brutal death metal

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Brutal death metal is characterised by its use of death growls deeper than convention death metal vocals (usually referred to as "gutturals" to distinguish from regular growls), tempos that are either groove driven or incredibly high tempo, downtuned guitars and pinch harmonics.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}} The style blends death metal with grindcore.{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Cosmo |date=October 16, 2007 |title=Impending Doom: Nailed. Dead. Risen. |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/impending-doom/nailed-dead-risen.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018032519/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/impending-doom/nailed-dead-risen.htm |archive-date=October 18, 2007 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Stylus Magazine}} Metal Hammer editor Dom Lawson also cited the influence of New York hardcore as a key part of the sound.{{cite web |last1=Lawson |first1=Dom |title=Death metal: The bluffer's guide |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-bluffer-s-guide-death-metal |website=Metal Hammer |date=10 December 2019 |access-date=20 October 2024 |archive-date=10 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241110182445/https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-bluffer-s-guide-death-metal |url-status=live }} Academic Michelle Phillipov defined it as "privileg[ing] heaviness, speed, and rhythmic complexity over conventional signifiers of melody and tunefulness."

"Brutal" as an adjective to describe death metal existed since the genre's origins. Czech band Krabathor released the Brutal Death demo tape in 1988,{{Cite book |last=Mudrian |first=Albert |year=2004 |title=Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore |title-link=Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore |publisher=Feral House |isbn=978-1-932595-04-8 |page=86 |quote=In Czechoslovakia, however, actual recording studios wouldn’t even accept the rapidly developing death metal sounds of Krabathor. The band managed to record a trio of demo tapes—Breath of Death, Total Destruction and Brutal Death—on a friend’s homemade mixing board in a small rehearsal room, but only after Christopher was forced by the government to enlist in the Czech army for 10 months and 22 days in 1989}} while Swedish band Carnage formed the same year and self-described as brutal death metal.{{Cite book |last=Mudrian |first=Albert |year=2004 |title=Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore |title-link=Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore |publisher=Feral House |isbn=978-1-932595-04-8 |page=86 |quote="I think we do have death metal elements," [Michael Amott] continues. "We used to call Carnage brutal death metal, but I’ve kinda moved away a little bit from categorizing stuff. We didn't even do that with Carcass. We didn't call that death metal then. And when I joined, they just wanted to call it metal. But I guess that's typical of every musician—you don't wanna categorize your music. You don't wanna put it in that box. That said, there will always be death metal in Arch Enemy, because that music is in my blood."}}

Loudwire credited Altars of Madness (1989) as the album that "redefined what it meant to be heavy while influencing an upcoming class of brutal death metal."{{Cite web|url=http://loudwire.com/morbid-angel-altars-of-madness-best-debut-metal-albums/|title=No. 4: Morbid Angel, 'Altars of Madness' – Best Debut Metal Albums|website=Loudwire|date=June 6, 2013|access-date=May 1, 2017|archive-date=July 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709185325/https://loudwire.com/morbid-angel-altars-of-madness-best-debut-metal-albums/|url-status=live}} Academic Michelle Phillipov credited Cannibal Corpse's albums Eaten Back to Life (1990) and Butchered at Birth (1991) as "important precursors" of the brutal death metal genre, due to their complex rhythms, speed, staccato vocals patterns, palm muted guitar riffs and lack of melody.{{cite book |last1=Phillipov |first1=Michelle |title=Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits |date=21 May 2014 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0739197608 |page=150 |quote=The albums Eaten Back to Life and Butchered at Birth are both important precursors of the death metal subgenre known as "brutal death metal," a style which privileges heaviness, speed, and rhythmic complexity over conventional signifiers of melody and tunefulness. As a result, Cannibal Corpse offers few musical gestures towards traditional heavy metal, instead combining prominent drumming with deep, often staccato-style growled vocals and high speed, palm-muted power chords and single-note riffs.}} The albums also helped to popularise the cartoonish gore imagery and lyrics which would come to be present in the genre.{{cite web |title=BEST OF – BRUTAL DEATH METAL |date=15 May 2017 |url=https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2017/05/15/best-of-brutal-death-metal/ |access-date=20 October 2024}} At the time of their release, these albums were purely considered brutal death metal.{{cite book |last1=Purcell |first1=Natalie J. |title=Death Metal Music The Passion and Politics of a Subculture |date=17 September 2015 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |pages=64, 66 |quote=In 1990 Florida saw the debut of the extremely influential Cannibal Corpse. With little contention, Cannibal Corpse’s first album, Eaten Back to Life, was deemed pure, brutal death metal. The album (which was the first Death Metal album released by America's Metal Blade Records) included disgusting gore lyrics sung in the remarkably low and unintelligible voice of Chris Barnes... The early 1990s also saw the release of Cannibal Corpse's second album, Butchered at Birth (1991). With the album’s harsh, barely-tuned guitars, most fans saw it as pure, brutal death metal}}

