1.   They release, on average, ten LPs every week on different labels and cover all musical styles from popular classics to death metal.

2.   A few years ago, rap and death metal began to recognize that they were sitting on opposite sides of the same cell wall.

3.   Over the last few years, heavy metal has splintered into several sub-genres -- thrash metal, speed metal, death metal, etc.

4.   This is the nihilistic premise behind much of what is called death metal, a subset of heavy metal.

5.   To a certain degree, both death metal and death rap try to escape from reality, offering nihilism as a cure-all and suicide as an easy way out.

6.   More really scary stuff from the prolific Swedish deans of death metal.