This is a list of United States Death Metal (USDM) bands that were originally formed in the United States. Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music . It typically employs heavily distorted guitars , tremolo picking , deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality , and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Angelcorpse performing in Paris, France, on April 28, 2008
Between the Buried and Me at a concert at Porto-Rio in 2010
Cannibal Corpse playing at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC on October 3, 2007
Dååth live in New York City on February 2, 2007
Emmure performing in Tempe, Arizona on Attack Attack!'s This Is a Family Tour
Immolation at Metalmania in 2008
Job for a Cowboy performing at 2008's Hellfest , France
Morbid Angel live in 2011
Nile performing at Santana Hall in 2010. From left to right: Karl Sanders , Dallas Toler-Wade and Chris Lollis.
Pig Destroyer playing at Maryland Deathfest III in 2005
Suffocation jamming in 2010
Runhild Gammelsæter of Thorr's Hammer performing at Birmingham in 2009
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