about.com: "Post Mortem offered my first real exposure ever to death metal, arriving before standards like Death’s Scream Bloody Gore in 1987 and Autopsy’s Severed Survival in 1989"
Death Metal/Black Metal [online]. Allmusic, [cit. 2008-07-04]. Death Metal sa vyvinul z thrash metalu koncom 80. rokov.. Dostupné online.
Death Metal [online]. Allmusic, [cit. 2016-03-21]. "Taking the gritty lyrics and morbid obsessions of thrash to extremes, death metal was -- as its name suggests -- solely about death, pain, and suffering". Dostupné online.
Morbid Angel page @ Allmusic "Formed in 1984 in Florida, Morbid Angel (along with Death) would also help spearhead an eventual death metal movement in their home state"
Venom – Welcome to Hell review @ Allmusic "Make no mistake: Welcome to Hell, more than any other album, crystallized the elements of what later became known as thrash, death, black, and virtually every other form of extreme metal"
Venom band page @ Allmusic "Venom developed a dark, blistering sound which paved the way for the subsequent rise of thrash music; similarly, their macabre, proudly Satanic image proved a major inspiration for the legions of black metal bands"
Huey, Steve. ((( Gorefest > Biography ))) [online]. www.allmusic.com, [cit. 2008-02-15]. Erase, was released in 1994 and found the band moving subtly toward more traditional forms of metal, partly through its sure sense of groove. That approach crystallized on 1996's Soul Survivor, which combined death metal with the elegant power and accessibility of '70s British metal.. Dostupné online.
PURCELL, Natalie J.. Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture. [s.l.] : McFarland & Company. [Cit. 2016-03-21]. Dostupné online.ISBN 0-7864-1585-1. Kapitola 3, s. 54.
PURCELL, Natalie J.. Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture. [s.l.] : McFarland & Company, 2003. Dostupné online.ISBN 0-7864-1585-1. 4, s. 53.
PURCELL, Natalie J.. Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture. [s.l.] : McFarland & Company, 2003. The term "Death Metal" emerged when Thomas Fischer and Martin Ain, a pair of Swiss Venom fans in the band Hellhammer (later Celtic Frost), started a fanzine called "Death Metal". Later, their record label German Noise Records used the "Death Metal" name for a compilation featuring Hellhammer. Dostupné online.ISBN 0-7864-1585-1. Kapitola 3, s. 53.
PURCELL, Nathalie J.. Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture. [s.l.] : McFarland & Company, 2003. Dostupné online.ISBN 0-7864-1585-1. S. 23.
PURCELL, Natalie J.. Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture. [s.l.] : McFarland, 2003. [Cit. 2007-11-28]. Dostupné online.ISBN 0-7864-1585-1. S. 24.
boston.com
Boston Globe:"helped pioneer the underground subgenre of death metal"
bostonherald.com
Boston Herald: "Boston isn’t known as a death-metal hotbed, but if the city could claim one pioneer band in the genre, it was Post Mortem"
dailytarheel.com
media.dailytarheel.com
Bryan Reed, The Daily Tar Heel, 19. júl 2007. [1] Dátum prístupu: 6. august 2008.
THE DEATH OF DEATH Martelgang Magazine, Autor: Anton de Wit, Publikované: Január 2002, "Yet it's almost unthinkable that the term wasn't inspired by the band name Death or their first demo, Death by Metal from 1984."
Hellhammer biography"Karl from Noise is planning to call the LP Black Mass but it is Tom who talks him out of it and proposes Death Metal which actually is the name of the underground mag Tom used to run"
imdb.com
Dunn, Sam (Director). Metal: A Headbanger's Journey [motion picture]. Kanada: Dunn, Sam, 5. august 2005. Dostupné online.
independent.co.uk
Brown, Jonathon. "Everything you ever wanted to know about pop (but were too old to ask)". 'The Independent' (London), 2007-09-06. Dostupné online [cit. 2009-06-16].
Decapitated's New Lineup Performs Live For First Time; Photos Available – 3. feb 2010 [online]. Blabbermouth.net, [cit. 2010-02-07]. Dostupné online.
Decapitated's New Lineup Performs Live For First Time; Photos Available – 3. feb 2010 [online]. Blabbermouth.net, [cit. 2010-02-07]. Dostupné online.
silver-dragon-records.com
Silver Dragon Records "During the 1990s death metal diversified influencing many subgenres"
spray.se
biphome.spray.se
Sacramentum's Official homepage [online]. [Cit. 2012-01-29]. Dostupné online.
stylusmagazine.com
Cosmo Lee. www.stylusmagazine.com, [cit. 2008-07-18]. “Death ’n’ roll” arose with Entombed’s 1993 album Wolverine Blues ... Wolverine Blues was like ’70s hard rock tuned down and run through massive distortion and death growls.. Dostupné online.