The Music Cities™ · Reference
The Tampa Death Metal Family Tree
A network map of the bands, musicians, studios, labels, festivals and venues through which death metal began in Tampa Bay and spread across the world, 1979 to 2026, with every Morrisound Recording credit verified album by album
Reading the mapA scene is a place before it is a genreWhat the nodes and lines mean, the inclusion rules, the timeline placement rule, the people rule and the twelve lineages.Lineage, era by eraFrom Sirens to Initium MortisThe place, the room, the spread, the genres and the export by record: the scene era by era, 1979 to 2026.The studioMorrisound Recording: the room that made the placeConvergence infrastructure, every credit verified album by album, Scott Burns as the transmission system and how the system worked.The personnel engineDeath: the personnel engineWhy Death is the highest betweenness node on the map, the Death tree by edge class and every personnel migration.Current casesSeven mechanismsSeven mechanisms by which a scene becomes a genre, and what Tampa shows.CitiesWhere the scene comes from and where it wentBands by hub, the three kinds of spread and the world map of the scene.InstitutionsWho decides who gets heardThe labels, studios, venues and networks that decide who gets heard, and the dated spread milestones.Network metricsWho carries the connectionsDegree and betweenness on the full graph and the people and production graph, where the computed ranking differs from the brief, and status as of the cutoff.MethodConfidence and sourcesConfidence grades, the evidence standard, terminology, open items and the source register.AppendixIndex of nodesEvery band, person and institution on the map, grouped by lineage and ordered by year.
The same text is available as a PDF reference, generated from the same data file as these pages and the map, so the counts never disagree.