABC, this new breed of death metal acts seeks to push the extremes, proving that Japan doesn’t just specialize in violent horror and sick manga, but relentlessly brutal music, too.
#SLAMMING BRUTAL DEATH METAL BANDS FULL#
Full Length album 'Opus of Extinction' out now on Ghastly Music. I obviously try to keep up with today's BSDM/slam, but I'm starting to get the feeling that too many bands try too hard in their quest for the ultimate breakdown – everyone trying to out slam one another. Saponification Saponification are a Brutal Slamming Death Metal band from San Francisco, CA. Pioneering bands like Internal Bleeding and Devourment took those slams to a new level in the late 90’s. Suffocation used those so called slams in some of their breakdowns. Besides the love for full throttle blast beats, slam death metal bands also employ slower palm-muted riffs.
It took hard work, and lots of research, to satisfy our lust for all things more-brutal-than-brutal. Slam Death Metal is a sub genre of Brutal Death Metal. The second act depicts the end of humanity. It takes no hostages and leaves no survivors. The first is slamming brutal death metal at it’s finest.
I suppose the larger narrative to this piece was that there was a time, long ago, where brutal death metal aficionados had no clue what we were really looking for, as t here existed no rule book for this music. There was no tag applied to this music that we loved. Tell the band: Fire and total extermination ‘Protonemesis‘ was created as a crushing composition that does not let you rest. Infernal Revulsion is a slamming brutal death metal band from Japan. CAM: I'm gonna stop here, as I'm pretty sure that most of you know the rest of the story.