In 1988 they released their masterpiece album Malleus Maleficarum, which is my favourite album by them, and one of favourite album in both the thrash and death metal genre, since at this time they still had a significantly thrash element. The first one, Dysentry is the most interesting of them in my opinion, and the more death metallic, although both are recommended. Pestilence was formed in 1986 and released two demos in 1987. The most interesting Dutch death metal in my opinion, and also the most famous, is Pestilence. Their second album Realm Of Ecstasy is less thrash. This album is close in style to other Dutch bands Pestilence and Asphyx, but a little more thrash. They released several demos in the 80's, with the first released already in 1984, but didn't release any album until 1990 and Emerging From The Netherworlds. The first Dutch death metal band was Thanatos, formed in 1984. Messiah has later released two more albums. My favourite track is "Munchhausen Syndrom" from Choir Of Horrors, which is a quite melodic death metal song for being 1991. While the first two albums are more thrash, Choir Of Horrors is more death metal. Although the vocals aren't equally good on this album as on their first two, I would recommend all three. After that they changed their singer and released Choir Of Horrors in 1991. In 1986 they released their first album Hymn To Abramelin, and one year later the follow-up Extreme Cold Weather. Messiah was formed in 1984 and released their first demo in 1985. If we travel down to Switzerland we find Messiah. After Golem they released three albums in death thrash style, all of them recommended, but my favourite is A Shedding Of Skin from 1991. Golem is their most thrashy album, and in my opinion their least interesting album. One year later Protector released their debut album Golem. Just like Into The Abyss, this release contains some doomy passages. In 1987 their first EP Misanthropy, a highly recommended EP, was released. Protector was formed in 1986 and released their first demo the same year. In 2006 a compilation, Further Down Into The Abyss, was released, which contains songs from their earlier demos too.įrom Germany also Protector deserves to be mentioned. This is a highly recommended album, and one of my favourites in both the thrash and death metal genres I would especially recommend the song "Slaves of Crucifix". Into The Abyss was in 1993 officially released as an album under the same name. The demo only consists of four songs, but with a total length of 33 minutes. After several demos they, in 1987, released their masterpiece demo Into The Abyss, on which they found their own sound, an epic form of death/thrash with some slower passages of doom. At that time they sounded quite a lot like Hellhammer. They were formed already in 1982 and released their debut demo in 1984. I start this journey in Germany with the band Poison. Many of the bands mentioned in the article are bands I prefer over both Possessed, Death and Obituary. Of course there were far more bands than I can mention in the article, but I have tried to focus on the bands I consider most influential, bands that were early on releasing albums, and my favourites bands that deserve more recognition than they have received. This article is going to be about all other bands that were part of creating and shaping the death metal genre in the 80's. This article is not going to be about them. The death metal genre was pioneered by bands like Possessed, Death, Obituary and Morbid Angel.
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