Who was the FIRST Death Metal Band?

[The Dark Wolf]

oh, i see. lol.
Once upon The Cross has a couple of my all time fav. Deicide songs, Christ Denied and When Satan Rules His world (one of the catchiest Deicide songs ever)

+1 Favorite Deicide album. This is the shit that made me like Deicide.

 

[Loomer]

Historically, as I see it Death were the band that make the genre take off, along with Morbid Angel. So they're not exactly the innovators of it, but still great, great pioneers within it.

But then again, don't Entombed have some major part in it too?!

 

[metalrod]

Death would be the first "Death" metal band hence the name of the genre...

 

[Dive-Baum]

+1 Favorite Deicide album. This is the shit that made me like Deicide.

I don't know about the catchiest song. I would have to go with the song Deicide for that one.

 

[Akerfeldtfan]

Mmm i believe the first ever DM band title is held by Opeth and maybe At The Gates,1984.

They weren't that big,only starting out but to me they created the genre. =)

 

[ZeroSignal]

Mmm i believe the first ever DM band title is held by Opeth and maybe At The Gates,1984.

They weren't that big,only starting out but to me they created the genre. =)

Dude, why the hell did you bump a 2 year old thread.

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

To give wrong information at that. metal-archives.com lists both those bands as having formed in 1990, and I'm inclined to believe them. I'd say Possessed are probably one of the first "real" death metal bands, they formed in 1983. It's like the age old argument of the "first" metal band. I don't think genre's really have a "first" band, they just kind evolve through people hearing a certain sound, adding to it, and it goes from there.

 

[Alex-D33]

BoltThrower !!!! \m/....

 

[lefty robb]

Mmm i believe the first ever DM band title is held by Opeth

Opeth didn't form until 1990, and Åkerfeldt was a whopping 10 years old is 1984 ..That is perhaps the dumbest post I have ever read..

 

[Harry]

To give wrong information at that. metal-archives.com lists both those bands as having formed in 1990, and I'm inclined to believe them. I'd say Possessed are probably one of the first "real" death metal bands, they formed in 1983. It's like the age old argument of the "first" metal band. I don't think genre's really have a "first" band, they just kind evolve through people hearing a certain sound, adding to it, and it goes from there.

 

[Unknown Doodl3.2]

lol@this thread bump

 

[Naren]

Mmm i believe the first ever DM band title is held by Opeth and maybe At The Gates,1984.

They weren't that big,only starting out but to me they created the genre. =)

I have to think you're joking. I'm a big fan of both of those bands, but they aren't ANYWHERE near the beginning of death metal.

Just so you know, death metal was created in the United States (Florida and California) before the Scandinavian death metal scene even started (with bands such as Entombed, but even then their first album came out in 1990).

Seeing as Opeth's first album came out in 1995... (At The Gates' first was 1992), I think you're just naming your two favorite bands and claiming they are the originators of the genre...

 

[daemon barbeque]

What about Dark Angel?
I would say that Death ,Possesed ,Dark Angel and Morbid Angel are the Gods of this Genre.
Death is more "metal" where Morbid angel is more "brutal and dark" side of the coin.

Dark Angel is definetly the twighlight zone between thrash and technical death metal.

 

[teelguitars]

Possesed, they didn't call it death metal, but they didn't call Alice in Chains grunge when they came out either.

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

Really?

EDIT: Fuck, video isn't working. Anyways, they did have a song on Seven Churches named "Death Metal". I guess it's a toss up between them and Death for who actually named the genre

 

[GuitarG2]

Mmm i believe the first ever DM band title is held by Opeth and maybe At The Gates,1984.

They weren't that big,only starting out but to me they created the genre. =)

BEST FIRST POST EVAR!

 

[E Lucevan Le Stelle]

I'd say Death or Morbid Angel... Possessed, despite the "Death Metal" EP/song, were just thrash with heavier vocals IMO. It was definitely the first Morbid Angel stuff that was really "deathy" though.

 

[Mattmc74]

Morbid Angel!

 

[lastczarnian]

Death released Scream Bloody Gore in 1987.
Chuck Schuldiner was pretty much the father of death metal I think. He was involved with DM since 1983.

Totally agree. Chuck was death metal before anyone even thought of it.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

I understand wanting to know the history and roots of the genre, but personally I don't really care who did it first. I care who did it right.