According to Loudwire, brutal death metal is widely considered to have been pioneered by Long Island, New York band, Suffocation, formed in 1988, and popularised on their debut album Effigy of the Forgotten (1991).{{cite web |last1=Hartmann |first1=Graham |title=No. 14: Suffocation, 'Effigy of the Forgotten' – Best Debut Metal Albums |url=https://loudwire.com/suffocation-effigy-of-the-forgotten-best-debut-metal-albums/ |website=Loudwire |date=6 June 2013 |access-date=17 October 2024 |archive-date=3 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203153820/https://loudwire.com/suffocation-effigy-of-the-forgotten-best-debut-metal-albums/ |url-status=live }} Influenced by Florida death metal and New York hardcore,{{cite web |last1=Criado |first1=Justin |title=Death-Metal Legend Suffocation Is Still Slamming |url=https://www.westword.com/music/death-metal-legend-suffocation-is-still-slamming-14204639 |website=Westword |access-date=17 October 2024 |archive-date=12 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812183018/https://www.westword.com/music/death-metal-legend-suffocation-is-still-slamming-14204639 |url-status=live }} they created a sound which put an emphasis on slow, rhythmic, palm muted guitar riffs written in order to encourage moshing, which would later be termed "slam riffs", as well as downtuned guitars, breakdowns and time and tempo changes. Their style came to define the sound of New York death metal.{{cite book |last1=Phillipov |first1=Michelle |title=Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits |date=21 May 2014 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0739197608 |page=150 |quote=As important as the Florida sound has been in the global Death Metal scene, its significance is matched by the New York style of Death Metal. Matthew Harvey writes that "the New York style of Death Metal is based around down-tuned, muscular, palm-muted 'slam' riffs that are ideal for moshing." Suffocation is generally credited with defining the New York style. Suffocation's Human Waste EP and Effigy of the Forgotten album incorporated many of the elements of the Floridian style but added an emphasis on rhythm and frequent time and tempo changes. "Suffocation created churning, crushing breakdowns which would become the mark of the New York style of Death Metal," writes Medeiros. This sound became increasingly popular in the mid–1990s. Slow "slam" riffs helped bands like Internal Bleeding and Pyrexia, inspired by Suffocation, to become successful in the mid 1990s.}} Vocalist Frank Mullen originated a style of death growl that was deeper than those of prior death metal bands.{{cite web |last1=Hartmann |first1=Graham |title=10 Greatest Guttural + Harsh Vocalists in Metal |url=https://loudwire.com/10-greatest-guttural-vocalists-in-metal/ |website=Loudwire |date=9 September 2016 |access-date=17 October 2024 |archive-date=17 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717230729/https://loudwire.com/10-greatest-guttural-vocalists-in-metal/ |url-status=live }}

