List of Florida death metal bands
This is a list of Florida death metal bands. Death metal is a genre of extreme heavy metal music that is characterized by musically by fast, distorted, down-tuned, and sometimes palm-muted guitar instrumentation, growled and screamed vocals, and hyper-fast, blast beat drumming. The lyrics typically involve graphic, sometimes pornographic and misogynistic, themes of violence, gore, disease, and death; Satanism, blasphemy, and anti-Christian sentiment; and, less frequently, war, apocalypse, social and philosophical concerns, and esotericism and spiritualism. In the mid-1980s through early-1990s, the state of Florida, especially the Tampa Bay area, became the center of development for the death metal genre, earning the Tampa Bay area the colloquial title of "capital of death metal". Many of the most influential and commercially successful death metal bands, such as Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary, and Deicide, originated from the state. The Tampa-based producers Jim and Tom Morris and Scott Burns from the studio Morrisound Recording were highly instrumental in developing and popularizing the sound of the then-emerging death metal genre. The influence and recording opportunities of the scene led a few bands from outside Florida, such as the Buffalo, New York groups Cannibal Corpse and Malevolent Creation, to relocate to the state early in their career. The technical proficiency and progressive approach by many of the Florida bands, particularly Death, Nocturnus, Atheist, and Cynic, led to the development of the progressive death metal genre. The scene declined in the second half of the 1990s but subsequently experienced a resurgence in popularity. In 2009, Nielsen Soundscan reported that Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Six Feet Under, Obituary, and Death collectively sold over five-million albums.
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Florida death metal
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Q483251
Death metal
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extreme heavy metal
Concept
Q899871
distorted
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None
down-tuned
UNK
Q1471452
palm-muted
Concept
Q335499
growled
Concept
Q882054
blast beat
Concept
Q133363
Satanism
Concept
Q200481
blasphemy
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Q564862
anti-Christian sentiment
Concept
Q7988482
esotericism
Concept
Q2636432
spiritualism
Concept
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-1980
NUMBER
-1990^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-1990
NUMBER
Q2828677
Tampa Bay area
LOC
Q192843
Death
ORG
Q309001
Morbid Angel
ORG
Q334537
Obituary
ORG
Q506314
Deicide
ORG
Q2034379
Scott Burns
PER
Q1402032
Morrisound Recording
MEDIA
Q40435
Buffalo, New York
LOC
Q485231
Cannibal Corpse
ORG
Q908396
Malevolent Creation
ORG
Q637723
Nocturnus
ORG
Q755034
Atheist
ORG
Q370835
Cynic
ORG
Q1076092
progressive death metal
Concept
1990-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1990
DATE
2009-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2009
DATE
Q735091
Six Feet Under
ORG
Q755034
Atheist
ORG
Q1076092
progressive death metal
Concept