Glorious Times: A Pictorial History of the Death Metal Scene 1984-1991

This book blew me away -- it's like having a front row seat to the formation of death metal! The retrospectives by Autopsy and Incantation were the best, but there's about 30 of them, all written by the bands themselves.

 

"death " metal in 1984? and that band was?

 

The band was Death, dude. lawl

 

no way!! I thought it was it was slipknot???

I know the first band was Death captain Obvious, I just wouldn't say their that much history of death metal til 1984...... but I guess thats when Death formed

 

Mantas/Death came around a bit later, but in 1984:

* Hellhammer
* Bathory
* Master
* Warhammer
* Sepultura
* Sodom

These bands were all FUCKING NIHILISTS:

Nihilism at Nihil.org: Center for the Nihilism and Nihilist Studies

 

Hence, 1984 being the starting year for the book.

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BTW, it's pretty clear that you had no idea that death metal existed that early.

 

I knew Death went back to 1984 but I wont say "death" metal started since then......wasnt it till 86 Scream Bloody Gore came out.....inspiring buckets of bands to follow.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_dQwbsP7Sg"]YouTube- Hellhammer - Messiah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpc-831GPs"]YouTube- Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAoSfGsqKyw&feature=fvst"]YouTube- Sodom - Magic Dragon



sure this bands had a raspy vocalist but nothing niether was Death brought to the game of death metal..........bathory still sang in clean vocals then.......