Many of the other early brutal death metal groups were too formed in New York, including Immolation, Incantation,{{Cite book |last=Mudrian |first=Albert |year=2004 |title=Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore |title-link=Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore |publisher=Feral House |isbn=978-1-932595-04-8 |page=124 |quote=As Revenant were restructuring their lineup in August of 1989, guitarist John McEntee departed the group to start his own brutal death metal band, Incantation.}} Mortician,{{cite journal |last1=Christe |first1=Ian |title=Mortician Hacked Up For Barbecue |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=March 1997 |page=48 |quote=Mortician is two guys from Yonkers, NY, whose absolute love for metal pushes them to extremes. The band's starting point is plowing into traditional brutal death sounds, but its intensity and idiosyncrasies blossom into a nihilistic progression anchored in metal. It's a no-bullshit example of sonic distortion with a frequency response unlike any other.}}{{cite web |title=MORTICIAN TO PERFORM EXCLUSIVE FLORIDA SHOW IN JANUARY |url=https://bravewords.com/news/mortician-to-perform-exclusive-florida-show-in-january |website=Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles |access-date=16 October 2024}} Skinless.{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/reunited-skinless-were-back-to-destroy/|title=Reunited Skinless: 'We're Back To Destroy'|work=Blabbermouth.net|date=August 13, 2013|access-date=October 16, 2013|archive-date=July 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709190831/https://blabbermouth.net/news/reunited-skinless-were-back-to-destroy|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/cdreviews/trample-the-weak-hurdle-the-dead/|title=Trample The Weak, Hurdle the Dead Skinless|work=Blabbermouth.net|access-date=October 16, 2013|date=June 26, 2006|archive-date=December 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207215435/https://www.blabbermouth.net/cdreviews/trample-the-weak-hurdle-the-dead/|url-status=live}} and Malignancy.{{cite web |last1=FALZON |first1=DENISE |title=Immolation |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/immolation |website=Exclaim! |access-date=20 October 2024 |archive-date=17 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240917225122/https://exclaim.ca/music/article/immolation |url-status=live }} One sect of this scene, which included Internal Bleeding and Pyrexia, put a greater focus on the hardcore-inspired grooves and breakdowns, helping to pioneer the subgenre slam death metal. Decibel writer Dutch Pearce also credited Deeds of Flesh from Los Osos, California as a pioneer of brutal death metal.{{cite web |last1=Pearce |first1=Dutch |title=Album Premiere: Deeds of Flesh – "Nucleus" |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2020/12/09/track-premiere-deeds-of-flesh-nucleus/ |website=Decibel |date=9 December 2020 |access-date=20 October 2024 |archive-date=1 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241101195148/https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2020/12/09/track-premiere-deeds-of-flesh-nucleus/ |url-status=live }}

File:Dyingfetus tuska2008.jpg, one of the most prominent acts to merge brutal death metal with technical instrumentation]]

In the mid–1990s, many bands began to push the genre into a more technically proficient direction, with Cryptopsy, Nile, Origin and Dying Fetus being forefront bands.{{cite web |last1=Gehlke |first1=David E. |title=KARL SANDERS Talks NILE's Longevity And Breaking Through In Early 2000s: 'We Were Doing What Made Us Happy' |date=13 August 2024 |url=https://blabbermouth.net/features/karl-sanders-talks-niles-longevity-and-breaking-through-in-early-2000s-we-were-doing-what-made-us-happy |access-date=20 October 2024 |archive-date=20 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920043011/https://blabbermouth.net/features/karl-sanders-talks-niles-longevity-and-breaking-through-in-early-2000s-we-were-doing-what-made-us-happy |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=ORIGIN to Release Exclusive New Single, "Disease Called Man," via the Decibel Flexi Series |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2023/02/28/origin-to-release-exclusive-new-track-disease-called-man-via-the-decibel-flexi-series/ |website=Decibel |date=28 February 2023 |access-date=20 October 2024 |archive-date=26 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250126164458/https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2023/02/28/origin-to-release-exclusive-new-track-disease-called-man-via-the-decibel-flexi-series/ |url-status=live }} Revolver editor Eli Enis, described Dying Fetus, "at the forefront of brutal death metal for the last three decades", by also putting an emphasis on the groovey riffing style of 1990s hardcore punk.{{cite web |last1=Enis |first1=Eli |title=FAN POLL: 5 MOST BRUTAL BANDS OF ALL TIME |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/fan-poll-5-most-brutal-bands-all-time/ |website=Revolver |access-date=17 October 2024 |archive-date=17 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617113802/https://www.revolvermag.com/music/fan-poll-5-most-brutal-bands-all-time |url-status=live }}

