Kam Lee (born Barney Kam Lee) is an American singer. He is best known for his vocal contributions to an early incarnation of Death (called Mantas) in 1983–84, and later joined Massacre in 1985, founded and formed by Bill Andrews (Death). Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 and dissolved in 1999. ... Massacre is an American Death metal band. ... A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. ... Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 and dissolved in 1999. ... Massacre is an American Death metal band. ...

Lee is said to be one of the creators of the vocal style called the death grunt or death growl^{[citation needed]}, taking influence from the then Celtic Frost vocalist Thomas Gabriel Fischer (a.k.a. Tom G Warrior). Massacre recorded 2 demo tapes that were heavily distributed using the tape trading system but did not lead to a record deal. The band dissolved when members Rick Rozz, Bill Andrews and Terry Butler left to join a later inception of Chuck Schuldiner's Death; however, the subsequent citing of Massacre as influences by bands such as Napalm Death signified a great interest in the defunct act within the death metal community. This led to a reformation and the recording of the album From Beyond on Earache Records, made up mainly of reworking of the songs featured on the original 1985 & 1986 demo tapes. Death grunts, also referred to as death growls, death vocals or harsh vocals[1], is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal musical genre, but is also occasionally used in a variety of other heavy metal sub-genres. ... Celtic Frost is a highly influential extreme metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, best known for their influence on the thrash, black, doom and death metal genres. ... Thomas Gabriel Fischer, earlier known by his stage name of Tom Gabriel Warrior, is a Swiss singer and guitarist. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Rick Rozz (born Frederick DeLillo, January 9, 1967) is an American guitarist. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Biographies. ... Terry Butler, of Tampa, Flordia, USA, is the current bassist in the death metal band, Six Feet Under. ... Charles Michael Chuck Schuldiner (May 13, 1967, Long Island, New York – December 13, 2001) was an American musician and genre innovator. ... Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 and dissolved in 1999. ... Napalm Death is a grindcore/death metal band formed in the village of Meriden near Birmingham, England in 1982 by Nicholas Bullen and Miles Ratledge. ... Death metal is a subgenre of heavy metal. ... Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York USA, which helped pioneer extreme music by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal releases in the period 1988-1992. ...

Lyrically, Lee drew heavily from the stories of American author H.P. Lovecraft, and the album's cover art featured a painting by artist Ed Repka representing creatures from Lovecraft's imagination. Upon its release, many critics described the band as simply apeing many of the later bands they had originally influenced, especially in comparing the vocal style of Lee to that of Napalm Death vocalist 'Barney' Mark Greenway. Lee also played drums in both Mantas and Death as well as vocals. In 2006 he started a band with Terry Butler (Death/Massacre/Six Feet Under) called Denial Fiend. He has also been a member of many other short-lived bands. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... Ed Repka is an American artist who is best known for producing album covers for various metal bands as well as shirt designs. ... Napalm Death is a grindcore/death metal band formed in the village of Meriden near Birmingham, England in 1982 by Nicholas Bullen and Miles Ratledge. ... Mark Barney Greenway, born July 13, 1969 in Kettering, is a British death metal vocalist, who has been a member of Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror and Benediction. ... Terry Butler, of Tampa, Flordia, USA, is the current bassist in the death metal band, Six Feet Under. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Photographs of the My Lai massacre provoked world outrage and made it an international scandal. ... Six Feet Under is a critically acclaimed American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. ...