The key word being extreme. Often credited as emerging from Florida (because, Florida) death metal is meant to be thought of as the sonic equivalent of a horror film. Death metal bands, including Death, Necrophagia, Obituary, Autopsy and Morbid Angel Merchandise, pioneered the genre through explicit lyricism and imagery detailing violence, gore and challenging political and cultural ideologies. Formed in the mid-1980s, death metal is the term given to the more aggressive, less restrained child of heavy metal and punk. While these parent genres introduced the world to high-octane sounds and high-drama showmanship, death metal took it to new extremes. Since its origin, there’s been new life after death metal, with several delinquent descendants spawned. Melodic death metal combines death metal elements with sounds and themes from the new wave of British heavy metal. Melodic death metal bands include Children of Bodom and Death. We’ve got plenty of Death merch and Children of Bodom t-shirts on offer with our Death Metal merch. Other subgenres of death metal include technical death metal, a complex style, with uncommon time signatures, jarring rhythms, and deliberately abstract sounding harmonies and melodies. There’s plenty more - deathgrind, goregrind, pornogrind, death-doom, grindcore and more.