In the late 1990s, a brutal death metal scene formed in the Netherlands which included Severe Torture, Pyaemia, Disavowed and Prostitute Disfigurement.{{cite book |last1=Netherton |first1=Jason |title=Extremity Retained: Notes From the Death Metal Underground |date=5 April 2015 |publisher=Handshake Inc |page=204 |quote=Looking back at the ’90s, even as big as Pestilence and Gorefest were then, it seemed like there was still not a Dutch band that made it that far and attained some form of longevity. But even in the mid-'90s, when things were a bit cooled off with death metal internationally, we still had really good shows in Holland. I remember going to shows like Suffocation and Deicide at the old Effenaar Club in Eindhoven, and the place would be packed out the doors. But even as the older bands were breaking up, the one band that was doing things and moving up in Holland at the time was God Dethroned. By the late '90s, there was a new generation of more brutal bands coming out, including Severe Torture, Pyaemia, Prostitute Disfigurement and Disavowed, which I think was a response to the brutal death metal movement that was}}

By the 2010s, a prominent brutal death metal scene had formed in Russia. One of the frontrunners of this scene is Moscow's Katalepsy, whose debut album Autopsychosis (2013), was described by Distorted Sound writer Fraser Wilson as "a modern behemoth of slam", while their subsequent albums moved into a more technical brutal death metal sound.{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Fraser |title=Katalepsy: The Future of Our Dying Race |date=20 September 2020 |url=https://distortedsoundmag.com/katalepsy-the-future-of-our-dying-race/ |access-date=20 October 2024 |archive-date=27 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127204625/https://distortedsoundmag.com/katalepsy-the-future-of-our-dying-race/ |url-status=live }}

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Slam death metal (also referred to simply as slam) is a subgenre of brutal death metal which focuses on slam riffs. The genre originated from the 1990s New York death metal scene, incorporating elements of New York hardcore and hip hop music.{{cite web | url=https://www.masterclass.com/articles/death-metal-guide | title=All About Death Metal: 5 Notable Death Metal Bands | work=Masterclass | date=16 June 2021 | access-date=28 August 2024 | archive-date=26 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826195027/https://www.masterclass.com/articles/death-metal-guide | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/discover-your-next-favorite-phoenix-metal-band-at-az-brutal-fest-7287179 | title=Discover Your Next Favorite Phoenix Metal Band at AZ Brutal Fest | work=Phoenix New Times | date=April 14, 2015 | access-date=July 6, 2017 | last=Wise | first=Lauren | archive-date=April 4, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404062534/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/discover-your-next-favorite-phoenix-metal-band-at-az-brutal-fest-7287179 | url-status=live }} In contrast to other death metal styles, it is not generally focused on guitar solos and blast beats; instead, it employs mid-tempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffing, as well as hip hop-inspired vocal and drum beat rhythms. When blast beats are used, it is often traditional blasts and gravity blasts used only as accents. Syncopation between guitar and drums is also a focal point.{{cite web |last1=D |first1=Sergeant |title=DEATHCORE VS SLAM METAL: HOW 2 TELL THEM APART |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2011/04/04/deathcore-vs-slam-metal-how-2-tell-them-apart/ |website=MetalSucks |date=4 April 2011 |access-date=21 October 2024 |author-link=Finn McKenty |archive-date=12 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241012095351/https://www.metalsucks.net/2011/04/04/deathcore-vs-slam-metal-how-2-tell-them-apart/ |url-status=live }}

In addition to slower riffing, slam death metal is also said to be characterized by guttural vocals and a "high pitched, ringy" snare drum sound. The subgenre "shares some of the bounce and groove from nu metal," and tends to avoid the experimental elements common in early death metal.{{cite book |last1=Coles |first1=T |title=Death Metal |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |page=108 |quote=Slam shares some of the bounce and groove of nu-metal, and walks back some of the experimentation of earlier death metal, cutting back some of the excesses.}}

The breakdown riff of Suffocation's "Liege of Inveracity" (1991) has been credited by Rolling Stone as the first slam riff in death metal.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/suffocation-gramercy-theatre-frank-mullen-final-show-review-758169/ |title=Farewell, Frank Mullen: Suffocation's Death-Metal Maestro Goes Out on Top |last=Shteamer |first=Hank |date=November 19, 2018 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=September 9, 2019 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515030753/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/suffocation-gramercy-theatre-frank-mullen-final-show-review-758169/ |url-status=live }} The first wave of bands in the genre were New York bands like Internal Bleeding, Pyrexia and Afterbirth,{{cite book |last1=Purcell |first1=Natalie J. |title=Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture |date=September 17, 2015 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=9780786484065 |page=9 |quote=Many New York style bands like Suffocation, Dying Fetus and Internal Bleeding are slam-orientated and bass-based; this sort of music promotes dancing with rapid shifts from low and slow to fast and blast.}}{{cite book |last1=Purcell |first1=Natalie J. |title=Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture |date=September 17, 2015 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=9780786484065 |page=19 |quote=Slow 'slam' riffs helped bands like Internal Bleeding and Pyrexia, inspired by Suffocation, to become successful in the mid 1990s. Today, New York style bands like Skinless and Dying Fetus dominate the scene with 'crowd-pleasing mosh riffs'}}{{cite web |last1=Sacher |first1=Andrew |title=Our 33 Favorite Metal Albums of 2023 |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/our-33-favorite-metal-albums-of-2023/ |access-date=20 October 2024 |archive-date=30 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130095729/https://www.brooklynvegan.com/our-33-favorite-metal-albums-of-2023/ |url-status=live }} with notable groups from outside of this state from this time including Devourment{{cite web | url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/how-brutal-death-metal-is-confronting-its-misogyny-problem/ | title=How Brutal Death Metal Is Confronting Its Misogyny Problem | work=Kerrang! | date=August 29, 2019 | access-date=January 19, 2021 | last=Zorgdrager | first=Bradley | archive-date=October 18, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018001946/https://www.kerrang.com/features/how-brutal-death-metal-is-confronting-its-misogyny-problem/ | url-status=live }} and Cephalotripsy.{{cite journal |last1=Butler |first1=Will |title=Cannabis Corpse - Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise LP |journal=Don't be Swindle |issue=1 |quote= Most standard death metal, and particularly its more brutal offshoots, is just too damn serious. Not too many people can enthusiastically back slam metal shit like Devourment or Cephalotripsy.}}

The name "slam" in reference to death metal was coined by the members of Internal Bleeding.{{cite web |last1=Enis |first1=Eli |title=10 MOST BRUTAL DEATH-METAL ALBUMS EVER: DYING FETUS' PICKS |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/10-most-brutal-death-metal-albums-ever-dying-fetus-picks/ |website=Revolver |access-date=17 October 2024 |archive-date=3 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203184031/https://www.revolvermag.com/music/10-most-brutal-death-metal-albums-ever-dying-fetus-picks/ |url-status=live }} In a 2024 interview, Internal Bleeding guitarist Chris Pervelis explained that because the band's emphasis on groove was to encourage moshing, they originally called their music "mosh" metal, "barbaric mosh" or "death mosh". However, drummer Bill Tolley associated the word "mosh" with the jovial tone of Anthrax. To avoid this association Tolley pushed for the word "slam" due to its early hardcore origins.{{cite AV media |people=Chris Pervelis |date=2024-10-15 |title=Internal Bleeding Chris Pervelis: Long Island Death Metal and Inventing Slam |type=podcast |language=English |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/146-internal-bleeding-chris-pervelis-long-island-death/id1551076579?i=1000673093787 |access-date=2024-10-17|time=10m |publisher=Garza Podcast |quote=I was talking about marketing the band, what we should do, and we were using the word "mosh". We used it a lot, we'd say "barbaric mosh", "death mosh", this that all that. Because that's our music, we stripped away most of the blast beats, we stripped away a lot of the speed and we said every song has to be groovy all the time, non-stop even the fast parts, your head has to [bob]... we're talking about "mosh" and Billy got mad, and he was like "You know what, I can't stand Anthrax and they use the word mosh and it's like a joke and we can't, we're a fucking 'slam' band. That's what we do." And I was like "That's fucking right, that's a hardcore term, I used that term in the '80s when I was going to Black Flag shows, nobody said "mosh", everybody said fucking "slam".}}

File:Katalepsy Party.San Metal Open Air 2016 18.jpg were a prominent slam death metal band in their early years]]

The popularity of deathcore and its shared interest in breakdowns led to a revived interest in slam beginning in the mid–2000s, seen through the popularity of groups including Infected Malignity and Abominable Putridity and the reformation of Devourment. This wave saw an increase in production quality in the genre, a contrast from the raw production of earlier bands. This wave was largely based online, particularly on social media sites, with the Facebook group Slam Worldwide playing a major role in promotion. This led to many groups forming outside of the genre's native United States, such as Extermination Dismemberment from Belarus, Coprocephalic from Taiwan, Acranius from Germany{{cite web |last1=MUSTEIN0 |first1=DAVE |title=Slam Showcase: Extermination Dismemberment, Coprocephalic, Acranius, Leprous Divinity |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2014/08/04/slam-showcase-extermination-dismemberment-coprocephalic-acranius-leprous-divinity/ |website=MetalSucks |date=4 August 2014 |access-date=21 October 2024}} and a number of groups from the Philippines: Human Mastication, Nekroholocaust, Cranial Torture, Pus Vomit, Projectile Vomit and Impulsive Emesis. Furthermore, northern England, particularly Manchester and Liverpool, developed a scene during this wave, with groups including Ingested and Exhumation, as well as UK Slam Festival.{{cite book |last1=Hassan |first1=Nedim |title=Metal on Merseyside: Music Scenes, Community and Locality |date=16 September 2022 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=137, 180 |quote=Joe Mortimer [is] an independent promoter who has had experience of promoting metal gigs in Merseyside since 2005 and runs UK Slam Fest (2015–present), a national festival specializing in slam death metal... For instance, Chris Furlong, the vocalist for death metal band Exhumation, explained this process of sharing in the following way: It’s like, we share it, obviously, each individual band member on our own profiles [shares]. Our many friends we've got will then see it but then there's all the groups that have been set up. You've got a Slam Worldwide [slam death metal international group] that's been set up, so we'll send it to [...] them, so then they’ll share it for us, and then somebody else will share it for us, and then if you played with a bigger band, you'd tag them in it, and then all their fans will see it.}} To the extent that Distorted Sound magazine called Manchester "Slamchester".{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Fraser |title=Ingested: The Kings of Slamchester |date=17 October 2020 |url=https://distortedsoundmag.com/ingested-the-kings-of-slamchester/ |access-date=21 October 2024 |archive-date=30 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130094149/https://distortedsoundmag.com/ingested-the-kings-of-slamchester/ |url-status=live }} In a 2009 article by MetalSucks stated "slam is THE big thing in death metal right now, divisive as it is".{{cite web |last1=O'HAGAR |first1=SAMMY |title=A SLAM IS A SLAM IS A SLAM: NEW ENGLAND DEATHFEST, DAY 2 |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2009/09/02/a-slam-is-a-slam-is-a-slam-new-england-deathfestm-day-2/ |website=MetalSucks |date=2 September 2009 |access-date=21 October 2024 |archive-date=16 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250216144833/https://www.metalsucks.net/2009/09/02/a-slam-is-a-slam-is-a-slam-new-england-deathfestm-day-2/ |url-status=live }}

Slam was integral to the development of the genres beatdown hardcore{{cite web |last1=Heilman |first1=Max |title=Rappers and Riffs: 5 Rap Metal Bands That Don't Suck |date=2 September 2021 |url=https://metalinjection.net/lists/rappers-and-riffs-5-rap-metal-bands-that-dont-suck |access-date=10 October 2024 |archive-date=28 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228193415/https://metalinjection.net/lists/rappers-and-riffs-5-rap-metal-bands-that-dont-suck |url-status=live }} and deathcore.{{cite web |last1=Smith-Engelhardt |first1=Joe |title=10 albums that inspired deathcore before it was a movement |url=https://www.altpress.com/hardcore-death-metal-deathcore-band/ |website=Alternative Press |access-date=21 October 2024 |archive-date=17 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417221750/https://www.altpress.com/hardcore-death-metal-deathcore-band/ |url-status=live }} Furthermore, elements of its sound, particular its distinctive riffing style, has been incorporated into merged with various genres including hardcore, black metal and general death metal.{{cite web |title=SLAMSDANK SLAMS: A Slam By Any Other Name Is Still A Slam (Within Destruction, Horned, Hateful Transgression, Open Wound, Begging For Incest, Infected Swarm) |date=October 27, 2016 |url=https://metalinjection.net/av/dank-slams/slam-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-slam-within-destruction-horned-hateful-transgression-open-wound-begging-for-incest-infected-swarm |access-date=24 August 2023 |archive-date=5 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205013834/https://metalinjection.net/av/dank-slams/slam-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-slam-within-destruction-horned-hateful-transgression-open-wound-begging-for-incest-infected-swarm |url-status=live }}

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