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Death 'n' roll 1993
Death metal that admits its rock roots: groove, blues riffing and a hoarse shout.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- Sweden
- Tempo
- 120-160 bpm
- Song length
- 3-4.5 min
- Written about
- Violence, comically, Drinking, Contempt, Rock and roll
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Death 'n' roll | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| A growl or a shriek When someone is singing, what should come out? | harsh | 100% | ×3 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1993 | 100% | ×1 |
| The dark What should the words be about? | Violence, comically, Drinking, Contempt, Rock and roll | 0% | ×1 |
| Yes. A proper melody. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 6 out of 10 | 60% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 86% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 6 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 10. Death 'n' roll ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Entombed, Left Hand Path 1990
Entombed - Left Hand Path. The first twenty seconds explain the entire Swedish sound.
- 2The one to put on first
Entombed, Wolverine Blues 1993
Entombed - Wolverine Blues. Death metal you can tap your foot to.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Death metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Death 'n' roll's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Symphonic black metal 86%
Keyboards and choirs over black metal structures. Grand, theatrical and by far the most saleable of the subgenres.
4 steps from Death 'n' roll, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Symphonic black metal -
Gothic metal 82%
Death-doom that adds keyboards, romance and female vocals. It popularised the beauty-and-the-beast formula.
4 steps from Death 'n' roll, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Gothic metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- A growl or a shriek put 78 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 10.
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 10.
- The dark put 119 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 10.
- Yes. A proper melody. put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Grindcore, Brutal death metal, Cybergrind. Worth 1 of 10.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.