Loudwire lists the best bands to fuse progressive musical ideologies with death metal. A truly mesmerizing crop of bands!

FLORIDA DEATH METAL. I mean, we’ve seen wave after wave of discount melodeath, thrash, doom, and even early 90s mall metal, but not old-school FLDM?? Smdh. I mean yeah I guess kids know the big names ...

Incredibly, death metal is coming up on its 40th anniversary in 2025 and it remains one of the consistently best metal subgenres. That’s all thanks to the variety — old school death metal ...

Founded in 1987, the band still holds to the old-school death metal sound. Their lyrics are packed with blasphemy, violence, and aggression. Vocalist/bassist Glen Benton has branded his forehead ...

In line with No Zodiac and Xibalba, this Japanese band owes a lot of their riffage to old school death and doom metal. Their debut LP A Dying Truth is very easy to appreciate on those terms alone.

it's time to celebrate with some old-school death, some doom, a returning sludge legend, and some nervy, hangovery oddness… On the meaning of their new album Tavastland, Finnish metal crew ...

Their gruesome and gory lyrics might be the stuff of nightmares, but youthful, rising Danish stars NECKBREAKKER are living the dream and giving death metal a mighty wallop of energy, aggression ...