Heavy Metal
New Zealand has several well-known heavy metal bands including 8 Foot Sativa, In Dread Response, Dawn of Azazel, Sinate, Beastwars, and Ulcerate, with most metal bands playing death metal. Wellington Black Metal band Demoniac was among the first to receive international recognition, releasing three albums on the French Evil Omen and Osmose labels. The band eventually relocated to the United Kingdom where guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman went on to form the highly popular Power Metal band DragonForce.
More recently Ulcerate, who are signed to high profile US label Relapse Records have received wide international recognition for their blending of brutal death metal with post-rock influences.
In recent years, a distinct trend has emerged amongst New Zealand's death metal scene of a deliberately old-school, raw "war metal" sound coupled with aggressive, militaristic lyrics and images, typified by bands such as Dawn of Azazel, Vassafor and Diocletian, all of whom have received attention within the international underground.
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