As death metal began splintering into a hundred subgenres, only one emphasised its foundational relationship with rock 'n’ roll. First associated with Entombed’s ferocious 1993 album Wolverine Blues—which saw the renowned Swedish band embracing their lifelong love of Kiss and incorporating thick rock grooves into their furious death-metal onslaught—death 'n’ roll began as a largely Scandinavian phenomenon. Later practitioners like Six Feet Under (U.S.), Gorefest (Holland) and Blackstar (Liverpool) helped bring this infectious outcropping of extreme music worldwide, retaining death metal’s basic building blocks—heavily distorted and often detuned guitars, guttural vocals, blast beats, lyrics revelling in gore—but infusing the style with a righteous dose of classic-rock swing. Today, the death 'n’ roll tradition is carried on by the likes of Doomriders, Death Breath and others who don’t necessarily play death 'n’ roll exclusively. Even members of Entombed—now split into rival factions—continue to lace their old-school death metal with thundering power grooves.