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death metal

extreme subgenre of heavy metal music
Intangible music_genre Q483251
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Summary

death metal is a music genre[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of music genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,901 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: extreme metal[3]
  • Commons category: Death metal[4]
  • Country of origin: Europe[5], United Kingdom[6], United States[7]
  • Inception: January 1, 1985[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Death metal[9]
  • Native label: Death Metal[10]
  • Different from: deathrock[11]

Why It Matters

death metal has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0437811-death-metal
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0437811-death-metal, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → deathrock
    Country of origin → Europe, United Kingdom, United States
    Subclass of → extreme metal
    Instance of → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 26907, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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