Death Metal Music – Guitar Heaven Or Guitar Abuse?
If you love to play the guitar, you were probably attracted to the idea of playing different kinds of music that you enjoy. Maybe it was death metal music, maybe it was Spanish classical guitar, or maybe it was some free-flowing 70's folk songs. Well the electric guitar is great for playing death metal music - but is that what we want to be hearing?
What Does Death Metal Music Say About Us?
Okay, off the bat you should know that I'm not the biggest fan of death metal music. In fact, I'm not a fan at all. Along with country music, bubblegum pop and hard-core rap, death metal music is one of the few genres in which I have zero interest. That's not to say that I think death metal music is worthless or that bands that play death metal music are untalented, but it's something that's simple never reached me on any level beyond annoyance.
Part of that may be because of its fans. Like fans of country music, death metal music fans tend to dress as if they, themselves, are part of a band. If you go to a death metal concert, you might feel like you are at a Halloween party or a very scary bar. Fans tend to build their self-image around their favorite bands, in what is generally a very unhealthy and somewhat laughable way. No, James Hetfield doesn't want to be your friend. He would like your money, though.
I end up shaking my head at people wearing chains, spiked hair and big, black leather steel-toed boots on their way to listen to an angry man screaming into a microphone and wailing away on his guitar. It's not because they're different; far from it. It's because they've decided to express their differences by dressing and acting in the manner of an already established social subclass. TIronically, metal fans seem to be very uniform in the non-conformity, many of them without even the simple grace to recognize that irony.
The wikipedia.org page on death metal music reads as follows: Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Building off the speed and complexity of thrash metal, death metal emerged during the mid 1980s. It was mainly inspired by thrash metal acts like Slayer, Kreator and Celtic Frost. Along with the band Death and its frontman Chuck Schuldiner (who is often referred to as "the father of death metal"), bands like Possessed and Morbid Angel are often considered pioneers of the genre. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, death metal gained more media attention as popular record labels like Earache Records and Roadrunner Records began to sign death metal bands at a rapid rate. Since then, death metal has diversified, spawning a rich variety of subgenres.
I'm not sure how "rich" the variety of sub-genres is, and I'm not certain they should be classed as sub-genres at all if a layman can't identify them. And, to be sure, most laymen couldn't.
What To Do If You Want To Play Death Metal Music On Your Guitar
First - Shop for a nice electrical guitar - with skulls on it if possible. Don't foget the guitars amplifier, it should be loud!
Second - Get your costume together - black is a good basic color, along with face paint (aka "makeup") and hair gel.
Three - Find a microphone to scream into. If none is available, that's okay as your voice should be hoarse anyway.
Four - Rock out and have fun! Err.... Rock out and BE MEAN! That's better. 
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