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Death Metal I enjoy the most


Here's a little list displaying my personal favorite death metal albums, based on the same idea as my heavy metal list, thus stressing the raw and the genuine. For me death metal has to be crushing, then coloured with atmosphere. Some of my choices may seem exotic, considering the list overall, but it's what broadens it. Rules : one album per band, the order isn't strict (still bottom albums are weaker than their predecessors). Many good tbdm bands are lacking, mostly because of their unfitting sound. If you think some kick-ass piece are missing, don't hesitate to suggest them. Enjoy.

Created by: Ansercanagicus | 25.02.2016



1. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
1991 [also check : Symphonies Of Sickness]
2. Suffocation - Pierced From Within
1995 [also check : Effigy Of The Forgotten, Breeding The Spawn, Human Waste (EP)]
3. Cynic - Focus
1993 [also check : 1990 and 1991 demos]
4. Septicflesh - Εσοπτρον
1995 [also check : Mystic Places Of Down, Forgotten Path, A Fallen Temple]
5. Death - Symbolic
1995 [also check : Human, Individual Thought Patterns, The Sound Of Perseverance]
6. Morbid Angel - Covenant
1993 [also check : Altars Of Madness]
7. Gorguts - Obscura
1998 [also check : The Erosion Of Sanity, Considered Dead]
8. Orphaned Land - El Norra Alila
1996 [also check : Mabool, Sahara]
9. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
1996 [also check : Blasphemy Made Flesh]
10. Convulsing - Errata
2016
11. Exlimitir - It Weighed Itself In Silver
2018
12. Nocturnus AD - Thresholds
1992 [also check : The Key]
13. Pestilence - Spheres
1993
14. Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
1995 [also check : Trail Of Life Decayed, A Moonclad Reflection]
15. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
1994
16. Deicide - Legion
1992 [also check : Deicide]
17. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
1991 [also check : Piece Of Time]
18. Necrophagist - Necrophagist
1995
19. Horrendous - Anareta
2015 [also check : Ecdysis]
20. Unanimated - Ancient God Of Evil
1994
21. Gojira - The Link
2003 [also check : From Mars To Sirius, The Way Of All Flesh]
22. Demilich - Nespithe
1993
23. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
2005 [also check : Black Seeds Of Vengeance, Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka]
24. Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
1993 [also check : Cross The Styx]
25. Yautja - Songs Of Descent
2014
26. Paradise Lost - Gothic
1991
27. Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
1993 [also check : Crimson]
28. Dying Fetus - Killing On Adrenaline
1998
29. Behemoth - Demigod
2004
30. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
1995
31. Swallowed - Lunarterial
2014
32. Malevolent Creation - Retribution
1992 [also check : The Ten Commandments, 1989 demo]
33. Hypocrisy - Abducted
1996
34. Vader - The Ultimate Incantation
1992 [also check : De Profundis, Sothis]
35. A Canorous Quintet - Silence Of The World Beyond
1996
36. In Flames - Lunar Strain
1994
37. Arch Enemy - Stigmata
1998
38. Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear
1996
39. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
1993
40. Portal - Outre'
2007
41. Entombed - Clandestine
1991
42. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
1995
43. Supuration - The Cube
1992
44. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
1994
45. Monstrosity - Millennium
1996 [also check : Imperial Doom]
46. Luciferion - The Apostate
2003
47. Disharmonic Orchestra - Pleasuredome
1994
48. Carbonized - Disharmonization
1993
49. Obliveon - Nemesis
1993 [also check : From This Day Forward]
50. Benediction - The Grand Leveller
1991
51. Altar (ROM) - The Last Warning
1993
52. Captor - Lay It To Rest
53. _____________some separation bar..._____________
54. Obituary - Cause Of Death
1990
55. Abramelin - Abramelin
1995
56. Sadist - Above The Light
1993
57. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
1991
58. Messiah - Extreme Cold Weather
1987
59. Morgue - Eroded Thoughts
1993
60. Crowbar - Crowbar
1993
61. Desultory - Bitterness
1994
62. Equinox (NOR) - Auf Wiedersehen
1989
63. Apophis - Gateway To The Underworld
1993
64. Criminal - Victimized
1994
65. Resurrection - Embalmed Existence
1993
66. Brutality - Screams Of Anguish
1993
67. Gutted - Bleed For Us To Live
1994
68. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
1993
69. Altar - Youth Against Christ
1994
70. Morta Skuld - Dying Remains
1993
71. Oppressor - Solstice Of Oppression
1994
72. Thanatos - Emerging From The Netherworlds
1990
73. Gorement - The Ending Quest
1994
74. Extreme Noise Terror - Damage 381
1997
75. Macabre - Sinister Slaughter
1993
76. Sarcófago - The Laws Of Scourge
1991
77. Possessed - Seven Churches
1985
78. Crematory (SWE) - Denial
79. Epitaph - Seeming Salvation
1992
80. Massacre - From Beyond
1991
81. Morpheus - Son Of Hypnos
1993
82. Carnage - Dark Recollections
1990
83. Crematorium (ITA) - Chained to Torment
1990
84. Morpheus Descends - Chronicles of the Shadowed Ones
1994



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Comments: 3   [ 1 ignored ]   Visited by: 46 users
28.12.2017 - 15:42
VIG
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Really good list, but Crowbar is not death metal at all, they are sludge metal.
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28.12.2017 - 16:10
Ansercanagicus
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Yes, thx for commenting. As always when I do a MS list I realize I thrown in a couple of things that shouldn't be there
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29.12.2017 - 00:53
Ansercanagicus
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"Classic" may not be the good term, I used it as opposed to newer death metal versions, such as brutal-tech, or melodeath etc... I wanted to stress on a specific vibe. Horrendous, Swallowed and Yautja definitively have a certain sound recalling the first ages, and it's also true for Gojira and Nile's first releases, although more borderline. I'll change the title for something less pretentious.
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