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Thanks for posting this -- I was going to myself, but you were a lot faster! Yours is better anyways.

My friends and I have argued Possessed vs Death for many years. I base my opinion on album release date, which means Possessed was the first. But my friends point to the existence of cassettes etc of early rehearsals as evidence that Death was actually doing that type of music, before Possessed was (and certainly before Seven Churches).

As for why Florida, I think at first it was coincidence. However, having grown up in and around Tampa at that time, you are 100% correct that so many pioneers came from not just Florida, but Central Florida. Morrisound recording studio rapidly became the "death metal capitol of the universe," with bands coming from all around the world to record there. Whatever!

BTW if you are unfamiliar, Nile, from South Carolina, still proudly flies the death metal flag. Their lyrics often have to do with ancient Egyptian mythology. "Rough sex" and "Nazi rap," hahahaha.... man oh man. I wonder what that guy would make of Absu, from Plano TX.

Hmm. Perhaps he is thinking of industrial music like KMFDM and Rammstein? I don’t know what they sing about, but they seem like German perverts. I’ve read that Rammstein was named after the Ramstein air disaster, but they misspelled it.

As for the Possessed vs Death debate, I’m going to let the scholars battle that out. I’m not sure how they could ever sort out the underground scene however. We might be stuck debating a while.

The central Florida being ground zero for death metal... well after years of listening to those bands, the navy put me through a year of training in Orlando. It was confusing because my first thought was, “This isn’t so bad. Why are they so disgruntled?” Whatever it was, good job central Florida!

Never listened to Absu before. Just put it on Youtube. Not bad. Sounds like a cross between black metal and Judas Priest. Nile is pretty bad ass.

Last week after I went to see Morbid Angel, back at my friend’s house, she had a band called Craft playing. Swedish black metal. It hooked me right away. She started with a song called F the Universe. I bought two of their albums off of Amazon immediately, and I bet they’re downstairs as I type now that I think about it. Excuse me while I go put some pants on and retrieve them...