What is Death metal?
{{Infobox Music genre | name = Death metal | color = white | bgcolor = crimson | stylistic_origins = {{hlist|[[Thrash metal]]|[[Black metal|first wave black metal]]|[[hardcore punk]]}} | cultural_origins = Mid 1980s, [[United States]] (particularly [[Florida]]) | instruments = {{hlist|[[Singing|Vocals]]|[[electric guitar]]|[[Bass guitar|bass]]|[[Drum kit|drums]]}} | popularity = Worldwide | derivatives = | subgenrelist = | subgenres = {{hlist|[[Melodic death metal]]|[[technical death metal]]}} | fusiongenres = {{hlist|[[Deathcore]]|blackened death metal|Death-doom|deathgrind|death 'n' roll}} | regional_scenes = {{hlist|[[Florida]]|[[New York (state)|New York]]|[[Sweden]]|[[United Kingdom]]|[[Brazil]]|[[Netherlands]]|[[Japan]]|[[Poland]]}} | other_topics = }} '''Death metal''' is a style of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] that is very fast, mean and brutal. It has very angry and low singing that sounds like [[Cookie Monster]] from the TV show [[Sesame Street]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture|last=Purcell|first=Natalie|publisher=MacFarland|year=2003}}</ref> Most death metal has very fast [[guitar]] and [[drum]] beats. Almost every death metal drummer plays with two bass drums (or a type of pedal that has two beaters on one bass drum), so that they can play the bass drum beats faster. It is a kind of music focused on the beat and low sounds more than anything. The lyrics in death metal sometimes involve topics such as [[death]], [[war]] and [[pain]]. Some bands choose to write about [[philosophy|thinking]] or [[religion|God]]. Some bands try to write about things that other death metal bands do not write about such as [[ancient history]]. Some death metal singers don't just sing low like Cookie Monster, others scream really loud too. Some [[Melodic death metal|death metal bands focus on making very pretty sounds with the guitars]], and others [[Technical death metal|fo