--- title: "Brutal Death Metal" type: "MusicGenre" url: "https://themetalnet.com/genre/brutal-death" parent: "Death Metal" bands: 635 era: "early 1990s" --- # Brutal Death Metal **Brutal Death Metal** is a metal sub-genre, formative in the early 1990s. TheMetalNet maps 635 bands and 1,103 albums under it. Brutal death metal pushes death metal toward maximum heaviness and speed, favoring downtuned guitars, machine-gun blast beats, abrupt tempo shifts, and guttural vocals so low they are often called gutturals. Suffocation and other early-90s New York bands set the blueprint, prioritizing crushing rhythm and complexity over melody. Slam is a closely related offshoot built around lurching, mosh-ready breakdown riffs. Themes run to gore, horror, and violence, delivered for pure sonic impact. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Genre | Brutal Death Metal | | Level | Sub-genre | | Parent genre | Death Metal | | Formative era | early 1990s | | Bands | 635 | | Albums | 1,103 | | Formation span | 1989 to 2025 | ## Notable bands (top 60 by prominence) - [Mortician](https://themetalnet.com/band/mortician) (United States, 1989) - [Disfiguring the Goddess](https://themetalnet.com/band/disfiguring-the-goddess) (United States, 2006) - [Ingested](https://themetalnet.com/band/ingested) (United Kingdom, 2002) - [Beneath the Massacre](https://themetalnet.com/band/beneath-the-massacre) (Canada, 2004) - [Pathology](https://themetalnet.com/band/pathology) (United States, 2006) - [Gorgasm](https://themetalnet.com/band/gorgasm) (1994) - [Kronos](https://themetalnet.com/band/kronos) (France, 1994) - [Brodequin](https://themetalnet.com/band/brodequin) (United States, 1998) - [Disgorge](https://themetalnet.com/band/disgorge-bda91cb4) (Mexico, 1994) - [Internal Suffering](https://themetalnet.com/band/internal-suffering) (Colombia, 1996) - [Abominable Putridity](https://themetalnet.com/band/abominable-putridity) (Russia, 2003) - [Cenotaph](https://themetalnet.com/band/cenotaph-aab33503) (Turkey, 1994) - [Corpsefucking Art](https://themetalnet.com/band/corpsefucking-art) (Italy, 1995) - [Waco Jesus](https://themetalnet.com/band/waco-jesus) (1994) - [Waking the Cadaver](https://themetalnet.com/band/waking-the-cadaver) (2006) - [Human Mincer](https://themetalnet.com/band/human-mincer) (Spain, 1996) - [Inhume](https://themetalnet.com/band/inhume) (1994) - [Resurrected](https://themetalnet.com/band/resurrected) (1993) - [Despondency](https://themetalnet.com/band/despondency) (Germany, 1999) - [Emeth](https://themetalnet.com/band/emeth) (Belgium, 1997) - [Aborted Fetus](https://themetalnet.com/band/aborted-fetus) (Russia, 2000) - [Amputated](https://themetalnet.com/band/amputated) (2002) - [Cerebral Effusion](https://themetalnet.com/band/cerebral-effusion) (Spain, 1997) - [Parricide](https://themetalnet.com/band/parricide) (1990) - [Sanatorium](https://themetalnet.com/band/sanatorium) (Slovakia, 1994) - [Vomit the Soul](https://themetalnet.com/band/vomit-the-soul) (Italy, 1999) - [Corpus Mortale](https://themetalnet.com/band/corpus-mortale) (Denmark, 1993) - [Stillbirth](https://themetalnet.com/band/stillbirth) (1999) - [Mental Demise](https://themetalnet.com/band/mental-demise) (Ukraine, 1995) - [The Partisan Turbine](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-partisan-turbine) (United States, 2003) - [Inherit Disease](https://themetalnet.com/band/inherit-disease) (United States, 2001) - [Poppy Seed Grinder](https://themetalnet.com/band/poppy-seed-grinder) (Czechia, 1997) - [Purulent Jacuzzi](https://themetalnet.com/band/purulent-jacuzzi) (2005) - [Goratory](https://themetalnet.com/band/goratory) (United States, 2000) - [Guttural Secrete](https://themetalnet.com/band/guttural-secrete) (United States, 2002) - [Kataplexia](https://themetalnet.com/band/kataplexia) (Finland, 2003) - [Lust of Decay](https://themetalnet.com/band/lust-of-decay) (United States, 2000) - [Unmerciful](https://themetalnet.com/band/unmerciful) (United States, 2001) - [Begging for Incest](https://themetalnet.com/band/begging-for-incest) (2007) - [Cuntgrinder](https://themetalnet.com/band/cuntgrinder) (Germany, 1995) - [Goretrade](https://themetalnet.com/band/goretrade) (Colombia, 1999) - [Jasad](https://themetalnet.com/band/jasad) (Indonesia, 1990) - [Amputated Genitals](https://themetalnet.com/band/amputated-genitals) (Colombia, 2003) - [Carnivore Diprosopus](https://themetalnet.com/band/carnivore-diprosopus) (Colombia, 2002) - [Saprogenic](https://themetalnet.com/band/saprogenic) (United States, 2001) - [Vulvectomy](https://themetalnet.com/band/vulvectomy) (Italy, 2007) - [Animals Killing People](https://themetalnet.com/band/animals-killing-people) (United States, 2003) - [Enthrallment](https://themetalnet.com/band/enthrallment) (Bulgaria, 1998) - [Gortuary](https://themetalnet.com/band/gortuary) (2006) - [Sikfuk](https://themetalnet.com/band/sikfuk) (United States, 2001) - [Cephalectomy](https://themetalnet.com/band/cephalectomy) (Canada, 1997) - [Human Filleted](https://themetalnet.com/band/human-filleted) (2005) - [Unborn Suffer](https://themetalnet.com/band/unborn-suffer) (2001) - [Cephalic Impurity](https://themetalnet.com/band/cephalic-impurity) (Russia, 2007) - [Fate](https://themetalnet.com/band/fate) (France, 1994) - [Necrotorture](https://themetalnet.com/band/necrotorture) (2000) - [Pustulated](https://themetalnet.com/band/pustulated) (United States, 2001) - [Putrid Pile](https://themetalnet.com/band/putrid-pile) (United States) - [Vomepotro](https://themetalnet.com/band/vomepotro) (Brazil, 1996) - [Cerebral Bore](https://themetalnet.com/band/cerebral-bore) (United Kingdom, 2004) ## Where it is played - [United States](https://themetalnet.com/country/us): 99 bands - [Russia](https://themetalnet.com/country/ru): 26 bands - [Indonesia](https://themetalnet.com/country/id): 23 bands - [Germany](https://themetalnet.com/country/de): 14 bands - [Australia](https://themetalnet.com/country/au): 12 bands - [Italy](https://themetalnet.com/country/it): 11 bands - [United Kingdom](https://themetalnet.com/country/gb): 9 bands - [Worldwide](https://themetalnet.com/country/xw): 9 bands ## Bands formed by decade | Decade | Bands formed | | --- | --- | | 1980s | 1 | | 1990s | 102 | | 2000s | 158 | | 2010s | 164 | | 2020s | 92 | --- Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/genre/brutal-death](https://themetalnet.com/genre/brutal-death). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt