The German Metal Hammer website, Metalhammer.de had a vote for the top 111 death metal songs of all time. After their staff did their best to compile the list of 111 songs they let the fans vote for the top 10. When it all comes down to it, it’s all about favorites. So here is their top 10 and my top ten. If you have 10 favorite death metal songs, add them in the comment section.
Metalhammer.de’s top 10 Death Metal Songs

Cannibal Corpse – ‘Hammer Smashed Face’ from Tomb Of The Mutilated
Arch Enemy – ‘We Will Rise’ (from Anthems Of …read more

Exhumed: A Grave Collection.
Finally after years of line-up changes, label shifts and multiple releases, Century Media is releasing an 18 track “Best Of” album for Swedish death metal band Grave. The Best Of cd also contains the video for soulless. It was released on Tuesday and you can pick it up from CM Distro for $8.00. Track list after the fold…

In 1996 I was on my way back to Quantico Virginia from upstate New York during my 4 years in the Marine Corps and I decided to stop at a mall in Utica, NY to see what the record store had. I bought a cd that I had been looking for (I think it might have been Misfits Collection 1 or 2) and had a few more bucks to spare so I picked up a 6 song EP from a band that I had heard of but never heard. The name was Grave. How could you go wrong with …read more

Welcome to the first Metal Martyr Video Blast Zone (yeah, I know it’s kind of cheezy, but I had to call it something). I’ve got 10 videos lined up. Some old, some older and some fairly new. I’m going to try to have a theme for these video blocks every week. No theme this week…just cool videos.
 

Entombed – Wolverine Blues
Carcass – Keep On Rotting IN The Free World
Amon Amarth – Ruins To My Memory
All That Remains – Chiron
Megadeth – 99 Ways To Die
Slipknot – Left Behind
Mushroomhead – Solitaire Unraveling
Cannibal Corpse – Make Them Suffer
Immortal – Call Of The Wintermoon
Grave …read more

In 1996 Dwell Records released a tribute album to Celtic Frost titled In Memory Of Celtic Frost. Who knew some years later they would reunite just to disband (Sort of) again this year. The remaining band members say they are still a band, but can we really call them Celtic Frost without Thomas Gabriel Fischer?
In Memory Of Celtic Frost has some of the best songs by Celtic Frost covered by some of the greatest Metal, Black Metal and Death Metal bands. Bands such as Mayhem, Emporer, Grave, Opeth and Slaughter, just to name a few. If you’ve ever been …read more

When I was younger I used to love Death Metal. Bands like Deicide, Morbid Angel, Grave, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Obituary and Malevolent Creation were on a regular rotation in my cd player. A lot of things I used to hate about some Death Metal back then was the fact that the music was often overpowering the vocals. Not that you could understand half the shit they were saying unless you read and memorized the lyrics from the sleeve. These days a lot of Death Metal bands have the opposite problem. The vocals overpower the music and you can’t hear the …read more

Acording to Wackenopenair.com the roster for this years fest is as follows. Germany’s Wacken Open Air Fest will be from July 31st to August 8th.
As I Lay Dying
At the Gates
Autumn
Avantasia
Axel Rudi Pell
Axxis
Before the Dawn
Carcass
Children of Bodom
Corvus Corax

When it comes to the basics of Metal there are the staple foods of heavy metal that everyone should experience. If I was to recommend some bands the a metal newcomer that is new to the music and has had his/her interest peaked by a band or two, I would recommend the basics. The basics being like I said the “staple food” of a head banger. Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest Iron Maiden, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Danzig, etc., etc. However I would also recommend some not metal artists Like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd just to give the person …read more