Death Metal
Everything published on Viyolens under Death Metal — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
A Beginner's Guide to Deathcore
Deathcore combines death metal's blast beats and extreme vocals with the breakdown-centred architecture of hardcore and metalcore. Here's what that actually means — and why it works.
A Beginner's Guide to Death Metal
It looks impenetrable from the outside, but give it the right six records and this genre clicks faster than you'd think.
The History of Deathcore
Deathcore didn't arrive fully formed — it was built over a decade from death metal and hardcore traditions by bands working outside the mainstream and largely on their own terms.
Death Metal Subgenres, Explained
One genre, eight genuinely different sounds. A no-nonsense map of every death metal branch and where to start with each one.
The Best Death Metal Artists to Know
Not an alphabetical list — the death metal names grouped by what each one actually did for the sound, from the founders to the melodic outliers.
Essential Death Metal Albums Explained
A tightly packed canon: the death metal albums that actually matter, in the order they happened, and why each one still holds up.
The Best Death Metal Songs Right Now
Not a chart list — the death metal tracks that have earned genuine, lasting staying power, whatever decade you're listening in.
