Death (band)/YMMV


 * Crowning Music of Awesome - Many bands have covered the extremely simple song "Evil Dead", including Unleashed and God Dethroned. However, "Flesh And The Power It Holds" and "Spirit Crusher," both off The Sound of Perseverance, seem to ring loudest among prog death fans. And some fans think their cover of Painkiller is better than the original.
 * Dead Artists Are Better - Chuck Schuldiner gets this treatment somewhat.
 * Epic Riff - Too many songs to list, so let's just say all of Death's songs have these.
 * Face of the Band - Chuck Schuldiner.
 * Hype Backlash - See the second example of Seinfeld Is Unfunny below.
 * Seinfeld Is Unfunny - When Death started off, they were among the heaviest bands going. Their two early Gorn-oriented albums, Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy, are, nowadays, (lyrically) quite tame compared to other, later death metal bands.
 * It's not just in terms of heaviness, either. Quite a few metal fans have listened to Death wondering just what was so special about them, aside from the fact that they kickstarted death metal.