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    Top 100 Death metal albums

    1 Death
    Symbolic (1995)
    9.25
    2446
    2 Edge Of Sanity
    Crimson (1996)
    9.13
    974
    3 Dissection
    Storm Of The Light's Bane (1995)
    9.08
    1184
    4 Be'lakor
    Stone's Reach (2009)
    8.96
    1219
    5 Death
    Human (1991)
    8.93
    1705
    6 Sepultura
    Arise (1991)
    8.93
    1420
    7 Gojira
    From Mars To Sirius (2005)
    8.92
    1202
    8 Sepultura
    Beneath The Remains (1989)
    8.88
    1249
    9 Septicflesh
    Communion (2008)
    8.88
    1066
    10 Insomnium
    Winter's Gate (2016)
    8.86
    897
    11 Bolt Thrower
    Those Once Loyal (2005)
    8.84
    624
    12 Morbid Angel
    Altars Of Madness (1989)
    8.83
    974
    13 Carcass
    Heartwork (1993)
    8.82
    1162
    14 Insomnium
    Above The Weeping World (2006)
    8.82
    1007
    15 Death
    Individual Thought Patterns (1993)
    8.79
    1566
    16 Edge Of Sanity
    Crimson II (2003)
    8.79
    518
    17 Amorphis
    Under The Red Cloud (2015)
    8.77
    1052
    18 Amorphis
    Tales From The Thousand Lakes (1994)
    8.75
    1072
    19 Atheist
    Unquestionable Presence (1991)
    8.73
    581
    20 Cynic
    Focus (1993)
    8.72
    764
    21 Amon Amarth
    With Oden On Our Side (2006)
    8.72
    1788
    22 Nile
    Annihilation Of The Wicked (2005)
    8.68
    830
    23 Cryptopsy
    None So Vile (1996)
    8.68
    545
    24 Swallow The Sun
    The Morning Never Came (2003)
    8.67
    668
    25 Amorphis
    Queen Of Time (2018)
    8.67
    897
    26 Entombed
    Left Hand Path (1990)
    8.66
    605
    27 Carcass
    Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious (1991)
    8.66
    728
    28 Bloodbath
    Nightmares Made Flesh (2004)
    8.65
    742
    29 Dismember
    Like An Ever Flowing Stream (1991)
    8.65
    442
    30 Obituary
    Cause Of Death (1990)
    8.65
    617
    31 Be'lakor
    Of Breath And Bone (2012)
    8.65
    1114
    32 The Chasm
    Procession To The Infraworld (1999)
    8.65
    26
    33 Necrophagist
    Onset Of Putrefaction (1999)
    8.64
    418
    34 Morbid Angel
    Covenant (1993)
    8.64
    723
    35 Necrophagist
    Epitaph (2004)
    8.64
    543
    36 Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
    A Virgin And A Whore (2001)
    8.64
    525
    37 Immolation
    Close To A World Below (2000)
    8.64
    315
    38 Amon Amarth
    Twilight Of The Thunder God (2008)
    8.64
    1860
    39 Suffocation
    Pierced From Within (1995)
    8.64
    397
    40 Shylmagoghnar
    Emergence (2014)
    8.63
    250
    41 In Mourning
    Shrouded Divine (2008)
    8.63
    470
    42 Swallow The Sun
    New Moon (2009)
    8.63
    610
    43 Bolt Thrower
    ...For Victory (1994)
    8.62
    430
    44 Be'lakor
    Vessels (2016)
    8.62
    780
    45 Dawn
    Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy) (1998)
    8.62
    147
    46 Edge Of Sanity
    Purgatory Afterglow (1994)
    8.62
    417
    47 Mors Principium Est
    The Unborn (2005)
    8.62
    374
    48 Nile
    In Their Darkened Shrines (2002)
    8.61
    584
