The following is an excerpt from Volume 4 of Badger’s History of Heavy Metal zine, THE BIRTH OF DEATH: Early Death Metal 1985-1993. Check it out here. “Hammer Smashed Face” — Tomb of the Mutilated (1992) The greatest death metal song of all time had me stumped for a good long while, mostly because it’s so hard to distinguish from every other death metal song ever made. There seems to be so little that’s overtly remarkable about it: it’s not the first of its kind, it doesn’t do anything especially novel, it doesn’t make any kind of conceptual statement beyond the usual … Continue reading A Psychological Wrestling Match with the Greatest Death Metal Song of All Time