While it is not radio-friendly, death metal has won itself a worldwide audience from people who admire the independent spirit and pride in self over society that death metal embraces. Metalheads across the world have started underground death and black metal bands, zines, fansites, and radio shows, promoting the metal movement to new heights below the radar of mainstream perception.Death metal zines organized the knowledge of death metal music and culture before the era of the Internet. Deathmetal.Org is an exhibit to explore the history and evolution of death metal from heavy metal and hardcore punk, the permanence of death metal as a culture and death metal subculture, the psychology and ideology and lifestyles of death metal fans, the musical aspects of death metal and how to distinguish death metal from heavy metal and other underground metal genres, and finally, the place of death metal in the future of humanity. Death metal music is not heavy metal nor is it punk, and it is incompatible with mainstream motivations and media, so it requires the death metal underground and sites like Deathmetal.Org to maintain it as a genre.
Deathmetal.Org is now a joint project of the net's oldest underground metal resource
Dark Legions Archive and collaborating writers who share the commitment to serious death metal. Instead of focusing on the popular and the trendy, we are relentless in our quest to promote quality death metal, new and old. Those who understand the spirit of death metal will agree this is the best way, others can feel free to ignore us as long as its possible. Yet, our faith is in the triumph of the true and the powerful over the false and the weak, so we recommend listening to real death metal and striving to understand what it is about.
Our passion for the art of death metal has driven us to create this site. We wish to affirm everything that is positive and powerful about death metal, while fighting dishonour, stupidity and marketing scams. Our work includes the publication of news, reviews, articles and interviews of both established bands and upcoming acts who have realized the meaning of the archaic words of Hellhammer: Only Death is Real. Bands, labels, zines, gig organizers and other parties working in the true spirit of death metal who wish to get the word out there through our site are invited to get in touch.
In order to establish a solid, even scientifical basis for the study and appreciation of death metal, we are also collecting and digitizing diverse materials related to death metal history, such as zines, flyers and demo covers. The death metal zine reference center and the death metal art repository are at your disposal. If you appreciate the contents of these archives, please get in touch and contribute something from your own collections in order to preserve memory, information and knowledge and to save these rare gems from being buried by the sands of time: The Past is Alive.
We also would like all our noble readers to stay active in their own productive manner and through their contacts spreading the word about all these projects, archives and analyses which ultimately achieve their meaning by the responsive awareness of the intelligent observers somewhere out there, who prowl as wolves among the sheep. Here are some flyers you can spread like the plague in order for our hordes and communication networks to grow towards world domination and eternal victory.