    49 Quo Vadis
    Day Into Night (2000)
    8.61
    213
    50 Pestilence
    Consuming Impulse (1989)
    8.61
    314
    51 Dissection
    The Somberlain (1993)
    8.61
    688
    52 Pestilence
    Testimony Of The Ancients (1991)
    8.61
    309
    53 Gojira
    The Way Of All Flesh (2008)
    8.61
    878
    54 Nocturnus
    The Key (1990)
    8.61
    283
    55 Garden Of Shadows
    Oracle Moon (2000)
    8.61
    101
    56 Vital Remains
    Dechristianize (2003)
    8.61
    233
    57 Suffocation
    Effigy Of The Forgotten (1991)
    8.61
    396
    58 Quo Vadis
    Defiant Imagination (2004)
    8.6
    262
    59 Obscura
    Cosmogenesis (2009)
    8.6
    579
    60 Septicflesh
    Sumerian Daemons (2003)
    8.6
    541
    61 Omnium Gatherum
    Beyond (2013)
    8.59
    629
    62 Daylight Dies
    Dismantling Devotion (2006)
    8.59
    175
    63 Sacrilege GBG
    The Fifth Season (1997)
    8.59
    22
    64 Persefone
    Spiritual Migration (2013)
    8.59
    475
    65 Kalmah
    Swampsong (2003)
    8.59
    545
    66 Omnium Gatherum
    New World Shadows (2011)
    8.59
    703
    67 Rapture
    Futile (1999)
    8.58
    159
    68 Beyond Creation
    The Aura (2011)
    8.58
    307
    69 An Abstract Illusion
    Woe (2022)
    8.58
    400
    70 Bolt Thrower
    The IVth Crusade (1992)
    8.57
    397
    71 Lykathea Aflame
    Elvenefris (2000)
    8.57
    188
    72 Gorguts
    Obscura (1998)
    8.57
    317
    73 Kalisia
    Cybion (2009)
    8.57
    418
    74 Necrophobic
    The Nocturnal Silence (1993)
    8.57
    204
    75 Cattle Decapitation
    Monolith Of Inhumanity (2012)
    8.56
    367
    76 Kalmah
    Swamplord (2000)
    8.56
    547
    77 Witherscape
    The Northern Sanctuary (2016)
    8.56
    311
    78 Slugdge
    Esoteric Malacology (2018)
    8.56
    347
    79 Persefone
    Core (2006)
    8.56
    234
    80 Dragged Into Sunlight
    Hatred For Mankind (2009)
    8.55
    120
    81 Dominia
    Divine Revolution (2006)
    8.55
    99
    82 Torture Squad
    Pandemonium (2003)
    8.55
    44
    83 Possessed
    Seven Churches (1985)
    8.55
    439
    84 Gates Of Ishtar
    At Dusk And Forever (1998)
    8.55
    73
    85 Mercenary
    11 Dreams (2004)
    8.55
    209
    86 Lilitu
    The Delores Lesion (2004)
    8.55
    22
    87 Scar Symmetry
    Holographic Universe (2008)
    8.55
    529
    88 Death
    Leprosy (1988)
    8.55
    1281
    89 Evoken
    Quietus (2001)
    8.54
    134
    90 Entombed
    Clandestine (1991)
    8.54
    408
    91 Amorphis
    Skyforger (2009)
    8.54
    1087
    92 Morbid Angel
    Blessed Are The Sick (1991)
    8.54
    666
    93 Kalmah
    They Will Return (2002)
    8.54
    508
    94 Hypocrisy
    Virus (2005)
    8.54
    528
    95 Deicide
    Deicide (1990)
    8.54
    515
    96 Insomnium
    One For Sorrow (2011)
    8.54
    936
    97 Akercocke
    Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (2005)
    8.54
    245
    98 Evoken
    Antithesis Of Light (2005)
    8.54
    164
    99 Arsis
    A Celebration Of Guilt (2004)
    8.54
    200
    100 Swallow The Sun
    Songs From The North I, II & III (2015)
    8.54
    480