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Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars tremolo picking deep growling vocals double kick and/or blast beat drumming minor keys or atonality and multiple tempo changes.Building from the musical structure of thrash metal and early black metal death metal emerged during the mid-1980s. Metal bands such as Slayer Kreator Celtic Frost and Venom were very important influences to the crafting of the genre.
